Yahoo Sports vs NBC Sports
Choose Yahoo Sports for a more user-friendly experience with better customization options.
Yahoo Sports edges out NBC Sports due to its user-friendly interface and better customization options. While both apps have their share of ads and glitches, Yahoo Sports offers a more straightforward experience for sports fans.
Head to head
you want a more customizable and user-friendly sports app experience.
you prioritize extensive sports coverage and are willing to deal with potential navigation issues.
Evidence note: While both apps are free, Yahoo Sports' users tend to report a more positive experience overall, despite some recent negative reviews.
Frequently asked
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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.
- [R2] Yahoo Sports Good but could be better: I like it about the same if not a bit more than TheScore. Yahoo Sports introduced an indicator for a win/lose streak for each team. Problem with this is that there’s no visual indicator for whether it’s a win streak or a lose streak. So while I know that the dodgers are on a win streak, I look at the Mets and think that they’ve done the impossible and not been a complete
- [R9] Yahoo Sports Good, Not Great!: While I think the Yahoo sports app is one of the better sports apps available for the iPhone, especially if you use Yahoo as your fantasy home (it’s the best), it could be much better. I’d love to see y’all add College Softball, and the teams to the normal coverage as well as horse racing. I also wish there was more user freedom in how things are arranged for our viewing pleasure
- [R38] Yahoo Sports NCAA Baseball & Softball: Your app provides great scores & information on the sports you include. Your biggest gap is lack of coverage of NCAA baseball & softball. Is there any chance you’ll be adding these?
- [R64] NBC Sports No complete tour coverage: A mediocre app. Covers only the most inane sports like soccer or basketball. To watch something meaningful, like the Tour de France, it’s nearly nonexistent. You can only get segments of it. And then it’s very difficult to find those as you have to hunt all over the app. I do not recommend this app.
- [R11] Yahoo Sports great but sometimes freezes: I've been using it for years as it's great for tracking many sports. Only problem I have is that it freezes up on a regular basis when I come back to it. I have to close the app and reopen it.
- [R18] Yahoo Sports Navigating App is Insane: Navigating this app is crazy - nothing easy to access.
- [R27] Yahoo Sports Widget on iPhone slowww to update: Can’t stop notifications and the widget on the iPhone is slow to update. Fair app at best
- [R69] NBC Sports Works but barely: This app is such a pain in the. To watch your team, each game you have to relogin to your service provider. Why do I have to do this daily? Just keep me logged in. And the other problem is any small change in the app, say you accidentally leave and come back it’s a 30 second ad. Even if you barely push the app up. I don’t mind getting one ad but every time you leave drives me cra
- [R59] Yahoo Sports App crashes: It crashes way too often
- [R85] NBC Sports Useless: This app doesn’t work at all. I try to sign in to the TV provider and it will not let me. Especially when I am trying to watch something live. It’s useless don’t even download it. And take this from a guy who NEVER leaves reviews on anything.
- [R90] NBC Sports Awful user experience across devices: The app says you receive credits for watching “locked content” but you often don’t have the ability to use the credits on the locked content because the option doesn’t present itself. Slow loading, clumsy UI, and no way to watch the content you want to see.
- [R117] NBC Sports Live sports don’t stream: They’ll show you 30 commercials but when you tap live sports, nothing streams. I feel bad for the families of Olympic athletes relying on this app to watch their relatives compete. What a lifetime disappointment.
- [R1] Yahoo Sports Yahoo sports: App sucks… can’t go in scores without seeing a dating app about nude women, I’m a female that doesn’t want to see that and neither does/will my husband…will delete app because it refuses to stop ads when we want them stopped!
- [R40] Yahoo Sports Nice and simple app, but ads with audio!? Smh: How dare you interrupt my podcast with a terrible audio track for some bs brain-decaying game. DON’T EVER INTERRUPT MY PODCASTS!
- [R72] NBC Sports Too many commercials: Too many commercials
- [R110] NBC Sports Too many ads: App works ok, but having to watch an ad every time I open the app even if the stream is already playing is ridiculous. Even if I leave and immediately reopen the app, I need to watch an ad to get back to what I was watching.
- [R10] Yahoo Sports Add Funds Not Working: I’m trying to pay for my Fantasy Football League and every time I fill out my information and click continue nothing happens. I’ve tried on the app and Safari and it doesn’t work, I even deleted the app and nothing. I tried to do it through the wallet instead of purchase team and still nothing like come on bro every year or every update it’s something.
- [R103] NBC Sports NBC Sports app is horrendous: This app is absolute garbage and customer service is horrible too. Peacock is outstanding so you would think that NBC would just copy and paste. ESPN app is better too. Can’t watch any Premier League matches all of a sudden in English or Spanish and NBC support doesn’t respond but when they do, they keep telling me to do the same thing over and over again and I ke
- [R106] NBC Sports Still the Worst News App I’ve ever experienced: This remains the worst app on my phone. Unbelievable how bad the UX is on this app. Every time I open it, I have to reorganize my preferences to put profootballtalk on the top of the articles section. You are all so bad at your jobs. Do better.
- [R89] NBC Sports A terrible app: This is the only app that REQUIRES me to sign in on a l daily basis. It’s exhausting, frankly. Either the app, NBC or both are broken. A total pain.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store