RNZ

Radio New Zealand

About this app

RNZ (Radio New Zealand) is New Zealand’s 100% ad-free, multimedia public broadcaster.

Follow breaking news, listen live to your favourite RNZ radio stations, programmes and podcasts and enjoy video or audio on demand - anytime, anywhere with the new RNZ app for Android.

The all-new app is clear and simple to use, with bookmarking, favourites, sharing and options to personalise your experience – including a great new play queue and player.

New features and highlights:

• Get breaking news alerts, video and live coverage on a homepage news feed
• Listen live to all RNZ’s radio stations – National, Pacific and Concert - plus the latest RNZ news bulletins, live blogs and live-streamed video
• All-new build eliminates crashes and bugs and ensures audio play reliability
• Live streaming sounds better than ever
• New design is clear and simple to use
• Easily discover all RNZ’s great programmes, podcasts and series, in their entirety
• Add whole programmes, podcasts or individual audio items to your play queue for listening later or downloading for offline use
• Favourite or bookmark to ‘My RNZ’ and easily find and listen to the latest content from all your favourite radio programmes
• Listen offline without internet access

The app was designed and developed in partnership with Alphero.

If you have any feedback, a feature request, or wish to report an issue, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us at [e-mail].

Ratings and reviews

I love RNZ but this app can be frustrating. For the 2nd time in about 6 weeks it has frozen and won't let me in and I am unable to listen to the radio live or recorded content. Then I have to reinstall the app to listen to the radio. Also if I am listening to a podcast in my car, each time i have to stop at a destination it obviously stops the recording but on resuming my drive the recording goes back to the beginning again rather than resuming where I left off.

Previously has worked great for me, but Android Auto is now failing. I can still get it to work through the phone, but not the car head unit, where it just errors out. The "For You" still works, but it often doesn't have RNZ National in the list. Also, it would be great if the app resumed after a "Hey Google" interruption. Spotify manages to do this.

I enjoy RNZ, the best online NZ news content, but the app is very unsatisfactory. The inability to open and zoom graphics and photos in the app, or even just zoom or rotate the page, makes it impossible to see details or read small type, e.g. in charts. I have waited a year to see if they might listen to customer feedback and fix it but it's clear that they are not interested, so, sadly, I will uninstall and just use chrome. 👎

What’s new

The RNZ app now has dark mode to help reduce eye strain and improve battery life for devices with OLED screens. To enable dark mode navigate to My RNZ > Settings > Dark mode.