- PriceFree
- CategoryNews
- First releasedAugust 13, 2009
- Versions1 archived
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerCBC
- Bundle IDca.cbc.CBCRadio
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 2.0 or later.
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Report an issueListen to live CBC Radio, the best in CBC Podcasts and curated playlists from CBC Music with the free CBC Listen app.
Your local and national CBC Radio One and CBC Music shows are right at your fingertips, live from anywhere.
Listen to critically acclaimed series from Canada’s #1 podcaster with shows like Uncover, The Secret Life of Canada, Front Burner, and Someone Knows Something. Discover the best in true crime, investigative reporting, fiction and more.
Tune in to over 100 curated music streams featuring brand new releases from Canadian artists and different genres.
CBC Listen features: • Live & On Demand CBC Radio • New and Popular CBC Podcasts • Hundreds of CBC Music Playlists • 100% FREE, no fees or subscriptions • Favourites Library for easy access • Recommendations personalized just for you, based on your listening history • Playlogs from CBC Music shows • Reminders so you never miss a beat • Podcast Downloads for Offline Listening • Bookmarks to save and listen to later • Playback Speed control for On Demand content • Frequency Finder • Sleep Timer • CarPlay support • SplitView and SlideOver support on iPads • Widgets • Shortcuts (customizable for the things you access frequently)
Also, available on Mac (M series), visionPro, tvOS
*On Demand and Music Playlists are subject to geo-fencing.
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Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 5 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 6, 2010 | 2.0.0 | — | 590 | Free |
| January 8, 2011 | 2.0.1 | — | 610 | Free |
| March 17, 2012 | — | — | 663 | Free |
| November 26, 2015 | 3.1.1 | — | 709 | Free |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25If you refuse to give this app access to your location data, it will count you as “international” and restrict some content. This reeks of the CRTC and their meddling, a familiar story. The live streams seem to still work, and you can select which region to listen to eg. Atlantic or Eastern. Quality seems stable and sounds very good to my ears.
The latest update wiped out all the saved content and favourites. It took me a while to find anything besides the marquee shows (I finally found the World Report after 30 min of searching) The new version is pretty, but not user friendly
Best way to stay in touch with Canada
PLEASE tell me how to hear Juli Nezrella. I live a few miles south of the border, love Ms Nezrella’s morning music as well as the background of performers. Do I need to pay? I will if necessary.
I liked the older app far better ...now it’s just a disorganized mess.
Love the CBC Podcasts. The app however will not play podcasts in the correct order no matter how you arrange the order, from oldest to newest or newest to oldest. I wonder if tee is a conflict with IOS?
CBC Radio had a great app until the newest upgrade. CBC Listen is a downgrade. You used to be able to filter episodes by topic. Maybe you still can but I can’t find how. I liked listening to shows about science. No idea how that is accomplished in the new app. The new app is clunky and confusing. I wish I could give it less that one star! Hopefully, whoever designed this new look gets shown the door. What a pack of losers.
The latest update has made reading the screen much more difficult, especially for people who’s eyesight isn’t perfect. The size of the info for the current broadcast program, at top of page, is much smaller, about one-third the size the app used to show this info. It was much easier to read before. Please make this larger, more as it used to be. I also miss the ability to swipe between News, and Music sections. Really, this latest update was making the app less user-friendly, and this needs to be fixed.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.