# Audacy: Radio & Sports Talk — user reviews > 455 indexed App Store user reviews of Audacy by Audacy, Inc., rated 4.50/5 from 92,277 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/audacy-radio-and-sports-talk/id323701765/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/audacy-radio-and-sports-talk/id323701765.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 69,732 · 4★ 11,603 · 3★ 3,060 · 2★ 1,943 · 1★ 5,939 ## What do users think of Audacy? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🎧 Ability to listen to local radio stations - 📚 Podcast and on-demand content - 🔊 Good audio quality **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and playback issues - 🔁 Repetitive and intrusive ads - 🔍 Poor navigation and discoverability - 🕰️ Inconsistent time-shifting and rewind functionality - 📵 Inability to play in background or when device is locked **Commonly reported bugs** - Playback randomly stops or jumps around - App freezes or becomes unresponsive - Inconsistent behavior when switching between live and on-demand content - Geolocation issues preventing access to local stations **Most requested features** - Improve background playback and device locking - Enhance rewind and time-shifting capabilities - Streamline navigation and content discovery - Reduce ad frequency and improve ad experience ## Newest reviews (19 of 455) ### 2/5 — Disconnects *2026-08-05, version 2026.07.01* What is the deal with the disconnects? I will have 3-4 bars of cell reception yet playback will randomly stop. From there it may or may not auto-reconnect and if it doesn't I have to close the app. Then I have to sit through an ad. Sometimes this happens 2-3 times in a row, play, disconnect, close app, restart playback, ad, disconnect, close app, restart playback, ad. When it finally stabilizes for a time it will skip to live after it continued for 20-30 seconds where it cut out. This has been an issue for over a year since I downloaded the app ### 3/5 — Streaming restarts after pausing broadcast *2026-08-04, version 2026.07.01* Been having an issue lately where the radio station I'm streaming will restart from the beginning if I've stopped listening for a few minutes. Sometimes, it'll start the previous show on the schedule when I'm trying to pick up where I left off. For example, I'm listening to WIP at 7 am and starting with the beginning of the stream at 5:57 am, if I've stopped listening for awhile, it may jump all the way back to the 4:30 am broadcast when I return. ### 2/5 — App is awful *2026-08-03, version 2026.07.01* Gotta love when you click on a segment and it plays a different one. Or when it keeps playing the intro even though you keep hitting skip ### 1/5 — Awful *2026-08-03, version 2026.07.01* Worst app ever created. ### 2/5 — Delay!!!! *2026-08-02, version 2026.07.01* Three to four pitches behind on LIVE Cubs games. No excuses. ### 4/5 — Needs accessibility improvements for voiceover users, and needs a fix for an ongoing playback issue *2026-07-31, version 2026.07.01* I love the Audacy app. While it is not perfect as far as accessibility is concerned and could use some updates in that field for us blind users, using voiceover, overall, I’m able to use the app. Other than accessibility improvements, the only thing that I would like to see fixed, which when it is I’ll go back and give this app a five star rating, is this ongoing playback issue I’ve had with rewind since September of last year. Whenever I start to play a segment, with any rewind enabled station, it does not start the playback from the beginning. The content is not missing, it is there. To get to it however, you have to hit the rewind 15 seconds button, and then it will go back to the beginning. But the playback, for some reason, does not start from that point, as it should, and this has been going on for quite some time. It was either introduced in version 2025.8.27, or 2025.9.0, and remains an issue as of this review. ### 1/5 — Same ADs on Repeat *2026-07-30, version 2026.06.02* They can’t seem to fix the glitch of playing the same AD multiple times on repeat. ### 1/5 — Says I’m “offline, check your connection” even though I have full bars of service/and or on WiFi *2026-07-29, version 2026.06.02* Every time I try to use the app 90% of the time I’m presented with an error message that says I’m “offline, check your connection”. I’ve used this app for years listening to sports talk to and from work. Now the past month or two it has this issue almost every time I try and use the app. ### 1/5 — I hate this app so much *2026-07-27, version 2026.06.02* This app has always been buggy but it is now just absolutely atrocious. I cannot listen to anything in my car anymore. All the app does is jump around inside of whatever podcast or show I’m listening to. Every time I get out of the car and get back in and restart it starts the whole show over. Fix your app, this is garbage. ### 1/5 — Long time user *2026-07-23, version 2026.06.02* I have been a daily user listening to two sports talk shows for up to 30 minutes at lunchtime. For the last month every time I tune in to listen I either am directed to commercials or quickly switched over if I happen to go live. I understand the need to run commercials but after 2-5 minutes of straight commercials I shut it down. I find the app unusable and have moved on ### 1/5 — Constant pausing or no audio *2026-07-21, version 2026.06.02* I honestly hate this app but I use it cause it’s convenient to just start listing to the news. You can’t multi task like surf the web otherwise the audio cuts out then you have pause and play and hope it starts the audio again. Other times it just cuts out and when you try to pause and play it again it just doesn’t do anything. This doesn’t happen on other music/podcast apps. ### 1/5 — Fix it! *2026-07-20, version 2026.06.02* Keeps rewinding into a previous show with no way to resume what I was actually listening to ### 1/5 — Awful *2026-07-19, version 2026.06.02* I live in Ct. Audacy app can’t get me Mets games. Not worth the time, even for free ### 1/5 — Terrible app *2026-07-19, version 2026.06.02* For an audioplay back app it sucks at playing back audio. You’d think holding the spot you pause a show in wouldn’t be that complicated but the people at Audacy can’t seem to figure it out ### 2/5 — Skipping and Rewinding! *2026-07-16, version 2026.06.02* Please fix the glitching! It is maddening! ### 1/5 — Stopped working after 1 day *2026-07-14, version 2026.06.02* Junk ### 1/5 — Excessive commercials *2026-07-12, version 2026.06.02* Good app but the commercials are excessive and repetitive sometimes in the same break. Makes in unlistenable. ### 1/5 — Barely works *2026-07-07, version 2026.06.02* Constant issues on playback. Pausing causes the time to jump chapters. The UI is absolute garbage. Humans use the app, not robots. A Resume Playback button should be more than 3 pixels. ### 1/5 — An absolute joke *2026-07-07, version 2026.06.02* I’ve written about 10 reviews now over the course of 2 years for this app. If this app would actually work the way it’s supposed to, it would be decent. The only thing is, the people who work there are completely brain dead morons and can’t figure out how to fix bugs in the app. It’s 2026 and these idiots can’t figure out how to have audio play without it skipping forward and backward. I’ve sent MULTIPLE help tickets and have sent VIDEOS WITH AUDIO that show exactly the problem that’s been happening for 2+ years and these fools haven’t fixed it. You people should be ashamed of yourselves for doing a disservice to the people who provide you with content so that you can just play an ad that skips back 10 minutes just to replay again because it makes you money. It’s absolutely awful how you people operate. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — AD, AD, AD *2026-08-24, version 2026.07.01* Excessive and repetitive ads. ### 1/5 — Hop, Skip, and Jump Away *2026-08-19, version 2026.07.01* This app is absolutely horrible! I listened to it every day for the past two years just for WFAN, New York, and I am not going to use this anymore after today until this app gets fixed. It HOPS from segment to segment, it SKIPS through entirely different show, and if it doesn’t get fixed soon I’m going to JUMP ship. ### 1/5 — Outdated *2026-08-19, version 2026.07.01* Navigation is terrible. Interface is terrible. The app doesn’t keep your spot. If you close it out it’ll restart the whole show or whatever you’re watching. ### 1/5 — Update sucks *2026-08-18, version 2026.07.01* This app sucks now. Shows constantly skip ahead or go back to a show I was never listening to if paused. This app used to be pretty good, now it flat out sucks ### 1/5 — Terrible *2026-08-08, version 2026.07.01* This app is so bad. Even after an update it still reverts back to a show I was never listening to after I pause what I was listening to for 5 minutes. Get it together audacy. Absolute garbage ### 1/5 — Broken. *2026-08-07, version 2026.07.01* I’m not listening to this until y’all fix it. ### 1/5 — Crashes, jumps all over the place in time in the stream without reason. *2026-08-07, version 2026.07.01* So aggravating. Stopped using it years ago because of these issues Just tried it out again for a week and I want to pull my hair out and scream. ### 1/5 — Not a fan *2026-08-06, version 2026.07.01* Update: somehow this app has gotten worse over the years. It will randomly switch programs on me when I unpause, it won’t let me fast forward without completely changing the segment on, as well as a bunch of other issues. Terrible app and I’m going to find a different solution to take its place. Downloaded the app and made an account. Next time I went to use it, it didn’t register my account so I had to remake it. Go to use it again and I can’t get it to sign me in unless I use Facebook, which I don’t have. I uninstalled and reinstalled the app, still can’t get the submit button to work so I can listen. Super annoying so I’m deleting and finding something else. ### 1/5 — Update sucks *2026-08-05, version 2026.07.01* Last update has ruined everything about this app. Does not remember your place when listening to a stream. Will not resume after playing audio or video in another app. Simple things that should work functionally on any basic app. ### 1/5 — So Sick of Audacy’s Nonsense *2026-08-05, version 2026.07.01* I’m outting myself as a conservative up front so that all the “tolerant” left can stop reading and not be subjected to an opinion that’s different than their own. I can’t count the number of times I’ve tried to open one of the shows and/or podcasts I listen to only not be able to find it. This includes podcasts that I’m subscribed to. I can type in the exact name of the show or station and I still have to scroll through a seemingly endless list of stations or shows with similar — and sometimes, not so similar — names or call numbers. Several times, podcasts were unavailable to me through your platform on the day of their release. In the next day or two, I find out that there was indeed a podcast posted but it was unavailable to listeners. Given the mostly glowing reviews I read of your app, I don’t think it’s a situation that most listeners experience. The hosts of these podcasts often mention after the fact that for some unknown reason or glitch, a show wasn’t posted. I’d like to think that it happens to shows and stations that are left-leaning but it’s too common an occurrence to believe that. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-08-15, version 2026.07.01* Love I can listen to WAAF still, but I wish it showed the song and artist! ### 5/5 — No one can help *2026-07-03, version 2026.06.02* I have called three times and left messages but no one ever calls back. When I stop the feed and restart it backs up to beginning of show or 15 to 40 minutes and repeat over and over. It use to be good but if I need to advance or backup it will jump back a lot and repeat what I have heard. ### 5/5 — Don’t force registration *2026-04-13, version 2026.03.02* I used to use this app to listen to baseball on the radio. When doing that, I am forced to listen to dozens of commercials. Now they want to monetize me another way by forcing me to register, and tracking who knows what. Deleting the app… Edit: Thanks for the reply. The web player works well. ### 5/5 — Love it! *2026-04-03, version 2026.03.01* They have Bean Internet Radio 90s Hits and the audio quality is off the chain! ### 5/5 — No score notification options *2026-03-31, version 2026.03.01* I love me some Audacy as I listen to my baseball teams radio station all day. I would love to keep my push notifications on for stations for some team news and updates. But I don’t want to have a score pop up when I’m still watching my team play. Either with a slight delay live or if I’ve paused my game and just watching my baseball team at my own pace. PLEASE ADD DIFFERENT NOTIFICATIONS OPTIONS. PLEASE OR IM TURNING OFF MY PUSH NOTIFICATIONS. Thank you. ### 5/5 — Programming *2026-03-23, version 2026.03.01* I was listening to the morning the daily updates for the Megyn Kelly podcast and now they’ve stopped? Why? ### 5/5 — Clean and good app *2026-03-09, version 2026.1.1* Thanks for adding ESPN WHSQ New York, great app and clean interface. Not cluttered with ads I enjoy listening to segments that I missed ### 5/5 — This App is good *2026-01-21, version 2025.12.1* I was having trouble with signing in but then I figured it out and ever since it has been great ### 5/5 — Star 102 feel good favorites *2025-12-19, version 2025.12.1* I like listening to star 102 because they played good music while working and makes me feel good ### 5/5 — They removed the ability to skim (Fixed!) *2025-12-18, version 2025.12.1* You can no longer skip commercials on a show from yesterday or skim through a previously aired show for the important moments. EDIT: this has been patched, thank you. --- *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 2026-08-29.*