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Best Sports News Apps for iPhone (2026)
theScore: Sports News & Scores is the top-ranked of 40 sports news apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 857,891 ratings.
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Free · ★ 4.8 · 857,891 ratings · score 98 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 235,120 ratings · score 98 - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 4,177,651 ratings · score 98 - 4
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 333,958 ratings · score 97 - 5
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 111,845 ratings · score 95
What belongs in this list
Follow sports news, headlines and stories across teams and leagues.
Not here: Live scores alone; Sports betting odds alone; Sports game streaming alone; General news with a sports section alone; Fantasy sports games alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free · ★ 4.8 · 857,891 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 235,120 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 3Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 4,177,651 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 4Free download · ★ 4.6 · 333,958 ratings · score 97 · best in class
- 5Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 111,845 ratings · score 95 · best in class
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Free download · ★ 4.6 · 70,186 ratings · score 93 · best in class - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 84,421 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 835,776 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 9
Free · ★ 4.6 · 54,566 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 10
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 26,276 ratings · score 90 · excellent - 11
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 36,711 ratings · score 90 · excellent - 12
Free · ★ 4.7 · 37,902 ratings · score 89 · excellent - 13
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 3,142 ratings · score 88 · excellent - 14
NFLAFree + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 412,259 ratings · score 87 · excellent - 15
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 9,262 ratings · score 87 · excellent - 16
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 67,270 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 17
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 11,639 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 18
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 5,567 ratings · score 83 · excellent - 19
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 4,330 ratings · score 83 · excellent - 20
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 5,385 ratings · score 82 · excellent - 21
Free · ★ 4.8 · 38,417 ratings · score 81 · excellent - 22
Free · ★ 4.6 · 40,395 ratings · score 81 · good - 23
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 5,977 ratings · score 79 · good - 24
Free · ★ 4.3 · 71,430 ratings · score 79 · good - 25
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 7,246 ratings · score 79 · good - 26
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 110,752 ratings · score 71 · good · provisional - 27
Free · ★ 4.8 · 56,913 ratings · score 71 · good · provisional - 28
Free · ★ 4.5 · 89,117 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional - 29
Free · ★ 4.6 · 31,566 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 30
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 17,420 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 31
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 7,238 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 32
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 4,424 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 33
Free · ★ 4.8 · 7,193 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 34
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 13,255 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 35
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 6,005 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 36
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 3,464 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 37
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 2,952 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional - 38
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 2,453 ratings · score 67 · weak · provisional - 39
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 3,003 ratings · score 67 · weak · provisional - 40
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 4,059 ratings · score 67 · weak · provisional
Beyond the top 40
New in the last 30 days
- BBC Sport (A)
- ClutchPoints: Sports News (A)
- Trade Rumors (A)
- RotoWire Fantasy News Center (A)
- RotoBaller Fantasy Sports News (A)
- All Football - Soccer scores (A)
- GOAL: Live Soccer Scores, News (A)
- Mlive: Wolverines Sports News (B)
- Baseball News - MLB edition (B)
- Chicago Bears Official App (B)
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers Official (B)
- WNBA: Live Games & Scores (C)
- Chelsea Official App (C)
- Arseblog (C)
- Indiana Pacers Official (C)
- Ryder Cup (C)
- Washington Commanders (C)
- New York Rangers Official App (C)
- New York Knicks Official App (C)
- talkSPORT (D)
- Football News - NFL edition (D)
- Cincinnati Sports (D)
Questions people ask
- What is the best sports news app for iPhone?
- theScore: Sports News & Scores, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.8 by 857,891 people.
- Which sports news apps are free?
- 40 of 40 are free to download: theScore: Sports News & Scores (S), The Athletic: All Sports News (S), ESPN: Live Sports & Scores (S), Bleacher Report: Sports News (S) and more. 10 of them sell in-app purchases. 10 report no in-app purchases.
- Which sports news app has the best App Store rating?
- Arseblog at 4.9 from 4,424 ratings.
- How many sports news apps reach S or A tier?
- 21 of 40. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.