The free WatchESPN app lets you keep up with your sports anytime, anywhere on your Android phone and tablet. Watch live games and studio shows with 24/7 access to ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN Deportes, SEC Network, SEC Network +, Longhorn Network, ACC Network Extra, ESPN Goal Line, ESPN Buzzer Beater, and ESPN Bases Loaded. You can also watch on-demand clips of the latest news and highlights.
Access to live streaming video from ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN Deportes, SEC Network, SEC Network +, Longhorn Network, ACC Network Extra, ESPN Goal Line, ESPN Buzzer Beater, and ESPN Bases Loaded is determined by your TV provider. The providers below offer access to WatchESPN live video:
- AT&T U-verse
- Bright House Networks
- Charter
- Comcast XFINITY
- Cox
- DirecTV
- DISH
- Google Fiber
- Midcontinent Communications
- Optimum
- Time Warner Cable
- Verizon FiOS TV
Please check back regularly as new TV providers are added. Access to on-demand highlights and news is available to everyone regardless of provider.
The WatchESPN app offers live streaming access to thousands of games and events on the ESPN networks, including:
- NFL Monday Night Football (tablet only)
- NBA Regular Season and Playoffs
- Major League Baseball
- The Masters and The Open Championship
- College Football and the College Football Playoff
- Men’s and Women’s College Basketball
- Grand Slam Tennis Events
Get up-to-the-minute news, highlights and analysis with live streaming of your favorite ESPN shows, including:
- SportsCenter
- First Take
- PTI
- College GameDay
- Mike & Mike
- SportsNation
- Baseball Tonight
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4.1
265,574 total
5 158,419
4 55,516
3 13,108
2 7,339
1 31,192
Chris Levite
Love the app, but recent issues need to be fixed WatchESPN is the best sports streaming app, by far. However, for the past week or so, every time I try to stream a channel, I receive the message "You are not authorized to view this content. Please contact your provider." I've paid for all ESPN channels on FiOS for the better part of a decade. I've tried all tips, and the only fix I've found is to uninstall and reinstall the app, and log in again. This is incredibly annoying during a work day (we don't have cable.) Please fix and I will rate 5 stars again.
Erik Latimer
Great Quality Superior Function The app has the ESPN shows I love to watch like Mike & Mike and you can Chromecast them easially with the built-in cast button. I rarely have any issues with the app. Once in a while the app will crash when I try to open it, but that is it. The video and audio quality that I have gotten through my WiFi is great.
Gary McLaughlin
What about us working stiffs? This app is okay but it would be nice to see some pro teams from football and baseball. Perhaps you could negotiate showing football and baseball in 60 minutes like they do on TV. I don't think that would upset the commission too much. Some of us just can't watch games because we work all the time.
Adam Ring
Horrible Quality This app is a life saver for watching my favorite teams that aren't available in my area. Also for catching replays of games and SportsCenter. However, the quality is always horrendous. It is clear for about 4 seconds and then dips to the point of being unwatchable. I stream HBO and Netflix no problem on my Internet connection.
John Mcconnell
Frustrated Why can't you use this with your cellphone plan/account? I pay for unlimited data. Five million home Internet connections available but, no cell phone connection? Isn't this for cell phones? Arrrgghhh
Austin Lee
Trouble logging in I have two xfinity accounts. One of them is for internet only and doesn't include tv while another account has ESPN. The app always automatically logs me in using my non-tv account and I'm never able to watch games on watch ESPN
User reviews
Love the app, but recent issues need to be fixed WatchESPN is the best sports streaming app, by far. However, for the past week or so, every time I try to stream a channel, I receive the message "You are not authorized to view this content. Please contact your provider." I've paid for all ESPN channels on FiOS for the better part of a decade. I've tried all tips, and the only fix I've found is to uninstall and reinstall the app, and log in again. This is incredibly annoying during a work day (we don't have cable.) Please fix and I will rate 5 stars again.
Great Quality Superior Function The app has the ESPN shows I love to watch like Mike & Mike and you can Chromecast them easially with the built-in cast button. I rarely have any issues with the app. Once in a while the app will crash when I try to open it, but that is it. The video and audio quality that I have gotten through my WiFi is great.
What about us working stiffs? This app is okay but it would be nice to see some pro teams from football and baseball. Perhaps you could negotiate showing football and baseball in 60 minutes like they do on TV. I don't think that would upset the commission too much. Some of us just can't watch games because we work all the time.
Horrible Quality This app is a life saver for watching my favorite teams that aren't available in my area. Also for catching replays of games and SportsCenter. However, the quality is always horrendous. It is clear for about 4 seconds and then dips to the point of being unwatchable. I stream HBO and Netflix no problem on my Internet connection.
Frustrated Why can't you use this with your cellphone plan/account? I pay for unlimited data. Five million home Internet connections available but, no cell phone connection? Isn't this for cell phones? Arrrgghhh
Trouble logging in I have two xfinity accounts. One of them is for internet only and doesn't include tv while another account has ESPN. The app always automatically logs me in using my non-tv account and I'm never able to watch games on watch ESPN
Exactly as advertised Smooth and reliable. Never had any bugs and only lags if internet is slow. Only reason I didn't give 5 stars is sometimes, when it lags, the picture goes away (still playing the sound) and the screen displays that the video will come back on when connectivity improves, however I have never once had the picture come back after it goes away. Have to go back to main menu and select program again to bring picture back. Not a big deal. Other than that, very satisfied.
Used to be good This app is now complete garbage. It keeps freezing. It keeps asking to be rated even though you've already done that. Then when you select to not rate it, it quits out with an error message. Then when it finally opens back up and you click on the game you want to watch, it won't open it up. It's just complete garbage now.
Chromecast Icon not showing up My chromecast icon doesn't show up. It shows up on Netflix, HBO Go, and all others except on this app. ESPN please work on this bug, I know that I am not the only one experiencing this bug!
Sound problems with chromecast After first commercial, sound only comes out of right channel. This is the only app with the problem. Other apps work perfectly. I have 4 Chromecast devices on did TVs, soundboard, receivers, same problem on all of them.
No account issues I have DirecTV, and I've signed it. But it continually says no account returned from upda. I don't know what that means and neither does ESPN or DirecTV apparently. But then I sign out and sign back in and it works fine. There's something on your end that needs to be fixed, it's annoying.
Northern Iowa vs Western Illinois Cannot get app to load game. Keeps saying error message. Have 2 boys playing for UNI and at my youngest basketball games and trying to watch. Very frustrating.
Ohio state Michigan state Waited 30 minutes and still never loaded. Second week in a row and thus app will not load. May as well not even bother. Really makes me mad. I'm suppose to get this and NOTHING. SUCKS
Sports App This apps best feature is the big selection of Live NCAA football and Basketball Games. My only annoying complaint would be sometimes I get notifications for the app it takes me to the wrong article.
As a streaming app, this does a pretty sound job, but unfortunately it makes false claims that it supports Chromecast casting. The WatchESPN website, as well as the Google Play Store and Google Home apps list Chromecast support, but I just talked with ESPN tech support, and they told me directly that Chromecast functionality is not present on any platform. If it's a work in progress, it should be listed and advertised as such, rather than falsely claiming that it works.
Communication issues Would give five stars if the app didn't experience so many communication issues during college football games. One of the main reasons I got this app was to stream with my chromecast but there is no consistent connectivity. Need some upgrades.
Doesn't work with vizio smartcast This app is great but for some reason it doesn't seem to be compatible with vizio smartcast, which is disappointing since that system works with every other castable app I have. Would be 5 stars otherwise. Hopefully they fix this soon.
Hmm, check it out. I use to be able to watch ESPN on my phone. I haven't done it in a while. Going to go check it out. My rating might change afterwards. I just checked it out. Not sure why I can watch NCAA basketball but not the NFL Monday night game. Is this the future for Watch ESPN, hit and miss programming for phone access? Not very wise for a customer service base company. Now can you tell us why phones are excluded?
What's the point! Every event I try to watch says it's blacked out in my area. When I am 100% aware that it is not. App works horribly
An App Should Work If I want to watch the Rose Bowl, am a subscriber to a participating cabke provider, and succesfully follow the convoluted instructions, I should be able to watch the f*cking game! UPDATE ON 11/12/16: Updated app greatly improved.
Loading is awful This app is ok. The loading time is awful and while I'm watching my OSU & Bills' games it will randomly cut out, telling me, audio only available in this area. It gets quite frustrating while you're in the middle of an amazing play and all of a sudden you see nothing...uhhhh...seriously?! I'm trying to watch Monday night football right now and it will NOT stop loading! If you guys fix this it would be so much better!
Overall good The stand bye during commercials sounds like 70's porn music and I almost fell asleep listening to it. But that's besides the point sometimes lags and kicks me off but overall good.
Starting to work less and less Getting a lot of failed to load media on the games I'm trying to watch but all other games happen to work just fine... Starting to get irritated
Resolution Would give it a 5 but resolution drops badly to below 480i. Trying to find out why, Will update if I find it's on my end.
Works very well Excellent streaming quality. On a Pixel now and it takes advantage of the high res. I will say it hiccups sometimes when trying to re-open the app after I switched to another one
Thank you! I was despairing of being able to follow Canadian Football League games. This app is the answer! I am so grateful. It is easy to use, clear as a bell, and brings me the games that are important to me. Just terrific!
Frustrating When you try to watch a football game it won't show up. I pay enough money through direct TV and nfl that it shouldn't be an issue...Loosing ratings fast
Can't watch on phone? Epic fail ESPN. Massive fail. Somehow I need a tablet, computer, or connected TV to watch. Nevermind the message is displayed on my Galaxy S7 Edge.
Never works App restarts by itself. I changed Directv password and app will not let me put in new password. Picture quality grainy. I tried chatting with customer service and they said clear cache and restart. It so simple. It didn't work.
Poor app Every game I try to view says its blacked out. I wanted to watch Toronto vs GS. No reason this game should been blacked out while living in Biloxi, MS. Then I wanted to watch Eastern Michigan and Northern Illinois. Same thing happened.
MNF Don't plan on watching MNF from your phone. You can watch from your tablet, computer, roku, etc. Just not a smartphone. Hilarious. Another garbage app.
Worthless always tells me to watch on computer or tablet. Used to work and now it sucks!!! Thanks for something I wished would work! I'm being sarcastic. I will uninstall then reinstall one more time. Waste of time!
So many issues My cast receiver kept shutting off after claiming the game was blacked out in my area. (It wasn't). Also issues locating some cast receivers and other issues with the live streams
Watchespn It doesn't respond when I click to watch a tennis event.. I can watch the same event on my desk top. So I'm sure it is the app and I downloaded the latest version. Same problem.
Times out. Maybe it's my service provider or bad connection, but stream is choppy and freezes a lot. But when it's working it's great.
Loading problems, Loading problems, Loading problems. I open the app and it takes forever to load, can't watch MNF on my phone, IF it does load, it won't stay loaded for long. It will play for about two minutes then have to reload forcing me to relaunch the app. Good thing it's free. I'd never pay for something like this.
Effing Joke! Why do I pay top dollar for every channel Directv has to offer, when I'm never home? So I can watch it while I travel for work, on my phone! But you CAN'T do that for the ONLY thing that keeps ESPN relevant in NFL....Monday Night Football. I get, if the average Joe can't stream it on their phone for blackout or money purposes. But I PAY for this programming and I still can't watch it! Garbage.
Annoyed Always been able to watch espn at my convince and now I can't get in saying it's available on my tv or tablet. My service provider hasn't even changed and uninstalling and re installing didn't help
App is bs I attempt to watch on my tablet and app says "only viewable on tablets, computers, and connected devices". What a joke
College lax Love being able to watch my son and his girlfriend play their college lacrosse games. Since we live so far away ESPN3 has been a favorite app of mine. Never have any problems with it either!
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November 2, 2016
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10,000,000 - 50,000,000
Current Version
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