KCRW User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience32.2% of reviews
Neutral13.6% of reviews
Negative experience54.2% of reviews

~ Based on 286 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is KCRW Safe?

KCRW has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for KCRW is 59/100.

This assessment is based on 382 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.9/5.

Safety Analysis

37.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
12.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
50.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 382 App Store ratings for KCRW.

Is KCRW Legit?

KCRW appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for KCRW is 88/100.

Based on 88 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

For People Who Love to Discover

I’ve always loved KCRW for its taste and for introducing me to music, people, and ideas I probably wouldn’t have found on my own. The new Explore LA feature brings that same sense of discovery to the city. It feels curated rather than overwhelming, like getting recommendations from someone whose taste you actually trust. I’ve already found things I wouldn’t have come across otherwise. Such a natural extension of what makes KCRW so good.
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Music listening experience is so difficult

What happened to the ability to either resume a show from where we stopped playing, or the ability to pick where in the show we can listen? Please bring it back! Such a step down from previous version of app.

Sleep timer

Put a sleep timer please

Love the station, App does not work well on CarPlay.

Station the best, app does not sum
No w/ CarPlay
Hopefully update works better.

Stream live, plus other easy access

KCRW rules, and this is the easiest way to digitally listen to KCRW, so it’s pretty simple. I had some bugs at first, but after updating, it’s all good. Love to enter for ticket giveaways, inside here, plus get event info. A must if you’re a member, especially!

5 stars

Best app for music discovery

Love Kcrw hate the app design

Literally hate the app design

Not nearly as good as it was

I have to agree. This app is nothing like the old app was. If I’m in the middle of listening to Henry and I have to leave or something I have to restart the whole show all over again and worse if I wanna skip ahead or skip back that functions gone. I’m gonna continue to listen and support and thank goodness we’re still on the radio because this app isn’t really very good it’s clunky, it doesn’t respond very well, it’s searching a lot of times, and I hope you guys find some time to fix it.
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come on

I want to love it but listening to an ad every time. Every damn time my timer goes off is ridiculous. There are ads in the program already, I would rather have a Silent pop up ad every time I reopen the app than missing out on the LIVE broadcast because my apps pause the show for 2 seconds.

Too Many Ads

Love the app. Hate the new ads. More interruptions than the static from the FM radio station.

Go back to old version

This new version is terrible. And the Carplay function is completely nonfunctional. Why did they need to mess with it? Please fix the Carplay function, please let it load properly, please let it remember where you listening so you can pick it back up if you pause... etc etc

Listen

The only great thing to come out of America right now.

Disgraceful that soemthing like this is released

I looked forward to having this standalone app instead of just having yet another browser window to keep open. The UX is simply absolutely garbage. The code is garbage. This feels like it is a iOS / iPhone native app that they one clicked to being a MacOs app without any effort to make sure it actually works/makes sense. There are no X close out buttons. You have to use your mouse to awkwardly pull down menus - makes sense with your finger on a phone, and tricking impossible on a 32” 4K monitor at 3008xXXXX(I forget). The play/pause buttons disappear. IT FRICKING LAGS LIKE 5 SECONDS BEHIND CLICKS. This is on an M4 Mini with 32GB! 32GB! Did I mention the new UI sucks? No? Well let me tell you, the UI sucks.
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Fine app

This is a great station, and the app continues to improve. Kudos to KCRW for expanding in this area.

How Do I Clear Notifications?

I seem to have a ghost notification. I've explored all sections and it doesn't go away.

Not Really Sure About The Complaints?

Listen, I get it. The app made some changes, you can’t find your favorite shows, yadda yadda. From my experience as a new user, the app is remarkably easy to use. If your main interest is listening to the livestream, you just click on the icon on the first screen, and you’re connected. It plays while in other apps, including in navigation … meaning the tunes keep playing even while desperately trying to merge onto the 110 without ending up downtown. (As an aside, the main NPR app DOESN’T DO this.) Playing podcasts or individual episodes is also very easy; you click three buttons, max, and your favorite hosts are in your ears. With three clicks! Three!! Maximum!!! If you’re a member, all the perks are right there for you to check! You can now enter the giveaways from the app too! It’s easy! It’s simple! It works! What are we doing?! Why are we complaining?!
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Why?

Took a perfectly good app and made it confusing and complicated.

Low Quality Design

Generically designed as if to be “app like” but uses none of the iOS conventions and has no personality of its own. Doesn’t show track info. Weird AirPlay integration. Fifty clicks to find a specific show.

Downgraded

You guys took a perfectly good app and now it’s impossible to use. You can’t navigate within an a stream and anytime you close the app. You have to start over again at the beginning of the two hour show. You can’t skip forward. What a mess.

Notification badge.

Update:
I think the people developing this app actively hate it. When you open the app the first page doesn’t load anything now. Just a ‘listen live’ button that goes to another page with noting on it. Fantastic, ship it.

Original:
Permanent notification badge. Nothing makes it go away so had to disable in the iOS notification setting page.

Bang up job over there.
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