# The Blue Alliance

> FRC Matches and Webcasts

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1441973916](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1441973916)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1441973916`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** The Blue Alliance, Inc.
- **Category:** Reference
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (182 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.5.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-07
- **First published:** 2019-01-02
- **Size:** 29 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-blue-alliance/id1441973916)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.thebluealliance.com/privacy](https://www.thebluealliance.com/privacy)

## Description

The Blue Alliance Chrome extension brings FIRST Robotics Competition scouting, competition, and reliving content directly to your browser. Access live events, upcoming matches, team details, and a rich archive of historical match data and videos from thebluealliance.com, making it the easy way to stay up-to-date on the go.

For developers, the project is open source on GitHub: https://github.com/the-blue-alliance/the-blue-alliance-ios

## Rankings

- #109,430 — Overall

## Review summary

Users praise The Blue Alliance for reliable results, a sleek, fast interface, and usefulness for on-the-fly event tracking. However, recurring issues undermine the experience, notably frequent crashes (including after updates) and unstable performance. The search feature is widely reported as broken or unresponsive, and data loading can be limited to current events rather than historical ones. Video playback is buggy. A few users also mention excessive notifications and some platform-specific regressions. Overall, the app is valuable but stability and data/search issues need addressing.

### Pros

- Reliable results and fast updates for events
- Sleek, well-made interface that makes browsing easy
- Free app with strong features for on-the-fly tracking
- Great companion for staying up-to-date with competitions and rankings

### Cons

- Frequent crashes / stability issues
- Search feature not working or returns no results
- Slow performance / app is often sluggish
- Data loading limited to current month; older events/teams not loaded
- Video playback issues / bugs in loading or playing videos

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1441973916)