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About this app

Welcome to the public radio universe.

The NPR app is the best way to get the latest news of the day, deep-dives on important topics that broaden your world, and the quirky, fun stories you'll want to share with your friends – all in one place.

Make it personal.
Play NPR One on the Home screen to get a personalized, continuous stream of shows, news, headlines, and music from every corner of public radio. Listen to what you want to, skip what you don’t. Or add a story you find interesting to your playlist. Your mix will be personalized to deliver the NPR you want, while still serving you stories you didn’t know you’d love.

Broaden your podcast palate.
Head to the ‘Podcasts’ tab to listen to shows from across public radio, recommended for you by our team of expert editors. (Don't forget to enable notifications to stay on top of your new favorites.)

Make us your music concierge.
Watch Tiny Desk Concerts in full right on the app. Just tap the tab labeled ‘Music,’ and hit play to soak in live performances from music’s favorite office space. You can also stream music from around the country, browse the latest music headlines, dig into reviews, and more.

Make everywhere more interesting.
Connect NPR to your speakers wherever you are, via Chromecast, AirPlay, Apple CarPlay, or Bluetooth. Login or register for a free NPR account, then just say "Alexa, play the news from NPR," to have your app listening experience amplified.

Support your listening, and NPR.
The NPR app is free and will always be. If you want to get even more out of your listening experience while supporting public media, consider joining NPR+. You’ll get perks like sponsor-free podcast listening, bonus content, archive episodes, and early access to select shows. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

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

Update: The app launches on some random program despite clearing the cache, force stop and relaunch ): As many reviewers have reported, the app launches on its own on Android phones whenever the phone exits Bluetooth mode. I've had to uninstall the app multiple times for this reason. I can't have NPR start playing out of the blue during meetings! This has been going on for at least 2 years. I don't understand why the developers are not addressing this major issue.

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.

I had never had a serious problem w/ the app until this last Android update. Although I don't particularly like to hear my news, I prefer to read it, the app insists on presenting the recordings & the local NPR radio. And suddenly my sound app has been hijacked by NPR radio. I can't remove it after reading the few articles I have accessed, I realized that I can close the radio, I can't enlarge it in order to clear it from the flash memory, so it sits there draining battery, & taking up space.

What’s new

This release includes some routine maintenance updates. Need help or have feedback to share? Write to us at help.npr.org.