# NPR One — Public radio. Made for you. > Personalized public radio stories, shows, and podcasts from NPR and local stations. (iPhone/iPad app by NPR.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/npr-one/id874498884 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [NPR](https://appshunter.io/developer/324906254) - Category: News, Entertainment - Price: Free - Rating: 3.03/5 from 3,182 App Store ratings · 53 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 52 MB - Languages: English - Released: 2014-07-28 - Data updated: 2026-06-10 - Monetization: free - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/npr-one/id874498884/reviews.md ## What is NPR One? NPR One is the best way to listen to stories, shows, and podcasts from NPR and your local public radio station. It’s public radio made personal. *A handcrafted experience* NPR One starts with the latest headlines then moves to a flow of stories that matter - narratives that increase your understanding, create connections, enrich your life and enliven your mind. All thoughtfully curated by hand, every day. *Your personal radio station* Just tap on the big play button in the Home screen, and NPR One gets to know you. Skip what you don't want, or mark a story as interesting. Though your mix is personalized to deliver the stories you want, you’ll still hear the top news of the day and the stories you had no idea would captivate you. *Connected locally* Even with the breadth of public radio at your fingertips, you won’t lose touch at home. Local news and podcast episodes are woven seamlessly into your listening experience. Local stories, locally reported, are delivered daily. Community is everything. *Listen everywhere* Love to listen on the go? Get the most out of NPR One with CarPlay and Apple Watch. Skip, pause, and search at a glance without even touching your phone. *Features* * A personalized mix of stories from NPR and local station * Stream your local radio station from wherever you are * Easy access to the full catalog of NPR and local station shows and podcasts * Sleep timer that will turn off audio automatically Data Protection Choices At NPR, we understand how important privacy is to you, and we are committed to transparency about how we collect, use and share your information. Please take a moment to read our privacy policy: https://n.pr/privacypolicy. By downloading this app: ° You agree to NPR’s terms of use, available at https://n.pr/termsofuse. ° You acknowledge that NPR may process your personal data as described in NPR’s privacy policy, available at https://n.pr/privacypolicy. ° You agree that NPR uses devices identifiers, tracking technologies, and information about the device you use to access NPR’s apps to enhance your viewing, listening, and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide social media features, and analyze NPR’s traffic. This information is shared with social media services, sponsorship, analytics, and other third-party service providers. See details in NPR’s privacy policy. ## Key features - Personalized story mix - Local station streaming - Access to NPR/local shows & podcasts - Sleep timer - CarPlay and Apple Watch integration ## What do users think of NPR One? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great content - 🔍 Balanced and informative reporting - 📻 Useful for commuting and daily listening - 🔍 Diverse programming **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and crash-prone - 🔋 High data and battery consumption - 🤔 Confusing and unintuitive user experience - 🔍 Lack of user control and customization - 🔍 Repetitive content and poor algorithm **Commonly reported bugs** - Inconsistent behavior when switching between apps - Issues with CarPlay integration and connectivity - Randomly starts playing content without user interaction - Loses playback position when app is backgrounded **Most requested features** - Add ability to create playlists and queues - Improve navigation and discoverability - Implement better playback controls (e.g., skip back, scrubbing) - Allow offline listening and downloads - Provide more personalization and customization options ## Recent user reviews (10 of 53) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/npr-one/id874498884/reviews.md ### 1/5 — So much promise, so poorly executed *2023-08-14* NPR has great content, it's a shame they put it into this useless app. If you haven't seen this already, it will lock you out if you don't register after one week. I just want to listen to some podcasts, I don't want to cultivate a bubble. And no, NPR, I don't want you to track my usage. Take off. Second, the app does not queue the next segment, so if you're listening in a place with intermittent service (like the subway or in a car) you get one segment, then dead air. Extremely frustrating. It also randomly drops what you're listening to and starts a new segment. If you pause for more than a few seconds it starts a whole new podcast and there's no way to go back to what you were listening to without stopping, searching, and restarting. Overall, I love the content, it makes my commute interesting and at least feel somewhat productive. But this app is so dysfunctional as to defeat its own purpose. Please fix it. Update: I wrote this something like 4 years ago and nothing has changed, except maybe to get worse. Now I get 5 - 10 minutes of a stream, then the buffer times out and I get the three “loading” dots for a long time until the app just crashes. Useless. ### 3/5 — Not for listening to public radio *2023-08-09* I switched over to NPR One from the original NPR app. The One version is overall styled better, but functionally is not quite there. It’s great if you go to NPR for its regular news-oriented programming or podcasts, but not for listening to public radio. Indeed, the latter is an afterthought at best: on the main “home” page (when you open the app), you have to scroll down a bit to get to your local station, and even then a further click to get to its streams. Or you can go to the dedicated station tab, but same deal: another click for different streams. But—and here’s its main weakness—you cannot add more than one local station at a time. This is really too bad, because one of the main benefits of the internet is that you can access stuff from afar, including favorite public radio stations (sorry, LA, but Sac’s classical stream is far better!). Oh, and Apple Car Play? Forget about it. Useless. ### 3/5 — Just Ok, so I use ApplePodcasts *2023-03-21* I started off listening to NPR podcasts with this app. I loved it! I had more control over what I listened to as I didn’t always enjoy the shows played on my local NPR station. Over time though, I got frustrated and started to subscribe to NPR shows/podcasts on the ApplePodcasts app instead. 1. Ad breaks in NPR One app can’t be skipped unless you pay for the premium service. I already donate $35/month to my local NPR station and I don’t want to pull that away from them. Also, the donation drive weeks are still pretty annoying in the app, so no thanks. ApplePodcasts allow the user to skip through ads and they’re just less annoying in general. I know this likely isn’t possible but is there no way to link up local station donors to an NPR One account to a premium account? 2. The app does not remember your playback position if you stop listening and use another app or even remain in the app to read an article. I will stop in the middle of a podcast to read an article in the NPR app and when I go back to listening, it kicks off with another ad, then starts in on the National Newscast, completely forgetting about the podcast I was listening to. ApplePodcasts holds your playback position in a podcast even if you close out the app, and it is wonderful. Those are my two most significant gripes at the moment. ### 1/5 — NPR is always FIVE stars | This app is ONE *2023-02-02, version 1.23.2* The concept is fantastic and it’s really nice be able to listen to stories on “shuffle” in a similar way you listen on the radio, without knowing what the next subject may be. The problem is you can not customize what you hear in any way, I listen to marketplace every evening on my way home from work so I don’t need it in the NPR One app. But I can’t inform the app that I don’t want to hear this anymore. It also repeats over and over and over, I’ve heart the intro to Children of Afghanistan no less than nine times so far. Lastly, you should be able to filter content based on your mood, the world is a depressing place right now and some days I don’t have it in me to hear political news. I feel like you should be able to “toggle” off political content, or the opposite…when it’s the day before/after an election, you could toggle on political content ONLY. Everyone should absolutely still download the app, because the content is top notch and the tech is ALMOST there, but a lot more functionality, filters, “dislike” buttons, etc. are all needed to make this app live up to what NPR believes it is. ### 1/5 — Disappointing Downgrade *2022-11-08, version 1.23.1* Update: Still playing repeat episodes, in the last 24 hours they’ve tried to play the same episode at least 6 times (that I’ve noticed so far) I used to listen to NPR on the NPR News app, where you could make playlists and listen to (or binge) all your favorite shows, or choose a station and listen to a live stream. When the podcasts jumped ship, I was forced to switch over to this app, and it's been painful. Limited number of skips, but the news segments are broken up story by story, so you waste 10 of them trying to get through one segment, no playlist feature, which is the most frustrating thing. I've had the app randomly start playing when my phone was on silent and in my pocket, in public, in meetings, in the middle of conversations, even when the app isn't open. Additionally, there are several podcasts that seem to be added to my feed as filler. They play episodes I've heard multiple times, not rebroadcasts or new versions, just the same episode over and over. My most recent complaint is that it's become particularly glitchy. Not playing the story you select (as in playing a completely different one), or not loading. If this wasn't the only way for me to hear these podcasts I would never use this app again. The shuffle feature should be an option, but not the entirety of the function of the platform. This is a poorly designed disaster. ### 2/5 — Every update has a featured bug! *2022-10-10, version 1.22.1* Fix one thing and break another. NPR app developers like to feature not-so-fun and absolutely-infuriating bugs with each new app version released. One of the most annoying featured bugs of the current release is long-pressing the NPROne icon and tapping "catch up" to listen to the latest news doesn't work if the app is already open in the background. It'll just open the app and present you with whatever you were last listening to last time you were using the app. Have to force-close the app then do the long-press/catch up in order to get the latest news cast to play. I've also noticed on the short recordings asking you to "tap your screen to hear more" that tapping those does nothing. Short keeps playing to the end, ignoring your taps, and moves on to the next audio clip. Starting to think I should just get a generic podcast app and start subscribing to the individual NPR shows I like. Would be far less frustrating. So much for finding new stuff I didn't know I'd like... ### 1/5 — Giving up on NPROne *2022-09-02, version 1.22.1* This is probably THE WORST version of this app yet. Everything is scattered across different parts of the app. Why bother with another app when I can get what I want online: Hourly news and daily news stories that I can choose and listen to. If you want to improve the NPROne, my suggestion is to SIMPLIFY: Ditch the written stories, I want to listen, or at least make that a completely separate part of the app, not with other features mixed in; fix the bugs that replay stories over again and list the same stories two or three times over when I’m looking at the days news; make it easier to choose what specific news I want to listen too because I don’t want to listen to it all, and certainly not what randomly comes up; provide a feature to download individual daily news stories for listening later when I’m offline. ### 1/5 — Great content, but loaded with bugs! Now more than ever. *2022-06-17, version 1.21.1* The last update several weeks ago doesn’t work with CarPlay. It is the worst version ever. “Unable to connect to NPR One” displays. It happens to me and my friends, and in every car I own or rent, so it’s not just me or my device. Also, it would be nice if there was a convenient shortcut to National News. I have to click Explore, then scroll down the screen pretty far too find that link. It’s a problem (read dangerous) while driving, especially since CarPlay has stopped working. Previous review: Love NPR news, programs, and podcasts. This app could be great if the bugs get cleaned up. The app cannot keep its place when you get a phone call. Sometimes it cannot even handle a simple Pause without starting a new program instead of continuing where you paused the audio. The real nasty bug is that it randomly starts playing on its own, sometimes even during a phone call on the same device! The person you are calling cannot hear it’s, but it’s playing the news over to of your phone call. It started playing by itself many times while my phone was just sitting on the kitchen counter, abs during a meeting at work. They added goofy jingles before the news cast so you have to wait for it to play before the news starts. I hope they can fix these annoying bugs soon. ### 4/5 — I listen daily, but there are a few bugs *2022-03-13, version 1.19.0* This app is overall solid and listening is part of my daily routine, but there are a few bugs that don’t stop me from listening, but are an annoyance: 1. I wish the app would do a better job of remember where I leave off. I listen to longer shows like Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me over the course of the week and since the app doesn’t do a good job of remembering my place, I’ve started taking screenshots of the time stamp before closing the app so I can start at the right place in the episode when I come back. 2. The show “This is Uncomfortable” is stuck in my list of followed shows in the explore tab. I didn’t followed that show and I don’t have the option to unfollow it like I do for other shows. 3. I can’t click the bottom option in a show’s episode list because it’s blocked by the play/audio bar at the bottom of the screen. This is especially noticeable for shows like “This is Dating” where the newest episodes are on the bottom of the page. Since I can’t click on new episodes from the show page because it’s blocked by the play/audio bar, I have to find the episode title and search for it in the app search bar to find and play the latest episode. Overall, I enjoy using this app! These are just some minor bugs that are a bit of annoyance. Thank you! ### 2/5 — What’s “Listen Later” Even There For?!?! *2022-01-02, version 1.16.2* I basically hate this app. I don’t know why I’m even giving it two stars; I guess I just want to be as supportive as possible. Basically, this is no better than just listening to the radio or searching the Internet for stories. When I look around and find something I’m interested in, I either have to listen to it immediately – interrupting whatever I am listening to currently — or just yet “save it for later“ and hope that somehow that does something. But it doesn’t. I can’t build any kind of a playlist or queue. This is a stupidly designed app. I’d rather just turn on the radio or use my podcast app. This app gives me no control other than to skip a story (that I didn’t pick anyway). I’m rambling. Point is, I’m *this close* to (once again) deleting this app because it’s just not useful. It’s just lame. ## Frequently asked questions about NPR One ### What does the NPR One app do? NPR One provides a personalized listening experience for public radio content. It delivers a curated flow of stories, shows, and podcasts from NPR and your local public radio station, starting with daily headlines and adapting to your preferences. ### How is the listening experience personalized? The app learns your preferences as you listen. You can skip stories you don't want to hear or mark stories as interesting. This allows the app to create a unique mix of content tailored to your tastes, while still ensuring you hear top news and captivating narratives. ### Is NPR One free to use? Yes, the NPR One app is free to download and use. It offers a completely free listening experience without any subscription fees or in-app purchases. ### What devices is NPR One compatible with? NPR One is designed for mobile listening and offers integration with CarPlay and Apple Watch for convenient use on the go. You can skip, pause, and search content easily on these devices without needing to interact with your phone. ### Can I listen to my local public radio station on NPR One? Absolutely. NPR One seamlessly integrates local news and podcast episodes into your listening experience. You can stream your local radio station from wherever you are, ensuring you stay connected to locally reported stories and community content. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.25.4 — 2023-11-11 Listening to NPR's flagship shows like Morning Edition and All Things Considered on the go is now simpler than ever. Just tap the 'PLAY' button to binge all of today's segments back-to-back. This release also contains bug fixes and performance improvements. ### 1.25.3 — 2023-11-07 Listening to NPR's flagship shows like Morning Edition and All Things Considered on the go is now simpler than ever. Just tap the 'PLAY' button to binge all of today's segments back-to-back. This release also contains bug fixes and performance improvements. ### 1.25.2 — 2023-11-01 Listening to NPR’s flagship shows like Morning Edition and All Things Considered on the go is now simpler than ever. Just tap the 'PLAY' button to binge all of today’s segments back-to-back. ### 1.25.1 — 2023-10-12 Hey, iOS users, it’s been a minute! In this release we've upgraded the app's "Listen Later" feature to a new "My Playlist" experience. Add audio stories and podcast episodes to your playlist as you navigate the app; then tap "Listen" to hear them all continuously. We’ve also fixed bugs and made improvements for a smoother experience. Happy listening! ### 1.25.0 — 2023-10-09 Hey, iOS users, it’s been a minute! In this release we've upgraded the app's "Listen Later" feature to a new "My Playlist" experience. Add audio stories and podcast episodes to your playlist as you navigate the app; then tap "Listen" to hear them all continuously. We’ve also fixed bugs and made improvements for a smoother experience. 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