Alternatives to CBS Sports: Live Scores & News
By App Store Tracker Editorial · Updated — live App Store data verified
The short version
CBS Sports delivers live scores, news, custom alerts, and game streaming across leagues. The closest alternatives are other sports-news-and-scores apps. theScore stands out with a huge, highly rated base for fast scores, stats, and alerts across every league. NBC Sports and BBC Sport offer strong coverage and live streaming too. A few picks are CBS's own apps for fantasy, picks, or streaming. Your choice depends on whether you want pure scores, live game streaming, or fantasy and betting tools.
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CBS Interactive
NFL, NBA, MLB, WNBA, & PGA
People look for a CBS Sports alternative when they want faster scores, broader league coverage, or streaming tied to a different network. Every pick here connects to CBS Sports' core: live scores, sports news, team alerts, and in some cases live game streaming. Some are rival sports-news apps, others handle fantasy, expert picks, or streaming from the CBS and Paramount family. We ranked them by embedding similarity to CBS Sports, then weighed live App Store ratings and review themes. We flag each app's focus, from real-time scores to fantasy management or streaming, so you can match it to how you follow sports.
Why it's similar
CBS Sports Fantasy is from the same CBS family, with enhanced tools to manage and compete in fantasy football, baseball, and more, plus a large base. Both connect to CBS's sports ecosystem and your account.
How it differs
Fantasy is for running leagues and lineups, not the live scores and news the main CBS Sports app centers on. It complements rather than replaces it, so you'd use both if you play fantasy and follow games.
Why it's similar
The CBS app shares the CBS brand and lets you watch CBS shows, overlapping with CBS Sports' streaming side. Both tie into CBS's content and account.
How it differs
The CBS app is for entertainment TV, not sports scores, news, or live games. It only overlaps through network streaming, so it doesn't track teams or deliver scores the way CBS Sports does.
Why it's similar
Paramount+ shares CBS Sports' live-streaming side, carrying many of the same CBS and Paramount live games behind a subscription, with a huge base. Both stream sports from the CBS family.
How it differs
Paramount+ is a full streaming service for shows, movies, and live events, not a scores-and-news app. It's where you watch the games CBS Sports tracks, so it covers streaming but not the alerts and stats CBS Sports provides.
Score Media and Gaming Inc.
Why it's similar
theScore is a standout alternative: a hugely popular, highly rated app for sports news, scores, stats, and videos across every league. Both deliver real-time scores and customizable team alerts.
How it differs
theScore is pure scores and news without CBS Sports' live game streaming, and reviewers note occasional widget and score-tracking glitches. It's the pick for fast, broad score tracking, while CBS Sports adds streaming from its networks.
Why it's similar
CBS 21 News shares the CBS brand and delivers sports alongside news and weather, with live newscasts. Both carry the CBS name and cover sports to a degree.
How it differs
CBS 21 is a local Sinclair station app focused on regional news and weather, not national sports scores and streaming. With a tiny base, it serves one market, so it doesn't match CBS Sports' nationwide coverage.
BBC Media Applications Technologies Limited
Why it's similar
BBC Sport (this listing) matches CBS Sports on the latest sports news, scores, live sport, and highlights. Both are network sports apps with scores and streaming.
How it differs
BBC Sport centers on UK and global sports like football and rugby rather than CBS Sports' US-heavy leagues, and this listing has no ratings yet. It's the pick for British sports coverage rather than American leagues.
Why it's similar
BBC Sport shares CBS Sports' offering of sports news, scores, live sport, and highlights, with a solid rating. Both are official network sports apps.
How it differs
It focuses on UK and international sports rather than CBS Sports' US leagues, and its streaming is region-locked to the UK. It's a strong choice for British and global sports fans, less so for US-focused viewers.
Why it's similar
SportsLine is from CBS Interactive, offering expert picks and DFS optimal lineups, tied to the same sports ecosystem as CBS Sports. Both serve engaged sports fans.
How it differs
SportsLine focuses on betting predictions and fantasy lineup tools, not live scores and news. It's a companion for picks and analytics, so it suits bettors and DFS players rather than fans wanting CBS Sports' broad coverage.
Why it's similar
SB LIVE matches CBS Sports on instant live scores, results, and breaking sports news. Both aim to keep fans current on games in real time.
How it differs
SB LIVE is a small app with no ratings yet, focused purely on fast scores without CBS Sports' streaming, fantasy, or network content. Its reliability is unproven, fitting fans who only want quick scores over CBS Sports' fuller experience.
Why it's similar
NBC Sports shares CBS Sports' network-app model: scores, news, and live streaming of the leagues and events it carries, with a large base. Both blend coverage with streaming from a major network.
How it differs
NBC Sports streams NBC's specific rights like the Premier League and Olympics rather than CBS's lineup. It's a strong alternative whose value depends on which leagues you follow, since each network carries different games.
Every app in our database carries a dense vector embedding derived from its title, subtitle, full description, and category metadata. To find apps similar to CBS Sports: Live Scores & News, we compute cosine distance against every other app and surface the closest 60 candidates. The similarity score shown on each pick is 1 - distance/2 clamped to [0,1] — 100% means the embedding spaces are identical, 0% means orthogonal.
We then re-rank the candidate set using current App Store rating and review-count signals so a 4.8-star app with 100,000 reviews ranks above a 4.5-star app with 200 reviews even when their embedding distance is similar. Apps that haven't shipped an update in 12 months are filtered out before re-ranking.
The similarity cache is recomputed weekly. Live App Store data (rating, review count) is verified every 6 hours.
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