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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

TuneIn used to very good with no ads. Now it has excessive ads and has buffering problems. I have cancelled and have no intention to return. It was how I listened to AM talk radio in my Tesla but it b... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

TuneIn is sold as the internet radio service with a lot of streamers. In the UK, following a court case brought by Sony and Warners, TuneIn was forced to block many (well, all the ones worth listeni... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Turn Out Tunein If anything drove me away from any product it would be the torture of hearing their adds on the Tunein app. Talk about controlling the air waves forcing you to submit to lack of t... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Fifteen years ago, tunein.com was the greatest streaming radio app, but now it requires 5 minutes of listening to loud commercials before you're able to hear any broadcast---and even longer when the... See more

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  1. Electronics & Technology

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TuneIn Inc. is an American audio streaming service delivering live news, radio, sports, music, and podcasts to over 60 million monthly active users.


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  • Townsend Street 139, 94107, San Francisco, Canada

  • tunein.com

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TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Be very careful of the free trial

Be very careful of the free trial. I signed up for free trial hoping for no or fewer ads. The web-site said zero amount to pay, but there was no change in the amount of adverts. I re-read the web-site in more detail and it says that TuneIn have no control over the advertisements! So I cancelled that same day. Now, I find I have been charged £6.64. I have emailed TuneIn and as to date I have received no reply.

April 18, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

App works well but

App works well, but PLEASE, Please, structure your commercials to whoever the station target audience is. Please remove the very very fast talking and noisy spanish speaker on KNBR San Francisco Giants Basebsll games. Very intrusive AND LOUD. Thanks

April 18, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Lock Doors to Roof : )

Like my review the free version of TuneIn is worth what you pay. It's main feature is obnoxious repetitive ads mostly for TuneIn premium. At first you think this is a technical glitch hearing the same ad(s) over and over and over and over - but these glass-chewing or wanna put your head in a vice commercials are real and intentional. Lock stairway doors leading to the roof if innocents are exposed to this (such as in a business or factory, etc). In case a listener has forgot here's the one they ran over 600 million times: I HEAR YOUR HAVIN GIRLFRIEND PROBLEMS I FEEL BAD FOR YOU SON I GOT 900 PROBLEMS BUT SPORTS AINT ONE! SPORTS! -this was lead in to commercial for TuneIn Sports premium and was incredibly low IQ value.

April 15, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Too many ads recently

The stupid ads of Stansted express in the UK are unbearable! They interrupt the programmes all the time.
I'll be listening from other sources going forward.

March 22, 2025
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Useful, but Not Always Reliable

TuneIn is a good way to hear your favotite radio station programming away from your area or when the station is doing maintenance or having problems.

They do not keep up with changes in program content. For WYPR, they're several years out of date, so what TuneIn says is playing reflects the show line up 2 changes ago! Just sloppy and lazy.

January 26, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

How to make an app overly commercialized and complicated

Wow! How to take a great app concept and make it overly complicated aod obsessed with monetization. All I wanted was a list of radio stations in Philadephia and impossible to find. Hadn’t used the app in years and I will delete it after writing this review. The tech overlords are ruining everything!

January 18, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Their ads are unbearable

How about a little variety? Repetition works unless it's so irritating it makes you tune out / vow to never reward bad behavior.

It's the same ads on repeat for months at a time. The current one is a fake "hostage" from Palestine, and although it is for the new year, it has been running for two weeks and today is the 3rd. No idea what the point of it even is because it's so obnoxious with the fake whispering and fake crying that it has the OPPOSITE effect of what the makers intended. Moving on to Sirius XM.

January 2, 2025
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Take A Deal If Offered One

I took a special offer half-price monthly premium deal in July and it's great value for money. Local MLB commentaries and extra premium channels. Some of the people complaining obviously don't read Ts&Cs and are blaming TuneIn for their own stupidity.

December 18, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This company is disgusting

This company is disgusting. Never used there streaming service and was charged my parents CC that was in my apply pay account without notice. I explained that i NEVER logged into their streaming service and it was enrolled in error. They refused to refund.

November 16, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This service is absolute garbage

This service is absolute garbage. Not only are there too many ads (we've had up to 45 minutes of ads in a 1 hour period). Often the ads are in completely foreign languages, so, whoever the advertisers are, they are wasting their money. Many times, the same ad will play over and over for up to 20 minutes.

October 29, 2024
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

I know that Tunein needs to sell ads

I know that Tunein needs to sell ads. But my God when you begin you have to wait for many ads to go by. I forget what I was waiting to hear. And on my phone if I listen to a video for a second I have to go through all those damned ads again.

October 25, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Deleted the app again because of…

Deleted the app again because of grifter advertising. The advertising from gold co and gold ira that are using Mike Lindell’s voice and Sean Hannity by name are straight up lying to people. Four years ago I deleted the app because of Steve Bannon’s fake company Build the Wall advertisements and here we are again. Tune In should verify.

October 24, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This is NOT an ad free site with a $100…

This is NOT an ad free site with a $100 yearly subscription. After many emails to them their response of "we are working on this" have been a brush off as ads have been non stop for months during different times of the week. This is especially true on the weekends. Finally, am writing this review in the hopes you will not waste your money.

October 7, 2024
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