Apple Sports 4+

The Apple Sports App offers a visually appealing interface that catches the eye, but its functionality leaves something to be desired. While it provides basic sports updates, it falls short in key areas.

On the positive side, the app's design is sleek and modern, making it easy to navigate. Its clean layout ensures users can quickly access scores and game schedules. Despite these strengths, the app lacks several features found in its competitors. Notably, the absence of channel listings for games makes it difficult for users to find where to watch their favorite matches. Moreover, the app's coverage of the National Football League (NFL) and its teams is limited, leaving football enthusiasts wanting more comprehensive updates and analysis. Furthermore, the lack of live activities and notifications for close games or upcoming matches is disappointing. Many users rely on such features to stay engaged and informed about the sports they love. Additionally, the inability to customize the interface color and the absence of a dedicated sports news section based on leagues or teams further detract from the overall user experience.

While the app has potential, it currently falls short of delivering a truly immersive sports experience. With some enhancements, particularly in terms of content coverage and additional features like live activities and customization options, it could better compete with leading sports apps in the market.

I’ve been using this app everyday to regularly keep up with my favorite teams and leagues. Initially I realized that there was leagues missing from the app. For instance at the time I started using it I was unable to follow teams or games from the NFL. Now I can follow the NFL but other leagues and associations are still missing notably the UEFA champions league or UFC and MMA. With the teams and info that is available , the app works really well in organizing it in a modern interface allowing to choose to have the home page be organized by the teams or leagues you follow. I do wish that the upcoming games tab is easier to see your teams schedule. If you follow more than one team and you attempt to look at their upcoming schedule it will stack the games kind of like how they stack notifications in notifications center. If you don’t click on the team you wouldn’t realize that your other team necessarily played that day. The app displays odds for betting and what not but they don’t actually show what networks or apps to go to to watch these games . You would have to go to the Apple TV app to then see what networks are hosting the game. I also would like to see them just incorporated into the sports app directly.

The app overall is a great start. Fresh, clean UI, smooth movement, and stats galore. There are a bunch of features missing, but other than that, solid. First off, life activities. It would be amazing if we could follow any game within the app to show as a live activity. To increase the UX of the app, I would like to see the ability to swipe between “Yesterday,” “Today,” and “Upcoming” on the main screen for a sports league. It would be much easier to navigate, removing the need for excessive tapping. I would assume that NFL is coming soon, but I would also like to see stats for that, as well as NFL for live activities. Another feature that would be cool to see is possibly a little box on the game page that says “Ways to watch” or something, possibly then expanding full screen into a list of radio channels as well as TV channels that you can watch the game with. Finally, the last thing I would love to see would be a widget for the app. That widget would be great to use for standby mode, etc!! For me, at the time, this feels somewhat bare bones compared to the competition, but I’m curious to see how the app develops, & I will definitely keep it installed :)