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TuneIn Radio: Music & Sports
TuneIn Inc · 2,787,413 ratings · ★ 4.7
4.7
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2,787,413 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 39 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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"radio"
13 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I m from India, pak istani radio stations are not working" - rayees anwer
2
"listen"
8 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "If you want to smash your device out of frustration, this is the app for you..When you have to fight with an app it's ridiculous..Static is better than trying to listen to the app..Btw that 4.7 rating HAS to be fake" - curt buchberger
3
"stations"
7 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I m from India, pak istani radio stations are not working" - rayees anwer
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"free"
6 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "way too many ads and too expensive to go ad free" - S J
5
"better"
5 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "If you want to smash your device out of frustration, this is the app for you..When you have to fight with an app it's ridiculous..Static is better than trying to listen to the app..Btw that 4.7 rating HAS to be fake" - curt buchberger
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"radio stations"
5 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I m from India, pak istani radio stations are not working" - rayees anwer
7
"minutes"
5 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "5 seconds of content interrupted by minutes of ads, makes listening to live radio stations pointless. Time your ads with the broadcaster..." - Ben Ware
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"listening"
4 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "5 seconds of content interrupted by minutes of ads, makes listening to live radio stations pointless. Time your ads with the broadcaster..." - Ben Ware
9
"commercials"
4 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "if you are going to download this app to listen to a local sports team I recommend just buying a radio by the time they get done playing their commercials the game may be over with" - Bill Thomas
10
"another"
4 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "app is buggy and shows no sign of improving. frequently buffers, often every ten seconds of radio play. buffering means another 1-2 minutes of commercials." - Andrew C
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If you want to smash your device out of frustration, this is the app for you..When you have to fight with an app it's ridiculous..Static is better than trying to listen to the app..Btw that 4.7 rating HAS to be fake
way too many ads and too expensive to go ad free
I m from India, pak istani radio stations are not working
5 seconds of content interrupted by minutes of ads, makes listening to live radio stations pointless. Time your ads with the broadcaster...
I do not want to listen to 5 mins of ads to then find out my station is no longer available 🙃 Delete the station info if it's not available! Seems several stations 'are not available' but I can get them elsewhere!
to many advertisers man, no good
Basically junk now ! And NO I'm not buying your add free subscription .... just for that reason.
I haven't use this app in about fives years and to me, apart from some additions you'd expect like car mode, it's no different. What has changed is the atrocious level of ads. It's a greedy set up that means you have to sit through at least three minutes of ads, sometimes the same one three times and worst of all, they're usually dubious adds from online gambling. There are much better free alternatives if you scroll down your list. Don't always go for big tech because they just want money.
likes to be activated on its own not by me! deleted now not active!!
if you are going to download this app to listen to a local sports team I recommend just buying a radio by the time they get done playing their commercials the game may be over with
Ads ads ads! Different visual and audio ads at the same time is rediculous. Miss parts of the show when I switch from my car radio to phone. Can no longer be used without irritation. Not what I need on a Monday morning. There's better options out there. Uninstalled!
80% adds 20% music
my account was canceled. why was 10.59 taken out.
so much ads, 8 minutes ads out of 10 mins listening. enough is enough.
app is buggy and shows no sign of improving. frequently buffers, often every ten seconds of radio play. buffering means another 1-2 minutes of commercials.
Useless app said I could stream a certain live event for free and after downloading it, that event costs a membership to stream. Also it doesn't play the radio stations it advertised that are the only radio stations I downloaded the useless TuneIn app for. Negative -1 star.
Completely disappointed. A few years ago, I bought the pro version. They offered pro as ad-free. Now they charge a monthly fee. Shameful! I feel cheated. I strongly advise anyone planning to buy it against it. Now I have a different app, a better one, with no fees or intrusive ads, and I regret ever stumbling upon this one and paying for it.
Damn, you've gotten greedy. 4 commercials before checking if the stream was up or not? change stream? that'll be another minute of commercials. used to be good, now not so much
I love this songs
I used to use it often but the ads are out of control. Just tried for less than a min just now - 3 ads and 30 seconds into the 1 song and I clicked something that started automatically playing and clicked off of it immediately. Tunein was trying to make me watch 3 more ads so it was closed and will probably be a while before trying the app again. Ads will pop up in the middle of songs all the time. It's worse than youtube. I only use it to listen to a listener supported radio station, lol!
***Had to update my previous review.*** Ads making experience terrible. you can't switch stations without wasting 5 minutes on ads.
eh just no waaaaaay too many ads to even begin to enjoy. I can't even listen to enough to figure out if it's good enough to even get premium.
worst app ever the ads are insufferable
great app for those interested in listening to ads. They're practically none stop and if you're connection drops for a second, you're in luck because they start all over again. it is also an app that seems to get radio stations confused, they are not available one day and are the next. I'd avoid if at all possible.
nruh the amount of ads, ad from app the the station plays an ad..
So far from what it use to be. I downloaded it today to listen to a local radio station. Just to start the stream it had FIVE 30 second ads. Tune in use to be great. Will never use again.
region blocked radio stations, only to put them behind a paywall. now instituting replacement radio stations upselling "new stations" with the same content as the region blocked stations. used to be a daily user, switching to another streaming service. SHADY AF. DO NOT RECOMMEND 0/10
stop being greedy. it should be free.
to many commercials
Didn't like it.
Advertisement heavy.
works good once in awhile, very often cuts out for long periods of time. also repeats itself over and over again, then just goes to a random ad in the middle of a radio segment. rarely does it just work the way it's supposed to and stay current with the radio show.
Used this app for years. Needs a lot of work. Uses a lot of resources, buggy and repeats the exact same ads 3 or 4 times in a row before switching to the program I selected. I'm finally uninstalling because I need something better.
3 adverts, then ... 3 more. missed the content I was tuning in for. unusable.
used to be decent, I'm switching because lately there are so many ads
uninstalled because of the CONSTANT ads, we counted 7 at a time.... I wanna listen to music NOT ads, I do understand that ads create revenue but they got to be too much for her to be worth listening to and using the app .. thanks but no thanks no need to reply to the review
Ads are ridiculous and the constant pressure for premium subscription.
ad made it useless, 3 ads in a row, what was one the best radio player for me it became trash just becouse of ads.
Stupid ADS in order to get to a station. You have to listen to repeating ADS that does not make any sense. I'm looking for another radio application.
Sentiment summary
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