I've been using NPR Addict for several months and although I really liked the app, it soreley needed a playlist with a Play All capability. I was very happy to see that the NPR News app included a playlist. The playlist Play All works great but unfortunately the app has four big flaws compared to NPR Addict. The first is the inability to pause a story and resume playback from the pause (only option is to stop play and start over). The second is the inability to fast forward or rewind within a story. The third is an incomplete story list. For example, the NPR website and the NPR Addict app show the same stories available for yesterday's Weekend Edition Saturday broadcast. NPR News for some reason lists only about half of the stories. The fourth flaw is a long delay for stories to show up. New show episodes that have been available using NPR addict for 6 hrs still have not shown up in NPR News. If these four flaws were fixed in a new release I'd give it 5 stars.

Needs a PAUSE button. If you stop a story you have to start over at the beginning. Also FF & Rewind would be useful.

I've been waiting for this application since I first bought an iPhone, and it's a brilliant first step. Access to individual programs, home stations, and the web-based text summations all work like a charm with one major flaw: no pause function or capability to seek within the track. I understand this isn't probably going to ever be available for the live radio station following, but it really is a necessity for the individual program replay. Also, the text news function occasionally sticks and one ends up reading old news. If those two issues are fixed, this will probably be my most used app.

Pretty amazing app! The interface is attractive and really easy to use. I would like to see an update that has a "pause" feature for the audio playback, that will allow you to pause audio, and resume playback from where you left off. As of now there is only "stop", which means you have to start the audio stream from the begining if you have to exit the audio or pause for any reason. Other than that, well done!

I just downloaded the NPR app and listened to a few news stories and read some others. Great app, although I wish I could save some stories as podcasts and/or review stories so that I can get stuff recommended. My new fav app.

I use these NPR apps to listen to the on-demand stories. I don't use them to listen to live shows. This is a comparison between the "on demand" features of "NPR News" and "NPR Addict".

Works great love it

Sweet little app with nice appearance and easy to navigate

Great App design, and a great way to interact with the site.

Love this app! Especially the steaming audio.

The ability to pick and choose stories, shows, and show segments is great. Listened to my first news segment with Mr. Windom. Look forward to more!

All segments, broken into all topics & an hourly news cast.

Thanks NPR. Now I can take my news junkie self to the next level. App works flawlessly so far. One request would be to be able to resume story where left off if you have to leave the app. Would also welcome push notifications for breaking news. Thanks again NPR. Good job.

The NPR News app is wonderful. This is the future of radio today. Check out Xponential radio from WXPN in Philadelphia.

If you listen to NPR you will love this app.

Great to finally have all of this in one place. Si should get a raise.

My new top news app.. All the shows I love and all the news I need. Love it! robertB Facebook.com/thirddesign

The new NPR news app is AWESOME. It has a nice, clean and simply UI, Superb news stories to read and streaming radio to listen. This app is just great.

Really good , happy to have it.

I love having an app dedicated to NPR news. Thanks NPR!

Everything is broken down into intuitive and easily read packages to make for the best in mobile NPR programming. Stream your favorite shows and select individual stories from that days broadcast. My new favorite app!

I like the stories in print and the overall organization. Much better than previous public radio players

Great app. Radio will never be the same again! Thanks NPR.

I tried the Public Radio tuner for so long and it cannot compare to this one! Way fewer dropped streams, ability to add playlists of news is awesome, and reading articles while listening to news is also a huge plus. Great app, I've been debating when to donate to NPR, but since this app arrived, I've decided they deserve my money now. A+

I downloaded this app today after a positive review on Mashable and it has nothing but problems as far as I'm concerned. It looks great and is easy to navigate, but once you read one story and try to pull up another the only thing that changes is the headline. No matter how many stories I tried to access, I was stuck on just one. If you start the app over again it works for one story too. Lame!

I was seriously in love with this app until I discovered you use the Medialytics Tracking engine. How unfortunate...NPR is the source I use for all of my news but I am seriously dissapointed by your choice to use the Medialets ad framework. Get rid of it! No usage statistics!!

Uses Medialets which, among other invasive things, tracks your physical location, usage patterns and even what sex and age you are across applications. Shame on you NPR!

The second I saw the notice about installing tracking software I quit the app and uninstalled it. No way. No how...

The v1.1 fixed some major problems. However, the update did NOT fix 2 other major problems that keep me from using this App: 1) The story list only displays a few stories. For example, All Things Considered only displays 14 stories for 9/11/09. There were actually 21 stories for the 9/11/09 show. 14 stories are available PERIOD. What if I wanted to listen to some stories from 9/10/09 or earlier that week? I can with the "NPR Addict" iPhone app, but not with this official one. I need to be able to load more older stories. On NPR.org, I queue up several stories from different days (I can't listen every day, so I listen to stories from different days at once). This isn't an option with this NPR app. 2) The story list cuts off the story's title. So for example, for the 9/11/09 show: -"Sen. Levin Seeks Major Changes in Afghan War" shows up as "Sen. Levin Seeks Major Changes..." -"Post-Sept. 11, Colleges Take On Law Enforcement Role" shows up as "Post-Sept 11, Colleges Take On..." I want to be able to see the full title on the story list. I see two options to do this: let the title continue onto the next line, or allow us to view the story list in landscape mode. With Landscape mode, screen width would be 4.5 inches instead of 2.4 inches. Until these 2 problems are fixed, I can't use your great NPR News iPhone App. I'll keep it downloaded so I can monitor when it is updated next, but I'll still be using "NPR Addict" for my mobile NPR news. !!! Special note !!! Shows such as Marketplace, This American Life, and A Priarie Home Companion are NOT NPR shows, and therefore are not part of this NPR app.

I love NPR and I love the idea of this app. but it quits out of the program everytime I go to delete or marked as read the articles in my playlist. Could not figure out why so I removed the app. from the Iphone.

Playlist crashes every time

I get the following message when I try to run this because I have disabled medialytics:

The playlist feature would be great if it worked. Whenever an article gets outdated the whole app crashes. I can't believe this hasn't been fixed yet.

Even with this new update, the app still thinks I'm offline when trying to post to Twitter. Sharing via email or Facebook works fine, although it should post as a link to my FB wall like every other app instead of changing my status. I'm uninstalling this for now.

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Great Great GREAT app. was reading some of the other 1 star reviews and can only say that if you don't want your location to be known, then you should not carry a GPS phone...idiot. lots of apps use this and it is for filtering content. I really doubt NPR is trying to kill you (which not be such a bad idea for the gene pool now that I mention it...)

NPR has one of the best news/radio apps out there--well let's face it, the only real news AND radio app. I love the interface, the approach to ads, playlists (fixed!), and quality of product. My only issue is that of the news compiling every time I open the app without removing the old top stories. I still have news articles from months ago on the list, every article ever loaded since originally downloading the app. While it may be nice for some who enjoy being a human library of current events long past, it would be nice to get rid of them. Am I missing some basic 'clear cache' button?

This app is finally worth downloading if you like to listen to NPR! They have fixed the crashing playlist bug. Articles still load slowly though.

We get great news on this app. But it stays there forever - or so it seems. I deleted this app before because I held a few hundred "top stories", but some were so old - it's simply not news anymore. If you could figure out how we can clear playlists, you can certainly let us clear the saved article cache. Or do it automatically every 2 or 3 days. Really.

A good step, but NPR still doesn't quite 'get' internet delivery of their content - if you want to time shift their big programs, you have to do it piece-by-piece, and attached to each story are TWO advertisements for their underwriters. So if you make a playlist of 9 or 10 stories, you hear 18-20 ads, the same two over and over again. NPR has to pay the bills, but the online experience really shouldn't be worse than the old radio model when the whole point is that it could be so much better.

Works great since app update (01/04/09), one of my first and favorite apps for my phone.

I live in japan so it's really nice to be able to listen to my fav radio stations on long train rides or at home. However, You should be able to close the app and do other things on your phone while listening, like iPhone music player. Also if the wifi is interrupted I lose my place and have to start the program over. This happened every time I was listening to radio lab. :(