NC State Wolfpack vs Carolina Hurricanes
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.
Carolina Hurricanes
Stay connected to your favorite hockey team with real-time game updates, news, and stats. Access mobile ticketing and enhance your game day experience.
- Real-time game updates
- Team news
- Player stats
- Mobile ticketing
- Game day enhancements
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Calling all Caniacs! Hurricanes fans have a new way to stay connected to their favorite hockey team! The official Carolina Hurricanes mobile app has arrived. This is your source for real-time game updates, news, stats, mobile ticketing, game day enhancements and more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Carolina Hurricanes at 69% against NC State Wolfpack's 48%. Carolina Hurricanes also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.7) and chart position (#189 vs unranked). NC State Wolfpack's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Carolina Hurricanes holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 341 and 1.3K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of NC State Wolfpack's written reviews are positive against 69% of Carolina Hurricanes's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NC State Wolfpack | Carolina Hurricanes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (341 ratings) | 4.9 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.3% of reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 341 | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Best chart rank | — | #189 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 271 MB | 121 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SIDEARM Sports | Carolina Hurricanes Hockey Club |
Customer experience
NC State Wolfpack
Carolina Hurricanes
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
Carolina Hurricanes
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great fan interaction
- 👍 Loud and passionate fanbase
- 👍 Excellent team spirit
- 👍 One of the best teams in the league
Room to improve
- 🐛 Ticket loading issues
- 🐛 Constant app freezing and crashes
- 🐛 Unreliable ticket transfer functionality
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
Carolina Hurricanes
Reported bugs
3 issues- Tickets won't load on cell signal or venue WiFi
- Hundreds/thousands of people experiencing ticket loading issues
- App freezes when making ticket transactions
Requested features
1 request- Add Hartford Whalers green and blue logo
In-app purchases
NC State Wolfpack
No in-app purchases
Carolina Hurricanes
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is NC State Wolfpack free?
Is Carolina Hurricanes free?
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