Pandora: Music & Podcasts
United States
4.80★ from 11,325,897 ratings · version 2609.2 · 28 of the last 242 written reviews are one or two starsExcessive ads and ad frequency
6of the 28 read21%
Too many ads playing constantly, ads between every song, and ads are louder than music.
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“Ads loud — Why are your ads twice as loud as the rest of the station.” — ★★☆☆☆“We aren’t dumb — Pandora is getting further and further away from free music, a trickle in ads, extending them and more frequent time to find a new app” — ★★☆☆☆“Ads are out of control — The obsession to make the experience as painful as possibly so you upgrade to a subscriptions is painfully obvious. Out of control” — ★☆☆☆☆
Poor song recommendations and artist search
3of the 28 read11%
Music recommendations don't match what users want, wrong songs play, can't listen to searched artists.
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“Bruh? — I can’t listen to an artist after I click on them 🤨” — ★★☆☆☆“The music associated with what I typed in sucks — Y’all aren’t playing an bands that go with what I have playing and the amount of ads playing is ridiculous. I know it’s free but damn an add after every song is stupid. Every other music app that’s free doesn’t have this many adds… come on pandora your better then this.” — ★☆☆☆☆“Stop playing music I don’t want to hear! — When I open Pandora you are now playing music I do NOT want. How can I change that! I only want to hear MY stations.” — ★☆☆☆☆
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 28 most recent negative ones. Newest review yesterday (30.09.2026), last collected today.