NFL

NFL Review: $6.99 Live Games, but Only on Your Phone

Free Tier: Scores, Drive Charts and the 24/7 NFL Channel

Without paying, the app covers the scoreboard: live scores and drive charts for every game, breaking news, and highlight clips that run with ads until you subscribe. The free NFL Channel streams league programming around the clock. A pay-TV login opens more: customers of Xfinity, Spectrum, DirecTV, YouTube TV and other providers can watch in-market games, the league's cable network or RedZone, depending on their package. Season-long fantasy is gone from the 2026 season; ESPN Fantasy is now the official game, and commissioners move old leagues through an import tool on ESPN, signing in with the same email.

$6.99 NFL+: Local and Primetime Games, Phone and Tablet Only

The base plan, $6.99 a month or $49.99 a year, streams the games airing on TV in your market plus Sunday, Monday and Thursday night games, seven exclusive games on the league's own network and select Saturday matchups. All of those live games are restricted to phones and tablets: the official help center says they cannot be cast to a television during the event, and the iOS listing rules out HDMI, Chromecast and AirPlay output. Out-of-market Sunday afternoon games are missing at every tier, because they belong to Sunday Ticket on YouTube. What the plan does cover for all 32 teams is audio, with home, away and national radio calls for every game. It is sold only in the US, excluding territories, and prices may change.

Premium at $99.99: RedZone, All-22 Film and Three Streams

Premium, $14.99 a month or $99.99 a season in the US, adds RedZone, which cuts between up to eight games at once across a seven-hour Sunday window, plus full and condensed replays and All-22 coaches film on TVs as well. NFL Pro, with more than 95 stats and a fantasy assistant powered by AWS, belongs to the tier but runs on desktop and mobile web, not in the app. Both plans allow three streams at once at up to 1080p and 60 frames per second. Live games keep the broadcast's ad breaks, and condensed replays can take up to 24 hours to appear. Refunds cover only duplicate purchases or serious, ongoing technical trouble.

Week 1 Outage, 2.4 Stars and Location Data for Advertisers

On September 13, 2026, during the eight-game 1 p.m. ET window of opening Sunday, streams failed to load or froze; Downdetector logged more than 15,000 reports and the league apologized. Google Play shows a 2.4 average from 644K reviews against 4.5 on the App Store, and 124 of the 150 newest English Play reviews give one star, mostly over paid accounts read as unsubscribed, forced re-logins and crashes, plus alerts for teams with notifications off. On privacy, Google Play's form declares no data shared with third parties, while Apple's label lists location, purchases and identifiers as data used to track you, and the March 2026 privacy policy allows precise geolocation to be disclosed to third parties for location-based advertising.