This has been my go-to score app for many years. Idk what caused it, but the quality has gone downhill so much recently. It’s like the app has been trying to do too much (current betting lines, etc.) and the end result is a lesser product. Scores have been horrible to follow for quite a while at this point. NFL mostly doesn’t say who was part of the previous play. It will skip things like timeouts so you have no idea what’s going on. I can’t follow a game on the app like I could previously. That is bad because it is the main function of the app. It used to be consistently good at explaining what’s going on. Yesterday, Score said there was 50 seconds left in a game and all of a sudden I got a final score update. Apparently 7 points were scored in the final 50 seconds that were never accounted for on the app. It looks like the NBA All Star game was so poorly tracked on the app last night that they pulled it altogether. Then they have this Score Bets ad that has intrusively popped up recently. I like to look at scores quickly, and this ad pops up at the top after 1 or 2 seconds every time. I have clicked on it hundreds of times. Seems like a really disingenuous way of generating clicks and revenue. I still have the app because it’s the only one I know of that will provide player notifications for all aspects of a game (per reception, rush over 20 yards, triple double, TD, final stats, etc.). If another app has that functionality I will have no qualms about leaving Score behind.

If I had to pick a place to get all of my sports news and scores from every League with every team then it’d be The Score. Score is quick it’s fast and I’ve only ever had a few problems before. Sure the chatting feature is cool but it’s mostly filled with trolls who change sides to whoever’s winning in a game. I’m fine with it, I don’t use the chat feature nor do I think I’d need to. Another problem is the video playing feature. I mean you can’t rewind or fast forward? To me it seems really dumb that something so simple is on just about every app/site with a video feature. I’m sure The Score has more problems to deal with and don’t particularly care about a small little annoyance but it really is an annoyance that I think should be fixed. Now let’s get to the best part. The Score is amazing. It has play by play, drive by drive, stat by stat, score by score counters that work perfectly. If I’m watching the game on my TV and I miss something I can just go to the score and see what I missed. Plus it has quick updates on important moments on the news section and curates my content that I like. It’s also easy to learn and works for statsheads like me. Thanks The Score!

UPDATE: Docked another start because the widgets do not update. The scores shown on my widgets have not updated since 10/30 ( today is 11/2). Worked fine until then. ***********************This app is great and generally has worked well for me providing the sports news I want. However there are some glitches. One, when using the app and trying to contact the developers through the Help section it asks for an email to be setup in order to use that function which I have set up an email through the app, so that's useless (which is why I'm leaving a review on the App Store). Two, the main issue I've had is using the widgets as a "stack" on my iPhone 14 Pro Max. I've used the stack to add the Score widget for my favorite teams that I want to keep track of so I can scroll through the stack easily; however I've noticed that after working for a little while it always reverts to a state where some of the widgets in the stack work fine but other widgets in the same stack will revert to a blank state - the widget is still there and I can edit it, but even afyer editing it stays in the same blank state in the stack. I've had to set the stack up multiple times and it always glitches in this way. If they could just fix this issue the app would be almost perfect. However due to the issues using the widgets I will have to leave this as a 3 start review until it gets fixed.

The Score is still my favorite sports app, but I feel that it is falling behind in a couple of regards. One is the ability to pay for an ad-free option. Particularly with soccer apps, an ad-free option is standard for a small annual fee. It would be nice if the Score could offer something similar - the ads are not only annoying, but cause the app to become a battery hog at times, limiting the amount of time I spend on the app. Secondly, the app struggles to render external links. Apps like Yahoo Sports, One Football, etc. have gotten a lot better about featuring content from external sites but rendered cleanly in-app rather than forcing you to go to the external site itself. But even when they do force to go outside the app, those pages load much more quickly and clearly than they do inside the Score (and avoid the big intrusive black bar at the top of the screen that the Score always seems to have). Twitter videos also embed much more cleanly in their articles than they do on the Score. It’s getting to the point where I ignore the “favorites” section altogether, because it is predominantly populated with external links.