Best Sports Trivia Apps in 2026, Compared

Before comparing apps, decide which night you want. Most sports trivia apps are made for solo or online-competitive play: you answer against a clock, chase points and face other players over the internet. That is perfect on a commute or when you want to measure yourself against the world, but it is not the same as six friends crowding around one phone and ribbing each other over a missed answer.

Sportsup sits in the other camp. It is a local party game where 2–10 players take turns at the same phone, correct answers score points and wrong answers earn a penalty the group defines (a sip, a push-up, a dare, whatever you like). The mechanic does not require alcohol, and there is a drink-free option. That makes Sportsup a party game built on sports knowledge rather than a competitive game you play alone.

Sporcle is one of the largest online trivia communities, on the web and as iOS and Android apps. Its sports category is enormous: the site reports over 614,000 sports quizzes and more than 1.1 billion sports-quiz plays across 21 subcategories, from the Premier League and World Cup to golf and the Olympics. The quizzes are mostly user-created and typically timed, played solo or in online competition. The interface comes in English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish, and the free version is ad-supported, with an optional Sporcle Orange subscription that removes ads.

Trivia Crack, from Argentine studio Etermax, is a general-knowledge quiz where you spin a wheel to land on one of six categories (Science, Sports, Entertainment, History, Art and Geography). Sport is just one slice, the core experience is online and turn-based against friends or strangers, it requires creating an account to play and save progress, and it carries advertising plus in-app purchases. Both are strong apps, but for pure sports knowledge with an explained answer you can instead browse Sportsup's football trivia or hockey trivia.

FotMob is fundamentally a Norwegian app for live scores, statistics and news around football, covering more than 400 competitions worldwide. Its quiz is a content feature rather than a game mode: in collaboration with the separate fcQuiz platform, FotMob publishes a Premier League quiz every Friday and points readers to the fcQuiz app for more football quizzes. That makes it solo, football-only, and effectively a knowledge test you take by yourself, not a group game.

FotMob is free to download and monetized with ads plus optional in-app purchases, including a Remove all ads option and membership tiers. It is excellent at what it does, which is following matches and stats with a quiz on the side. Sportsup is the opposite shape: a dedicated local game for the room, across football, hockey, MMA, esports, golf and the Olympics, with a group-defined penalty on a miss, no accounts, no tracking and no ads.

Many readers remember QuizUp, the real-time trivia game from Iceland-based Plain Vanilla Games that launched on iOS in November 2013 and grew to tens of millions of registered users across roughly 197 countries. Matches were one-on-one across more than 1,000 topic categories, including sport. Glu Mobile acquired it in December 2016.

This matters if you are hunting for it today: the original app was removed from app stores on January 20, 2021, was discontinued in March 2021, and is not available in 2026. Apps that reuse the QuizUp name, such as 'QuizUp - The Game' by developer Two4Tea, are separate, unaffiliated products rather than the original. So if you are chasing the old QuizUp feeling, you will need to look elsewhere.

Sportsup fills the gap the others leave: a sports quiz built as a party game. You get thousands of fact-checked questions across football, hockey, MMA, esports, golf and the Olympics, and every answer comes with a written explanation plus a source link, so you can settle disputes on the spot and actually learn something. Questions appear as multiple-choice 1/X/2 slips.

It is fully bilingual: Swedish by default and English with hreflang, so the whole group can follow regardless of language. There are no accounts, no logins, no tracking and no ads, and the app works offline after the first load. It is free to download, some packs are free and others are one-time in-app purchases, with no auto-renewing subscriptions.

Choose Sportsup when the goal is a night together in the same room, with Premier League and NHL examples and a penalty the group sets itself. If you want to compete solo against the clock or online against strangers, Sporcle or Trivia Crack will suit you better. For more on running the night, we have gathered tips in our guide to the best pub quiz apps.