Simple Radio – Live AM FM App 12+

New listener

I just discovered Simple Radio and was intrigued, so I downloaded the app. I’m confused about some things; mostly how I’m supposed to be able to access a very large number of different radio stations at any given time. I can currently get about 15, which unfortunately includes 2-3 not available I’d otherwise enjoy, and one of my favorite local ones that for some reason only shows up now and then.

I’m very technology challenged, having trouble understanding the terminology and how to use it, so whenever I complain or request an answer to a question, the people I ask must dumb-down/simplify the answer and have patience when they do. I’m referring now to how, in some places in your app, you claim to offer for free lots of stations, but when I try to use Search no new offerings appear. Where’s the choice/variety? I know I have to put up with a lot, like the pop-up ads (even the audible ones, which are a problem to deal with if I’m away from my iPad for a moment) that keep most of Simple Radio free, but this “bait and switch” tactic RE: station offerings shouldn’t be one. So many personally modern choices have been made for us in the name of progress that Simple Radio should live up to its name and let the individual make up his own radio playlist from what’s available.

This has been a very long review/question. Thank you for any help you can give as to how I could expand my playlist with stations that are really—and always—available.

Alarm please!!!

Unless you just need a bedtime timer to shut the thing off stick with the free version. The ads aren't really that big of deal. I bought the app, $3.99, stupidly thinking that "timer" meant alarm. Wrong. You are basically paying for no ads and a bedtime shutoff timer. Where's the alarm? Was hoping to can my bedside alarm clock for this app. Urghhh. I'm going to look for an app that does what this app does but has an alarm. Sound quality is great. Never lost a station. The app even cast to my Google home easily. Felt the app was a little limited on local stations but I found every station in the Dallas area that I listen to 95% of the time. Did I mention the app has no alarm!?!

Below is the developers reply. Thank you. After reading I’ve found out that an alarm won’t do much since Apple has not opened the alarm app to developers. This may or may not be true. Is so the feature is useless as I discovered from another app. Used the app all day never lost signal with station. Easy to use and loving it more each day. Changing star rating from three to four.

Developer Response ,

Hi there! Thank you for using Simple Radio and taking the time to contact us. Unfortunately, this feature is currently not available. I'll submit your suggestion as a feature request for consideration by our product team. If you would like to provide further comments or suggestions, please contact us at simple@streema.com. Thank you!

Recent problems

I have used this app for a long time and enjoyed it very much. However, of late I have NOT enjoyed it.
Recently the app has started ad pop ups about every 4 or 5 minutes, interrupting the program I was on (I enjoy old time crime and science fiction dramas). I used to be able to open it, start one I wanted to listed to, and it played in the background while I did other things on my phone. Now, its adds stop the program, forcing me to stop whatever I was doing, and go to it to fix. Or, it will just stop playing as soon as I minimize it. Or it will start a garbling of the sound as I minimize it and open something else.
I would have to close the app and reopen to get it to stop, but shortly it would start again.
I have deleted it from my phone. I will try one more time with it, and if it just doesn’t stop, I will delete it and never use it again. (Which, I know, is no big deal to you; there are plenty of other users, but I just thought you ought to know that it’s really irritating and frustrating to lose part of the show I was listening to just because of ads!). Thanks anyway, though, for the enjoyment I did get.)

Developer Response ,

Thanks for reaching out. I definitely understand your concern and would like to escalate your issue to get to the bottom of this. Could you please send any screenshots related to the issue along with your device details to ios-cs@streema.com? Thank you!