CBS Sports alternatives
Users are looking for CBS Sports alternatives due to frustrating app updates, excessive review requests, and a lack of comprehensive coverage for certain sports and leagues. Alternatives offer different strengths, from real-time scores to in-depth journalism, catering to varied preferences.
Why users look for alternatives to CBS Sports
- Frequent, intrusive requests to review the app are a major annoyance for users.R3R4R5R7
- Recent app updates have been poorly received, changing the layout from an article-focused feed to one dominated by videos and large thumbnails, making it feel clunky and harder to navigate.R1R12R16R36
- The app lacks comprehensive coverage for minor sports, women's sports, and newer leagues, and some users note a decline in coverage for events like the NBA draft.R6R18R20R26
- Users report issues with inaccurate scores, wrong times, and fabricated events, as well as a general decline in reliability.R30
- Some users are concerned about the app's increasing emphasis on gambling content.R35
The alternatives
ESPN offers a comprehensive sports experience with reliable coverage and timely breaking news, making it easy to follow favorite teams and leagues R55. It provides a clean, intuitive interface and consistently excellent streaming quality R55.
Better for: ESPN is better for users who want broad, reliable sports coverage and timely news updates, especially those who appreciate good streaming quality for live events R55. However, some users experience streaming issues and app crashes R51R59R60 and find the app too busy .
Head-to-head: CBS Sports vs ESPNtheScore is highly regarded for following live sports, tracking favorite teams, and staying updated with major news, offering quick access to scores, stats, and TV channels R74R78. Users appreciate its constant updates with new features and improved UI, and it's considered excellent for live MLB scores R74R76.
Better for: theScore is better for users who prioritize real-time scores and stats, especially for leagues like MLB, and who value an app that is regularly updated with new features R74R76R78. However, some users find it slow, clunky due to too many features, and a significant battery drain R67.
Head-to-head: CBS Sports vs theScoreBleacher Report is a long-standing app for keeping up with favorite teams across various leagues, providing good sports news and content R83R86. It's known for being fast with breaking news .
Better for: Bleacher Report is better for users who want to follow all their favorite teams across different leagues and receive fast breaking news R83. However, users frequently complain about excessive ads, pop-ups, and redirects, making the app difficult to navigate R79R84.
Head-to-head: CBS Sports vs Bleacher ReportThe Athletic provides impressive, consistent, and current in-depth sports journalism for fanatics R99R103. It offers stories not available elsewhere and is seen as a modern version of The National magazine R101.
Better for: The Athletic is better for users seeking high-quality, in-depth sports journalism and analysis, particularly those who are willing to pay for a subscription to avoid clickbait R99R103. Users report issues with frequent crashes, intrusive notifications, and autoplaying videos despite settings R100R102.
Head-to-head: CBS Sports vs The AthleticApple Sports is praised for its simple, clean interface with no ads or news pushing, making it a great organizer for men's and women's sports R108R114R117. It provides live events, stats, and videos, and is easy to read quickly R108R114.
Better for: Apple Sports is better for users who prefer a minimalist, ad-free experience focused purely on scores and live activities without the clutter of news articles or marketing R108R114R117. However, it currently lacks coverage for many sports like college baseball, pro cycling, and certain international soccer leagues R108R109.
Head-to-head: CBS Sports vs Apple SportsYou should stick with CBS Sports if you primarily use it for watching games and appreciate its real-time scoreboard updates and articles, and if you are not bothered by the review requests or recent UI changes .
Evidence note: No alternative had too few reviews to judge.
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What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R3] CBS Sports Stop: Stop asking me to review your app.
- [R4] CBS Sports App is bad: Stop asking me to rate
- [R5] CBS Sports Review: Quit asking me to write a review every time I open the app
- [R7] CBS Sports Stop sending me alerts to review the app: See above
- [R1] CBS Sports Bad Update: The new update makes the app look like social media, not an app that actually has articles with sports stories along with the scores
- [R12] CBS Sports Update disaster: Could you at least make a setting to allow to view homepage in the old list style? Feels like a lot more scrolling to get similar content, many more videos (there’s a watch tab for that), everything is a large thumbnail that isn’t necessary and takes away from the app.
- [R16] CBS Sports New update: This was my favorite sports app, and the only one i would use, until about two weeks ago when they updated it and now it’s just all videos. They used to have headlines which you would click on and read the story and they got rid of that.
- [R36] CBS Sports New update is a nightmare: I loved the CBS Sports app. Great scoreboard and the news feed was always dialed. New update destroyed the formerly great news feed. Suddenly it is video and AI slop everywhere you look. I’ll be looking for a new go to sports score app if it’s not fixed. Hire a designer!
- [R6] CBS Sports Just ok: The app falls short for minor sports such as wrestling, volleyball and golf. The coverage is weak for many women’s sports, too.
- [R18] CBS Sports World Cup tab: The app is showing only 16 of the 32 knockout round teams (half the bracket) on my iPhone. It doesn’t not scroll right or down any further. Disappointing.
- [R20] CBS Sports The W!?!?! The WNBA ????: I have never searched for a WNBA score on here, I’ve not looked for a team of the W, I’m not on the Catlin bandwagon, or the TMAC lookalike angel reese , as an avid sports fan my whole life, if I need to add WNBA to my interest, I will quit watching sports altogether and do something I have no patience for , fishing. CBS please stop pushing stuff especially after the user
- [R26] CBS Sports Missing new leagues: I will redownload this app when they add the PWHL, AUSL, and WPBL. I get they’re newer leagues but these are the ones I want to see on here because you don’t see as much coverage on them.
- [R30] CBS Sports Downfall: Was one of the best sports app now constantly wrong scores , wrong times , wrong starters , and completely fabricated events in the game it will tell you that Jalen Brunson hit a three and the score is 145 to 160 when the score is 44-45 in the second it’s really bad , chat will block you for any slang any abbreviations any talk of money line or talks of them rigging also does not go thro
- [R35] CBS Sports CBS Sports: You’ve got way too much information and emphasis on gambling.
- [R51] ESPN Worst App: I bought the subscription for a month to see Wimbledon. The streaming stopped working so many times. I reset everything and I still have the same problem. I wish I could rated 0 star. Let me mention that the other apps on my Samsung TV work fine.
- [R55] ESPN The greatness of ESPN: Dear ESPN, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The ESPN app delivers an outstanding sports experience with a clean, intuitive interface and exceptionally reliable coverage. Live scores update seamlessly, breaking news is timely and comprehensive, and the personalized features make it effortless to follow my favorite teams and leagues. The streaming quality is consistently excellent, and the app strikes
- [R59] ESPN App Crashing: I like the app, and it’s easy to use. The issue with it though is that it will randomly crash while I’m reading an article. Happens too often and I don’t experience this with my other apps. If it weren’t for this I’d give it 5 stars.
- [R60] ESPN Broken app: Every time I try and read article, or anything else, I get about five sentences in and the app tries to break itself. It will either send me to the home page, switch to some random article, or gray screen. The app has been completely unusable for the last month. I’ve had the app for multiple years and just uninstalled it.
- [R67] theScore Was good, too many features now: Good app overall, a bit slow, feels like the jammed in as many features as possible which makes it more clunky. It also drains battery tremendously fast now after some recent updates so will be looking for a different app. Literally drained 5% of my battery in 6 minutes the other day, so absurd. I just need the score, I don’t need chat, live updates, fancy play-by-
- [R74] theScore Best app for following live sports: I’ve found this to be the best app for following live sports, tracking your favorite teams, and keeping up to date with major news of the day. I love that the developers are constantly updating it with new features and improved user interface. Whether following a game play by play or customizing your home teams page to your preferred layout, this is #1 in my boo
- [R76] theScore So close to being the single best live score app for MLB: I use TheScore mainly for MLB baseball. I’ve tried basically ever other viable app (Apple sports, yahoo sports, cbs sports, sports alerts, real, sofascore, flashscore) for live scores, and the one that seemed to work the best out of all of them was TheScore. I really have almost no gripes with this app at all. The only thing that I would lo
- [R78] theScore Extremely Handy: Great quick way to get scores,stats and TV channels
- [R79] Bleacher Report Ads: I’ve used this app for years but recently I can’t even use it anymore because I’m not getting so many ads on it that I can’t navigate the app. It’s filled with pop-ups and anytime I try to read anything or just navigate the app it’s redirecting me to a third party site. It’s giving off the feel of an unsafe website that will lead to viruses. It’s a shame that the app has gotten to this point.
- [R83] Bleacher Report Goated: Been using this app for over 10 years, great way to keep up with all ur fav teams across all the diff leagues
- [R84] Bleacher Report Ads getting worse: I feel like the ads are starting to get worse. It’s starting to be a task just to look at one article, and have to scroll past 15 ads. Please figure something out.
- [R86] Bleacher Report Good app: Love the app great sports news
- [R99] The Athletic Great Idea Ruined By Laziness: The Athletic is a great idea. In depth sport journalism for the sports fanatic. Unfortunately now over two different subscriptions, it’d abundantly clear that all the NYT/The Athletic care about is low hanging fruit/clickbait “journalism.” This a subscriber based app, yet they still have a “one off” journalism/editorial strategy of focusing on hot takes over in depth
- [R100] The Athletic Great app but crashes all the time: I like the app but I hate the fact that it often freezes when I’m in the middle of writing a comment.
- [R101] The Athletic Deleted: This app is ok and has stories not available via NYTimes app, but I had to delete it because there's no way to stop the NYTimes app from opening this one anytime I look at a sports article.
- [R102] The Athletic Videos autoplay regardless of settings: I turned off video autoplay and am constantly having video ads auto playing. Means the app is entirely unusable when not on WiFi for those of us without unlimited data.
- [R107] Apple Sports Can’t follow upcoming games?: When I see an upcoming game that I want live activities for, I click “Follow” for that game, but then nothing ever pops up on my screen when the game starts. I go back into the app, and the game isn’t being followed anymore. It seems I can only get live activities for games if I start following them AFTER the game has already started. What is the point of that? Ever
- [R108] Apple Sports Unbelievably Good: Apple really killed this. No ads, no news pushing like ESPN or other apps like Bleacher Report, and the live events are awesome. My one gripe is that it needs more sports! I would love a college baseball section. Great design work as well: the app is very pretty to look at, while also being easy to read quickly to get a sense of what’s going on.
- [R109] Apple Sports Variedad: En Ecuador falta agregar el torneo Copa Ecuador y para interés de toda Sudamérica falta agregar Copa Libertadores y Copa Sudamericana
- [R110] Apple Sports Doesn’t have All info: 365Scores & FotMob are way better and provide more information. btw, it is FOOTBALL not Soccer
- [R10] CBS Sports No more “review” requests please: I use the app a lot and everytime I open it up I’m being asked if I like the app. I give it 5 stars…then get the question again the next time I open it up. Makes me consider using another source as my sports go to.
- [R114] Apple Sports Best so far on iOS!: Great organizer for men and woman sports leads you to the actual game and stats and video and overall really amazing. 10/10. Would recommend to download. Doesn’t take so much storage too.
- [R117] Apple Sports Simple and almost perfect: Please add Cycling such as the Tour de France. Otherwise great interface with littte distraction. Does what it needs to do without being bloated.
- [R103] The Athletic Impressive Coverage: Consistent and always current, love them.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store