“so I did have a subscription to iHeart when I cancel all of a sudden I'm now getting even more ads less music in constant ads about paying for their subscription now these corpos are now putting in their own personal ads to try to get me…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 878 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.6 ★2,342,241 ratings
50M+Downloads
12+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Your Music, Your Stations & #1 For Podcasts. All Free.
On iHeartRadio, real artists, hosts & creators remain at the center of all our audio music & commentary content. Listen to music, radio stations & podcasts with top hits, sports, news & more – content you can trust is Guaranteed Human.
1000s of live radio stations & unlimited free music playlists: stream songs, ad-free music playlists, podcasts & live sports for free on any device. Enjoy free music & audio or video podcasts on the go using iHeart with Android Auto to listen to travel music playlists.
Play sports radio stations & local AM / FM radio stations to get your live sports play by play. Connect with radio hosts on our Talkback mic & catch up on your favorite teams.
Songs, podcasts or radio: listen to your favorites from local & world radio any time, any place. Download iHeartRadio for free today!…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 10.67.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version VARY, updated 2026-08-28.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
From the package we downloaded and read — version 10.67.0, scanned 2026-09-20.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
6 or more requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
3 or more found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Asks for more sensitive permissions than similar apps
The package requests substantially more of the device's sensitive permissions than the typical app in its category. This is a measurement, not an accusation: a permission is granted because a feature needs it, and a wide request list is a reason to look rather than a finding on its own.
What we saw: Requests 7 sensitive permissions (ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, READ_CALENDAR, READ_CONTACTS, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, READ_PHONE_NUMBERS, READ_PHONE_STATE, RECORD_AUDIO); the median for 74 scanned apps in Music & Audio is 2
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
In the app's own text: Trial terms not stated in the app's own text
The app's own screens offer a free trial without stating, beside it, what happens when the trial ends. Read this as context rather than as a charge: renewal terms are normally shown on the store's purchase sheet instead, which we cannot see, and we can only observe one kind of evidence for this — so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
What we saw: Offers a free trial ("Start Free Trial") with no renewal price, renewal date or auto-renew notice anywhere in the app's own text
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 26 distinct reviewers (3.0% of 878 reviews scanned)
In the app's own text: A plan is pre-picked as 'recommended'
The purchase screen arrives with one plan already framed as the recommended or most popular choice, so the default is the app's preference rather than the user's. We do not compare the plans' prices, and only the app's own text evidences this, so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
What we saw: Purchase screen steers the choice: "Most Popular"
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Going back to FM radio the ads are ridiculous, you're listening to ads more than any program/poscast or song. The greed has really ruined the experience of this and other apps like it. But you can always pay for a subscription. 🙄 UPDATE…”
“it's been consistently better so I'm upgrading it from three stars to four stars. but the number of ads is getting ridiculous.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version VARY.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.