BBC World Service User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience61.2% of reviews
Neutral7.9% of reviews
Negative experience30.9% of reviews

~ Based on 631 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is BBC World Service Safe?

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

This assessment is based on 67,582 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

92.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 67,582 App Store ratings for BBC World Service.

Is BBC World Service Legit?

BBC World Service is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for BBC World Service is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

Why are you getting rid of this app

This app is great. Don’t delete when you have a great app! How does the new BBC app work? Will it be easy as this one is?

❤️BBC

We love BBC. Better than most US news outlets. The audio part is amazing… all free too (with ads). Thank you UK!

Good readings! But…

Where’s the Asia Specific podcast?

Great app

Informational

Love this news

It’s reliable and up to date

Sudan post War.

Eye opening situation
Of war torn country. It needs immense amount of foreign aid in Education, Nutrition, Psychiatric counselling, Assurance of Safety to expatriate personnel who would be willing to help this once upon a time thriving country. And experienced planners, economists, advisers from several UN agencies wld be required to get Sudan on its feet once again to usher in momentum in various spheres of human activity including New Investments in Industry and commerce to revive the Economy for new job creation for a country predominantly with a huge young population aspiring skills, aspiring higher education at all levels right from primary , secondary school with vocational skills yo University schools. An expert team from the World Bank and UN need to be invited to draw up plans for rehabilitation of a large section of displaced population and to quickly generate avenues of employment for displaced war affected people.
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Non Partisan

Factual info only.

La

Comprehensive nice feature.

Must Have

Remains the gold standard for world news coverage.

Fake News

Britain is in freefall and will be taken over by radical Muslims if they don’t repent of their sins and return to Jesus. The BBC is not a reliable source of news.

Changed but not for the better

The new format of BBC world is a major disappointment. It has made the service less user friendly, and I will no longer use this app.

Another take on the news

Great source of international news and stories. US news is so US focused, so I live learning about what is going on in the other 90% of the world, including arts, literature and life.

BBC app

Stop asking for reviews

Too much US content

The world is bombarded with American media, we don’t need the BBC “World” Service to be dominated by U.S. stories too

ask for review every login

fed up with being asked to review each time i log in - will continue to give 1 star until it stops

BBC SOMETIMES EXCEPTIONAL SHOWS

There has been improvement in programming BUT BBC searching for more money is noticeably obnoxious.

Landscape Mode?

Love to listen to the BB World Service, but I wish this app would display in landscape mode on my iPad.

Not Working

The latest version of this app isn’t working on iPad Air first generation with iOS 12. It just crashes and never opens.
If there’s a solution for it, please let me know. Thank you.

Biased terrible reporting

A disgrace. You can no longer believe the BBC reporting as being honest and trustworthy. It sounds like the editors atre paud by Qatar.

Reviews

Everytime I open the BBC apps you ask for a review !