Amazing Content, 1 Serious Flaw – TuneIn Radio: Music & Sports Review

TuneIn has an amazing breadth of content and is the ONLY option if you're looking for unlimited audiobooks included in your monthly subscription. All other streaming audiobook platforms (Audible, Downpour, Scribd, etc) only give include 1-2 audiobooks in your monthly subscription and then make you pay extra for any audiobooks over that each month. I consume approx 10 hours of podcast content per week and have just gotten into audiobooks. I love reading but find it increasingly difficult to set aside time to read physical books. Being able to listen to books while working out, commuting, and at work is a game changer for me and why I specifically decided on TuneIn over all other services out there. I'm a huge Steelers fan too but can't get all the games since I'm in Michigan. Being able to listen to the radio broadcast of those games I can't watch beats paying several hundred dollars for NFL Sundays Ticket hands down! The biggest disappointment, in my opinion, is the lack of a 1.5x and 2x replay speed option (where appropriate - I recognize its not possible for live streaming sports or radio). To me this is a basic feature of podcast and audiobook platforms and I can't figure out why TuneIn hasn't integrated this into the app yet. As I mentioned previously, I consume about 10 hours of podcast content and finished 2 audiobooks in 1 week on top of that. The way I'm able to do this is by listening to everything on 1.5x or 2x speed. Due to the lack of this feature I still use Apple's Podcast app to listen to all my podcasts. As soon as TuneIn adds this feature they will be the best audio app on the market hands-down. At that point I'll upgrade my rating to 5 stars and migrate all my audio content listening (radio, podcast, audiobook, and sports) to their app. Until then I'll have to split my time between multiple apps to get the features and value I'm looking for.
Review by pmcelgunn on TuneIn Radio: Music & Sports.