The Athletic vs 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.

1. [R2] The Athletic 4/5 · US Wimbledon: Great app but shocked there’s no Wimbledon coverage. It’s not even listened in scores. Went to check when some of the matches were and couldn’t find it. I would suggest adding tennis for the 4 major events. Otherwise great overall coverage.
2. [R33] The Athletic 3/5 · GB Why no rugby?: Great football coverage but in the UK I don’t want to read about Baseball, Cricket and American football. I want to read about Football, Rugby and Cricket. Please start thinking about expanding your coverage…
3. [R61] MaxPreps 2/5 · US 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.
4. [R72] MaxPreps 3/5 · US 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
5. [R8] The Athletic 4/5 · US 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.
6. [R57] The Athletic 3/5 · GB Love the content, app is horrible: Often articles take long time to load and more often than not the article disappears whilst you are reading it and then takes another long time to read. This happens in many articles and multiple times per reading session. Really frustrates the user experiences
7. [R66] MaxPreps 3/5 · US Glitches: Please update this app. It’s been unreadable for quite a while now. I couldn’t find anything on Support to file a recommendation. There’s ads or whatever that is blocking half the page. Being where I live, this app is of great interest to me. I miss using it
8. [R85] MaxPreps 1/5 · US Tons of bugs: I’ve had this app crash and error out so many times right in the middle of a game when I’m scoring for the team. Try everything to get it back up and running so the people following online can get the latest updates but then get a “thank you for scoring” message, app ends the game when the actual game isn’t even over. Frustrating when the poor quality of the app screws up everything.
9. [R12] The Athletic 3/5 · US Fine: Love the content, but I should have ads in app behind a pay wall that I’ve already paid. They need to be taken out if I pay for a subscription. Or add a “no ad subscription”
10. [R42] The Athletic 3/5 · GB Unstable podcast player: I love the Athletic content, but I find the podcast player to be frustratingly unstable. I often have to try multiple times, refresh the app or update it to get it to eventually play.
11. [R70] MaxPreps 1/5 · US 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.
12. [R119] MaxPreps 4/5 · US 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
13. [R47] The Athletic 5/5 · GB Perfect app.: Although the subscription is expensive, it’s worth its weight in gold for the insights to the stories behind the scenes.
14. [R82] MaxPreps 1/5 · US 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
15. [R101] MaxPreps 4/5 · US I like this app a lot, but the commercials are out of control.: I use this app a lot to check my high schools stats and when thier games are so I can go watch them, homewever sometimes I like to watch the highlights of games or of player film. But the problem with this is how there are so many ads it is impossible to watch it without getting annoyed. I know that you need to be able to have ads on
16. [R112] MaxPreps 1/5 · US Becoming unusable: Constant pushing video ads over and over has literally made this app UNUSABLE. Horrible. I used to use it a lot but now I only open it when absolutely necessary. What a joke. Bad strategy Max Preps.
17. [R34] The Athletic 1/5 · US Help Center doesn’t exist?: So I’m having a problem with the app where it won’t show any comments and I went to contact support and got an error saying that help center doesn’t exist. How does one get help?
18. [R40] The Athletic 1/5 · US Customer Support: Can’t find anyway to access customer support #
19. [R105] MaxPreps 3/5 · US Good and bad: Love using the app to get game updates and to provide updates. But MaxPreps does not respond. Emailed and posted and can’t get help removing a scorer who doesn’t score on games.
20. [R97] MaxPreps 1/5 · US Garbage: Glitches everywhere. Garbage support. I have reported issues and never hear anything. Update: I messaged the developer as requested and guess what? NOTHING HAPPENED!😂 What a surprise. Still can’t close out a softball game when it’s over. I guess you have to wait till they decide it’s over.🤷🏼‍♂️
21. [R3] The Athletic 3/5 · US Logging On: Tired of being asked to subscribe or sign in when I already have a subscription. May cancel because of this inconvenience. Too many other options for sports news.