Comparison

ScoreCover vs Halftime Fan

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ScoreCover

Features
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ScoreCover shows hockey, basketball and American football highlight videos without giving away the score. Watch the recap first – the result shows only when you want it to. SPORTS AND LEAGUES • Hockey from the NHL, Finland's Liiga and Sweden's SHL, plus NBA basketball, every day • NFL football every week, with recaps in the app or on YouTube, depending on your country • Choose the sport in the top bar, and switch leagues with one tap • Pick the sports and leagues you follow • Last night's NHL, NBA and NFL games are waiting for you in the morning SCORES STAY HIDDEN • Scores stay covered until you reveal them • The game page gives no hint of the result until you decide to look RECAPS IN THE APP • Recaps play right in the app, plus condensed games for the NHL • Watched the recap to the end? The score is shown automatically • Videos open full screen and close by themselves at the end, so no next video or end screen spoils anything • Which recaps you can watch depends on the league and your country HOCKEY: NHL, LIIGA AND SHL • Goals and penalties stay covered too. Once revealed, they share one timeline: see which goals came on the power play, and after which penalty • Each NHL goal has its own video too: play it right from the timeline • Team cards show the standings before the game, player cards the stats through it • The team card's Schedule tab shows the team's whole season by month. Games before the card's game show their results, the rest stay covered until you reveal them, and every game opens its page • Team stats, players and the game's three stars STATS • A Stats tab with NHL, Liiga and SHL standings, points leaders, defenseman and goalie stats, plus player and team search • By default, stats run through the day of your latest revealed game, and you can change the day. Player and team cards opened from the stats cover the same day • Live shows up-to-date stats, which may reveal results. In Settings, choose whether stats open by revealed games or live • NBA and NFL standings too, calculated from game results FAVORITE TEAMS • Star your favorite teams, then list their games first or show only those • Get notified, if you like, when a favorite team's recap is out. The notification never shows the score • Quiet hours hold overnight notifications until morning SHARE A GAME • Send a game to a friend as a link: neither the message nor the link gives away the score • The link opens the game right in ScoreCover, score covered YOUR WAY • Home – away or away @ home • Your own time zone, with games by the league's game day or your own calendar • Dark and light themes • English, Finnish, German, French, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese No account or sign-up needed. ScoreCover is not an official app of the NHL, Liiga, SHL, NBA, NFL or any team, and is not affiliated with them. Videos play in the leagues' own players or in YouTube's player, and ScoreCover doesn't store them. Privacy policy: https://www.scorecover.fi/privacy-policy

About

Halftime Fan

Features
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Get notified when your favorite teams are in a close game. Set alert thresholds by point margin and time remaining and track matchups in one place. Not affiliated with the NBA or its teams.

Screenshots

ScoreCover4 screens
Halftime Fan2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Halftime Fan at daily against ScoreCover's every 2 days. ScoreCover's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ScoreCover ships an update every 2 days, Halftime Fan daily. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
ScoreCover versus Halftime Fan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScoreCoverHalftime Fan
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnssi KosunenConrad Chan

In-app purchases

None

ScoreCover

No in-app purchases

None

Halftime Fan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ScoreCover free?
ScoreCover is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Halftime Fan free?
Halftime Fan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ScoreCover or Halftime Fan have ads?
Neither ScoreCover nor Halftime Fan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ScoreCover or Halftime Fan?
ScoreCover ships an update every 2 days, and Halftime Fan daily. Most recently, ScoreCover was updated on October 30, 2026 and Halftime Fan on October 31, 2026.

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