WLS User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience12.2% of reviews
Neutral4.4% of reviews
Negative experience83.3% of reviews

~ Based on 90 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is WLS Safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess WLS.

Is WLS Legit?

WLS-AM 890 appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for WLS is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Pepe’s Taco commercial

The commercial is awful and it seems to play every 5 minutes.

App has gotten terrible

I love WLS. I listen on the radio all the time. The old app was useful. I want to be able to go and see what shows are on today and see something about the people from the show. Possibly some news about what’s happening with the station. Instead you get a bunch of pop-ups and ads. It’s almost unusable now. I can hit the listen now button which is the only useful thing in the app. When you hit what looks like the links to today’s shows that all shows nothing pops up it’s just blank. I really wish this would be fixed.
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Horrible

If you want to hear the same commercial 24 times in one hour go for it

Since update

Since update I cannot access WLS. Going to delete app after this review.

Awful service

Connection is often iffy on cellular or Wi-Fi. When it works, good but connection a challenges

App bad

Gets stuck before you ever get to listen. Wants to track you and if you don’t agree it freezes. Needs much work.

App is terrible

Worst app I have ever downloaded. I was an IT professional for several years. Cannot believe a company like Cumulus cannot come up with something better. App stops all the time and is getting worse.Always reconnecting but most of time I have to close and restart and get all the commercials again! I love listening to WLS but have now started listening to Sirius news stations. Please fix.
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Agree with terrible

I’ve had the same experience if you pause the app and come back you must listen to endless commercials before getting to what you want to hear. Constantly pre-emps the host with repeating ads then starts the show in the middle of conversations. When I pause and then play to skip over the ads the same ad keeps starting forcing you to have to listen to it before you can hear the host. Absolutely awful. Whoever set up this app did it for advertisers not the listening public.
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App doesn’t work

I cannot get this app to work. It won’t even open. I keep getting a message saying that I am not connected to the internet but I have a full connection to the internet. Strange, all my other apps work with no problem.

crap

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME!!!! the worst app ever. if ur not listening to commercials AD NAUSEUM, they’ll preempt shows for their stupid college basketball games, YAWN. AND god forbid u leave the app and come back, it won’t start where u left off, u AGAIN have to listen to these redundant commercials, even tho i MUTE all these ads. the app should be put out of its misery

UPDATE: WORSE than ever!!! how they’re allowed to stay on the air is a MYSTERY. PLEASE don’t support them, don’t listen to them—-let’s get RID of trash, too much of it. thank GOD for podcasts.
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Unable to open app

Asks to accept ‘cookies’ but area is grayed out, only choice is to ‘cancel’. Very frustrating, I have had this app for years. I have eliminated the application and reinstalled it a number of times but the same issue arises. Please advise.

Unlistenable and infuriating

Been attempting to use this app for months and the dropouts from programming is almost continuous. Spotify, HBO, YouTube, Netflix, etc. all stream without interruption. Save you sanity and don’ add this app to your phone.

Wouldn’t turn on with vpn on

Update I had to turn off my vpn to use this. I don’t understand why.

Pop up ads with no exit, and now registration

This app has tended to work pretty well but a few weeks ago it started popping up full screen covering ads. Some of these had no ‘x’ or other obvious means of closing them so I had to shut down the app to regain access to the controls. And now I’m reading about mandatory registration to continue using it (I haven’t updated to that version... perhaps the ads are to force people to update to see if that gets rid of them?).

Another decent app being ruined by bad behavior and customer hostile decisions.

The next day the app refused to run unless I updated. The new version almost instantly pops up a full screen ad with NO EXIT option from lending tree and I have to close the app, sure as hell not going to click a malicious ad. This has repeated many times making the app unusable. ZERO stars if that were possible.

I just tried to send Airkast a note via their website about these problems and the contact form apparently does not work. I guess they don’t want to hear about it.
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Millennial wisdom

Love WLS, had this app for years and loved the app, ‘TAP’ listen to WLS live. Then some pimply faced wizard of smart “fixed” it. Now you must register an account and log in thru social media. Sorry WLS, I don’t do social media and I sure as Hell don’t give out my contact info to use an app.
Delete.
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Shockingly Useless

If Helen Keller was commissioned to to make this app it would have been better. This app I’m sure was designed by people that hate you, and apps.

Terrible

Terrible app, frustrating to get past mandatory ads in the beginning, constantly cutting out and dropping. It shouldn’t be so difficult to listen to a radio app!

Crashes. Stupid ads.

This stupid app is useless. It crashes without warning, and every time you restart, you get stupid video ads. I make note of the ads and make sure to avoid the advertisers to teach them a lesson.

Poor App, Keeps Dropping Out

This app is frustrating. It drops out intermittently. I have to re launch the app. I hope this gets fixed.

Don’t waste your time

Why do I have to watch a stupid game promotion THREE times before it keeps a connection?
Waste of time!