Broadcasts Reviews

by Tupelobound

I wanted to like this. But it just doesnt' work. I.G. Go to the search bar on the left panel and search. Nothing comes up.

But go to the Browse Section, click on your target country and then search with THAT search bar and yes, your station appears now over to the side along with the option to save it in you collections.

Problem is... stations don't play when you click on the icon saved. I checked to see if my saved station was broadcasting by checking the actual website and they were. Too bad. Good idea.

Oh... and if you leave your searched for station call letters in the left side bar... and happen to do a new search and save on the right side, the newly saved station WILL NOT APPEAR in your collections until you have erased/deleted any other searches on the left side search bar. Too bad. I hope this gets fixed.

by Radsport

After so many positive reviews, I tried this app. Very disappointed. It does not list stations by genre. When searching for a specific kind of music, for instance Ambient, I don't care what country it originates from. I just want the content.

There might be times when it's nice to peruse stations from a certain country, but I think most folks are searching for a cerain kind of music.

this app will be deleted from my Mac. God I miss iTunes' Internet Radio.

by M1ng1st3ch

I oringinally installed this on my iPhone then my Mac. Created a handful of collections and added custom artwork to many streams. I installed on my iPad today after seeing the tweet for mouse support. Unfortunately the iPads lack of collections synced across all my devices and wiped everything out.

Reached out to Steve via twitter to inform him of this issue and have not received a reply.

This isn't worth the headache. I'm going to just consider the purchase a loss and uninsall.

by Dabeire

Often especially at the weekend, there is no uplodating of the days broadcast and if there, it will often be just one news program, for example either the six or nine news

by Handshaper

The addition of the browser for stations is a huge improvement for Broadcasts, but on iOS there does not appear to be a way to search the list, whilel there is a search field on the Mac version, what gives?

Still not a universal purchase either, bought it on the phone and no it wants me to pay again on the Mac, which I will not be doing! What is the problem?

by Reflectivecone

The interface is best in class for radio apps. And the organization features are perfect.

However, Broadcasts needs some improvement in searching. You can't search all countries at the same time for something like 'classical' or 'public radio'. Broadcasts requires you to pick a country to search inside of. Also, if you know the name of station you’re looking for but not the country it’s from, the station can be very difficult to find.

Broadcasts Triode gets searching right. You can search all stations globally for things like genres or station names.

With better station search, Broadcasts would be the best.

by Nicky Leo

Great app and functions well. Yet I believe ever since the redesign on version 2.2, the mac app seems unable to remember its window size on relaunch. Not a big problem but hopefully it can be fixed.

by Toreonify

I like native apps, because they consume less space on disk and use less RAM when running. This one is no exception :)
I have noticed that sometimes radio stream stops and doesn't resume (maybe it's server side problem). And if you could close main window without stopping the music (like iTunes) – it would be great.

by Senator Blutarski

this app is a new app that is steadily and rapidly improving and adding features (e.g., the recent directory of stations addition), but already I'm won over from a well-known competitor's legacy app that I've never loved. Broadcast: a simple, low cost radio app on both iOS and Mac OS X that syncs well. I'd love to see the ability to export and import station lists (including descriptions and icons) so that I could evangelize Broadcasts to my friends and family and make it dirt simple for them to add Broadcasts and get started. Finding which radio stations are the "best" or are "stations in my areas of listening interest" amongst the multitude of stations in the USA and worldwide is likely still overwhelming for new users, so any feature that would help could be useful. Kudos to the developer.

by Mr. Cutter

Nice app. The minus star is because the available stations are only about 10 (Irish). Hopefully more will be added.

by JAC_151

This developer never disappoints and it shows especially in Broadcasts which delivers one of the closest-to-native experiences I've seen in any third-party app. It's simple and does what is advertised extremely well. It takes full advantage the current APIs on both macOS and iOS/iPadOS. Finally have a clean way to listen to my favorite stations outside of a web browswer.

by SlavaKM

I love the ability to add my own radio stations, customize the icons and have it instantly sync between macOS/iOS and have easy access in CarPlay.

Very Happy!!!!!

by Akselkreis

I don't listen to much radio, but I have a few favorite stations - Broadcasts is perfect for me - I have been able to listen to my favorite college radio stations in a single location. Great. Work.

by Datatransfer

I appreciate the option to directly add audio feeds by URL, and customize their icons, and categorize them.
Well done!

by AppleSapien

Please don't change Broadcasts too much, in terms of usability. If you're going to keep adding features, then okay, but the simplicity of this radio app is what makes it PERFECT.

by Groovity

Thanks for this simple and easy to use app. If you just want radio stations without all the bulk and ads of Tune In this is Broadcasts for you. Easy to use and customize. Spend the $4.99. Well worth it.

by Tevaliaracks

Light weight. Not a heavy data mining machine that makes the users jump through hoops to use it, or feel like their constantly being used. Not overly complex. Just right, with a responsive developer who has some respect for users. We need more like this.

by JeJoMc

This is the best by far online radio app for iPhone and Mac!

Ability to add personal stations is the clincher for me and it always works. Not one complaint save for syncing between apps...if that happens? It is the BEST app out there. ADDED WITH LAST UPDATE on 6/3/21!!!

I am done with all the others, this app 2 is the way to go.

by Museumphile

With the iTunes internet radio feature gone, this app takes that space and allows for easily discoverable internet radio.

I especially love how this app, just like Apple Music, responds to incoming phone calls and Siri requests by temporarily muting itself.

by Albatrosb

Broadcasts is great for radio listeners. It syncs on all of your Apple devices (MacOS and iOS) and you pay just for once. Steve is a very active developer and makes it better with every release. Looking forward to V2.

by NicktheGeek

The only reason I bought this was to be able to add other radio stations. There is absolutely nothing in Broadcasts that lets you search for other stations and I have found it impossible to add stations because I am unable to locate the proper urls. That makes Broadcasts pretty much useless.

by A Virginia Lawyer

Update in response to developer comment — v. 1.2 still does not provide a way to SEARCH for a specific station you’d like to add. The lists of available stations by country marks a step forward, but it’s still a manual process — for example, you have to manually scroll through a list of 3,550 stations to add a U.S. station.

Original review — App requires manual entry of the streaming URL of a station you’d like to add. “Search” only applies to the list of stations you’ve already set up; you can’t use the call sign of a station you’d like to add (such as “WETA”) to obtain the information Broadcasts needs to stream that station. Compare with TuneIn and other apps that facilitate easy addition of a specific station.

by Fillory

I searched for stations in Japan, now stations in Japan are the ONLY ones I can search for - the back button doesn't work. I feel ripped off. This should not be for sale until it has been tested.

by Kahoover

...but none of the support links go anywhere but a blog page.

1) Universal purchase isn't.
2) All of the Irish stations vanished after I made the iOS purchase.
3) The graphic choices on the Mac app might be being largely made by Apple but they make Broadcasts really ugly and nothing like the screenshots.

All in all, wasn't worth the purchase money. Hope it will be and I can revise this review or delete it.

by Jasonrak

Update: *I appreciate dev response. However I deleted peseta when I opened Broadcasts because I don’t care about Irish radio stations. This is a US store app, no? So editing presets not possible now for me. An explanation in your app description would have helped then, no? I would have tried that if that were explained. After being burned too many times with new apps if an app doesn’t at least have a day trial period to fully try it then I don’t trust it. Just some constructive feedback. Sorry. Launch & app just not fully thought out in my opinion but I appreciate your candor and response and wish you luck*

Not even a 24 hour trial period? Nothing? Not sure my stations will add, won’t be purchasing

by Biox

Station browser and configuration is welcome addition, plus stations now synch via iCloud. Still needs buffering/time warping, so listener can go back and forth in time.

by Frank Beacham

Enter a radio station in it...any radio station. You get an error message. Not ready for prime time!

by Vidmaster99

Broadcasts has been what I have been waiting for for 2 years on my LTE watch, stream radio that I want while running and leave the phone at home. It’s great! A couple of things, sometimes app seems to quit, crash? while I am out, so I need to reopen and select station again to resume. This has led to me wishing there was a complication for Broadcasts , I tried to customize the Infograph face and didn’t see a complication for Broadcast. Feature request?

by Spud1234321

I ran into an issue and reached out on Twitter, the developer quickly responded and told me a good work around

by Gank!

This may be free, but $5 enables a lot. He started out with the ability to manually add a station. Then added a directory with search capabilities broken down by country. Added CarPlay support. iCloud sync across devices, including macOS. I mean, even Broadcasts icon is cool. I don’t understand the hater’s gripes. I’ve paid $5 for apps I’ve used maybe 3-4 times. I’ll get a lot of use out of this one. And he’s submitted like 8 updates to Broadcasts in a week. He wants to get it right and it shows. Also, check the file size...

by Mattdice

Awesome to listen to my favorite live podcasts on my mac in an app instead of in Safari.

by Wleuschner

Broadcasts works great! It’s a simple, small macOS and iOS stream player, and it syncs very quickly. I can’t throw all the weird streams I want to test at it right now, but it’s working just fine for my local public radio station’s bog-standard MP3 stream.

I would appreciate some Shortcuts support so I can ask Siri to play stations, but it’s so fast that I don’t mind doing it manually.