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Pandora: Music & Podcasts

Pandora Media, LLC · 11,229,678 ratings · ★ 4.8

4.8
★★★★★
11,229,678 ratings
5 ★
9,788,062 (87%)
4 ★
957,903 (9%)
3 ★
270,589 (2%)
2 ★
75,367 (1%)
1 ★
138,812 (1%)
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Top complaints - extracted from 15 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.

1
"music"
7 negative reviews mention this · 47% of all complaints
★★★★ "Ads Ads Ads. There are more ads than music. I get that they need to make money, but this is too much. The same ads on repeat are enough to make a person go crazy. I’m giving up after 14 years." - Harry Bedwell
2
"songs"
4 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Annoyed but love it. Only giving 3 stars because the playlists max out at 5,000 songs should be unlimited" - FindingMyLife
3
"hear"
3 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★ "Get rid of country ads. Refreshing my one star review every time I hear country music in this app" - JTVincible
4
"listen"
3 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★ "Why can’t I play my playlist without having to pay for premium. I thought you could listen with ads but now the darn thing is trying to make me pay for it fix it or just make it add free so no one else has to to pay for it spotty is so much better than this peace of trash I and trying to lye but I’m get…" - My g)’ c

📋 All 15 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").

★★★★ Harry Bedwell 7/1/2026 v2606.3
Ads Ads Ads
There are more ads than music. I get that they need to make money, but this is too much. The same ads on repeat are enough to make a person go crazy. I’m giving up after 14 years.
★★★★ Jomcguire18 6/30/2026 v2606.3
Switch from Apple Music
What a down grade! It’s hard to describe how bad the app really is but I’d pay not to use app.
★★★★ panda_24136 6/30/2026 v2606.2
Trash
100 of stations but plays the same 10 songs from 10 year ago
★★★★ JTVincible 6/29/2026 v2606.2
Get rid of country ads
Refreshing my one star review every time I hear country music in this app
★★★★ My g)’ c 6/29/2026 v2606.2
Why can’t I play my playlist without having to pay for premium
I thought you could listen with ads but now the darn thing is trying to make me pay for it fix it or just make it add free so no one else has to to pay for it spotty is so much better than this peace of trash I and trying to lye but I’m getting tired of this
Thinks if you read and instead of answering with the ai got to the freaking website put normal alive and well human beings to answer and fix the problem which the ai never does this app is just becoming a money power house for the owner and who knows maybe a celebrity is trying to listen to music on this app like drake Taylor swift etc and put a bad review. What are fans going to think of this app people will get tired of this and you will just continue to lose listeners on the app and then what are you going to do try to lower the price of premium which won’t do a thing to the public interest there are way more add then songs and the play lists make u pick artist and you can’t pick songs manually to everybody else who has problems with the app I highly recommend Spotify 00%
★★★★ Drdarkraven 6/28/2026 v2606.2
Invasive ads
Ads are ridiculous sometimes one song one ad absolutely not ok . Less advertising on the radio
★★★★ Sum_1_important 6/27/2026 v2606.2
Ads
If u listen for an hr you’ll hear 20 better help ads and probably 10 hers ads. Crazy advertising. F-
★★★★ cerajfromak 6/27/2026 v2606.2
Explicit content playing despite filter
In this most recent update, explicit content is playing despite the filter toggled on. I’ve toggled it off and on repeatedly and logged in and out but it won’t fix. I’ve used pandora for over 20 years and I’ve never had this problem!
★★★★ Qwertyasdfgzxcvbkjj 6/27/2026 v2606.2
It’s ok :/
I like the music but there is SOOOOO many adds and it is just annoying when I am trying to listen then all I hear is Adds and also some of the songs have words and others don’t
★★★★ Tufghbcv 6/27/2026 v2606.2
Estafa
Adquiri la suscripción para no escuchar anuncios, pero aun hay anuncios estúpidos quieren que pague la suscripción premium para aun asi no escuchar malditos anuncios
★★★★ I’m so happy 😁 I 6/27/2026 v2606.2
The only reason I’m not Deleting it is because I like the music
Too many adsAnd when I’m listening to music, it changes😡😡😡😡😡😡
★★★★★ FindingMyLife 6/30/2026 v2606.3
Annoyed but love it
Only giving 3 stars because the playlists max out at 5,000 songs should be unlimited
★★★★★ ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕚𝕖 𝕞𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣 🍪 6/27/2026 v2606.2
𝕄𝕖𝕙
𝕃𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕨𝕒𝕪 𝕥𝕠𝕠 𝕞𝕦𝕔𝕙 𝕒𝕕𝕤.
★★★★★ Leavemeone! 6/27/2026 v2606.2
Too many ads!
Too many ads!!
★★★★★ Miss biggie🤏🫵♥️✨ 6/27/2026 v2606.2
Why is there a limit??
Okay I love the app but like the playlists don’t play music I like and when I wanna play music I like there’s a limit and I don’t like the fact there’s a limit for LISTENING TO MUSIC and I don’t wanna buy anything which makes me mad.

Sentiment summary

96%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
2%
Negative (1-2★)

✓ Strong positive sentiment - clone path is harder, users like the existing app.