102.5 The Bone User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience31.5% of reviews
Neutral14.1% of reviews
Negative experience54.3% of reviews

~ Based on 92 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is 102.5 The Bone Safe?

102.5 The Bone: Real Raw Radio appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for 102.5 The Bone is 86/100.

This assessment is based on 747 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.3/5.

Safety Analysis

83.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
11.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 746 App Store ratings for 102.5 The Bone.

Is 102.5 The Bone Legit?

102.5 The Bone: Real Raw Radio appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for 102.5 The Bone is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Can’t Use

Love to listen, but when I open the app a black block opens up after a couple of seconds. Can’t click off, around, or X out. App completely unusable.

Terrible reliability

Live play almost always stops playing. The app routinely says it can’t play at random times. The podcast section works well though.

This app still sucks

What is the company who manages this app actually spending money on? Because it is not making sure the app works….even some of the time. Glad they are streaming some of the shows on YouTube.

Not great

This is probably the worst app on my phone. It crashes all the time. Any disturbance to the phone like a phone call or other app running with sound and this app completely drops off and I have to restart. And every time I restart the live stream I have to wait through 2 min of ads
My love for the Mike Calta Show keeps me coming back. Otherwise, Booooooooooo!
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Constant pausing and commercials

Hands down my favorite talk radio. I listen to them more than music. Now the bad. The app makes it very difficult to listen to. It constantly keeps pausing after 3-5 seconds of listening. It’s so bad at times that every time it pauses I have to listen 2-3 commercials. The starts playing a little and then back to commercials. This is even when I have full bars. I’ve been in Saint Pete. Tampa, Wesley Chapel, and still continues the same thing over again. The commercials come in clearer than the show. Please fix. It would be an amazing app if it actually worked.
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Huh?

Listening to a English radio station and hearing commercials in Spanish…

Moody app

50% of the time it works fine. A good amount of times the on air personalities are talking and all of a sudden a commercial or three cuts in. Sometimes the app just quits.

Destroys your battery life.

Works good until you realize how horrible it is for your overall battery life and how quickly it drains your battery, only app with this issue.

Also with that said the bone bonus is never consistent with asking for your information on your keyword of the day.
Sometimes it asks for my phone number sometimes it doesn’t, it almost seems like a scam. It will never let me link my Facebook either.
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Too many ads

It’s ridiculous how many ads you have to get through to get to listen. Then any time you switch anything you have to do it all over again.

Too many commercials

Bone commercial breaks are long enough. On top that the app forces you to listen to 3 commercials before you get to the show. If you switch from car to house, 3 more commercials. Phone alarm goes off, 3 more commercials. Scam caller while listening, 3 more commercials.

Just plays ads, not the show

After the latest update, the application opens up and instantly starts playing ads right away then after about 10 ads or so the show still never starts and this has been consistent. I have sat through a full commute, just listening to bang ads. So basically no longer hear my show since I am out of state.
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Annoying

App constantly refreshes during segments. App adds then radio adds. Lucky if you get a straight 15 minutes of stream before refresh then listen to more adds. Worked great with CarPlay before the new look now not so much.

Has potential

Disconnects on a regular basis. Put some effort into it

Ads are ridiculous

Press play and have to watch an ad… Ad ends and have to listen to 2 more ads. Pause live audio on purpose or accident by when another app wants to play audio and have to listen to 2 ads again before going back to live audio. The app has been plagued with issues and now this is just asinine.

Terrible most of the time

Mostly commercials now

Looks nice

When they did the major update, it looked “prettier” but took away functions like being able to go to the spot in the recording. And it always goes back to the beginning. I wait now and listen on the YouTube recording.

Terrible design

God forbid you click on another video while scrolling, you have to listen to 3 ADs before you get back to live content.

No chat

Trying to watch the show live and have access to chat but the human verification part always results in an error.

What is this now?

Kept forcing me to click on entering a contest for $1000 when opening the app. I closed it, re opened and there it is again. So deleted the app and never using it again. Bye 👋

Somehow got worse

Adding more 1/24/25: I curse the day this app designer and the company was born. It crashed 3 times yesterday while listening to a replay and I had to do the 2x speed FF. Now today the 1/23 replay glitches so many times I just heard someone repeat themselves 4 times. And that’s happened throughout. I hope the station or cox fires this company and burns this stupid app to the ground. I could do it better with 0 experience in app development.

ORIGINAL REVIEW:
The app wasn’t great before the update but at least you could come back to your place if you’re replaying a show. Or you could rewind or skip ahead if it somehow reset and you ended up back at the beginning of the show even though you’ve listened to 90% of it. Now, not only can you not Rewind or skip ahead it resets each time you go back into the app so I have to put it on 2x speed and fast-forward 30 seconds to get back somewhat close to where I was. I can’t believe that the app got worse. So disappointing. I’ve tried three times today to listen to my favorite show and each time have had to sit in the car and fast forward it to get back to where I was. Disgraceful to whomever has worked in this app
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