NPR Reviews – Page 9
3/5 rating based on 539 reviews. Read all reviews for NPR for iPhone.
NPR is free iOS app published by NPR
Broken live radio function
jayflowers93
The app won’t let me listen to live radio. I tried uninstalling, and re-installing but it didn’t help. When I press the play button for my station, it’ll play the intro bit, then crash
5 ⭐️ Content; 1 ⭐️ User-Friendliness
Karavatos
After attempts at correspondence, the NPR app has two intentionally unresolvable issues: 1. User must search and create playlist to hear ENTIRE Weekend Edition programs. Only part of program will appear under show’s title, which also never appears as a Program listening option, followed by a condescending taunt to use NPR ONE app (which also does provide “one touch” listening of these entire News program). 2. Unlisted advertisements for NPR ONE are inserted into All Things Considered and Weekend Edition programs when listener uses “one touch” to play all news stories. Unresolvable coding errors by NPR with these adverts cause two things: 1. The show crashes once NPR ONE advert plays, and then silence; 2. This unlisted inserted advert causes the next story in the Program to be skipped, the Program continuing on without it. All my attempts at correspondence with NPR Help resulted in replies that were condescending, obfuscating form letters that sounded more like adverts for the NPR ONE app. ??HOWEVER, I encourage users to please keep listening to and reading this fine journalism.??
Are you listening, NPR?
Zandoren
Please, please, please let us clear the Already Played list. Its presence is annoying and creepy. Also, we need a search function, and access to the full archives within the app. Why am I allowed to play each hourly update only once unless I find NPR News Now in “More NPR Shows & Podcasts” and select that same update from a list? Once I listen to an update, I cannot re-listen by merely tapping Play again; even closing and restarting the app doesn’t work, so I have to go to the list mentioned above, or wait until the next hourly update is posted. This was never a problem until very recently. Please fix this! PLEASE. ALSO: Please stop inserting ads (visual or otherwise) into your app. Many come to NPR to get away from ads, yet there they are. Scrolling through the home page, and I have to see an ad for a restaurant chain—disgusting! STOP THE ADS, please. Beg for more money if you must, but stop the ads.
Stories won’t load
more channels
Full stories won’t load, just headlines. I to type in headline I saw on NPR’s app to a browser instead.
Broken
Previously untaken nickname
Constantly drops the stream even if I’m standing 20’ from my wifi spot. Then the sponsor message plays again and I miss the middle of stories over and over. Infuriating. And why do I have to search and set a primary station every time I open this? And then press play over and over for it to kick in? Just makes no sense.
Trash app plagued by disconnects
Slavikp
Too many bugs to list, all I’ll say is don’t even bother downloading this. It’s slow, buggy, constantly loses connection.
Really?
zmcqueary
NPR..I used to find your news non-bias and genuine. Your articles clearly give a false narrative than to actual facts and reports that you pull..like Trumps approval rating during this COVID outbreak increasing based on FOX news poll, Gallup, and the Economist? Where Corporations are getting equal measure of stimulus than the American people? Maybe you should be polling us! Capture the worlds greatest swindle during one of its greatest crisis. Maybe try investigating THAT.
Poor
MicTimMul
Once upon a time, this app sort of worked. Now not so much. Every update zeros out my favorite stations. Content is limited. I live in one of those in-between spaces and the radio broadcasts are very distant. We rely on NPR. Too bad we can’t rely on this app.