Reviews for Simple Radio: Live AM FM Radio

Starts right up when open. Bluetooth to my kitchen radio with ease. Love being able to listen to one of my favorite stations multiple ways. Would have given a 5 Star but I noticed sometimes the songs can stop while playing and I just restart the music again. Like a timer or time delay situation that happens. Otherwise, very pleased. Internal phone issues with this app... not sure if there are any.

Edit: The free version is lousy. I finally decided to pay for it. It's fine now. No frills, which is what I want, but also no problems. Still wish the free version worked better. Edit: Now it has audio ads that play over the station I'm trying to listen to. That's really inexcusable. You can run ads, but don't interfere with my user experience. It's a decent radio app, but the video ad overlays are really obstructive.

I've only used this app for a few days, but I'm happy with it and I'll be using it a lot. I was delighted with the selection of international stations. Perhaps this makes this a niche review, but to be able to listen to great stations from Uruguay, good old Puerto Vallarta, and Ireland as I drive across Utah, is just awesome. The interface is dated, but simple to use, and the search function works well (But don't leave trailing spaces or you will get zero results. That needs to be fixed.)

Sudden drastic change to what was previously the only radio app I needed. Ads got a little pushier than before, but for some reason the new layout has no option to search, and no visible way to move between panes. I only had one station favorited when the change occurred, and it's now the only station I could access. I don't know what happened, but I see some other very recent reviews that are reporting similar major issues with this overhaul.

Works well. Lots of stations to choose from. Best radio app I've found- simple, sleek, low memory use. Edit February 2024. Obviously the developers don't fix issues. I still have to force stop the app to get it to drop off the notification bar. Otherwise it just sits there in my way, even stopped or paused. I still use the app because it's the best radio app I've tried, however this bug is really frustrating and I posted about it this time last year too.

It's great... it is consistent and doesn't just drop the station while listening like TuneIn does, which is the most annoying thing ever, because you have to listen to the same old commercials or it simply won't work at all!!! This app is awesome and I would recommend it to anyone! Thank you for not bombarding us with trite, annoying commercials. 🙏❤😊

Works so much better than other radio apps! Like the title, it's a simple pain free radio! 10/26/20 update: I paid to remove ads, and I no longer have pop up ads from the app, but I've noticed a lot of the stations I listen to have a long stream of aired ads now. Idk if it's this app or the station itself, but 10 minutes of nonstop streamed ads are unacceptable.

It's great to be able to surf stations around the globe, but a lot of them aren't actively broadcasting, and the video ad popups required EVERY SINGLE TIME a station is changed really is annoying - so much so that the app becomes unusable for surfing stations. Sometimes, the ads go into an endless loop, where users are forced to watch the ad, then click play, and watch the same ad over again and again. Plus - InfoWars? Really? That lying seditionist platform really need to be taken down.

I cannot keep up with all of these ads! They are always jumping in the way if you want to change channels or do anything. Even just starting up, you have to race to beat the ads, and often I accidentally missed the x so I can delete the ad, and I end up wasting data as my phone tries to download that app and wasting me more time and data very frustrating app! HOW could it have gotten a 4 star rating???? Someone is doing something unscrupulous or messing with the algorithms or something. This c

It's nice to listen to your favorite radio station during a train commute so I appreciate the app. My issue with this app is that when it loses Internet connection it doesn't try to reconnect most times. I have to pause the app and restart it manually almost every time, then it works. Unfunny enough, the commercials never fail. Couldn't anyone make an app that automatically and persistently tries to reconnect to the Internet when it loses connection all by itself?