BBC Sounds - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

Listen to the best of BBC audio with BBC Sounds. Stream and download your favourite BBC podcasts, radio stations and music all in one place.

Features include:
‐ Listen live to all BBC Radio stations
‐ Pause and rewind live radio as well as browse past and future station schedules
‐ Download or stream your podcasts, radio shows and music on the go
‐ Continue listening from where you left off on any device
‐ Autoplay multiple episodes of series or podcasts or all your downloads (optional)
‐ Subscribe to BBC podcasts, music mixes and shows
‐ See the latest episodes from your favourite programmes and podcasts in one handy list
‐ Get personalised recommendations to discover new audio you’ll love
‐ Send music tracks you like to Apple Music and Spotify
‐ Browse by speech and music categories
‐ Sleep Timer

When using the Apple CarPlay enabled version of the BBC Sounds app, it is your responsibility to always follow safe driving practices (i.e. don’t be distracted and focus on the road at all times). Comply with all relevant laws, traffic regulations and road signs.

To give you the best experience, this app tracks what you’ve listened to on BBC Sounds and how long you’ve listened to programmes for. It also tracks when you add something to Bookmarks or Subscriptions. By “Allow Personalisation”, you will get personalized recommendations. More information can be found here https://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/account/about-your-personalisation-settings/.

The BBC uses cookies and similar technologies to understand how audiences interact with our services, content (such as podcasts and radio) and marketing messages. The categories of personal data processed by our data processors include the following:
• IP address to determine which UK city/region you are in, or which country/continent you are in if outside of the UK
• Activity data, such as time when you first used this app and programmes you listened to and interacted with
• Your device information, such as device type and OS version

For more information about how and why we use information about you, please visit the BBC Sounds App Privacy Notice. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/about-bbc-sounds-and-our-policies/sounds-app-privacy-notice

To read the BBC’s Privacy Policy go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy/

If you install this app you accept the BBC Terms of Use at http://www.bbc.co.uk/terms/

The app is published by BBC Media AT (BBC Media Applications Technologies Limited) which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).
Full details of BBC Media AT are available on the Companies House website at: http://data.companieshouse.gov.uk/doc/company/07100235 BBC © 2022

The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking: http://www.bbc.co.uk/help/web/links/

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User Rating

4.84 out of 5

1,792 ratings in New Zealand

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Reviews

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BBC sounds are amaaaaaaazing it’s so helpful and so fun, I love comedy podcast and they have so man off them but they have crime music science comedy children’s and also you can listen to lots of amazing radio stations where you can pause the radio and rewind if you missed something. All in all this is an amazing app and totally free so what are you waiting for y’all download nooooow and I promise u won’t regret it ❤️👍😁🥳✌️🫶🌸

Woman’s Hour

Wonderful to be able to hear the latest programme in New Zealand. Thanks BBC Sounds.

BBC bbc

Curios

Listening in NZ

I would pay / subscribe to this service if we also got access to more UK content. As an expat in NZ this app is awesome

Great range of listening

I love BBC sounds as I can keep up with so many interesting programmes. I live in New Zealand and with the time difference it is difficult to listen live. I really enjoy Jeremy Vine, Now You’re Asking, the Country music show with Bob Harris and Saturday Live among many others. I plan to return to the UK next year so it’s great to be able to keep up to date with British culture. Thank you!

Bbc2

Love it all

Just magic!

Downloaded the app during a rather scary and painful hospital stay. Listening to the World Service, and the excellent podcasts, got me through each day and night. Fantastic app design. Very intuitive to use. So much outstanding content. Thank you!

Review

Brilliant 🤩

Clunky, unreliable

The BBC has sadly started to lock away it’s content behind an app. Everyone else is doing it so no surprise except that the app is not up to a serviceable standard. Downloads are unreliable at best. The queue will stall and nothing will download, even app restarts don’t work to get it moving. Just let us download the audio files like we used to so they can be played in better apps.

Happy user for 4+ years

I enjoy the variety and quality of music and podcasts. I use this app everyday. I would like to have access to podcasts/shows that are only available in the UK though :)

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Category Rankings

Chart	Category	Rank
Top Free	United Kingdom Music	8
Top Free	Ireland Music	21
Top Free	New Zealand Music	41
Top Free	Hong Kong Music	51
Top Free	Finland Music	53

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