Ranking the Best DFS Apps for 2023

Underdog entered 2023 as our top-rated daily fantasy sports app and has done little to lose that honor. They offer an industry-leading selection of game formats, including our #1 rated best ball product and our #1 stat-based pick'em option. Additionally, Underdog offers daily snake drafts for every NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB slate.

A large player pool guarantees that these drafts will fill quickly, allowing you to find the contest you want, draft your team, and get on with your day. Snake drafts are available with anywhere from 2-12 owners and with entry fees ranging from $1 to $3,000.

The app itself is arguably the best-looking app in the DFS industry, offering a user-friendly layout and the ability to move between light and dark modes. Finding the contest you are looking for is as simple as selecting your sport, contest type, and entry fee. No sorting, filtering, or scrolling is required.

Pick'em contests allow you to pick higher/lower for a wide variety of stat categories across every major professional support. Simply select if you think a player will finish with a stat line that is higher or lower than the provided projection. The more picks you get correct, the more you win.

Formerly known as Betcha, Vivid Picks is a small but mighty player in the Daily Fantasy Sports industry and our fastest-rising app on this list. For us, the way that they executed their over/under contests is the most innovative way a DFS app has approached player props.

With Vivid Picks, you will choose the two players you want to start with from a list of available combinations. Once you place your pick on each of these two players, you are able to add additional players of your choosing. Pick the over/under correct on five players and win 9x your total entry.

While this unique approach certainly separates Vivid Picks from its competition, the social nature of the app might be its most unique feature. Vivid Picks allows you to add friends, track their entries, and even compete against them to see who can make the most correct choices each week. Even better, they will add $100 for every friend you invite to the Vivid Picks app.

The downside of this app is a lack of variety. There are typically only three combinations of players available for each sporting event, and outside of the over/under format, there are no other games currently available in the app. That being said, Vivid Picks is backed by its parent company Vivid Seats which gives the means to invest in and improve the app moving forward. Following the acquisition and rebranding, this app enters the 2023 MLB season with a ton of momentum.

Thrive Fantasy is another prop fantasy product with a solid website and mobile app. Thrive offers 9 different sports and the widest eSport selection available on a DFS app. At the moment, this includes 4 different eSports: CSGO, Dota, LoL, and Valorant.

The app is easy to navigate, looks great, and offers some interesting in-game features. Payouts for prop contests are on par or better than what you will find at competing apps in this space.

The one feature that sets Thrive apart is its prop contests. With these, you will place several over/under prop bets, and the most accurate user will win the contest. These contests can have top prizes of $10,000 or more and are a fun twist to traditional prop fantasy offerings.

As of September 2023, Thrive is available in 30 U.S. states, but unlike Underdog and PrizePicks, their app is not yet available in Canada. We will have to wait and see what (if any) new markets Thrive is able to add prior to the start of the 2023 NFL season.

Deposits and withdrawals are easy with Thrive, as they accept PayPal, E-check, or Credit Cards. Bonus funds are immediately made available in your account but are subject to a 4x rollover.

OwnersBox Fantasy Sports markets themselves as home to the Superflex and features a structure similar to what you will find in best-ball leagues at Underdog. Every contest is a 2-16 team league that will last anywhere from one week (2 teams) to 4 weeks (16 teams). Owners build their team in a live snake draft format (the last pick this round gets the first pick next round).

Obviously, the huge caveat here is that you are drafting a Superflex lineup, putting a premium on quarterbacks. Combine that with the varying length of the tournament, and these leagues are quite challenging. OwnersBox utilizes a relatively straightforward point-per-reception (PPR) scoring system for NFL contests.

While short on the bells and whistles you will find with the top names on this list, the website, iOS app, and Android app all work well. Finding a draft, tracking scores, and withdrawing winnings is easy to do regardless of the device you are using.

The OwnersBox app offers a unique twist to traditional DFS. One that blends the best of both daily and season-long fantasy sports.

ParlayPlay's iOS app has been live for less than a year, but with a 4.8 rating on the App Store, it may be one of the best new fantasy apps of 2023. If you are looking for an alternative to PrizePicks, ParlayPlay may be the app for you.

Similar to other prop-based fantasy games, the ParlayPlay format allows you to pick the over/under for 3+ players across a wide variety of stat lines. The more predictions you get correct, the more you win or parlay all of your picks for the maximum payout.

In addition to the app, ParlayPlay allows users to enter contests from its website, whether on a desktop or mobile phone. With a mobile-first design, the overall user experience is exactly the same on the website and the native iOS app.

New players can sign up using the promo code EWB to receive a $100 deposit bonus and $10 in site credit. This offer is valid through the end of September.

DraftKings was founded in 2012 and is one of the best-known companies in the DFS industry. Major League Baseball helped put DraftKings on the map by investing in them in 2013 for an undisclosed amount. This was a historical moment because it was the first time a U.S. pro sports league had invested in daily fantasy sports.

DraftKings offers more variety of contests and games than any other DFS app. Their bonus structure is also one of the best in the DFS market today. First-time users can receive up to a $500 deposit bonus on the DraftKings app and a voucher for a contest with a $1 million top prize.

A massive player base allows DraftKings to offer the largest prize pools in the DFS industry. DraftKings runs a Millionaire Maker contest every week of the NFL season, every golf major, and several other major sporting events.

The DraftKings app currently has a 4.9-star rating in the App Store, which puts them on par with Underdog and Vivid Picks as the highest-rated apps in the industry.

FanDuel has been around since 2009, and they have stood the test of time as one of the best companies for daily fantasy sports. FanDuel currently has 6 million users and a staff of over 1,500 employees. FanDuel has built one of the most reputable brands in the DFS industry because of its dedication to customer service.

FanDuel boasts a nifty rewards program that includes a generous refer-a-friend bonus. Because of the size of its user base, FanDuel can offer a wide variety of options to suit your DFS needs. There’s a quality DFS game for every type of player at FanDuel.

FanDuel’s DFS home page is one of the best in the business today because it is so robust. This is convenient for all of FanDuel’s members. It’s nice to see all of your fantasy sports info on the same page. Like DraftKings, FanDuel offers a weekly million-dollar contest throughout the NFL season. They also offer some of the largest college football and college basketball contests in the industry.

Perhaps our favorite thing FanDuel does is cater to new players. As a new DFS player, you can choose to compete only against other new players in FanDuel's beginner contests. If you are going to play DFS, you can’t go wrong with FanDuel.

Jock MKT is our number 1 rated fantasy stock app for 2023 and is by far the best option for sports fans looking to play fantasy sports in a format that resembles trading stocks. Buy low and sell high on any player across any sport using the Jock MKT app. Here's how it works:

1. Buy your player's stock during the IPO (before games start) or live as the action plays out.
2. Watch as your player's stock rises and falls over the course of the game.
3. Win money based on where your player finishes in total fantasy points.

Jock MKT is the only daily fantasy sports app that allows you to play while games are happening! In a world of live betting and micro betting, only Jock MKT can bring you live DFS action.

Think a player is going to have a big second half? Bid on them during halftime and watch as their stock rises. Or, sell high on a player that got off to a hot start.

There are endless ways to play and make money on Jock MKT. Perhaps what we love most is the unique approach to fantasy sports. In an industry that has grown stale with the different iterations of the same product, Jock MKT is a unique approach to daily fantasy sports.

PrizePicks was arguably the fastest-growing app in the daily fantasy sports industry in 2022 and entered 2023 with a ton of momentum. The company added a handful of big-name investors in February, including Tracy McGrady, Matt Ryan, and Gabby Douglas.

The PrizePicks app is extremely well executed and by far the top contender to Underdog in terms of design and overall user experience. Players really seem to enjoy the variety of sports and contests on the app. At the moment, PrizePicks offers more sports than any other DFS product, including eSports and college sports. They are also the only prop-style DFS app that offers contests for the first and second halves of games.

The only box that PrizePicks does not check, and what has them lagging behind our top three rated apps in DFS, is in contest variety. Pick'em format contests are the only thing PrizePicks offers, and while they are great in that space, players looking for a salary cap option or season-long option need to turn to either Underdog, FanDuel, or DraftKings.

Given the sudden influx of new players and investors, we expect PrizePicks to put that money to work in 2023 with an aggressive marketing plan and perhaps a handful of major project updates. Given how well-executed the current app is, PrizePicks could be a real contender by the time the 2023 NFL season gets here.

SuperDraft is a DFS app that was created by the folks at Caesars Sportsbook. While SuperDraft offers traditional DFS games with a salary cap, they also offer a plethora of other options for folks who want to go a different route. Some of SuperDraft's DFS contests have different scoring multipliers, which can make the overall experience more exciting.

SuperDraft has been around since 2019, and they've quickly grown into one of the major players in the DFS world. We love that SuperDraft is integrated with the Caesars Rewards Program, one of the best in the country. We also love that SuperDraft offers a variant called Freerolls, which allows new DFS players to compete in tournaments for free.

There are only a couple of concerns with SuperDraft. One, they don't process withdrawals very quickly. Some customers have said that it took 8-12 business days to receive their money. SuperDraft also doesn't accept PayPal or ACH.