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20 best World Cup apps for Brazil 2014

In Depth The greatest apps to make your phone the ultimate World Cup device

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There are more ways than ever to keep up with the action at the World Cup, wherever you are. Just pray it doesn't go to penalties.
The World Cup 2014 proper kicks off on June 12 and runs, passes and dribbles its way to the final on July 13.
During that time you'll be able to keep up with all the action minute-by-minute without being tied to your sofa or your TV thanks to the wealth of apps available.
In the four years since the last World Cup the number of people using smartphones, tablets and other wireless devices has exploded and there's no better way to follow your team or watch matches live even if you're out of the house.

These apps are great for keeping in touch with scores

1 FIFA Official App

Price: Free
Availability: App Store | Google Play
FIFA's official app covers pretty much all football but it will be featuring all the World Cup action too of course. Follow your national team's progress with access to the match schedule, exclusive destination guides and team profiles.
Add your local and national team to your Favourites in the app to quickly jump to news and results related specifically to them.

2 ESPN FC Soccer & World Cup

Price: Free
Availability : App Store | Google Play
Another app that covers all aspects of football around the world, this one has its own dedicated World Cup tab where you can go to find all the latest news, scores and stats about matches.
There's video content too, with highlights including goals and key action clips as well as reaction and analysis from on the ground in Brazil.
You can set up personalized scores and live game details – just tailor it to show you the stuff you want to see.

3 World Soccer Finals

Price: Free
Availability : App Store | Google Play
Truly one for the football obsessive, this app provides loads of information on matches including live results.
You can view the match schedule, results, lineups, yellow and red cards, match stats, player information and set up favourites to customize the experience.
With push notifications and city and stadium information plus in-app purchases that unlock the ability to add matches to your calendar, it's a football fan's dream come true.

Scorers, lineups and subs are all available to view in app form

4 World Cup 2014 Brazil

Price: Free
Availability: Google Play
If you're a fan of statistics you'll find much to love in this Android app. With a schedule of all the matches in the championship and full data customization you can track just your chosen teams, groups, matches or conferences.
Get match details like scorers, lineups, subs, cards and referees and even browse in offline mode for when you don't have a connection. Access historical results for comparison and see news about future World Cups.
It's even green and yellow, which we hope doesn't mean it's biased towards Brazil.

5 2014 Table

Price: Free
Availability: Google Play
Sometimes you just want to cut straight to the chase and not worry about lots of peripheral information.
This app, ideal for journalists or news writers, simply shows you the results in an easy-to-read table format.
Get information about the match results of qualified teams, tables, groups, draw, fixtures, playoffs, schedules, dates, times and stadiums where the games will be played. It even auto updates with the latest results.

6 LiveSoccer World Football Cup

Price: Free
Availability: Google Play
Track live matches from more than 300 worldwide soccer leagues and also the World Cup, with customizable push notifications of live events as they happen.
Get text-based live updates and commentary from journalists as well as Head2Head match analysis, statistics and player information.
The app has a rich user interface but is slick and friendly to use, and will keep you abreast of everything that's going on in realtime.

If you are a Windows Phone user, then check out SofaScore

7 Sofascore

Price: Free
Availability: Windows Phone App Store
With a slick, pared-down Windows Phone look, this app is ideal for Windows Phone users looking to keep track of their team's performance whether it's in national or international leagues.
Get live updates and create custom lists to stay up to the minute on the latest action from the World Cup and other tournaments.

8 Squawka

Price: Free
Availability: App Store
The tech-savvy football hipster's dream, the Squawka app gives fans chance to back up any point they make in the pub with cold hard stats, with an assist from those good folks at Opta.
For example, If you think Rickie Lambert performs better than Wayne Rooney and should be starting for England?
You can try to win over your mates by comparing the two players' performances. You could try to show them Lambert keeps the ball better, completes more passes and actually has his own hair.
It has a dashboard full of updates and stats tailored to your team, while live match centres ensure you're fully up to date with shots, cards, goals and substitutions, while every pass and tackle is logged during the game.

9 TeamStream

Availability: App Store
Price: Free
TeamStream is a news and information service from US sporting giant The Bleacher Report that lets you choose your favourite teams and then scrapes stories and tweets from around the web.
It's a good looking one-stop-shop for football news and it'll be a great tool to round up the reaction to your country's World Cup games.

BBC Sport and FourFourTwo are essential apps

10 BBC Sport

Price: Free
Availability: App Store | Google Play
The BBC Sport app is already an essential app download, but the World Cup additions see the Beeb bring the big hitters off the bench.
There'll be live text commentary for all of the games as well as alerts every time someone enters World Cup folklore by finding the back of the net.
Although there's no live radio commentary on games from within the app, there will be access to regular Radio 5 bulletins.
Combined with the iPlayer, the BBC Sport app is the perfect companion for the greatest showpiece on earth.

11 FourFourTwo Stats Zone

Availability: App Store
Price: Free
If you take your football more seriously than those halfwits in the pub who spout half-baked observations based on tired cliches, FourFourTwo Stats Zone is the app for you.
It offers full analysis of all the World Cup games, from the basic shot count and possession to full pass maps and work rates of the players.
It's not just a pool of meaningless information for football geeks, as it can also be used for evil, adding insight to your fantasy football teams, weekend sports betting and pub trivia.

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TV Player and TVCatchup will mean you don't miss a game

12 TVPlayer

Price: Free
Availability: App Store
Made for iPhone and iPad, this TV streaming app works over a wi-fi or cellular connection and broadcasts a number of free-to-air channels, though not all are available over cellular.
With a full TV guide and now and next features it does not currently play video ads at you, so you can get straight to the content you want.
So whatever live matches, highlights or commentary shows are broadcast on the BBC or ITV you will be able to see them here.

13 TVCatchup

Price: Free
Availability: App Store | Google Play
A fair amount of World Cup coverage will be broadcast live on terrestrial British TV and you can stream it live using this app, which is similar to TV Player but also works on Android devices too.

Unlike Player, TVCatchup does have some ads in it but then it is free to download and use, and has some handy features like information overlays, TV guides and closed captioning support.

It works over a Wi-Fi or cellular connection but bear in mind that streaming video while on the move can eat into your data allowance, so try to find a wireless network.

Chiles and co are on hand with ITV coverage

14 ITV Player

Availability: App Store | Google Play | Windows Phone
Price: Free
If you want live games on your smartphone and tablet then you'll need ITV's on-demand app.
Users on iOS, Android and most recently Windows Phone will be able to access live streaming of all of ITV's games from Brazil, while they're away from home.
Unfortunately, ITV didn't think to add a pundit blackout feature for its app, so you're going to have to put up with Adrian Chiles and Roy Keane. Great.

15 SkyGo

Availability: App Store | Google Play
Price: Varies (part of Sky package)
Sky recently announced that it was adding ITV to its streaming service, just in time for the World Cup.
That means that if you have access to SkyGo - either as a standalone premium app or through your Sky package - you can watch a multitude of games from this year's World Cup.

16 MatchPint

Availability: App Store
Price: Free
Are you one of the many folks out there trying to scout out the perfect pub to catch those 11pm kick offs?
And by kick offs, we don't mean a pint flying across the bar the moment England go 1-0 down?
Leave nothing to chance with MatchPint, which finds the games on TV and tells you which pubs are showing them, offering reviews of the establishment in question and even guiding you there using Google Maps.
It's one of many apps that do similar things, but the simple interface and multitude of users make it a top-scorer in our eyes.

And not to be outdone in posing terms, Linker and co are ready as well

17 BBC iPlayer

Availability: App Store | Google Play | Windows Phone | BlackBerry
Price: Free
The BBC Sport app is great for following the action via its live text commentary and handy push notifications when a goal goes in, but if you want to tune in live to Lineker and the team, you'll need the iPlayer app itself.
The BBC will be showing all live games via the catch-up app and if you miss them they'll be available to watch for 7 days afterwards.
Downloads are off limits, but the ability to stream previous games more than makes up for it.
Together, the Beeb's mobile offerings make a formidable team that'd strike fear into the hearts of a German penalty taker. It's also available on more platforms than the rival ITV service. You can get it on iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone.

Football Manager and Score! need to be on your phone

18 Panini Collectors

Availability: App Store | Google Play
Price: Free
Anyone who remembers real Panini sticker albums has probably seen a few World Cups come and go.
Save yourself all that tedious mucking about with bits of paper and go digital with this free collector's app.
Use your phone's camera to scan your stickers and collate them into a list, plus you can set up lists of "got, need and swaps" always in your pocket, share lists with friends and track missing or duplicate stickers easily.
Prove that sticker collecting isn't dead – it just grew up.

19 Football Manager Handheld 2014

Availability: App Store |Google Play
Price: £6.99
If you think you can guide your nation to World Cup Glory, now's your chance. A game for true football fans, Football Manager Handheld 2014 is a portable port of the classic PC game, which has sapped millions of collective hours from our youth.
It's made with footy-mad commuters in mind, and while it's lighter on the options, it retains all the compulsive enjoyment of its fully-featured predecessors.
The best thing about it isn't the breadth of teams or smooth learning curve, both of which are excellent, but that it can be picked up and put down easily, making it ideal for short journeys to work.

20 Score! World Goals

Availability: App Store | Google Play
Price: Free
The App Store is filled with footy games which let you flick and swipe balls into the net with varying degrees of majesty, but Score does it best.
Why? Because each of the wonder goals hammered home by your index digit are re-enactments of the finest strikes in international football and World Cup history.
Eagled-eyed gamers will spot them from the tournaments of yesteryear, from Michael Owen's mazy England goal that humbled Argentina in '98 to Dennis Bergkamp's dreamy volley in '96.
The game's made better by the rating system of the goals, and you need to get them perfect to unlock the next set; think Angry Birds does football and you're there.