Mixcloud
Mixcloud offers a vast library of DJ mixes and radio shows, highly praised for its content and ad-free experience, but recent updates have introduced numerous critical bugs, performance issues, and frustrating feature limitations, especially for free and premium users alike.
Mixcloud is celebrated for its extensive collection of DJ sets and radio shows, providing a unique platform for discovering diverse music without ads. However, recent user reviews highlight significant issues including frequent app crashes, connectivity problems, and a degraded user experience due to removed features and aggressive premium upsells.
What users like
What users complain about
- Frequent app crashes and unresponsiveness, especially after recent updatesR8R68R100R121
- Persistent connectivity issues and playback interruptionsR3R8R40R41
- Login and account access problems, including password resets and server errorsR17R18R26
- Key features like 30-second skip and tracklist viewing have been removed or moved to premiumR77R83R87R42
- Premium subscription does not guarantee full functionality or ad-free experience, with reports of downloads not working and playback restrictionsR21R38R71R99
- Poor user interface and navigation, including issues with landscape mode, CarPlay, and notification badgesR24R36R127R188
- Search function is ineffective and lacks chronological sortingR2R278R354R457
- Unwanted auto-playing of previously listened shows or random tracksR10R27R65R86
Latest update · v44.1.1
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
What's new in 44.1.1 • Various performance improvements and bug fixes. Have any feedback? Please get in touch at [email protected]
Recurring themes
Who it's for
Mixcloud is for music enthusiasts who enjoy discovering a wide range of DJ mixes, radio shows, and live sets, particularly those interested in niche genres or old-school mixes R4R9R13. It's suitable for users who prioritize an ad-free listening experience and appreciate human-curated music over algorithmic playlists R6R7. However, it is NOT for users who expect a stable, bug-free app experience, rely on features like 30-second skips or tracklists without paying, or need reliable login and playback R8R68R77R99.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, with a 'recent-negative' signal of 0.278, which is significantly worse than the lifetime rating of 4.83. Many positive reviews are older or very general, while recent negative reviews provide specific, detailed complaints about app functionality and feature changes. The trajectory is clearly negative, with a decline in app quality and user satisfaction.
Frequently asked
Does Mixcloud have ads?
Why does Mixcloud keep crashing?
Are features like skipping and tracklists free on Mixcloud?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 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.
- [R4] Righteous Mixes!: The BEST in old school mixes! Read RELENTLESS!
- [R9] Kenny K,Ty Boogie,Nelly Nell: I love that you can find just about any DJ you like in rotation!
- [R11] Mil gracias: Agradezco infinitame a esta app por permitirme escuchar a los mejores djs con mucha música de todos los tiempos claro mi mejor época fue de los 80s y 90s y tiene bastantes mixes gracias totales
- [R13] From the garage to AfroPunk: The music from my youth at paradise garage to the Rock and Roll in my high school and more. I find a global link to all the music from my time in Europe and Asia, all the music from my life.
- [R6] Mixcloud is great!: So many apps ruined by pop ups and ads. Not this one! If the genre’s of music featured are your cup of tea…it’s a really good app! I use it a lot and totally recommend it for anyone into ambient, house, etc. It’s awesome.
- [R7] Super great: This app it’s so awesome. The best music app specially if you hate adds. 👌 totally 10/10
- [R533] Great discovery: Stumbled upon this app a few months ago, and it has quickly become my number one app for discovering up and coming tracks. Many live broadcasts show up here even before Digitally Imported! A few loading glitches, but never lasts more than an hour and not terribly too often. Free version is well enough, no interruptive ads.
- [R49] Efficiency: Easy to use app, great for finding diverse music taste and mix creators.
- [R51] Musical Discovery!: I installed Mixcloud to listen to my favorite DJ - “DjJoe66”. I’m also discovering new mixers to follow. I manage a café. When I’m streaming from Mixcloud I display a sign on the counter informing people who I’m streaming and where to listen to them.
- [R56] Great Platform: Thank you for this platform. Easy to setup and to listen to music.
- [R8] Good to Bad to Ugly: MixCloud was one of my favorite apps for many years. Unfortunately it has gone from, Good to Bad to Ugly. The basic functionality was excellent for many years. Then inconsistencies crept in and increased throughout 2025. Frustrating, it is and has been for several months of 2026. Often I would share links for streams, several times a day. Now it rarely works well for mo
- [R68] Does this app EVER work?: Every day I try to use this app and 90% of the time it does NOT work. Maybe if it’s uninstalled and reinstalled it might consider working but who has time for that? I don’t even have anything else running on my phone, the von is off and everything is updated so there is no reason why it doesn’t work. Not sure why I bother trying EVERY SINGLE DAY
- [R100] Doesn’t Load: The app is slow to load and music and app become unresponsive
- [R121] Glitches and unpredictable app behavipur: I am having several issues when selecting and playing mixes from my iphone. I have an iphone 16. Ios is up to date. Sometimes when i select play on a mix, the app will begin to scroll mix after mix after mix in in quick succession in what appears to be a random order. Nothing is actually played. The only way for me to stop the runaway action is to close t
- [R3] No connection: Every time I select music, it says there’s a problem with the connection
- [R40] Great alternative to traditional radio: App is a good streaming app but has connectivity and functionality issue. The app has improved a lot, but live mix show chat need more improvement to make it truly a “community” vibe.
- [R41] Initial thoughts…: Keeps stopping when I use other apps
- [R17] Can’t login at all!: Unexpected response from the server!!!!!!!!!
- [R18] BROKEN: Was Great Now the APP wont work wont let me do a Password reset. NOTHING. Unexpected error. Server issues.
- [R26] Ken Christensen: Can’t login with my name and password. Can change it either. Looks like I can get in anymore. :/
- [R77] Good service, rotting app: A decent service that hosts some great DJ sets. Unfortunately, the app is slowly being stripped of features. The ability to see what track is currently playing beyond a truncated title that might not even display the artist was made a premium feature a few months ago, and in a recent update the buttons for skipping forward and backward by 30 seconds were stripped out. I
- [R83] Bring back the 30 sec. rewind/fast forward: Yall made big mistake taking away the 30 second rewind and fast forward button!!! That’s the only reason I left a review and I never make them…
- [R87] Got rid of 30 Sec skip: I love the 30 second forward and back skip feature. Why was it deleted? Please bring it back.🙏
- [R42] High Quality of music, Low quality of life.: Downloaded the app a couple years ago now, you could download 2 or 3 tracks for free offline play, no fast forward restrictions, no subscription required. Now you’ve gotta pay if you want to use the skip ahead button more than 6 times a day. Sad how the app has fallen out of shape due to unfettered greed.
- [R21] Subscription means nothing!: What’s the use of making people pay subscription if you’re not going to do anything about making it exclusive? Just paid and literally still can’t listen to anything!
- [R38] Won’t let me replay favorites or downloaded mix: I’m a premium member and should be able to replay mixes regardless if it’s the only mix I listen to. No reason to cut me off.
- [R71] Premium???: Don’t bother this app is flawed, I upgrade to premium to be able to download and listen to music from my favorite DJ’s , but no dice. The download doesn’t work from the app first of all and after the last update you can’t play it from the website anymore. I’m cancel and would caution anyone looking to upgrade expect to listen to a stream without interruption Mixcloud Premium is not for
- [R99] Red exclamation no playback: Just signed up a month ago premium subscription. I’m getting ready exclamation mark even on downloaded tracks. I have full Wi-Fi music just isn’t playing back. I’ve uninstalled the app. Reinstall new one. Tried Bluetooth try playing on regular phone. The music just won’t play on many of the track. You press play nothing happens. The app is worthless if you’re paying f
- [R24] Great but..: Buggy with carplay
- [R36] Wide music choice ruined by faulty UI: Db radio and world wide DJ’s of every stripe a great plus. The fact that some times it works in landscape on my iPad, and then randomly will switch to portrait and not switch back. Frustrating to the point of not using the app any longer. It may seem minor, maybe it is, but it makes want to delete the app and sit in silence instead.
- [R127] Notifications: The notification circle never goes away. I look at my notifications and it shows zero. I give up and just take it off my Home Screen. Maybe in the future this can be fixed. Ugh
- [R188] Hate It: Hate the new interface, impossible to clear notifications
- [R2] A bit problem: I can’t find my favorite track from dj session100 epic …..
- [R278] Search and Destroy: There’s alot to love about Mixcloud, but unfortunately, the search function is still beyond useless. Jah Bless
- [R354] Great access and free: Improve the search function and less suggestions please . Music people know what they like - algos don’t .
- [R457] Search please sort by date!: For some reason for years they've been ignoring feedback that everybody wants the search to sort by date! Sort by popularity is trash, if you can insist on it at least give us the option to change!
- [R10] Love it but keeps force playing: I love the app but it does the same thing Apple Music does and just starts playing even when the app isn’t even opened or in the background. It’s getting to where I delete it and redownload it whenever I want to listen to it.
- [R27] Keeps play same shows: Once a show ends, I get a show playing automatically that I have already listened to. I prefer to hear other new shows from people I follow.
- [R65] Unbelievably glitchy: The most annoying app ever. So frustrating to use. I mean it’s basically a music player and it can’t even do that. Constantly skips tracks randomly. You select to play one track and for some bizarre reason it decides to skip to the next track. And it keeps doing that on and on.
- [R86] Nice music selection. Bugs: Like the title says, it has a nice music selection but the player has problems. If you have a queue it likes to jump around at times. This is especially frustrating when you’re playing long compilation tracks. It jumps to the next track on its own without finishing the previous one.
- [R66] Pushing to hard for paid use: Charging you to fast forward is really annoying
- [R91] BOOST IS A SCAM!: I paid to have a mix boosted for 5 days. For several of those days, my mix was not promoted at all. When I contacted support to ask why it wasn’t being promoted when I paid to boost it for those days, I was told that I was only paying for a CHANCE at being promoted, based on how many people boosted at the same time. If 5 people pay to be promoted in the same category for 5 days,
- [R131] Keeps Crashing With Latest Update: UPDATE: Downloads were deleted WHILE I WAS STILL A PREMIUM USER, and I no longer have any use for this app. Downgraded to one star for not retaining downloads. Let me start off saying I absolutely love this app. So much so that I paid the premium for it. However, I just noticed today that with the recent update it crashes every time you open it now. What gives?
- [R138] Crashes on Open: Crashes on open.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store