# Michigan Sports Xtra — user reviews > 85 indexed App Store user reviews of Michigan Sports Xtra by Gannett, rated 4.59/5 from 2,244 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/michigan-sports-xtra/id968481321/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/michigan-sports-xtra/id968481321.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,715 · 4★ 343 · 3★ 65 · 2★ 32 · 1★ 90 ## What do users think of Michigan Sports Xtra? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🌟 Great source of Michigan news - 🌍 Keeps me informed about local sports - 🏆 Awesome app for Michigan sports fans **Cons** - 🔍 Missing articles from the Detroit Free Press - 📢 Prominent ads and clickbait - 🔧 Notification issues and unreliable alerts - ⚠️ Frequent crashes and errors **Commonly reported bugs** - Articles fail to load or display properly - App crashes when opening articles - Subscriber content not accessible **Most requested features** - Allow filtering for specific teams/sports - Improve notification customization - Integrate content from multiple news sources ## Newest reviews (11 of 85) ### 2/5 — Detroit Fandom Dream Come True *2025-10-05, version 28.5.4* Left Detroit almost 40 years ago ,but, have a passion for the home teams. This app delivered for me for many years! However, the recent update and prominent posting of ads and click bait is a disgrace for a paid app. Fingers crossed this gets fixed with the focus on user experience ### 3/5 — No Free Press articles *2025-09-13, version 28.5.0* This app only provides articles from the Detroit News, not the Detroit Free Press, as the splash screen implies. ### 3/5 — Error every time I open it - always have to open multiple times *2025-02-12, version 28.0.0* Should be better ### 2/5 — Only the Detroit News *2024-05-13, version 27.9.1* No articles from the Free Press show up. ### 2/5 — Where’s the Free Press articles? *2023-05-16, version 27.1.1* I subscribed a while back and everything was fine. Now, I get a “loading error” message and zero articles from the Free Press. Why? ### 3/5 — Not getting notifications I am paying for *2022-05-29, version 26.10.0* I have had no problems until a couple of weeks ago. I have asked for notifications to my phone for Michigan Wolverines and Detroit Lions activity but no other teams. I am now getting plenty of Detroit Tigers notifications that I don’t want and no notifications on the Wolverines. There is no address to notify those that run the app so I am at a loss to fix this problem and may be seeking a full refund next ### 4/5 — Great articles but missing some information *2021-02-03, version 6.3.0* Great articles but missing team schedules. ### 2/5 — Too much political commentary *2021-01-24, version 6.3.0* I want to read about sports. All of the other stuff they include is unnecessary. ### 2/5 — Bring back the separate apps, please *2021-01-10, version 6.3.0* I liked it a lot more when each team had its own app, Tigers Xtra, Red Wings Xtra, etc. I don’t read this much anymore since they combined them. Too much clicking to find stories I’m interested in. I do like the stories, but not the combined format. ### 4/5 — Great Site *2020-11-11, version 6.2.0* Well designed site. I am able to get all of the information regarding what’s going on in the state of Michigan sports while living in florida. ### 3/5 — Crashing *2020-06-01, version 5.24.8* Good content. App frequently crashes. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Notification issue *2025-09-25, version 28.5.2* I toggled only for Michigan wolverines notifications but I get all sports. Please fix asap! ### 1/5 — Alerts not working! *2025-06-18, version 28.1.0* Your app is not sending out alerts. Please fix ASAP! ### 1/5 — Rating *2023-09-21, version 27.3.1* You’re not even showing any of the negative comments I’ve sent three and none of them have been posted. .001 rating! Fax! ### 1/5 — App no longer works *2022-09-28, version 26.12.5* When I select a section like Tigers or Red Wings the app gives an error message and displays no stories ### 1/5 — Worthless App *2022-03-02, version 26.10.0* We all miss the old MSU sports app, which actually gave us a variety of stories, from 3 newspaper sources, with videos & photos. This one gave us a few stories, for a while. Now, every story requires “a subscription.” It’s just a sales promotion. Not worth my time, or anyone’s. And not producing paid subscriptions. Fans deserve better! Roy Winslow ### 1/5 — Subscribers left without access to subscriber content *2021-08-10, version 26.5.9* I am a subscriber to the Detroit News digital media. I should have access to the ‘subscriber content’ articles on the XTRA app. I don’t. You are blocked with a blue box saying you have to subscribe, and the restore purchase button doesn’t work. Repeated attempts to fix this in August, 2021, met with indifference and incompetence! So here’s a paper, struggling to survive, and it can only offer new subscribers a flawed app and poor tech support. REALLY PATHETIC! Maybe Harbaugh is running tech support🤣. ### 1/5 — Very Slow Loading *2021-01-04, version 6.3.0* This app on iOS 14.2 is very sluggish. Takes up to 105 seconds to load. Then articles you click on take up to a minute to load. Since the advent of iOS 14 this app has gone from decent to horrible. Junk app. ### 1/5 — Michigan Sports Extra *2020-06-12, version 5.24.8* App is crashing unexpectedly again, this happened once before and you fixed it. Open some articles and it shuts down the app. This is June 12, 2020. ### 1/5 — App keeps crashing *2020-06-08, version 5.24.8* One of the absolute worst apps I’ve ever dealt with. There is always a problem with it. The latest issue is when clicking on a story and then scrolling down the app suddenly closes. ### 1/5 — Junk *2020-05-30, version 5.24.8* App won’t load any stories. Junk. Update 5/29 app now just crashes. Still junk ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great source of Michigan news *2023-04-04, version 27.0.4* Living outside of the great state of MI (my birth State and home) this site allows me to keep up with all things Michigan and Detroit! ### 5/5 — Michigan sports *2022-04-10, version 26.10.0* Must love Michigan sports teams because I’ve been living in Michigan my entire life ### 5/5 — Great App *2021-10-12, version 26.5.9* Keeps you informed about local Detroit sports that you can’t get when you live somewhere else. ### 5/5 — Michigan Sports Xtra is a winner! *2021-08-08, version 26.5.9* This app gives me the sports news I want about the teams I am interested in all in one place. So easy to use! Thanks Michigan Sports Xtra! ### 5/5 — Michigan Sports Extra app *2021-05-26, version 6.4.0* This was always a great app, however now I don’t get the news, the story behind the headline. The boxes are blank!! What’s the problem here? Are you using a new server? Is it my I-phone? I miss it ok, the problem has been fixed. Thank you!!!! ### 5/5 — Michigan sports xtra *2021-05-24, version 6.4.0* Love it ### 5/5 — Detroit Fandom Dream Come True *2021-03-01* Left Detroit almost 40 years ago ,but, have a passion for the home teams. This app delivers and is the first place I go each morning ### 5/5 — Awesome *2020-11-20, version 6.2.0* I love everything about this app thank you so much for creating this ### 5/5 — App busted around 1/27 *2020-05-19, version 5.24.8* Fix it. ### 5/5 — Bs *2020-02-12, version 5.23.1* No articles show. Been trying to read for Weeks. BS --- *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 2026-08-13.*