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Watch thousands of live events and shows from the ESPN networks plus get scores, on-demand news, highlights, and expert analysis. Subscribe to the ESPN+ streaming service for live sports, exclusive originals, premium articles, fantasy tools, and more.
Watch on ESPN:
• NFL (Monday Night Football) • NBA • MLB • College Sports (football, basketball, baseball, softball, and more) • Golf (The Masters) • Soccer (UEFA Euro and MLS) • Tennis (Wimbledon, US Open, Australian Open) • eSports • ESPN Shows (SportsCenter, PTI, First Take, Sportsnation, NBA: The Jump, and more) •
ESPN+ Subscribers:
Stream exclusive live sports and ESPN+ Originals without cable--all in HD.
Sign up for ESPN+ and get access to the streaming service that delivers live sports from the best leagues in the world plus premium articles and fantasy tools. Get live events from the UFC, MLS, NHL, international soccer, college sports, and more. Enjoy the complete 30 for 30 library and exclusive ESPN+ Original shows from the biggest names in sports including Peyton Manning, Dana White, Kevin Durant, Alex Morgan, and more all inside the ESPN app.
Highlights and scores from what you care about. From news about your favorite sports or team playing right now, the home tab has you covered. Fast access to scores for your favorite teams and leagues and the top games of the day in the scores tab. Also, subscribe to your favorite ESPN Podcasts or listen live to ESPN Radio.
ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPNU, SECN, and more are all available to stream live in the ESPN App. Access to live video is determined by your TV provider and package and, in some instances, your Internet service provider.
Due to contractual limitations with certain content, especially play-by-play broadcasts, there are times when the schedule that's on-air won't match the schedule that's online. If you have specific schedule questions, please contact the station directly by visiting their website.
ESPN+ Subscription Terms
-Access ESPN+ for $4.99 monthly, or $49.99 annually. You will automatically be billed for the full amount of your subscription every 30 days if you purchase a monthly subscription, or every 365 days if you purchase an annual subscription.
-Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase, unless you are offered and are eligible for a free trial. If you receive a free trial, you will be charged when your free trial period ends. Your account will be automatically charged for renewal, at the above purchase price, within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. If you cancel prior to such 24 hour period, you will not be charged for the following applicable subscription period.
-Your subscription may be managed, and you can turn off auto-renewal, by going to your iTunes account settings after purchase.
-No refunds for the current subscription period are granted. Cancellations of the current subscription take effect at the conclusion of the current subscription period.
Terms of Use - https://disneytermsofuse.com/
Privacy Policy - http://www.disneyprivacycenter.com
ESPN+ Subscriber Agreement - https://es.pn/plus-terms
Your California Privacy Rights - https://privacy.thewaltdisneycompany.com/en/current-privacy-policy/your-california-privacy-rights/
Do Not Sell My Information - https://privacy.thewaltdisneycompany.com/en/dnsmi
Before you download this app, please consider that it includes advertising, some of which may be targeted to your interests. You may choose to control targeted advertising within mobile applications by using your mobile device settings (for example, by re-setting your device's advertising identifier and/or opting out of interest based ads).
Please note: This app features Nielsen's proprietary measurement software which will allow you to contribute to market research, like Nielsen's TV Ratings. Please see www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy for more information. You may also visit Settings in the app to opt out of Nielsen measurement.
Watch on ESPN:
• NFL (Monday Night Football) • NBA • MLB • College Sports (football, basketball, baseball, softball, and more) • Golf (The Masters) • Soccer (UEFA Euro and MLS) • Tennis (Wimbledon, US Open, Australian Open) • eSports • ESPN Shows (SportsCenter, PTI, First Take, Sportsnation, NBA: The Jump, and more) •
ESPN+ Subscribers:
Stream exclusive live sports and ESPN+ Originals without cable--all in HD.
Sign up for ESPN+ and get access to the streaming service that delivers live sports from the best leagues in the world plus premium articles and fantasy tools. Get live events from the UFC, MLS, NHL, international soccer, college sports, and more. Enjoy the complete 30 for 30 library and exclusive ESPN+ Original shows from the biggest names in sports including Peyton Manning, Dana White, Kevin Durant, Alex Morgan, and more all inside the ESPN app.
Highlights and scores from what you care about. From news about your favorite sports or team playing right now, the home tab has you covered. Fast access to scores for your favorite teams and leagues and the top games of the day in the scores tab. Also, subscribe to your favorite ESPN Podcasts or listen live to ESPN Radio.
ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPNU, SECN, and more are all available to stream live in the ESPN App. Access to live video is determined by your TV provider and package and, in some instances, your Internet service provider.
Due to contractual limitations with certain content, especially play-by-play broadcasts, there are times when the schedule that's on-air won't match the schedule that's online. If you have specific schedule questions, please contact the station directly by visiting their website.
ESPN+ Subscription Terms
-Access ESPN+ for $4.99 monthly, or $49.99 annually. You will automatically be billed for the full amount of your subscription every 30 days if you purchase a monthly subscription, or every 365 days if you purchase an annual subscription.
-Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase, unless you are offered and are eligible for a free trial. If you receive a free trial, you will be charged when your free trial period ends. Your account will be automatically charged for renewal, at the above purchase price, within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. If you cancel prior to such 24 hour period, you will not be charged for the following applicable subscription period.
-Your subscription may be managed, and you can turn off auto-renewal, by going to your iTunes account settings after purchase.
-No refunds for the current subscription period are granted. Cancellations of the current subscription take effect at the conclusion of the current subscription period.
Terms of Use - https://disneytermsofuse.com/
Privacy Policy - http://www.disneyprivacycenter.com
ESPN+ Subscriber Agreement - https://es.pn/plus-terms
Your California Privacy Rights - https://privacy.thewaltdisneycompany.com/en/current-privacy-policy/your-california-privacy-rights/
Do Not Sell My Information - https://privacy.thewaltdisneycompany.com/en/dnsmi
Before you download this app, please consider that it includes advertising, some of which may be targeted to your interests. You may choose to control targeted advertising within mobile applications by using your mobile device settings (for example, by re-setting your device's advertising identifier and/or opting out of interest based ads).
Please note: This app features Nielsen's proprietary measurement software which will allow you to contribute to market research, like Nielsen's TV Ratings. Please see www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy for more information. You may also visit Settings in the app to opt out of Nielsen measurement.
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Slow and disappointing
So far, this app has been great, but there are a few things that make me rate less than a 5 or 4. I primarily use this app for baseball, as football season hasn't started. I just installed this app it to see if it was better that other baseball viewing apps I own. So far, the interface is great and well designed, but the app is SLOW! It takes a long time to start up, and it has a hard time with simple actions in general such as clicking on the details or score of a game. So far, I have had no problem with the live TV viewing aspect of it, but it should be noted that I haven't used it much as I am at home with my TV. The main thing that annoys me the most is that when I click on a player up at bat in the app, it brings me to a glitched version of the app’s website. You are unable to scroll, and have to use a drop down menu to continue on to the stats. Then when you finally get the stats, there is barely anything! In other apps, I can click on the player an instantly get an in-app page of TONS of stats, just like it should be! ESPN, fix this please! -
Used to work fine. Now Google bills me but my subscription shows as expired. 2nd month in a row! Paying $5 a month for nothing!!!! Update: 1 of the app updates broke using Google's VPN. So now I either give up security or ESPN+. I would also add, 2 of us are streaming the same match with this app and there is a good 20 second difference in the streams. Same app, same match and same wifi. Both Android phones.
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Unwanted alerts
This is everything I want in my sports app. I honestly love it. There is one exception. I don’t know if it’s from app updates or what exactly, but the app continually turns on “Breaking News” alerts. I go to the app settings and turn them off, then sure enough a day or two later they’re turned back on. I take my alerts and notifications on my phone seriously and and very deliberate about what I’ll allow to grab my attention. I like getting updates on my teams, but I absolutely do not want breaking news from espn. Most of it is completely irrelevant to me. It’s causing me to consider turning off notifications from the app altogether and going elsewhere for the updates I want. Please, please stop turning on breaking news alerts! -
UFC Content...
Update: Yay!!! Y’all fixed it, Tysm Devs, if you’re going to change how the content is displayed you should put that in the update notes, not just say that you’ve added an In-App ppv feature & nothing else but bug squashing... I can’t find any of the Greatest (KO’s, Submissions, Rivalries, etc...) videos (if they’re even on there anymore) w/how y’all have changed the landscape, there is no longer a “See All” tappable button to the right of the group heading so you can browse content, you just have to scroll from the right & read each individual title that way until it eventually ends & it seams like they’re not even in there...& as for the group headings that can be scrolled all there is now is Upcoming, Related & On-Demand, but again, no tappable “See All” button to browse anything else that was just there a few weeks ago.? -
Annoying ads, video at top
My primary usage of this app is for checking scores, getting a quick glance at schedules and stats, and occasional browsing of sports news articles. It is OK. The older version of this app was better. The “new” version has so many ads, including the annoying ones that magically encompass the entire screen when you’re about to tap on scores or an article and therefore force you to mistakenly link to some ad site, that it makes scrolling cumbersome. Also, who wants to see some random video at the top of the screen when logging in that has no context that you mistakenly tap because it is constantly at the top of the page (e.g., scores of the game the highlight is from, or a 30 second clip of an interview that has no additional context)? I don’t!!! It seems like the app intentionally leads you to mistakenly tap ad-related material. -
Apps needs to be cleaner
Two things. I like the app. It gives me updates I need with news and with games. However I wish ESPN+ was its own app (I purchased the subscription because of MLS, EFL) and having ESPN plus as its own (similarly to NBC Sports Gold helps eliminate non subscription content. This leads me into my thing; this is app is very messy to use. There’s no way to filter the content you want so you’re not seeing content you don’t want (I am only interested in soccer and don’t want to switch the UK version in the app because you can’t watch the games). In addition to a messy home screen, attempting to find the sports you’re interested in and their game is difficult and when you do find it those games aren’t listed (even thought that’s what ESPN+ advertise). I like the app, I truly do but I wish it was much cleaner than it is. Hopefully changes come soon. -
Good not great
Great place to get scores and info no doubt. It’s just truly ridiculous that you have to watch ads for every single video on ESPN. The worst part is having auto play on videos. You watch an ad watch a video, no problem, watch the same ad immediately and then the actual video buffers. Keep in my mind the ad is longer than the video you are trying to watch. Boom the same ad, another video buffers and the cycle continues. What’s the point of even clicking videos if you’re going to have to watch the same ad essentially on repeat as the actual video buffers, and plays in terrible quality like give me a break. I can deal with one ad, I can deal with poor quality of video. I can’t deal with the same ad before every video while the video buffers then plays in terrible quality, while the ad is basically 4K. -
Always Comprehensive & Looking to Improve
My previous review mentioned that Chromecast support seemed broken, and I tried just about everything I could to troubleshoot the issue (lots of "Not Authorized" errors, despite everything working fine on-device). Since then, I hadn't tried it again, but it appears to be working fine now. That being said, ESPN didn't need to redesign their app, but they did and it's always an attempt to make finding content more user-friendly. I like the changes, and while I may not have ESPN+ all the time, it's nice to see what I could be getting (certain times of year it will come in handy). I've tried other sports apps, and outside of MLB At Bat, ESPN's alerts give the most information. -
Truly the best sports app
News is great. Being able to fellow all my favorite teams in one app is the greatest. Game cast tracks the game well on time. It may take 48 hours to watch the last game my team may have played but that’s fine either way. On the Apple Watch I’ll say it’s great to have just my teams and GameTime & even there next game. Not having to scroll through other teams is a time saver. I do wish team standings was on there that’s what I like about the mlb app. So if you want a all in one sports app definitely this is your your only choice. Those with buffering problems all I do is make sure my WiFi is good. Since I do no problems. Also I wish it would give game details in the watch like how the mlb & nhl apps do. -
Frustrating Playback Interface
I’m a big fan of MMA so I had to make the jump to ESPN+. I’ve installed the app on both my phone and PlayStation 4 to see which one works the smoothest. For whatever reason there seems to be hiccup during each broadcast so far when I cast to my TV using a chrome cast. Streaming on my PlayStation works better but the playback controls are a nightmare. When I fast forward using the controller it jumps back before going forward. I hope ESPN looks into this and refines the app rather than bleeding everyone out for the $5 a month and providing a suboptimal app. And pretty please with a cherry on top look at adding a 30 sec forward and backward jump to playback controls a la fight pass. Especially if you’re gong to force me to watch Dairy Queen commercials with my UFC. You can do it ESPN. I have faith in you, kinda.
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Great
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Great Sports App
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Wish the favorites cane up first
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Watch portion of app works.... (occasionally). Sent message re: issue, no response. WATCHESPN was a less buggy platform. S9+, Android 10
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Gd
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Just had it for an hour. How can I tell so soon. All I want it F1 🏎
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Can't download 30 for 30.
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Great Album
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Good for streaming live events, checking scores, and headlines, but watching pre-recorded events and series never works for me.
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Doesn’t really support personalization
I’ve been using it for many years but it refuses to care about my interests, which through my interactions should be very obvious. They always push their own preferred content to the top. For example, I understand there is a PGA championship going on but I NEVER, ever once clicked on a golf story, but that’s what they’re pushing to the top these days. I’m the kind of fan that follow teams, not individual players, but this app is constantly showing a section to recommend I follow individuals, and the “Recommended for You” choices are a million miles away from anything I show interest in - nobody from the teams or sports I follow, rather just the players in pop culture or who have big contracts. Well, what about the teams I do follow, can I just get a quick glance at what they’re doing? Not really, I have to navigate around and scroll until I can finally find the content I really care about. There’s no attempt to really learn my preferences and show what I want. There isn’t even an option to pay for personalized content or to remove ads. This ESPN app really appears to be about promoting content, advertisements and agendas and we sports fans just have to deal with it. Having said this, once you get to the content you want, there really isn’t a better sports app out there - again that’s why I deal with all the other baggage that comes with it. Oh, and it can be pretty laggy with scores and updates.
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UFC Content...
Update: Yay!!! Y’all fixed it, Tysm Devs, if you’re going to change how the content is displayed you should put that in the update notes, not just say that you’ve added an In-App ppv feature & nothing else but bug squashing... I can’t find any of the Greatest (KO’s, Submissions, Rivalries, etc...) videos (if they’re even on there anymore) w/how y’all have changed the landscape, there is no longer a “See All” tappable button to the right of the group heading so you can browse content, you just have to scroll from the right & read each individual title that way until it eventually ends & it seams like they’re not even in there...& as for the group headings that can be scrolled all there is now is Upcoming, Related & On-Demand, but again, no tappable “See All” button to browse anything else that was just there a few weeks ago.? -
Always Comprehensive & Looking to Improve
My previous review mentioned that Chromecast support seemed broken, and I tried just about everything I could to troubleshoot the issue (lots of "Not Authorized" errors, despite everything working fine on-device). Since then, I hadn't tried it again, but it appears to be working fine now. That being said, ESPN didn't need to redesign their app, but they did and it's always an attempt to make finding content more user-friendly. I like the changes, and while I may not have ESPN+ all the time, it's nice to see what I could be getting (certain times of year it will come in handy). I've tried other sports apps, and outside of MLB At Bat, ESPN's alerts give the most information. -
Truly the best sports app
News is great. Being able to fellow all my favorite teams in one app is the greatest. Game cast tracks the game well on time. It may take 48 hours to watch the last game my team may have played but that’s fine either way. On the Apple Watch I’ll say it’s great to have just my teams and GameTime & even there next game. Not having to scroll through other teams is a time saver. I do wish team standings was on there that’s what I like about the mlb app. So if you want a all in one sports app definitely this is your your only choice. Those with buffering problems all I do is make sure my WiFi is good. Since I do no problems. Also I wish it would give game details in the watch like how the mlb & nhl apps do. -
Came for the UFC
Tuned in last night for all the early prelims and all main card fights on the UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs Dillashaw, experienced absolutely no issues with the streaming. I had watched early prelims on both my phone and laptop, and switched to my television using chrome cast, so in my experience the streams were handled well on multiple platforms. This adds up to 4.5 hours of stream time which means it was able to run for a good amount of time as well. The membership is affordable as well at only $5/month. I have heard from other people they had issues with their streams so your experience may vary, but since I had experienced no problems I give the app and the membership 5 stars -
Best Sports App Around
I think most of the complaints about this app are funny. I haven’t had a single problem with the ESPN App. My favorite teams and leagues are all in this app just like with Fox. They give you alerts based on what you want to see and it’s customizable and I muted news alerts to some leagues I pay less attention to and kept it on with the ones I do follow. I have to say ESPN+ is so worth it. I bought the subscription for more NHL, MLS and college hockey. I get that they have a lot of soccer/football (soccer is real football for the record) but it’s the world's most popular sport weather football and baseball fans like it or not. I’m happy with ESPN+ and glad I have it. Thanks ESPN -
Like the information given
Great information every day. The only problem is ESPN head annalist who for some reason had a problem with UCF football. I wonder what he would say if one of his daughters or sons or maybe grandkids would some day want to go to UCF college since they will have one of the best colleges in 2020 best medical colleges in the world. An they told them they don’t meet the grade to attend UCF. I wonder how he would feel. This college has done so much for college football An the Orlando area. He should not put them down. They are a outstanding college. Maybe he should go look st the college an just see what they are really like. Believe me he would have a different attitude.
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Unwanted alerts
This is everything I want in my sports app. I honestly love it. There is one exception. I don’t know if it’s from app updates or what exactly, but the app continually turns on “Breaking News” alerts. I go to the app settings and turn them off, then sure enough a day or two later they’re turned back on. I take my alerts and notifications on my phone seriously and and very deliberate about what I’ll allow to grab my attention. I like getting updates on my teams, but I absolutely do not want breaking news from espn. Most of it is completely irrelevant to me. It’s causing me to consider turning off notifications from the app altogether and going elsewhere for the updates I want. Please, please stop turning on breaking news alerts! -
BAMA FEVER
This is one of my most used apps. I wish that when I get a notification and click on it to open that notification that it will actually play that particular thread smoother. Other than that I love it. Update: the app has gotten slow...really slow. And glitchy. It takes almost a minute sometimes longer for it to open from a notification. Watching a game is null and void now unless I want to watch it in Spanish lol 🤦🏾♂️. Every time it says that I can’t watch it and to call my service provider. I call AT&T and they said that everything checks out on their end. Please fix this?? Baseball season is already here and football season will be coming next and I’d like to be able to watch the games like I used to be able to. -
I love ESPN but...4 sarcastic stars
ESPN the network and the app are great. The app is everything I could ever ask for. The only problem I have is how Steven A Smith has a job there. First because of his remarks against women and then his flip flopping of opinions. He legitimately has no idea what’s going on but runs his mouth then apologizes later that he got it wrong. If this is all it takes to be a ESPN analyst and make 10 million a year then sign me up. I can say .ex:“ the Celtics are out of this series( cause Gianiss had a good game and tied the series.) and there is no coming back. If that’s all it takes is to pick a side then another and offer no insight then really my 6 yo could put Steven A out of s job. Congratulations ESPN on throwing money at a horrible analyst and sexist.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 sarcastic stars -
Decent app, crashing issues
At the time of this review, the app is having major crashing problems. It won’t stay open for more than a few seconds. I didn’t update it, and I’m on the same WiFi I always am, so no idea what’s going on. I’d submit feedback about it, but- you can probably figure out why I’m here instead. When it’s working, the only complaint I have is that you can’t add/remove sports or leagues from the main feed. I literally could not care any less about baseball, but during the playoffs that takes up a lot of the feed. Otherwise it’s solid. Probably the best thing about the app is the 3 minute SVP app segment they upload every morning. Blurbs about the biggest highlights in a more casual format. Great addition.
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Slow and disappointing
So far, this app has been great, but there are a few things that make me rate less than a 5 or 4. I primarily use this app for baseball, as football season hasn't started. I just installed this app it to see if it was better that other baseball viewing apps I own. So far, the interface is great and well designed, but the app is SLOW! It takes a long time to start up, and it has a hard time with simple actions in general such as clicking on the details or score of a game. So far, I have had no problem with the live TV viewing aspect of it, but it should be noted that I haven't used it much as I am at home with my TV. The main thing that annoys me the most is that when I click on a player up at bat in the app, it brings me to a glitched version of the app’s website. You are unable to scroll, and have to use a drop down menu to continue on to the stats. Then when you finally get the stats, there is barely anything! In other apps, I can click on the player an instantly get an in-app page of TONS of stats, just like it should be! ESPN, fix this please! -
Used to work fine. Now Google bills me but my subscription shows as expired. 2nd month in a row! Paying $5 a month for nothing!!!! Update: 1 of the app updates broke using Google's VPN. So now I either give up security or ESPN+. I would also add, 2 of us are streaming the same match with this app and there is a good 20 second difference in the streams. Same app, same match and same wifi. Both Android phones.
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Annoying ads, video at top
My primary usage of this app is for checking scores, getting a quick glance at schedules and stats, and occasional browsing of sports news articles. It is OK. The older version of this app was better. The “new” version has so many ads, including the annoying ones that magically encompass the entire screen when you’re about to tap on scores or an article and therefore force you to mistakenly link to some ad site, that it makes scrolling cumbersome. Also, who wants to see some random video at the top of the screen when logging in that has no context that you mistakenly tap because it is constantly at the top of the page (e.g., scores of the game the highlight is from, or a 30 second clip of an interview that has no additional context)? I don’t!!! It seems like the app intentionally leads you to mistakenly tap ad-related material. -
Apps needs to be cleaner
Two things. I like the app. It gives me updates I need with news and with games. However I wish ESPN+ was its own app (I purchased the subscription because of MLS, EFL) and having ESPN plus as its own (similarly to NBC Sports Gold helps eliminate non subscription content. This leads me into my thing; this is app is very messy to use. There’s no way to filter the content you want so you’re not seeing content you don’t want (I am only interested in soccer and don’t want to switch the UK version in the app because you can’t watch the games). In addition to a messy home screen, attempting to find the sports you’re interested in and their game is difficult and when you do find it those games aren’t listed (even thought that’s what ESPN+ advertise). I like the app, I truly do but I wish it was much cleaner than it is. Hopefully changes come soon. -
Good not great
Great place to get scores and info no doubt. It’s just truly ridiculous that you have to watch ads for every single video on ESPN. The worst part is having auto play on videos. You watch an ad watch a video, no problem, watch the same ad immediately and then the actual video buffers. Keep in my mind the ad is longer than the video you are trying to watch. Boom the same ad, another video buffers and the cycle continues. What’s the point of even clicking videos if you’re going to have to watch the same ad essentially on repeat as the actual video buffers, and plays in terrible quality like give me a break. I can deal with one ad, I can deal with poor quality of video. I can’t deal with the same ad before every video while the video buffers then plays in terrible quality, while the ad is basically 4K. -
Frustrating Playback Interface
I’m a big fan of MMA so I had to make the jump to ESPN+. I’ve installed the app on both my phone and PlayStation 4 to see which one works the smoothest. For whatever reason there seems to be hiccup during each broadcast so far when I cast to my TV using a chrome cast. Streaming on my PlayStation works better but the playback controls are a nightmare. When I fast forward using the controller it jumps back before going forward. I hope ESPN looks into this and refines the app rather than bleeding everyone out for the $5 a month and providing a suboptimal app. And pretty please with a cherry on top look at adding a 30 sec forward and backward jump to playback controls a la fight pass. Especially if you’re gong to force me to watch Dairy Queen commercials with my UFC. You can do it ESPN. I have faith in you, kinda. -
Disappearing Past Events
On this app if a sporting event has already happened you’re honestly better off Googling the score. Today 18 Sep I attempted to check the Champions League results from 17 Sep and could not find them through the relevant section under “scores”, only today’s unplayed fixtures show. I had to go through a convoluted process of searching for a team that played, finding their Champions League fixture in their schedule, tapping on that, and navigating to the tables where I deduced for myself who scored what because only one game has been played by teams so far. If you’re going to use this app monitor scores in its current state it seems you’re best off staying glued to your phone as they happen live, otherwise you’ll be searching team by team to get an idea of what happened. -
Disappointing update
Ever since the latest update, I’ve found the app less user-friendly and generally more difficult to navigate. Scores of in-progress games often fail to update on the front page, showing only their start time, unless you click on the game box itself. Even scores for my selected favorites are far down the front page, and show the same failure to update unless I click over to the scores tab. It’s even more difficult to find news on my favorite teams. Where they used to populate the front page of the app (or even the top of the former news tab), I’m now required to make three clicks just to see the news for each team. All in all, more clicks, less access - seems like a bad update to me. -
It’s got what I want, but...
I use this app to follow college football mainly and while this isn’t a complaint with the app necessarily there is just not enough coverage of cfb on the app. An occasional article on Clemson, Ohio state, LSU and Alabama isn’t exactly in-depth coverage of a huge nationally followed sport, especially when even for things like ufc whose revenues and ratings pale in comparison to cfb get 3-4 high quality articles written about them daily. The app is fine and generally has some things Im interested in recommended to me but the videos (highlights, etc.) take an arctic forever to load and at this point whatever i see is pixelated and will not load in HD no matter what I do. Funny though, because the ads preceding the highlights literally never buffer and are HD throughout 🤔
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Dissatisfied and disappointed. The app had been working fine up to a couple of days ago when all of a sudden I would only get a white screen whenever I started the app. No content at all was shown. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it several times with no results. Whenever I tried to configure my preferences I kept receiving a message "device lost connection" while connected to the internet through my wifi.
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Half great, half brutal
The streaming availability is fantastic. The amount of sports and games that this app has made available is just amazing. The streaming itself is okay. The quality of the games that are only streamed is very obviously and significantly worse than watching tv, which can be annoying. The camera work is far worse, the announcers are worse, there are fewer and worse graphics. The biggest problem with the app itself is the functionality and ease of use. It’s god awful. If you aren’t looking for the exact sport ESPN is trying to shove down your throat at that particular moment, it can take forever to find it. I’ve had the app for about a year and a half and I still have no idea how to find scores I’m looking for. If I just want to see scores and I’m not looking for NBA, NFL, or MLB scores, i have to constantly search through multiple menus and links to finally find what I’m looking for. And the whole time I see the same streams and leagues that ESPN just assumes I want to see. There is no customization and no recognization by the developers that people may want to see scores from leagues that aren’t the top leagues. And for what it’s worth, I do look up scores from the top 4 US sports daily, as well as many top soccer leagues and tennis tournaments. However, because this app is so difficult to use, I always use Yahoo, the MLB app, or flash score to find those scores instead of this one. -
You better fix this app now or we are going to have problems. I paid for the service so I could watch MMA/UFC content and this app is failing 90% of the time. The 10% of the time that the streaming actually works it's all choppy, buffering constantly, and even playing audio without the video. I'm not playing here. I don't appreciate or take kindly to my money being essentially stolen in this manner. I'm going to watch illegal streams until you fix this BS app.
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Poor App, difficult to connect/watch
I honestly have difficulty deciding which is worse, the ESPN app or the website, as far as being able to view live games. Typically, I have to log in and out 5-10 times and independently log in to my cable provider 5-10 times each time I want to stream live games or replays. It’s quite amazing how many times you can be told that your cable subscription does not cover the live stream only to find out, on the 10th attempt, that it does. Considering it’s listed as one of the supported cable subscriptions, I’m guessing the 10th time is accurate. I have considered the possibility that it’s related to my cable provider, but since I experience the same issues with my ESPN+ subscription without going through my cable provider, I’m guessing it’s not. Of note, ESPN+ won’t be renewed. I remember watching ESPN when I was young and have continued to do so as I approach middle age, but the difficulty in accessing programming with more modern technology is quite frustrating and makes me want to find another avenue to watch my football, baseball, etc. Disney, if you’re reading this, you could really help improve the quality by fixing some of these issues before a mass exodus of subscribers who watch on mobile devices or their computers. -
Terrible, terrible, terrible. Constantly gives me an error when I try to open it. Yesterday I watched some of the PGA Championship using it (although wouldn't let me watch featured groups) and today it's asking me to subscribe, it doesn't even give me the option to log in with current info.
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How?
I honestly have no idea how a company with as much money as this has such an awful app. It’s slow, bordering on unresponsive sometimes. My phone is flaming hot after a few minutes of use on the app, although that could just be my phone and not the app. I get a lot of alerts on from ESPN, but when I click on them, it’s about a 50/50 shot of whether or not I get to see what I clicked. Ads freeze all the time, keeping me from getting to a video I click on. Videos also typically start at about 4 pixels on the screen and get marginally better as the video goes on, no matter if I’m connected to my very good WiFi or my cellular data. The amount of content is also a little subpar. When you look at an app like Bleacher Report that produces an insane amount of well-done and free content on an app that actually works, the paywall of ESPN+ is just silly. Streaming from the app is also nearly impossible for me. But the website is just as bad. The content that I actually get to see is usually pretty good stuff, making it a two star rating instead of a one star. Considering the money ESPN and Disney have, they should be embarrassed about the quality of their app and their website. -
This app has great content, but unfortunately you're lucky if you can actually VIEW any of that content. I can't recall a single time that I've tried to watch something on this app and didn't experience multiple glitches. "Reached maximum amount of concurrent streams" when I can't even get one stream going is the most frequent error message. I downloaded this app on my Chromebook and I couldn't even log in. Overall its incredibly frustrating for something that isn't free.
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Quality of Articles
I use the app for updates on scores mainly. The content in terms of writing, is often old, and without substance that would differentiate from merely the score. Redundancy seems to be the theme with ESPN. Let’s just write and speak the same things over and over regardless of the audience be it on an app or television. I miss Peter Gammons and his writing, but I will compliment Buster Olney for his piece on the Red Sox. ESPN needs more of that, and less of the redundancy. Return to the daily writing of yesteryear! Do some actually research and writing! There’re stories out there, and one of them is the return of “heat, cheese, hard-ball” through a proliferation of hard throwing relievers and starting pitching that has brought baseball back full circle. Spinning is still statistically important, but good old country hardball has returned! Here it is, hit it if you can is what every fan wants to see! Nathan Eavoldi showed the world that, of the many players in today’s game who have had Tommy John Surgery, a return to, and in some cases, new found power pitching is possible. So, country hardball, and Hope should be the theme to talk about in much more depth. Seek out minor leaguers, follow them as well, and shed light on what’s the biggest development in baseball today. -
When you get suckered into getting espn+ they make it seem like you can stream every game that airs threw espn. They fail to mention you still need to have some sort of subscription with a cable provider for that to be possible. Defeats the purpose to get this if you still need cable to still watch a game. Then they will not give you a refund for the lack of information and the false advertising they provide.
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0 stars if i could
this is hands down the WORST app i’ve ever had the misery of dealing with right along side with the UFC Fight Pass app. as a fight fan- losing connections risks missing a finish or knock out so i live in constant fear of even looking at the ESPN app once i’ve finally gotten it to connect to literally anything like a smart tv or chromcast and even on playstation. it’s awful. just tonight i’m in the middle of the main event fight when the stream begins to freeze and buff and drop quality for no good apparent reason whatsoever, so of course this means i have to deal with opening the app and reconnecting which is a good 5-10 minute process, no less than 15 seconds later the phone disconnects from the chromecast and begins playing on my phone screen revealing one of the fighters celebrating his victory that i had just missed seconds after the stream froze for no reason. this isn’t even the first time either i’m just finally so sick of it i refuse to stream any fight or sports event through their app or website. it’s no wonder illegal streams are dominating that portion of the industry, everyone’s tired of wasting their money on things that work better for free. 86’d this sh-t from my phone and all other devices. saves storage space.
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Ill get the score after work on tthe radio
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Definitely not worth it. Its much better to just buy a specific sports package from than this garbage
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Bought in as part of the hulu/disney+/espn+ package, only to find out that i dont get any of the live sports advertised without having a cable provider. Wth am i paying extra for?! I am now locked into a 12 month plan i cant get out of, to receive what i already got for free! Absolute BS. They wont return your money, thankfully there is an active complaint with bbb and the fcc, so i know im not the only one with issues of their FALSE ADVERTISEMENT!
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Not happy at all Everytime tried to watch something says sorry a problem has occurred. Pffft.
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Never updates local teams properly. I don't want to see soccer scores
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The app will not the app will not download I have ESPN plus that will not work because ESPN will not download
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Can not clear stories after viewing
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App not working
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ESPN supports BLM and ANTIFA. Knock it off. I wanna see sports not your racist politics
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Pathetic company
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Half great, half brutal
The streaming availability is fantastic. The amount of sports and games that this app has made available is just amazing. The streaming itself is okay. The quality of the games that are only streamed is very obviously and significantly worse than watching tv, which can be annoying. The camera work is far worse, the announcers are worse, there are fewer and worse graphics. The biggest problem with the app itself is the functionality and ease of use. It’s god awful. If you aren’t looking for the exact sport ESPN is trying to shove down your throat at that particular moment, it can take forever to find it. I’ve had the app for about a year and a half and I still have no idea how to find scores I’m looking for. If I just want to see scores and I’m not looking for NBA, NFL, or MLB scores, i have to constantly search through multiple menus and links to finally find what I’m looking for. And the whole time I see the same streams and leagues that ESPN just assumes I want to see. There is no customization and no recognization by the developers that people may want to see scores from leagues that aren’t the top leagues. And for what it’s worth, I do look up scores from the top 4 US sports daily, as well as many top soccer leagues and tennis tournaments. However, because this app is so difficult to use, I always use Yahoo, the MLB app, or flash score to find those scores instead of this one. -
How?
I honestly have no idea how a company with as much money as this has such an awful app. It’s slow, bordering on unresponsive sometimes. My phone is flaming hot after a few minutes of use on the app, although that could just be my phone and not the app. I get a lot of alerts on from ESPN, but when I click on them, it’s about a 50/50 shot of whether or not I get to see what I clicked. Ads freeze all the time, keeping me from getting to a video I click on. Videos also typically start at about 4 pixels on the screen and get marginally better as the video goes on, no matter if I’m connected to my very good WiFi or my cellular data. The amount of content is also a little subpar. When you look at an app like Bleacher Report that produces an insane amount of well-done and free content on an app that actually works, the paywall of ESPN+ is just silly. Streaming from the app is also nearly impossible for me. But the website is just as bad. The content that I actually get to see is usually pretty good stuff, making it a two star rating instead of a one star. Considering the money ESPN and Disney have, they should be embarrassed about the quality of their app and their website. -
Could be great, but won’t save your place!!
I recently subscribed because of the Disney bundle and there are a lot of things I really am liking about ESPN +. I love all the old programming like all the archived Indy 500 races and Mohamed Ali fights. I also really like all the ESPN original programming like Payton’s places and being able to access all of the 30 for 30 episodes. That for me is probably one of the best things about the subscription. My frustration comes because a lot of those shows are long and I don’t watch them in one sitting You would think that there would be a ‘continue watching’ feature like every other paid, streaming subscription but there isn’t. I contacted ESPN and was told to just “remember where you were.” That seems so silly and unnecessary. Please ESPN, add a ‘continue watching’ feature and I will be a 5 star happy customer. As it is right now I have to scroll back through programming, find the show I was watching, click on it, and try to remember where I was and start fast forwarding which is a huge pain if your like me and watch different shows depending on the mood you are in. -
Everything Except Streaming is Great
ESPN, I have been all ESPN ever since I was old enough to care about sports. The writing and reporting is phenomenal, and I love to be the one in my family to break the biggest sports news. The app is great with notifications on your favorite teams and leagues as well as breaking sports news. The radio streaming and podcasts are great especially my favorites (Lebatard Show, Golic and Wingo, and 30 for 30). I will continue to use this app for all of those reasons. I do however wish you guys had full game highlights online, but I digress. The only bad thing I have to say is how god awful the streaming is. Tried to watch the ECF between cavs and Celtics and it lagged throughout the entire game when casting it to my chrome cast. It did the same just trying to watch on my phone and I have gigabit internet. I don’t know why that has always been an issue for ESPN. It has sucked since the first release of WatchESPN. PLEASE FIX THIS!!!! I’m begging you because the wife kicks me out of our tv room when I’m trying to watch the games! Thank you ESPN, and keep up the good work! -
Suggestions and complaints
This is a great app. I am, however, disappointed in a few key things. 1. I had my favorite teams selected in “favorites,” and one day I opened the app only to find that there was no “favorites” setting visible, and that my favorite teams scores notifications were turned off even though I never turned them off. 2. I’ve said this in previous reviews, and I’ll say it again; I really really wish you’d put AHL hockey in here. The AHL is a minor league, but it’s got a strong enough following, and I absolutely love it, and I’d love to be able to more easily access the scores/news/stats for it here as opposed to having to go to the AHL website every time. 3. NCAA hockey, both men’s and women’s, are listed as sports on here, but whenever I check I never see them updated or covered as much as the games are happening. For example, I’m a Penn State fan, and I never see the scores for my school. Hockey is big, as is college hockey, so this is disappointing and surprising to me. Thank you for your time, and I sincerely hope that my suggestions will be taken into consideration. -
Great Streaming / Content; Horrible UI and customization
If there’s an event to watch or immediate sports news, the ESPN app is the place to watch and stay up to date. If you don’t want to know everything about the most popular sports and the sports that espn is most actively advertising, this is not the app for you. Especially if you’re paying for ESPN plus - not worth it. They do a great job from a business perspective of holding content captive but, once you’re forced to get a membership in order to watch a UFC PPV, and you think “oh cool, I’ll get some awesome content” - think again. With the lack of customization, it’s utterly disappointing. You get a lot of content but, if you’re a fight fan, the amount of content available is abysmal. Beyond that, it’s a nightmare to search for the content you want or to see specific news and updates unless that happens to coincide with whatever espn is pushing. It’s seemingly impossible to customize your feed and, even tho you pick favorites, there doesn’t seem to be an easily accessible favorites feed. I’m pretty disappointed. -
Confusing Battery Killer
The user interface doesn’t make any logical sense. Content is just kind of randomly scattered everywhere. It’s not clear where to go to watch a game and there’s no central schedule. You can see an individual team’s schedule, the most popular games in a specific league or cup (but not always in chronological order), or the big games in a sport (neither in order nor a complete list). And the order seems to change while you’re using the app! But the worst part is the battery draining while streaming. I wanted to watch a soccer game and started with 50% battery, so I plugged my phone in. By half time—with my phone plugged in and charging—the battery level had *dropped* to 18%! So I put it on low power mode, dropped the screen brightness, closed some background apps, turned off cellular and Bluetooth to use Wi-Fi only, and let it recharge during the fifteen minute break. I was able to watch the end of the match, but the battery had *continued to drain* and was at literally 3% when the final whistle blew. How is that even possible? -
ESPN+ Is a Mess
If you are using this app to get scores and updates, it’s good. However, I use it for ESPN+ and watch ESPN FC on a daily basis. I must say, the organization of both the phone and Apple TV app is awful. Trying to view the latest episode is so hard, especially on Apple TV. First, there is no feature to subscribe to a show. You just have to browse around to find it. Second, once you get to the episode listings they are not listed chronologically from newest to oldest and are not titled the same way each time. Sometimes they have the date in the title, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes the newest episode is at the top, sometimes it’s in the middle, and other times it’s literally all the way at the bottom. Additionally, if you watch the broadcast live and then pause it, the stream goes all the way back in time to the pre-roll stuff and you can’t go back to live or where you left off! The service seems half baked right now and I’m not sure I’m going to continue to subscribe at this point and time. It’s a shame they relegated ESPN FC to this service. -
Out of control - runaway notifications
I understand ESPN’s desire to draw more people into their content, but the app has simply gone too far. The notifications are reaching the point of unwanted spam. It’s one thing for me to want alerts for NBA News like trades or injuries, but by turning on alerts for league news, ESPN will send you an alert for every big game starting, every halftime take, every LeBron highlight, and every post-game press conference. It’s just too much. I am happy that ESPN is pumping out alerts to keep users informed, but the app should offer an opportunity to control what is being delivered. Divide the types of notifications up: highlights, big game alerts, opinion pieces, press conferences. These are regular items that are distinct from league news like a major free agent signing or a coach firing. This is applicable to every league that ESPN serves notifications for. Users get excellent control over game score alerts (start, quarter, half, final, close game), but absolutely no control over the endless alerts that ESPN lumps into “news”. -
Bad for the eyes
This app has all the sports info I want. It’s the place to go to find out what my teams did last night — or even how they’re doing now. I have three big issues with ESPN. 1) Too much in grey. For example, in box scores HR is in legible black, but the slugger’s name and data are in weak grey. My eyes are not that great and eye tests are a challenge, but ESPN doesn’t have to be so difficult to read. If two-tone is necessary display headings like HR in grey and data in black. 2) Navigation is slow and difficult. In progress game scores open to the last score displayed & it takes forever to update. So I try to speed things along by touching scores or sports or home, which of course doesn’t help but slows down everything. 3) the Yankees and the Mets are my favorites so their games are listed first. I’m also interested in the Red Sox but I’ll never call them a favorite, so their scores are hidden offscreen way down below. Give me a way to see all AL East and all NL East games in groupings. Summary: lots on info, hard on the eyes, poor navigation.
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Dissatisfied and disappointed. The app had been working fine up to a couple of days ago when all of a sudden I would only get a white screen whenever I started the app. No content at all was shown. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it several times with no results. Whenever I tried to configure my preferences I kept receiving a message "device lost connection" while connected to the internet through my wifi.
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You better fix this app now or we are going to have problems. I paid for the service so I could watch MMA/UFC content and this app is failing 90% of the time. The 10% of the time that the streaming actually works it's all choppy, buffering constantly, and even playing audio without the video. I'm not playing here. I don't appreciate or take kindly to my money being essentially stolen in this manner. I'm going to watch illegal streams until you fix this BS app.
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Poor App, difficult to connect/watch
I honestly have difficulty deciding which is worse, the ESPN app or the website, as far as being able to view live games. Typically, I have to log in and out 5-10 times and independently log in to my cable provider 5-10 times each time I want to stream live games or replays. It’s quite amazing how many times you can be told that your cable subscription does not cover the live stream only to find out, on the 10th attempt, that it does. Considering it’s listed as one of the supported cable subscriptions, I’m guessing the 10th time is accurate. I have considered the possibility that it’s related to my cable provider, but since I experience the same issues with my ESPN+ subscription without going through my cable provider, I’m guessing it’s not. Of note, ESPN+ won’t be renewed. I remember watching ESPN when I was young and have continued to do so as I approach middle age, but the difficulty in accessing programming with more modern technology is quite frustrating and makes me want to find another avenue to watch my football, baseball, etc. Disney, if you’re reading this, you could really help improve the quality by fixing some of these issues before a mass exodus of subscribers who watch on mobile devices or their computers. -
Terrible, terrible, terrible. Constantly gives me an error when I try to open it. Yesterday I watched some of the PGA Championship using it (although wouldn't let me watch featured groups) and today it's asking me to subscribe, it doesn't even give me the option to log in with current info.
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This app has great content, but unfortunately you're lucky if you can actually VIEW any of that content. I can't recall a single time that I've tried to watch something on this app and didn't experience multiple glitches. "Reached maximum amount of concurrent streams" when I can't even get one stream going is the most frequent error message. I downloaded this app on my Chromebook and I couldn't even log in. Overall its incredibly frustrating for something that isn't free.
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Quality of Articles
I use the app for updates on scores mainly. The content in terms of writing, is often old, and without substance that would differentiate from merely the score. Redundancy seems to be the theme with ESPN. Let’s just write and speak the same things over and over regardless of the audience be it on an app or television. I miss Peter Gammons and his writing, but I will compliment Buster Olney for his piece on the Red Sox. ESPN needs more of that, and less of the redundancy. Return to the daily writing of yesteryear! Do some actually research and writing! There’re stories out there, and one of them is the return of “heat, cheese, hard-ball” through a proliferation of hard throwing relievers and starting pitching that has brought baseball back full circle. Spinning is still statistically important, but good old country hardball has returned! Here it is, hit it if you can is what every fan wants to see! Nathan Eavoldi showed the world that, of the many players in today’s game who have had Tommy John Surgery, a return to, and in some cases, new found power pitching is possible. So, country hardball, and Hope should be the theme to talk about in much more depth. Seek out minor leaguers, follow them as well, and shed light on what’s the biggest development in baseball today. -
When you get suckered into getting espn+ they make it seem like you can stream every game that airs threw espn. They fail to mention you still need to have some sort of subscription with a cable provider for that to be possible. Defeats the purpose to get this if you still need cable to still watch a game. Then they will not give you a refund for the lack of information and the false advertising they provide.
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0 stars if i could
this is hands down the WORST app i’ve ever had the misery of dealing with right along side with the UFC Fight Pass app. as a fight fan- losing connections risks missing a finish or knock out so i live in constant fear of even looking at the ESPN app once i’ve finally gotten it to connect to literally anything like a smart tv or chromcast and even on playstation. it’s awful. just tonight i’m in the middle of the main event fight when the stream begins to freeze and buff and drop quality for no good apparent reason whatsoever, so of course this means i have to deal with opening the app and reconnecting which is a good 5-10 minute process, no less than 15 seconds later the phone disconnects from the chromecast and begins playing on my phone screen revealing one of the fighters celebrating his victory that i had just missed seconds after the stream froze for no reason. this isn’t even the first time either i’m just finally so sick of it i refuse to stream any fight or sports event through their app or website. it’s no wonder illegal streams are dominating that portion of the industry, everyone’s tired of wasting their money on things that work better for free. 86’d this sh-t from my phone and all other devices. saves storage space. -
I have ESPN+ through the Disney+ package deal. All of the other services it comes with work great. Except ESPN+. It is just terrible. I log in with my cable provider so I can watch shows like The Jump, only to find service errors & can't watch. Then it forgets I logged in with my cable provider. I hate ESPN+. Garbage service.
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It has been ruined
The ESPN app has been my go-to app for sports news, scores, and recaps for a long time. But it has been ruined with the latest updates and redesigns. The app is almost unusable these days. Even when I am at home, on wifi, with nothing else running on my phone, the app is slow and crashes often. Don’t even think about using it at a game or anywhere your connection isn’t perfect. They have overburdened the app with video, ads, and cookies that slow it down to a crawl or even just prohibit you from even being able to open the app at all. Today I finally jumped onto the apps “text support” to see what I could do to improve my experience. Unfortunately the ESPN support rep proceeded to first accuse me of having a bad connection. I pointed out that he was incorrect and the rep then informed me that the app stores a lot of cookies and I should just delete the app and reinstall it. This is an annoying suggestion but I did it anyway. There was no improvement. And the tactless interaction with the rep definitely did not help the situation. The point is, you can do better. Go find another app that works and was designed by a company that still cares about their user base.
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Reviewed by Laura S on December 27, 2017
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