From our automated analysis, 16 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 10.77 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-16 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 10.77, updated 2026-09-25.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Be there even when you're not. The CBS Sports App is everything a sports fan needs in one place. Get personalized alerts for your favorite teams, players and leagues, follow every play with GameTracker, stream live games from CBS and Paramount+, and stay on top of the biggest news in sports. With the CBS Sports App, you can watch the NFL on CBS, UEFA Champions League, Big Ten football and basketball, the Masters, and more via your TV provider or Paramount+ subscription.
All sports. One app.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 3 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), InMobi
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:9923a3507e12fd91cb3c243ad5d7b4163aebaa445089877429a068af333b2aadSpecific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Aggressive ad load: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 561 reviews scanned)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
561 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
The ads have absolutely ruined this app. Used to be a pretty decent tool for managing fantasy and occasionally looking at sports news, but now it's an absolute dumpster fire.
this app is terribly designed and is loaded with annoying pop-up ads.
Full screen unskippable ads. Can't even close out of the app while they're playing.
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.
Android package 10.77, scanned 16 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 10.77 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-16 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 10.77, updated 2026-09-25.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
No release notes were provided for this version.
cbs-sports-google-com-handmark-sportcasterAssessed 2026-10-16 from 561 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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