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About this app

The NPR app is your one-stop source for the best of public radio - news, stories, podcasts and more from NPR and local NPR stations.

Listen to news and podcasts
Just hit play at the top of the app to access NPR One – a mix of on-demand news from NPR and your local station, plus your favorite public radio podcasts. Or browse and playlist the latest from Morning Edition, All Things Considered and all your favorite shows.

Access live radio
Listen to live radio from your community's NPR station. Search to hear hundreds of other NPR news and music stations around the country.

Find new podcasts from all of public radio
Follow and keep up with podcasts from NPR and the public radio network. Discover new favorites with our editors’ recommendations, or easily find the latest episodes from those you already follow. Turn on notifications so you never miss a new episode!

Read top headlines from NPR
Get breaking news, investigative pieces, long-reads and more, right at your fingertips. Browse stories by topic for a wealth of NPR stories, including the latest Tiny Desk concerts.

Compatible with smart cars and speakers
In the car, tune in via Android Auto, or by connecting your listening to your Waze app. At home, just say "Alexa, play news from NPR." (Create an NPR account to bring your listening history with you.) Or connect to speakers via Chromecast.

Data Protection Choices
At NPR, we understand how important privacy is to you, and we are committed to transparency about how we collect, use and share your information. Please take a moment to read our privacy policy: https://n.pr/privacypolicy.

By downloading this app:
*You agree to NPR's terms of use, available at https://n.pr/termsofuse.
*You acknowledge that NPR may process your personal data as described in NPR's privacy policy, available at https://n.pr/privacypolicy.
*You agree that NPR uses devices, identifiers, tracking technologies, and information about the device you use to access NPR's apps to enhance your viewing, listening, and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR's sponsors, provide social media features, and analyze NPR's traffic. This information is shared with social media services, sponsorship, analytics, and other third-party service providers. See details in NPR's privacy policy.

Ratings and reviews

I deeply appreciate NPR. The one-star is for the NPR app itself - buggy, glitchy and very unreliable. Update 5-24-24 this app is still an awful mess. I really wish it worked. Update 8-29-24. Fresh install on a brand new phone. Still a mess. Update 1-15-25 playback often very slow to load (even with 5G connection), programs stop in the middle and restart. Still unreliable. Update 2-21-25 same.

Why do I have to sort through 15 recommended podcasts just to find the hourly news podcast News Now? I don't want autoplay, and if you force me to autoplay what you decide to curate then I will stop using your app. I used to listen to it before bed or while getting used to work, but now it just auto plays without stop, adding whatever some algorithm decides I will listen to. Now I just switched to a podcast app for the hourly news, and will no longer use NPR's app. I love NPR but not the app.

The app is okay but not great. if you listen to part of an episode and come back a day or two later you find it doesn't keep track of your position. still a problem. I'm not sure when this changed. it used to keep track in the Finish Listening section of the My NPR tab, but now it regularly does not.. They also have a lot of "press this button" to listen now for episodes, which is horrible for driving in a car.

What’s new

This release includes some playback stability improvements for livestream listening, along with other big fixes and enhancements. Need help or have feedback to share? Write to us at help.npr.org