# Rugby Xplorer

> Official rugby app for live streams, fan content, and player registration. (iPhone/iPad app by Rugby Australia Ltd.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rugby-xplorer/id1348617362 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Rugby Australia Ltd](https://appshunter.io/developer/379883695)
- Category: Sports
- Price: Free
- Rating: 2.20/5 from 24 App Store ratings · 96 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 11.0 · 349 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2018-02-14
- Data updated: 2026-08-25
- Monetization: ad-supported
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rugby-xplorer/id1348617362/reviews.md

## What is Rugby Xplorer?

Rugby Xplorer is the official App and Digital Network of Rugby Australia, including LIVE streaming, RADIO broadcast and FAN FIRST content from grassroots to the Wallabies.
You can also use Rugby Xplorer to signup and register to play, coach or referee in the regular season.
Rugby Xplorer delivers Rugby from community to national.

## Key features

- Live streaming of rugby matches
- Radio broadcasts
- Fan-first content
- Player registration
- Coach registration
- Referee registration

## What do users think of Rugby Xplorer?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 👍 Can see upcoming and past events
- 👍 Great for fans unable to attend games
- 👍 Awesome, everything needed in one spot

**Cons**

- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App needs constant re-downloading
- 🐛 UI is clunky and confusing
- 🐛 Difficulty navigating
- 🐛 App signs out frequently
- 🐛 Saved teams disappear
- 🐛 Content not updated frequently
- 🐛 Registration process is difficult
- 🐛 App is not user-friendly
- 🐛 App is unprofessional
- 🐛 App is slow and laggy
- 🐛 Errors in inconvenient situations
- 🐛 Updates don't work
- 🐛 Blank screen issues
- 🐛 App doesn't refresh scores
- 🐛 Inconvenient to use on iPad
- 🐛 Forced to use a bad app
- 🐛 Ads in weird spots
- 🐛 Cannot find competitions
- 🐛 Profile update issues
- 🐛 Data integrity issues
- 🐛 Wasted money for RA
- 🐛 Not fit for purpose
- 🐛 App quality reflects Australian rugby
- 🐛 Shockingly bad experience
- 🐛 Clunky UI
- 🐛 Ads jammed in weird spots
- 🐛 Can't find competition
- 🐛 Update profile page usability issues
- 🐛 Rubbish app
- 🐛 Constantly freezing
- 🐛 Registering players is a nightmare
- 🐛 Waste of money for RA
- 🐛 Not user friendly
- 🐛 Pathetic
- 🐛 Runs as smoothly as Rugby Australia
- 🐛 Cost a fortune
- 🐛 Useless
- 🐛 Frustrating to navigate
- 🐛 Nightmare to keep deleting and uploading
- 🐛 Embarrassing to rugby
- 🐛 Continues to get worse
- 🐛 Can't find, nominate or enter teams
- 🐛 Unprofessional
- 🐛 Super Rugby not on Comp List
- 🐛 User unfriendly
- 🐛 Screen goes blank
- 🐛 Update does not work
- 🐛 App won't load
- 🐛 Plagued with opening issues
- 🐛 No update button
- 🐛 Continually crashes
- 🐛 White screen
- 🐛 Only works after deleting and downloading
- 🐛 Signing up issues
- 🐛 Crashing app
- 🐛 Worse user experience than MyGov app
- 🐛 Clunky and not always user friendly
- 🐛 App hangs a bit
- 🐛 Wants to update when opening
- 🐛 Fills screen with unwanted comps
- 🐛 No refresh button for scores
- 🐛 Absolutely useless for following scores
- 🐛 Backend data is a mess
- 🐛 Competitions and scores out of date
- 🐛 Results appear and disappear
- 🐛 Last year's season shown instead of last week's
- 🐛 Have to delete app every time
- 🐛 Cannot find Wallabies next game
- 🐛 Frustrating to delete and reinstall
- 🐛 Doesn't do its job
- 🐛 Driving me nuts
- 🐛 Blank screen
- 🐛 Doesn't do anything
- 🐛 Insane number of deletes and installs
- 🐛 Only platform to use
- 🐛 App prone to crashing
- 🐛 Can only use app once before crash
- 🐛 No live refresh of scores
- 🐛 Half-hearted effort
- 🐛 Doesn't provide details for Six Nations
- 🐛 Cannot remove teams from choices
- 🐛 Poor and unserviceable app
- 🐛 Constant issues logging in
- 🐛 Player registration issues
- 🐛 Inconsistencies with fees
- 🐛 Match day is a joke
- 🐛 Cannot get 7's comp on Match Day
- 🐛 Needs to be better
- 🐛 Load of rubbish
- 🐛 Cannot sign in
- 🐛 Cannot reset password
- 🐛 Hopeless
- 🐛 Doesn't work properly
- 🐛 App very laggy
- 🐛 Pathetic and difficult to navigate
- 🐛 Registration process pathetic
- 🐛 Difficult to navigate
- 🐛 No live streaming
- 🐛 Doesn't work on iPod touch
- 🐛 Stops on opening screen
- 🐛 Glitchy
- 🐛 Will not open
- 🐛 No access to junior rugby details
- 🐛 Not sure where to start or finish
- 🐛 UX not signed off by grassroots
- 🐛 Cannot administer game results
- 🐛 Team names cut off
- 🐛 Disrespectful to volunteers
- 🐛 Cannot add comps
- 🐛 More unwanted comps appearing
- 🐛 Garbage
- 🐛 Absolutely useless for clips
- 🐛 Can't see which team is which
- 🐛 Half the names cut off
- 🐛 No way to differentiate teams
- 🐛 Won't open anymore
- 🐛 Not good for local comps
- 🐛 Clunky UI moving between competitions
- 🐛 Lacks results for local competitions
- 🐛 Poorly designed
- 🐛 Impossible to move between leagues
- 🐛 Teams can be added but not removed
- 🐛 News tab as default is annoying
- 🐛 Back button defaults to news
- 🐛 Underwhelming
- 🐛 Can't get rid of default teams
- 🐛 Finding community teams is hard
- 🐛 Can't add competition and filter
- 🐛 Can't see team lists easily
- 🐛 Can't see highest point scorer
- 🐛 Randomly ordered teams
- 🐛 Ordinary
- 🐛 Hard to track subscriptions
- 🐛 No subscription history
- 🐛 Basic payment system
- 🐛 White screen with app name
- 🐛 Problem resolved now works fine
- 🐛 Images won't load

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes frequently
- App requires constant re-downloading
- UI is clunky and confusing
- Difficulty navigating
- App signs out frequently
- Saved teams disappear
- Content not updated frequently
- Registration process is difficult
- App is not user-friendly
- App is unprofessional
- App is slow and laggy
- Errors in inconvenient situations
- Updates don't work
- Blank screen issues
- App doesn't refresh scores
- Inconvenient to use on iPad
- Forced to use a bad app
- Ads in weird spots
- Cannot find competitions
- Profile update issues
- Data integrity issues
- Waste of money for RA
- Not fit for purpose
- App quality reflects Australian rugby
- Shockingly bad experience
- Clunky UI
- Ads jammed in weird spots
- Can't find competition
- Update profile page usability issues
- Rubbish app
- Constantly freezing
- Registering players is a nightmare
- Waste of money for RA
- Not user friendly
- Pathetic
- Runs as smoothly as Rugby Australia
- Cost a fortune
- Useless
- Frustrating to navigate
- Nightmare to keep deleting and uploading
- Embarrassing to rugby
- Continues to get worse
- Can't find, nominate or enter teams
- Unprofessional
- Super Rugby not on Comp List
- User unfriendly
- Screen goes blank
- Update does not work
- App won't load
- Plagued with opening issues
- No update button
- Continually crashes
- White screen
- Only works after deleting and downloading
- Signing up issues
- Crashing app
- Worse user experience than MyGov app
- Clunky and not always user friendly
- App hangs a bit
- Wants to update when opening
- Fills screen with unwanted comps
- No refresh button for scores
- Absolutely useless for following scores
- Backend data is a mess
- Competitions and scores out of date
- Results appear and disappear
- Last year's season shown instead of last week's
- Have to delete app every time
- Cannot find Wallabies next game
- Frustrating to delete and reinstall
- Doesn't do its job
- Driving me nuts
- Blank screen
- Doesn't do anything
- Insane number of deletes and installs
- Only platform to use
- App prone to crashing
- Can only use app once before crash
- No live refresh of scores
- Half-hearted effort
- Doesn't provide details for Six Nations
- Cannot remove teams from choices
- Poor and unserviceable app
- Constant issues logging in
- Player registration issues
- Inconsistencies with fees
- Match day is a joke
- Cannot get 7's comp on Match Day
- Needs to be better
- Load of rubbish
- Cannot sign in
- Cannot reset password
- Hopeless
- Doesn't work properly
- App very laggy
- Pathetic and difficult to navigate
- Registration process pathetic
- Difficult to navigate
- No live streaming
- Doesn't work on iPod touch
- Stops on opening screen
- Glitchy
- Will not open
- No access to junior rugby details
- Not sure where to start or finish
- UX not signed off by grassroots
- Cannot administer game results
- Team names cut off
- Disrespectful to volunteers
- Cannot add comps
- More unwanted comps appearing
- Garbage
- Absolutely useless for clips
- Can't see which team is which
- Half the names cut off
- No way to differentiate teams
- Won't open anymore
- Not good for local comps
- Clunky UI moving between competitions
- Lacks results for local competitions
- Poorly designed
- Impossible to move between leagues
- Teams can be added but not removed
- News tab as default is annoying
- Back button defaults to news
- Underwhelming
- Can't get rid of default teams
- Finding community teams is hard
- Can't add competition and filter
- Can't see team lists easily
- Can't see highest point scorer
- Randomly ordered teams
- Ordinary
- Hard to track subscriptions
- No subscription history
- Basic payment system
- White screen with app name
- Problem resolved now works fine
- Images won't load

**Most requested features**

- Ability to edit or delete teams
- Move favorite teams to be more accessible
- Fix app so saved teams are shown first
- Disable adding international teams automatically
- Add Shute Shield
- Ability to remove default teams
- Add news stories for local clubs
- Filter competitions by club or grade
- See full round for the week
- See team lists easily
- See highest point scorer/try scorer
- Filter by club/grade/scoring type
- Subscription history
- Link to actual club
- Ability to message club via app
- Add more local competitions
- Improve UI for easier navigation
- Add dark mode
- Better handling of match day traffic
- Fix bugs and glitches
- Improve score update functionality
- Allow adding grassroots level rugby teams
- Provide details for Six Nations
- Allow removal of unwanted teams
- Make news tab optional or context-aware
- Return to previous tab after hitting back button
- Improve team differentiation for similar names
- Add live streaming functionality
- Improve registration process for players and volunteers
- Allow adding and filtering competitions by club or grade
- Provide results for local competitions
- Improve app stability and performance
- Fix issues with score updates and refreshes
- Allow users to customize their team and competition lists
- Provide better support for different devices and operating systems
- Ensure app works reliably on iPads
- Fix issues with account creation and password linking
- Improve the ability to find specific teams and fixtures
- Add functionality for live score updates
- Make the app more intuitive for grassroots rugby users
- Allow users to easily add and remove favorite teams and competitions
- Improve the display of team names and league information
- Fix issues with app crashing and freezing
- Ensure app updates are functional and easy to apply
- Simplify the user interface and navigation
- Provide clear and up-to-date competition and fixture information
- Improve the registration and login process
- Allow users to track their subscriptions and membership history
- Provide better support for users experiencing technical difficulties

## Recent user reviews (10 of 96)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rugby-xplorer/id1348617362/reviews.md

### 1/5 — The most useless app ever!

*2026-07-18, version 7.0.47*

If I could give Zero stars I would. 
It does not matter how many times I remove US and AUS teams and set favourites for the teams to comps I want to follow, it immediately resets and I don’t even have the option of the Comps in the drop down menu. NZ rugby should have stayed with Sporty.

### 1/5 — Shocking

*2026-06-20, version 7.0.46*

App is terrible! It seems to be the Temu version of MyCricket.

### 2/5 — Hard to navigate

*2026-06-20, version 7.0.46*

Just not user friendly or up to the standard of other sports

### 1/5 — Terrible app

*2026-06-19, version 7.0.46*

This has been a terrible replacement for what was used previously for Nz rugby.  Logs you out all the time, info you don’t need, need to add teams all the time.

### 3/5 — Not great. Needs a revamp

*2026-06-10, version 7.0.46*

Logs the user out after a while and all teams selected disappear and need to be added again. Old comps are still on the list- need to remove those. Score does not refresh unless the user leaves the app and opens it again. Says “opps something has gone wrong” when there is an error- not hard to spell “oops” correctly.

### 1/5 — Very poor UX

*2026-06-02, version 7.0.46*

RA you can do better.

### 1/5 — Poor App

*2026-05-14, version 7.0.45*

Imagine RA didn’t pay Israel Falou 7 million dollars and spent the money on IT.

### 1/5 — Absolute Rubbish App

*2026-05-10, version 7.0.45*

This app has been around for 7 years and is still not fit for purpose. Why did NZ Rugby force clubs to use this when Sporty was doing the job perfectly. Whoever is responsible for this should resign and apologise to all those that have had to use this app. NZ Rugby…GO BACK TO SPORTY ASAP!

### 1/5 — Needs soooo much work

*2026-05-07, version 7.0.45*

I wouldn’t use it if I didn’t have to. It’s clunky the UI is all over the show. There’s no semblance at all to it. You have to keep signing into the app all the time.

### 1/5 — terrible

*2026-04-29, version 7.0.44*

WORST TEAM MANAGEMENT app i’ve ever used. So confusing and iver complicated alot of the details like why fo you need to know my body weight. If your think about using this app. PLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD.

## Frequently asked questions about Rugby Xplorer

### What does Rugby Xplorer do?

Rugby Xplorer is the official app for Rugby Australia, offering live streaming and radio broadcasts of rugby matches from grassroots to national levels. It also provides exclusive fan content and allows users to register to play, coach, or referee.

### What are the key features of Rugby Xplorer?

Key features include live streaming of rugby games, radio broadcasts, fan-first content, and the ability to sign up and register for playing, coaching, or refereeing roles in the regular season.

### Is Rugby Xplorer free to use?

The app is free to download and use, but it does contain advertisements. There are no in-app purchases or subscription fees mentioned for accessing its core features.

### Who is Rugby Xplorer for?

This app is designed for anyone involved in rugby, including fans who want to watch and listen to games, as well as individuals looking to register as players, coaches, or referees within the rugby community.

### What kind of rugby content can I find on Rugby Xplorer?

You can find comprehensive rugby content, including live streaming and radio broadcasts of matches from community games all the way up to the Wallabies. It also offers fan-first content to keep you engaged with the sport.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 7.0.47 — 2026-07-14

General updates

### 7.0.46 — 2026-05-20

This update includes service messages when Rugby Xplorer production deployments are occurring, updates to Stripe red alert message for NZ and USA referees and club admins plus pending competition case email notifications.

### 7.0.45 — 2026-05-06

Updates to teams and competition publish options plus general system enhancements.

### 7.0.44 — 2026-04-23

Updates to contact details, registered match officials and registration size for age checks.

### 7.0.43 — 2026-03-31

This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.

Updates for multi-national functionality.

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