# Amp Live Radio: Music & Talk — user reviews > 60 indexed App Store user reviews of Amp Live Radio by AMZN Mobile LLC, rated 4.54/5 from 1,991 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/amp-live-radio-music-and-talk/id1586403838/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/amp-live-radio-music-and-talk/id1586403838.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,616 · 4★ 127 · 3★ 81 · 2★ 38 · 1★ 128 ## What do users think of Amp Live Radio? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great app for radio/music lovers - 👍 Intuitive and easy to use - 💡 Interesting approach to music community - 👍 Variety of radio hosts and music selection - 👍 Passionate and knowledgeable hosts - 👍 Potential for growth and improvements **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy performance and connectivity issues - 🔍 Limited search and discovery features - 🔍 Restricted music library and song selection - 🔍 Lack of playlist saving and management - 🔍 Inability to play music without listeners - 🔍 Inconsistent listener count and metrics **Commonly reported bugs** - Songs cutting off or playing incorrectly - Listener count dropping to zero unexpectedly - Accessibility issues for screen reader users - Notifications not working as expected - Freezing and crashing during shows **Most requested features** - Ability to save and manage playlists - More advanced metrics and analytics for creators - Improved search and discovery functionality - Expanded music library and song selection - Background audio playback - Direct messaging and community features - Live streaming and video capabilities ## Newest reviews (17 of 60) ### 3/5 — Great idea but…. *2023-08-15* They want people to work for free. While this is my passion , it was never my passion to have a fake carrot dangled to entice more content when they had no intention on paying out , though they claim I’ve missed a few, but still haven’t gotten the opportunity to provide payment information or related tax info, and I’ve been over there since oct 2022, and amassed a decent following and engagement, and yet still nothing. The platform itself is borderline toxic , however it has community engagement geared towards music, so if you’re an independent label, this could be a great way to release your music to an audience that is truly there for the sake of music . There is a ton of opportunity that outweighs my desire to leave but don’t count on support from the app, especially if you don’t plan to talk about celebrity gossip or play top 40 songs we have already heard so many times. ### 4/5 — Love the Idea not the Product *2023-07-25* Amp is Great!! The idea you guys bought to life to bring people together in a different way is amazing. The idea is great but the app on the other hand can be a lot better. Connection as well as the interface are your biggest issues right now. Connection keeps lagging or drops a lot when your out and about. The interface keeps freezing & shutting down makes it frustrating listening to a show straight through. The profiles need to be beefed up to put more information about ourselves or maybe a timeline to keep our audience entertained while we are offline. Airplay capabilities down the line would be awesome so we can jam on our tv’s as well. There’s a lot that can be done down the line & hope we get really cool updates down the line. I’m here for it and can’t wait to see what you guys bring to the table. Go AMP TEAM!! ### 3/5 — Has potential to be a great platform for creators and music lovers! *2023-07-19* As a creator, I love being able to connect and share my playlists with others that like the same kind of music. Although I do have fun with my shows on Amp, the platform definitely still has room for improvement. 1. The music library is limited. I’m into K-pop, my show is centered around K-pop, and the limited K-pop selection makes it harder to create fully realized playlists. Smaller artists and groups, and sometimes old songs from popular groups, are often missing. I suppose this could be a licensing issue, but it’s worth mentioning as it kinda hinders my experience with the platform. 2. The chat could be better. Direct messaging is non-existent so it’s hard to create a community outside of a show. The in-show chat sometimes doesn’t work at all and there’s no way to mention individual listeners. Also, I think it’d be cool to be able to see the chat in replays and possibly comment on replays. 3. The functionality of the playlist during shows is a little… weird. I don’t love that it automatically unmutes my mic after every song and I have to manually play the next one. I also don’t understand what the waiting music is? but that might just be a me thing. I’ll still be hosting shows on Amp and I’m looking forward to seeing how the platform improves and grows in the future! ### 4/5 — Loving the Amo community! *2023-06-19* I started using Amp about 12 weeks ago. I was intrigued by the idea of sharing my musical tastes with others. It was a slow start with a few friends/family listening in but it is slowly growing and I’ve been able to interact with others across the country who share musical tastes and are super supportive and welcoming if you jump in and start chatting. I look forward to more enhancements and how Amp grows in the future! ### 3/5 — Smaller creators need to be the backbone *2023-04-25* I love this app. I’ve had lots of fun doing some shows and creating playlists. But I don’t like how you can only play music when nobody is listening within the first 20 minutes. People are more likely to filter in and out than listen from start to finish. If I have waiting music playing when someone comes along, they’re gonna move on to the next show. It would also be useful if Amp could provide more advanced metrics for creators. Stats like total listeners and average time listening would be great for creators to improve their shows if they wish. I’ve also noticed sometimes that my listener count will suddenly drop to zero even though people are still listening. Hopefully Amp can fix this bug soon. The bottom line is that smaller creators need to be given some amount of priority. It’s great that some celebrities have come on board the platform, but the appeal of this app should always be that someone out there I don’t know has awesome music taste and is willing to share it with the world. ### 3/5 — Just some nit picks *2023-01-30, version 2.0.0* I really like the idea of this app, and when I was able to get a little bit of an audience the first couple times it was a really fun experience, but those days where you can’t get a single listener to stick through and you can only play up to 3 songs are rough and totally took the fun out of it. Especially when I worked hard to come up with a playlist. I’d rather be able to play my list through. So at least I could still enjoy it and then people could drop in and out. I’m not trying to be a radio personality. I just want to share what I’m listening to with likeminded people when I WFH or have some free time. Other than that this is a fun app with a great community. The people who do show up are so friendly and into sharing music. I’m looking forward to see how it develops. ### 3/5 — Definitely needs to be able to save shows or at least songs *2023-01-19, version 1.9.0* I just spent an hour adding songs and making a playlist for my first show and was super stoked about it. I started streaming and got some listeners all was going well. I work from home so I thought this would be fun to do while I’m working to keep me engaged, but I do have to take breaks every now and then from the music for meetings. I ended the show and was surprised to find that I could not resume it, nor use all the songs I spent so much time adding. Felt like a huge waste of time. It would be nice to just have a bank of all my favorite songs I want to share and to go live whenever I want with them. Until this kind of feature is added, I will only be a listener. ### 4/5 — Needs categories for certain genres *2022-12-31, version 1.8.0* The UI is clean, but not a whole lot of accessibility other than swiping left and right, sifting through hundreds of stations that I’m not feeling at the moment. At least have a search option and a filter to see if any available stations within the category are live. ### 3/5 — Wonderful idea, poor execution *2022-12-31, version 1.8.0* I am loving the idea of sharing my music tastes with similarly minded people and this app has a sensible idea to it with queuing songs and it has an impressive library to choose from! Engagement makes the wait worth it! But the wait is very hit and miss. With 20 minutes in your first show to play 3 solo songs while you wait, thats ample time to get people interested but it is hard to keep an audience as many may put it on and leave rather than engaging and asking for song recommendations to feel invested in the station. I am having a hardware issue where my bluetooth devices don’t play music for me to hear with my people while i work on other projects like drawing or reading. It is defaulting to my phones audio very soon after starting a song and it makes it hard to get into the music myself when its just my phone speakers, and as though it is trying to play through a muffled speaker phone setting on my phone! No way that i can see to change it and may be a deal breaker if i cant rock out with my audience. ### 3/5 — Everything good but… *2022-12-01, version 1.6.1* Everything is fine, I like the app, but I can't understand how something as simple as leaving the audio playing in the background is not possible! I literally can't listen to a live show and at the same time read my tweets or read a book, it's absurd, fix that! ### 3/5 — I really want to love amp… *2022-10-27, version 1.4.1* I’m a big F1 guy so when I heard about the side broadcasts and stuff I was very excited…. But I can’t find the content. I’ve seen clips online but I can’t even find the fast & loose show with the search. Would love to be able to play the broadcast along with the race one day. I should also mention I often rewatch the races after the live event. I dunno, seems great. Haven’t been able to enjoy yet though. ### 4/5 — Finally a Great addition *2022-10-13, version 1.3.0* Finally able to interact by chatting, and if I want a request I can do it this way. Was going to stop using this app because it was so difficult to navigate but now you have added this update will come back to using it ### 4/5 — GETTING THERE! Suggestions! *2022-10-02, version 1.2.0* I really like this app for creators, I wish there was a feature to save show titles and descriptions as a template. I think this feature would streamline shows for creators. I also think there should be a more dedicated discovery page. I think it’s a good app and has a lot of potential! Maybe a direct message functionality would be good too. Also a tipping system would benefit creators to be supported by listeners. ### 3/5 — Great concept, needs work *2022-09-29, version 1.2.0* The concept of the app is great. Not being able to save playlists is a huge downside. Not being able to play music until someone comes in is also bad. You can’t really get listeners to stay if they come in to silence. The idea of the app is fun but it needs some qol changes to be great. ### 4/5 — Playback *2022-09-21, version 1.1.0* I like the app but I wish we could play back shows that we missed. That would be really great for people who are busy at that moment. I want to be able to listen to the shows that aired previously. 🖤 ### 3/5 — A little accessibility is needed. *2022-08-25, version 0.12.0* This is a great app, As a blind user, this app had yet opened another potential  opportunity where we the blind/visually impaired people can let our voice be heard. I have one advice for you, the creator. I would like to see the app have some accessibility during the next few updates. The app itself is already a little accessible but once I finished typing the description and the name of my show and double tap to move forward to the next part to further create my show, the screen reader on my phone started to get very wonky. I am not able to tell what I am touching, because it is very impossible for Voiceover, the screen reader on my phone to tell because the text is not properly layed out. Thank you for developing the app. ### 3/5 — App Not Showing in Notifications *2022-08-12, version 0.12.0* This app is not showing up in the notifications section in settings. It used to. I have uninstalled and reinstalled it many times. This needs to be fixed so I know when certain shows are coming on. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Lacking a lot of songs and variety *2023-07-12* I joined hoping to find someone with good taste in music I like (which is mainly K-pop, but I also looked for other stuff I like such as post rock or metal core) and couldn’t find any. Then I tried to make my own play list and realized why. I couldn’t find pretty much any song I wanted to add, not extremely popular, new or lesser know artists. I did find plenty of instrumentals of these songs, or some versions where groups did a cover in another language. But not the original songs. I’m guessing they probably couldn’t get licensing for them. But to me it defeats the purpose of this app if I can’t share or find people with music I like. Pretty disappointing but maybe in the future they’ll add more songs. I’m gonna check back a few more times to see if I find ppl with music I like, but it seems like it’s just not for me as of right now. ### 1/5 — absolute worse UX I have ever X'd *2022-11-20, version 1.6.0* serious why can't I find a single show that is supposed to be on this stupid service. I literally want ONE SHOW and it is not there. y'all advertise it on EVERY formula one podcast. jfc. no tags for shows so you can't find anything unless you are VERY specifically looking for it. you need their exact @. and when you do find it there's no info about being live. and there's a show that SHOULD be live right now (F1, Abu Dhabi) but it just isn't. ### 1/5 — Not worth the time *2022-10-14, version 1.3.0* I get it is a beta app but it is completely useless in all honesty. Spent hours trying to find songs and had a whole night scheduled. After going live late (didn’t know that even if it’s scheduled you still have to manually go live) I tried clicking my shared link on my computer only to find out, you can’t use a computer to listen apparently except to the few stations Amp is promoting. So I ended the show early and moved on. ### 1/5 — Not even worth it *2022-08-03, version 0.11.0* It’s weird that we can only have 3 songs from a single artist and 2 songs from one album, I just don’t get what’s going to happen if we have a lot of songs from one artist, there is literally no reason that we should not be able to have more than two songs from one album. what if you want to create an album based off of an artist? It’s just a waste of time ### 1/5 — DOA *2022-06-29, version 0.9.0* Downloaded the app because a couple of influencers I love started doing lives here. What a total fail! The audio is a MESS especially when they take in callers. All of a sudden you don’t hear anything or it sounds really far away. Then gets loud again. I find myself having to readjust the volume the whole time. Verrryyyy unpleasant experience. It’s almost like they sat down and thought up the best way to hurt your ears/brain and created this. I literally cannot stand it, and I have tried multiple times because I really like these influences. But I can’t. This can’t be it. ### 2/5 — Too many bugs *2023-03-09* I like the fact that you can talk and play music. But the problem I have is once you wait for a listener to come in and then you play your music. It goes so fast and then it freezes up then it goes slow then it goes regular dinner freezes up and I’m not sure if the listeners are hearing that on there and as well as I’m hearing it on my end. I won’t be able to give it to Five until those bugs are fixed but I do like it my first time trying it was last night. And I had every technical difficulty going on with amp. ### 2/5 — Needs improvements *2023-02-19, version 2.1.0* Cool idea! Needs a lot of work. Search feature is painful. Please give me artist/album pages so I can more easily find what I’m looking for. Already have numerous artists I search for only to get a mountain of similar titled artists/songs that I have to scroll through to see if the artist I want is even in the database of music ### 2/5 — Meh let down a little *2022-11-01, version 1.4.1* You have to have at least one listener before you can play music. Which honestly makes it a little hard to get active listeners if there just listening to dead air or the “waiting music”. Maybe you should rethink that function because if your trying to start out it makes it kinda hard. ### 2/5 — Needs Work *2022-05-29, version 0.6.1* Users need the ability to save their playlists. Having to make a playlist every single time is tiring. We should be able to save them and edit them, as needed. The ability to import playlists from other music apps would be great as well. Also, we should be able to play a couple of songs to attract people to our show. It doesn’t make any sense to wait until one person joins bc, when they do join, it’ll initially just be dead silence… I find that people leave quite quickly when nothing is playing when they join. ### 2/5 — Great in theory *2022-04-11, version 0.3.0* I have to say I was let down… I spent a lot of time searching for songs (half of them weren’t available) and when I finally got a playlist together and went “live” no one happened to be listening so to it just went off air (why?) but even more annoying is it doesn’t save the playlist to try to go live again later - everything just disappears so you’ll spend all this time creating a playlist - launch it - and if no one happens to listen to it after a couple minutes it just vanishes and you have to start all over again. I get it - it’s in Beta but being able to save a playlist as a draft should be something relatively obvious. Oh well. I’ll revisit later. **Developer response:** Hey there, it's the Amp team. We're sorry to hear about this experience and are working to solve a few things you mentioned. For starters, because Amp isn't an on-demand music streaming service, and songs are provided at no cost to users, you'll need at least one listener in order to play music. Second, live shows without activity for three minutes are automatically ended. Playing music or talking will both register as activity. Thank you for being patient during this Beta phase! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — The best *2023-09-14* This is the best media app out now. It would be even cooler if you could set it up like a Facebook live or Instagram live and people could see you and interact with you while doing your show live. Hope the ability to live stream comes to this app. This would knock it out the park because you wouldn't have to pay for a streaming app to use it if it could integrate with a streaming app would be cool. As for now, keep up the cool work and I'm loving this app. ### 5/5 — Still building the app but it’s going places 👏 *2023-06-18* Amp is a work in progress, they are still adding features and take a lot of feedback from users right now. Great time to grow with the app if you want to be a host. Also there are some quality hosts on the app and you get to listen for free. I’m sure ads will be coming eventually but gotta pay for all of it somehow. ### 5/5 — Amp IOS Accessibility Update. *2023-03-07* Great work, I love what you have done by making this iOS application 98% accessible. You guys have made some serious improvements, taking this, very seriously, and I appreciate that. Great job well done. I’m proud of well you’ve done this, and listened to my feedback. As a blind user, I cannot thank you enough of how well you guys done this. Thank you again. Great work!!! ### 5/5 — For all radio/music lovers *2023-02-22, version 2.1.0* As a lover of radio and music, I am completely blown away by Amp! Love the variety of radio hosts and the amazing selection of music they play. Whether I'm in the mood for indie, hip-hop or classical there’s always a show that fits the bill. The hosts are passionate and knowledgeable about their music, and they put together great playlists. Super easy to use. The interface is intuitive, so even someone who has never created a radio show before can jump right in. Overall, I would highly recommend Amp to anyone who loves music and wants to share their passion with others. The app is a 5-star experience all around, and I can't wait to see what new shows and features are added in the future. ### 5/5 — Interesting approach to music community *2023-02-22, version 2.1.0* Amp on its surface is a new live streaming radio app but what makes it special is the community of people who are connecting about music they love. See good things ahead for this app. ### 5/5 — Nice alternative to old school radio *2023-02-14, version 2.1.0* I’ve only been using it for a few weeks but pretty neat concept. I’m mostly into talk radio and sports and I can usually find something here when I’m out and about. Hope they keep expanding the sports stuff. ### 5/5 — Amp IOS Application Accessibility improvements *2022-09-03, version 1.0.0* I love this app, however I agree with the previous Blind individual, however, the search function is not accessible the editing of your shows that are radio based cannot be edited within your amp account profile either due to some accessibility issues. What I would recommend within the next few updates, is adding the ability to edit radio shows right on the fly and or remove/delete them individually from your amp profile by either selecting them all at one time, or deleting them individually as stated. What I would like to also see is tabs created from left to right on the bottom of the screen. Including the following: 1. Home. 2. Show Creator. 3. Amp Account profile and Settings. overall, I give you guys an a plus for developing this iOS application. Again, this application, needs more accessibility improvements maybe needed. Because ### 5/5 — Amazing *2022-08-06, version 0.11.0* It’s a good app. It definitely needs some improvement like searching for users, letting you play songs from the same artists at a time and possibly the option to do shows with your camera on. My original rating would’ve been a 3 but since it’s a new app I won’t go too hard and Nicki is also apart of it so you get an automatic 5 star :) ### 5/5 — Amp Radio app *2022-06-03, version 0.6.1* I have always wanted to reconnect throughout my stories and experience with other people stories and experience, blending everything with meaningful tunes from dedicated artists and creators. Now ready to launch my Podcast, Amp Radio App give me the chance to play along a huge library and let me run the show my way. Thanks Amp. ### 5/5 — Work In Progress *2022-05-03, version 0.4.0* But it’s power in your hand you have something here I see it growing. Host just have to be very patient and pass out there show to everyone. But I’m sure it will be a smash the consistency wins on something like this good listening and good luck to all host peace --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*