iHeart alternatives

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 78 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] iHeart 1/5 · US Sucks: Got to many adds now I be making it to my destination before I get a chance to listen to music
2. [R3] iHeart 3/5 · US Gun ads? Really?: I do not want to listen to gun ads
3. [R6] iHeart 3/5 · US Commercials are way too long!: Commercials are way too long
4. [R16] iHeart 1/5 · US Paid for add free, but still is not add free.: So I have been trying to put up with this for a while. But after an almost 5 minute long add for a podcast I couldn’t care less about, I am done being nice. I am paying for an “add free subscription” I expect no adds. That means when I open the app (when it doesn’t crash) not to have an add for this station or that artist or this event. When I am list
5. [R4] iHeart 1/5 · US Just stops playing: For months now the app has just been stopping after every song that plays. I’ve tried restarting and updating but so far nothing has worked. Update June 2026: I gave up. Even after uninstalling and reinstalling it still doesn’t work. Now it won’t play at all.
6. [R7] iHeart 1/5 · US Buffers/stalls when others don’t!: Utterly sucks. Buffers/stalls CONSTANTLY! Problem is in the app, not my service. Apps with audio AND VIDEO (YouTube, Amazon) run smooth. Fire your engineers. They should be ashamed
7. [R12] iHeart 3/5 · US App crash: I really like the app, until it crashes. This happens too much.
8. [R15] iHeart 3/5 · US Notification and buffering: I like that I can find over my podcast on this app. The only problems I have is if I don’t have a perfect signal it will not play it just buffers. The other apps play my podcast just fine whenever I’m in these areas. It’s not necessarily even a low signal always. It’s very temperamental when it comes to how much service I get. I also don’t like that I constantly have a
9. [R10] iHeart 1/5 · US Fix it: You can’t even sign into it on an iPhone because of your stupid security thing Asking me what buses and sidewalks are and not giving me a option to finish
10. [R26] iHeart 1/5 · US Good Luck with “Free” Content: Everything you might want here is either gated behind a paywall or doesn’t work properly with buggy, complicated UI smashed between advertisements, and in general is an indecipherably complicated mess of an application.
11. [R36] iHeart 1/5 · US Dog water: Trash is such an understatement. Heard great things. Just no. I can barely see the search bar it’s half off the top of my screen.
12. [R34] iHeart 1/5 · US Music: They say it’s free, but you can’t even listen to your playlist without paying they throwing random songs that you don’t like when you just wanna listen to the songs you picked out
13. [R23] iHeart 5/5 · US #1: I switched from Spotify because y’all are the best
14. [R31] iHeart 5/5 · US Amazing: I have Apple Music, Sirius xm and Spotify and I started looking into this app and it is much better than I expected and the commercial free section is the best. It is a well made app.
15. [R51] Pandora 2/5 · US Free listening: The songs played on pandora sound pretty clear but you can’t do much on the app unless you pay for a subscription. I was recently able to do replays by watching an ad and apparently that was because I accidentally started a free trial but now that it is over, the app is difficult to work with. If you leave the app or refresh it in the middle of a song it will skip the rest of the s
16. [R52] Pandora 5/5 · US Commercials?: I am a paid subscriber to Pandora…. Why am I now getting commercials on my feed? I will cancel my subscription if I have to pay for commercials
17. [R53] Pandora 3/5 · US Not Bad: They play the same songs over and over - I’ll even put on the 70’s station and it plays the same songs over and over even play today’s songs on the 70’s channel over and over .
18. [R54] Pandora 1/5 · US Same songs over and over: Same songs over and over
19. [R67] Google 1/5 · US Broken tab management: The AI/Gemini interface inside the Google App completely breaks basic tab management. When I click the "New Tab" button while inside an active AI thread, it fails to open a separate, additional tab. Instead, it completely ignores the command and overwrites my current thread. This destroys my active research progress and pollutes the AI's context window with unrelated questio
20. [R68] Google 5/5 · US Deon Davon Podcast: Outstanding google help protect all accounts they have great services in every platform
21. [R69] Google 1/5 · US Worst app ever: Is some of my account no reason I had a YouTube channel with that account and then it just disappeared and wouldn’t let me get back in and I’m disappointed in this app you shouldn’t get it. It’s the worst app ever.
22. [R70] Google 5/5 · US Great Service: Attention to detail, professional and diagnosed the problem.
23. [R30] iHeart 1/5 · US Endless commercial loops: This app stinks. All I want to do is to get in and listen to my local news and you get stuck in endless loops of commercials. When trying to listen to 700 WLW for news back home, all it does is go into commercial after commercial commercial. It has been doing this for a while and it’s not a glitch. This app is it disappointment.
24. [R56] Pandora 3/5 · US Jojo: Wish I could go through and pick certain songs and wish I could search for just one single song and then added to a playlist but other than that, it’s a good app