ESPN

Great Price and a must have for any sports fan. I use chrome cast to watch ESPN + content on my TV. 75% of the time the chrome cast icon is nowhere to be found. A week or two goes by all of sudden the incon is back. Then all of a sudden it’s gone again. When it isn’t working I’ll go to all my other apps and it works with those. I’ve tried everything I learned from online research and nothing has worked for me. I’ve reset the tv, the chrome cast, deleted the app and reinstalled it, signed out, reset my phone, cleared cashed apps, updated iOS, updated the app. Prolly forgetting a few but I’ve spent hours multiple different times trying to fix it. Randomly with no rhyme or reason the icon re appears but eventually disappears just as randomly as it appeared days prior. I even ordered Apples Lightning to HDMI cord which will mirror my phone or iPad screen to the TV. That works and mirrors my actions as I browse the app but I get a error message as soon as I try to watch something. ESPN must of built the app to not work when you’re trying to mirror their content onto the TV even tho they allow you to cast their content to your TV if/when the chrome cast icon is present.

First of all I am grateful ESPN has LaLiga available to stream! My issue with the app is that I don’t have the ability to record for later as the European games don’t always fit the US work schedule… my biggest issue is that the app is cumbersome for members. Half the time this version does not recognize me as a returning member through my iPad and I wish I could skip news I don’t care about…screw sports I don’t care for on one level and if I am not watching my preferred team or I am “recording“ why would I want results?! No matter…my main gripe is that I always need to delete the app, download it again and login so my membership is recognized - I mean, I am paying to watch stuff and the app is more concerned I am part of the “paying customer” group that getting the game on screen!? 🤔 In any case, my dream would be a streaming package that covers most mayor soccer leagues (England, Germany, Spain, Italy,France and champions league) …right now it’s a scramble every summer before the season starts…

I would say once you actually get the ESPN+ app installed it works pretty well on Roku and is easy to navigate with the remote......the big problem is it literally takes a PhD and engineering degree to get the app installed on a non QLED TV which many do not have esp if you’ve purchased a tv prior to 2017.....ESPN also failed to offer a heads up on this so if you have an older tv be prepared for a long set up process.....after about 8 hours and a trip to the store to purchase said Roku device we hunkered down to watch Connor v cowboy....sad to say 40 secs was a huge letdown but it looks like the UFC lineup In coming months looks promising....One other note....the sound was on a 10-15 sec delay which was annoying and unacceptable...I’m wondering if anyone else had this issue....I did appreciate the discounted price for the fight so overall some good and some bad points...work on that streaming being in sync and we’ll be back with another review after the next fight....GO NINERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I use a lot of sports apps and they all work pretty similarly. This one has everything the others do all in one. Once you learn how, the app is very easy to navigate. The favorite teams AND SPORTS is helpful to narrow down the news that shows up. The stories is my favorite part especially with the interactive voting. The one request I have for it is this: if there were more stories that I could just scroll through they would be a GREAT time killer. When I'm bored I like to open them up for a minute but there are only five per day if I'm correct. If I was able to scroll through those just a little bit more I would enjoy killing time watching Joe Burrow talk about his real diamonds and watching people dunk on mini basketball hoops. Other than that the articles are well written and my notifications are personalized to where I'm not getting random sports I've never heard of like for other apps. Thanks for reading, I hope it helped

I’ve been using the ESPN App on my IPhone since 2018. It gives you most of the information you can find on the ESPN website, with the exception of certain specific sections of different sports homepages (for example, you cant access the college football conference standings from the college football page). I also don’t like the only the last names of players are shown in boxscores and stat columns. The website shows you their full names. Beyond that, the main complaint I have is that the app is glitchy in spots. For example, say I’m looking at the boxscore of a football game, and say I minimize the app briefly without actually closing it. When I go back to the ESPN app, it will take me to the game recap and force me to click on the boxscore again. I don’t get why thats necessary. If you’re a sports fan who is used to perusing the ESPN website, and if you’re familiar with the firsr names of the athletes, the app is a useful way to do deep dives and read columns without having to use the website through a desktop or laptop. Recommended, but its frustrating in places.

Overall this is a great app. I can keep up with scores of the games I’m interested in when I’m not home and is easy to navigate. But there are two things I don’t like about the app. First being that although I have an ESPN account and have my favorite teams and preferences set, every time I get on the app I have to go into setting and click on my preferences just for them to show up while I’m in the app, which makes it hard for me to check scores when I’m hunting or fishing while a game is going on. The other problem is every time I try to watch a game on the app while I’m not home it either tells me I can only watch with a 15 minute temp pass although I’m signed into my DISH account or it makes me sign into my DISH account every time I want to watch a game. Fix these two bugs and it’s a 5 star app!

So far my overall experience with the app itself has been good and I have enjoyed the vast options that the app presents. My only issue is the Chromecast feature. It’s extremely clunky and only works when it wants to. It also appears that I have to keep my screen on the app otherwise it will automatically cut the feed within seconds. I should be able to do other things on my phone while casting to the TV and given that this app will most likely be the future of all sports someday, it’s imperative that Chromecast becomes fluid and always works even when I leave the app without shutting it down. It should also be made easier to activate as the Chromecast button doesn’t appear on every screen of the app. So all in all, the app itself is great, but Chromecast needs to be fixed big time.

Yup it worse with every update. Not sure who’s in charge, but they should have been apart of the 150 you just let go. For example. Thursday’s Steven a smiths second hour of his podcast, half through it goes back to hour one. Now if the app crashes(which it still does quite frequently), or if you have to leave the app, it won’t go back to where you left off. Your app still goes back to the previous hour instead of just moving forward to the next hour. It would be great if you could make that happens, so the driver, me won’t have to change it myself while driving. You really need to start thinking of this app in the way a person would in a car. I bet most of your podcast listeners are driving, not sitting at home or at work. Please don’t update until you have addressed these issues.

Update: Why does the app set its own brightness instead of what is used for the system? Really annoying how bright it is. Too many commercials and raising rates. The commercials are longer than the ind. highlight. Unsubscribing. Old: It isnt a bad app, but the forcing of location service when I have a billing address via paying a subscription and the regular problem of video connection issues for events takes away from the app. ESPN, rethink the location services issue and your app gets better.

It's ok. They cover a lot of sports/ leagues, so you can check a ton of scores and standings in one place. The app is stable and doesn't ever have technical difficulties. I find a lot of the box scores and standings tables to be a bit clunky and awkward. The aesthetics are boring. You have to sit through a full ad to watch a highlight or clip, and in some cases the ad is actually longer than the highlight I want to watch. The writing/ content can be a bit dry or negative.

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!

App functionality is good. I haven’t experienced any crashes or problems and it’s laid out well and intuitive. That all said, they really have to figure out a way to have no blackouts for teams you follow and care. They ask for a TV provider even I subscribe to ESPN+ (paying monthly fee). The reason I subscribe to ESPN+ is to watch live sports without the cable subscription (or the Live TV streaming service) with 50 other channels I really don’t care about. This might not be ESPN’s fault but the whole segregated licensing deals with sports has become ridiculous, a company as big as Disney should start doing something about it. Apple stood up to wireless cell companies and did not let them load the iPhones with bunch of crap advertisement software back in 2007. I am looking forward to a streaming service that lets you select your team(s) and provides you with all the games. I know it’d be (much) more expensive than $6.99 (what ESPN+ costs) but it could be worth it - if they do it right.