Use This Free Sports Tracking App in Your Mac’s Menu Bar
It’s an unfortunate fact of life that sometimes you have to work when you’d rather be watching the game. Unfortunately, I can’t fix that problem, but I can give you a way to keep track of your score on your Mac.
Apple has a great sports scores app for iPhone, which is the best way to keep track of your scores while you do something else. However, Apple doesn’t have anything similar for the Mac, which I find a little disappointing. Sure, you can ask Siri to tell you the score, but there’s no way to passively keep track of your scores while you work on something else. Luckily, there’s a free app that puts scores for many major leagues right in your menu bar: it’s aptly named MenuScores .
This is a free, open-source app that offers results for major sports leagues in Europe and North America. Just install the app and you’ll see “Select Game” in the menu bar. Click on it and you’ll see a list of leagues – hover over any of them to see a list of games. Click on a game and you’ll know the score every time you look at the menu bar. You can optionally receive notifications when a game starts and ends.
Supported leagues include NHL, NBA, NCAA men’s and women’s basketball, NFL, MLB, F1, PGA, LPGA, EUFA Champions League, EPL, ESP, GER, ITA, and NLL. Most sports fans won’t want to see all of these, so you can turn off any league in the settings. You can also turn off notifications and adjust how often results are updated — options range from every five seconds to every five minutes. Results are retrieved using the ESPN API.
The app isn’t perfect. It would be nice if I could get more information about games by clicking on them, even if it meant opening the website. I also wish there was support for MLS games. Still, it’s a great tool if you’re a fan of at least one supported league. I know I’ll be opening ii late at night most days during hockey season.