MaxPreps
MaxPreps is a widely used app for high school sports information, but recent updates have introduced numerous bugs, excessive ads, and removed key features, leading to a frustrating user experience despite its comprehensive data.
MaxPreps provides extensive high school sports data, including stats, standings, and schedules, and is valued for keeping users updated on their favorite teams. However, recent reviews highlight significant issues such as frequent app crashes, an overwhelming number of intrusive ads, and the removal of user-friendly navigation features, making the app less functional and more frustrating for many.
What users like
- Provides comprehensive high school sports information, including stats, standings, and schedules for many schools and sports.R19R2R174R142
- Keeps users updated on game scores and team progress, which is valuable for parents and fans.R159R93R132R84
- Offers features helpful for college recruiting, such as player stats, pictures, and highlights.R142
What users complain about
- The app frequently crashes or freezes, especially when navigating or attempting to add information.R37R43R51R8
- Excessive and intrusive ads, including full-screen pop-ups and video ads, severely hinder usability.R20R42R70R29
- Recent updates have removed the ability to easily click on teams from a game or matchup page to view their profiles, making navigation cumbersome.R52R58R56R61
- Users report issues with incorrect or delayed score updates and stats, sometimes changing days after a game.R17R16R38R199
- Many users experience server errors, particularly when trying to create an account, log in, or access content.R35R48R24R41
- The limit of 16 favorite teams is too restrictive for users following multiple schools or sports.R2R30R86R82
- Some users cannot submit scores or updates due to bugs or changes in the submission process.R27R28R69R81
- Notifications can be sent at inconvenient times, such as early morning.R6
- The app redirects users to NFHS for live games, even with a MaxPreps subscription, causing confusion and frustration.R1
Latest update · v6.7.4
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Added team standings for JV and Freshman teams.
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This app is for high school sports fans, parents, and coaches who want to track scores, standings, and player statistics for various teams R19R159. It is particularly useful for those following football and basketball, which seem to have more comprehensive coverage R2. It is not for users who are easily frustrated by frequent app crashes, excessive ads, or restrictive limits on following teams R37R20R86.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, which contrasts sharply with the lifetime rating. The developer's notes mention adding JV and Freshman team standings, but recent reviews indicate ongoing issues with JV team coverage and general app functionality, suggesting the update did not address core problems .
Frequently asked
Does MaxPreps cost money?
Why does the MaxPreps app keep crashing?
Are scores and stats accurate on MaxPreps?
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.
- [R19] A lot of information: This app is SO informational. It has stats, standings and so much more. It has every school in every state. It has top notch information about every school. This app updates very quick. I definitely recommend downloading this app.
- [R2] Very good app, could use some tweaks: Very good app! I usually do some reporting for my school, basketball. Football works too, but when it comes to baseball, soccer, etc., the scoring just doesn’t work. My second complaint isn’t all that much of a deal, but i feel like having a limited amount of team sports you can follow is a bit redundant, especially if you are “loyal”, per se, to multiple scho
- [R174] The Goat of HS Sports Apps: MaxPreps always has coverage of whatever local games are important; definitely a go-to for research and recaps.
- [R142] Love Max Preps!!: We absolutely love Max Preps!! It’s such a great place to have our players stats, pictures , videos and highlights. It has been so helpful to help out with recruiting for college. Love this program!!!!
- [R159] I Love It!!: I get to keep up with my son’s school games, and scores. I also get to see how many points my son made per game. If your child play sports this app is a must have.
- [R93] Parent: Great way to keep up with your favorite athletes and teams
- [R132] MaxPreps keeps me updated! Thank you: Thank you everyone who contributes to the MaxPreps scoring updates! Very much appreciated,
- [R84] very good app!: i'm a fan of both rockford rockets and HLWW lakers, and this app makes it super easy to see how the games are going! definitely a keeper.
- [R37] Keeps crashing: On the app, as soon as I enter my search it kicks me out. Haven’t been able to use the app in months…
- [R43] Good App: This is a great app, don’t get me wrong. Terribly frequent crashing forced me to give this app a low rating. I will fix this rating once I do not experience this anymore.
- [R51] Constant Crashing: Fix the bugs! Can’t even click on another team without the app constantly crashing every time.
- [R8] Courtney: Worst app ever it keeps freezing up when I try to add a new high school football team
- [R20] Worst app ever: Using on an iPad, this is my least favorite app. Obtrusive ads take up the whole screen. You close one ad and another pops up 10 seconds later. Curious if anyone who works at MaxPreps actually uses their own app and doesn’t get frustrated doing so.
- [R42] Too many pop ups: Edit: Are you all aware that your app just keeps closing out on its own? Can’t even scroll on my team page and scheduling without it closing out. I get that you make money off of add revenue. But the constant pop ups even after the user has x’d out of them makes it impossible to effectively use the app. Maybe you should think about that in the next update. I can hardly surf the
- [R70] Overrun with ads!: The number of ads in this app is absurd.
- [R29] ads: u have to watch 30 second ads just to view videos on here???? Ridiculous
- [R52] Latest update makes the app less usable: Not having the ability to select anything from the game page means you have to go back and search for teams to get to their page instead of just clicking them. Way less user friendly and takes away one of the primary things I use the app for. I don’t see myself using this app nearly as much because of the loss of this ability.
- [R58] New Update, Removed features: The new update removed the ability to click on the team/school in the matchup screen. Now, if you are trying to see an opponent’s roster, schedule, or stats you have to navigate back to the home screen and search for the school. Why would you turn a single click process into 5 clicks or more?? Did anybody even test this?
- [R56] A Step Backwards: Why did they take away links to other schools in the team schedules? That was one of the most useful features. If team X is playing team Y and I look at the schedule or the matchup, I can’t click on team Y to see their page. I have to go all the way out and search for the other team. Waste of time.
- [R61] New Update: Like the new look but not being able to click on a teams icons to go directly to that team is not user friendly at all.
- [R17] What?: So I checked my football team score against the game we played Thursday and the score was wrong. It got correct that we did win. Oh it bothered me as it said 39 to 32 which was incorrect cause they did not get 32 points. we got 35 points and they got six points. Can someone please fix the scoring system because y’all are getting it wrong
- [R16] What are score boards: How are yall gonna put that our team won 60-35 because that’s what happened and then change the score two days later to tell they lost
- [R38] Never Has Updated Scores: App never has the scores updated/posted, even days and in some cases, weeks afterwards. Can’t say it’s a sports app when the scores are not updated in real time or at the very least, available see right after the matches are over.
- [R199] Still Glitchy after all the years: Still won’t show a final score even after a week. Always shows “Game Started” even when there are up to date scores. Just doesn’t live up to the potential of how great this app could be.
- [R35] A Server Error Has Occurred: I keep getting an error as described above when I try to join / create an account on the App.
- [R48] Making an account: It doesn't let me make an account it just says server error
- [R24] Error Code: Keeps saying 406 not acceptable error code when trying to check stats.
- [R41] Server error?: When the app is working, its great but as of recently i can barely even use it, anytime i open the app it says “we couldn’t retrieve the latest news due to a service error.” i’m getting incredibly frustrated
- [R30] Favorites: Okay, I LOVE this app. I helped out with putting all the NH logos, and I love this app. That being said, I wanna follow more than 16 teams. I follow the NH Division 1, so not following all of them is pain, especially when you follow a D2 NH team and 2 D2 MASS teams. Love it, just needa we-work favorites.
- [R86] Only can follow 16 teams: If you want to follow the schools in your conference in multiple sports , for instance football and basketball, you can’t even follow all the schools as the app only allows 16 teams, not 16 schools. They should significantly increase the number of teams allowed.
- [R82] Expand on how many teams you can follow: It would be nice to follow more teams instead of removing teams I wish we could follow like 30 or 50 teams instead of the normal 20 please expand it the reason why I give it a 4 star is on the limit of teams you can follow if they update the limit follow for teams I’ll update my star rating
- [R27] Submitting scores: Is it just me, or before this latest update, the submitting score process was much easier, because now I always get 404 messages with the ref when I try to submit a score. Can someone explain this possible issue. Thanks, Ry
- [R28] Score Submission: Why was the ability to submit scores before the game is labeled as over removed. I like to submit scores as soon as the game is over, but now I can’t because MaxPreps still considers the game as “live”. Before there was an option that said “Game over? report score here”. That would allow me to submit scores as fast as possible. Now I have to wait to submit scores.
- [R69] Issue: This app needs updated it won’t let me post scores on the app
- [R81] Fantastic App when it lets me report scores: I absolutely love this app. It gives me standings, scores, playoff brackets, and everything I need for high school football and basketball. However, only recently, as in the past 2 weeks, the app has not been entering the scores I report. I have entered over 250 scores over the past few years and am a verified scorer. Have had to enter them numerous tim
- [R6] Alerts: No one needs updates at 4:30 am on the West Coast. What genius thinks is a good idea to update rankings and send alerts at 7:30 am on Monday morning on the East Coast, let alone 4:30 am on the West Coast? I had to turn off notifications because of this utter nonsense. But now won’t get any notifications.
- [R1] Great until subscribed: The app works good, however, a subscription to watch live games only ever takes me to NFHS when I click “Live.” What am I paying for on maxpreps if it redirects me to NFHS? Why can’t it keep the livestream on maxpreps, or let me watch on NFHS since I am subscribed to maxpreps.
- [R53] Bring back drill function: Remove the ability to click on Team and go to there page was a huge mistake. Please bring this back ASAP in future update.
- [R33] Signing in: For some reason as soon as I try to make an account and it asks for my birthday it says that they can’t answer my request making it impossible for me to make an account.
- [R36] Bad: worst app of all time. i make an account and then disappears the next day. worst app ever.
- [R7] Grades available: The app is one step f the best and I really recommend it but should add middle school teams.
- [R13] EXPENSIVE: This app costs money to favorite a team🤯they should just let us do it for free and to watch a game it also costs money, can they just let us watch it for free
- [R101] Max preps: Is max preps to sign up is free
- [R105] Awesome, until iOS16: Use the app all the time to update stats and scores, as I am a coach. Love the design, the interface, everything. Ever since tbd iOS16 update, however, the app will not open. Every time I click it, the loading screen comes up, then it crashes. Has been like this for a few weeks now. Hoping some stability issues get figured out, because I love being able to update things on th
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store