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NPR One is a whole new way to listen to stories, shows, and podcasts from NPR and your local public radio station.
It’s public radio made personal.
A handcrafted experience.
NPR One starts with the latest headlines then moves to a flow of stories that matter - narratives that increase your understanding, create connections, enrich your life and enliven your mind. All thoughtfully curated by hand, every day.
Always learning from you.
Just pop in your ear buds, tap your phone and NPR One starts flowing. And NPR One gets to know you. Skip what you don't want, or tap the lightbulb to say a story is interesting. We'll turn NPR One into your own personal radio station.
Love to listen on the go? Get the most out of NPR One with Android Auto and Android Wear. Skip, pause, and search at a glance without even touching your phone.
Staying at home? You can Chromecast NPR One to your TV or Cast for Audio devices.
Personal, not prescriptive.
Though your stream is personalized to deliver the stories you want, you’ll still hear the top news of the day and the stories you had no idea would captivate you.
Connected locally.
Even with the breadth of public radio at your fingertips, you won’t lose touch at home. Local news is woven seamlessly into your listening experience. Local stories, locally reported, are delivered daily. Community is everything.
Features
• A personalized stream of NPR and local station news and stories
• Skip, rewind, pause and share
• Search for your favorite shows, programs and podcasts
• International, national, regional and local content
• A simple, intuitive interface
• Sleep timer with five presets
It’s simple. It’s intuitive. It’s there for you. (Wherever ‘there’ is.)
As fast as the world is changing the way it listens to public radio, NPR One is changing the way we deliver it. NPR is here to deliver the public radio experience wherever you are. Whenever you can connect.
Here we go. It’s NPR One.
It’s public radio made personal.
A handcrafted experience.
NPR One starts with the latest headlines then moves to a flow of stories that matter - narratives that increase your understanding, create connections, enrich your life and enliven your mind. All thoughtfully curated by hand, every day.
Always learning from you.
Just pop in your ear buds, tap your phone and NPR One starts flowing. And NPR One gets to know you. Skip what you don't want, or tap the lightbulb to say a story is interesting. We'll turn NPR One into your own personal radio station.
Love to listen on the go? Get the most out of NPR One with Android Auto and Android Wear. Skip, pause, and search at a glance without even touching your phone.
Staying at home? You can Chromecast NPR One to your TV or Cast for Audio devices.
Personal, not prescriptive.
Though your stream is personalized to deliver the stories you want, you’ll still hear the top news of the day and the stories you had no idea would captivate you.
Connected locally.
Even with the breadth of public radio at your fingertips, you won’t lose touch at home. Local news is woven seamlessly into your listening experience. Local stories, locally reported, are delivered daily. Community is everything.
Features
• A personalized stream of NPR and local station news and stories
• Skip, rewind, pause and share
• Search for your favorite shows, programs and podcasts
• International, national, regional and local content
• A simple, intuitive interface
• Sleep timer with five presets
It’s simple. It’s intuitive. It’s there for you. (Wherever ‘there’ is.)
As fast as the world is changing the way it listens to public radio, NPR One is changing the way we deliver it. NPR is here to deliver the public radio experience wherever you are. Whenever you can connect.
Here we go. It’s NPR One.
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4.0
11,862 total
5 5,943
4 2,689
3 1,291
2 832
1 1,107
Orrin Stanforth
I really love the app and have found a couple new pod casts thanks to its suggestions. However, every time I try to use it with Android Auto, it freezes at the end of each act and buffered indefinitely. I can only fix it by using my phone to end the program and restart it (which means I have to wait until I can pull over and stop driving).
Mr. Smed
Love NPR, but this app never works quite right. You have to wait an unknown amount of time after opening the app to get it to play anything. I don't like to babysit my apps until they do what they're supposed to do... And to top things off it crashes every single time I use it on my GS6. Every. Time.
Kyle Reeves
Great app with great content! Support your local stations! My only complaint is that longer shows tend to end early and start over. Seems to happen most often with statehouse blend Missouri/Kansas. I'm also always listening over Chromecast audio.
Vương Kim Lương
Fast and clear podcast audio. Thing that I hope that they change the way the podcast is played. I mean, for example: when I'm listening to Ted Radio Hour, when the player finished playing one episode, it should have played next episode in the Ted series, NOT by playing some other news instead.
Eve Vs. Wilms
Used to work beautifully, now buggy. Podcasts will restart at random points back to the beginning MULTIPLE times while trying to listen. Followed shows don't appear. I like the content which is why I'll currently give it three stars but it's in dire need of some help making it run smoothly again. Update: worked better for a while but back to being buggy. Some shows that start over won't allow you to fast forward to where you were. If I have to pause a show take a call, many times when the app is in background and I bring it back up, NPR One will instead start playing another podcast I've already listened to. Unable to manage followed shows- this is probably something on my end, but it's not obvious how to delete podcasts you are following. Five stars for content, though.
Nathan Kaeter
A queue feature would be nice so I can line up stories before a drive or get one ready for after the one I am on. Excellent podcasts and news for driving or leg work. Also I can't find mpr's the current as a station. Way too many bugs, doesn't seem to be getting better.
User reviews
I really love the app and have found a couple new pod casts thanks to its suggestions. However, every time I try to use it with Android Auto, it freezes at the end of each act and buffered indefinitely. I can only fix it by using my phone to end the program and restart it (which means I have to wait until I can pull over and stop driving).
Love NPR, but this app never works quite right. You have to wait an unknown amount of time after opening the app to get it to play anything. I don't like to babysit my apps until they do what they're supposed to do... And to top things off it crashes every single time I use it on my GS6. Every. Time.
Great app with great content! Support your local stations! My only complaint is that longer shows tend to end early and start over. Seems to happen most often with statehouse blend Missouri/Kansas. I'm also always listening over Chromecast audio.
Fast and clear podcast audio. Thing that I hope that they change the way the podcast is played. I mean, for example: when I'm listening to Ted Radio Hour, when the player finished playing one episode, it should have played next episode in the Ted series, NOT by playing some other news instead.
Used to work beautifully, now buggy. Podcasts will restart at random points back to the beginning MULTIPLE times while trying to listen. Followed shows don't appear. I like the content which is why I'll currently give it three stars but it's in dire need of some help making it run smoothly again. Update: worked better for a while but back to being buggy. Some shows that start over won't allow you to fast forward to where you were. If I have to pause a show take a call, many times when the app is in background and I bring it back up, NPR One will instead start playing another podcast I've already listened to. Unable to manage followed shows- this is probably something on my end, but it's not obvious how to delete podcasts you are following. Five stars for content, though.
NPR February 7, 2017
Thanks for the feedback, sorry about this bug, we've been chasing it down for a while now. We are testing a fix right now that resolves the bug, should be available soon. A queue feature would be nice so I can line up stories before a drive or get one ready for after the one I am on. Excellent podcasts and news for driving or leg work. Also I can't find mpr's the current as a station. Way too many bugs, doesn't seem to be getting better.
Love the app, it's a big part of my life. Unfortunately v. 1.7.2.2 stops playing a few seconds after pushing play. My rating is based on how great the interface is and really how nice it is to use when it works and my hope that this bug will be fixed soon.
Buggy but certainly improving with the new update. Android Auto interface is still off.. clicking a news story does not trigger a start of the news story (you need to click it again). Can this be looked at? Thanks for the great app!
It's a good app to get high quality NPR podcasts in great quality. On the other hand, the explore menu needs to be broken up into separate tabs for "explore" and "my shows" .The notification and show following system doesn't work well at all; I don't get notifications consistently when I want them and all my followed shows don't show up under my followed show folder consistently. In sum, it is a good app that needs lots of work on its menus and bugs.
Great standalone, but with Android Auto it's pretty bad. Latest offered newscast is over an hour old, and then it doesn't play anyway. AA mode doesn't support "click now to hear..." offerings, so why even play them? Are you spending all your time on Apple? Please fix it, it worked a few weeks ago and you broke it.
I love NPR, but this app is so difficult to use. I can't find very popular shows (ala This American Life, Serial) because they don't have it listed as a featured show. These shows won't even show up if you search for them. It's incredibly frustrating.
Not that happy. Why do I need to log in? Why does it switch to web streaming sometimes? Wanted an app that could do Chromecast. The web browser can't.
Absolutely garbage. Search function doesn't work, basic functions are too buggy to operate, going to a particular podcast causes an endless loading loop consistently, and there is no low bandwidth option so it eats up your data. Why was this released in this state?
NPR Content is great, but this app is ameaturish at best. It does a mediocre job of tracking what you have already listened to, and the slightest network hiccup will produce spinning wheels as it tries to figure out what is going on. I usually switch over the the BBC app when this happens. Which tells you that the ntework is perfectluy fine if another app can download while NPR One cannot, and just how bad the state it has gotten itself into is if there is time for a *human* to respond faster than it does. Worst of all, it keeps pledge-driving you even after you sign up for monthly NPR contributions.
Content is very good, but app is plagued with technical and design problems. Once you heard something and stopped in the middle for lack of signal, it's impossible to go back to it; once the phone switches signal source, the app gets locked and doesn't play anymore; searching is pretty bad; app layout is disorganized and things are difficult to find; buffering is minimal and it doesn't offer any offline capabilities
Skips first few seconds of audio, can't listen to programs that play ads because the ad is too short and they don't show up in the history tab. Lots of promise.
Pretty mediocre. It's a great centralized place to get the news that I'm interested in, especially local news, but constantly getting stuck between podcasts is quickly making this my least favorite podcast app.
Great app for listening to NPR. I especially like that it tends to start on the most recent national news broadcast. Eats up a lot of data but I don't mind for the quality!
After working well for about a month, this app has rendered itself useless again. It plays one item then it's just an endless spinning wheel and the next story never loads. Frustrating.
NPR April 3, 2017
Thanks for the feedback. We're focusing on resolving these bugs right now, and are testing the fix currently. We hope to begin releasing the fixes later this week. I really enjoy exploring new podcasts and stories. Great app! But beware, if you're not careful this app will guzzle data! I had to turn off the background data.
If you have even a passing interest in local, national, or international news and events, this is the single most important app you can download. It's got everything great you love about NPR, and even a solid selection of programs from outside the realm of public radio. My one and only quibble is with the UI. Having more precise transport features in the actual player would be nice, but it certainly doesn't detract from the overall experience. Five-million stars.
Won't start. Won't finish. Stops frequently. Worst podcasting app ever. Tunein and others work better.big disappointment
NPR has the best podcasts. Their app could use some improving though, using a listening queque or at least not jumping automatically to another podcast and also having the option to download them in order to listen to them later.
Why do I need a account to listen to my local station? I only installed this because the OPB apps live stream doesn't work and the mobile browser live stream hasn't worked properly in more than a year.
I like the content, but the app is glitchy. I often have to restart it multiple times to get my followed shows to appear, for example. I also wish we could live stream our local NPR stations on it, and select followed showed shows, etc from the sidebar.
Interface could be more intuitive. Nevertheless this app is the perfect mainline hit of news and analysis to help me choke down my morning latte and afternoon iced tea.
App doesn't play selected podcast on Samsung S8+. Sometimes I have to reselect it three or four times before it plays. Very frustrating. Always plays local news and national news. I don't want to hear the news!!
Playback problems persist. Wondering why it's not open source.
NPR August 31, 2016
Thanks for the feedback. We have this in our bug tracker and are continuing to investigate. App keeps crashing and the only way to fix it is to restart and it still is not a guarantee it's going to work. It's frustrating and I might have to uninstall.
NPR January 4, 2016
Thanks for the honest feedback, and thanks for giving us a try. Overall this is a great app. I like the "deep dive" features for catching up on certain topics. I would love to see an update that would allow me to add stories to a queue that would autoplay for me after the story that is currently playing finishes.
I like podcast. I like NPR. I am a millennial. This app is not n user friendly. Finding a podcast is like making a complaint to fcc # John oliver
Kind of annoying. Will continue playing when the app is closed, so I have to force shut down.
Were do i start with the bugs. The app has gone downhill fast. It really needs a offline feature.
NPR November 11, 2016
We're currently testing fixes for the top 3 crash issues and hope to release them next week. Thanks for the feedback. Hope you guys optimize it for slow networks or offer different audio bitrates for those who are on data bundles.
It's okay overall, but personally I would like to see see more current international affairs broadcasted rather than focusing on news in relation to USA.
I love this app for being a one stop shop for great podcasts and a daily dose of news. I would give it 5* if it wasn't for constant bugs and limited functionality.
It is almost impossible to listen to the national news. Huge number of bugs.
There should be a list of followed shows on the sidebar. Make an "up next" function please. And also playlists? A watch later section? Thanks
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What's New
This release addresses several issues affecting playback, and other miscellaneous bugs. Stories should no longer cutoff early and / or switch to the next story unprompted. Android Auto should properly update on new sessions, and some Chromecast bugs were resolved. Please keep the feedback coming and let us know if the experience has improved for you. Thank you for using NPR One!
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Updated
May 11, 2017
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1,000,000 - 5,000,000
Current Version
1.7.2.2
Requires Android
4.1 and up
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