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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.

1. [R1] Radio FM 1/5 · US Excessive forced ads: Excessive Ads & pop-ups destroyed this app. Cannot minimize window preventing the listener from conducting simultaneous activities on other apps. Oh! Did I mention the ads are Excessive preventing music from playing.
2. [R3] Radio FM 3/5 · US Pop ups: Too many pop ups and ads
3. [R4] Radio FM 1/5 · US Getting worse and worse!: Ads ruined this app. I get it, couple of time you get an ad, but now literally every single time you switch between apps and you want to get back to the same screen with the station info, you get an ad.
4. [R6] Radio FM 3/5 · US Commercials: Too many commercials
5. [R7] Radio FM 1/5 · US Not working: This radio app isn’t opening at all... Why?!!!
6. [R9] Radio FM 3/5 · US Why is my location blocked?: Why is my location blocked? It used to work fine in Hong Kong, but after the update, it crashes after closing the ad! I hope this gets fixed soon.
7. [R15] Radio FM 3/5 · US App is “okay” and has issues: Would be a great app if they could fix issues. For one, it is difficult to change stations. If I am listening to one station and try to listen to another, it simply plays the existing station and I have to click on the new one several time before it actually changes. Second, some of the stations are unreliable and constantly pause during the middle of a song. And last
8. [R19] Radio FM 1/5 · US Shuts down: Cuts off when my screen shuts down and it never did that before just started when the app was changed
9. [R10] Radio FM 2/5 · US Advertising does NOT go away: I was led to believe that subscribing would allow avoiding these long advertisements. They DO NOT go away. They are embedded in the streams. I will not be renewing my subscription for $49!
10. [R36] Radio FM 1/5 · US Popup ads: Cannot even get to music with the popup ads Really ridiculous….iPhone out of storage… cleanup iPhone…. Can’t even get out of it without closing AP. I pay for my subscription and will cancel soon if this is not fixed I see another review written in January about ads also. It’s now may 1 and still not fixed
11. [R39] Radio FM 5/5 · US RadioFM App is Working Perfectly NOW...: [6-19-2025 UPDATE] RadioFM App has been updated to V 2.2.1, which no longer has the originally reported 'Account Registration Page' issue. Matter Solved. Thanks Developer. [6-02-2025 Review] RadioFM App Does NOT Work... Beyond the required 'Account Registration Page.' Regardless of how many times a password is edited for compliance with this app's require
12. [R40] Radio FM 1/5 · US Might be good if you could set up an account. You can’t.: Downloaded the app. Opened. Tried to set up a new account. Used Apple Passwords to create a password. App kept giving backtalk about structure of passwords. Followed the instructions. Kept getting same backtalk. DELETE.
13. [R13] Radio FM 1/5 · US Radio: Too low
14. [R18] Radio FM 3/5 · US Good selection poor design: It would be nice if I could see a whole selection of the stations or categories alphabetize. Most of the stations seem to work but some do not. It would be nice if there was a more logical order to the stations searches either by alphabet or by frequency.
15. [R28] Radio FM 1/5 · US Play on it on: My phone can be sitting on the table and it will start playing on it it my happen 3 to 1 time a day
16. [R55] SiriusXM 5/5 · US CH126: Only paying for Karen Hunter Show!!!!
17. [R58] SiriusXM 5/5 · US Jeff lewis and dr laura: 2 best shows
18. [R60] SiriusXM 5/5 · US Great music at your fingertips: Best music app around. Dump Howard Stern.
19. [R62] SiriusXM 5/5 · US Suzanne: Love the Highway - Cody, Buzz, Macie and Anja and love the George Strait playlist! Also love Prime Country!! Can’t live without my SiriusXM!
20. [R65] TuneIn Radio 2/5 · US Ads are ridiculous and wildly excessive: 90+ seconds of ads to start a stream. That’s completely unreasonable.
21. [R66] TuneIn Radio 5/5 · US Local Radio: I have always enjoyed listening to a local radio station. Local updates are important to my family. Road and weather conditions, especially! Local radio personalities are always very helpful and friendly! Thank you for asking! Lin Wepking 🇺🇸
22. [R67] TuneIn Radio 3/5 · US Twice the commercials.: I listen to talk radio a lot. On other streaming apps, you hear the complete show - including the regular ads during the show. On Tune-In app, they interrupt the show content to play commercials from the app. So, you get the radio ads AND ads from the app! 😡
23. [R68] TuneIn Radio 2/5 · US Just be aware: Using the free version. I find many stations to be more commercial time rather than content.
24. [R82] iHeart 1/5 · US DELETING: I understand the purpose of commercials but right in the middle of sentences in my radio program?? The final straw was 2 separate commercial stops in the middle of the SAME SENTENCE! We’re done here. Deleting
25. [R83] iHeart 5/5 · US 👍🏻: I love wcol 92.3 and its on iHeart radio I put my ear bud in and listen all day
26. [R84] iHeart 3/5 · US WiFi radio is necessary: WiFi is just a thing we need now, local stations are limiting and it’s nice to be able to tune into stations outside of your home networks. But huge drawback for me is all the adds, sooo repetitive it’s like a hammer on the brain, I just turn off when the same commercial plays for the thousandth time in 2 days.
27. [R85] iHeart 1/5 · US Constant ads: Ads will interrupt you radio show in the middle of a break, and they will play for 5 minutes. I’ve got a list of products I will never purchase. This company is garbage and the app sucks.
28. [R93] Simple Radio 2/5 · US Annoying noise: I like the wide selection of content, so it is difficult to understand why they play an annoying noise instead of ads.
29. [R94] Simple Radio 5/5 · US Simple Radio: Hello, Simple Radio is an excellent app has all the stations that I can’t find or have been removed on other apps that I listen to. I do have one question however why is there no radio dial on the app? Just wondering out of curiosity and hopefully it will be added someday. Thank you very much for your time. Timothy or Midgett.
30. [R95] Simple Radio 3/5 · US Good but…: Be careful using favorites. I have a curated set of favorites that I surf daily. One accidental touch on the right side, where the stars are and POOF the favorite is gone. This happens to me on a regular basis and is wildly frustrating. I have reported this to Simple Radio, begging for a little more friction in this feature. No change in years.
31. [R96] Simple Radio 1/5 · US Too many ads local and international: Horrible app now used to be great but now i have to listen to local and intl ads
32. [R107] myTuner Radio 2/5 · US Too Many Ads: When I first started using TuneIn, it was amazing. Now there are way too many ads, and it’s frustrating. It’s become very difficult to enjoy listening to any station with so many interruptions.
33. [R108] myTuner Radio 5/5 · US Review from Zimbabwe: Very good and convenient. Good sound quality.
34. [R109] myTuner Radio 3/5 · US Good for awhile: I was enthused about this radio app for awhile. I understand that free apps often rely on advertisements and I would patiently wait through those. However recently the app has pop-up ads that block all access to the UI and cannot be closed out. So the app has to be completely restarted frequently. That's pretty unacceptable, so I will have to be looking for a new radio app.
35. [R110] myTuner Radio 2/5 · US Mi opinión: Mucha publicidad y creciendo.
36. [R12] Radio FM 3/5 · US Only advertising: Rarely useable all ads