theScore Bet app teardown
Installed on both handsets, opened 40 times, and the number that matters came out at 5. That is taps from lobby to submitted cashout. Package is 86 MB, cold start 1.2 s.
The numbers
86 MB
INSTALL SIZE
Under the 115 MB board median
1.2 s
COLD START
12 of 31 on the clock
1
CRASHES / 40 SESSIONS
All on the older Pixel
5
TAPS TO WITHDRAW
Board median is 5
The withdrawal flow, tap by tap
3 of those 5 screens are not carrying information. They are asking again. Across the board, 27 of 49 cashout flows do some version of this, and the industry-wide effect is the point of the design rather than a side effect of it.
Same job in a mobile browser takes 8 taps here, against a board median of 6. Across the whole board the app version averages 5.3 taps and 11 of 31 packages went through 40 sessions without a crash.
GOOD
- Same build on both stores, no Android afterthought
- 86 MB download, under the 115 MB board median
- The app cuts 3 taps off the same job in a browser
NOT GOOD
- 1 crash across 40 sessions, all on the older handset
- Cashout flow carries a confirmation step repeated
- 3 screens exist only to give you a way out of leaving
- Chat keeps office hours, which is not when people play
What the app does that the site does not
- Cashout drops from 8 taps to 5
- Biometric login instead of a password field on a wet screen
- Deposit and session limits live in settings, not five clicks into an account page
- Balance and open bets survive a lock screen
The tap saving is the measurable one: 8 in a browser, 5 in the app, for identical work.
Getting paid
| Rail | Minimum in | Out | Minimum out |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interac e-Transfer | C$10 | 2–3 days | C$10 |
| PayPal | C$10 | 2–3 days | C$20 |
| Visa Debit | C$10 | 2–3 days | C$50 |
Typical wait to a bank account here is 2–3 days. Rail timings are the operator's own published figures; the tap counts above are ours. The rail pages hold the same question one payment method at a time.
All of it measured the same way on every operator on this board, which is the only thing that makes any of these numbers comparable.
