# Footy Live for iPad: AFL news — user reviews > 102 indexed App Store user reviews of Footy Live for iPad by Sportsmate Technologies Pty Ltd, rated 4.90/5 from 45 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/footy-live-for-ipad-afl-news/id377357762/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/footy-live-for-ipad-afl-news/id377357762.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 40 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0 ## What do users think of Footy Live for iPad? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Good injury report - 👍 Useful for keeping up with news - 👍 Great for checking scores - 👍 Informative player stats - 👍 Good companion app - 👍 Easy to see ladder - 👍 Updates on news - 👍 Best footy app - 👍 Works well - 👍 Great app - 👍 Amazing - 👍 Reliable and user-friendly - 👍 All the info a fan needs - 👍 Informative - 👍 Brilliant app - 👍 Packed with info - 👍 Great to have local times - 👍 Great way to keep up - 👍 Fantastic app - 👍 Well designed and easy to navigate - 👍 Brilliant app - 👍 All the right stats - 👍 Informative player drill downs - 👍 Super fast updates - 👍 Fabulous app - 👍 Top app, clear and concise - 👍 Great resource for those abroad - 👍 Decent standalone - 👍 Amazing app - 👍 Fantastic app - 👍 Live scores update quickly **Cons** - 🐛 App is broken - 🐛 Information not available - 🐛 Glitches appeared and not fixed - 🐛 Useless app - 🐛 Terrible on iPad - 🐛 Cannot load 2026 season - 🐛 Poor app design - 🐛 No longer supported - 🐛 New stories contain no content - 🐛 Cannot read anything - 🐛 Out of date - 🐛 Very poorly written app - 🐛 Endless gambling ads - 🐛 Annoying app - 🐛 Not updated for three years - 🐛 Drop down doesn't render correctly - 🐛 Will not update to 2025 - 🐛 Live game doesn't appear - 🐛 App is a disgrace - 🐛 Doesn't open in correct league or round - 🐛 Live games missing - 🐛 Not good anymore - 🐛 No scores on Match Day - 🐛 Match disappeared from page - 🐛 Matches approaching half time not started - 🐛 Full time called early - 🐛 Cannot default to current round - 🐛 Full time result doesn't reflect final scores - 🐛 Player bios out of date - 🐛 Bugs and lack of updates - 🐛 Issue with changing between leagues - 🐛 Letters replaced by dots - 🐛 Current round a week behind - 🐛 Doesn't open at current round - 🐛 Last update over 3 years ago - 🐛 Doesn't update to current round - 🐛 Player profiles outdated - 🐛 Blank head silhouettes - 🐛 Player photo shows old club - 🐛 Bio doesn't mention club change - 🐛 Team names not in English - 🐛 Aboriginal naming - 🐛 Name discrimination - 🐛 Won't use until English names return - 🐛 Stop aboriginal naming - 🐛 Screen format needs improvement - 🐛 Says I'm in 2021 - 🐛 Lacks AFLW player numbers - 🐛 Freezes a lot - 🐛 Needs better statistics - 🐛 Gambling ads saturate - 🐛 Toxic gambling promotions - 🐛 Annoying to deal with ads - 🐛 Notifications turn off - 🐛 Ladder still has 2 conferences - 🐛 17+ rating - 🐛 Disgusting gambling ads spoil it - 🐛 Crashes constantly on iPad Pro - 🐛 Scores take too long to update - 🐛 Cannot check games from last year - 🐛 Commentators mumble and talk about themselves - 🐛 Keeps crashing on iPad - 🐛 Delay in updating scores - 🐛 Third rate without faster updates - 🐛 Doesn't update scores - 🐛 Commentators spoil the viewing - 🐛 Player stats wrong - 🐛 Commentators reminisce too much - 🐛 Doesn't update **Commonly reported bugs** - Lost normal Footy live - Can only get News - Never works as it should - Glitches appeared last year which were not fixed - Now can only get VFL - Opens to last weeks scores - Games not there - Works ok on phone but terrible on iPad - Almost impossible to change to current season - Stopped working - New stories contain no content - Can not read anything - No text appears - Claim that Collingwood lad is the hero is wrong - Lopsided view of football - The worm turns on itself during the first quarter and remains wrong - App opens on the correct round instead of the previous round - App opens on the previous week, rather than the current week - Drop down doesn't render correctly and usually doesn't respond to clicking - Will not update to 2025 - Live match not listed - App is a disgrace - Doesn't open in correct league or round - Live games are missing - Not good anymore - Scores not shown on Match Day - Match disappeared off the Match Game page - Matches approaching half time not started on the app - Full time called on match with 10 minutes to go - Cannot update to the current round - One round behind each week - Full time result does not reflect the final scores - Player bios are several years out of date - Match tab opening to the previous round instead of the current round - Bugs and lack of updates are starting to make it annoying - Changing between AFL and other leagues has become almost impossible - Letters that make up eg AFL or SANFL have been replaced by dots - App thinks the current round is last weeks - Annoyingly takes you there even after you’ve selected the real current round - Nothing has been updated for ages - Current round defaults to previous week - Painful - Doesn’t open at current round - Last update was over 3 years ago - App doesn’t update to current round anymore - Keeps reverting to the previous round - Player profiles/histories have not been updated for some years - Blank head silhouettes instead of photos for new-to-AFL players - If a player changes clubs, the app uses the same photo as the one for the old club - Player's bio doesn’t mention the club change - Team names are not in English - Team names are not real team names - Ramming it down our throats isn’t inclusive or balanced - Won’t be using this app until English team names return - Stop aboriginal naming - Improve screen Format - Says im in 2021 but were at the granny in 2022 - App still hasn’t made the effort to list all of the players’ numbers for AFLW - Freezes a lot - Needs better statistics - Gambling ads now saturate - Even worse ads for t-shirts with pro gun messaging - Annoying to deal with all the ads and toxic gambling promotions - Every time you open the app it opens on the previous week - This doesn’t happen on my phone, just the ipad - Every time I click on the notification bell to turn notifications on every time I exit the game the notification bell turns and I can’t see my notifications - The AFLW had abandoned the conference system. Why does the ladder still have 2 conferences? - It’s good but it is 17 plus. WHATS WRONG WITH IT?! - The propaganda: “we’re always updating our app …” - The reality: last update was over 3 years ago. - Crashes constantly on iPad Pro - Any time you hover the cursor over the bottom menu bar the app crashes - Scores take 2 minutes to update after a team scores - Can’t check games from last year that good - A crash report pops up and crashes - The commentators such as Brereton, Lyons and a couple of others that mumble on about there own lives rather than the football - The iPad version keeps crashing every time you open it up - Far too long a delay in updating scores - The very best app is no longer available and offered a LIVE LADDER service...and live scores updated every 2 minutes or less. - The scores update before channel 7 calls it which shows that the live scores actually work. - The players stats have just gone wrong! - The football commentators are spoiling the watching of good football - The app is ok for checking current scores. - Match previews are never available prior to the game. **Most requested features** - See what channels footy is on - List league ladder or next matches - Show what channels the footy is on - Show free to air channels - List VFL and AFL - Show channel listings - Fix app to open on correct round - Update to 2024 season - Update player profiles - Update player histories - Add photos for new players - Update player bio for club changes - Provide option to toggle name type - Provide both names on teams - Return English team names - Improve screen format - List all AFLW player numbers - Add better statistics - Remove ads and gambling promotions - Paid version to remove ads - Fix notification bell issue - Remove conference system from AFLW ladder - Fix 17+ rating - Remove gambling ads - Add heatmaps - Feature to put selected players to top of list on iPad - Faster score updates - Live ladder service - Video highlights - Update app for 2018 season - Update almanacs and team details - Update Richmond page with Premiership and Brownlow Medal records - Live video feed - Match previews available prior to game - Update player stats ## Newest reviews (19 of 102) ### 3/5 — Lost it with approach to adds *2026-05-17, version 8.3.2* Liked the app with its structure but recent changes with adds that are very hard to escape became annoying. Then I get an add telling me I had a virus, imposed over the iPhone screen, but really just plugging an anti-virus app. Wholly irresponsible so deleted this app immediately and back to the AFL app for me ### 4/5 — Good app.....but... *2026-03-07, version 8.3.2* I think this app is great...but why does the 2026 version not have what channels the footy is on anymore… last year, you were able to see what was on free to air as the channel was listed above the team name. This seems to have been taken away. Annoying ### 1/5 — Failure to do homework *2025-09-19, version 8.3.2* ANDREWs from Brisbane took 14 marks in a final this year. So the claim that the Collingwood lad is the hero is wrong. Very typical of your lopsided view of football. ### 1/5 — Out of date *2025-07-29, version 8.3.2* Useless ### 1/5 — Very poorly written app *2025-07-11, version 8.3.2* I am sick of writing reviews pointing out glitches and shortcomings in this poorly written app. The latest one has just occurred in the Suns /Magpies Round 18 game - the worm turns on itself during the first quarter and remains wrong for the rest of the match - this type of glitch happens all too often !! Empty someone who can fix this stuff !! ### 2/5 — Once was great *2025-07-06, version 8.3.2* I used to like this app, but it’s now a vehicle for endless gambling, US Trump land tees, macho gun messages, and now soft porn ‘video chat’ ads. Wow. And I thought it was about footy. ### 4/5 — Good Essendon the best *2025-06-03, version 8.3.2* Amazing ### 3/5 — Could be better. *2025-05-10, version 8.3.2* I would give the app more stars if the app opened up on the correct round instead of the previous round. Clearly it’s been a problem for sometime yet the developers have done nothing about it. Please fix! The app opens on the current round on my iPhone so surely the problem can be rectified. ### 4/5 — Good except….. *2025-04-05, version 8.3.2* Great app except for the fact that every time you open the app it opens on the previous week, rather than the current week. Have noticed that a few people have mentioned this, so you think you could do an update to fix this small issue. This doesn’t happen on my phone, just the ipad. ### 4/5 — Footy apps *2025-04-04, version 8.3.2* footy Live my favourite of the Melbourne-based apps. Admit to using AFL as well, but FL works well for me. Thanks Pierre T ### 1/5 — Annoying app that hasn’t been updated for three years. *2025-03-21, version 8.3.2* Very annoying. It always opens match day on the previous week - surely an app on an iPad should be able to get the date right. The drop down used to select the competition doesn’t render correctly and usually doesn’t respond to clicking. These are simple issues that any programmer worth his salt could fix in minutes and any quality control officer should be embarrassed to include in a release. Not good enough. ### 1/5 — Rating *2025-03-02, version 8.3.2* Will not update to 2025 ### 1/5 — One star *2024-09-13, version 8.3.2* Sporting capital of the world MELBOURNE. NOT SO. ASK ANY commonwealth games athlete that had the rug pulled on them by Victoria. Disgusting selfish self centred attitude. No Melbourne sides left in the finals. Nice look that. Rest of Australia propping up a broke state. Haha Frauds. ### 1/5 — The live game doesn’t appear on the app. *2024-08-17, version 8.3.2* What a disaster the live match Collingwood. V Brisbane 17 Aug isn’t even listed. The app is a disgrace! ### 1/5 — Please fix it *2024-08-10, version 8.3.2* Was a good app. This year, doesn’t open in correct league or round, live games are missing in a live scores app. Not good anymore. ### 1/5 — Disappointing app *2024-08-10, version 8.3.2* Footy live has not shown any scores on Match Day for the cats v dockers game up to half time - then , Lo and Behold - the cats/dockers game has disappeared off the Match Game page altogether - What rubbish is going on - I know Perth is a long way from Eastern Australian civilization, but surely with all the modern tech at your disposal, you can get some sort of a signal from the “far west”!!! ### 1/5 — Terrible *2024-08-10, version 8.3.2* Match’s approaching half time not started on the app. Full time called on swans Collingwood match with 10 minutes to go. ### 1/5 — A whole season and it still cannot default to the current round *2024-08-09, version 8.3.2* Tell me how this app can’t update to the current round. One round behind each week. How can it be that the full time result does not reflect the final scores. This app has more features than I could ever imagine. Can’t rate it on the accuracy of data alone. ### 2/5 — Needs some attention *2024-07-28, version 8.3.2* Most annoying is the match tab opening to the previous round instead of the current round Many player bios are several years out of date, which looks silly when hundred game players are only credited with games played this year It’s been a useful app for many years but the bugs and lack of updates are starting to make it annoying ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2026-05-14, version 8.3.2* Discussed that you did not bother giving any stats tonight would have liked to see free for cats as umpires were pathetic. ### 1/5 — Footy live for Ipad *2026-03-14, version 8.3.2* Lost my normal Footy live can only get News can't get league ladder or next matches etc ### 1/5 — Trash *2026-03-14, version 8.3.2* This app has become TRASH. Never works as it should. Information not available. Use yo be very good but now it’s plain TERRIBLE. ### 1/5 — Broken: was great; no more *2026-03-14, version 8.3.2* Footy Live was a reliable app on iPad in past years, but glitches appeared last year which were not fixed. Now I can only get VFL (not interested), no AFL. Useless app. ### 1/5 — Shocking *2026-03-06, version 8.3.2* The app opens to last weeks scores while games are I’m progress ain’t even there. Works ok on my phone but the one for iPad is terrible and I can’t understand why any developer would be stupid enough to release it like this. Pity I couldn’t give it zero. ### 1/5 — Update *2026-03-06, version 8.3.2* Haven’t updated yet !!! ### 1/5 — Cannot load 2026 season *2026-03-05, version 8.3.2* It is almost impossible to change to the current season using the iPad app. Very annoying with very poor app design ### 1/5 — No longer supported *2026-01-15, version 8.3.2* This was a great app until early December, then it stopped working. A response from customer support advised that the have stopped supporting this version and it will soon be removed from the App store. I do not own or want an iPhone, so I guess I will use it on my Android phone. ### 1/5 — No content *2026-01-10, version 8.3.2* The app is broken. The new stories contain no content. ### 1/5 — Zero *2026-01-04, version 8.3.2* Can not read anything. No text appears ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good *2026-03-23, version 8.3.2* I liked your injury report straight to the point ### 5/5 — AFL *2024-05-19, version 8.3.2* This app is just like AFL LIVE. I just love this app and it tells you what is happening in the MCG. ### 5/5 — Update *2024-05-05, version 8.3.2* Update it please to 2024 ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2023-09-22, version 8.3.2* Easy to see ladder.Updates you on any news.Best footy app.Highly recommend. ### 5/5 — Hi *2022-08-11, version 8.3.2* Really good get it ### 5/5 — Great game awesome Melbourne and Collingwood *2022-08-05, version 8.3.2* Collingwood won ### 5/5 — What a great companion app for our great game *2022-07-07, version 8.3.2* I love having the app open to keep up with all the stats as I watch the footy. So much info at your fingertips and and great for getting some background on all the players especially the newer guys. Great UI makes it really easy to find what I’m looking for and I use this over the AFL app because it is just streets ahead. Would like to see some of the player profiles updated but other than that great app. Well done. ### 5/5 — DeesRod *2022-04-18, version 8.3.2* Check it all the time. Love the instant stats. ### 5/5 — Conferences? *2021-02-07, version 8.2.3* I believed the AFLW had abandoned the conference system. Why does the ladder still have 2 conferences? ### 5/5 — 2020 state league fixtures *2020-01-09, version 8.2* Can you put the 2020 fixtures state league fixtures in (VFL, SANFL, WAFL, TSL (put that in) and NEAFL)? --- *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 2026-08-31.*