Apple Sports vs theScore

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] Apple Sports 4/5 · US 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.
2. [R3] Apple Sports 3/5 · US Variedad: En Ecuador falta agregar el torneo Copa Ecuador y para interés de toda Sudamérica falta agregar Copa Libertadores y Copa Sudamericana
3. [R4] Apple Sports 1/5 · US Doesn’t have All info: 365Scores & FotMob are way better and provide more information. btw, it is FOOTBALL not Soccer
4. [R6] Apple Sports 3/5 · US Decent App: Needs pro cycling.
5. [R8] Apple Sports 5/5 · US 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.
6. [R10] Apple Sports 2/5 · US Needs an iPad friendly version: Just like it says.
7. [R11] Apple Sports 5/5 · US 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.
8. [R1] Apple Sports 1/5 · US 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
9. [R13] Apple Sports 1/5 · US Worthless: How does this app just decide I'm no longer going to see upcoming matches for random leagues/teams? I thought it was weird that after yesterday's world cup games there were none today. I checked again this morning just to make sure and there were no FIFA games, only baseball. Well imagine my surprise when I'm watching YouTube and there are highlights for two games they already happened
10. [R17] Apple Sports 4/5 · US Almost Perfect: Love this app. It’s beautiful, and works all the time. Best live activities available in sports. If they can just add the option to see a team’s schedule and previous scores this will be a 5 star review and a perfect app.
11. [R7] Apple Sports 1/5 · US Surprisingly bad: Apple can’t make an app that works and if they do, it’s to line their pockets with more greed! The bet zone in app is a sure sign. Junk app
12. [R16] Apple Sports 1/5 · US Forced integration with no way to remove: Actively trying to remove all sports from Apple is impossible. Unfollowing does not work. Apple seems insistent on requiring everyone to to subscribe to all of the overpriced sporting events they’re putting on.
13. [R15] Apple Sports 3/5 · US Needs some work: I think this really needs some additional info to be a one stop shop. It should be easy to see standings, player info, and schedules.
14. [R24] Apple Sports 3/5 · US Stats: I wish that there was was a spot to look at players stats but it is an awesome app
15. [R27] Apple Sports 3/5 · US Good, could be better: Good app for the basics, leaves my wanting more like clicking into a team and see team information like players, stats, previous and coming games. I think that’s an easy fix that can be implemented quickly.
16. [R63] theScore 3/5 · US 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-
17. [R69] theScore 3/5 · US Political Ads: Love the App but these Trump Ads need to go!
18. [R70] theScore 1/5 · US terrible ads: Every time I open the app there's inappropriate ads and if I accidentally click on it, it takes me to the app store to download the app connected to the ad. I would leave zero stars if I could.
19. [R72] theScore 3/5 · US Too much gambling info: Great app regarding scores, sports news, and all that good stuff. -2 stars because there is way much content geared towards gambling. I wish there was just a setting to toggle off all gambling related info so only useful content was shown.
20. [R18] Apple Sports 3/5 · US World Cup: I've really enjoyed using Apple Sports. The Live Activities on the Dynamic Island are excellent, and the real-time updates are fast and reliable. One suggestion for improvement concerns the FIFA World Cup. Unlike most leagues, where fans mainly follow one team, the World Cup is a global event that many people want to follow as a whole. It would be great to be able to follow the entire
21. [R118] theScore 1/5 · US Live Activities do NOT work: The notification settings for this app are absolutely, unbelievably bad. I set all my notifications to only show me scoring updates and have live activities. Guess what - live activities never update AT ALL on my lock screen (and yes I have them enabled in iOS settings). Additionally, despite me choosing explicitly not to have notifications sent for the end of an innin
22. [R28] Apple Sports 1/5 · US Not support ipad: Not support ipad，So ****
23. [R56] Apple Sports 5/5 · US Good: Simple interface that do one thing good “display the score” which is all that matter. No iPad version though
24. [R58] Apple Sports 2/5 · US Live scores aren’t working: Live scores was working and randomly stopped working on my iPad and iPhone. I was enjoying it for the World Cup but I might just have to switch to Google for live updates.