# College Hockey News — user reviews > 73 indexed App Store user reviews of College Hockey News by SalsaShark Design, rated 3.30/5 from 139 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/college-hockey-news/id426018814/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/college-hockey-news/id426018814.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 49 · 4★ 26 · 3★ 13 · 2★ 22 · 1★ 29 ## What do users think of College Hockey News? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Best college hockey app - 👍 Affordable and awesome - 👍 Great for following teams - 👍 Informative with real-time scoring - 👍 Elegant and organized design - 👍 Free coverage of scores and news - 👍 Supports D1 Women's hockey - 👍 Helpful notifications for games - 👍 Good for staying connected **Cons** - 🐛 Constantly crashing - 🐛 Slow to update scores - 🐛 Ads are intrusive - 🐛 Notifications don't lead to articles - 🐛 Premium content issues - 🐛 Missing D3 data - 🐛 Inconsistent updates - 🐛 Clunky interface - 🐛 Biased news coverage - 🐛 App doesn't open - 🐛 Black square on screen - 🐛 iPad version not updated - 🐛 Downloads info every time **Commonly reported bugs** - Constantly crashing - Stats, scores, or game start indicators disappear - Updates to game scores are days behind - Notifications don't go to articles - Ads make content unreadable - Issues with premium content access - Game details missing - App not updating on the App Store - No push notifications after update - No goal alerts - Score updates showing old scores - Rankings on app don't match websites - No scores after update - App stopped working - Won't update scores and keeps kicking out - Crashes when choosing a game - No scores or info after paying - Performance and data issues this year - Standings win/loss numbers don't add up - Standings bugs in WCHA - Overall rankings button not working - App doesn't open after update - Downloads info each time app is opened - Crashes when opening box score - Black square in middle of screen - Exited out of app when clicking player stats - iPad version not updated - Crashes when tapping arrows on scoreboard - Favorite teams not staying favored - Test alerts are annoying **Most requested features** - Add TV channel listings - Include ratings for women's teams - Allow unlimited team following with premium - Official top 20 rankings only - Dark mode app icon - Add D3 data - Add CCHA to CHN - Add player tracking for drafted players - Add Apple Watch support - Individual stats for each team - Better instructions for setting favorites - Add NHL draft team for players - Notification center for customizable alerts - Add women's hockey scores - Add pairwise rankings - Add USCHO Poll ## Newest reviews (15 of 73) ### 2/5 — Doesn’t update on time *2025-10-11, version 4.3.3* Sometimes updates to game scores are days behind. ### 2/5 — What happened *2025-03-21, version 4.3.3* Slow to update scores. ### 3/5 — Rating the women also and not just the guys colleges. *2025-01-15* All I’m asking for are you guys to put the rating on the girls team’s too. Now what do I mean by that is, that every college that is rated 1 through what ever the last team is rated. Just like in the men’s colleges. Now why is that so hard. ### 4/5 — LOVE IT *2024-12-29* Don’t know why there reviews are so mid. As a UMass Lowell fan, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU When you pay for premium you should be able to follow unlimited teams. It’s kind of annoying being a Hockey East fan and only following 6 teams. Still great, just small changed needed Edit: You didn’t answer the 2nd question I had **Developer response:** Thank you. But there is no such thing as an official top 20. The closest thing to anything official is the Pairwise Ratings - which is what you're seeing in the app, and is not limited to 20. To learn more about what the Pairwise is, feel free to check out https://www.collegehockeynews.com/info/?d=pwcrpi ### 4/5 — LOVE IT *2024-12-04* Don’t know why there reviews are so mid. As a UMass Lowell fan, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU That being said, recently you guys added a rankings. I like it, but can we do the official top 20 only please? Also, when you pay for premium you should be able to follow unlimited teams. It’s kind of annoying being a Hockey East fan and only following 6 teams. Still great, just small changed needed! **Developer response:** Thank you. But there is no such thing as an official top 20. The closest thing to anything official is the Pairwise Ratings - which is what you're seeing in the app, and is not limited to 20. To learn more about what the Pairwise is, feel free to check out https://www.collegehockeynews.com/info/?d=pwcrpi ### 4/5 — Missing one thing. *2024-10-11, version 4.3.1* No dark mode app icon means 4 is as high as I can go for a rating. ### 4/5 — Great app *2024-04-01* I like the little notifications it plays an hour before a game. Reminds me that college hockey is going. I mainly like it for the notifications. Only concern though is how you can’t see brackets (atleast I think) nonetheless, I love this app ### 2/5 — Good basics *2023-03-10, version 4.2* I like the app overall but where’s your D3 data? ESPN is almost good enough to use over this. ### 2/5 — Minnesota vs Michigan is incomplete! *2023-01-22, version 4.2* Please complete the stats information for the game on January 21st from Minnesota. The details are missing. Thank you Carol White ### 4/5 — Thank god for this app *2023-01-14* Bit wonky, interface feels a little clunky. But sheesh am I grateful for whoever out there that is showing love to the college hockey community ### 4/5 — Very Helpful *2022-11-20* I love the app, wish I could find the equivalent for college lacrosse as well! I appreciate being able to keep up with my college team after I moved to an area that doesn’t seem to care about the sport. Scores and standings at your fingertips. ### 3/5 — Please fix article notifications *2022-10-17* I love the information and the articles that the app provides, especially in an (in my opinion) underserved market. The one QoL nuisance that I always run into though is a notification for an article. These never direct me to the article itself, and when I start looking for the article I want to read I sometimes can’t even find it. If you could please fix this to have notifications direct a reader directly to an article, that would be amazing. Thanks for an amazing app otherwise! It really keeps me connected to college hockey where I otherwise wouldn’t be. ### 2/5 — No push notifications *2021-12-11* Before the most recent update, I would only get my team’s game alert an hour before the game and the final. After the update, I get no notifications at all. I even deleted and re-downloaded the app, and restored my premium subscription, and still nothing. I’d love to get goal updates sent so I can keep track of my team while I work all hours of the day. **Developer response:** The broader issue with goal notifications has been resolved, so please send us an in-app support e-mail so we may try to sort out what's going on with your device. Thanks! ### 2/5 — No Alerts *2021-12-04, version 4.0.0* Not getting any goal alerts. Game start and Game end notifications but no goal alerts. ### 2/5 — App does not match rankings online. *2021-11-20, version 4.0.0* Rankings on Hockey East and NCAA websites show different rankings ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Never Agaun *2026-02-07, version 4.4.1* I buy this app every season, this will be my last one. Constantly crashing and stats, scores or even a sign that the games has started go away ### 1/5 — Can I vote zero stars? *2025-12-06, version 4.4* Terrible app. Someone needs to build a better app. Some nerd in college could crank something out better in a weekend ### 1/5 — add *2024-10-04, version 4.3* the ads when i read news articles pop up very intrusive…i have deleted this app ### 1/5 — Pretty bad *2024-08-14, version 4.3* Notifications don’t go to the articles and the ads make it unreadable once I manually open it myself anyway. ### 1/5 — Issues with premium content *2023-03-06* I added the premium content by paying the $3.99 fee. It worked fine for the first month or so but now when I click on the premium button, there is no content for me to click on. I have emailed requesting help four times and have not gotten any response. And the content is still not available. I love the app but am completely dissatisfied with the technical “support.” One star is a gift. I responded to your response and wrote that when I click on premium content, I get a screenshot of the various premium things but I can’t see any of them. I want a refund of my $3.99 immediately. **Developer response:** Once you get Premium, the Premium button doesn’t do anything. The premium features include box scores, additional stats and no ads. Are you not getting those? ### 1/5 — CCHA *2022-12-05, version 4.2* When are you going to add the CCHA to CHN? ### 1/5 — The latest version has not updated on the apple store. *2022-02-25, version 4.1* The apple App Store has version 3.3. No wonder it’s not working. How about updating to latest version. ### 1/5 — Score updates *2021-11-21, version 4.0.0* Score updates don’t work. U of Mn score for tonight shows last nights score. Fix it! ### 1/5 — Not working anymore *2021-11-13, version 4.0.0* The app has stopped working over the last few days. Please fix!!! ### 1/5 — Constantly crashes *2021-11-13, version 4.0.0* Since the latest update, the app crashes as soon as you choose to look at a particular game. Disappointing. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best College Hockey App *2025-12-05, version 4.4* Best app, been my go to college hockey app for the past 4 seasons now. Affordable and awesome. ### 5/5 — Great app Add which channel games will be on *2025-10-04, version 4.3.3* Add tv listing and it’ll be perfect ### 5/5 — Love. Love. Love *2025-05-09* College hockey news has given me a voice as a Wattpad writer and content creator and I can’t thank them enough for all of their hard work and dedication to our wonderful game ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-02-23, version 4.3.3* Best app for college hockey. ### 5/5 — Best app ever *2022-03-05, version 4.1* I have been looking for an app like this for years for ncaa hockey!! Even bought the premium service! Thank you! ### 5/5 — Problem with scoreboard fixed *2021-11-20* Previous problem with scoreboard updates seems to be fixed, working great now. Thanks to developer for taking care of the problem. ### 5/5 — Finally, support for Women’s hockey! *2021-11-13* I’ve used CHN for a while and have always enjoyed it, but was always disappointed that it was limited to Men’s D1 NCAA hockey. Adding D1 Women’s scores is great! ### 5/5 — Great app *2020-01-18, version 3.0.7* Great free college hockey scores and news app that has a great breadth of coverage ### 5/5 — Thank goodness. *2019-03-31* Can’t believe it’s 2019 and almost impossible to follow your favorite college hockey team. This app does this almost to perfection. Thank you. ### 5/5 — BEST COLLEGE HOCKEY APP THERE IS *2018-11-02* Hands down, this is the most informative college hockey app that there is! Realtime scoring & very nice layout. Player profiles. Worth the upgrade! Ive had this app now for at least 5-6 years... --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-21.*