Ancient Faith Radio App 4+

Ancient Faith Ministries

Designed for iPad

    • 4.1 • 152 Ratings
    • Free

Description

The official app of Ancient Faith Ministries, offering a wide range of audio and video programming, including three 24-hour internet-based Orthodox radio stations, live call-in programs, an extensive collection of downloadable podcasts, and access to the Ancient Faith Store.
Ancient Faith Ministries exists to carry out the Great Commission of Jesus Christ through accessible and excellently-crafted publications and creative media that educate, edify, and evangelize, leading to a living experience of God through His Holy Orthodox Church. For more information about us, please visit https://www.ancientfaith.com.

What’s New

Version 6.7

Bug Fixes

Ratings and Reviews

4.1 out of 5
152 Ratings

152 Ratings

Pooperrific ,

Vital App for All Orthodox Christians

In this chaotic world of noise and distractions, this app is absolutely ESSENTIAL as an aid to help me remain focused on my spiritual growth. I listen every single day at work. Not only is the sacred music beautiful and uplifting, but the little ‘wisdom breaks’ are the perfect little reminders I need throughout my day to check in on my heart and my intentions as I listen. If it wasn’t for the unfortunate erratic app crashes that happen at least once a day on my iPhone, this would be a 5-Star app. I am incredibly grateful to the developer of this app! Please keep on supporting this important form of ministry!

App Functionality Challenges ,

Great Content, but Challenging App

I have no issues with the content provided by Ancient Faith Media. This is a review of the app itself.

I downloaded the new version of the app fairly recently. While the functionality and appearance of the app are vastly improved over the previous one, there are several areas that make it very challenging to use. First, the search function is often either extremely slow or nonfunctional. Second, whenever I open the app, no matter what network I’m on, I receive error messages regarding loading my following and favorites. I don’t have any added, so maybe that’s what the error is. Third, I sometimes lose progress on podcast episodes that I’ve saved to my downloads and listened to. Fourth, sometimes downloads simply fail for unclear reasons. The only way I can get them to work is to select the download option and remain within the sub-menu where that option exists.

These are minor things individually but add up to make the app frustrating to use.

Developer Response ,

Hello, thank you for taking the time to leave us a review and bringing some issues to our attention. We have been working hard to improve the stability of our servers and to provide more updates to the app. We updated the servers late last night (02/28/23) to improve the network stability and will be releasing a new app version with additional bug fixes in the near future.

Your notes have been added to the running list of issues and we'll do our best to address them. Thank you for your continued support!

xiaodedraco ,

Needs improvement

Most of the reviews focus on the content I want this review to focus on the structure and coding features of the app. There is no way to select streaming quality so if you’re on a limited data plan, you’re going to eat up your data pretty fast if you want to listen to the radio for long periods

Also struggles greatly with continuing the audio stream when switching between Wi-Fi and cellular there needs to be a larger buffer gap searching functionality is limited to only the content that is curated. There should be an algorithm incorporated into the search functionality that would allow you to search past Podcasts for a particular theme or subject that you want to learn about or even a topical would be helpful.

Overall, I find this apps, usability and functionality to be mildly frustrating, mostly due to its inability to keep up with background streaming and the struggles it has switching between Wi-Fi and cellular

If you have your phone turned on open and running with this app in the forefront, everything seems to work mostly OK but when you try to minimize this app to a background process and do other things on your phone or even just put your phone to sleep so you can work and just listen to the stream it struggles badly hopefully there’s money in the budget from donations to pay for a coding person to address some of these issues

App Privacy

The developer, Ancient Faith Ministries, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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