Pack Pride vs NC State Wolfpack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pack Pride
Stay updated with NCSU sports news, including game updates, recruiting information, and breaking news alerts. Access team stories, commitment lists, and social media feeds directly from your device.
- Read sports stories and features
- Follow football and basketball recruiting
- Access commitment lists
- View recruiting features
- Connect to Twitter and Facebook
- Receive breaking news push notifications
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Keep up on all the latest with NCSU sports! With Pack Pride's app you can: - Read stories and features just like on a regular browser. - Follow football and basketball recruiting by accessing our commitment lists and read recruiting features for both sports. - Access Pack Pride's Twitter account and Facebook page. - Receive push notifications on the latest breaking news, such as football and basketball commitments.
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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NC State Wolfpack at 4.7 against Pack Pride's 3.1. NC State Wolfpack also leads on ratings volume (341 vs 17) and update cadence (every 5 months vs every 13 months). Pack Pride's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, 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.
NC State Wolfpack holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NC State Wolfpack has 341 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Pack Pride's written reviews are positive against 48% of NC State Wolfpack's.
Pack Pride ships an update every 13 months, NC State Wolfpack every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pack Pride | NC State Wolfpack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (17 ratings) | 4.7 (341 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 48.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 | 341 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #205 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 270 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeff Furr | SIDEARM Sports |
Customer experience
Pack Pride
NC State Wolfpack
Bugs and requests
Pack Pride
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or 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
In-app purchases
Pack Pride
No in-app purchases
NC State Wolfpack
No in-app purchases
Questions
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