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Simple Radio: Live AM FM Radio
Streema, Inc. · 887,091 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 34 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"minutes"
7 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Well, after using it for a few years with excellent results, for the last couple of months, after starting it up, it stops after 5 minutes. The same as other users... driving a car, it's not a good idea to go for the phone to restart it. Th…" - test cotty
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"every"
6 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "wanted to force us upgrade, stop every 10 minutes, very bad" - pegpeg miu
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"keeps"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "the app keeps shutting down after 5 minutes of play" - hugh waugh
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"play"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "the app keeps shutting down after 5 minutes of play" - hugh waugh
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"phone"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Well, after using it for a few years with excellent results, for the last couple of months, after starting it up, it stops after 5 minutes. The same as other users... driving a car, it's not a good idea to go for the phone to restart it. Th…" - test cotty
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"radio"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "you can't be serious with that consent bs with no easy way to uncheck everything. it took me forever only to realize none of it was taken into account. Between that and the ridiculous ads that you can't even close right away. For what? a ra…" - QuarkZ
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"station"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "lame! no local station for what I was looking for. you can keep your simple radio because it's too simple for my taste. later. very much." - Val Rawlings
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"simple"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "lame! no local station for what I was looking for. you can keep your simple radio because it's too simple for my taste. later. very much." - Val Rawlings
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"stations"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "no direction of how to cancel subscription. only downloaded because I thought I could play drive in movies but it gave me different countries radio stations. absolute bs. do not recommend" - Trevor Riley
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"music"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "downloaded the app, listened to 15 minutes of audio and video ads, the uninstalled it. there is no music or news, or anything that I could find anywhere in this app that isnt an ad. completely useless." - Jonathan Cannon
📋 All 34 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
very invasive adds
wanted to force us upgrade, stop every 10 minutes, very bad
Won't keep the device awake, have to turn it back on every 3 minutes. Rubbish.
doesn't say it's time limited trial until after installation.... wasting my time FFS. UNINSTALLED
demasiados comerciales en muy poco tiempo
you can't be serious with that consent bs with no easy way to uncheck everything. it took me forever only to realize none of it was taken into account. Between that and the ridiculous ads that you can't even close right away. For what? a radio app that does the bare minimum with no options or anything. Come on. uninstalled.
lame! no local station for what I was looking for. you can keep your simple radio because it's too simple for my taste. later. very much.
Hijack unskippable ads. factory installed spam ware
it charges too much, too expensive
to many stops and I have to manually start it back and 5 minute commercials its almost every 2 to 3 songs I just went and dl my favorite station from the web no use for simple radio anymore give it one * because this app did help me find the best rock station
Too many ads. Constant buffering. Unreliable.
no direction of how to cancel subscription. only downloaded because I thought I could play drive in movies but it gave me different countries radio stations. absolute bs. do not recommend
The new update broke my steering wheel seek buttons in the background...Now only working when the app is open on the main screen...
no soma.fm?
downloaded the app, listened to 15 minutes of audio and video ads, the uninstalled it. there is no music or news, or anything that I could find anywhere in this app that isnt an ad. completely useless.
The greatest app for music is being drestroy. when they just came out. I donate 9.99 dollar to help the proyect and they say was forever subscription but as people change phone they destroy this app and now keep buffering and cutting off maybe to make me pay so I just don't waste my time and try other with better result.
The latest ads are insufferable. Going to delete the app after many years of using it once I found a suitable replacement.
won't play and there's no options for canceling the surprise subscription. can't even search an artist, and 90% of the stations aren't even the US. love how it said offline music but it won't play without wifi. tried getting it to play for an hour, never got more than 15 seconds of a song before it crashed. good thing I used an old card so at least I don't have to worry about that $24 subscription after the free 7 day trial, said free app in the description but of course it's 🐂💩
problem:it shuts off after short time.Very upsetting
keeps shutting off. Reinstalled, but no change. Very annoying 😑 Update- After I was asked to provide phone info, the service improved temporarily. It's back to It's old ways. Keeps dropping off and can't restart due to the endless adds. Will be looking for a new app.
embarrassed me at work. blasted full volume. couldn't turn the volume down no matter how much I pressed volume down it kept increasing volume.
every station i play threw the Bluetooth on the stereo keeps cutting out after few minutes can u tell me what the issue is I love this app but keeps cutting off
installed the app looking for R&B stations and there is barely any options...found a station I did like and the station kept pausing...I have great wifi also....Uninstaller too aggravating
bad apks don't download
Apparently free but only has a trial version
keeps cutting out
sucks doesn't work.. crashes
I have used Simple for a number of years. I used it to select about 7 beach music stations. i could go through with ease with pop up ads occurring every few skips. Until recently, i could live with it. There was a way to click out of the ads. However now the ads turn Landscape and allow no way to exit and "forcibly" installs cash app games on my phone. This is so wrong. therefore I have removed the app from my phone and started the search for a replacement.
Well, after using it for a few years with excellent results, for the last couple of months, after starting it up, it stops after 5 minutes. The same as other users... driving a car, it's not a good idea to go for the phone to restart it. The phone is a Samsung Android 16 UI 8.5.
the app keeps shutting down after 5 minutes of play
was good but ads have ruined it. I don't mind ads delivered in a sensible way but this isn't it. deleting and on the lookout for something new.
after the latest updates of Android auto , the icon is not present in my car's screen. My mobile is Samsung S24+, Android 16
app keeps stopping the stream every 10 minutes for no reason in my tesla and android auto vehicles. New behavior for some reasons. annoying
Simple... I changed my review a bit. from 5 to 2. The ads on this app are specifically awful to close. some of them we need to wait, then click to access the play store, then close the play store, then wait more, and finally show up the "X" to close the ad. I almost uninstalling it...
Sentiment summary
94%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
5%
Negative (1-2★)