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56%Audience ScoreBased on 385 reviews

monetization15 negative mentions

Comprehensive and detailed coverage of German football and other sports, providing quick updates and statistics.
User-friendly and intuitive interface with features like following favorite teams and personalized news view.
Reliable push notifications for live events, especially fast during German league matches. Updates have improved navigation and visual design making the app enjoyable to use.

Frequent crashes, freezes, and very slow loading times especially after recent updates, making the app often unusable.
Scores, live tickers and news frequently do not update or show outdated information for long periods, frustrating users.
Excessive, intrusive advertising including unskippable video ads, forced cookie/tracking consent, and paywalls severely degrade user experience. Lack of English language option also limits accessibility.

monetization
15 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users overwhelmingly criticize the app's aggressive and excessive monetization through frequent full-screen ads, difficult-to-close videos, and intrusive pop-ups, which significantly degrade the user experience. Additionally, mandatory cookie acceptance leads to even more advertising, prompting frustration and rendering the app nearly unusable for some. A paid ad-free subscription option is appreciated but does not offset general dissatisfaction with current ad practices.
- “Full screen ads are new as well, sometimes there's no way to close them except closing and reopening the app.”
- “Unfortunately, the increase in ads - especially the ones you have to wait for 5 seconds and are hard to click away - made the app unusable for me.”
- “Too many ads these days.... 2 ads for 1 article with 250 words is crazy.”
optimization
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The app's optimization has declined in the latest version, with users reporting slow scrolling, frequent crashes, and longer loading times. While performance is acceptable on Wi-Fi, it struggles significantly on mobile networks, and the interface has become less clear and more cumbersome. Overall, urgent performance improvements are needed.
- “App performance has somewhat improved, but the display of statistics and player information has become more complicated and less clear.”
- “Performance is okay on Wi-Fi, but pages often don't load on HSDPA.”
- “New version of the app suddenly has slow scrolling performance and crashes.”
- “Takes forever to start and load a page... performance optimization urgently needed!”
- “In WLAN the performance is okay, but over HSDPA pages often do not load.”
stability
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The app's stability is problematic, with users experiencing frequent bugs and sluggish performance, particularly on devices like the Pixel 7, along with high battery consumption.
- “Actually a very good app but very buggy on my Pixel 7 and also consumes a lot of battery.”
- “Latest version runs sluggishly and is buggy.”