CFB Live vs CFB Update
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CFB Live
Follow college football with live scores, team tracking, and detailed statistics. Features customizable widgets for your home screen and Apple Watch, offering a distraction-free experience for dedicated fans.
- Live college football scores
- Favorite team tracking
- Home Screen widgets
- Apple Watch support
- Detailed statistics
- Customizable scoreboards (Pro)
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**College football without the clutter. No ads. Just football.** CFB Live gives you a fast, focused way to follow college football all season long. Check live scores, track your favorite teams, explore detailed statistics, and keep up with the action right from your Home Screen or Apple Watch. No ads. No distractions. Just the college football you care about. **COLLEGE FOOTBALL AT A GLANCE** Your scoreboard is always within reach. • **Free Home Screen Widgets:** See a game featuring one of your favorite teams, automatically selected for you. • **Pro Scoreboard Widgets:** Fill your Home Screen with live scores, upcoming matchups, and final results. • **Custom Widget Profiles (Pro):** Build personalized scoreboards for your favorite teams, conferences, or Top 25 matchups. • **Pinned Widget Games (Pro):** Choose exactly which games appear, or let CFB Live automatically highlight favorites, tracked games, close matchups, and potential upsets. • **Apple Watch (Pro):** Follow games from your wrist, with watch face complications and Smart Stack support. **FOLLOW THE ACTION** Everything you need to stay on top of game day. • Live college football scores, schedules, and game status • Favorite teams and track the matchups that matter most • Automatically highlight close games and potential upsets • Hide scores to avoid spoilers when watching games on delay • Detailed box scores, play-by-play, and scoring drives • Game Flow visualizations to see how games unfold • Quickly find games, teams, and upcoming matchups **EXPLORE THE NUMBERS** Go beyond the scoreboard and dig into the details. • Detailed team game and season statistics • Player statistics across multiple categories • Team comparisons and radar chart visualizations • Advanced team and player statistics • Live win probability and advanced game analytics (Pro, supported games) **TAKE IT FURTHER WITH CFB LIVE PRO** Make college football your own with powerful features designed for dedicated fans. • Fill your Home Screen with customizable, multi-game scoreboards • Create multiple widget profiles and pin your must-watch matchups • Follow your games on Apple Watch, including watch face complications • Explore advanced statistics, matchup analysis, and win probabilities Whether you're following your favorite team, keeping tabs on a Saturday full of games, or exploring the numbers behind a big matchup, CFB Live puts college football at your fingertips. **All football. No clutter. Absolutely no ads.** EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Use: https://cfb-live.nstod.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://cfb-live.nstod.com/privacy.html
CFB Update
Stay informed about college football with in-depth analysis of team depth charts, roster changes, and game strategies. Access daily content, player insights, and breakdowns to understand the sport beyond basic statistics.
- Team depth chart tracking
- Roster movement updates
- Film and scheme breakdowns
- Player and team insights
- Daily sports content
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Know every roster. Understand every team. Follow college football deeper. CFB Update gives college football fans the depth charts, team analysis, player information, and stats they need to understand what’s happening across the sport. Whether you’re researching your team, breaking down an upcoming matchup, tracking a player, or trying to understand how a roster has changed, CFB Update puts detailed college football information in one place. DEPTH CHARTS THAT GO DEEP Go beyond the starters. Explore detailed team depth charts and quickly see how players fit into each roster. Find starters, backups, position groups, and the players competing for snaps throughout the season. DETAILED TEAM ANALYSIS Get a deeper look at college football teams and their rosters. CFB Update is built for fans who want more than scores and headlines—they want to understand the teams themselves. COLLEGE FOOTBALL STATS Dig into player and team statistics without hunting across multiple websites. Quickly find the numbers that help tell the story of a player, position group, team, or matchup. BUILT FOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL FANS CFB Update is focused entirely on college football. No NFL clutter. No generic sports feed. Just the information you need to follow the teams, players, and storylines that make college football great. From preseason roster battles to Saturdays in the fall, CFB Update helps you know your team—and your opponent—better. College football goes deeper than the scoreboard. CFB Update takes you there.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CFB Update at none against CFB Live's 2. CFB Update also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 89%). CFB Live's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 5) and device support (5 vs 3). On price, rating, 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. CFB Live sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. CFB Update asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for CFB Live against 5.0 for CFB Update. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 5 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of CFB Live's written reviews are positive against 100% of CFB Update's.
CFB Live ships an update every 4 days, CFB Update weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CFB Live | CFB Update |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nathan Stoddart | Hayden Ellis |
Customer experience
CFB Live
CFB Update
In-app purchases
CFB Live
- CFB Live Pro Annual7 Days trial$1.991 Year
- CFB Live Pro Lifetime$4.99
CFB Update
No in-app purchases









