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Apple Sports vs ESPN Fantasy Sports & More

Apple Sports 4.7★ · Free to download 75
Winner Apple Sports
ESPN Fantasy Sports & More 4.8★ · Free + IAP 60

Apple Sports is the better choice for users seeking a clean, ad-free experience for live scores and basic sports tracking, while ESPN Fantasy Sports & More is for those deeply invested in fantasy leagues despite its significant reliability issues.

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Apple Sports offers a simple, ad-free interface for tracking live scores, though it lacks depth in stats and broad sports coverage. ESPN Fantasy Sports & More is a feature-rich app for fantasy leagues, but it suffers from frequent loading issues, crashes, and intrusive ads.

Head to head

Features and Content tieR2R3R4R5
Apple Sports Apple Sports is praised for its clean interface and live activities, but users consistently request more sports coverage (like college baseball, pro cycling, MMA, rugby, cricket, MotoGP, women's sports) and deeper stats (player info, standings, schedules, xG, penalty results, past games). Some users also dislike the inclusion of betting odds. The app is also noted for not supporting iPad.
ESPN Fantasy Sports & More ESPN Fantasy Sports & More is valued for its comprehensive fantasy sports features, allowing users to manage teams, compare players, and join leagues. However, users desire more customization for public leagues, dynasty mode, and better historical data access. Many also complain about the overwhelming number of ads and content increasingly locked behind a paywall, especially for international users.
Ease of Use edge: Apple SportsR2R8R10R11
Apple Sports Apple Sports is praised for its simple, clean, and beautiful interface, with users appreciating the lack of ads and quick readability. However, some find the game day matches confusing to follow, and there are complaints about the app not supporting iPad.
ESPN Fantasy Sports & More ESPN Fantasy Sports & More is generally considered user-friendly for managing fantasy teams, but the experience is severely hampered by constant reloading, slow loading times, and intrusive ads that redirect users to browsers. Users also report issues with account sign-ins and difficulty navigating some features.
Reliability and Performance edge: Apple SportsR1R12R13R16
Apple Sports Apple Sports has significant reliability issues, with users reporting that the app stops following games, fails to provide live activities for upcoming matches, forgets followed leagues, and experiences delayed updates for scores and standings. Some users also report sudden exits and general unreliability.
ESPN Fantasy Sports & More ESPN Fantasy Sports & More suffers from severe reliability problems, with numerous reports of the app not loading, getting stuck on a pulsing shield screen, crashing frequently, and requiring constant uninstallation and reinstallation. Users also experience issues with account logins, roster moves not saving, and outdated information.
Price and Value edge: Apple SportsR2R7R22R44
Apple Sports Apple Sports is free and praised for having no ads, which users appreciate as a contrast to other sports apps. The value is seen in its clean, distraction-free experience for live scores.
ESPN Fantasy Sports & More ESPN Fantasy Sports & More is free to download but includes in-app purchases and is heavily criticized for its intrusive ads, particularly alcohol ads, and content increasingly being put behind an ESPN+ paywall. International users are frustrated by the inability to subscribe to ESPN+ outside the US, limiting their access to content.
Pick Apple Sports if

You prioritize a clean, ad-free interface for tracking live scores and basic sports information, and you are willing to overlook its limited sports coverage and occasional reliability issues with following games R2R11.

Pick ESPN Fantasy Sports & More if

You are heavily invested in fantasy sports leagues and need a comprehensive platform for managing your teams, despite frequent app crashes, slow loading times, and intrusive ads .

Evidence note: The lifetime ratings are very similar, but recent reviews for ESPN Fantasy Sports & More show a significant negative skew due to widespread reliability issues. Apple Sports, being a newer app, has a smaller review base but also shows a mix of praise for simplicity and criticism for limited features and bugs.

Frequently asked

Does Apple Sports offer comprehensive sports coverage?
No, Apple Sports currently has limited sports coverage, with users frequently requesting the addition of sports like college baseball, professional cycling, MMA, rugby, cricket, MotoGP, and more women's sports R3R6R9R19.
Is ESPN Fantasy Sports & More reliable for fantasy league management?
ESPN Fantasy Sports & More is frequently reported to be unreliable, with users experiencing issues such as the app not loading, getting stuck on the splash screen, crashing often, and requiring reinstallation R61R64R70R75.
Does Apple Sports have ads?
No, Apple Sports is praised by users for being completely ad-free, offering a clean and distraction-free experience R2R25.
Can I use ESPN Fantasy Sports & More without encountering paywalls or ads?
No, ESPN Fantasy Sports & More is criticized for its intrusive ads, including alcohol ads, and for increasingly placing content behind an ESPN+ paywall, which is not accessible to international users R72R88R108.

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. [R5] Apple Sports 4/5 · US xG: love the app but please add xG for soccer
  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. [R12] Apple Sports 3/5 · US Technical problem: There is sometimes in the application when entering the quilifiers a sudden exit, please solve it
  10. [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
  11. [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.
  12. [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
  13. [R22] Apple Sports 1/5 · US Disappointed: Such a well designed app, very disappointing to see the “draft kings” odds on the games. Apple is basically co-signing the equivalent of a cigarette company
  14. [R44] Apple Sports 5/5 · US Amazing design just not enough features: It is missing features that the ESPN app has, but it is designed so well and is free
  15. [R6] Apple Sports 3/5 · US Decent App: Needs pro cycling.
  16. [R9] Apple Sports 3/5 · US Needs Professional Cycling coverage: This app has some of my very favorite sports: football, soccer, baseball, college football, but I follow all the Grand tours and it’s disappointing it’s not covered.
  17. [R19] Apple Sports 2/5 · US No Indian sports: Good app and nice UI, but those app is very US centric and ignores sports watched by one of the largest populations in the world, cricket. Please include ICC cricket World Cup matches and IPL matches in the app.
  18. [R61] ESPN Fantasy Sports & More 1/5 · US App doesn’t load: Please update the and fix the app.
  19. [R64] ESPN Fantasy Sports & More 1/5 · US stuck on pulsing shield: Subject: Critical App Crash: Stuck on Pulsing Shield Blue Screen (iPad 7th Gen)Issue Description:After recent updates, the ESPN Fantasy app is completely unusable on my device. The application launches to the blue splash screen with the pulsing shield logo but freezes indefinitely. It never loads the login screen or the league dashboard.Device & System Specifications:Devic
  20. [R70] ESPN Fantasy Sports & More 1/5 · US Won’t load: For the past several days the app will not load and I have no idea how I am doing in my fantasy leagues. This needs to be fixed ASAP
  21. [R75] ESPN Fantasy Sports & More 3/5 · US Needs to fix the app!: This is a great fantasy app, but it needs work. I can’t get on it. I have to uninstall and reinstall it almost ever week. Fix this problem!
  22. [R25] Apple Sports 2/5 · US MMA???: Easy to use with no ads or annoying loudmouthed pundits or forums. But why no UFC or MMA???
  23. [R72] ESPN Fantasy Sports & More 3/5 · US Needs the following improvements:: This app needs a premium option to remove all the alcohol adds. We want our fantasy league to stay here but the bombardment of beer adds makes it hard to want to stay.
  24. [R88] ESPN Fantasy Sports & More 1/5 · US Ads will not stop: Did an NHL bracket. At the page that shows both of the brackets it will not stop opening my browser for an ad. Even if you leave it open and go back to the app, it kicks back over to the browser ad.
  25. [R108] ESPN Fantasy Sports & More 3/5 · GB Best fantasy NFL and content but....: access to interesting analysis and content is increasingly behind the ESPN + paywall. No problem, I’m sure it’s worth paying for. But here is the rub, you can’t subscribe outside of the US. So we have a paywall with no option to pay and thus a block on increasing amounts of the content for overseas users. Given the increasing shift of content - there was a

Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store