WNYC

Join the New York conversation with the new WNYC app to hear the best live and on-demand news, commentary, cultural reporting, storytelling and music from the world of public radio. Listen to our live broadcast or save podcasts to your playlist for offline listening. With our Discover feature, tell us what interests you and how much time you have and we’ll download a custom playlist for you of segments and full episodes from the best shows in public radio. With the WNYC app, you have access to the most timely and talked-about local and national headlines from WNYC, NPR and other publishers.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
News	Free	New York Public Radio	iPhone, iPad, iPod

WNYC is the flagship public radio station of New York City. We produce a range of original and innovative broadcast news, talk and culture programs including The Brian Lehrer Show, The Leonard Lopate Show and The Takeaway (a co-production with Public Radio International).

Our on-demand content includes award-winning shows from WNYC Studios, like Radiolab, the Peabody Award-winning show about curiosity and natural science; and Freakonomics Radio, the popular podcast that explores "the hidden side of everything."

WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including 2 Dope Queens, On The Media, Death, Sex & Money, Note to Self, Radiolab Presents: More Perfect, Here’s The Thing with Alec Baldwin, Only Human and more.

The WNYC app also includes popular podcasts like This American Life, Money Talking, On Being, Fresh Air, and Ask Me Another.

Installing the app also gives you access to a range of additional WNYC live streams like The Jonathan Channel, our 24/7 broadcast dedicated to The Great American Songbook; and episodic live broadcasts of popular and independent musicians performing in the Soundcheck studio.

WNYC is a listener-supported public radio station. Your financial support helps make possible our programming, broadcasting and digital innovation. You can find our donation form in the app menu.

Reviews

Cannot play audio with adblockers on
chadlavi

It’s duplicitous and unfortunate that they need to connect to known ad servers just to play audio. Makes the app completely useless for anyone who cares about security.

Doesn’t work
Mr. Hare

It’s easier to listen to WNYC on Safari then with this app. Works when it wants to.

Inconsistently good, too many ads
The Arthurian Legend

You get way more ads on the app, so every time you open it you hear two ads, missing the actual news. Big reason why I stopped donating. Now you can’t listen to the app unless the app is open and active; it won’t keep playing in the background!!! What the actual heck?? Defeats the purpose of the app. My advice: get a radio, dump the app.

Needs a lot of love
namtastic

For the love of god, don't leave buttons/scrubbers/etc. UI *underneath* the task switcher bar on iPhone X hardware. You can see it right there in the App Store screenshots. I don't even care that the app takes 3 seconds to start anymore (yes, we get it, JLGreene is great). Just fix basic app features of "being able to reposition audio without accidentally switching apps"

This app is not user friendly
johnnyfiveohyeah

Radiolab used to have their own awesome quirky little app with shows that went back to the start(some of the best shows imo) but I guess WNYC said no more. The older shows are no longer available. The wnyc app over all is not pleasing to use. Same for the podcast.

Won’t Open
Soho Arch

Crashes every time.

Love WNYC but app CRASHES all the time
BeeGeeHarlem

Error loading message. Most of the time. I can log in via chrome on my device so it’s just the app.

Not connecting
Would be Paris reader

For the past few days, the iPhone and iPad apps are unable to stream. Usually reliable. Have deleted and reinstalled to no avail.

Works Occasionally
jwbnyc

Not often enough to be useful.

Great app... when it works
jennz333

The FM live stream keeps failing (for past two weeks), though the AM stream has no issues. Fine for Morning Edition, but I need my BBC News Hour fix at 9 am!