Best Clock Radio & Podcast App Reviews

Thought that the 5 star ratings were too good to be true...but happy to admit that after weeks of searching for a wifi clock radio, this 4$ app was well worth every penny and then some! Well done! First review that I have ever written..have been using apple products for years..

I downloaded 4 different radio apps, this being the most expensive, hoping to find one that could simply wake me up in the mornings with a radio station of my choosing. Not that complicated, right? Wrong! One app has a radio function but wont let you use it as an alarm, another didnt let me search the stations I wanted, another didnt sound the alarm if the app wasnt running in the foreground.... This one does it all. I tested it out by finding my favorite station (WNYC) by searching the US radio stations by state and saving the station, then set an alarm to wake me up with that station. It worked! I also tried closing the app and turning off notifications and it still worked! If you dont have the app running in the foreground, you just need to reopen it to turn off the alarm. The design is really sleek and clean too. Since youre paying for it you dont have to worry about ugly ads either. I too was skeptical of the 5 star reviews but Im giving another one because this is hands down worth every penny and does exactly what youd want a radio alarm to do!

Looks nice but I am tired of swiping at things trying to figure out how they work. Needs more obvious controls and more radio preset buttons. In the list of countries for stations there is no Israel.

Great app! It incorporates everything I was looking for except a landscape mode! Please include this feature in an update!

Really well done. Seamless integration of radio channels and easy navigation. Best out there.

This is by far the best clock radio app I’ve ever seen (hence the name). It’s stable, easy to use, and has expansive functionality. I find myself using it all the time; by my bed, in the car, working in the office, … The team that put this together should be commended. I’m looking forward to trying other apps they produce.

I love the app. Easy to setup and use. I do get 25% battery drain overnight. Once battery drain is fixed then easy 5 stars.

This has so much going for it. First off, its a great alarm clock which also displays the current weather. What sets it apart from other alarm clocks are the thousands of radio stations from around the world that you can wake or just listen to. If you, your parents or grandparents are from another part of the world, chances are you will find a radio station from there to remind you of what you left behind. Im happy enough listening to my local sports station... wherever I am. If your favorite station live streams, chances are youll find it with this app or you can enter the url yourself. Besides all that, it is a nice app just to look at if you keep it opened up on your night stand. I usually dont write reviews, especially of this length, but I feel this one deserve all the praise I can give it.

This app has everything I am looking for... Only one BIG problem. If I have anything that is set as a pop up notification that happens prior to the alarm going off BCR doesnt make the alarm! I have calendar reminders and weather notifications that are set to pop up everyday. This makes BCR useless. Cant this be fixed???

Simple well thought out interface,the app has all the stations i was looking for, alarm triggers radio! I actually use this instead of Tune In now, i like the buttons right on the screen.

The clock and alarm with music work fine. The radio is useless. Unfortunately, thats what I bought it for.

This nutty alarm will work if the ringer is turned off, the volume is turned down, the screen is locked and the app isn’t open. The only problem you might have is if you set it to an internet radio station you might happen to get dead air, that happened to me once. You can set multiple alarms so it’s smart to set a non-radio alarm 15 minutes later if you want to wake up to a radio station. It also has the craziest selection of alarms I’ve ever seen, “Funkmeyer” being a personal favorite. It can also play songs from your iTunes library. Its unfortunately pretty ugly, which is why I only gave it four stars. It LOOKS like a piece of junk but its the best alarm clock app I’ve found so far.

You need to update the program so that the liitle program box in the desktop also shows the correct time! Sometimes you dont have time to open the app to look at the time and the gadget on the desk shows the same time all the time please fix! Veteran Request

I own both this app and the original app "Beautiful Clock Radio". I really like the clean layout and especially the programable radio buttons. The interface is very well designed and easy to use. Im always discovering new radio stations from all over the world using this app. The station list is very impressive. Highly recommended!

This does a lot, I have only had it 2 days but experiencing some growing pains. My all my local stations dont play when I choose them from US radio, and I have been unable to get them to pay by putting in the URL address. More of a pain is that after I hit the snoooze button once, the alarm off button no long works in landscape mode, I am forced to pick up my Ipad and shift to portrait. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app, and alarm off always works the first time, but once i hit snooze during furhter testing it is done. Still i give 4 stars because overall I like it. Hopefully the snooze/alarm off bug will be reported by more people than I.

This app has everything I need! I love this app, it has everything!

I use this app everyday. Love it!

I wanted to like this app, but it doesnt work reliably.

Love the design, many great stations to wake to. Nice work

This app is so thoroughly thought out, so well designed, and so beautifully simple--yet packed with features its a wonder that it costs so little. For the price, this is easily one of the best deals in the App Store. The user interface is brilliant and intuitive, easy to use and visually appealing. One of the biggest pluses with this app is the radio feature, allowing up to 8 of your favorite radio streams to be activated by a single touch. If the stream drops (as they often do) the app automatically reestablishes connection--a brilliant feature. Should your internet connection go down, the app will revert to preset alarm music so you will never be left asleep by a silent alarm--another brilliant feature. Last, but certainly not least, the interface is very dark and can be dimmed beyond that of the dimmest screen brightness setting on my iPad, making it the perfect companion in a very dark room. This is easily in my top three favorite apps and will continue to be a mainstay in my bedroom for the foreseeable future.