AppTierList › All lists › Sports Streaming
Best Sports Streaming Apps for iPhone (2026)
ESPN: Live Sports & Scores is the top-ranked of 40 sports streaming apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.6/5 from 4,177,651 ratings.
- 1
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 4,177,651 ratings · score 99 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 607,031 ratings · score 98 - 3
MLBSFree + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 953,339 ratings · score 97 - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 94,036 ratings · score 96 - 5
Free · ★ 4.9 · 12,987 ratings · score 93
What belongs in this list
Watch live sports games and events on my iPhone as they happen.
Not here: sports scores and stats alone; football-only streaming alone; general live video streaming alone; highlights and replays alone; sports video 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 + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 4,177,651 ratings · score 99 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 607,031 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 3MLBSFree + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 953,339 ratings · score 97 · best in class
- 4Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 94,036 ratings · score 96 · best in class
- 5Free · ★ 4.9 · 12,987 ratings · score 93 · best in class
- 6
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 835,776 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 7
Free · ★ 4.8 · 13,552 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 49,218 ratings · score 90 · best in class - 9
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 133,206 ratings · score 90 · excellent - 10
NFLAFree + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 412,259 ratings · score 88 · excellent - 11
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 911,800 ratings · score 88 · excellent - 12
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 17,118 ratings · score 88 · excellent - 13
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 14,462 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 14
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 1,882,660 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 15
Free · ★ 4.6 · 625,796 ratings · score 85 · excellent - 16
Free · ★ 4.6 · 438,950 ratings · score 85 · excellent - 17
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 251,795 ratings · score 84 · excellent - 18
Free · ★ 4.3 · 10,282 ratings · score 84 · excellent - 19
Free · ★ 4.5 · 111,712 ratings · score 84 · good - 20
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 107,486 ratings · score 84 · good - 21
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 55,941 ratings · score 83 · good - 22
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 14,620 ratings · score 83 · good - 23
UFCBFree + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 46,922 ratings · score 82 · good - 24
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 102,194 ratings · score 82 · good - 25
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 19,078 ratings · score 82 · good - 26
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 8,672 ratings · score 81 · good - 27
Free · ★ 4.3 · 71,430 ratings · score 79 · good - 28
Free · ★ 4.7 · 607,994 ratings · score 79 · good - 29
Free · ★ 4.1 · 9,009 ratings · score 75 · situational - 30
Free · ★ 3.6 · 59,791 ratings · score 74 · situational - 31
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 3,491 ratings · score 74 · situational - 32
Free download · ★ 4.0 · 3,071 ratings · score 73 · situational - 33
Free · ★ 4.5 · 89,117 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional - 34
USGACFree download · ★ 4.7 · 22,394 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional - 35
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 17,420 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 36
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 8,362 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 37
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 8,151 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 38
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 5,486 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 39
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 4,005 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 40
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 4,805 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional
Beyond the top 40
New in the last 30 days
- Red Bull TV: Watch Live Events (S)
- Veo: Watch & Analyze (S)
- Live Football TV. Soccer Score (A)
- Tennis TV - Live Streaming (A)
- Apple TV (A)
- Toffee - TV, Sports & Movies (A)
- beIN CONNECT (MENA) (B)
- TrillerTV: Live Sports (B)
- Spectrum SportsNet: Live Games (B)
- Gotham Sports (C)
- Monumental+ (C)
- AltitudePlus+ (C)
- USGA (C)
- WNBA: Live Games & Scores (C)
- Horse Races Now (C)
- ICC Official (C)
- GolfPass (C)
- Selkirk Pickleball TV (C)
- LIV Golf (C)
Questions people ask
- What is the best sports streaming app for iPhone?
- ESPN: Live Sports & Scores, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.6 by 4,177,651 people.
- Which sports streaming apps are free?
- 40 of 40 are free to download: ESPN: Live Sports & Scores (S), DAZN: Stream Live Sports (S), MLB (S), NBA: Live Games & Scores (S) and more. 20 of them sell in-app purchases. 11 report no in-app purchases.
- Which sports streaming app has the best App Store rating?
- Red Bull TV: Watch Live Events at 4.9 from 12,987 ratings.
- How many sports streaming apps reach S or A tier?
- 18 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.
Related lists
- Best Concert Discovery Apps for iPhone (2026)8 ranked
- Best Documentary Streaming Apps for iPhone (2026)8 ranked
- Best Drama Streaming Apps for iPhone (2026)40 ranked
- Best Event Ticket Booking Apps for iPhone (2026)35 ranked
- Best Iptv Streaming Apps for iPhone (2026)26 ranked
- Best Live Streaming Apps for iPhone (2026)34 ranked