[CAUTION: Difficult to shut off & drains battery!] Excellent coverage of topics, stations and every type of NPR content you could imagine. I use it to listen to All Things Considered or Morning Edition live in in other time zones from other NPR stations when I I’m either too late or too early to hear […]
Reviews for NPR: National & Local News
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This new version (v. 3.1.0) is a clear and significant mistake. I so wish I hadn’t updated it. If I could down-level to a previous version, I would in a second. The previous version allowed me to select from a customizable list of NPR stations, but not anymore. If it’s not too late for you, […]
This app breaks like it’s its job. I’ve probably had to uninstall and reinstall it [only thing that’s fixed it] when the app stops play sound. I’ve had to do that dozens of times over the last four years. Now the uninstall/reinstall isn’t even working. What happened? It’s been months since I’ve had this thing […]
It pains me to write this, but the recent app update has really ruined my NPR experience. Gone are the majority of the long-form articles I could discretely read. It’s much harder to read anything because you have to go down the topic list and check each one out. No more swiping between articles. And […]
I primarily downloaded this to listen to NPR podcasts. My main complaint is that after only a few minutes of the app being idle, it will take you back to the home screen and you will lose your place in the podcast. You have to go back to the list of episodes, select the episode […]
I love NPR! But the app needs an update or a fix. I would like to fast forward the stories, but can’t. Samsung did an update. Since then, my car and Bluetooth earphones forward and pause function doesn’t work. If listening to NPR and I put my earphones away, or turn off my car, NPR […]
This version of the NPR app, updated maybe about 2022, really stinks. The old stripped down version was much easier to use. For instance, the new version makes it really hard to find one’s play list. It’s also really hard to modify one’s playlist. Also, when I search for a show, I want to listen […]
It was a great app up until the last couple of months. I listen during my commute and it cuts out about two to three times per minute making me have to go back and hit play. My connection is always great. It’s so frustrating I just listen to something else. I’ve tried uninstalling, cleaning […]
The new phone app does not what I wanted when I first got the app. Up until yesterday I could scroll quickly through a list of headlines to see if I was interested in reading the article. At the bottom of the scroll down there was a button to load more stories. Now the app […]
Update: Cuts out after few minutes (any stream) Update: Last couple of weeks the app can’t stay connected to the Wamu stream for more than a few minutes. Other apps can. What’s up? **** This used to be the perfect app, more or less. In the past few months, it hasn’t been turning off when […]
The curating and selection of top articles just well…sucks. There are few and they aren’t always the most relevant or newsworthy of the day. It makes it hard to browse articles without opening one and scrolling to the end. It seems to push people to podcasts and other forms that aren’t short. And there are […]
Liked the old app interface just fine. Never cared for the NPR One app. Now the NPR app looks just like NPR One. No longer able to easily store and find favorite NPR affiliates. I travel a lot, and enjoy being able to listen to my hometown station (KQED) as well as to the stations […]
STOP TELLING ME WHAT I WANT TO LISTEN TO! If I select a podcast, I want to hear the ENTIRE podcast, not just one segment, then the app does whatever it wants. One star until the app gives me what I want, not what NPR THINKS I want. I should also be able to favorite […]
I love the coverage, and the options available through the app are better than adequit. But the tech part stinks. Runs in the background when off, using battery. Doesn’t play with my car bluetooth radio, starting on it’s own over and over, playing different content when restarting (get back in the car after pumping gas […]
The changes to the app are not improvements in my book. The app allows less control and only allows one favorite local station. The worst “feature” however is not being allowed to set listening preferences and instead relying on AI. I always have to take several steps to get to the live stream when I […]
The way the app used to be formatted was geared towards reading news stories. That was perfect. Pivoting to podcasts is not something I care for. If I want to listen to NPR, it’s in the name: radio. If I want the podcast form, there are many other ways to do that. The only way […]
I love NPR. JUST GO TO THEIR WEBSITE ON YOUR PHONE. PLAY IT FROM THERE. You can even lock your phone and do other things and it works fine. This particular app just has trouble with my Samsung. If you like to keep your phone in any power saving mode, then it will probably randomly […]
So many issues. Unbelievably slow to load content, even on fast internet connections. Play button is perpetually stuck on the loading icon even when content is playing. I regularly get the same story delivered to me two, three or more times. The app, when producing audio, fails to be recognized properly on my device and […]
For multiple articles, an ad that’s more than halfway down the page blocks the text and gets stuck there, and there’s no way around it. NPR also started linking out articles to some of their subsidiaries, and clicking on an article and having it open in a web browser (without warning) is just poor UX […]
This app seems to provide the bare minimum that is needed, which is both a pro and a con. Pro because the app is light-weight and takes up very little room on my Samsung. And a con because there are a few key functions that are missing. For example, there is no way to set […]