- PriceFree
- CategoryNews
- First releasedApril 1, 2010
- Versions8 archived
- Installable8 of 8
- AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
- SellerNPR
- Bundle IDorg.npr.nprpad
RequirementsCompatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Experience NPR as a delightful magazine! The NPR iPad app presents our award-winning storytelling as a seamless mix of audio, text and images in a clean visual design. With a focus on News, Arts & Life, and Music, the app gives you content that’s broad, deep and timely.
It's NPR like you've never seen us before.
********************************************* HIGHLIGHTS:
* Read - Browse through dozens of Topic "tapes" organized under the main categories of News, Arts & Life, and Music. - Read stories while listening to live stations or on demand audio. - Download stories for offline reading.
* Listen - Select from hundreds of NPR stories, and stations’ live and on-demand streams. - Add favorite stories to your playlist. - Persistent audio player includes one-tap access to your Playlist, Hourly Newscast, Programs and Stations.
* Stations - Expanded Station Finder feature lets you find a station by location (GPS) or searching by call letters, zip code, city or state. - Bookmark your favorite station streams and podcasts.
* Programs - Our full-screen program guide provides information about each story and tells you where your favorite programs are playing live now. - Listen to Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Fresh Air, Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me! and more – anytime, anywhere. - Bookmark your favorite programs and topics.
***Praise for NPR for iPad*** 2012 Webby Award, People's Voice Winner 2012 Communication Arts Interactive Annual Winner 2011 Wired Magazine / Gizmodo App Guide, Editor's Pick
"This is one of those iPad apps where the brilliance is almost invisible, because they just did things the right way. The navigation is intuitive, the design is clean..." - Communication Arts juror
"This [app] presents public radio's current stories in scrollable rows of news, arts & life, and music...it feels a lot like being immersed in a true multimedia magazine" – Consumer Reports
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The NPR for iPad app supports iOS 7 and above.
We love to hear from you! If you need support using the app, wish to report an issue or request a feature, please email us at [email protected]
Bundle Size Over Time
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 14 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 5, 2010 | — | — | 131 | Free |
| January 1, 2011 | 1.5 | — | — | Free |
| January 1, 2012 | — | — | 8,243 | Free |
| January 7, 2013 | — | — | 8,649 | Free |
| December 26, 2014 | 2.5.1 | ★ 3.0 | 9,401 | Free |
| January 21, 2015 | 2.5.1 | ★ 3.0 | 9,455 | Free |
| April 21, 2015 | 2.5.1 | ★ 3.0 | 9,505 | Free |
| October 16, 2015 | 2.5.2 | ★ 3.0 | 9,539 | Free |
| January 31, 2019 | 2.5.3 | ★ 3.0 | 9,720 | Free |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25The App is great, especially when traveling. However, radio station buttons on front would avoid repeated drilling down. And "Replace Playlist" button would speed saving of programs rather than having to go to both areas to perform. It would be nice if hitting stop button and restarting did not restart the NPR promo, at least within the same hour. And why does the list order of my favorite stations change every day, seemingly at random, unrelated to my listening habits or alphabetical order?
Although the listener to news can choose the news items she wants to listen to, the stream doesn’t stream. Very very annoying. I have tried deleting the app, and then reloading, but it simply doesn’t work. In addition, some days the program doesn’t update for a day. So the Weekend Edition Sunday doesn’t appear until Monday. This app should work better.
Recently NPR has not been available on my iPad. Only Standards and New Sounds are now available. What did you do? I usually listen to WNYC 93.9 Hoping that one day you’ll finally update it and restore it the way it was when I could listen to my station
The app crashes with newer versions of the IPad IOS. It needs updating.
Reliable crash every time I try and run it.
Poorly designed, and probably never tested. On my iPad, I can’t even pick my local station to listen to the live streaming. Would only let me pick individual program podcasts. Lousiest app I’ve seen.
I just downloaded the app, prompted by a reference to a particular segment of a popular show. And I cannot find any SEARCH feature. No way to look for a story that might have been on any one of several programs, over any of several days or weeks. It is quite literally unbelievable that a quality organization cannot put out an app that includes an easy and obvious search bar. Sometimes what you want is to browse randomly, but sometimes you really want something specific. I hope I am wrong about this and the search feature is buried somewhere.....but it should be OBVIOUS and EASY and not require a lot of monkeying around to ‘discover’ such an important and necessary feature.
My local station KNKX can only be found by their ancient call letters KPLU. Interface reminiscent of RealPlayer. I would be willing to pay a subscription to support continuous development of public broadcasting service software.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.