NPR One App Reviews

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Every update has a featured bug!. Fix one thing and break another. NPR app developers like to feature not-so-fun and absolutely-infuriating bugs with each new app version released. One of the most annoying featured bugs of the current release is long-pressing the NPROne icon and tapping "catch up" to listen to the latest news doesn't work if the app is already open in the background. It'll just open the app and present you with whatever you were last listening to last time you were using the app. Have to force-close the app then do the long-press/catch up in order to get the latest news cast to play. I've also noticed on the short recordings asking you to "tap your screen to hear more" that tapping those does nothing. Short keeps playing to the end, ignoring your taps, and moves on to the next audio clip. Starting to think I should just get a generic podcast app and start subscribing to the individual NPR shows I like. Would be far less frustrating. So much for finding new stuff I didn't know I'd like...

Thanks NPR!. I live in WA outside of good range of the local NPR station, but strangely enough, I do have LTE on our land (wifi is a different story, however). I love catching up with the three minute national and local coverage each morning and have incorporated it into my day, primarily while I’m waiting for the water to boil. I haven’t had any hang-ups with the app so far, my only reservation would simply be that I wish there was more content and a better way to explore it. Shows with hundreds of episodes don’t really offer a good way to drop-in aside from just picking an episode and going for it, and shows that I know and love, like All Things Considered or Freakonomics don’t show up on here. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong areas, though. Anyway, thanks NPR!

A total five except….. The NPR One app is pretty fantastic. It’s the first thing I listen to every morning. One great feature is that it keeps playing short, great stories Neil you stop it. Another is that you can skip past any story you don’t like. But that’s my one “except”: there is no “skip Back” button that I can find. So if you miss seeing what the previous great story was, yiu can’t find it. Or if you accidentally skip ahead before something is over, you can’t go back. This is particularly annoying if you miss part of the National Newscast, which is a fantastic quick summary of the days headlines and is updated every 60 minutes. Still, the best news app around! Try it!

Super Listener; Flawed App. I love NPR One and use it daily to catch up with over a dozen podcasts throughout the week, but I’m becoming increasingly aggravated by a consistent bug I’ve contacted super about twice to no avail. NPR One has a nasty habit of opening itself in the background and autoplaying when no such command is given over the past two years. It tends to also auto-open randomly when connecting to Apple CarPlay. Though most times this isn’t an issue, it has opened itself while on phone calls, while in meetings, and possibly worst of all, at 11:30 pm while I’ve been trying to go to sleep - no one wants a news update blasting in their ears from the darkness of their bedroom. Support has only suggested deleting and downloading the app, which has not resolved the issue. Frustrating as this is, along with its incredible battery drain and data hogging, I love using this app since it’s a one-stop-shop for everything I love on public radio from around the world. Please fix this issue!

Never rated an app before - but this one is incredible. I’m already a fan of NPR. I try to listen every morning and evening, but the radio quality in my area has some rough spots. I downloaded the NPR One app to catch up on the stories I miss...but I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the features within this amazing little app. The quality and diversity of programming is incredible, and even the “breaks” are full of plugs for interesting stories I might never have discovered! I love this app and now use it every single day. Even better, the sharing features are simple to use - I share 2-4 stories each day with friends and family, many of whom went on to download the app and now share my (expanded) love of NPR. Way to go, NPR. This app is a serious win.

Commute companion. I use this app every day on my commute to and from the office. It's great for keeping up with current events with the "catch up" feature. I skip anything I don't find at all interesting, but it's rare. This app is one of only a handful supporting Car Play. I was very pleased to see this pop up on my vehicle console! My iPhone has learned to open this app when I hop in the car. All of this together makes my experience as seamless as using the car stereo. I use this only with Car Play, so my experience is limited to the basic interface available with that system. I can't think of anything it is missing for how I use it, but I'm not against seeing new features!

I LOVE it, but the bugs are extremely annoying. I really love this app, but mostly because of what it does for me (I listen to it all the time whenever I go) and not because of the performance. NPR APP TEAM...PLEASE fix the bug that makes the app stop working (and often shut down) after a phone call interrupts whatever I’m listening to. It’s been going on for a long time. Also, how hard is it to make sure your algorithm adds shows to your favorites once you follow them or removes them once you stop? Doesn’t seem like it should be that difficult. Today, after a phone call interrupted the show I was listening to and the app closed (twice) I tried to reopen it and go back to what I was listening to. But despite the fact that I listen to the show ALL the time and had turned on the “follow” toggle, the show didn’t and doesn’t even show up in my favorites. Seems like ridiculous little fixes that could really make a difference in the app doing what it’s supposed to do. Ugh.

Confusing experience. I re-downloaded the app after not using for at least a few months. I just want to listen to Morning Edition but the process of listening to one day’s broadcast doesn’t make a lot of sense. Each broadcast has the stories broken up into “episodes” so there’s seemingly no way to just play that morning’s broadcast. I realize ME is a mix of local and national but you’d think they’d figure that out by now... I’ve also had problems with controlling the audio once casting on a Google speaker... No visible way to skip ahead in increments... No way to go back to the last program which is bad when the “episodes” are less than 5 min long. Would appreciate a playlist or listening history feature... No persistent now playing bar so you have to backtrack to the Listen page to control the audio within the app.

Beyond Annoying. For the most part this is a decent app, but I’ll tell you what I find beyond annoying. You’re listening to a story and in the middle of it. It’s a great story. You’re excited, enraptured, curious to see what’s going do you happen next. You pick up your phone, which you were listening on, and accidentally bump the forward button. The next thing you know, your story is gone. And there’s no way to return to it. True, they have a finished listening section. Unfortunately it’s filled with stories you were listening to last week and the month before, not stories that you were listening to recently. Aaaarrrrrggh! Why can’t they have a back button? I don’t mean going 15 seconds back to listen to something you just missed, we’re going back to the store you were listening to. So, until they fix this problem, I’m only gonna give them three stars for a halfway decent app.

5***** for usage, 3*** for frustration. It would be hypocritical of me to rate NPR1 anything less than 5 because even with its frustrating feature shortages, I listen round the clock. I get that the lack of controls/queue/15-sec-skip are to promote binging and “discovery” outside my usual subscriptions. If that’s the goal, then send me more variety in new/local/non-NPR shows. (Even add shows outside my lefty echo chamber :o). I’m over the fact that clicking “interesting” simply gets me more stories from that show or category rather than nuanced insightful predictions like Netflix (yo, non-profit budget). Still, within the simple objectives of the app, there are some essential practical improvements. Many of us listen while driving/doing something else with hands and eyes. We can’t always share, rate or save before the story disappears, and the hmmm moment often comes at the end of an episode. We might not even see the name of the show that just ended so we can look it up. Please add the option to go back or at least see previously heard stories. We also wander away from our desks/attentiveness and want to know what we missed. I’ll put the rest of my suggestions in the app’s suggestion box.

Daily listener. I listen to stories on the NPR One app every day, and really enjoy the ability to open the app at any hour and instantly hear the latest headlines. I also enjoy its unique blend of podcast/broadcast streaming. That being said, there are a few things I'd really like to see in future updates. For one, I hope something can be done to cut down on the amount of battery power the app uses. Also, I would love the ability to add stories to an "up next" queue, and to create custom playlists of stories. It would also be nice to be able to download stories to listen when I'm offline. In addition, it would be great to add a button to scrub forward 15 seconds, not just back. I think the app's concept is really innovative, but it could benefit still from the functionality found on some other podcasting apps. Thanks for the consideration!

Disappointing Downgrade. Update: Still playing repeat episodes, in the last 24 hours they’ve tried to play the same episode at least 6 times (that I’ve noticed so far) I used to listen to NPR on the NPR News app, where you could make playlists and listen to (or binge) all your favorite shows, or choose a station and listen to a live stream. When the podcasts jumped ship, I was forced to switch over to this app, and it's been painful. Limited number of skips, but the news segments are broken up story by story, so you waste 10 of them trying to get through one segment, no playlist feature, which is the most frustrating thing. I've had the app randomly start playing when my phone was on silent and in my pocket, in public, in meetings, in the middle of conversations, even when the app isn't open. Additionally, there are several podcasts that seem to be added to my feed as filler. They play episodes I've heard multiple times, not rebroadcasts or new versions, just the same episode over and over. My most recent complaint is that it's become particularly glitchy. Not playing the story you select (as in playing a completely different one), or not loading. If this wasn't the only way for me to hear these podcasts I would never use this app again. The shuffle feature should be an option, but not the entirety of the function of the platform. This is a poorly designed disaster.

What’s “Listen Later” Even There For?!?!. I basically hate this app. I don’t know why I’m even giving it two stars; I guess I just want to be as supportive as possible. Basically, this is no better than just listening to the radio or searching the Internet for stories. When I look around and find something I’m interested in, I either have to listen to it immediately – interrupting whatever I am listening to currently — or just yet “save it for later“ and hope that somehow that does something. But it doesn’t. I can’t build any kind of a playlist or queue. This is a stupidly designed app. I’d rather just turn on the radio or use my podcast app. This app gives me no control other than to skip a story (that I didn’t pick anyway). I’m rambling. Point is, I’m *this close* to (once again) deleting this app because it’s just not useful. It’s just lame.

As essential as my morning coffee. Using the NPR1 app has become a part of my daily routine. I always start my morning with the Up First broadcast. I like how the app automatically moves between a myriad of shows, since I’m usually multi-tasking and rushing around while listening. However, I do wish it was easier to find which shows I recently listened to or which ads for new shows popped up while I was listening. The content is great, but this part isn’t very user-friendly. Sometimes I hear an ad for a new podcast and before I can process and “click on the screen to learn more,” it’s already gone. There have been many times when I’m driving, cooking, or just somehow disconnected from my phone that I miss a show I wanted to hear more about. Maybe a “recently played” or “recently suggested” would make this easier. When I’m not starting with the news, I tend to switch to other podcast platforms simply because I don’t know or can’t find what I want to listen to on NPR1 (though I know I would rather hear its content). Other than that, I really appreciate the diversity. I don’t subscribe to one political party, so I’m always searching for a more balanced and empathetic coverage that fairly describes both views (even the view I disagree with). Though NPR can still lean more in one direction, it is the best I’ve found so far and I appreciate how the hosts usually refrain from emotional or opinionated responses. I’ll continue listening and using for a long time.

Just Ok, so I use ApplePodcasts. I started off listening to NPR podcasts with this app. I loved it! I had more control over what I listened to as I didn’t always enjoy the shows played on my local NPR station. Over time though, I got frustrated and started to subscribe to NPR shows/podcasts on the ApplePodcasts app instead. 1. Ad breaks in NPR One app can’t be skipped unless you pay for the premium service. I already donate $35/month to my local NPR station and I don’t want to pull that away from them. Also, the donation drive weeks are still pretty annoying in the app, so no thanks. ApplePodcasts allow the user to skip through ads and they’re just less annoying in general. I know this likely isn’t possible but is there no way to link up local station donors to an NPR One account to a premium account? 2. The app does not remember your playback position if you stop listening and use another app or even remain in the app to read an article. I will stop in the middle of a podcast to read an article in the NPR app and when I go back to listening, it kicks off with another ad, then starts in on the National Newscast, completely forgetting about the podcast I was listening to. ApplePodcasts holds your playback position in a podcast even if you close out the app, and it is wonderful. Those are my two most significant gripes at the moment.

Great content, but app desperately needs an update. This content provided by NPR One app is phenomenal. Starts off with the latest national news update, moves on to detailed stories, mixes in news from your local NPR station, and introduces great new podcasts from within NPR and from member stations. What is missing is support. The app hasn’t been updated in almost a year, and it shows. Open the app on an iPhone X, XS Max, or iPhone XR and get huge black bars on the top and bottom of the app. Sometimes the app can’t connect when attached to CarPlay, which can only be alleviated by pulling out your phone while driving in the car and opening the app on your phones screen. Those are my two biggest complaints. I do use CarPlay A LOT and the aforementioned bug happens at least once a day. Please please NPR, update this app.

Let Us Listen to Complete Shows. I love NPR, let me say that first. I came to love it as I worked Sunday afternoons in my classroom, when our base’s radio station (I work overseas) had the luxury of broadcasting on two frequencies. Weekend Edition Sunday was a refreshing break from Top 40 high rotation popular music. I especially loved hearing the Sunday Puzzle. DoD budget cuts turned off the secondary broadcast frequency. I turned to the internet and a web browser to login and load the broadcast onto my classroom speakers. Sometimes I use my iPhone to start listening but am immediately frustrated by NOT being able to listen to the COMPLETE show in ONE GO!!! If I can load the complete show in a web browser, why can’t I do the same in an app that promotes itself as the way to listen to NPR on the go? I think you know your listeners will follow particular shows, please give them the option to make listening more convenient for them to love those shows.

Love NPR. Hate this app.. Where do I start? NPR One's algorithm is stupid. I live in San Diego. Almost every day I get a feed for a WAMC station which is in NY. To make matters worse, the feed is of a guy who sounds like an undertaker in a horror movie. His voice is the stuff of nightmares. I have skipped this show every darned time. This SHOULD teach the algorithm not to play it. But now it's not only baked into my algorithm, but it's also listed in my "favorite" podcasts on my NPR One "homepage". Can I change that? So far as I've been able to tell, no. They've recently"improved" the app by adding a feature that lets you skip through a story by shaking your phone. That means if I happen to PICK UP my phone to go to another room, the story skips. Apple music dropped this feature years ago because it's stupid. Why did NPR add this improvement? I can't fathom. Can I go back to the skipped story? The app says that your unfinished stories get saved. But no. The stories that the app skips for you just disappear. Finally the app says that I should be able to listen to the hourly national news broadcast any time by going to the home page. NOPE. Nope, nope, nopity, nope. In short, I love NPR. I love their content. But if you want to enjoy their content, this app simply gets in the way.

EATS ALL YOUR DATA!. I listened in my car for my 20 min drive to work, and all 3 gigs of data was gone half way through my billing cycle. Every couple days I was getting an alert from my service provider letting me know they just added another $10 of data. Finally figured out how to see which apps are using data—and NPR One was the culprit. I really liked the app for the two months I was using it, but that 20 mins M-F was costing me about $40 bucks extra every month! Seeing this also had battery issues as well, seems like they released this app before it was ready. I’d expect some minor bugs for a brand new app, but come on...those are pretty significant issues that basically make the app unusable (unless you go WiFi only and are careful not to allow the app any of your cell data). I hope they fix it. I did enjoy listening in the morning. It’s nice to listen to the news but skip through the stuff you don’t care about.

Not for listening to public radio. I switched over to NPR One from the original NPR app. The One version is overall styled better, but functionally is not quite there. It’s great if you go to NPR for its regular news-oriented programming or podcasts, but not for listening to public radio. Indeed, the latter is an afterthought at best: on the main “home” page (when you open the app), you have to scroll down a bit to get to your local station, and even then a further click to get to its streams. Or you can go to the dedicated station tab, but same deal: another click for different streams. But—and here’s its main weakness—you cannot add more than one local station at a time. This is really too bad, because one of the main benefits of the internet is that you can access stuff from afar, including favorite public radio stations (sorry, LA, but Sac’s classical stream is far better!). Oh, and Apple Car Play? Forget about it. Useless.

Excellent for a certain type of user. I understand the complaints of some other reviewers. If they are experiencing crashes or very high data usage then there is a problem. I haven’t experienced these problems. I live overseas and miss NPR and this app is absolutely perfect for me. It’s like an intelligent radio station in that there is only some user control, and for the most part it will play what it plays, learning over time what kinds of programs you prefer. If I wanted an NPR podcast portal this wouldn’t fit the bill. But what I want is an NPR radio station that allows some control but otherwise plays a mix of familiar and new content, with little to no interaction by me, and I love it. It plays and plays and plays while I work around the house or office, occasionally skipping a show here or there. Perfect. Bravo to the developers for delivering so well on a somewhat novel concept.

Great content, but loaded with bugs! Now more than ever.. The last update several weeks ago doesn’t work with CarPlay. It is the worst version ever. “Unable to connect to NPR One” displays. It happens to me and my friends, and in every car I own or rent, so it’s not just me or my device. Also, it would be nice if there was a convenient shortcut to National News. I have to click Explore, then scroll down the screen pretty far too find that link. It’s a problem (read dangerous) while driving, especially since CarPlay has stopped working. Previous review: Love NPR news, programs, and podcasts. This app could be great if the bugs get cleaned up. The app cannot keep its place when you get a phone call. Sometimes it cannot even handle a simple Pause without starting a new program instead of continuing where you paused the audio. The real nasty bug is that it randomly starts playing on its own, sometimes even during a phone call on the same device! The person you are calling cannot hear it’s, but it’s playing the news over to of your phone call. It started playing by itself many times while my phone was just sitting on the kitchen counter, abs during a meeting at work. They added goofy jingles before the news cast so you have to wait for it to play before the news starts. I hope they can fix these annoying bugs soon.

I listen daily, but there are a few bugs. This app is overall solid and listening is part of my daily routine, but there are a few bugs that don’t stop me from listening, but are an annoyance: 1. I wish the app would do a better job of remember where I leave off. I listen to longer shows like Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me over the course of the week and since the app doesn’t do a good job of remembering my place, I’ve started taking screenshots of the time stamp before closing the app so I can start at the right place in the episode when I come back. 2. The show “This is Uncomfortable” is stuck in my list of followed shows in the explore tab. I didn’t followed that show and I don’t have the option to unfollow it like I do for other shows. 3. I can’t click the bottom option in a show’s episode list because it’s blocked by the play/audio bar at the bottom of the screen. This is especially noticeable for shows like “This is Dating” where the newest episodes are on the bottom of the page. Since I can’t click on new episodes from the show page because it’s blocked by the play/audio bar, I have to find the episode title and search for it in the app search bar to find and play the latest episode. Overall, I enjoy using this app! These are just some minor bugs that are a bit of annoyance. Thank you!

I don’t want to train an algorithm, I want to listen to the news.. Downloaded this app specifically to listen to Morning and Weekend Edition, as I am able to enjoy other NPR programs using podcasting apps. Unfortunately, there is no way to listen to the complete program in one go, due to it being cut into segments. I am forced to search for the program repeatedly to jump back in from where the app diverts to often unrelated content. I do not understand the point of this app at all, unless the point is to keep the user interacting with it constantly to extract as much data from the user as possible. There are indeed listeners out there who don’t care what gets streamed at them, and aren’t concerned with feeding an algorithm their data. As far as this app goes, however, it would seem to require a lot of effort to end up with a reasonable result. There are many listeners like me, though, who want the news without having to submit to an algorithm’s whims. A shame that this app cannot provide a coherent listening experience that allows the user to be in control. The NPR One app functions like Pandora, and as such is effectively useless.

Never Rated an App but this one is perfect. I listen to this app every day. In the morning getting ready. When I’m making dinner at night. A lot of nights I even fall asleep to it. The rotation of stories is good and it does a good job of picking this based on what I like. I don’t use the search function a lot but I feel like that could be a smidgen better. My only complaint, and tbh I don’t know if this is the app itself or my phone. There have been times when the app started out of nowhere even if it wasn’t previously launched. So I was in class or a meeting and all of a sudden “NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC RADIO IS RIGHT HERE. LIVE FROM NPR NEWS IN WASHINGTON IM JACK SPEER” now. Don’t get me wrong. Jack Speer’s voice could charm me down a live subway tunnel. But it was mildly embarrassing. So to fix it, I just turned of “auto play on launch” and that’s fixed it. All in all 6/5 stars.

Needs basic functionality improvements. Like many reviewers, I listen to this app all the time, despite its many frustrations. The scrubber is unusable. I want to move to a different place, not swipe to the next screen. Please add a scrubber knob. While we are at it, how about a back button? I’m usually multitasking when listening, and when something catches my interest, I want to be able to go back and listen from the top. Nope, missed it, on to the next story with no way to go back. How about a history list? When I reopen the app, why not make “catch up” the default? While we’re at it, what do the labels “catch up” vs “resume” (and “interesting”) mean to someone who’s unfamiliar with the app? Why not make it easier to switch your “home station”? I listen to both NYC and AMU and switching between the two is cumbersome and unintuitive. I love the content, just wish this app was significantly easier to use.

Literally the best. So I’ve heard the “npr one” commercial countless times while listening to some of the NPR podcasts during my drives, while i wash the dishes, at work.. etc & although I listened to the podcasts of shows i loved, I did miss actually listening on the radio (because I’m often out of range). I love that i can listen to my local station now with this app wherever I am (although... should their be a nostalgic section where you can listen through static? Literally the only thing ppl will still keep on through static & barely be able to make it out... bc it’s that good lol. That was my childhood riding in the backseat of the car, listening to static laden NPR programs my parents were playing.) Anyway— thank you for making this app so user friendly, personal, efficient, informative & esp. providing the little snippets of stories... love it!!!

Great app but something is broken!. I love NPR One. It's my primary source to catch up on the world every day during my commutes to and from work! I love that I can also catch up on many of my favorite podcasts and discover new ones all through the app. This new update however, along with subtle UI changes, has brought along some bugs that are making my experience unpleasant. There seems to be a broken connection between the phone app and the CarPlay interface, as every time I plug in from my car, I can’t see anything on-screen, much less control any app navigation. I have to keep using my phone, and while driving, we all know creates a hazard. I’ve tried deleting the app and reinstalling multiple times, so it’s definitely something on the development side that needs updating. Please fix ASAP!!

Balanced, informative and entertaining. I love NPR One because of the one stop shop nature of the platform. I have yet to find a podcast within the app that doesn’t offer something interesting and entertaining. The reporting is always the most balanced offered up anywhere. I really love Up First and start there every morning. From there I let the app deliver new experiences to me. I also come back to this app throughout the day and play my favorites and experiment with new ones. It’s a fabulous resource and provides an easy way to explore a whole range of new things in small bite sizes. I should add that I’m a middle of the road politically non partisan voter and have really appreciate the balanced and well researched reporting offered here. I love this app!

Great content, awful app. I support NPR. But this app is so frustrating I'm wavering. Return after a long enough break, and one is given the option to "catch up" (meaning get the latest 3 minute news summary) or "resume" (meaning continue from where one left off). Often this just doesn't work, and trying to find the news summary any other way seems impossible. It's frustrating because it seems obvious that access to the latest news summary, when desired, is what most people would want. Second, after the summary, some stories run automatically, and while you can skip forward to the next, you can't skip backwards! (Got my hands full, missed some of that story that was just on, want to rewind, and... can't.) This smells of "we know what's best for the user" nannying. No! Please just give the users the obvious controls they might want. Finally, the app itself is labyrinthine and very confusing. There's no need for this. NPR, please get some app designers who know how to put the users first, instead of trying to handspoon them what they often don't want.

NPR is always FIVE stars | This app is ONE. The concept is fantastic and it’s really nice be able to listen to stories on “shuffle” in a similar way you listen on the radio, without knowing what the next subject may be. The problem is you can not customize what you hear in any way, I listen to marketplace every evening on my way home from work so I don’t need it in the NPR One app. But I can’t inform the app that I don’t want to hear this anymore. It also repeats over and over and over, I’ve heart the intro to Children of Afghanistan no less than nine times so far. Lastly, you should be able to filter content based on your mood, the world is a depressing place right now and some days I don’t have it in me to hear political news. I feel like you should be able to “toggle” off political content, or the opposite…when it’s the day before/after an election, you could toggle on political content ONLY. Everyone should absolutely still download the app, because the content is top notch and the tech is ALMOST there, but a lot more functionality, filters, “dislike” buttons, etc. are all needed to make this app live up to what NPR believes it is.

Why two?! Why so complicated?!. I want radio to be: just turn on, listen live, randomly or at specific times for the predictable schedule. On-demand, snippets, bits, bites are not primarily why I come to radio. Also, in case of NPR, I want to listen to the main, national stream, and only sometimes my local NPR station. Both of the NPR apps (why two!!??) fail to give this simple usage. NPR One app seems to offer that, except that it tries to be "smart" by always starting with the news bulletin no matter what minute of the hour I'm tuning in at. I'm a software engineer myself, and can figure out ways, work with workarounds, but the NPR apps fail to impress. For my simple use case, I'd also expect a better use of the screen real estate, to show me details of what's streaming, names of speakers, what's up next, album art, some other pretty pictures, or some other ideas. I love the KDFC app for the simple and beautiful experience.

Amazing app for local radio and international news coverage!. My Radio went out in the truck awhile back and so I don’t have access to 90.1 so I tried out the App and I use it all the time. It’s great for local stories, connects to your local broadcast similar to how the radio method does, or I can use the explore option if I wanna find something specific or I can hit catch up and it plays up to date/recent stories and news coverage. I am constantly driving between towns no ones ever heard of in rural utah and it Connects/ works great- seriously have been impressed on the content and the functionality of it. So, thanks! ps Make sure your phone is updated because there’s one review about it shorting out or bugging but I had that problem so tried installing belated updates cause I’m horrible at doing those on the smart phone and it’s worked great ever since, and the set up in car isn’t that great it’s an old Nissan pushing 300k Miles.

Love NPR, Hate This App. I love listening to NPR, but I really really detest this app. The design of the app is fine. My problem is that it is still so buggy and crash-prone even years after its introduction. There have been times—like this very moment—when I have to spend like 20 minutes closing and re-opening and restarting the app to get it to work and sometimes it still doesn’t work. At first, my love of NPR made me want to give the app the benefit of the doubt—maybe it wasn’t their app but my crappy phone that was the problem. For a long time I told myself that that was the real problem. But then one day, I bought a brand new phone, and I was sadly disappointed when the app’s behavior failed to improve. The app has continued to regularly fail me for the past year that I’ve had this phone. I keep hoping it’s going to get better with some kind of update, but it hasn’t yet. I probably have 30-40 apps on my phone and this one of only two that consistently misbehaves like this. Please fix it. Please. I’ll change my tune and write a good review.

Crashes over and over. I've emailed with tech support for the app. They acknowledge that the app doesn't work right and they say they're working on a solution but they haven't released an update in over 4 months and even that release was tiny. This app is too important for National Public Radio to entrust it to a shoddy developer. Let's get it fixed people. Right now when I try to open it in CarPlay not only does it not connect, it even crashes other applications. Unacceptable. ----------------- Almost 10 weeks after release of iOS 12 NPR One has no update. Still lists itself as being compatible with Car Play, yet in emails to me they confess it does not work at this time. My first report to them was on July 25. No updates. Nothing. ------------------ Now, with over 7 months with no updates to an admittedly broken app, I have to assume this app is no longer being developed. So why is it still in the App Store? ———————— 11 months since last update. They still haven’t fixed multiple problems with compatibility with iOS 12. Doesn’t work with CarPlay at all. It’s just shoddy of an organization as important as NPR to allow this to go on. ———————— Now that iOS 13 is almost ready for release they say they’ve updated the app to finally work with iOS 12. Used it for the first time today for about 30 minutes. Now I find that it has used 35% of my battery today. Way to go NPR.

Can’t go without. A great app that fills a need I have on my commute. Previously I only listened occasionally on the radio but now I can more easily choose the segments I want to hear. Now I listen on my commute and even on weekends. Can’t go without. A few small things that could be improved.. • Returning to half-finished stories: Often times I’ll be listening to the story in my car only to have to turn what I’m listening to off when I reach my location. The next morning I’ll jump in my car and want to hear Up First, but after I’d like to return to story I was listening the previous day. At this point I end up circulating various screens only to find the segment I was looking for 2min later which starts completely over. • Referral/ad content: During a story sometimes I’ll hear an ad for something I may be interested in. There’s been many times where I say: “Yeah that sounds cool”... but I’m in my car and the ad only plays for about 15s. For that can you add something like a sticky bar that stays up for 2 minutes? Or push a notification that when clicked adds that to your “Listen Later” queue? • Taxonomies of news/feature segments: Glad to see this section of NPR’s feature offering growing! I’d like to see this section be more targeted to my listening habits.

Still flawed but latest update is much improved. The mini player itself is great and pretty much the same format you would expect from any audio app on iOS. It’s not dark mode when you have it maximized but it’s close enough to not make much of a difference. The forward and back buttons are a great improvement. The main app is still going to blind you if you open the app at night but at least you can get it to something more reasonable by maximizing the player. Searching for recently missed shows on some of the podcasts with lots of shows is still a chore. When you go to the shows podcast page, they are still ordered from oldest to newest instead of the other way around like any other player would do which can mean scrolling through dozens of pages to get to a newer show for some of these podcasts. A sort button like most other apps use would go a long way to fixing this problem. Hopefully this update is and indicator that the app developer is listening and we don’t need to wait years for basic features after this. I do like NPR and this app is a significant improvement. A little more tweaking and it could be five stars.

Used to be a decent app most recent update is crap. Not sure what happened with the most recent update to this app but 3 times in the last hour of listening to my podcast the app has (with my phone locked and sitting on my kitchen counter as I’m doing dishes) cutoff my podcast without rhyme or reason changing it to the news. This of course wipes the episode I was listening to from my recent list and also any progress in the podcast I then have to search for that podcast then try to find where it randomly cut off. An added layer and further annoyance is that the news is of course 10x louder than the podcasts I actually care about so when the app randomly decides to start playing the news it blasts my speakers. This is incredibly obnoxious and if left unfixed I plan to uninstall and find a new place to listen to podcasts because it’s really obnoxious having to stop in the middle of what I’m doing pause the app so it’s no longer blasting my speaker then spend multiple minutes trying to locate the episode and time in the episode where the app cut to the news.

Devolved into frustration. This app started buggy, but I saw enough value from the personalized content feed to stick with it. As it got more stable was listening to it every day, and all day on weekends. I liked it so much that I programmed my favorite podcasts to stream through it, and spent a good amount of time rating content so it could learn my preferences, for example, science and astronomy. Things changed drastically after I started hearing more local station announcements. Suddenly it would get in endless loops saying “ and now for something from outside NPR” or it would not allow me to skip content that it had already forced me to listen to several times. I tried changing local stations in the app, and it helped for a while, but eventually it seemed to disregard all of my preferences and it was no better than listening to a live station stream. I gave up on this app realizing that I was missing favorite podcasts and NPR stories by relying it

Giving up on NPROne. This is probably THE WORST version of this app yet. Everything is scattered across different parts of the app. Why bother with another app when I can get what I want online: Hourly news and daily news stories that I can choose and listen to. If you want to improve the NPROne, my suggestion is to SIMPLIFY: Ditch the written stories, I want to listen, or at least make that a completely separate part of the app, not with other features mixed in; fix the bugs that replay stories over again and list the same stories two or three times over when I’m looking at the days news; make it easier to choose what specific news I want to listen too because I don’t want to listen to it all, and certainly not what randomly comes up; provide a feature to download individual daily news stories for listening later when I’m offline.

Live in NYC, suddenly keep getting news from Ypsilanti!. I listen to NPR One all the time and love it, but like so many other reviewers here I wish the program worked better. It’ll sometimes randomly cut off bits of the program I’m listening to when it transitions between segments, and somehow it decided that I want to hear the podcast “Endless Thread” constantly. Worst of all is that it used to give me NYC news - my home station is set to WNYC - but in the last few months keeps switching to some local Michigan radio station called WEMU & giving me local news about the Huron and what’s happening in Ypsilanti and horrible neoliberal political commentary by someone named Alan Chartock, who should retire ASAP. It makes me grateful for the relative sophistication of WNYC content - sorry but it’s true - but drives me crazy bc I never want to hear that irrelevant claptrap again. I’ve contacted NPR One multiple times and none of their suggestions - like reinstalling - have helped. Aaaaaah!!

Problems with playing stories. This is one of my most used apps. I listen to it in the background and usually fall asleep to it every night. Lately I’ve been experiencing issues with playing stories upon launch. When I open the app, I am greeted with nothing but a loading screen. When I go to explore and select a story, once it finishes, it either tries to play the story again or goes back to another loading scene. It does not allow me to skip to the next story or anything. This usually happens through the day. At night when I’m going to sleep with the app, I rarely have this issue. I have restarted my phone and even deleted and reinstalled the app. I’m not sure what’s causing this bug, but it’s annoying when I want to listen to NPR or some podcasts and it doesn’t let me.

Love NPR, Hate this app. I can’t give it one star because I LOVE NPR. I enjoy almost all of their content but this app won’t let me decide. What’s the point?!? I guess some people can just press play and breeze through their day. I’m just not that type of person. I’ve come to love ME and ATC just the way they are. I trust the producers of those shows to arrange stories in an appropriate way. When I want one of the other programs, I’ll listen to them. I also realize that these programs are available on the other NPR app but it only works with constant connectivity which my long subway commute doesn’t provide. Why can’t I just download M.E. in the app and go?!? They tried to simplify and ended up making something that I’m not interested in using. Until they do, I’ll continue to listen to M.E. until the last cashed story ends and switch to the NYT ‘The Daily’ podcast.

I use this app every day!. I start every morning by listening to the national and regional newscast. It’s informative and only takes a few minutes, while staying objective to events that happened without inserting any political bias. After that, I let let NPR autoplay through Morning Edition or the podcasts I follow from my previous and current local stations as I go about my morning. My only gripe is that I wish their search and discoverability UX were more powerful and topic-specific so I could find similar or related podcasts from ones I already currently listen to. I’d also like to be able to more easily explore other city’s stations to see what shows are available in their region without having to guess their obscure/dated string of call letters (so maybe just a map where I could tap on a region and see what shows are popular/being listened to there). Also, I know it’s not really meant for this but I wish I would be able to make my own playlists and add shows/episodes I find to them: “Shows that got me through 2020”, “BLM”, “Adulting 101”, etc.. The current Save For Later function is just a flat list of up to 20 episodes, but I try to use it for relevant shows I feel were largely representative of or impactful on the era they were released. Love this app and all the great journalism and content by all these wonderful people.

You really have to do better.. I LOVE NPR. But I really dislike this app. It’s soooo hard to navigate. I can’t find the shows I want or listen to them they way I want. I feel you keep forcing all you other shows down my throat & not giving me the opportunity to dive deeper into the shows I love & want to listen to. I keep deleting the ridiculous app. Then putting it back when you mess up my WONDERFUL, perfectly fine regular NPR app. Now I can’t fully listen to the shows I want there like morning editions a Saturday & Sunday. But I can’t easily find them &’once I do they don’t play the entire show as I would expect. I get sooo frustrated & now you lose a loyal listener to a program. Why are you doing this STOP, please STOP. I could add more to this list. But I’ll stop myself & see I f I can find the full show on regular Apple podcast or them just go to he internet & see if I can fully listen to the show. It really really really shouldn’t be this hard!!! Sorry Lulu another Sunday where I’ll miss the puzzler :(

Please stop. There’s a feature on your app I’m going to call it, “ Tap the screen now to hear more.” This is the most annoying thing I’ve ever encountered in my life. If I’m listening to a podcast you interrupted this I understand it’s no more than a commercial. But God for bid if I’m actually interested. To hear the stories I must be watching my phone at all times. It would be nice if you had a listen here button to show all the shows that you’ve advertise so people can see them. Other than that love the app. But to reiterate, you purposely make the top your things interesting good. No please give me time to tap on it. And I don’t mean just enough time to trip over the chair climb over the bed and try to get to my phone for it to disappear.

So much promise, so poorly executed. NPR has great content, it's a shame they put it into this useless app. If you haven't seen this already, it will lock you out if you don't register after one week. I just want to listen to some podcasts, I don't want to cultivate a bubble. And no, NPR, I don't want you to track my usage. Take off. Second, the app does not queue the next segment, so if you're listening in a place with intermittent service (like the subway or in a car) you get one segment, then dead air. Extremely frustrating. It also randomly drops what you're listening to and starts a new segment. If you pause for more than a few seconds it starts a whole new podcast and there's no way to go back to what you were listening to without stopping, searching, and restarting. Overall, I love the content, it makes my commute interesting and at least feel somewhat productive. But this app is so dysfunctional as to defeat its own purpose. Please fix it. Update: I wrote this something like 4 years ago and nothing has changed, except maybe to get worse. Now I get 5 - 10 minutes of a stream, then the buffer times out and I get the three “loading” dots for a long time until the app just crashes. Useless.

Not Podcast Friendly. I like the option to save podcast episodes and news stories to “listen later” but the app buries that list at the very bottom of a scroll under the “explore” tab, not the “listen” tab, which is super unintuitive and hard to find. Then when you’re listening to an episode, the controls on the full screen view don’t give an option to advance by 15 or 30 seconds, just reverse. And if the phone is locked, the mini player on the Lock Screen doesn’t even give the reverse option. I need to unlock my phone and pull up the app every time I want to back it up 15 or 30 seconds to hear something I’ve missed. The mini player should give both the back up and advance options. I’m also frustrated by the fact that if I’m listening to a podcast from the Listen Later selection, then pause it for more than a minute, the app has forgotten what I was listening to, even though I didn’t close the app, and I have to find and re-select the episode, and it doesn’t remember where I stopped.

Your podcasts are so good that NPR One actually makes for a worse show.. Sure, I need nprone if I want to listen to morning edition outside of public radio/streaming. But with your hourly news and daily morning edition synopsis. NPR really brought in the golden age of podcasting with the best and most neutral media reachable by all Americans and beyond unlike any other media organization. Yet when using your NPR One app that looks like it hasn't updated since the iOS 11, doesn't even provide basic features the woefully inadequate apple podcast provides. NPR provides such an incredible amount of content, from stories from the unheard or your relentless endeavour towards maintaining neutrality and unlike your for profit competetors, are actually willing to provide time for "both sides" and even detailed show notes with links, pictures and etc. Please make NPR One the preeminent Public Radio app, one that tells us of events hosted by the local NPR station not your own. It's about time you had variable speed in addition to a hard speed control. And of course improvements in recommendations. NPR is creating original content in every state and should be introduced to quality NPR media that isn't just from the nearest town with its own public radio station. H/t to PRI, APM, PBS, and viewers like you.

Great content, buggy app these days.. Firstly, I love NPR and its content. I really enjoy the press play and automatically getting served a variety of stories, both news and podcasts. My problem is with some major app bugs. My most major problem is if the app is not in the foreground and is paused, its very likely that that app will not resume what was previously playing, even if it was just paused for literally a few seconds. I then not only lost my place, but often I can’t find what I was listening to and the app moves on to another story. This is very frustrating and really ruins the experience. This especially is awful when I’m in the car and get a phone call, when the call is over, I know very likely I will not be able to resume what I was listening to. Other apps, whether podcast or music apps, do not seem to have this problem. If that main issue was fixed this would be a 4.5 star app for me.

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National News?. Not surprisingly, when I open the app, the first thing I want to hear is the National News. I’m sure I’m not the only one. But it’s almost impossible to bring it up on demand. Can’t you fix this?

Love. Love love. I love NPR One and I would like to print that on a tee shirt. So many hours of brilliant listening , inspiring and interesting

Love love love this app. Fascinating stories, great selection and so user friendly. Invisibilia is a favourite but check out Hidden Brain , TED talks and Embedded. Love the presentation and really intriguing thought provoking topics.

Why do you bury the news update?. I would imagine that many people come in to get the hourly news update, it’s buried way down on the Explore page, and often gets stale as the explore page does not update every time app is opened. Feels like some dark pattern UX trying to shape your users into the form you want rather than designing an app that matches how your users behave. Love the content though, shame the UX is so messy and lacking in a strong direction.

Npr one. Great app. Simple and easy to use. Good bend of local and national npr. But needs a 'back' button!

NPR. This app is ok but there doesn't seem to be a sleep timer.

Awesome idea!. NPR needs to publicise this app more. Great concept and so user friendly. Cheers from Australia!

Bug!. Some of the pod casts now start from their first episode and you have to scroll through many many eps to find the newest. Not happening in all podcasts so yea really annoying.

Easy to personalise your listening!. Great! I listen from Australia and I love this apps. Thanks NPR!

Fantastic Content. CarPlay App Faulty. NPR is great. I have no complaints with regards to the iPhone app. I am however having real issues with the App on CarPlay. It just doesn't work well. It fails to play more than it works to the point that it's unusable. I'm not sure whether this is an Audi issue or a CarPlay or NPR issue but I'd love it fixed as I thoroughly enjoy your content.

Happy customer. NPR one is a fantastic app, I'm an Australian who loves his politics and human interest stories and this is my daily go to place I get something. Thank you NPR, you rock

Frustrating!. This app is terrible to use. Gets stuck on content, no way to go back to previous story, no way to list stories, confusing to navigate and so on. The only good thing about this app is the NPR content, other than that it is horrible.

Excellent. Yes

Glued to NPR One. Love it! Listening in the car and at home in Australia. Honing to my interests - wall to wall news and politics! Thx NPR

Why can't it just remember where stopped. Always fails at remembering where you left of last time. It asks every now and again but doesn't always work! Massive fail

Love NPR but App needs work. App is buggy! The most recent version will drain your battery dry - in the background! Also has issues with ApplePlay connectivity

Good content but app is really buggy. I love this app and spend a lot of time listening to it but lately I've found that it's really been bugging out recently. It won't play the next episode and the loading screen won't go away and it will replay the same episode over and over again without you being able to change it. Once this is fixed I'll give it the five stars it deserves

Simply great. This app redefines podcasting and is must have for any NPR fan. I live the way you can just skip de from program to program without having to go back to the podcast list. And starting with the latest news is terrific.

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Great App, but Loading Issues. Update: continues to crash. Please fix! This app is an essential part of my morning routine. However, I've noticed over the past week issues with the initial launch of the app, with a message appearing noting that it was unable to load the audio and will try the next story (which works). The first story that always crashes is the news though, which is disappointing. Hoping for a fix soon. Thanks NPR for overall a great app!

Please implement a morning alarm clock. Everything with this app is great.I love NPR. It would be amazing if I could wake up to "up first" or any other program in the morning. I also think this would be the only podcast app with this feature. Thank you

Update very disappointing. I love listening to NPR and find the experience so frustrating with NPR one. I switched to NPR one after the last big upgrade of NPR news, which I think is a terrible upgrade. I can no longer download shows to listen to offline, share individual stories within morning edition, and overall find listening feels more frustrating. Maybe it works differently because I live in Canada?

please stop advertising this app on the podcasts. I love npr podcasts and its news app but don't find npr one useful

Love it!. Informative and entertaining.

Great App, needs to track listened to. This is a great app, that brings together very interesting podcasts, but once you start following a couple you lose track of what you have listened to. Just grey out the ones that have been played. Also, allow individual casts to be marked played or unplayed. Only feature i can see that is missing.

Amazing. Fantastic app! Find what you want, discover new shows! This has become part of my morning routine and Infould t be happier.

Enjoy this app. Surprised it loads so much audio while on wifi, able to continually listen/switch stories even if offline after.

Love it. It's worth 5 stars just for letting me listen to WWDTM every week - but I'm discovering other programs, news, etc. A real boon for those of us with zero radio signals!!

Why is NPR Podcast not on Spotify. This app is just not user friendly. When I play the podcast on a device, it won’t stop playing on the phone speaker. To play/pause, or adjust volume, I have to go into the app every single time. The only reason I have the app is that some content aren’t available on other platforms.

NO LANDSCAPE MODE. I just downloaded this app, but will not use it until it can be used in landscape mode. Please develop this app for landscape mode too. Most iPad covers are for landscape mode only. Nan

Doesn’t work, has never worked. Same as another reviewer I see - this app has never actually done anything for me on any phone. I always download it but can’t use it so I just use the podcast app built into the iPhones

Best podcasts. This is such a wonderful app with so much great content. I wish there was a page where you could see all programs rather than just featured or recommended (unless I'm missing it) otherwise love everything on it.

NPR curated. It's different than radio. More like a best of. I've discovered new program that my local npr station doesn't broadcast.

Why is NPR on all platforms in all countries except for Spotify outside of USA?. We should have access to NPR podcasts on Spotify. It’s absurd that it’s so easily accessible on all platforms in all countries but they decided to limit Spotify listeners to just the US. I’ve listened to Planet Money and The Indicator from their very first episodes and have recently had to give up on these podcasts as the app/web versions just don’t compare to the ease of using Spotify. Please fix this! Podcasting is moving to Spotify and you’re getting left behind.

App won’t open. Just downloaded but app won’t open. Bummer.

Too many buttons to reach anything. Too comp

Terribly Frustrating. This app is so frustrating but it’s the only place to listen to older Car Talk episodes so I have to use it. Please fix the following things NPR 1) Add a feature to download and listen to podcasts offline so I’m not using all my data 2) When you tap the “next” button it should play the next episode in the podcast I’m listening to, not some random podcast or a newscast 3) After my show is over, don’t start playing random shows!! They show up in my “recently played” list and “favorite shows” when I never chose to play them!! Please fix these things as it totally ruins the experience of listening to your shows

Doesn't work. All I get is an icon of a microphone with a round blue background. Maybe it's because I'm in Canada? NPR said no, and asked me to write them. I did, and no response. Still can’t get it to work.

It Totally Takes Over Other Apps. Good app but when it links to my car, it does not allow me to shut it off or access any other media on my phone via Uconnect or Car Play.

Convenient. Works great!

Google Home Casting Doesn't Work. I tried to connect my google home mini to this app so I could use it as a speaker but it didn't work (at the fault of the app because this has never happened before with other apps). Otherwise it's great!

Speed Forward. I love the app, but when I tried using it, I noticed that I can't listen on 2x speed. Great idea, but that update would be huge.

Please add. please add Dark Mode

NPR content integrated to the fullest. Great interface!! Offers better and more in depth access to the material than any other podcasting app.

Much better design than iOS Podcasts app. Apple has really dropped the ball on iTunes and its podcast apps. While it solely caters to its partner programs, the NPR One app is an elegant design and wonderful to use. (Unlike Apple’s, you can even read an episode’s summary!)

Interface needs updated. Native interface support for iPhone X,XR, etc..

Crashes all the time. Recently downloaded to most recent Apple TV. It crashes almost every time. Still rated 3 stars because of content.

No longer works. I can’t get past the initial screen, which says I have no network connection (I do have one). If I reinstall the app, it works at first, then goes back to saying there’s no connection.

Lots of variety. There's a lot of programs to chose from, explore your interests. If you like podcasts, you need this app.

I wish I could give 3 1/2. This is a great app, but I agree with another reviewer, it needs a little more stability, it frequently crashes on me. But I love that I am listening to more NPR goodness, really smart people talking smartly about some smart stuff and some dumb stuff.

Great app. Love this app. I live internationally and the NPR app helps me stay in touch with what is happening in the US as well as the US perspective on all things international.

Power drain. Generally ok way to listen to NPR and certainly a work in progress on some levels but that is ok. What is not ok is watching the battery drain while the app is open. Sit down for a single coffee and to catch up on a bit of news and a short radio documentary shouldn't drain your battery by double digits. Other streaming audio apps I use do not have this trait.

What is going on?. Fix the robot that slaps your stories together. It's cutting new ones half way through the story I'm listening to. I love NPR as much as my very own CBC.

My go-to app for Excellent NPR Content!. A++ NPR customized to my listening pattern, and on my schedule. All the old problems are resolved. The app starts quickly and will expose you to plenty of fantastic material, from all sorts of interesting NPR shows you may never have heard of, as well as the foundational news shows. The app seems to adapt to listening patterns. For example, I like a lot of national news content, and after a month or two of listening, I seem to get more pieces from Morning Edition, All Things, etc. If you give it your local station the stream will include local news. You can even look at your recent listening history and replay pieces you choose. If you don’t have time for a suggested podcast, or want to skip a news item, just touch the skip button. Highly recommended. The app is free, but the content and distribution is expensive. So come on, if you listen you should contribute to NPR now.

You can't skip adds. I used it once and won't use it again. There is no 15 SEC fast forward! I wonder if that is the main reason NPR developed this app :/

Wonderful app but makes phone hot. The app gives you many suggestions of items to listen to. For some reason it makes the phone hot. I hope someone fixes this.

Apple CarPlay Issues. Will only work 10% of the time with Apple CarPlay since the new IOS updates - very frustrating.

This is the app you are looking for.. I have loved NPR for a long time and I've listened through their other app and website for a while. NPR One has streamlined the whole experience, made it user-friendly, and made it portable. It's American classiness I was distilled into an audio experience, all on your phone FOR FREE! Have hopes up for more features to improve on the app soon!

Good app but loading issues. The audio always keeps lagging while I'm streaming any thing. This is insanely annoying when trying to listen to anything. Why can't I just download the episode and listen to it like literally every other podcast app?

Ms.. I really like this app! Is it possible to add a function of "looping"? I would like to practice my English by listening one audio repeatedly. I didn't find any news app with this function. Thanks!

Still buggy. Doesn't work in canada

Offline mode. Been waiting for offline mode since the beginning. NPR keeps saying it's going to be available soon - but it's been a while! Going back to the default podcasts app.

Great content delivered seamlessly. App delivers not only NPR content, great news analysis and related programs (Marketplace, Planet Money), but also great programs from other media sources like ESPN (538 Politics). Easy to skip offerings that are not interesting and the app learns preferences

This is something special. I forget how I stumbled across this app but it is truly something unique. As a fan of CBC radio, I was immediately drawn to the concept of a self curating news and story app. Just launch the app and the stream starts. It's so simple and easy and what you hear is something thoughtfully put together and honest. Couldn't recommend more!

Good but.... .. There needs to be some way of limiting the data used. I listened for 45mins and used 500mb of data!

Great app, easy to use with great content. Easy to use. Great content. I love that the app suggests new podcasts to listen in the mix.

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NPR’s attempt to digest their content for you s*cks. I do not like what NPR is attempting to do with this app. They recently changed the functionality of their NPR news app such that you can’t pick through their content and choose what you want to listen to easily any more. This app forces in local content (which I don’t want), podcasts (which are of a lower quality than their prime time programming), and makes it so you have to listen to their promotional spots and requests for funding without being able to skip through. This is heavy handed...and if it stays this way I will be forced to record their programming myself and skip through the and consume the material the way I want to. Please bring back the playlist in the NPR news app. This is NOT how I want to consume your content...

Word lookup. I have used the app for sometime now. I like the format, but do have one problem with the app. I do use the iOS word lookup feature a lot. This is where you long tap a word, and it brings up a banner with several choices. Lookup being one of those. Once I have looked up the words meaning and try to close out the lookup function, the app freezes. In order read the rest of the story I have close the app and remove it from page cache, and reopen the app. This is the only app that I use that has this problem. It has done this for a long time now, and probably started with a long ago update. With each successive update I hope that it gets fixed. Respectfully, Richard C.

NPR has become deviously partisan. As the title says, npr has become deviously partisan in their reporting, eerily similar to Fox and CNN a decade or two ago. As an attorney, I’m immensely aware of tactics to convince. I took about two years to get away from politics and the unhelpful partisan nature of reporting. Two weeks ago I decided to come back, as I have donated previously. I couldn’t do it. The reporters commonly describe our fellow countrymen on the right negatively, give their arguments no serious advocacy or seemingly intentionally misrepresent, and the stories and their spokespeople are almost exclusively left wing issues or talking points. It has begun pushing on propaganda veiled in npr’s calm, fair reporting. I came back to hear political reporting I didn’t hear elsewhere. Fair reporting for both sides. It’s not here.

App has failed to load for me for nearly a year. This app has been stuck on the loading screen for me for nearly a year: I’ve been writing repeatedly to the NPR One app’s support team about it to no avail, until recently someone finally wrote back to say it’s a “known issue” but with no solution. It’s bizarre to me that as much as NPR pushes this app and wants people to enjoy using it, that they would almost actively ignore an issue preventing people who WANT to use the app from using it (skimming through these reviews shows a few others with this app issue as well). When it worked for me, the content was great... but now that I can’t get in, how can I even it rate it higher than one star? Hopefully find and push out a fix soon!

Lovely app if you can tolerate the bugs. I love NPR. In theory, this app is a wonderful resource for catching up on the latest National and local news and discovering new shows. The algorithms work well and the user interface is well designed. I appreciate all the hard work that went into creating it. That being said, I continue to experience these bugs: - When I untap the follow show button on a podcast show screen, the podcast still remains on my followed shows list. - All of my followed shows do not appear on the followed shows screen. I can only see 30 of them. Maybe there’s a limit? Deleting/reinstalling the app didn’t fix the issues. I also contacted NPR directly twice but didn’t receive a helpful response. I know I can listen to these shows on any other podcast app, but I enjoy supporting NPR’s products. I am hopeful that these issues will be resolved in a future update. Once they are, I will happily change my rating to 5 stars.

Frustrating app, driving me back to TuneIn. Mostly I just want to stream live radio from one of my local stations (I live in Boston, we have two). First of all, why isn’t there a live stream button right up front? You have to dig through menus to get there. I would say one third of the time, it either stalls or tells me that I’m “leaving live radio”. But I’m not! I literally just clicked the “live radio” button! Clicking again doesn’t help. And finally, why do I have to have just one favorite station? Why can’t I have several, even if they’re not local to me? I’m going back to TuneIn right now, because they do all of that: multiple favorite streams, they stream it when you click the play button, and it’s all right there, no digging through menus to get there

Extremely frustrating. This app has far too many ways to redirect from the podcast you’re listening to and NO way to get back into it without doing a search and starting all over. During any podcast I will accidentally bump the screen of my phone three, four, five times and get kicked out to the home page or the national news cast and the have to go back and search for my show, start over, and then try to guess where I was. Also, the search function is very poor. Unless you put the exact phrase into the function will not find your shoe and only direct you to suggested podcasts. At times it feels like the app is built only to market its own material and claim more clicks. I wouldn’t use it if I wasn’t such a fan of NPR programming. Im very disappointed in this otherwise revered organization.

Handy but needs improvement. This app definitely comes in handy for me. I “use it” to listen to npr at work nearly every day. I used quotes because I actually don’t use the app to listen to live radio. All the app does is take me to safari. I really don’t like that I can’t just listen to live radio from my app. Theres a play button when you open the screen? Why can’t it just play live radio? I also don’t like that my favorites don’t show up automatically. My app also doesn’t automatically restart the feed when it gets interrupted (when I get a call or an alarm goes off), which is also pretty frustrating. This app has the potential to be great but it keeps missing the mark. I hope that it’s improved soon

Add a “back” button PLZ!. On the app, there is a rewind 15 seconds button, pause, and skip button. If I accidentally “skip” forward, I’m broken hearted because I CANNOT GO BACK to what I was listening to! ESPECIALLY on the Apple TV app when you click the remote’s “back” button, it translates as a “click” on whatever option the app default is sitting on. For example, when its default is on the app’s skip button and I select the back button on my remote, I unintentionally skip my story 🤬🤬🤬 lol I’m only angry because I love T/NPR so much lol. Please add a “back” button so I can go back to hearing the stories I prematurely left behind. Thank you.

Cut out the sponsored “news” stories. Update: the most annoying bug this app has, currently, is that it will not restart audio when an AirPod is put back in the ear. This feature works for every other audio app on iPhone. I just heard one of your sponsored “news” stories - a very serious sounding British accent speaking very authoritatively about about ‘TOR’ and “The Dark Web” and “having your information bought and sold” - I know enough about this stuff to realize it was the worst aspects of journalism - fear-mongering, overstating risk, over-simplifying - in order to try to sell a product - in this case, credit monitoring/financial services. But it was all packaged up to sound like another NPR piece. Don’t let these sponsors degrade your credibility. Get this garbage OFF of NPR.

“Sign in required” - This app just got worse. They really push you through their sign in flow every time you open the app, even though it’s totally not required if you tap around enough. I find that dishonest. I also don’t think sign in should be required to listen to public radio. I use this app every day to catch up on the national newscast first, then a few local stories. They make this so difficult to find, and I don’t understand why. If you click the explore tab, the national newscast should be front and center. The “catch up, or continue” prompt that they ask is also not clear. Should not be an interstitial modal, just keep playing and show a banner that lets you start over from the latest news if desired.

A must-have news app. NPR One has transformed the way I listen to public radio. Instead of tuning in live, I can open that app and hear the latest news and stories. It’s like “public radio on demand”. I can even find my favorite NPR podcasts and save stories to listen to later. The only feedback I can muster: how does this change the original NPR app? I rarely open that now that NPR One is the home of audio content, and I can read top stories right from the home screen. Perhaps that was the vision all along, but it appears the NPR app is increasingly irrelevant.

Great News, Terrible App. I love listening to NPR in the morning, specifically morning edition. I usually listen in the NPR app, which allows you to listen to the full program for the day in one click. It also tells you a list of what’s up next. So with that superior functionality already within the NPR app wheelhouse, why is the functionality of this app so terrible? Why can’t I add things to a que easily? There’s a save for later option, but they they just sit on a list and don’t actually play? Ooof, and so so many ads throughout, for other npr shows, but still, it’s annoying. Feature those shows higher up on the Home Screen, but please cut down on the interruptions to my listening.

Wonderful content but fatal bug. After years of using the app, I just had to delete it because it WILL NOT TURN OFF. I would press pause, it would pause for a moment, then it would start again. So I would completely close the app, but still it would resurrect itself. It makes me look like a fool when I walk into work, I take off my headphones, then a few moments later it starts playing out of my phone’s speakers. I fumble with it, I apologize to the people around me, I am unable to stop it, and often I simply have to turn off my phone. I love NPR, have listened to them since I was 18 (15 years ago), and contribute each year to my local station. Their content is irreplaceable, but I will be using Stitcher to access it.

Fantastic content, troubled app.. The content is fantastic as always with NPR, and so I continue to use the app. But there are a lot of problems using the app. Uses way too much data compared to other streaming services It absolutely destroys your battery for some reason, draining it in no time (this seems to be relatively new issue) Basic streaming service functionality is missing, like the ability to back up or to listen at a different speed, or two easily and effectively come back what you were listening to for a future time. As an NPR member I would also love to be able to skip ads or bypass the donor requests. And because this is NPR I would be more than willing to pay even more premium to do that. And as an enhancement I would love to be able to program certain programs at the start of every day. It does well with the national and local news but I’d like to put a couple of other daily podcast or radio programs at the front of my day without having to find them. Thanks NPR. Continuous improvement would be fantastic.

It’s 2018 and the app still locks up. Hope you can find some better app designers soon to solve the ongoing problems - for years. The sponsorship ads start, stop, start again, over and over and over. Why can’t the app know it is rebooting itself and stop with the ads. Once is enough. Often first few minutes the audio is garbled and just have to wait until it straightens out. Often the audio just stops for several seconds to a minute. Often have to close and reopen app to get it to play again. Look at other public radio apps for guidance. I do not have these problems with several of other local public radio apps. Hope someone from KQED will read these reviews and address the many issues.

Improvement idea. Hey npr app developers, I love this app have used it for years and recommend to friends. What this app needs is the ability to have multiple local news stations within the same feed. I fell in love with this app because it made listening to WNYC easy when I moved west and I know others who use it for the same thing, but if I could also have the LA. Local stations and coming through the same feed so the national news isn’t repeated and I don’t need to change the station that’s a feature I’d pay $5 a month for.

Every time they get something right, they break something else!. The stability of this app, that I use very frequently, has always been poor. Now they’ve removed any form of history! I just accidentally clicked fast forward (because it’s next to pause) and I cannot easily return to the show I was enjoying. You have to do better! Maybe this latest version will fix the constant stability problems but you should not have removed a vital feature in order to do a minor update to the UI. I love public radio and prefer streaming to listening on the air because it gives me control. Currently this app is the best way for me to do that. Please please please do better.

Has Revolutionized How I Consume News. I can’t use enough superlatives to describe how much I love using the NPR One app every day. Starting the morning with the incomparable David Greene on Up First, then being able to listen to my regional station and national updates later in the day on my phone whenever it’s convenient is wonderful. I love having the ability to rewind a piece if I missed important facts - or fast forward through one that holds less interest - allowing time to get a deeper dive listening to incredibly informative reporting. Thank you, NPR, for providing this platform; I’m a much more informed citizen thanks to NPR One!

Love this app/ hate the new update. I love this app. I’ve found so many great podcasts by listening. I prefer to use this app over live npr because I am able to skip shows I’m not interested in and favorite shows I like. However, the most recent update has made this app very difficult to use. I wish there was a better way to shuffle the queue of shows. With the old version, a new story/show would play when I pressed the “skip” button. Now, I have to flip through five episodes of the same show. I wish there was a way to shuffle the show selections and mark a show as “not interested”. I just flipped through 3 episodes of Wow In The World! Nothing against that show, I’m just not a child, haha. I’ll still use this app everyday, though.

Good content, poor usability. NPR doesn’t seem to be paying attention to the feedback in these reviews because the feedback I’m going to provide is covered in other reviews that are more than a year old. The content is wonderful! However, I should be able to look a list of episodes and see right away what I’ve listened to. As it stands now, you are forced to recall BY TITLE if you’ve listened to an episode or not, or go dig to find the recently heard list. For an avid podcast listener, this makes no sense at all. Also, if I rewind within a podcast (button allows 15 sec rewind), it starts playing automatically which I don’t like because I usually want to rewind more than 15 seconds because I’ve been interrupted or gotten distracted. Please work on the usability issues!

Connection issues. I don't have any complaints about the app in it's functioning state, but I had the same connectivity issues described by other recent reviewers. I first noticed the issue on 7/29 although it had been over a month since I last opened the app at this point. The original issue began with an 'unable to connect...' message on the 'listen' tab whenever I opened the app - turning both wifi and my VPN on & off didn't change anything. I reinstalled the app (at version 1.11.0) and could no longer reach the 'listen' tab and instead I got stuck on the blue microphone. I downgraded to version 1.9.5 which seemed to fix it and then upgraded to 1.10.0 and finally 1.11.0 (a manual upgrade this time) and the app is running normally again.

So much less capable than the old app.. The NPR One app replaces the old NPR app, which allowed you to save as many favorite stations as you liked, gave you immediate visibility in the top menu of all available programs, and allowed you to select news stories for reading or viewing. Now everything is buried in sub menus with only a few choices offered on the first click, and requires you to click “more” buttons, and guess about where to look for anything other than what the app thinks you should be interested in. Now using the app is an activity in itself, rather than a simple tool to quickly view all options and decide what you’d like to listen to from among the many great choices NPR offers.

Great content, terribly annoying bugs. Fantastic way to listen to NPR, but for the last several months the app sporadically begins playing in my pocket. Middle of the night, in the office, in meetings, expect NPR to begin blaring out of your pocket. Highly annoying and the only resolution is to open the app and force quit, which means next time you get in the car you have to reopen the app rather than just pressing play. Secondly, and nearly as annoying, my local station (KQED) has almost all of its content playing about 60% quieter than national content from other stations. This means constantly oscillating between “can’t hear a word” and “oh god that’s loud”. How hard can it really be to fix these issues?

Terrible for Podcasts. "Oh, you can listen to all the old NPR podcasts on this app!" Yeah right! I don't know why they deliberately crippled it for Apple users, but they did. No downloads, must always use wifi or data. This is explicitly not an option for iOS users. Put a story/episode on pause and then it gets removed from your listen later list, and to find it again you have to search, then find the podcast, then if it's older you have to do the idiotic scroll-wait to load-scroll again-wait dance. So it is difficult to do, and then if you pause it again, it's gone AGAIN. The listen later list is hard to find, on the explore page, and you have to scroll down to find it. Playing outside of the app, the player doesn't have skip forward or back 15s (or any amount of time) and you can't move the progress bar with your finger. Again, is the goal for us NOT to use the app? I love NPR but this app is about as useful as a bicycle with two flat tires. Except for unlike the bicycle, apparently it can't be fixed. Why, NPR, why? It's literally like they don't want anyone to actually use the app.

Glitchy app, missing ability to UNFOLLOW. Be careful what you follow in this app. There is no ability to unfollow a “show”. I am plagued by a show that I listened to a couple of times years ago and simply can’t keep it from popping up again. I sent a question to support about it and they admitted that it can’t be done. Unbelievable for an app that has been around for several years! Another issue pops up for me every few days when I open the app. It puts up a message something like “We’re sorry. We goofed.” In my ear buds there is nothing. I can restart the app to get it going again, but it takes a minute of my time and attention.

More ads than commercial radio. I was really hoping that this would allow me to grab the local NPR station from wherever I was traveling but it doesn’t. It streams the St. Louis station and that’s all. I could not care less about what goes on in St. Louis unless I’m in St. Louis. Furthermore, there are more commercials streaming in this app then on regular commercial radio. So I will stick to using TuneIn Radio and using Google to find the local NPR station when I am in a different city or region. This app had so much potential and they just flat out ruined it. I am uninstalling it and I deleted my NPR account, I suggest you don’t even bother with it. If you’re looking for podcasts, any podcast player can play NPR podcasts, you don’t need this to do that.

Love the content, hate the data cost. Let me first say that I LOVE getting current NPR news so easily, and with such clear quality. However, I’ve used NPR One for a total of an hour, maybe slightly more, over the past three days and it used nearly 1.5 GB of data! That’s more than video streaming! Now I can only listen on WiFi, which defeats the purpose of having it for car rides. On a different note, I would love the option to go back and listen to a story if I accidentally press “skip” instead of pause. It’s happened a couple times and it’s a minor frustration.

Randomly starts playing!. This app is pretty good for discovering new shows mixed in with stories from my local station, but it’s got three major flaws: 1. It loses my place in episodes. I can’t tell when this happens because it’s inconsistent, but it’s pretty annoying when I’m in the middle of an hour long episode. 2. I can’t download episodes while I’m on WiFi to listen to when I’m out using cellular. 3. This is the big one: it randomly starts playing. Sometimes it’s playing after I’ve killed the app and I have to pause it from control center. How is that even possible? The other day it started playing when I was on the phone with my mom. It frequently starts playing while it’s on the charger and I haven’t even opened the screen. Please fix this bug, it’s so embarrassing!

Please implement Dark Mode. This app is great! I love it and use it for driving, sitting around the house, and other environments where I need a quick infuse of NPR. It’s great that it’s careful to never repeat a story and I like that a lot. Systemwide dark mode launched with iOS 13 in September of 2019 and that was over 18 months ago. Please stop adding new features to this app until you catch up to 90% of apps by adding dark mode. What do we want? DARK MODE! What don’t we want? SOME NEW HOME SCREEN NO ONE LOOKS AT ANYWAY! Update October 2023: Now dark mode is 4 years old. Please add a dark mode to the app. Morning Edition is recorded at 5 am. It’s dark outside. We’re begging. Please add dark mode.

Works great. I love listening to the great, high-quality NPR content through this app. There’s also a lot of local content, which helps me feel connected to my community. The new articles feed is a great touch. I haven’t encountered any bugs with the app, although I’d like to see new features added. Like the ability to reorder and edit my Up Next queue, and for that queue to be more easily accessible, from the main “listen” screen. I’d also really like to have the app be designed for iPad, as well. That’s my wish list. Overall, great app!

Incomprehensible Navigation and Buggy Interface. If you're looking for a listening experience that best approximates turning on the radio and listening to whatever is currently playing then this is the app for you. If you want any control whatsoever keep looking because this app isn't going to relinquish that level of authority to a mere listener. The app requires constant babysitting. At the end of every story I have to stop the app from moving on to something I couldn't care less about. Then I have to work my way back to where I was before being whisked away. On top of the painful navigation and listening experience the app is buggy as all get out. Lists of stories disappear. Listen later flags become unset. I'm routinely surprised by what happens next as I interact with the app.

oops! We goofed, bear with us.... First off I love and support NPR. I do for the most part love this app and use it almost daily, National Newscasts, Radiowest, love it. BUT. I constantly get the error “oops! We goofed, bear with us...” Pausing and playing from the lock screen or with headphones often won’t work and will cause the error. Sometimes the only way to fix it is to quit the app and skip the story I was enjoying. Sometimes I pause it briefly then it will not play again without hitting play from the app itself. Another error. NPR One will randomly play. If I hadn’t listened to it for a few hours, iPhone locked inside my pocket, and all of sudden it just starts playing. It will do this over and over again. Hit pause from the lock screen and a few moments later it starts playing. Quitting the app is the only fix to this. Although this has happened when the app has already been quit but it was the last app I had used for audio. So in that case launch the app then quit it again. I love the content, and greatly appreciate NPR, but this app is full of bugs.

Love the content, but.... Love the content, but the app needs work. The 3 stars is for the app, not the journalists and their work. Thank you to the entire "this American life" team. Great job! But not so much praise to whoever is the overseer of the app. You get 3 of my 5 star budget since the app seems to only work about half of the time I use it. Would probably be less if I used the app more often. In fact, I would like to be able to use it more. I did pay for it. So please fix the issues with episodes not playing, app crashes, and the app being stuck on a previously played episode. Get your people responsible for the app to step it up, Ira! Mediocrity is not your style. Thanks man!

NPR One is a spectacular source of non-partisan information!. I absolutely love this app because of the variety of news they offer: national and international, political and economical, happy and sad. NPR truly has it all! I love listening to this podcast to and from my way to school and while doing homework, it is so informing and I love the variety of programs offered. Absolutely recommend downloading this app and incorporating these podcasts into one’s daily life! This app has made me much better with my overall understanding of the news and looking at different aspects of facts given to me by the media. A big thank you to NPR’s team!!

Cant find anything!. Update: So now I’ve found a podcast I love. I was listening to it on the road, expecting the next episode to play after the current one ended. Nope. The news played. I had to pull over and search hopelessly to find the next episode. Thank god I had shared the first episode with a friend. I had to leave the app and click the link I shared with my friend to get back to the show and scroll through the list of episodes. I listened to the beginnings of a few episodes until I found the one I was on. With that, I am now rerating to one star. Guys - fix your app. I am so irritated with this. Surely enough one star reviews saying the same stuff is enough to fix it. Original review: First, let me say I love the content on this app. There is always comprehensive coverage of everything happening. That said, I can never find anything. I love it when the app opens immediately to national news. Otherwise, I have no idea how to find it. I also enjoy The Moth’s stories, but, again, I have no clue how to find them. On one occasion on a road trip, the app opened up with a different local station. I still have no idea how I got it to go back to the correct one. Please make this app more easily useable and searchable.

I love the NPR app, but hate the NPR One app!. I listen hours & hours of NPR podcasts every week but have given up on this NPR One app. A major point of listening to apps is the convenience to listen to the desired content without having to touch or even look at the screen on my iPhone or iPad. I should be able to listen to all the stories on the selected date for All Things Considered or Weekend Edition with a single tap. And that works beautifully on the NPR app. NPR ONE, however, presents a more cluttered screen that makes it harder to find what I want to hear… and then, once we start, it stops after each daggone story and needs more input from me! When it tries to guess what I’d like to hear next, it is always wrong! I cannot fathom why the house ads on the NPR app keep promoting NPR One. We know about it.. and much prefer the dynamic, simpler version.

Lazy developers that don’t use their own app. Take the scenario when you want to listen to an entire podcast that you just discovered, if you want to listen to it in sequential order you have to scroll down the list every single time. The app ads in an especially fun aspect where it decides to stop loading the list, because it doesn’t think you need to see it. Please add a feature to sort previous podcast in whatever manner you think is most valuable at the time: sequential, alphabetical order, or most recent. Please add a feature to create some sort of playlist so that you don’t have to go and scroll through the list every single time when you want to binge on a podcast

Pretty, but that’s it. Update: Used it a few more days. This app is not built for podcasts. Removed another star. I really don’t understand how they can market it in their radio ads for that purpose. Verdict: Uninstall Used the app for two days now and enabled notifications for several daily podcasts. I haven’t seen a single notification go by, so that’s pretty useless. When one pauses a podcast and comes back later, there’s no ‘now playing’ feature as in the old app. I finally found the show I had been listening to, but the playhead was at a different position. Defaulting to the local radio station isn’t what users are expecting when they have been listening to something else before leaving (but not terminating) the app. Overall, pretty to look at and the audio-head scrubber is well done, but the developers need to get the basics ironed out before getting fancy. Speaking of basics, why can’t I bookmark a station anymore? Who thought it’d be a good idea to place the ‘Listen Later’ bookmark list at the bottom of the ‘Explore’ tab? Brainless. That list needs to be on the home screen AND in the side bar. I bet the developers never used the app.

It’s become unusable. The NPR One app has always been quirky and buggy, but it provided a way to have a mix of listening to radio stories and selected podcast in a way that could feel like the best of both. Recent updates have made it not play a number of subscribed programs at all or when I force it to play one episode it will then assume i only want to listen to that program—even episodes I’ve already heard. I’ve probably missed tons of content I used to regularly listen to and have reverted back to other podcast apps—missing local news. disappointed when it used to be imperfect, but useful—but now useless.

My Go-To for NPR news my Local Station. It’s all good - the best part is that I can stream my local station through the app. I start my day with NPR News on this app and it plays the most informative podcasts between news updates. I learn things I would not pursue on my own through those podcasts. (All of this is customizable, but I prefer to let it play on its own.) I appreciate that I can get my local live Public Radio station right through the app and so I can listen without needing a radio or the internet at hand - Montana Public Radio, KUFM! Go Griz! This app has never crashed my phone, it is problem free. ♥️

This is “how are we doing” NPR. Five weeks ago I moved to Orange County. I had lived in Nebraska for fifty-five years. No more winter -60 degrees, snow and ice. KPCC has 900,000 listeners which is about a third of the population of Nebraska. One disadvantage for NPR listeners in Lincoln, Nebraska and surrounding areas is the lack of good weekday programming from the local provider. As a result news is provided at the top of the hour followed during the day with classical music. The weekends are nicely programmed which increases NPR’s value to each Husker listener. As for KPCC, I LOVE it. I can get incredible stories of local, state and national value from excellent reporters. So thank you NPR and KPCC. You are appreciated by this Husker transplant.

Less news and politics please. I feel that the NPR One app is doing a great job of learning what I like, however I download this app to hear more society, science, health, pop culture and NPR podcasts. I am getting these in my feed. However, after every podcast that is generated for me I have to skip about 6 current news stories before I get more content that I like. Sometimes the app has even played two current event stories of the same topic (Epstein updates) back to back! I will continue using the app, but I wish npr would realize some people don't want any political stories and minimal news. Thanks NPR!

Bugs instead of Features. Easily the most frustrating app I use regularly, NPR One continues to provide some of the best content in the most annoying manner possible. However, the lack of live local station integration continues to be the largest failure in terms of that otherwise excellent content offering. But the bugs. A big failure is CarPlay, but then who listens to NPR driving, right? Unfortunately, not me, at least not when the menus are empty, which is often. I have several third-party CarPlay apps. Only NPR One is a problem. Other issues include the app getting “confused” playing the latest news update, also crashes, fails to connect over cellular, audio not matching descriptions, I could go on but what would be the point? I use NPR One despite the app.

super listener, new app is terrible. I listen all the time and adore this app in general. But the new app is terrible. I’m writing this review as a means of giving feedback and to get it fixed. It’s now really hard to resume listening to paused shows— when the app refreshes. It refreshes randomly all the time. The history feature works poorly. It’s very annoying. Also annoying that launching the app requires you to unlock your phone as it moots the convenience of voice commands. Finally, it would be nice to be able to control the app using google nest.

Frustrating to use. I'm going to preface this review by saying that I love npr. I listen every day and regularly follow planet money on the regular app. But, my experience with this app has been entirely negative. First, I couldn't find planet money anywhere on here, even though the regular npr app points me to npr one to listen to older episodes. Second, when one episode of a podcast finishes playing, I'm immediately routed to an npr news blurb. I listen to npr in the car. I don't want to hear the news twice. I tried saving episodes in the "listen later" section. Npr one ignores those saved episodes and still plays news blurbs. Also, I can't skip ahead 15 seconds on any track. If I have to use npr one to listen to npr podcasts and programming, I'm just going to switch to listening to audio books. It's that bad of an experience.

NPR content great, but missing the boat here. When I listened to the radio, it was locked on NPR, and then a few years ago I switched to podcasts. I can now readily listen to most NPR shows in a unified podcast app (overcast FTW) but have found myself missing “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered” (I’d happily pay for an RSS subscription for this level of journalism, to be split between NPR and my local station) So I installed this app in a begrudging attempt to get to this content when and how I want. Even in this proprietary app, I can’t “follow” these core shows, and instead must manually search each time...boo. Making UI’s deliberately burdensome, wont drive users to do what NPR wants (a return of radio?), it simply drives them to other news sources. Beyond this “show stopper”, modern listening methods like speed controls etc are also not included. Sorry, try again.

Disappearing Listening History. I love this app. However, sometimes when I’m listening to an episode and then pause it in the middle and leave the app, if I come back a few minutes later it’ll be showing me the National Newscast. That would be fine if the episode I had paused was in my listening history, but it isn’t- this is especially annoying when I’m listening to old episodes (say, of CarTalk) and have to scroll down 500 listings to get to the oldest ones I’m listening to now. If you fixed this, it’d be a 5-star review from me, because otherwise I can’t find any fault in it and have always loved it.

Articles change incredibly slowly. I’m boycotting Reddit and was seeing what news apps I like and this one is fine except they update articles very infrequently and don’t offer many over all. They still right now have articles up that we’re put up *last week* like nothing has happened this week to report on?! I don’t understand why their articles are refreshed so slowly, once every two days at the very very least should be the bar with options to read the old articles if you browse. It’s ok, it’s nothing special, their articles are a bit dry and they don’t put up new ones frequently enough to make up for it.

Restarting to news. Great app, love it! I love the diversity and constant changing up of content. A bit too much politics for me but in this polarized environment couldn’t realistically expect any better. Anyway, I listen to NPR mostly while driving. When I get back into my car and start listening again I am constantly losing what I was listening to because the app starts back at the news. I used to get the option of keep listening or catch up but that seems to have gone away? I tried looking for a setting to see if I could control that myself but I can’t seem to find anything?