The Best Fantasy Sports Apps of 2025
CBS Sports Fantasy has two tiers: a free level, with no customization options (you’re stuck with a 12-team league and bog-standard scoring rules), or a $150 paid tier, which gives you the customization options found in platforms like Yahoo or our pick. Considering how many services offer these options for free, we can’t recommend spending that kind of money.
Fantrax was a mixed bag in our 2024 season testing. Our testers liked its colorful user interface, which seemed to borrow a lot from Sleeper, and it performed well on draft day. But we found that it was a bit clunkier than ESPN in everyday use, requiring more active management of things like the weekly player lineup.
Fleaflicker is a basic, football-only program, but it provides most of the same functions you get from our pick. The platform is perfectly functional (albeit in an Excel-spreadsheet kind of way), with a bare-bones interface that might be intimidating for some players. One of our testers described it as “The Drudge Report of fantasy apps (minus the sirens and screaming headlines).” In addition, a ton of analysis is hidden behind a $25 paywall, which could limit its beginner-friendliness even further.
MyFantasyLeague is by far the most complex and customizable service we’ve tested for this guide. A league commissioner can fiddle with the settings to their heart’s content, with options to change everything from league size (it has support for up to 100 teams), to the graphics and layout of the user interface. But in our testing, that complexity was a huge drawback, as it made everything much more difficult to get up and running correctly. It also costs at least $90 per year (and that pricing increases as you get closer to the season kickoff), which is just too much for more casual players.
NFL Fantasy seems like it should have a leg up on the competition simply because it’s owned by the real-life league, but it doesn’t quite match up to our pick. On the plus side, it offers a feature-rich platform with ample customization, and it provides up-to-date information. It also has some (paywalled) automation features that allow players to auto-set lineups and optimize based on projected scores, but these features aren’t necessary for most commissioners or players. It was also the only platform in our testing that had technical issues on draft day, locking out two teams that (thankfully) had already set up their auto-draft. In the end we simply liked ESPN’s interface more because it seemed fresher and more informational.
Yahoo Fantasy is the second-most-popular fantasy-sports platform, according to data from the FSGA, and it provides a robust, customizable platform much like ESPN’s. It presents useful information in an extremely well-organized and easy-to-navigate interface. And it has paywalled automation features and projections, including draft tools that supposedly highlight players who are uniquely positioned to fill holes in your lineup. It also had AI-generated draft report cards, which our testers found to be equal parts charming and weird. We didn’t think these features were significantly more useful than the free projection tools it provided, and we found ESPN’s interface slightly more engaging. But otherwise this is a great option.
This article was edited by Ben Keough and Erica Ogg.
