Fubo: Watch Live TV & Sports

Review by eFreeware

If you follow more than one sport and you have already cut the cable cord, Fubo is the kind of app you end up considering. It puts live games, regional networks, news and entertainment channels in one place, and it does so without a cable box or a contract. The pitch is straightforward: a large channel lineup, a sports-first layout, and a cloud DVR so you are not tied to whatever is airing right now.

What you get for the download is the app itself, which is free to install. Fubo carries ads and offers in-app purchases. The app has been around since September 2014, which makes it one of the older names in streaming, and it has been updated as recently as September 25, 2026.

A streaming service built around the sports calendar

The core of Fubo is live television. The service carries more than 350 channels, and the lineup leans heavily on sports: ESPN, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CBS Sports Network, FS1, NFL Network, NFL RedZone, NBA TV, MLB Network, MLB.TV, NHL Network, beIN SPORTS, SEC Network, ACC Network, Big Ten Network, Willow TV and Tennis Channel. Local markets also get their regional sports networks.

That mix matters if your viewing is organized around a season rather than a single team. Football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, racing and golf all show up, and the app is pitched as a way to follow them in one subscription rather than juggling several. For someone who watches a game most nights and wants the studio shows and analysis around it, that is a coherent package.

The app also covers news and entertainment channels, so it is not purely a sports product. Comedy Central, Ion Television, Hallmark Channel, TV Land, MTV, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, Bravo, FX and Paramount Network are among the channels named, alongside the broadcast networks. A household where one person watches baseball and another watches series television can share the same subscription.

Baseball, regional networks and the local angle

Baseball gets the loudest treatment of any sport here. Fubo is billed as carrying more MLB than any other streaming provider without cable, and the claim is that it beats YouTube TV on that front. MLB Network, FOX and ESPN are part of the base plan, along with local team coverage through Space City Home Network, YES Network, NESN and MASN.

Regional sports networks are the part of the lineup that matters most to fans who follow a specific team rather than a national broadcast schedule. YES Network, MSG Network, NESN, MASN, Marquee Sports Network, Chicago Sports Network, Altitude Sports and Space City Home Network are all named, and most games for MLB, NBA and NHL teams in those markets come with dedicated coverage. Local availability and blackout restrictions apply, which is the standard caveat for this category and worth taking seriously if your team is the reason you are subscribing.

Out-of-market games are handled through MLB.TV, which lets you watch games outside your home market. Between the regional networks and that add-on, the baseball coverage is the most detailed part of the pitch, and it is clearly where the service expects to win subscribers.

Bundled extras and the cloud DVR

Two inclusions stand out because they change what the subscription covers. Most Fubo plans include ESPN Unlimited at no extra cost, which the developer describes as bringing out-of-market hockey through NHL Power Play along with NCAA sports, LaLiga, PGA Tour golf, tennis and Bundesliga soccer. Most plans also include FOX One, which gathers FOX News, FOX Sports, FOX Weather, FS1, FS2, FOX Business, FOX Deportes, Big Ten Network and local FOX stations into one place.

Unlimited Cloud DVR is the other piece worth noting. It lets you record live programming and watch it later, which matters when games overlap or when a match finishes after you have gone to bed. The developer pairs that with dedicated sports pages, so the schedule and the recording live in the same part of the app rather than in separate tools.

On-demand content fills the gaps between live events. The catalog runs to more than 10,000 hours of shows and movies, drawn from the same channel families that carry the live lineup. It is not the reason most people would subscribe, but it is the reason a subscription does not sit idle on quiet nights.

Soccer, events and the size of the schedule

Soccer coverage is broad and international. The 2026 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Champions League, Europa League, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Liga MX and MLS are all named, and El Clásico between Real Madrid and Barcelona serves as an example of what LaLiga coverage on ESPN Deportes looks like. For a fan who follows a European league and a domestic one, that is a wide net.

The overall event count is the headline number: more than 50,000 live professional and college events, ranging from regional matchups to international tournaments. The NFL, NBA Finals, NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, U.S. Open, Triple Crown, Olympics, tennis grand slams and the ICC Cricket World Cup among them. Numbers like that are the developer's own framing, and the practical value depends on how many of those events you would actually watch.

The recent update points in the same direction. It brings performance work and usability changes, including curation of popular and similar content, navigation improvements, and new pages for sports, leagues and movies. Those are the kinds of changes that make a large catalog easier to move around in, which is the main challenge for any service carrying this much live programming.

What the app needs from you

Fubo is a streaming service, so it needs a high-speed connection, whether that comes from a mobile data plan or a home internet provider. The developer is explicit about this, and it applies to any service in this category. If your connection is unreliable, the experience will be too, and that is true regardless of which channels are in the lineup.

The subscription itself is the real cost. The app is free to download, and it carries ads and offers in-app purchases. Budget for the service, not the app, and check what your local market actually offers before committing, because regional availability and blackout rules vary by team and by zip code.

One more detail worth knowing: the app includes Nielsen measurement software, which allows you to contribute to market research such as TV ratings. That is common in this category, and the developer links to Nielsen's digital privacy page for the specifics.

The audience this lineup is assembled for

The clearest fit is a household that watches live sports across several leagues and wants the regional networks that carry local teams. If you follow baseball closely, the combination of MLB Network, regional coverage and MLB.TV is the most developed part of the offering. If you follow soccer across Europe and North America, the international list is unusually broad for a single subscription.

A second group is the household that wants one bill for sports, news and entertainment rather than several. The channel list covers broadcast networks, cable entertainment, kids' programming and news, so a family with mixed viewing habits can share the subscription without adding anything else. The cloud DVR helps here too, since recorded games and shows do not compete for the same screen.

The app's rating sits at 3.0 from more than 51,000 ratings, with over 10 million installs. That is a middling score for a service this size, and it suggests the experience does not satisfy everyone. If you are weighing Fubo against another live TV service, the deciding factors are likely to be which regional networks you actually get and whether the blackout rules leave your team watchable.

A strong fit for multi-league sports households

Fubo is worth considering if live sports are the reason you pay for television and you want the regional networks alongside the national ones. The cloud DVR and on-demand catalog round out a service that does not go quiet between seasons.

The trade-offs are the ones that come with any streaming bundle. You need a solid connection, the subscription is the real cost, and regional restrictions and blackouts can affect exactly the games you care most about. Check what your market gets before you commit, and treat the channel count as a starting point rather than a promise.

For a household that follows several leagues and wants local coverage without a cable contract, this is a reasonable place to start. If your viewing is narrower, the value depends entirely on whether the channels you need are in your local lineup.

What's new in version 5.60.0

Major update to improve performance and various usability optimizations such as popular & similar content curation, navigation improvements, and introduction of sport, league & movie pages. For the best experience, turn on Automatic Updates for apps in AndroidTV settings.