[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 them in my own. I'd give it five stars if it would stop playing when I swipe it away. Unfortunately I have to go back to the app, open it up and press stop on whatever is playing in order to end it.
Steve Goldman
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, I would suggest not downloading this app DOWNGRADE!
Jarz
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 break on me, but here we go again, I guess. Every time this happens, the NPR One app is still running, but I don't like the format of that app nearly as much for the news programs.
Mary
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 there are now unrelated ads in the middle of articles. I didn't want NPR One, which is what this app has become, for a reason. How frustrating.
Erin Gorospe
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 again and then scroll forward to where you were in the podcast. Very inconvenient when driving!
Ramon Tarin
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 continues to play on the phone speaker. I have to unlock my phone to pause NPR. Annoying! If I remove my earphones or receive a call, the news story continues and after the call, I have to go back. Galaxy A32 5G
Brian Yellen
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 to all the segments of that show, e.g., weekend edition. What I find is that the app keeps switching to all sorts of different media, when all I want is Scott Simon or Aisha Roscoe.
F M
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 cache, etc, but nothing works. I've had to restart it FOUR times just while writing this! Edit: Problem still persist and has gotten worse. Have tried to contact developers with no response. Uninstalling.
James Stevenson
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 seems more about listening to the radio, etc. than letting me scroll down a list of headlines. So now the phone app is more like that from the local commercial TV station and that is not an improvement. Yuk.
Matt Jans
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 a call comes in. Please fix that. Also, I don't understand the default view when opening the app. Why would I get the news feed and not my favorite stations list, since that's what I use this for. Thanks.
