BBC Sounds User Reviews

BBC Sounds
BBC Sounds
BBC Media Applications Technologies Limited

Customer Experience

Positive experience65.1% of reviews
Neutral9.1% of reviews
Negative experience25.8% of reviews

~ Based on 737 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is BBC Sounds Safe?

BBC Sounds appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for BBC Sounds is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 352,617 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

97.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 9,763 App Store ratings for BBC Sounds.

Is BBC Sounds Legit?

BBC Sounds appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for BBC Sounds is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

The BBC Best!!!

BBC sounds has something for everyone. Going on a long journey? We’ll try and play or a series that will last your whole journey and sometimes even longer. It will transform your travel to place your mind has not encountered before! Try it! Working around town, try a mystery I bet you’ll not leave your vehicle till it ends!! Have a laugh, other road users will wonder why your laughing, yes BBC SOUNDS cover the whole field and you won’t be disappointed, surprised maybe , delighted definitely. Try it , you can’t loose!
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Well researched

The podcasts are always well researched, topical and very engaging

Hello world

Very good please fund more good bad billianaire stuff

Can’t survive without it

Absolutely fantastic. Use multiple times a day

The BBC at its best

Something for everyone. Easy to find what you want, but also great for a browse through to find something new, or very old but new to you. Fantastic stuff.

BBC sounds review

Just love it 😁sounds of 60s,70s,80s and tony Blackburn listen to all weekly xx

Tracks of my years
So many fabulous individuals from years gone by

Lost sounds

Unexpectedly lost some of my sounds subscriptions so I emailed BBC. Reply said if I changed my details this would happen. Very annoying and unhelpful as I hadn’t changed my login… so much for BBC statement that if we subscribe we’ll never miss a programme! Humph

Almost great

i hope the app people don’t break this classic app like most companies. So many start off with a simple app and then make it worse. The only issue with this app is that it doesn’t always refresh your followed shows.

Love the app …. But

Really love the app and the content too! What irritates me is how it dominates all programs and comes up on my Bluetooth devices!

Else would have been 6⭐️

True Crime Podcasts

I enjoy a good true crime podcast and BBC Sounds have some excellent ones

Whodunnits

Like some but not all of the series. Happy with that but when I download my favourites and want them to play the series I do not want it then to continue with one I haven’t downloaded.

Wonderful!

So good to have everything in one place. I can listen to mainly Radio 4 (although I have recently discovered Night Sounds from Radio 3 which is brilliant and I listen to podcasts too).
Pause, Rewind and listen later al fit in to my busy life and I love having Bluetooth on my hearing aids. I am retired (age 75) and at home with my husband a lot so I can get on with things without imposing my listening choices on him! Kate
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Bookmarking

I love Sounds and use it all the time BUT I continue to have one niggle. I can organise my downloaded content alphabetically- excellent. So why can’t I do the same with bookmarked episodes?

Ok app and great service but

The TV licence confusion just prevents mass adoption by users as people are put off by having to pay for a licence that no one wants or understands.

In protest and out of principle, I have stopped using BBC products all together. And I am not the only one.

I do not want to be forced to pay for something I do not use, such as live TV.

Let the BBC just run freely in the open market and let it ask users to pay for a subscription. If users find value, they will pay. If not than c’est la vie.
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Jane Eyre

Loving this. Best audio book I have listened to for years thank you!

Programme display

I use the app all the time but a display change with the latest update I find annoying. I often play the radio at night and use Apple Air Pods. The time display is now much reduced and the programme picture fills the display making the time display difficult to read.

Pop up ads for radio 6 are annoying

Pop up ads for radio 6 are annoying - have to click to make them go away when start the app. Apple Podcasts app is better

Jewel box

A collection of current and past programmes to dip into at will

Van Tullicans twins.

This was very good advice. Informed consent and complying.
Or not. Especially useful for vulnerable people who are trying to get help for an illness from primary or if lucky secondary care. This programme, spoke to my gut feelings. What did come across to me is that I am not the only one. Autistic, 70 years and proud of my characteristic of a truth teller or a fool. I will never take another protein pump inhibitor, for acid reflux, unless I am told the potential side effects. Or indeed any other drug. I will not have endoscopy unless I know what I am being tested for and knowing myself, I will ask for the appropriate tests. But hey, as the common pathogen , Candida, is either minor infection or a killer, I am on a hiding to nothing within the NHS.
But thank you, your programme helped me to no longer feel alone , I am not the only paranoid, neurotic, what do you expect you are old , female. ( sarcasm).
Life affirming and fun as always.
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Good content but terrible app

Lacks the functionality of Apple podcast app. I can’t keep track of unplayed /up next podcast episodes and it repeats those I’ve already played. Deeply annoying and difficult to navigate.