Newsjerk Score Web And Mobile App
Real-Time Sports Scores, News and Notifications Platform
What is Newsjerk?
Newsjerk is a sports platform available on the web and on the Google Play Store that keeps fans connected to the sports they care about, in real time, without the noise of everything else. You pick your competitions, follow them, and Newsjerk does the rest. Scores come to you. News comes to you. Match updates come to you. You never have to go looking. It covers two sports at its core: football and cricket. Both are treated with the depth they deserve, not as an afterthought or a stripped-down version of what fans actually want to see. We built this from the ground up, from design to development, covering the web platform and the Android app.
The Problem
Sports fans are not short of options. The problem is that most scoring apps try to cover everything and end up doing nothing particularly well. They are cluttered, slow, full of ads, and built around a discovery model that assumes you do not already know what you want to follow. The notification experience on most platforms is especially poor. You either get too much, alerts for sports and competitions you never asked about, or too little, missing the moment that actually mattered because the update arrived ten minutes late. For football fans specifically, getting match context during a game is often split across multiple sources. The score is in one place, the lineups in another, the stats on a third platform. It is fragmented in a way that breaks the experience of following a match in real time. For cricket, the problem is different but equally frustrating. Cricket has a complexity that most apps flatten into a single score line. Fans who understand the game want to see innings breakdowns, wickets fallen in sequence, batting and bowling lineups, and live over-by-over updates. Generic sports apps rarely deliver that level of detail.
What We Built
Newsjerk is built around the idea of following. You choose the competitions and types of sport you care about, and the platform organizes itself around those choices. Everything you see, from the home feed to the notifications you receive, is filtered through your preferences. For football, the platform covers competitions at every level. Users can browse ongoing and upcoming matches, see live scores updating in real time, and tap into any match for a full breakdown. Inside a match view, they get the current score, the full starting lineup for both teams, a live event timeline showing goals, yellow and red cards, substitutions and other key moments, and a stats panel covering possession, shots, passes, corners and more. Nothing is missing that a genuine fan would want to know. For cricket, the coverage goes deeper than a headline score. Users see innings-by-innings breakdowns, the current batting pair with their individual scores, the bowling figures for each bowler, and the sequence of wickets fallen with the scores at which they happened. The batting and bowling lineups are available before and during a match so fans always know who is coming in next or who has yet to bowl. Notifications are where Newsjerk earns real loyalty. Because users follow specific competitions or sport types rather than everything at once, the alerts they receive are always relevant. A goal in a match from a competition you follow. A wicket falling in a Test you are tracking. An upcoming match from your favorite tournament. The notifications feel like a friend texting you an update, not a platform shouting at you. The web platform and the Android app share the same real-time data layer, so whether a user checks on their phone or their laptop, they are always seeing the same live information.
What We Delivered
| Deliverable | Detail |
|---|---|
UI/UX Design | Full design system for web and Android app |
Web Platform | Full responsive web experience |
Android App | Native Android app, available on Google Play Store |
Football Coverage | Live scores, lineups, match events, stats for all competitions |
Cricket Coverage | Innings scores, wickets fallen, batting and bowling lineups |
Real-Time Updates | Live data push for scores and match events |
Follow System | Follow competitions or sport types for personalized feed |
Notifications | Competition-scoped and sport-type-scoped push alerts |
News Feed | Sports news integrated alongside live scores |
What Made This One Different
The hardest thing about building a sports platform is that fans are experts. They know exactly what information they want, in what order, and how quickly they expect it to arrive. You cannot get away with a vague score line and a generic notification if your user is someone who follows the sport deeply. Newsjerk worked because we took both football and cricket seriously as individual disciplines with different data structures, different fan behaviors, and different things that matter during a live match. We did not build one generic match view and apply it to both. We thought about what a football fan needs mid-match and what a cricket fan needs between overs and built two experiences that actually serve those needs. That attention to what each sport actually requires is what separates Newsjerk from a generic aggregator.
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