NPR App Reviews

VERSION
5.2.0
SCORE
2.7
TOTAL RATINGS
6,032
PRICE
Free

NPR App Description & Overview

What is npr app? The NPR app is the best way to listen to stories, shows, and podcasts from NPR and your local public radio station.

It’s public radio made personal.

*A handcrafted experience + your personal radio station*
NPR starts with the latest headlines then moves to a flow of stories that matter - narratives that increase your understanding, create connections, enrich your life and enliven your mind. All thoughtfully curated by hand, every day. Just tap on the big play button in the Home screen, and NPR One gets to know you. Skip what you don't want, or mark a story as interesting. Though your mix is personalized to deliver the stories you want, you’ll still hear the top news of the day and the stories you had no idea would captivate you.

*Connected locally*
Even with the breadth of public radio at your fingertips, you won’t lose touch at home. Local news and podcast episodes are woven seamlessly into your listening experience. Local stories, locally reported, are delivered daily. Community is everything.

*Listen everywhere*
Love to listen on the go? Get the most out of NPR with CarPlay and Apple Watch. Skip, pause, and search at a glance without even touching your phone.

*Features*
* A personalized mix of stories from NPR and local station
* Stream your local radio station from wherever you are
* Easy access to the full catalog of NPR and local station shows and podcasts

Data Protection Choices

At NPR, we understand how important privacy is to you, and we are committed to transparency about how we collect, use and share your information. Please take a moment to read our privacy policy: https://n.pr/privacypolicy.

By downloading this app:

° You agree to NPR’s terms of use, available at https://n.pr/termsofuse.
° You acknowledge that NPR may process your personal data as described in NPR’s privacy policy, available at https://n.pr/privacypolicy.
° You agree that NPR uses devices identifiers, tracking technologies, and information about the device you use to access NPR’s apps to enhance your viewing, listening, and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide social media features, and analyze NPR’s traffic. This information is shared with social media services, sponsorship, analytics, and other third-party service providers. See details in NPR’s privacy policy.

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App Name NPR
Category News
Published
Updated 19 January 2024, Friday
File Size 40.15 MB

NPR Comments & Reviews 2024

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Zero stars- can you just make it easier to stream my radio station?. I already have apps for layering to podcasts. I like a lot of NPR, but also RFI, RTE, Radio Canada. I don’t need this one. What I do need is an app that shows my radio station on the front page (why do I have to hunt to the personal page, and then why only allow me to favorite one station?), it needs to let me just hit the name of the station I want to listen to LIVE, and then play that radio station. That’s it! If I have to pause for a moment to do something, I need it to start playing again when I hit the ’play’ icon on my audio controls, like every other app, EVER! Instead I have to go back into the app, hit the app’s’ playI’ button, usually several times. Right now I’m writing this review because I can’t get it to start streaming again after an incident just like this. I was excited to see the update, and so disappointed that it seems not to have addressed basic functionality like this. I’m going back to TuneIn radio. At least they’re able to stream properly.

Apparent bug in latest release and request for downloads like a podcast. I’m a big fan of npr and have enjoyed this app. Coinciding with the latest release, however, the app stopped playing all on demand stories in the playlist sequentially, and had to be advanced manually to the next story in the que, despite my selecting the “listen to all stories option.” The “play all stories option” continues to not work and after the end of one story must be advanced manually. This is particular annoying, and a departure from the previous editions. I have deleted the app twice and reinstalled but the app continues to stop after each story. Double clicking my headphones does not advance to the next story either. Therefore, when exercising, driving or other activities having to advance the story manually is a pain. Please fix. My other request would be the ability to download the stories, just like a podcast, so that they could be played when outside of good or no cellular reception.

Hate the new update!!!. Hey NPR, ever heard of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”. The new update is terrible! I used to be able to save several local NPR stations as favorites so that I could listen to a variety of programs since each local NPR station has different programming and schedules. Some have original programs unique only to that local station. By being able to have a list of favorite stations, I could easily & quickly stream the local NPR that I want & then be able to listen that station within a few seconds. If I didn’t like what I was listening to then l could easily switch to a different station on my favorites list. The new update only allows one station to be saved as primary when you go to “Live Radio”. I know I’m not the only one who is very unhappy the app changed. In fact, I’m among the many of the unhappy!! Please developers of this app, l advise and beseech you to listen & heed my review and the other reviews from other dissatisfied users so you can reincorporate the old features of the app that made it great!

This app is better than NPR One. . .. And I liked it best until I found weekend edition throttled to 4 stories this morning. My phone is loaded with apps, some of which I use, and I’ve never rated an app before in my life, but this was like a final straw. I’ve used NPR One and thoroughly disliked it before returning to this app. I’ve suffered through the various iterations of this app designed to make everyone switch away from it to NPR One. And now this. If I could get my favorite programs - especially morning and weekend edition - as podcasts that I could hear from my podcast app, I’d happily ditch both of these. I already listen to several other NPR programs that way. These apps are both getting in the way of me enjoying NPR, which I really like on the radio and contribute to financially through my local stations in South Carolina. Change developers or something, or else spend any money going toward app development on something that will meet the standards that NPR usually sets. I’d be very willing to pay for an app that lets me download and listen to playlist content from NPR. Or just make everything available as podcasts and be done with this app stuff. It is not bringing this listener closer to NPR.

New update is terrible. I know people sometimes have trouble with change, but this isn’t one of those things. The new update is really slow, will stop playing often, does not seem to have any programming from more than a few days ago, and very important for me… they took away the ability to make playlists. I take public transport a lot, and having a playlist made helps. Also I love to fall asleep listening to this app, but now I can’t listen to anything other than just one show or one program. Yes it may look better than the old app, but it’s functionality is way worse. I’m really disappointed that NPR did this. This app used to be part of my day, but now I’m starting to use it less and less. And honestly...maybe there is a little bit of conspiracy theory here, but maybe they made this app worse to get people to use the NPR one app which is also bad, but not as bad as this is. NPR, please please please change this back, or improve the functionality, and for the love of God please add the ability to have playlist! Or just delete this in force everybody to use the NPR one app.

Absolutely AWFUL redo that completely ruined WAS an amazing app. On what planet is the new NPR app considered an improvement???? This new app breaks my heart and only leads me to curse the change. Early and often. And then look for great audio content elsewhere. NPR went from being my favorite app that I loved and used multiple times a day to being one that feels like a useless annoying waste of space on my phone. You took away pretty much everything I loved about the NPR app - the playlist function, the easy search function, being able to search by show and find and select individual stories. Now I have to wade through a bunch of annoyingly messy “headlines” and try to figure out which stories actually have audio and hope they are things I actually want to listen to?? I can’t just go to my favorite shows and scroll through. It’s also awkward to try to share things. Everything about this new app absolutely stinks. Who were the idiots who actually thought this was a good idea?

Potential to be great. I think the NPR app could be great! I had an npr app that was orange a few years ago. It would show the station’s itinerary for the day with the times. I found that SO helpful! This new one doesn’t even show the name of what it is playing - only the station name. I moved to the PNW a few years ago, and I greatly dislike the npr stations up here. I like to listen to the ones back home - KGOU and KERA. But, I never know which show is playing until I start listening - the time change always throws me off. Is there a way to have a listing of what’s coming - like on a tv guide kind of thing (Like where it highlights where it is or moves the bar so you can see what is playing at that exact time)? I would think NPR would have the resources to make this a great app. Could you please put a team on it to make it more user-friendly like many other “entertainment” type apps. Thank you!!

Love npr but hating the app. Improve news is great but I cannot listen to the live broadcast because of work so I love loading pieces of news that most interest me and listening to them as I get a chance. This is where the app totally fails. When I look at all things considered our morning edition it consistently odd leaving out news pieces. Like this morning, there where only all the 4 news pieces in the morning edition feed. Why aren’t news pieces loading? In the npr one app all the news pieces are there. But in that app you can’t stream the pieces you want to listen to later in sequence. What should really happen is the apps teams for this app and npr one should take the best features of each app and make one single app. Why have two? Update. There must be some glitch in the app. This bug makes stories not appear. After going back into the app and moving around to different programs all the morning edition stories finally appeared. This isn’t always the case though. Wish they would figure this out.

A couple specific fixable bugs. I enjoy this app and use it daily; the playlist has some issues, the biggest of which is pretty clear: the handoff from one story to another. If you are listening to a story that is, say, 3:15 long, and the next item is, say 6:20 long, when the app begins the next selection, it does not reset the “bookmark” (the point at which you are in the selection to which you are listening) so you begin listening to the new track at 3:15 in. It’s a nuisance to have to manually go back to the beginning of the track. Seems like a very easy fix. Also, adding a new selection to the playlist while you are listening to the playlist always creates a clear audible glitch, which varies from a brief pause, to playing a disorienting random snippet from one of the tracks for up to a couple of seconds. Also, the app fails to properly interact with iOS: the Lock Screen interface is unpredictable (sometimes works sometimes not) and lacks the 15- and 30-second-skip features. Still a useful app; needs some fixes. When addressed I would change to 5 stars.

Glitchy since upgrade. I’ve had consistent problems with this app since upgrade. It always defaults to random programming or podcasts, sometimes changing when I’m in the process of listening. Seems a lot of folks listen to podcasts, but it should easier to access the live stream or should learn to just pick up from where the listener last listened by hitting the play button. Also frustratingly, the stream just stops and never starts again. Sometimes it’s breaking from wifi and going back, but sometimes it just randomly stops. The old app would at least pick the stream back up, even though an add would play. If I’m out and about or apart from my phone, I have to stop what I’m doing, get it out of my bag, take my gloves off, open the app and hit play (hitting play from the Lock Screen does not do anything). Difficult to listen to now and rather frustrating.

Already miss the Old App. I should have known better than to go with the new NPR app that replaced NPR News. There was so much to love about it. Although I do Support my local NPR Station, I also like to browse, including locally produced programs from other parts of the country, which are not carried by my local station. That was easy to do in the old app. I simply brought up the station, and chose an on-demand program. These shows were displayed alongside the live streams. In addition , I could create a Favorites list, and even add items to a playlist for later use. In the new version, all of these features are gone. Now, the only way to get on-demand material from other stations seems to involve changing one’s favorite station; and, even if you do that, you then have to go to a separate On-Demand tab to get such material, and there are fewer choices of podcasts and topics. For instance, on the old app, I could go to WUNC (not my local station), and listen to podcasts from The People’s Pharmacy. Now, even by making that station my favorite, I found very few choices—and The People’s Pharmacy wasn’t one of them. Then, I had to reset my favorite station; then, to get back to where I was (if it wasn’t my local station), I had to go to Recently Streamed, and _hope to find it there. I hope I will grow to like the new app better, but don’t count on it. The reason I even gave it 4 stars is that I’m a huge fan of NPR.

Updated review: better. So I’m leaving my previous review at the bottom so people know what I’m talking about. I received a developer response asking me to provide them some more info, and I just kept forgetting to respond to it so I never actually gave them additional feedback. But the primary station and crashing issues I gripes about below seem to have been resolved. It’s still not the most intuitive interface, but now I like it better than the old app. It’s been working pretty reliably well for the past week or so. Not my fave app, but solid for my use (which is just listening to my local station in the AM while I get ready for work). Newest version is crazy buggy. I’ve had to search for and set my primary station pretty much daily. Sometimes the search function decides not to work and I need to close and reopen the app. Sometimes the whole deal just freezes and I need to close and reopen the app. Pausing causes it to crash. Dropping the signal causes it to crash. Navigating through the app causes it to crash. Fix them bugs!!

Ok, could be better. I use this app daily and often multiple times per day. It does the basics pretty well, but I wish it was smoother and a bit more flexible. I echo some of the suggestions I’ve seen posted. My main irritations are also about difficulty in sharing; the developer has responded about an option on the story page; I just know that from the item I’m listening to at the moment, there is no sharing option. For items that I really wanted to share, I have to find it on NPR’s website and send that way — something I don’t take the time to do as often as I think to share something. Also, the Listen To All Stories function seems to cue for an ad/promo to be inserted in the story sequence, which is fine, but it interrupts the flow by either skipping the story that should play right after the ad, or just stopping together after the ad. I select Listen To All Stories when I don’t want to have to hover over my phone, so it’s annoying when I’m across the room or otherwise occupied and then have to go back to it (or just have silence) because once again the play has stopped or skipped. Fine to play the ad, not fine for it to derail the basic play-all function.

So glad I’m not alone in loving the NPR News app (text edition). It was a lesson for me - don’t just blindly trust the ‘update all‘ option in my iPad Air to bring in all the latest and greatest app versions. When I discovered my iPhone no longer had the trusty NPR News app because it was replaced by the newer NPR version, I was quick to save the old app in my iPad Air by skipping the app update always. Hoping to safeguard that app, I couldn’t bring myself to buying a newer iPad Pro that might auto update every app to the latest version. Well here’s good news: I finally bought the iPad Pro last week and at set up time, chose to install apps from the iPad Air backup. Viola! My beloved NPR News app was transferred over as is. Now I’m a happy camper and don’t no body messes with taking away the support of that app!

Nearly useless without NPR Programs & playlist. I'm crushed. I've been a heavy user of the NPR app for a long time. As an expat living six time zones away, it's a vital way for me to stay connected to the news from home. Recently the ability to access Featured NPR News programs and to choose segments from those programs to listen to has vanished. The app's only remaining utility for me is listening to the headline news. I was disappointed when you killed the playlist feature, but this is the final blow. NPR One is equally useless because it doesn't allow me to select and curate what I want to listen to. For the large number of devoted NPR listeners living overseas, being able to listen live to a particular station may not be of interest because of time differences and the fact that local news is less relevant. The latest app changes have significantly diminished my ability to access NPR News. Please please please bring back the ability to access ATC, Morning Edition, and other non-podcast news programs, and maybe even the playlist. How about it?

Why is there “already played” list that can’t be deleted?. This is a pointless feature, totally inconsistent with normal app functionality, and is a privacy concern. Why even have this feature? It’s nice that you guys brought back a somewhat functional app but why do you insist on overthinking everything? The old NPR app worked fine, NPR One was deeply overthought (and overwrought) and barely functional and this new NPR app brings in some some of that limited functionality. It seems like it was designed by someone reviewing the corporate description of NPR - obsessive focus on repetitive news that generates local revenue for national NPR, as if it were the 90s and we weren’t able to get a news summary immediately by swiping on our phone - rather than actually providing access to the rich diversity of content available throughout the NPR network. It just doesn’t seem that hard to give people what they want and have clearly asked for for some time. It honestly seems like there are developers “guessing” at what users might want. Why not just ask them if it is so hard? Why waste all this time, money and waning good will creating limited functionality?

Roll back please!. Once again NPR has successfully “improved” upon an excellent app by creating an inferior one. The drastic new interface changes are innovative for the sake of being innovative, and only serve to limit or confound the experience of the user. By eliminating the “now playing” queue, NPR has also limited users’ ability interrupt play for other smartphone functions: there is no longer an ability to take a phone call and then return to where you left off. The app reloads to the start page with no bookmark to what program you were listening or how far into it you were. Also problematic is how the app determines your local station - though I have manually selected my local station, I am frequently diverted to another one that is 1000 miles away. All of this would be bearable, at least, if with this new rollout NPR didn’t also take the opportunity to eliminate options it had previously offered. Don’t waste time looking for reruns of Car Talk! It is no longer available here.

Hi npr anyone read these? No, I don’t think so. Thought I would give another try with current update but nope. Used to be my primary app loved it. Developers! Read the reviews, admit you messed up, apologize to your listeners, go back to the old format. We will forgive you. You are probably young and want to make a change that people notice at NPR. Do that! Mack an important change! Back! Hi NPR The iPhone is your gateway to a massive audience. You are getting one star reviews one after the other. Do you read these? Your developer used to respond but has now stopped, Whose idea was this revamp? Do folks at the top of the company know about this? Do you have a board of directors? Are they paying attention? I’ve already deleted the app. Statistics on how many others have done the same, or have stopped listening? Update: have deleted the app but look at reviews to see if anyway NPR has a clue, There was one developer response to someone who hated the app and the response is so clueless that I laughed out loud. Won’t bother checking anymore. Perhaps if enough people delete the app and stop contributing NPR will wake up. Goodbye for good.

Shockingly BAD update. I agree with all the other negative reviews. I wish I'd read them before my phone innocently updated so I could've kept the old app. My biggest issue is losing the search function. I often use the app to re-listen to a story I partially missed on the radio. The old search function was great for this. The horrible new app doesn't have a search function and the selection of stories by topic is so limited and cumbersome, I couldn't find several stories I'd heard earlier in the day, let alone any past days' stories. I really miss the old app. It had a lot of flexibility and functionality, like the much lamented playlists and ability to easily access programming from distant stations. I don't need to listen to my primary station through this app. They have their own app. I relied on the old app to curate my own listening when I wasn't engaged by my local station's programming. Full disclosure: I've always hated the NPR One app, and always resented that it wanted you to login with Facebook, etc. The wonderful old app was my refuge from NPR One. Now I feel like NPR has broken faith with me.

Inconsistent Playback and Instability. For years the NPR app has proven to have unreliable playback. During my commute in the morning, I add “Morning Edition” to the play list and in the evening commute home, I’ll do that same for “All Things Considered”. The app often stops playing after a story is finished yet there are still several stories left in the playlist. More often, I’ll find that the next story that is played starts somewhere in the middle rather than at the beginning. It almost seems that UIDs for stories are cached and that a previously UID (or not so unique, rather) is reused and I’ve skipped or jumped to the next story before, this new story pics up where the previous UID’d story left off. (That’s just a guess). Regardless of the reason, I often get so frustrated with the NPR app that I switch to Apple Podcasts, Pandora or NPR One rather than continue using this app. This has literally gone on for YEARS! I wish NPR would get just their s4*t together and make and app as good as their news coverage is. Right now, the app is well below expectations.

Revert back to the old app. I rarely take time to write app reviews (this might be the first). The new NPR News app is so functionally deficient however that I couldn’t keep quiet. The old app allowed me to read articles even when offline or with low signal, which was critical for my morning subway commute. I also kept a list of favorite stations that I’ve learned to love all around the country in different places I’ve lived. I’ve even been able to easily tune in to these same stations while living in other countries. The old app was incredibly more functional and useful if not as beautiful as the new app, which considering that none of the articles and photos load while I’m underground in the morning anyway, doesn’t really mean much. UPDATE: It gets worse the more I use it — there’s no search function! NPR, I’m trying to share your news and I can’t just easily go into the app and do that?! How does that make sense — earned marketing is the gold standard of what you want your listeners to do for you!

So many user experience flaws. I really want to this app to improve as I value easy access to the many terrific NPR programs and podcasts. But the current version has too many serious flaws and bugs that should have been obvious to the developers before it was launched. The inability to “favorite” particular programs is a huge oversight. To find a specific program that I listen to regularly, I’m forced to...click “On Demand” then scroll to “More NPR shows and programs” then click “More” the scroll to find my program (e.g. NPR Politics) then click that. Then click the latest show. Six distinct steps. Every time. To listen to a single show. I listen to “Live Radio” daily, and typically one of the three local NPR stations. There is an option to save a station as “Primary”. One would expect this would save that station. Nope. No idea why this option is presented, because I need to choose a station every time. And despite the fact I have location services enabled for the app, I’m forced to click the “Find stations near me” button every time. If I’m on LTE vs WiFi, I don’t get an accurate list. And, as many others have mentioned, the removal of the playlist feature that was available in previous versions is a huge disappointment. The look and feel of the app is clean and modern - but it feels as though there was a serious failure to adequately user test this release.

Buggy and inconvenient design. First of all - every time I leave a review for this app I get a “message from developer” which I can never read and then my review and rating disappear. Anyways, trying again again. I’m a sustaining member of my local station and listen almost exclusively via this app. All i want to do is get up and listen to Morning Edition while I cook breakfast. App is incredibly slow to load, requires significant navigation even though I do the exact same thing every day (especially w weekend edition! Just give us a shortcut or a way to subscribe!), and because I don’t get wifi in my kitchen, i have to leave the phone in another room and play via Bluetooth speaker. So then when the app starts arbitrarily playing a segment in the middle or stops playing for no reason have to leave the room to go press play again or start the segment from the beginning. Please, JUST RELEASE MORNING EDITION AND ATC AS PODCASTS!!! Omg i just cannot express how frustrating it is to use this app!! I just want morning edition to download automatically like a podcast and then play straight through!! How hard is this!??! Please just quit it with the stupid middle management politics or whatever reason you have for not either improving this app or releasing as a podcast and provide a useable and convenient way to listen to the news for those of us who would like to listen to shows on our own schedule. This app does a disservice to NPR

Simply dreadful redesign. I spend time selecting segments for my playlists and putting them in a particular order. I can’t move segments around with this redesign, the app ignores the order and just skips around playing random segments, which means that all my favorite segments and episodes that I had saved in a part of the list that I seldom play back just disappeared while I was sleeping—several years’ worth of favorites that I’ll never retrieve, because the “just played” list is not part of this redesign. Everything is slower and clunkier—my playlist takes extra seconds to load, screen by screen as I scroll down, played segments don’t disappear right away after they’re played, you need to reload the page and then they’ll disappear, or maybe not, maybe you’ll have to delete segments you’ve listened to one by one, waiting for the page to reload in between each deletion and then scrolling down to get back to your place—none of which I had to do in the old app! Finally, the app is less intuitive and more confusing to navigate than it used to. Oh, and On Point is gone. I wish I could just go back to the old app; it wasn’t perfect, but it was much, much better than this.

Awful, bad update. Give us back the old version. Please, please bring back the previous iOS app—it’s SO far superior to the updated version!! The previous version was great; easy to use and useful. A news app doesn’t need a fancy interface, it needs to quickly let users find content. But you’ve traded function for form in the new update, and it’s awful. I’ve used the app (and listened for hours per day, literally) since it launched in 2009, and I couldn’t be more disappointed. I have both an iPhone and a Samsung for work, and now I have to use my work phone to listen because it still has the old version. The previous app made it easy to scroll through stories, but this one has flashy headlines and more pictures substituted for the content users want. All the stories I’d loaded in my playlist to listen on the way to work vanished overnight, and I can’t even create a playlist!! The FOUR favorite stations id saved and listened to frequently are gone and it’s cumbersome to find a live stream. It’s also irritating and cumbersome to find favorite programs. You guys have broken something that didn’t need fixing. Please, please ditch this version and give your loyal users back the previous, actually useful one.

The things I loved are gone.... You moved/removed my cheese. I thought the previous versions were simple to navigate. I use the iPhone app every day and multiple times each day. Now I’m struggling to find the stories and programs I used to easily browse and either read or add in my playlist. However, the most frustrating loss is the inability to create a list of favorite radio stations that I could easily go to and select. As an example, If I missed Morning Edition in my time zone I could go to another NPR station in a time zone 3-6 hours away to listen there. Now I can only select and list a single radio station, no ability to create a quick to reference favorites list. So each time I want to switch I have to remember the station ID or city, search for it and then select it. This app is nearly useless to me now. I contribute to WAMU, WABE, WGBH AND KCRW every year because I frequently listen to each. Your app re-designer has failed people like me. I’ll be installing one of the internet radio apps and using it instead - BOO

New version is awful!. Another attempt to give negative review I don’t know why my previous reviews don’t appear. They only thing I’ve said is that the decision makers to release this new version should no longer be in his/her position. I see other people saying that too. Don’t understand why my complaints have been removed. The new version of thisapp is awful. It takes away our ability to save multiple favorites, trying to force us to listen to one station only. This app does not allow ANY shortcuts. It’s also very hard to navigate (unnecessarily long paths of clicking to get to same thing every day) The app drops streams regularly, and then starts some random podcast I never wanted to listen to (happens frequently). Given all the other ways they try to steer us to listen to podcasts, this seems purposeful. Every “upgrade” of recent years is a downgrade of user friendliness and usability. It’s almost as if NPR management is trying g to drive streaming listenership into the ground.

Add a Favorite Button!. I saw today’s article written about a black hole (Scientists Find Nearest-Known Black Hole, In Distressingly Fitting Metaphor by Colin Dwyer) and amidst the coronavirus panic and well really the entire fabric of reality breaking down, I found this article’s wry humor to be hilarious and I instinctively looked for that little transparent star that would allow me to save this magnificent little article so that one day in the indefinite future when we don’t have to worry about whatever in the world the next 2020 apocalyptic scenario is going to be (as you can see, I have already accepted that 2020 is going to continue to go downhill-now it's just a matter of "what" as opposed to "if"!), I can look back at this little article and laugh, reminiscing about how chaotic the supposed end times were. HOWEVER! My poor right thumb was left hovering and bewildered as its desired destination, that transparent five-pointed star, remained elusive even after a distressing scroll down and up the page. Please save the last shreds of my sanity and add the ability to favorite and save articles for later! It's the final bastion of normalcy left in this forsaken world!

New update removes functionality – doesn’t at it!. Like so many others here, I am so frustrated that the playlist function is gone. I would have to agree with many of the other reviews that the functionality has been diminished in lieu of a fancier appearance. Now if I want to listen to yesterday‘s show, I would have to download it from the Internet, and listen to story by story, as opposed to being able to select what I wanted to listen to and add it to the playlist. There’s no easy way to get to my favorite programs like Fresh Air, so that we can pick and choose which programs we want to hear. Normally, the updates here are great – but this is one of the worst ones I’ve seen and for what? A fancier app? They advertise that they added to the functionality – but they removed the functionality! Please restore the functionality that you have taken away! I know my voice is just joining the chorus at this point, but hopefully you will pay attention to the sheer volume of comments here – all asking for the same thing.

Please allow us to favorite and keep track of articles. This is an okay app, the redesign was fine for the most part. I wish that I could share stories more easily though- there is no easy share button at the top of an article. Also, unlike the old app, I can’t click on photos and see them in full screen. This ticks me off since on a mobile it is much harder to see a photo when you can’t make it bigger. Secondly, PLEASE allow some sort of system for keeping track of interesting stories, even when they’re old. A favorite, starred, or other system would be very helpful. I know you don’t have that on your website either, and in fact it’s very rare on most news sites, but not having it makes it extremely difficult to keep track of anything. Also, I would love it if I had the option to add on to my home tab with news from topics that I, THE USER, think are important/interesting. For example, there’s a “World” category- why can’t I ask the app to include those stories at the end of my home page? Or perhaps add a tab NEXT TO home that features News tailored to my interests? The current system means its much harder for me to stay up to date on topics I’m interested in, since I don’t want to have to go to each topic with several clicks. I just want ONE PLACE, ONE! where ALL the stories in the topics I’m interested in appear in a line, like on the home tab, or even in the home tab. Please include these changes. Thank you NPR.

Miss the old app. I don’t write reviews often, but the disparity between the recently revised NPR app and the old version is too great to ignore. The old app, while less ‘modern’ looking, felt less rigid, more customizable, and less cumbersome to use. The utility I miss the most was the ability to create playlists from stories from various NPR programs into one stream, and have that stream auto-play from one story to another. Now, if one plays an individual story in Morning Edition, for instance, it does not auto-play the next story; one has to go back into the app and manually play the next story or the entire program must be played in order for a “playlist” to be created. It’s cumbersome and sometimes dangerous, particularly while listening on the road. I can fathom that this system forces the listener to listen to 1) more ads (which seem to be auto-generated in between stories and could not be before with self-created playlists), and 2) more stories (forcing the listener to listen the entire program instead allowing the ability to choose). Please bring back the functionality of the old app. I have spent the better half of this morning searching for whether it is possible to reinstall old versions of apps in iTunes.

Terrible update, delete app now. The best feature of the old NPR News app was the ability of the listener to create a personal playlist from a menu of stories from various NPR programs. They’ve taken that functionality away. This app is essentially useless to me now, and I’m deleting it. EDIT: eight weeks later, and NPR is making qualified statements about they will “work on building a better queued listening experience for NPR in the months ahead.” Except NPR ALREADY HAD THAT SOLUTION and dumped it, presumably to force listeners to NPR One and local stations. As a result, my NPR listening has declined by 95%, and I did NOT renew my longstanding membership with my local affiliate. Bring back the playlist! EDIT (JUNE 10): I see the developer responded to my earlier review. Refusing to renew my NPR membership is entirely in line with my objection to the removal of the playlist. Local affiliate fundraising provides stations with funds to pay for programming from national NPR, and moreover, one result of the removal of the playlist was to force listeners to the local stations instead of self-curating NPR content through the app. I recognize the importance of local stations, but local stations need to use their leverage to support listeners’ range of options, not reduce them. Until the playlist is restored, we should not contribute to NPR through its member stations.

Did music die?. As other reviews of this redesign have outlined, the redesign of this app has made for a frustrating user experience, and gotten rid of some fundamental features or reorganized them in such a way as to make it not worth the effort. In addition to the confusing navigation (I have to reallly look for the news briefs every time), it looks like music-driven NPR affiliate stations and NPR-produced shows have been excluded. I used the old NPR app to hop between different affiliates in my area (NYC) and also elsewhere on a regular basis, for a mix of news and music. Stations like WQXR and WBGO seem to have been taken out of local search and I can’t even find national shows like All Songs Considered or Tiny Desk Concert. What’s the point of having a unified app if it’s not incorporating all NPR programming. Will you be releasing a separate music app? During a time when drastic news events are contributing to a mass mental health crisis, it’s downright cruel to NOT make music shows and stations readily available alongside headlines and news shows, when it’s a way many of us try to deal with the insanity.

Gone from buggy to unusable. If you have an iPhone I would recommend you not even bother trying to use this (cr)app. I’ve been using this app for several years to listen to local and national public radio stations, as well as read quick headlines. It has always been fairly buggy, dropping streams or just not connecting. It had seemed to be improving until this last week or so, and I appreciated the stability. It is has become my primary way to consume NPR and local radio station content. Now it is so broken it is not worth using, and I’m wondering if I really need to continue contributing to NPR as a supporter, if they are going to waste funds on worthless apps. Now my closest local station, OPB, never works. When I play it, I get the (annoying) bumper ad but then nothing—just “dead air”. My next most local station, KUOW, does work, but drops every few minutes, usually for a few seconds and then repeating the (ever annoying) bumper ad—leading me to think the connection was broken and reconnected. It often just stops for no reason. I can click the Play button on my iPhone’s lock screen or my Apple Watch, which usually does nothing, then I have to unlock phone, go to the app and press play or try restarting app. These issues occur all the time now, and with multiple locations—different Wi-Fi networks and using cellular data. So it is not just my network.

Perpetually glitchy.. For three years now, this app constantly plays the next segment at some random spot in the next segment. If you want to listen to All Things Considered or Morning Edition hands-free, it is absolutely impossible. You periodically have to grab your phone, unlock, open the app, launch the player, and then scroll the finicky slider back to the beginning when the next segment inevitably starts at some random point. Often this random start is very close to the end of the next segment and you only have seconds before it is lost to the “already played” list. Love NPR! This app is beyond frustrating; especially while driving, doing the dishes, painting, showering, climbing a ladder, gardening, riding a bike, sweeping the floor… living life, etc. I have actually cracked my phone because I had to pull it out of my pocket to launch the transport slider to swipe a segment to the start. I have nearly avoided a few major driving accidents because I am constantly being forced to reach into my pocket to pull out my phone to correct the random random start of the next segment. It’s a weird and frustrating bug, and it’s been around for three years! I’m not the only one reporting this bug.

Good at what it does, horrible for the features it left out.. The new app has a better media player, with great pause and fast forward and rewind features and overall is more stable and reliable. That’s the good news. The bad news- they totally did away with the playlist, making it absolutely impossible to save individual episodes and play them whenever you want to. You’re now limited to selecting the current days version of each program, if you don’t listen to the entire program before the next days program comes out, you’re totally screwed, there’s no way to go back and listen to The previous one. Also every time you exit the app and come back it completely forgets where you were in the list of episodes for the days program, you have to basically start all over and manually skip ahead. A lot of wasted of time skipping things I’ve already heard just to get back where I left off listening. It’s basically killed the enjoyment of the app for me and made it nothing but frustrating. I know you guys are trying to force people to listen to the local stations more in order to support them but this is ridiculous. I don’t know who sat down and designed this thing but it seems to have deliberately omitted the very best features of the previous app.

When will you bring back playlist?. Please show respect for your listeners and allow them to save stories for later listening and choose what they want to hear. Bring back the best feature. Make it easier to click and save vs useless layers. Give the stories a longer shelf life - now the only option is to listen in the moment or lose the chance to hear it. I used the playlist several times a day to listen to what I chose when I had time. A big variety of stories and topics. Why make a change to take away that beautiful freedom? I looked forward to my free time, walks and drives when I could enjoy all the stories I’d saved for later listening. There are days when it’s too busy - but I could save stories and listen the next day. Add back playlist. Listen to all this feedback from multiple avid listeners and bring it back. Respect your listeners’ ability to chose their own stories - the one app also does not respect the listener. Are your app developers actual users if the app? Must not be... do you listen to your listeners??

Bring the NPR News app back, please. The new NPR app seems designed like the NPR One app, which is really unfortunate. On the old NPR News app, I could create my own playlists, listening to these three stories but not that one. That functionality has all been removed from the new (and certainly not improved) NPR app. Sometimes I might want to listen to most of one day’s All Things Considered program, but would (for example) delete the sports stories because I just don’t care about them. With the change to this new NPR app, it’s not possible to curate my own NPR playlist. It’s frustrating that NPR’s “digital” department thinks that this is what their listeners want. The new NPR app is much less listener-friendly and makes it more difficult to seek out new/interesting content. It is still easy to find Morning Edition or All Things Considered—but it is very difficult to find the off-the-wall and obscure programs produced by smaller NPR member stations across the country. The old NPR News app was great for that. Ugh. I gave up on using NPR One years ago because I didn’t like how that program “decided” for me what it thought I would want to listen to. I was an active user of the NPR News app for years and years. I used the Playlist feature on a daily basis. It was a very frustrating morning to be forced into using this new NPR app that has taken away much of the functionality of the old NPR News app. Please bring the old NPR News app back!

Eviscerated NPR app. Other reviewers have gone into detail on all the useful features that have been removed from this app, so I won’t repeat the entire list. I miss a lot of the old features, but in particular the loss of the playlist has made the new version all but unusable. If I stop listening for awhile the app refreshes and I have to fast forward through every story I’ve already listened to to get back to the one I was on. From the embedded NPR One promos it seems like the purpose of this now sadly limited app is to drive users to NPR One. If I wanted to use NPR One I already would! I can’t stand NPR One, partly because its filter bubbling algorithm has gotten my interests totally wrong and there’s no way to reset it, but mostly because I can’t listen to the important news I want to hear all the way through before it veers off into unimportant, and even outdated, stories. The older NPR News app gave me what I want, which is now gone with this new app. So much for “improvements”.

You’ve got work to do, but it’s still the better app.. I’ve been using the NPR App for years. I listen to morning edition during the week, I listen to weekend edition at least one day if not both days on the weekend, and use it to listen to other articles on occasion as they peak my interest. It has been a great way to get my news with less of the crap that I see on the news stations. It is far from a perfect app, but it seems that someone is intentionally making it worse and trying to drive listeners to the NPR One app which I have no desire to use because you cannot set a playlist or even simply find Morning Edition in order to listen to the whole thing.I’ve never had an NPR station. I have always listen through the apps and now it’s becoming harder to do so.

Just the news. I liked the old app before the redesign better. Why do I have to dig through all the podcasts to find Morning Edition which is a flagship program? And why do the stories sometime end and I’m automatically listening to an hour long podcast on some other random topic? There are less top stories available to read than before, which is a way a definitely use the app, not just to listen. I may be in the minority on this, but I don’t like how the app knows what I’m interested in and tries to feed me more of that type story. One of the things I appreciate about NPR is that it isn’t an echo chamber like so many other platforms. I really just want to listen to the news of the day. But, all things considered (no pun intended!), I love this app and get more news here than any other source.

Quality content that’s hard to access. Much of the basic functionality of the previous app has been removed. I especially miss the ability to build a playlist. Now, you’re stuck listening to specific programs in the order they are presented. Finding programming is more annoying too. They have these little icons for each show in the On Demand section, and it’s hard to tell which is Weekend Edition Saturday and Weekend Edition Sunday because the icons are too small. (I figured that they are alphabetically ordered.) More importantly, the app doesn’t interface with iOS controls nearly as well. I often finding myself having to log into the app to get it replaying after pausing it, instead of just pressing play from the Lock Screen. The app is extremely slow refreshing, sometimes not refreshing at all, so that I have to close it by hand and reopen in order to get the latest Newscast. Please God stop with the advertisements for NPR One. I don’t want NPR One, I just want to make playlists myself.

Latest update ruined the app. I just started using the updated NPR One app. One thing I like to do in the app is keep tabs on multiple NPR stations that have programming I enjoy and local news from places I am connected to. You can no longer do that in the new version. You can choose one station, identified as your local station, and stream that. You can no longer save a list of favorite stations. So every time I want to switch stations, I have to go through the process to choose my local station and find the station all over again and select it. I have to do it again to go back to a different station. Why would I want to do all of that? Some of the stations I like listening to have their own apps, and I might just use those instead. Also, the landing screen and all of the other screens are so cluttered with information about podcasts or curated content that they think I might want to listen to that I can’t actually find the stuff I DO want to listen to. But here’s the thing: the things I want to listen to are on a few different stations. I can find my favorite podcast more easily on my podcast app. So I don’t see any reason to use NPR One anymore.

Possibly the Worst App Build of All Time. Whoever was in charge of the project to build this appshould not only be fired, but they should be dragged in front of all the NPR employees, have the stripes ripped from their shoulders, their sword snapped in two across the knee of some enforcer, and be sent alone out the gates of the fort out into the wilderness, never to be seen or heard from again. Seriously, this work should bring shame to the entire family of whomever turned it in as a complete project. I like to fall asleep to talk. Especially any kind of science story. So with that in mind NPR’s app should easily be in my top ten and maybe it would be, had they bothered to build an app. Want to make a playlist of the stories you’re interested in? Well, there’s some buttons that will take you, step by step, through all the sensations of picking out your own stories and putting them in the order you choose, but that’s about where it ends. Half the time, the “playlist” stops after the first story. Great a playlist of one, yay? The other half the time, when it does continue to the next story, it starts about 2/3 of the way. This would be useful, we’re I only interested in the end of a story. Unfortunately, as much as I appreciate a good landing, I need the context. This app is so poorly made it’s offensive.

Playlist gone, app now useless. I’ve gone from using this app every day to not at all after the playlist function was removed. My consumption of NPR content has therefore gone from about 40 min per day to zero. Since I don’t listen anymore, I don’t donate anymore. I check the app occasionally in the hope that developers add back the playlist feature, but the latest release seems to have completely broken the app. The “home” screen is a blank list with the loading icon frozen at the top, the “topics” tab has sections like Most Popular but no content within those sections, and so on. It’s as if the developers disconnected the app from all NPR resources. If the playlist feature was losing money for NPR, I would have appreciated an honest statement from NPR about it, and a chance to pay extra for the feature. Instead this app appears to have been nuked in favor of NPR One, which forces users to listen to a frustrating combination of local streams and very limited curated content, all the while preventing access to what people actually want to listen to: morning edition and all things considered.

best features all gone !!!. As many others say in their negative reviews, one star is too high a rating for this new version but it’s impossible to write a zero-star review. All the features I used in the old app have been eliminated. I have a Primary Station, yes, but I browse to other stations on a regular basis for shows ‘my’ station doesn’t carry. The process of switching to another station is cumbersome and results in the former ‘Primary Station’ being replaced, so it has to be painstakingly re-selected when one wants to return it. Additionally, the previous version listed all the streams of any selected station, making it simple to select HD1, HD2, etc. The new version makes it nearly as cumbersome to select a stream as it is to choose the Primary Station in the first place. Needless to say, I have deleted the new NPR One app - it’s replaced by individual apps for the stations I listen to. Fortunately by now most individual stations have fine apps of their own. Not as convenient as the previous NPR One version, but a great improvement over the new version.

Update ruined a great app. It’s true, the NPR news app had it’s probs - you cld only play individual stories, but you cldnt play an entire show. Well, they changed that. But, they also took away the “play” bar, which allowed you to go back over something you might not have heard, or skip over something u don’t care about. Now if u miss something u hve to re-listen to the entire story - or the entire show if you had made that choice (either that or re-listen to the story, but then yr back to listening to individual stories). Basically it takes away some of the flexibility that makes podcasts easier than the radio show - On Demand is nice, admittedly, but considering I’m listening on my phone the ability to go back over stuff i missed was important to me. It used to be a lot more User Friendly too. There also used to be a great many more podcasts available. Now, instead of an easy to read list of dozens & dozens of podcasts, there’s abt a dozen icons instead - idk the logos for NPR shows, so icons take up space while not helping much. There isn’t a Search function neither. I got sold on the update bc of the ability to play the entire show, now I regret it. I might as well just get the NPR 1 app that has all their podcasts.

NPR One in a trenchcoat. The old app was never the best, but this new version- basically a thinly disguised NPR One- is terrible and a huge step backward. Like NPR One it emphasizes podcasts and other garbage at the expense of live, local radio stations and newscasts- arguably what most NPR listeners actually want. I used to be able to open the app and immediately start listening to my local station (or other national stations if I wanted) and now it takes multiple steps to do so. I have podcast apps already, and if I want to listen to podcasts I know where to get them. Don’t force NPR One on me. Stability-wise this app is definitely worse as well- it takes forever to connect to AirPlay with multiple starts and stops and random disconnects. After the third disconnect in 10 minutes this morning I just opened my local station’s app and used that instead… it’s ugly but uncomplicated and the stream just works. Listen to your users- this really, REALLY isn’t just whiners who don’t like change. This redesign really is a huge regression. Keep NPR One it’s own, separate app and stop forcing it on the rest of us.

Useless to me without playlist feature. I used the NPR News app every day for years. I queued all the content I cared about when I had time to do so, and then I could return to the app at any point to listen to all those selections I made. It was nearly perfect—the playlist feature in the previous NPR News app was a bit buggy. In the new NPR app, there is no way for me to queue any content, and there is no way to automate playing of content I want to hear. I now simply have to be content with whichever ‘stream’ I’m listening to or be willing to put in a lot of conscious effort to constantly choose the content I want to listen to. I don’t—I switched to an app called News Now, which also does not have the features I want. It does let me stream the day’s national news content without much effort, and that makes it better for me than the new NPR app. Implement a playlist feature in this app. I want to be able to choose any NPR content, especially nationally relevant news segments, to keep in a queue that I can store, return to and choose content from at any time. Until the NPR app has a playlist feature that allows me to do these things, it is useless to me.

Redesign looks nice, but missing fratures. The new NPR app is prettier than the old app, but it is less usable: # No search. I hope this is added back soon, but the new app simply does not have any search functionality. I can't see why search is omitted. In particular, this makes it impossible to listen to segments that are no longer currently listed in the latest installment of a program. For instance, I often like to losten to "It's all politics" segments from Friday's All Things Considered. And this is now impossible, unless I listen on the day it airs. # More menus/more navigation. For me, and (I suspect) many other listeners, the most inportant page is the list of all programs. This is where I always start. It is now tucked away in a submenu under "On Demand". It's just a bit of additional scrolling + an additional tap, but I find myself doing this over and over again. # Lower information density -> more scrolling. Once within a list of stories/segmants, only 3 list items fit on the screen at once (on my iPhone X). This makes it harder to look over a list and choose which items you want to listen to. This change allowed for small excerpts to be displayed underneath segment titles, but these excerpts are often truncated first sentences which, in practice, don't actually help summarize what a segment is about. - Taken together, I can no longer use this app to listen to NPR in the way I want to listen to it: picking individual segments to add to my playlist.

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Drops out. Since this updated I can't play any of th audio at all. When I want to start audio, the app crashes. Does this update need the latest Iphone operating system?

Love it!. Up to the minute research!

Best layout for news apps. Love this app - so well designed and great content to boot! Even a few hanging moments and having to reinstall couldn't get me to give it any less than 5 stars :)

NPR app. Great news app , does what it does soo well

Great app. The way news apps should be.

So important!. With the App Store providing 99.9% ridiculous useless annoying rubbish it's so great to get high quality news on a clean user friendly app. Thanks so much to all who make this happen.

Love NPR. I love NPR - puts most Australian media to shame

Excellent app. One of my most used and enjoyed apps. Thank you

Hourly news update. I love the 5 minute radio news update, perfect way to get news on my walk to work.

Stick with the iPad format. An....OK app, I guess. But as with NPR one, a downgrade from the very old good iPad app, NPR News. Here, print articles are jumbled with audio, so one has to scroll through them ALL to just make a playlist😩 I will always support NPR, but their app designers are far more interested in bad “new” technology to predict what you want and pushing that at you than focusing on the quality of a good thing they had.

Still some crashing. You can't beat the content, so naturally I would wish for more audio files to be made available online. The app does crash or simply cut out mid-stream now and again. Once I launched an audio story that must have been corrupted -- there was only a deafening screech! On the whole though it is my main source of news. Keeps me sane on my commute!

It's great!. Exactly what I wanted. Access to hundreds of different radio stations. Great listens, and open ideas and opinions.

Useful. Excellent & user friendly

Great app. NPR maintains its high quality through this app also, in addition to conveying the news.

Version crashes repeatedly. On my 4s running os 6.0.1 NPR crashes frequently. Runs for about 5 mins then crashes (happens on both all things considered and morning edition radio)...

Frustrating Scroll lag. Scrolling through the list of articles can be frustratingly slow. The fraction of a second pause is fairly consistent. Please fix.

Where has its mojo gone?. This app no longer wants to know the latest news — on any topic!! Please help me get my daily fix of US news again!

Three touches to streaming news.... Works flawlessly and as advertised. Hourly news plus It's All Politics and Wait, Wait plus all the other NPR newscasts. Get it.

Go to for news. You remember that thing called reporting, not the make up a sensational headline MSM? Yep it's here simple and readable. Job done

Essential for Expats. Living overseas this app is invaluable to stay abreast of news, entertainment and trends back in the U.S. Despite a mildly liberal focus it's mostly fair and unbiased. A must-have.

Almost pretty good. When you want to listen to the playlist, it plays one item and then stops. You have to go back and open the app and then the next item will play. A little frustrating in an otherwise great app for NPR. Would also appreciate being able to listen to the 24 hour cast that is available on the website.

Nice news app. Like the categories

Great content, just want to download. Great content and easy to use app, I just wish I could download the segments for offline use. I have a few of the podcasts but still the shorter audio clips would be handy for when commuting and out of range

Drop Outs Annoying. NPR is a great station and you know this because you're thinking of downloading the app. One problem though... I'm running 3G on my iPhone and the programs keep dropping out. I'm listening for a minute or so and then they stop and there's no way to pick up where they drop out. You have to restart from the beginning and find where you for up to. Really annoying!!

very good. Easy to use, well organized contents and user friendly interface. Highly recommend.

Peefer. Just like there radio NPR stand out as leaders in hard working news gatherers.

Great source of news. NPR is a great source of news and gives insights not readily available through other outlets

Lovely little way to keep up to date. I like listening to NPR, now I can read and listen while waiting for a coffee. The local papers where I live are pretty useless, so it's great to have this simple app on my phone. Cheers NPR!

Good stuff. Thanks for your extensive news reporting and docos. Glad to have the app!

Please add playlist downloading or larger buffering. Thanks for the return of the playlist! Please improve how the app deals with restarting after losing the internet connection. I almost always have to close and restart the app after losing the connection. Also, it would be great to have the option of downloading the entire playlist to the buffer. My internet connection is very spotty on my commute, and I miss NPR for a good portion of my train ride. Thanks!

Well balanced news. Feel more informed with a daily dose of NPR

No frills, comprehensive and responsive. Very good

Very good app. I use this to listen to live stream radio. Very easy to use and has a lot of contents available.

Try it. I m downloading and want to have a try. I think it's a attractive function which allows me to keep the news and repeat to listen later on.

Intelligent and essential. A much loved app which keeps me up to date on the world in an intelligent and critical manner.

Australian NPR fan. Best app. Ever.

Still the best. I can't live without this app. NPR is one of the best news sources in the world, and this app keeps you plugged in wherever you go. Works perfectly too. Love it!

Great way to stay up to date. This app helps me stay informed while living abroad. Love the podcasts and program playlists! Can sometimes get a bit glitchy - stories not loading all the way but I use this app so much I am able to look past minor interruptions!

Lot's of listening options!. The app would crash when I would be listening to stories in my playlist. I hope this has been fixed.

Listener. The best!

Home sweet home. I love this app! It's a challenge to get real, thoughtful news nowadays and having this app allows me to connect with home with the many different programs avail. Gotta be in my top 3

Great App. Intuitive and easy to use.

I can't get by without my MUM. This the place for news and for excellent articles of life's interest.

Perfect. This app is just the thing to listen, sort & save NPR radio broadcasts, very handy and well set out

Thanks. Thanks for the great app NPR.

Fixed. Faulty update now fixed and I'm so happy my favourite NPR is back on the air on my phone. I was lost without. Thanks. Have a nice day to you all.

Great Leap Backwards. This app is so slow and clunky, you're better off getting one of the non official NPR apps. Don't get me wrong, not including silly games, this was my most used App, BUT it's now as slow as molasses. Response time for any action on the app takes 10 to 15 seconds, and seeing as just listening to an article requires at least three actions, this quickly becomes very inconvenient. The previous in-dig-nation (little pun there) had its flaws, but was more user friendly. PLEASE FIX OR RESTORE PREVIOUS.

Exceedingly well thought out news app. Excellent news summary but this is found in many news apps. NPR programs are available to play as a whole or by item. Items can be played individually or added to your own playlist for replay later. It's like assembling your own podcast...brilliant! Audio quality is excellent and the app seems quite stable.

Thank you. I'm in love with this app it has a wide range of stories and services available and very easy to use even in Australia your weekly political round-up is the best👍🏾

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Put the playlist back. Can’t give it any more stars until the playlist feature that was removed is added back

NPR11. Where is the ‘by program’ choice! Agree that it’s too cluttered

UX needs work. Content is good. User experience is not.

Great. Great. Delivers the news. Ez pz. Gg.

Could be so much better. Really needs a playback speed selector. 1x isn't good for everyone.

Terrible. Great programming, but awful app. The old version wasn’t great but it did work. The one is unusable.

For Alex Lindsay.... (of MacBreak Weekly) For removing the playlist capability and essentially downgrading the app. That said, Alex should really move to a better news source like No Agenda anyway.

My Zen spot for US news. Living in Toronto, NPR apps keep me close to sources in the US, where important things just keep happening. Thanks NPR!

What’s Wrong with the App!. Starting a few days ago, my app stopped refreshing. I deleted it and re-downloaded it, and now it isn’t showing anything. What the heck, NPR?!

Used to be good. This is lousy. Nothing works except the donate button.

Old NPR App was so much better!. This new version is slow, glitchy and hard to navigate. No access to older episodes. No ability to start episodes halfway through or pick and chose news bits from episodes. Bring back the old app or fix this one please!

Got rid of sound icons, why??. It used to be when you look through the home feed, stories that have audio would have a little sound icon next to it as opposed to written-only articles. This made it easy for me to go through the list and choose stories to add to a playlist I can listen to while doing chores. Now you have to tap on each individual article one by one and go into to it to find out whether or not it had audio. Why would they make it less user friendly??

Please give listeners control. This new app is bad enough that I could consider stopping my monthly donations after decades of support. I want to choose what I want to listen to and then it stops playing when it gets to the end. Please do not play content I didn’t ask for. Also, search and content cataloging are too hard to work with. It feels defeating at times. I find myself listening to NPR less.

Best news station and app.. NPR is literally the best news station we have left.

Where have playlists gone ?. Why have you removed personalization with playlists ???

Great App. Actual real news. Not fake trumpenstein news.

Total failure. Current version does not load content.. Review title says it all. Content doesn’t display, all I get is a series of blank screens.

No Canadian content. Looks good but missing Canadian links

Playlist items don’t always start at beginning. Why is it that, after all these years, NPR still can’t make an ap that simply lets me listen to all stories from morning edition one after the other, in order, without stopping or skipping several minutes of random stories? This seems pretty basic folks…

Broke what didn’t need to be fixed. The interface was simpler before. Now it’s kind of clunky and the add to playlist button doesn’t do anything.

Great Content But App is Flakey. Love the content & streams but the app often crashes.

V. An excellent app

No continuing play. Someone please fix the problem of no automatically continue playing.

local newscast often cut short. local newscast seems limited to 2:01 and is often cut off mid stream. pls extend cutoff

Quick and concise. This has become my go-to place for the latest news.

Objective in a subjective world. News that has a balanced appeal and is thought provoking

Latest update a disaster. After loading the latest update, I can't open the app AT ALL! There was nothing wrong with the previous version. Please fix this soon--I miss my NPR!

Very Satisfied. Great content and user friendly app. Easy to navigate.

Good app. Does what it says.

No mechanism for feedback. NPR appears to operate in a self satisfied vacuum, shielding itself from potential criticism (or accolades) by refusing all feedback. No comments or Readers Forum. Even “contact us to find what you’re looking for” and “feedback and help” return ‘page not found.’ Too bad; would’ve loved to share thoughts about 2018’s GREAT Reads, for example. Like how Harlequin Romance titles like The Wedding Date, Duke by Default or To Be Honest get included.

Bring back playlists. Older version of the app was superior. Really miss the playlist feature. Integrating google cast would be nice too

Content is king; and interface is clean. The best content out there and a very clean interface. Great how you can read stories and have link to audio of it that is easily accessible. When add Sharing and ability to scrub audio in upcoming release will exceed 5 stars.

iOS app crashing. Have to delete and redownload every few days to get stations to play at all

Nice app. Works

Frequent crashes. Attempting to listen to some stories will instantly crash the app. There is no way of telling which stories will cause this behaviour and about one-quarter to one-third of stories will. Essentially, if you use this app, it will crash and it will crash often.

terrible update. sooooo sorry i traded in a well designed, concise, uncluttered, version for this newer version. just awful interface. confusing to navigate. shows only a few past episodes for any given show. can’t seem to locate older shows or segments i may not have had a chance to listen to previously. too little info per page means much, much more button pushing than previously. really bad update. suggest you stick with what you’ve got until this developer unclutters and returns to a more streamlined offering. a real drag for me as i love the programs that npr produces. but this app update.... get me out of here! hate when this happens. get it together npr.

Update is buggy. This was a great, user friendly app. Now I can’t stream the latest newscast. Also, when I listen live, it’ll suddenly stop streaming mid-story. What was broken that needed this fix?

Best App of its kind. Perhaps surprisingly this app is as good as it gets. Provides the top headlines in a clear and user friendly way

NPR is great!. NPR is not the CBC! It's the American counterpart and if you ask me, far superior. Any news junkie out there owes it to themselves to listen to NPR on a regular basis.

New version missing playlist. I love NPR, but one of the best things about the last app is that there was a playlist you could set up. This new one doesn’t have that feature, so you can’t set up a pile of articles to play through and listen without having to select something new every time. Add a playlist, and this would be a full star rating.

Simply amazing.. It's pretty difficult to listen to NPR in Canada unles you're sitting at the computer, so this app is wonderful for he sheer mobility and ease of use it provides.

Great. Don't people realize this is American public radio, not Canadian. Come on guys, they don't provide Canadian streams, that's not what they do. This is very elegant and a treat to use. It would be nice to save programs instead of streaming them( while getting fleased by rogers data plan when not on wifi).

Disappointed to lose the playlists. Why remove that option? Now I can’t select the collection of stories I want. Tough for cooking, working out, etc. I’m very disappointed.

Well done. ....

Missing search. I love the new app redesign, but am struggling to find stories I previously read because the search function was removed. There also seems to be a maximum number of stories that can load from each category.

Not happy. The old app was fine - clean and simple. This is a disorganized mess of features I don't want and don't use. Please restore the old one as an option.

Cogent, succinct news of the day. NPR is the very best way to learn about the day's goings on.

Best News App. Real news, minimum bias, informed, properly researched. Keep up good work.

Do not update, was good, terrible now. I used to use this app twice a day on the way to and from work. Now I am not so sure. The change from the legacy NPR News app to what we have now NPR is terrible. Key features such as playlist is lost, you can no longer increase the text size (say for reading in car) without affecting all apps. The text of the article can no longer be read by the screen reader, so if you are vision impaired or just want it read out to you while you are driving, you are out of luck. The home screen is a random (most popular) rather than predictable latest news. Popular by what? I see red bull ads there, is that popular? Or was that just paid. Terrible regression. Do not update. You have been warned.

No Canadian Content. American News feeds only. Put in some Canadian news feeds and you get at least 4 stars.

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Updates make the difference. I get what people have said about the downsides of this App, but I feel like reading the comments from the Developer, they have made a lot of improvements and while it isn’t exactly the quickest to navigate nor is it very customizable, it does offer access to whatever NPR stations are currently broadcasting, allowing me to easily switch between my hometown news and my local news. I wish that I could set “favorites” for stations to listen to, or if there is that option I can’t easily find it. My fav feature is the fact that opening an article has similar topic articles of interest at the bottom!

Great content - awful app!. I reached my last straw with this app today when it kept cutting off the last part of every. single. story. Oh my goodness - it’s maddening! But that’s just the last straw. It randomly stops playing after occasional stories - what’s the point of having a playlist if the app won’t play through it? And finally, my favorite bug… When the app starts a new story, 80% of the time it starts 3 or 4 minutes into the story. For a long time I assumed that surely they would fix these glaring issues in the next update, but it’s been a few updates and no fix. It’s embarrassing. I love the content, which is why I’ve held on as long as I have. We are members of our station at home, but we live out of the country and can’t listen the old fashioned way on the radio. Please, please fix this mess!!!!

PLAYLISTS or DEATH!!. This app is going to get someone KILLED. I’m serious. Bring back the PLAYLISTS! Without the ability to play selected stories and shows for a long period makes this app DANGEROUS on the road, if not DEADLY. I’m not sure how to make it any clearer. The new design of the app is horrible. Not only did they get rid of the best feature, but it erased my playlist of stories that I had accumulated over several months, many of which I would share with others long after hearing them myself. In my market, there’s more than one station, so now I have to change the home station every time I want to hear a different one. And those in other markets? Too bad! And where’s the list of shows? HORRIBLE app. HORRIFIC update. It seems the people who did the npr One app (also terrible) have infected Npr News app as well. Please AVOID using this app in the car. It’s just not safe. Even better, just avoid it altogether and definitely DO NOT UPDATE YOUR OLD VERSION!!

Bad update. Please make it easier to listen to daily news. You have added too many steps to listen to daily stories. I liked the app before. I did not use NPR One because I didn’t like it. Now I can’t avoid it. And the new interface is cluttered and no intuitive. I have been a loyal NPR listener since it started, but the harder you make it to navigate, the more I find myself at the New York Times audio. Every single time you update an NPR app, I like it less. Please consider making the app easier to navigate for daily news. I already have a podcast app. What we need is an app that works for daily listening. Remember, you are the best daily radio source out there, yet you are doing everything you can to steer your listeners to podcasts. Please make your app reflect your product.

Bring back my playlist!. I just don’t get it! Went to the “help and feedback” section of the new app because I couldn’t find my playlist anymore and literally ALL of my favorite features of the old app are gone! I used to cherry pick stories from different NPR programs, and sometimes different days of those programs, and create a playlist to listen to every night. No more, because NPR took all the best features and threw them out!! I shed a tear last night, not having my nighttime listening, and have a feeling this new app will sit unused on my phone, if I don’t outright delete it. Honestly, DO NOT UPDATE. It’s a huge step down/backwards (and their app has always had glitches and problems since I started using it years ago). I also don’t like my local public radio station much and I don’t want to be forced to listen to it! I wish I could un-do this. Truly. NPR, why did you do this???

Needs additional customization options. Breaking news notifications are great, but only when they are truly about critical new information that may immediately impact my life. It feels like NPR often abuses the “breaking” classification just to send midday push notifications and drive traffic to the app/site. For example, I just got an alert about the 93-year-old woman visiting every national park. Interesting? Maybe. But definitely not worthy of interrupting my workday nor in any way relevant to the immediate health or welfare of my family. It would be fantastic to be able to choose what types of “breaking” news I receive notifications about, or at the very least for NPR to be more judicious in its use of push notifications.

Terrible “Update”. If you still have the old version, don’t update! I’m lucky to still have it on my phone, and stream NPR from my phone rather than my other devices to avoid using the new app. Although I am an avid fan and a sustaining member of my local NPR station, I do like to browse the content of other NPR stations. I also contribute to the production of podcasts I enjoy on other stations. In the old app, it was possible to browse other stations and save them as favorites so I had the option of listening to programs at a more convenient time if I missed it on my local station. I also could line up playlists to listen to while driving. It’s now impossible to easily browse the whole range of stations and stories or arrange playlists on this disorganized mess. I’m a huge fan of NPR, but I hate this app. Developers, come to your senses soon and ditch this disaster before contributors become annoyed. Give us back the old app, please!!

I love NPR- app needs some slight tweaks. Honestly, I love NPR and everything it gives me! It is about the only news source I feel like I can trust. The app is a bit finicky. I don’t like that when listening to the news, every pause triggers the “thank you for listening to NPR on our streaming app” ad. It triggers if my phone alarm goes off, receive a spam call (that I don’t even answer), or even if I accidentally press the pause button. It needs some “tracking” to allow users to pause for a couple minutes without the app ad- I already know I am listening to NPR on the streaming ad...you don’t need to remind me! It’s frustrating because in my house, I need to pause frequently...not to mention in these political times, I cannot control the amount of spam calls...

How on God’s green earth has this app been so bad for so long?. I’ve been forced to use this app for years, and I absolutely hate it. Shows you’re interested in or didn’t get to finish are hard to find, there’s a button to jump forward to the next track but there’s no way to jump forward 30 seconds or anything like that. Conversely, you can rewind 15 seconds at a time but there’s no way to go back to the previous track or start over. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve accidentally jumped to the next track and been unable to find what I was listening to (Sometimes it’s because I’m driving and I just can’t have my eyes off the road while I dig through the awful menu.) In short, this app is a disgrace and I can’t believe how long it’s been since they’ve updated it. I’m pretty sure I remember using this app before the 2016 election and being equally irritated. I wouldn’t pay even $.25 for this app!

Has anyone been fired over this yet???. I’ve never felt compelled to write a review on an app until now. I STILL DESPISE this redesign. Why tear apart an app SO many people loved just the way it was?? Wasn’t that the point of creating that awful NPR One app instead? Everything was so clean, sleek, and user friendly prior to this update. Making playlists, navigating around, ability to read later (for those of us frequent air travelers), and overall visual appeal were all great. The NPR News app was one of my favorite apps of all time. I donated $20 a month to NPR in large part because I loved this app so much. This update makes the app cluttered and not at all appealing. If I can’t figure out how to get full functionality back that I had before, I plan on deleting it within the next few days. Along with my sustaining membership. Thanks a lot.

Update is mostly bad. I only use the app for streaming live npr. The new setup is bad. I like to toggle between 2 to 3 stations and the the new setup is pretty annoying in that it doesn’t save your other recent stations. If they were to save a history of you last listened to stations it would be really great. Don’t automatically start playing npr one when you select a station to live stream. Not only is it the most annoying when companies automatically start playing stuff (Netflix) I’m selecting a local station to stream not npr one. Merging npr one into this is just annoying and unnecessary. The rest of the setup is kind of cool and has a lot more going on. Just fix the local live stream aspect of it.

Extremely Dangerous to use while driving. This app could not be worse. The old app, every show was listed on one screen. Now different shows are in different menus, so to find a particular show you have to switch screens, then scroll through icons that are in no particular order. Most dangerous is that there is no continuous play in a show (like morning edition). Unless you listen to the show from the beginning, you have to tap on every single 4 minute news item you want to hear. In a car this is extremely dangerous. In the old app you could tap on a news story in the middle of the show and the app would play the rest from there. previously there was play list you could add to. I’m going to junk this app as soon as a developer makes something better. Praying that is soon.

Useless station finder, et al. Dear NPR: you’ve prioritized fancy graphics over functionality w/ this update, so existing features are now gone. Here are the issues: 1) find nearby stations:: many stations don’t display their channel #, favoring displayed ™ call letters. For example, KPCC (& others) doesn’t display its channel number, making it useless for programming a car radio for a large region like SoCal, so I can’t set my radio for long drives; my choices would be to do without or fiddle with my iPhone while !!!driving!!! 2) no alternative to streaming:: so I can’t download daily programs like Morning Edition; Previously, I had a downloaded set of stories and didn’t miss anything. Now, I have to hunt around but still can’t download the desired story if I find it; when I’m commuting by rail or car, losing a signal disrupts listening; a downloaded Morning Edition avoids that problem. Please correct these problems.

NPR News. This is the NPR application I remember from the past that served me all the content I wanted whether it be daily news stories from many subjects, features of interesting topics or observations of the unique realities of our daily lives. While over the past few years NPR has had several applications that where limited or didn't work properly. This version of NPR News is neither limited and it works properly. It is also easy to browse for articles as well as seeking out audio to listen to. Both stories and audio can be saved to read or listen to later. I recommend this as the best NPR application for people to download as you get everything which makes National Public Radio great to read and listen to.

Missing a lot of key features from old app. I’m fine with the basic layout of this app, but some key features are missing that make this version significantly less functional for me. First, there’s no personal playlist option, and as a result, you have to listen to an entire program (ex: Morning Edition) at once. The only other option is to manually go in to the program and play each story one at a time. The playlist feature in the old app allowed me to add stories, podcasts, other programs, etc. into a single list, and would play them all in an order of my choosing. There is no way to curate a list of of stories/programs you’d like to listen to in this app. Second, the daily programs (Morning Edition, All Things Considered) only list the stories from the most recent broadcast. The previous app had stories from broadcasts going back 3 days. Half the time I am using the app to catch up on missed stories. I have found myself digging old devices out of drawers so that I can find yesterday’s news stories using the old app. Finally, if you pause whatever program you’re listening to for too long, the app won’t save your spot. Overall, I get mad pretty much every time I try to use this app. I love NPR, but am disappointed in this app.

Since recent app redesign, would rate with zero stars, if I could. I don’t have time to list all of the terrible degradations in the recent app redesign. The latest I just discovered was that I now can’t play national news on demand. Unbelievable. Equally terrible which I noticed the first day of its issue, I’m now limited to only one saved station, rather than the several regional NPR stations are used to switch between due to their different music genres. Also terrible is that some of these stations are no longer even available by searching for them even though they are NPR stations. It’s rather shocking what all you did to this app that previously was my constant companion and donation priority. No more. So frustrating and disappointing since it was so great before. Until now, I always believed in your intelligence. Along with donations, no more of that either.

Missing the old app. The NPR news app used to be my favorite app and I recommended it highly. It was easy to scroll through the stories and read headlines, and my favorite part was being able to build a playlist of stories that I found interesting. I would build a playlist in the morning to listen to on my walk or bus ride to work or while running errands. Now that feature is gone, and it’s time consuming to navigate the app and have to select each story individually. Who wants to dig their phone out of their pocket or back every few minutes to select another story? The update rendered the app effectively useless for me, it’s now the same as any other news app or website. I sincerely hope they bring the playlist feature back, however if it stays this non-user friendly I will probably delete it with a heavy heart.

Bring back the playlist !!. At the end of the day with the old app I would look at Morning Edition and All Things Considered, pick out the most interesting stories and save them in a playlist. I had my own customized list of stories that I was interested in. I would hit play and wouldn’t have to touch the phone for 30 minutes or so. When one story was over the next one on the list would begin to play automatically. You can no longer do that in this new app. You can only listen to one story at a time and when that story is over you have to go back to the list click play on another story you want to hear and keep repeating that same process over and over again. Why does NPR think that providing less customization is a good thing? As a consequence and now no longer use the app at all...very disappointing.

I’m lost without the old app. I absolutely love and rely on NPR News app! I also listen to/support my local stations (I fortunately have 2 to choose from) regularly! However, so much of what I turned to is now gone. For example, I frequently made a playlist of Morning Edition or All Things Considered because I knew I would miss most of it because my commute is not long enough, etc. I also looked forward to listening to other stations and their amazing shows. I regularly would look to and play what I missed live on Fresh Air or 1A. My husband and I would regularly turn to the NPR app when on long road trips for both news, education and entertainment. News is more than what’s “trending”. How am I supposed to do any of these things now? The old app was a solid 5 stars.

Completely different app, only the name is the same. There has to be some mistake here - the app which this replaces had much more functionality and a cleaner interface. The only thing this replacement has carried over is the name. The other app allowed the end user to pick and choose individual interviews from Fresh Air, separate segments from Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, etc and create a customized playlist. With this thing you have to grab an entire episode and search for the pieces you want while it’s playing. A truly terrible idea if you’re trying the drive at the same time. The obvious approach would have been to keep the older, cleaner, more flexible app available and release this new, flashy one under a different name. Pretending this app is the same or “better” than the previous one just because it has the same name fools no one.

Awful. The new NPR News app is simply the pits. Just awful. The developers have said they made changes based on all the great feedback. What a joke. They have ignored the single biggest complaint from all the bad reviews – the loss of the playlist function. The old app was great. I could cue up the stories I wanted to listen to, on my own terms and on my own schedule. Now, I am forced to listen to one of a few options that are available at any given time. If I want to finish listening to a story that I started yesterday, guess what? Yep, I am out of luck. If someone tells me about a story, I can no longer go back to old shows and pull it up. I cannot forward stories that I like to others. All the stories have the same insipid artwork instead of the relevant story-related photos they used to have. Plus I have to listen to that insipid NPR One advertisement every single day. Boo. NPR has taken away a great, user-focused app and crammed garbage down our throats.

No Favorites?!. Sorry, I see that a lot of work has gone into this. But, frankly, it no longer suits my needs to easily access the offerings at other (not my local) NPR stations across the country. I am a long-time sustaining member of my local Hawaii Public Radio station which has its own app so I don’t need the NPR app to stream it. What I liked about the old app was the ability to “favorite” other NPR stations and easily access their lineups with a single click rather than having to search for them every time. I often wake up in the wee hours and want to find out what’s happening on the mainland so I regularly tune in to WNYC, KOPB, KQED, etc., and am lulled back to sleep by all the good news happening in our world today. But now, with drowsy eyes, I have to search for each one individually when I want to listen. BRING BACK THE STATION FAVORITES !

Good but chews up battery in the background. I like the app a lot (I use it daily) but if you start streaming a radio station, then stop the stream, then bring the home screen or another app into the foreground, the NPR app continues to consume power (at least for awhile) and will run the battery down. You need to quit the app after you stop a stream if you want to save your battery. (I’ve reported this to NPR. This is with version 3.9.7.) I've also been Beta-testing the next version but it isn't fully functional yet and frankly I don't see a need for it. This one is just fine and I'm concerned that the newer one will sacrifice features for glitz.

Dropping connection when switching between WiFi and cell signal. This issue plagued the old app and I was happy to see the redesign, assuming they would resolve this long term bug. They didn’t. Essentially the app stops steaming every time you switch the data connection. Ex listening while at home on WiFi then walking out. My iPhone obviously automatically picks up the cell signal and keeps a continuous internet connection. The npr app however stops playing entirely. Not just a small delay to make the new connection routed thru my cell service but stops playing entirely. I have to reopen the app and hit stop then play again to make it work. The old NPR app required a forced close of the app which the new version does not. So a small improvement

Dear God - BRING BACK THE OLD APP. I cannot tell you how disappointed I am in the redesigned app. You have jettisoned all of the functionality for streaming radio. To the point, an app with that playlist is completely worthless – I might as well just listen to the radio (which I simply don’t have the opportunity to do anymore). Moreover, adding large, fancy graphics makes it far more difficult to navigate the information needed to make a decision about whether to listen to a story or not. You don’t have to package NPR like a USA Today news stand. We know how to read. Are used to be able to navigate various interesting stories, aggregate them in my playlist, and then listen to them seriatim while driving, while walking, while doing household chores, etc . . . A NPR app without a playlist is utterly worthless.

This recent update (4.0.1) upends what was a fine app. They’ve done away with the playlist or queue. Now one has to babysit, always babysit, the app for each and every story you wish to hear. Is this change simply to bump some click counting “engagement” metric? No more queueing up several stories from NPR and affiliates, hitting play and letting it run. Now it requires constant tending. And, If you want to listen to 1A or Terry Gross you’ll scroll and click through a maze of waste and debris. The screen is consumed with pics and white space so you must scroll for days. This rework has been done by the “pretty screenshot” school of UI design. Like the latest version of iTunes, the UI is designed to please print media art directors from the perspective of a screenshot, but doesn’t function well for the users. Trendy, as in bellbottom jeans, with teeny tiny grayed out type, abandoned and lost in a sea of glaring white. Biggest lossage is no playlist or queue. NPR, you’ve lost me. I’ll spend my time listening to podcasts. Rather than contributing to my local station to fund NPR in general, perhaps I should just contribute to the podcasts I listen to most frequently. NPR is no longer the preferred vehicle.

Absolutely dismayed by update. I would’ve considered this a five star app. It is now one star. I opened it this morning in hopes of finding my regular selection of local versus national news. I had one option. As it was ready to play, I played it and it was fine. But one option? I wanted to like NPR One. Found it a pain to use and continued to use this app. Now they have turned this app into NPR One. It reminds me of the time that all my grad school colleagues signed up for a class with an unknown adjunct professor, because we all hated the head of the department so much. On the first day of the class, who was there to teach it? The head of the department. Nobody had signed up for his section so he fired the adjunct. Deluded himself that it was all because of scheduling. you really screwed this up folks.

Lost in Translation. NPR delivers the world. The new app delivers your back yard station with world news stories. I can get that by tuning my radio. I want more. I travel and I listen to NPR. I have favorite stations and programs all over the country. My list of FAVORITE stations was more than 30 deep when the new app update wiped clean my ability to hold the stations and their content close at hand. No longer can I easily tune into KUAF on Friday nights, WETS early on Saturday morning, KEXP on Saturday afternoon, KDFC on Sundays or Jazz Decades on WGBH whenever the mood strikes. I now must search for the station each time I want to listen and hope the station participates in the new streaming interface. Some stations are no longer available through the new app. Others have reduced content. The news does not seem improved outside of the graphic interface. My personal enjoyment of NPR has been drastically impacted.

Easy access to high-quality, free content.. Had not used for years due to bugs that have now apparently been fixed. Previous functionality has been restored. This app now lets me access hourly update quickly and choose other stories if I wish. Leaving my old negative review here for legacy: "Hourly newscasts stopped refreshing. I have deleted and reinstalled the app several times, and that often seems to work for a while. Last night while listening to NPR hourly news, I got the infamous iOS 'white screen of death,' which Apple support blamed on a software problem."

Good journalism in a tabloid package. NPR is my favorite source of news but frankly that’s not saying much these days. The reporting is great especially the in depth coverage like on xinjiang but all that is presented with unnecessary and often stock thumbnail and header images that provide no additional info and take up screen space and bandwidth or in the worst case could be misleading. I’d even prefer that space be used for ads. After all I support not as a public service. And the clickbait headlines come off as juvenile. “They were expecting this. And then this happened.” It’s like a dummies version of the hero’s journey. I realize this is par for the course but again, low bar.

Come on NPR, you can do better.. I wrote a review earlier and heard back from you guys that you’re working on improvements to the constant audio dropouts. One month later, it’s still happening. I’m streaming live radio (WAMU in DC) and the audio stops for no reason. The “play” button stays paused and I can’t do anything. So I’m forced to shut down the app, reselect my favorite station (why do I need to do that every time I use the app.. really??), and press “play” again. After another lag, the audio *might* start again if I’m lucky. Things went from bad to worse this morning when I launched the app around 7:45 AM, driving on Fairfax County parkway, and the audio streamed fine but the audio quality was absolutely abominable. It sounded like a 128k mono mp3 that was being filtered through damp toilet paper. I’m this close to deleting the app guys. Step up your game please.

Forced into using NPR One. Last year after removing programs from the News App and encouraging users to use NPR one, the NPR news app came out with a statement that they received a lot of feedback from users who didn’t want to use NPR One. In response, they had added programs like On Point back to the app. Now they’ve gone a completely different direction, removing many features from the News App, and making only recent episodes of popular shows like Fresh Air available on the news app. Users can no longer make their own playlists of individual stories from many programs. Users cannot close the app and reopen to pick up where they last left off on a program. It takes many more clicks to get to a program now than it did before. Serious listeners are now forced to get NPR One, the app I thought NPR had taken negative feedback on and was scaling back. Disappointed to lose the old news app features and functionality.

Needs compromise between old and new versions. Unfortunately, with the recent update of this app, some of the functionality that we all loved is now gone. The good news is, it’s still NPR! Secondly, it’s nice to be able to skip ahead or backwards by 15 seconds with ease. The streaming/buffering is also better. On the other hand, as many of the other reviews note, we have lost the ability to personalize by selecting a range of local stations, individualizing specific broadcasts to put in a queue, etc. As for reading the news, the interface is a little bit glossier, and generally easier to use. But what happened to the search option??? Why can’t we search for a news story? How hard would that be?

Unresponsive station link. I use this app all the time because I like its functionality, but it’s annoyingly unstable. It routinely drops or restarts the live stream, always when I’m particularly interested in a story. (How does it know?) But my biggest complaint is the unresponsive station selection link. I tap, I tap longer, I tap more slowly, I tap over and over, I ask other people to tap—the station almost never plays on the first try—or the second or the third. This has been a problem over different phones and over years. I check for app updates, but it seems that NPR doesn’t do them. I suspect they’re focused on NPR One, which doesn’t meet my needs in the way this app does.

Old app was better. I have 2 phones- one for work and one personal. The NPR app on my personal phone automatically updated to the new version. Every time I open it, it asks me for my location and I save my local station as my favorite. And next time I open it, that is gone and I get asked again. Annoying. The old app on my work phone has my favorites saved already so I prefer to listen on that phone, especially if I’m in a hurry. The new app also makes it difficult to see the names of all the local station channels because I can only see the first few words and not the unique channel titles at the end of the name for news or music. So it’s a game to try to find the channel I want. An annoying game.

Glitches too much. When I click on the headline notification for an article I want to read the app opens but the article doesn't load and then I can't find the article anymore when I go back to home. When searching for an article in the app it has an option to sort the results by best match, newest, or oldest but it doesn't work. It is on "best match" by default and if you try to switch it to one of the other options it just shows zero results. It really isn't a user friendly app. I like to read the headlines in my notifications to keep up with what's going on but without being able to open the articles to read more I don't get the point... I love npr as a news source but the app just really needs to be fixed up.

I almost cried..... I am a teacher who used the old npr news app in my classroom weekly. I could browse individual newscasts, save them to my playlist, prepare mini lesson plans around them, and I could play the newscasts in my classroom three periods in a row. I could even search relevant topics like Henrietta Lacks for use during Black History month. Many of my students even commented that current events with npr news was their favorite part of class. I did not know the app had changed. I simply opened it to scan for news to save to my playlist and found everything gone. My saved playlists, the ability to download individual newscasts to a playlist, everything. I almost cried. The npr one app doesn’t have any of that functionality either. NPR. I’m so disappointed. I feel so frustrated that I can’t bring your newscasts into my classroom anymore for my students. PLEASE restore the old npr news app.

Invaluable to me. I often use it to catch stories I missed. Sometimes, I use it to share stories with others. My only complaint is that it get hung up on certain stories and shuts my phone down. I then have to wait dozens of seconds for it to come back on. It seems to happen only with stories that have full text rather than just a brief description. Often when it comes back on, it jumps ahead to 41 seconds into the story. I usually can prevent it from shutting down if I use a finger to move the text up and down on my screen. It's annoying, but I put up with it because I value NPR News so much.

Eh, Favorite Feature Gone?!. I listen to NPR whenever I’m in my car going to work, around town and traveling. Well I haven’t traveled in a while and one of the things I loved about the app was the ability to quickly locate an NPR station near me on the highway. Well unless I’m an idiot that feature is no longer in the app. Sure I can find stations near me but how about a frequency so I can tune it in. Why on earth would I want to stream a radio station, burn my data and phone battery when I can play it on my car radio? Maybe I’m just old fashioned that way. I did like the use of the icons for the on demand programming. This made it easier to fine my shows. Give me my station frequencies back please.

Don't update if you like listening to NPR stories. Wow... This update is a huge step backwards. First off, much bigger ads that take up half the stream. Secondly this is NPR - National Public RADIO not National Public Reading. The focus on written articles seems counter to the whole Radio part... You used to be able to add stories to a playlist and then listen through the stories you wanted. That's all I want out of this app but that no longer works. The UI is atrocious and makes no sense compared to the previous version. It's basically unusable if you want to pick and choose stirs to listen to... But if you want to read them then I guess it's ok except that's kinda but the point of a radio app. Honestly I don't know what the app designers were thinking with this update and I doubt I'll use the app much anymore because it requires far too much work to try and pick and choose stories to listen to...

Scary Times. I have been extremely disappointed in the fact that Nazi type ideology and extreme bigotry has been aloud to fester under the dirty sheets of Americas beautiful lands, and brought to the lime light through non-action from our leaders. As a white man, with a grandfather who fought the Nazi's in WWII, it disgusts me! I have to say that NPR has been a calming embrace with, in my opinion, the worlds most objective, rational and responsible journalists and stories. Their is much anger growing in me about our current political/racial discord that it has been my wife and close family (the ones with the same shared human right core values) and NPR who have helped me see where it is that I can help, constructively, and still protest, peacefully. Thank you NPR!

Huge step backwards. Ahhh! Just updated to iOS 11 (from 10) and that seemed to have automatically triggered a new (& definitely not improved NPR app). What happened to my playlist?! Of course I lost several stories that were saved there that I was planning to listen to later, but how do I even go about finding them again on this new app? There’s not even a general search box anymore. And even if I did find them, it looks like there is no more playlist feature anyway. I guess we are forced to search for and listen to one story at a time? Or just listen to all stories in a program (like ATC)? I really liked being able to select only the stories I was interested in. I could go on about the missing Favorites Stations, but it looks like many other reviewers are already pointing out that shortcoming. Hope NPR takes its listeners’ comments seriously and improves what so far is a step backwards for their app.

Getting Worse. I’ve been an avid and devoted fan of NPR for two decades. Their stories have always been balanced, intelligent, and thought provoking. I can’t say the same for their app. During the past few months I have noticed an appreciable deterioration in the overall quality of the service. Most days it is a frustrating effort simply to get the app to connect, and when it does there are repeated disconnections. Recently I have noticed that the station affiliate I normally listen to no longer appears when I open the app. Instead I’m asked to search for a station, or I’m offered a list of stations in Michigan or South Carolina. I live in Georgia. Perhaps I should drop the app altogether and go back to the most reliable means of communication—radio.

Miss the Queue Function. I’ve been an avid NPR listener for several years now, and I love the quality and variety of podcasts I can listen to, especially at work when I’m working on spreadsheets. That said, I’m already missing the playlist function. In the morning, I could spend a few minutes adding all the podcasts I wanted to listen to into one long queue without interruption. Now, I have to open up the app and click each pod individually. This especially deters me from listening to the shorter news podcasts that I normally enjoy, as it is too distracting to have to mess with my phone every few minutes. NPR, please add some form of this function back!! Sincerely, a devoted listener

New App lacks a lot of functionality from old app. As a software product manager, I would be burned at the stake if I brought out a new version of my software that dropped an important feature as this version has from its predecessor. - One can only save a *single* station to an account as a “primary”. This is a problem as I’ve lived in different places and enjoy listening to those local stations and don’t want to look them up each and every time. I used to have a list of favorites on the old app that would be used to cycle through these stations. No longer. Big miss, NPR app developers. - This appears to be a defect, but since it hasn’t been fixed (and the new app has been out for awhile), the saved “primary” station gets erased after the app is closed. Why even bother offering the “primary” station if it gets dropped every time the app is restarted (reboot, swiped closed / reopened, etc.)?

Love NPR, but not their apps :(. As an American living abroad, I depend on the NPR apps to listen. Unfortunately, NPR is under the impression that we shouldn’t be able to easily manage our own playlists. In NPR One, it was darn near impossible- I really hated the experience, as much as I listen to a wide range of NPR shows, I want to be able to choose what I listen to and when. The new upgrade doesn’t allow you to manage your playlist. If you already listened to half of Morning Edition and want to listen to something else then come back, you have to manually fast forward the first part of the show. There is no playlist queue when you find something you like (possible on the old version). Too bad! The browsing features are nice, but please, please let us control our playlists again, NPR!

Could Be Better. This is really more of an All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, and Morning Edition app; those shows make up most of the content that constantly refreshes on the main “Topics” and “Home” tabs. There’s an ever-updating stream of articles as well. The highlight is the playlist feature, which allows you to create a custom playlist of only the segments you want to listen to. This can also include other NPR podcasts hosted thru the app, of which there were a little over 30 last I checked. If you tell the app what your local npr station is, you’ll see any podcasts they have too. Despite that, the app needs better integration with local npr news stations. You can’t read local news stories, and the 2-3 minute local news update disappears after 7pm for some reason even though I know my station does it every hour after that. I’d also like a “wire” or “just in” tab to see every story coming in as it’s published, like on the Reuters and Euronews apps. They seem to constantly be tinkering with the app; keep leaving/updating your reviews and tell them what improvements they should make.

One step forward, two steps back. The app look has been modernized and there is more content to discover. However, it has some bugs and feature deficiencies. Here is the list of the bugs I have encountered so far: - The play list does not auto update when an episode has finished playing. - The time calculation for how long it takes to play all episodes in the playlist is often wrong. - The list of episodes in some podcast are not sorted in any logical order (for example the episode list for “Making”) Here is a list of other issues which are not necessarily bugs: - The items on your playlist cannot be reordered - The contents are spread in multiple lists so it is harder to find shows and episodes - Once all items in your playlist have been played, the app automatically pics up other content to play; as a user, I should have the option to turn that feature off I love NPR and listen to many programs and individual stories from Morning Edition and All Things Considered every week. I preferred the NPR app over NPR ONE because the old NPR app did not have any of the issues listed above.

Your update is awful. No more favorite stations list. Oh, I should have looked at the reviews before I updated. Why did you get rid of the favorite stations feature? I like to wake up late in PA and click on my saved favorite in CA to listen to the morning news. Also, every station has its own special shows and using the favorite station feature made it possible to listen to them. Now we get to choose one favorite station and have to eliminate that one station to waste time and data to look up another “favorite” station. Please put this feature back in. Also, pretty pictures are not needed. We can read. Please go back to the compact list of many things to listen to displayed in words instead of pictures. Takes up too much data stream and too much time to load.

Craps out, commercial interruptions. I’m a huge fan of PBS and NPR but there are better ways to listen to NPR than this ap. It stops… It simply stops inadvertently, usually, of course, in the middle of something interesting. And while this may not be a function specific to this ap, although it may, commercial sponsorship interruptions are also frustrating. Right in the middle of a segment, even in the middle of a sentence, a commercial is inserted! I’m serious! And when we first check in, we’re hit with 1, 2, even 3 commercials, even if we’ve left, however involuntarily (see above), and re-join. This might all be less noticeable, less objectionable were it not for the contrast of other npr aps, like RadioIQ, to which I also listen. Yes, it just happened again, prodding this rant, long in the making.

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The application NPR was published in the category News on 15 August 2009, Saturday and was developed by NPR [Developer ID: 324906254]. This program file size is 40.15 MB. This app has been rated by 6,032 users and has a rating of 2.7 out of 5. NPR - News app posted on 19 January 2024, Friday current version is 5.2.0 and works well on iOS 15.0 and higher versions. Google Play ID: org.npr.nprnews. Languages supported by the app:

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