Varsity Network Reviews: Is It Legit?

Varsity Network
Varsity Network
Learfield Communications, Inc.

Customer Experience

Positive experience23.8% of reviews
Neutral9.4% of reviews
Negative experience66.9% of reviews

~ Based on 160 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Varsity Network

Is Varsity Network Safe?

Varsity Network has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Varsity Network is 60/100.

This assessment is based on 547 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.0/5.

Safety Analysis

43.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
51.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 512 App Store ratings for Varsity Network.

Is Varsity Network Legit?

Varsity Network appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Varsity Network is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

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Stream is behind live tv, continues to drift, how is this the best solution in 2026?

Absolutely Love this App!

If you follow college football the college football blitz is a must listen.

I’d like like it but

I can’t stand all the ads that pop up in the middle of broadcasts. Put them at commercial breaks. I also hate how the broadcasts seem to repeat itself like someone hit the 5sec reverse button. Simply annoying. I’ll be using the app only when there’s no better option.

Amazing app but absolutely kills your phone’s battery

The layout of the app is clean, straightforward, and accessible. I’ve never ran into an issue of a stream listed but not working. There are, unfortunately, a lot of universities whose games you simply cannot listen to but if you don’t have access to ESPN plus or on the go you can access most of the big games and you can do it for free which is always a bonus. The main issue with the app is that even when you’re not using it it’s an absolute battery drain. With this app streaming a game a brand new iPhone should not go from 100% battery to 30% battery in the course of three hours is the only thing on the phone is a stream from this app playing in the background while the phone is locked. Even when the app is not in use and closed it still drain the battery so when I know I’m not going to be using it for an extended period of time I simply have to uninstall it. There’s no reason why an app, that otherwise works phenomenally, that only offers radio streams for college games should take so much battery. Something is clearly not working right on the back end.
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Missing stream

Trying to listen to ISU vs Tennessee in NCAA tournament. Tennessee feed is available, ISU stream hangs.

Awful App

Awful UI makes it difficult to find anything and search is incredibly slow. Worse, the actual audio streaming is incredibly unstable. It’s baffling that an enterprise whose primary asset is audio content does not invest in decent technology.

Big XII Tournament.

Learfield provides announcers for Kansas University, but is not covering the semi finals of the Big XII league tournament. What is up with that. Low rent app.

In game commercials

They interrupt the action with commercials. Horrible!

Awesome!!

No idea why this app is only rated 3 stars. I can finally listen to all college basketball games. My only problem is there is no Ohio State podcasts. You have just about every team except one the best clloge football teams in the nation.

So many dropouts

The audio for the last couple of weeks drops out every 5-10 minutes during Florida men’s basketball games. It’s really annoying. When it works it’s great. But otherwise it’s not so great. Of course no issues during commercials.

JB

Why can I not save my favorite team? I shouldn’t have to search through every game every time I want to listen to my team.

Please add favorites, so I can go straight to my team & not have to sift through a bunch of schools I don’t care about.

Cannot reset Password

Frustrated!!

Great app that seems to be working again

This is an amazing app. There was a portion of time that it was completely unusable, due to an ad issue where it blocked the start of any game being loaded, but currently it seems to be corrected.

After update app is not working

I use this to listen to football and softball and various press conferences. When I first started using some years ago, there was glitching, but it has since smoothed out and became a reliable broadcaster. However, last weekend, I had issues with getting it started, it finally played the pregame. I closed it to watch a video podcast, turned it on for the game and got a white screen. Since then, I have not been able to access it. I did update the app after the 1st white screen, and had updated my phone (Apple 18.7.1). Just tried with the press conferences today - I get notifications, but when I try to open it, it does not work. I uploaded the app to my iPad, same result. I would willingly give 5 stars if it worked like before.
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Get a white screen? Try this…

While trying to listen to a game this evening, I got the dreaded “white screen” after trying to connect to my requested stream. There is no graceful recovery from this - you must kill and restart the app. I tried many, many times to no avail.

After the game was over, I decided to try to listen to the post-game content and again got the white screen.

I then decided to see if I could connect to the opponent’s stream, which I could do. After connecting, I found that I could then select my team’s stream, which worked great.

Based on this, I suspect that there is a missing ad or a malformed address to an existing ad which is causing the white screen.

I did submit a report during the game through the app, but since this has been reported many times in the past, I suspect that the support folks are not paying any attention to the reports, or cannot debug the issue.

My hope is that they will see this review and use it as a starting point to debug this problem, and/or test to make sure that the ads actually exist. If not, hopefully this workaround continues to work.

Good luck everyone!
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Blank

Doesn’t work

Doesn't work

Won't load, or then it crashes. Have never been able to get it to work AT ALL.

Fix the ipad hangup

Works fine on my phone but goes blank after selecting a program on ipad. Reinstall does nothing to fix it. Live or on demand it doesnt matter. Only option is to quit.

Doesn’t even work. Garbage

Can’t get passed the advertisement. Does not work.

Garbage

Every single time I try using the app it is stuck on advertisement. This issue has been going on for multiple years every time I try using it.