NC State Wolfpack vs IU Hoosiers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NC State Wolfpack
Enhance your game-day experience with the official app for NC State Wolfpack events. Get real-time news, stats, schedules, and exclusive in-venue content. Stay connected with your favorite team anytime, anywhere.
- Real-time breaking news
- Pre-game previews and game recaps
- Live statistics and player stats
- Aggregated team social media feeds
- Upcoming game schedules and past scores
- Interactive venue maps and exclusive content
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This is the official mobile app of the NC State Wolfpack. Make your iPhone a unique part of your game-day experience for Wolfpack events. Want to catch breaking news of the team? Follow pre-game previews of the matchups and read game recaps? Now, you can stay in touch with NC State athletics anytime, anywhere, on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Features include: • News: Real-time breaking news from the Wolfpack, previews of upcoming matchups, game recaps • Stats: Real-time statistics, head-to-head stats of selected matchups, player and season stats. • Social media: Aggregated twitter of NC State’s official tweets, • Schedule: Schedule of upcoming games, and scores/stats of previous games from the season, ticket purchase for games • Evolving home-screen: Pre-game, in-game, post-game, and selected special events • In-venue Content: Interactive maps of NC State facilities and parking, along with exclusive content available on your mobile device on game days. Follow us @PackAthletics on Twitter for updates or visit www.GoPack.com.
IU Hoosiers
Stay connected with Indiana University Athletics. Access real-time social media feeds, view live scores and detailed game statistics, and receive custom alerts for important team news. This app is essential for any Hoosiers fan, whether on campus or following from home.
- Social media stream
- Live scores and stats
- Custom notifications
- Team and fan feeds
- Play-by-play information
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The official Indiana University Athletics app is a must-have for fans headed to campus or following the Hoosiers from afar. With interactive social media, and all the scores and stats surrounding the game, the IU Hoosiers app covers it all! Features Include: + SOCIAL STREAM - View and contribute to real-time Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram feeds from the team and fans + SCORES & STATS - All the scores, stats, and play-by-play information that fans need and expect during live games + NOTIFICATIONS - Custom alert notifications to let fans know important news
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: NC State Wolfpack at 48% against IU Hoosiers's 24%. NC State Wolfpack also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.5) and chart position (#205 vs unranked). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
NC State Wolfpack holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 341 and 355 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of NC State Wolfpack's written reviews are positive against 24% of IU Hoosiers's.
NC State Wolfpack ships an update every 5 months, IU Hoosiers every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NC State Wolfpack | IU Hoosiers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (341 ratings) — better | 4.5 (355 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 48.3% of reviews — better | 24.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 341 | 355 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #205 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 270 MB | 269 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | SIDEARM Sports | Indiana University |
Customer experience
NC State Wolfpack
IU Hoosiers
User reviews
NC State Wolfpack
From 341 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great app overall
- 👍 Handy for schedules and news
- 👍 Good for game times and results
- 👍 Easily accessible sport information
- 👍 Appreciates game time notices
Room to improve
- 🐛 App keeps freezing
- 🐛 Latest version keeps crashing
- 🐛 Heats up phone quickly
- 🐛 No notifications or score updates
- 🐛 Crashes on iPad
IU Hoosiers
From 355 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Love my IU!
- 👍 Photo essays are working again.
- 👍 Light show amazing
- 👍 Notices remind about game start and channel
Room to improve
- 🐛 App won't load
- 🐛 App crashing
- 🐛 Constantly logged out
- 🐛 Can't save password
- 🐛 Safari browser not supported
Bugs and requests
NC State Wolfpack
Reported bugs
15 issues- App keeps freezing
- Latest version keeps crashing when launching
- App heats phone quickly
- No notifications or score updates
- Updated version crashes on iPad
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- App crashes on opening screens when choosing sports
- Login experience is a massive fail
- Clicking login button does nothing
- Selling tickets on StubHub doesn't work through the app
- App sends users in a loop of logging in
- None of the articles open when clicked on
- App is not being updated
- No TV schedule
- No push notifications
- Names of football games have text running together
Requested features
8 requests- Add lacrosse as a sport option
- Give game times that match user's time zone
- Add spikeball alerts
- Add TV schedule
- Add push notifications
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- Give revenue generating sports prime coverage
- Make app like the computer version, not phone app
- Add landscape mode option
IU Hoosiers
Reported bugs
18 issues- App crashing
- App won't load
- Constantly logged out
- Cannot save password
- Safari browser not supported
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- Session expired too quickly during login/ticket transfer
- Notifications not working on iPhone 15
- New app version is a step back
- Old app allowed radio broadcast within the app
- App attempts to load schedule into calendars
- App does not recognize account that works on desktop
- App does not have a 'show password' option
- Home page schedule not displaying major events
- Pixelated logo on first boot
- Account creation/email verification sends code but logs user out before they can retrieve it
- Tickets not added to wallet requiring re-login
- Latest iOS update states Safari is unsupported, forcing login to full site which defaults to Safari
- Notifications incorrectly refer to teams as 'IU Athletics'
Requested features
8 requests- Fix terrible app
- Add private sharing option
- Add customer service page
- Fix notifications not working
- Restore radio broadcast within app
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- Make schedule easier to find
- Fix 'IU Athletics' naming in notifications
- Add additional links in articles/stories within the app
In-app purchases
NC State Wolfpack
No in-app purchases
IU Hoosiers
No in-app purchases
Questions
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