WBUR

WBUR

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About this app

Listen to WBUR anytime, anywhere. The WBUR App is the best way to get news from Greater Boston and beyond with our live stream and signature podcasts all in one place.

Play, pause, rewind (and play again) live radio shows from the award-winning teams at WBUR and NPR. On Point, Here & Now, Radio Boston, Circle Round, Endless Thread and more are all at your fingertips.

You’ll also:
+ Stay in the know with hourly local and national audio news briefs
+ Hear about new shows, special series and trending stories
+ Listen on demand to your favorite shows like Morning Edition, All Things + Considered and Marketplace
+ Download episodes for offline listening

Our journalism is funded by you, our listeners. Thanks for choosing WBUR, Boston’s NPR news.

Ratings and reviews

The app works well enough but after the latest update in January 2023 there's no way to terminate the app. It just keeps running in the background even if you dismiss it, clear the notification, etc. If you dismiss its notification, it just comes back some time later. The only way I've found to actually stop it is to 'force quit'. I just checked and this app has consumed 15% of my phone's battery over the past day even though I only listened for a little over an hour. PLEASE FIX THIS!

App quality is abysmal. Stream stability is awful, irrespective of the stability of your internet connection. You have to manually restart the stream constantly. I've tried to use this app across two different Android phones, and the performance has been equally terrible on both. Other apps that stream live audio and video have worked fine on both phones, so the problem is with plainly with the app. Spare yourself the frustration and dont bother downloading this.

This app doesn't recognize audio like other apps. So if you play music, the app will continue over the music and not stop. This is especially irritating when taking headphones out of the phone. Most music apps would auto pause, but the news keeps playing, which is usually disruptive at work or in a public place.

What's new

Improved reliability of starting the livestream.