# WFAE Public Radio App > Public radio app for live streaming, on-demand content, and radio bookmarking. (iPhone/iPad app by University Radio Foundation, Inc..) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wfae-public-radio-app/id430173841 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [University Radio Foundation, Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1496667879) - Category: News, Music - Price: Free - Rating: 4.30/5 from 128 App Store ratings · 64 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 17+ - Requires: iOS 14.0 · 36 MB - Languages: American English, European Spanish - Released: 2011-04-09 - Data updated: 2026-08-04 - Monetization: free - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wfae-public-radio-app/id430173841/reviews.md ## What is WFAE Public Radio App? WFAE Public Radio App: The WFAE Public Radio App allows you to listen to WFAE live, pause and rewind the live audio, and view the program schedule for all the WFAE streams at once! You can explore On Demand content, search for stories, bookmark a story for later, and wake up to WFAE with the alarm clock! Live Streaming • DVR-like controls (pause, rewind, and fast forward). You can pause the live stream to have a conversation and pick up right where you left off! Or rewind to catch a comment you just missed! • Listen to live streams from WFAE even while traveling! Start the app and your favorite station starts playing – no clicks to start listening. • Integrated program schedules for every station. You can display up to three of your favorites at a time or flick once to see the schedules for all of your favorite stations. • One click stream switching – flip over to the program you noticed on another stream with a single click. • Listen to WFAE in the background while browsing the web or catching up on your emails! On Demand • Access public radio programs from multiple content providers (NPR, PRI, APM and WFAE) easily and quickly. • DVR-like controls. Pause, rewind and fast forward your program with ease. • When listening to national programs, individual story segments (when available) are listed so you can review and choose one or listen to the entire program. • Easy to access past programs. • The WFAE Public Radio App displays the web page associated with the program or story segment you are listening to On Demand so you can explore for more information. Radio Bookmarks • Save what you were listening to (Live or On Demand) so you can replay, follow-up, or share it later by simply clicking “Bookmark”. • Compatible with the popular Radio Bookmark device (www.radiobookmark.com). Search • The unique “Search Public Radio” feature finds stories or programs across hundreds of stations and web pages and makes it easy to play instantly. Additional features • Easily share stories and programs with family and friends via the “Share” button. • A built in Sleep Timer and Alarm Clock allows you to go to sleep and wake up to your favorite station. The WFAE Public Radio App is brought to you by the people at WFAE and Public Media Apps. We work to provide our valued listeners with great solutions to find what you want, when you want it, and where you want it. Please support WFAE Public Radio by becoming a member today! http://www.wfae.org http://www.publicmediaapps.com ## Key features - Live streaming with DVR controls - On-demand content access - Program schedule display - Story and program search - Radio bookmarking - Sleep timer and alarm clock - Content sharing ## What do users think of WFAE Public Radio App? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 📰 Great news source - 🎵 Access to jazz - 🌍 Works abroad - ✅ Reliable performance - 🎧 On-demand listening - 💡 Informative content - 🚀 Seamless app experience - 👍 User-friendly interface - ✨ Good local news coverage - 📻 Live stream availability - 💯 High quality content - 👍 Good for working/traveling - 🌟 Unbiased world view - 📻 Always available - 👍 Good compatibility - 📰 Great for keeping up - 👍 User friendly - 🚀 Reliable app - 👍 Great content - 👍 Works well - 👍 Love the app - 👍 Great app - 👍 Great source of news - 👍 Good radio - 👍 Great app - 👍 Love listening - 👍 Great app - 👍 Great app - 👍 Terrific app - 👍 Pretty good - 👍 Use it often - 👍 Great app - 👍 Love this app - 👍 Great app - 👍 Does the job! - 👍 Better than Ever - 👍 Very good App - 👍 Love it!! - 👍 Love this app! - 👍 Thanks - 👍 NPR Rocks! - 👍 Great source for news! - 👍 Great app. Great local news cover for Charlotte NC - 👍 One click, and here comes the news! - 👍 Susan in South Charlotte - 👍 Great app - 👍 Love the app. - 👍 Great app! - 👍 Great - 👍 Great way to listen & keep up - 👍 Wonderful for news and favorite shows. - 👍 Always Available **Cons** - 🐛 App crashes frequently - 🐛 App freezes/locks up - 🐛 Buffering issues - 🐛 Randomly stops working - 🐛 Fails to load randomly - 🐛 App is unreliable - 🐛 App is garbage - 🐛 Continually drops - 🐛 Annoying ad at startup - 🐛 App turns itself on at random - 🐛 Updates cause crashes - 🐛 No longer streams live - 🐛 Stops working - 🐛 Does not advance through stories - 🐛 Issues with lock screen controls - 🐛 Auto-play ads/radio - 🐛 Network errors - 🐛 Hinky a lot of the time - 🐛 App is slow to keep up - 🐛 Issues with segmented shows - 🐛 Can't rewind current story - 🐛 Inconsistent performance - 🐛 Poor battery life impact **Commonly reported bugs** - Fails to load randomly via a glitch and requires app restart or system reboot - App regularly breaks down - App continually drops (on an iPhone X) - App locks up and requires complete exit and restart - Cannot pause, rewind or fast forward from the lock screen - App auto-plays ads and radio when opening, even on silent - App buffers continuously or loops audio - App spins, cuts out, stops and starts, plays 15 seconds then repeats - App doesn't have to be open to listen to radio - Live radio doesn't start automatically - Full page ad at startup is frustrating - App no longer plays live stream - App crashes upon open (iOS) - App stops working, will not override iTunes in cars - App resets to current time, cannot rewind - Archived show won't advance from one story to the next when screen is off - App crashes frequently on startup - App stops when user locks the screen - App doesn't advance through stories on 'All Things Considered' unless screen is on - App takes away ability to set sleep time, only toggle switch for 30 mins - App has 'No network' warning with strong WiFi - App turns itself on at random, even when closed - Updates cause crashes, requires delete and reinstall **Most requested features** - Dark Mode - Add NPR Hourly Newscast and Hourly Local Newscast to On Demand - Ability to pause, rewind, or fast forward from the lock screen - Fix auto-play ads and radio on app open - Allow rewinding to listen to missed parts of shows - Add ability to set sleep timer for app - Cover SC news more often - Improve coverage for SC suburbs - More balanced political spectrum - Attract the whole nation by covering all wings - Fix segmented shows not playing continuously - Reduce delay between app and radio broadcast - Add more local news coverage for SC suburbs - Option to disable live stream auto-play on app open ## Recent user reviews (10 of 64) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wfae-public-radio-app/id430173841/reviews.md ### 1/5 — Insensitive *2026-03-18, version 6.3.12* Completely insensitive to the millions of visually impaired and millions whose suffer from migraines triggered by bright white screens. Get Dark Mode now! ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-08-29, version 4.6.14* Easy to use app to stay close to local and national objectively reported news! ### 5/5 — 10/10 *2025-08-21, version 4.6.14* 10/10 app -Mark ### 5/5 — Great App *2025-04-24, version 4.6.14* Works well ### 2/5 — Too often “Network Error” *2024-12-15, version 4.6.14* Not reliable. ### 5/5 — Love! Love! *2024-11-23, version 4.6.14* My go-to for news and programs that educate. ### 5/5 — The news anytime, anywhere *2024-08-11, version 4.6.14* Accessibility to up to the hour news bulletin has been realized with smart phone connectivity. The app has bugs, one of which is that it fails to load randomly via a glitch and requires either an app restart or a system reboot. Unfortunately, those without the means to obtain these devices do not benefit from the advancements in technological connectivity but we are able to tune in anytime for tidbits of the global network’s current state. Our local station, WFAE, provides excellent social, economic, cultural, and entertainment content and could always use a first time donation from anyone who has the funds available to support their personal needs and wishes to purchase factual news coverage that provides fair and balanced debates related to current affairs and the nature of the struggles we face in life. Consider making a donation to this or your local NPR news station to help do your part in promoting discord between all the communities that inhabit our world today. It is one of the most valuable investments one can partake in during the confusion of market volatility and global conflict. Education and mutual respect for those with alternate beliefs will always hold a warranty of return on investments above that of zero, though those returns will rarely be that of a monetary gain. If one wishes to obtain homeostasis, one must be prepared to experience the loss of something of value in order to achieve an increase in favorability of a system that is within a chaotic state. Chaotic systems, however, tend to maintain a chaotic nature when dampening force functions are not properly scaled to bring the system to rest. Investments in these areas will most likely have diminishing returns or little or no effect if those funds are not properly focused on those that require their benefits the most. NPR is a well managed satellite project but the majority of its funding has ties to those that have failed the test of trickle down economics and sharing of wealth. It may be necessary for the management of such projects cut the ties to certain groups that invest only to promote well designed rouses that continuously challenge the completion of the separation of church and state, the abolishment of the promotion of violence against women and marginalized communities, and the worship of capital over that of human decency. We would imagine funding sources have a high variability and job security within the journalism sector has not been ideal for sometime. Perhaps the IMF in tandem with the international community could make a concerted effort to achieve an international funding goal that could maintain independence of the practice of literature in all its forms in order to promote the diffusion of free thought to those that would benefit from books, music, and video related to contemporary advances in revolutionary thought. For this we would need verifiable evidence of reproduction of favorable test results in clinical studies and trials related to socialization, medicine, and freedom from governmental over site in cases with proven results over an agreeable time frame. Also, we would need the deployment of online support that provides a reduction in robotic sub routines that have little or no value but to promote energy consumption and only cycle through small FAQ databases to achieve little more that a web of cyber grid lock and legal quagmire. This does, however, serve the means of advanced legal cyber jujitsu type tectonics and make employment a past time much like that of golf or a tournament of hearts. Perhaps hearts have been broken. But is that not the nature of a heart? To break? It could be said hearts are built to run the body and mind but they must be expected to break from time to time given a body in league with a mind would no doubt breed the emergence of a spirit and that would be another triple point that leads to psychometric nature of the system that would be ephemeral or fleeting at certain conditions and orientations. I find time and time again that a cyber proximity to them only brings more legal wording that only gives a promissory of an exponential amount of uncertainty and therefore a warranty more similar to that of a negative value than to that of a zero. Are we to pay to work to pay to lose and then pay to fight and then pay to die? Seems about right. All that has been achieved here is a zero system. It understands zero. It practices zero. And it holds zero. Zero applied even to a negatively described incline will do nothing but continue to hold zero. It appears that zero is the key and the key is nothing so don’t expect a door to open with a key you cannot even hold in your hands. The solution to a zero system in my humble opinion is to add to that system; not compound it with rate equations for it to climb from a zero. Compounding is multiplicative in nature and will bring the system to an immediate and jolting zero quite quickly. A job has expenses that apply diminishing profit rate equations to those which have no funds to buy even their necessities while those with funds exceeding reserves of small countries have rate equations that trend towards infinite wealth. And they apply their exploration and exploitation of cyber and IRL space with robotic and mechanical functions that act as a lever; not a zero. We get pay for lessons that achieve maintenance of zero. We are working harder, offsetting more and go to camps for eating things that we find on the street. Hang them upside down drooling and crying on television to finance the deployment of a laboratory that dispenses the food stuffs I have ordered and sign the certificates with a zero! ### 1/5 — App is garbage content is great *2024-06-24, version 4.6.14* Wfae needs to contract a different coder. This app is garbage and regularly breaks down. Only reason to use it is that’s all wfae has. Great station garbage app. ### 4/5 — One wish/suggestion/request *2023-11-24, version 4.6.14* I wish you would add NPR Hourly Newscast and Hourly Local Newscast to your On Demand choices. ### 5/5 — thank you *2022-12-09* lately i’ve been looking at cracks in the sidewalk, feeling stuck in them. i’ve just turned 20, and i still have several years before i can begin to understand things around me; Chuck leaven’s makes things, even if there strange, simpler by playing me some nice music for the week. thanks chuck. ## Frequently asked questions about WFAE Public Radio App ### What can I do with the WFAE Public Radio App? The app allows you to listen to WFAE live, with DVR-like controls to pause, rewind, and fast forward. You can also explore on-demand content from various public radio providers, search for specific stories or programs, bookmark content for later, and set an alarm to wake up to your favorite station. ### How do I access on-demand content? The 'On Demand' section provides easy access to public radio programs from multiple content providers including NPR, PRI, APM, and WFAE. You can use DVR-like controls to navigate through programs and individual story segments, and the app displays associated web pages for further exploration. ### Is the WFAE Public Radio App free to use? Yes, the WFAE Public Radio App is available for free. There are no subscription fees or in-app purchases required to access its features. The app is supported by the people at WFAE and Public Media Apps. ### Can I listen to WFAE while using other apps? Yes, the app supports background listening. You can continue to listen to WFAE in the background while browsing the web or checking your emails, ensuring you don't miss any content. ### What is the 'Search Public Radio' feature? The 'Search Public Radio' feature is a unique tool that allows you to find stories or programs across hundreds of stations and web pages. Once found, you can easily play the content instantly through the app. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 12.0.6 — 2026-07-09 Performance enhancements and bug fixes Your feedback helps us make our app better for everyone. Please send us your suggestions via the "Settings and Help" section of the app! ### 12.0.0 — 2026-05-19 Performance enhancements and bug fixes Your feedback helps us make our app better for everyone. Please send us your suggestions via the "Settings and Help" section of the app! ### 6.3.12 — 2025-10-23 Performance enhancements and bug fixes Your feedback helps us make our app better for everyone. Please send us your suggestions via the "Settings and Help" section of the app! ### 4.6.14 — 2023-07-18 Performance enhancements and bug fixes Your feedback helps us make our app better for everyone. Please send us your suggestions via the "Settings and Help" section of the app! ### 4.6.11 — 2023-06-07 Performance enhancements and bug fixes Your feedback helps us make our app better for everyone. 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