Best Prediction Market Apps for Football and Election Markets: Tested, Rated and Compared for November 2026

The simplest app of the five to learn, the widest board in the US, built for mobile and live in 41 states + DC. It's the safest single download for a first contract, and it still holds up once you trade regularly. We recommend it to beginners without hesitation.

Add Kalshi second, once the basics feel obvious, since it has the deeper sports book but a harder start.

Two apps cover the most for most people: Polymarket for breadth and ease of use, Kalshi for sports depth and midterm tools. Claim one promo at a time so you can tell which app you actually prefer on your own phone.

Polymarket and Kalshi are the two strongest all-around apps we tested, but they don’t feel the same once you start using them. Polymarket is easier to pick up as a new trader, while Kalshi gives you more depth and a stronger App Store and Google Play track record. 

On Oct. 26, the NBA named both as its preferred prediction market platforms, and both list more midterm election markets than the other apps we compared.

💡 Expert Insights: “The NBA is smart to build an integrity framework into its partnership with both prediction markets. It means the league, Kalshi and Polymarket will take NBA contracts seriously, while still offering unique trading options.”

Polymarket is our top pick for the overall app experience. Of the apps we tested, it was the easiest to learn and required the least explanation before placing a first trade.

Markets are easy to find, the order flow is simple, and your positions and live profit or loss are visible without going through several menus. There's also less exchange terminology to work through than on Kalshi, which helps if prediction markets are new to you.

Plus, that simpler experience doesn't come at the expense of market selection. Polymarket has 17 categories covering sports, politics, crypto, economics, tech, culture, weather and other current events, giving it the broadest range among the apps we compared.

That simplicity carries over to game nights. In my Nov. 3 test of a Jaguars win plus a Tuten touchdown, Polymarket’s combo builder took about 4 to 5 taps, against about 5 to 6 on Kalshi. A $10 position paid $25.54 on Polymarket and $24.48 on Kalshi, checked at the same time at 10:18 a.m. ET. Its best ask held only 132 shares in our Jaguars vs. Ravens check, so a 5,000-share buy walked up three price levels.

Its store ratings are more mixed, though. Polymarket has a 4.5/5 rating on the App Store but a 3.5/5 rating on Google Play. We take those scores into account, but our ranking also reflects our own testing of the current apps rather than relying on store reviews alone.

Kalshi is the go-to prediction market app for most US users.

Its market structure is denser, there are more order options, and fees are shown more explicitly throughout the trading process. That can make the first few trades feel less straightforward than they do on Polymarket, but experienced users may prefer having those controls available.

Kalshi also has the strongest store ratings of the two. It holds a 4.8/5 rating from about 604,000 App Store reviews and a 4.7/5 rating from roughly 139,000 Google Play reviews. Its order books are also the deepest overall among the apps we compared, particularly across sports markets.

Kalshi is also one of the two exchanges the NBA named on Oct. 26, and it is named in many of the state court fights covered below.

Utah sued it on Oct. 20 and filed criminal charges against the company and its two co-founders on Oct. 28, which Kalshi disputes. The Supreme Court has since moved Kalshi’s response to New Jersey’s petition from Nov. 9 to Dec. 7.

For election markets, Kalshi’s Midterms Hub and its My Ballot tool, which matches your address to the races on your ballot, are the most in-depth midterm tools we found. Kalshi’s combos are the alternative if you want more depth on a big game, and in our Jaguars vs. Ravens test its books held about 2.36 million contracts within 1¢ of the best ask. Its 1¢ spread was wider than Polymarket’s 0.25¢ in that check.

For someone opening a prediction market app for the first time, we'd start with Polymarket. Kalshi makes more sense if you want a denser trading interface, deeper books and more control over how your orders are placed.

We opened the Jaguars vs. Ravens order books on Kalshi and Polymarket on Tuesday, Nov. 3, ahead of Thursday Night Football at 8:15 p.m. ET on Prime Video, and looked at the Jaguars side of each. Polymarket was checked at 10:11 a.m. ET and Kalshi at 10:12 a.m. ET. Both apps showed the Jaguars at an 80% chance.

✅ marks the app with the better value in that row. Average fills are our calculations from each app’s visible order book at the time of the check, before fees. Kalshi’s screen showed two price levels on each side and Polymarket’s showed seven. Polymarket labels contracts as shares, and each app settles under its own contract rules, so the two contracts are close but not identical.

Both apps showed the same 80¢ best ask, so a small order started at the same price. The spread was where they split. Polymarket’s was 0.25¢ and Kalshi’s was 1¢, so buying and immediately selling would cost about a quarter of a cent per contract on Polymarket and about 1¢ on Kalshi. Polymarket’s best bid of 79.75¢ was also 0.75¢ higher than Kalshi’s, which matters most to anyone planning to exit before settlement.

Size changed the picture. Polymarket’s best ask held only 132 shares, so a 5,000-share buy walked up three price levels and averaged 80.39¢. Kalshi had 16,153 contracts at 80¢, so the same buy filled entirely at 80¢. At 50,000 the averages were 80.68¢ on Kalshi and 80.77¢ on Polymarket. At 100,000 they were 80.84¢ on Kalshi and 81.28¢ on Polymarket, which is about $440 less on Kalshi before fees.

Depth was the widest gap. Kalshi had about 2.36 million contracts offered within 1¢ of its best ask and about 379,400 bid within 1¢ of its best bid, against about 60,500 and 46,800 on Polymarket. Polymarket’s visible book held about 101,900 shares through 82¢, so a 100,000-share order used nearly all of it.

The order tickets showed a fee difference too. A 100,000-contract limit order at the best bid showed a $290.33 fee on Kalshi, for a total cost of $79,290.33 at 79¢. Polymarket’s ticket listed no fee and estimated $79,750 at 79.75¢. The two orders sit at different prices, so the totals are not a like-for-like comparison. The fee line matches the fee table that follows.

Traders sending small orders and planning to exit early benefit most from Polymarket’s spread and bid, while buyers of 5,000 contracts or more got cheaper fills on Kalshi. This is one market at one moment, and prices and size move quickly near kickoff, so the averages above cover only what each app displayed.

🧪 Combo Test: Jaguars Win and Bhayshul Tuten Touchdown

We built the same two-leg combo on both apps at 10:18 a.m. ET on Nov. 3: the Jaguars to win and Tuten to score a touchdown at any point. A $10 position paid $25.54 on Polymarket and $24.48 on Kalshi, which works out to combined prices of about 39.2¢ and 40.8¢ per $1 of payout. Polymarket’s builder took about 4 to 5 taps and Kalshi’s about 5 to 6. A combo on either app pays only if both legs hit, and the payouts above are the figures each app showed before we confirmed, not results.

How Trading Fees Compare

These apps don't all calculate trading costs the same way. Your cost can change with the contract price, whether you add or remove liquidity, whether the market is live and, on some platforms, whether you are trading a straight contract or a multi-leg position.

The number on the screen still isn't the whole cost of a trade. A narrow spread and enough contracts at your price can make just as much of a difference as the published fee schedule, especially if you plan to exit before settlement.

Right now, Novig is our pick for pure sports trading, thanks to its no-vig peer-to-peer pricing. ProphetX is the multi-leg specialist, and Kalshi offers the deepest market depth.

For Thursday Night Football, I’m starting with Polymarket and watching Kalshi, which I break down below. The best fit depends on how you like to trade.

Here’s the short version of how these prediction market apps work differently for sports:

Novig: The sharpest prices. You trade straight against other users, so there’s no house margin eating your value.

ProphetX: The multi-leg specialist. Its Request-for-Quote system builds and prices same-game combos fast.

Kalshi: The deepest liquidity and widest market coverage, plus desktop access. In our Jaguars vs. Ravens test it held about 2.36 million contracts within 1¢ of the best ask.

FanDuel Predicts: The easiest crossover if you’re coming from a traditional sports app.

Polymarket: The strongest sports coverage alongside politics and global event markets, plus the tighter spread we saw on Jaguars vs. Ravens and the combo builder I’d use for football.

Because prediction markets work differently than traditional sports apps, the “best” app really comes down to whether you value price (Novig), multi-leg trades (ProphetX), or depth and range (Kalshi). Whichever you pick, remember that trading involves high risk, so start small and stick to markets you understand.

Wednesday’s NBA board has 76ers vs. Pistons at 7:00 p.m. ET on ESPN, Bulls vs. Knicks at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBA League Pass and local TV, and Mavericks vs. Spurs at 9:30 p.m. ET on ESPN. Thursday Night Football follows with Jaguars vs. Ravens at 8:15 p.m. ET on Prime Video.

You can check these markets on Polymarket, FanDuel Predicts, Kalshi, Novig, and ProphetX, although the contracts available can vary by platform and location.

🏈 Which Apps I’d Use This Week

For Jaguars vs. Ravens on Thursday at 8:15 p.m. ET, I’ll use Polymarket and keep an eye on Kalshi, since the pricing is so close. Both apps showed the Jaguars at an 80% chance and an 80¢ best ask on Tuesday morning. Polymarket’s tighter spread and higher bid make it the cheaper app to exit, and its combo builder took slightly fewer taps in our test. Polymarket and Kalshi have consistently given us the best prediction market trading options for football this season, in both college and the NFL.

Kalshi has the deeper order books if size matters more to you than ease, and in our test it filled buys of 5,000 contracts and up at a lower average price. A combo on either app pays only if every leg hits.

For football season, take a look at our guide to the best NFL prediction market promos. We break down the top CFB promos for prediction market users as well.  

Prediction markets work differently from traditional sports apps because the operator isn't simply setting a house price and taking the other side of every trade.

Your order is matched with other market participants willing to trade at that price.

That can include everyday users, professional market makers and traders using automated tools. You usually won't know exactly who is on the other side of a particular order, but what matters more is what those participants are doing in the order book.

Some participants are barred from certain markets. Kalshi says it blocks candidates and campaign staff from trading on election contracts, and the NBA’s agreements with Kalshi and Polymarket bar league and team personnel from trading NBA contracts.

The mix won't be the same in every market, even within the same app. A presidential election, an NFL game and a Bitcoin price contract can attract very different traders and very different amounts of liquidity.

That's another reason to judge the market you're trading, rather than assuming an app is equally deep everywhere. A platform can have a lot of overall activity while a specific contract still has a wide spread or very little size available.

Before placing an order, check the bid and ask prices and how much is available around them. That tells you a lot about the people currently willing to trade with you.

We compare prediction market apps across four areas: regional availability, user experience, market range and activity around the displayed price. These matter more than a long feature list because they determine whether you can actually use the app, find the markets you want and trade them without unnecessary friction.

Before comparing features, check whether an app is actually available where you live. Prediction market coverage varies by operator, and access to sports contracts can be narrower than access to the rest of the platform.

ProphetX currently has the widest state coverage among the apps compared here. Polymarket and Kalshi are available across 41 states (plus D.C.), while Novig’s welcome offer is available in 28 states (plus D.C.).

FanDuel Predicts works a little differently. The app is available across all 50 states (plus D.C.), but sports event contracts are currently limited to 17 states after FanDuel pulled sports, political and novelty contracts from Utah on Oct. 30. The welcome offer is available in 18 states.

Nevada and Washington are the two states where ProphetX, Polymarket and Kalshi are all unavailable.

Availability can change, particularly as prediction market operators face different rules and legal challenges from state to state. Check the app's current terms before depositing or trying to claim a welcome offer.

What the Legal Fights Mean for Your App Choice

Federal appeals courts have split on whether states can enforce their gaming laws against sports event contracts. The Third Circuit sided with Kalshi in New Jersey in April. The Ninth Circuit ruled against it in Nevada in August, and the Sixth Circuit did the same in Ohio and Tennessee in September. New Jersey has asked the Supreme Court to step in, and 39 states and Washington, D.C. have backed that request.

The Supreme Court has not said whether it will hear the case. Kalshi’s response was due Nov. 9, but the Court granted its request to move the deadline to Dec. 7. Ohio’s Oct. 30 deadline for its licensed gaming operators to cut ties with prediction market operators has passed. Utah is pursuing Kalshi with both a civil suit and criminal charges, and the CFTC and the Justice Department have asked a federal judge to halt the criminal case. DraftKings and FanDuel Predicts have pulled sports, political and novelty contracts from the state. In Illinois, a federal judge entered a preliminary injunction on Oct. 30 that limits how the state can enforce its gaming laws against Kalshi’s event contracts.

For you, that means an app that works in your state today may change in a month. Check the availability table above before you deposit, and read each app’s current terms before claiming a welcome offer. Our guide to how prediction markets are regulated explains the CFTC’s role, and the What’s New box above follows the latest cases.

A store rating can tell you how thousands of users feel about an app, but it can't tell you everything about actually trading on it. For this comparison, we use App Store and Google Play scores alongside our own testing of account setup, deposits, order entry, live markets, position management and withdrawals.

Polymarket came out ahead in our hands-on testing. It takes fewer steps to get from a market page to an open position, and the basic trading flow is easier to follow if you've never used an exchange before.

Kalshi gives you more control over how orders are placed and shows more trading information upfront. That's useful once you're comfortable with prediction markets, although it also makes the app denser when you're just getting started.

Store ratings tell a slightly different story:

App Store and Google Play ratings last checked November 03, 2026. Ratings and review counts can change.

Kalshi has by far the largest review sample of the group, and its scores are consistently strong across both operating systems. Polymarket is where the store data and our testing diverge most. Its iOS rating is strong, while its Android score trails the other leading apps. We factor that gap into our rating rather than letting either store reviews or our own testing decide the score by itself.

When we test an app, we also look at the practical stuff that's easy to miss in a feature list: how long it takes to create and fund an account, how many taps it takes to place a trade, what happens when prices are moving quickly, whether positions and live P&L are easy to find, how the app handles an exit, and what the withdrawal process looks like.

Market selection is where these apps start to separate pretty quickly.

Polymarket and Kalshi cover sports alongside politics, crypto, finance, economics, culture and other real-world events. FanDuel Predicts also reaches beyond sports. ProphetX is still mostly a sports exchange but now lists a limited set of midterm election markets, while Novig stays sports-only.

If you want one app for both sports and non-sports events, Polymarket and Kalshi give you the broadest mix. Polymarket currently organizes its board across 17 categories, including politics, sports, crypto, finance, tech, culture and weather.

ProphetX and Novig take the opposite approach. Both concentrate on sports, with markets across major leagues, college sports, player markets, futures and live events rather than trying to cover every type of real-world outcome, though ProphetX has added Senate, governor and congressional-control markets for the midterms.

The category count is only part of the story, though. An app can list a niche market without having many users actively trading it. That's where market depth starts to make a difference.

A contract might show a price of 58¢, but that doesn't mean you can buy any amount you want at exactly 58¢.

Prediction markets use order books. If there are only enough sell orders at 58¢ to cover part of your trade, the rest may fill against orders at 59¢, 60¢ or higher. The larger the order, the more likely you are to move through several price levels on a thinner market.

That's slippage, and it's worth checking before placing a larger trade.

This matters much less when you're placing a small trade in a busy market. It becomes much more noticeable with larger orders or niche contracts where fewer users are sitting on either side of the book.

Kalshi has the deepest overall books among the apps we compared, particularly for sports, while Polymarket carries substantial activity across its larger non-sports markets as well. Either way, check the order book rather than relying only on the headline price, especially when you're trading a larger position.

Depth also depends on the side you trade. In the Jaguars vs. Ravens test above, Kalshi had far more contracts near both its best ask and its best bid, while Polymarket had the tighter spread and the higher bid.

We scored each app out of 5 using the four criteria above: regional availability, app experience, market range and activity around the displayed price.

The app-experience score comes from our own testing rather than App Store or Google Play ratings alone. Store scores still matter, especially when thousands of users are flagging the same issue, but they're one part of the review.

If you're interested in learning more about their welcome bonuses specifically, check out this review of the best prediction market promos. 

Polymarket takes the top spot because it does the best job of making a prediction market feel approachable on a phone.

Finding a market, choosing a side and opening a position takes very little digging. Prices are easy to read as probabilities, open positions stay visible, and the app doesn't put much exchange terminology between you and the trade. Of the apps we tested, it was the easiest one to hand to somebody who had never bought an event contract before.

You also aren't giving up much range for that simplicity. Polymarket covers sports alongside politics, crypto, finance, economics, tech, culture, weather and other current events. Its U.S. product is mobile-only, so the app isn't a companion to the main experience. It is the main experience.

The weaker point is Android. User feedback there has trailed the iOS version, even as the score has improved over time. We found the current build usable in our testing, but the gap in store feedback is still worth considering if Android is your primary device.

Best for: Anyone opening a prediction market account for the first time, or anyone who wants sports and non-sports markets in one straightforward app.

Current offer: Use Polymarket promo code ACTION to Deposit $10, Get a $25 Trading Bonus!

If you're unsure how to use Polymarket, check out our How to Bet on Polymarket guide for a complete walkthrough.

Kalshi gives you more to work with than Polymarket, but it also expects you to learn a little more.

The app has deeper order controls, a denser market menu and more trading information on screen. Kalshi also uses explicit maker and taker fees when orders execute, so there's more to pay attention to before confirming a position.

That detail is useful once you're comfortable with how event contracts work. Sports markets are particularly deep, and Kalshi also carries a broad mix of politics, economics, crypto, finance, culture, weather and other categories.

Its store record is hard to ignore, too. Kalshi has hundreds of thousands of iOS ratings and well over 100,000 Google Play reviews while maintaining ratings above 4.5 on both platforms. That's a much larger feedback pool than the other apps here.

The trade-off is the learning curve. Polymarket gets you to a first trade faster. Kalshi gives you more control once you know why you want it.

Best for: Sports traders who care about market depth, or experienced users who want more control over how an order enters the book.

Current offer: Use the Kalshi promo code ACTION55 to Trade $25, Get $55!

Novig is a sports-only prediction market covering major leagues, college sports, player markets, futures, live markets and multi-leg trades.

Its “no-vig” positioning means that Novig doesn’t build a house margin into pregame straight markets, and those trades currently carry no trading fee for either makers or takers. Fees can still apply elsewhere, including eligible live trades and multi-leg trades, so “no vig” doesn’t mean every possible trade is free, though.

That structure is one of Novig's strongest arguments if you mostly trade sports and pay close attention to price. The drawback is range. You won't find the politics, economics, crypto or culture markets available on broader exchanges, and liquidity can thin out once you move away from major games and popular markets.

The mobile experience is easy to follow, although the current Google Play score trails iOS and recent Android feedback includes complaints about freezing and performance. That's worth watching because this is a product where being able to enter or exit quickly matters.

The ACTION welcome offer is available in 28 states plus D.C.

Best for: Sports traders who care about pregame pricing and don't need non-sports markets in the same app.

Current offer: Use the Novig promo code ACTION to Deposit $10, Get $50 in Trade Credits!

ProphetX doesn't try to cover every type of real-world event. Its focus is sports, and the menu goes considerably deeper there.

You can trade major pro and college leagues alongside player markets, futures, live markets and multi-leg trades, and ProphetX has added Senate, governor and congressional-control markets for the midterms.

The current app also exposes the order book, so you can see the available prices and how much size is sitting behind them before you submit a trade.

That makes ProphetX a better fit for somebody who already knows what they want to trade than for somebody looking for one app that also covers crypto, economic releases or a deep election board.

The platform's reach is another advantage. ProphetX is currently available in 47 states, giving sports-focused traders access in places where several broader prediction market apps still have restrictions.

Its iOS rating remains strong. Android feedback is more mixed and comes from a much smaller review sample, so I wouldn't read too much into the gap by itself, but it is still something we'd watch.

Best for: Traders who mainly care about sports, particularly player markets, live trading and multi-leg positions.

Current offer: Use the ProphetX promo code TANBONUS to Trade $40, Get $40!

FanDuel Predicts feels less like a traditional exchange terminal than Kalshi or ProphetX, which makes it easier to pick up if you're already comfortable with mainstream sports apps.

The market list also goes beyond sports. Depending on your location, you can find contracts tied to crypto, commodities, finance, macroeconomics, and culture alongside sporting events. FanDuel Predicts even has election contracts, making it one of our favorite apps for political trading.

Availability needs a little explanation, though. FanDuel Predicts can operate across all 50 states and D.C., but that doesn't mean every user sees the same contracts. 

Sports event contracts are currently available in 17 states. FanDuel pulled sports, political and novelty contracts from Utah on Oct. 30. The welcome offer is available in 18 states.

So the app itself is widely available, while the product you get inside it depends heavily on where you're located. That's an important distinction if sports are the reason you're downloading it.

FanDuel also charges a 2% transaction fee based on the potential payout, and the fee is shown before you confirm the trade.

Best for: Users who want a polished, familiar interface and live in a state where the contracts they care about are available.

Current offer: No FanDuel Predicts promo code is required to Get $100 in Bonus When You Trade $1 for 5 Days!

The five apps ranked above are standalone prediction market products. You can also trade event contracts through apps built primarily for investing, fantasy sports, sports gaming or crypto.

Robinhood offers event contracts alongside stocks, options and other investing products. It's convenient if you already have an account, but prediction markets are only one part of the app and the selection is narrower than on dedicated prediction market platforms. Robinhood said in its quarterly filing that it agreed to stop offering new sports event contracts in Ohio by Nov. 2.

Sleeper Markets and PrizePicks Predict bring Kalshi-powered sports contracts into existing DFS apps. They make sense for current users, but only cover part of Kalshi's board and focus heavily on sports.

Betr and Fanatics Markets use more known sports-style interfaces, which can be easier to pick up than a traditional exchange. You get less visibility into the underlying order book, though.

Coinbase and OG.com approach prediction markets from the crypto side, making them a better fit for users already comfortable with digital assets and stablecoins.

More brands are expected to enter the category, including bet365, BetMGM and Caesars. For now, the five apps ranked above are the ones we evaluate as standalone prediction market apps.

A prediction market app is a downloadable exchange.Instead of taking a price from a house you buy and sell contracts on an outcome against other users, priced in cents from 0 to 100, where the price is the market's estimate of the probability. A contract at 58¢ is the market saying 58%, and it settles at $1 if the event happens or $0 if it does not, so you risk 58¢ to win 42¢.

The app differs from the website in timing rather than substance. The same order book sits behind both. What the app adds is availability: it's with you when news breaks, when a price moves at kick-off, or when you decide at half-time that you want out. Trading from a phone or tablet at any hour is the reason these apps exist, and Face ID log-ins, Apple Pay and instant bank funding, push alerts on settlement and a one-thumb order ticket all follow from it.

Desktop and web still win the slower work: reading a full order book, comparing several markets side by side, running your own numbers against open positions, or scrolling long resolution criteria before you commit. Most people use both, with the web for research and the app for trading. Polymarket closes that gap best, because its mobile build was designed as the product in its own right, and it asks the least of a first-time trader.

Because the market is peer to peer there's no house line to beat and no account limits for winning too often. The real choice is between the app that makes trading easiest on a phone and the book with enough activity sitting behind the price.