NPR for PC

★ ★ ★ NPR Overview

What is NPR? The NPR App is a mobile application that provides access to the latest breaking news, live radio streams, programs, and podcasts from NPR. The app offers hourly newscasts, breaking news alerts, and story feeds filtered by topic. Users can also stream their local radio station and enjoy on-demand access to their favorite podcasts.

Software Features and Description

1. The best of NPR’s content in your pocket: read the latest breaking news, stream your local public radio stations, and hear your favorite NPR shows and podcasts.

2. • You agree that NPR uses devices identifiers, tracking technologies, and information about the device you use to access NPR’s apps to enhance your viewing, listening, and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide social media features, and analyze NPR’s traffic.

3. Enjoy on-demand access to your favorite podcasts, including NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! and Planet Money.

4. Listen to America’s top conversations from NPR’s award-winning news programs, Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

5. Tap into a world of stories with on-demand access to the best of NPR content—news, live radio streams, programs, and podcasts.

6. Hear local and national newscasts and receive breaking news alerts.

7. Stream your local station to hear the stories that matter in your community.

8. Never miss a beat with hourly newscasts, breaking news alerts, and story feeds filtered by topic.

9. This information is shared with social media services, sponsorship, analytics, and other third-party service providers.

10. Stream your local radio station from wherever you are.

11. You can now support the station in your community with a simple, easy tap to visit their donation page.

12. Liked NPR? here are 5 News apps like Twitter; Reddit; CNN: Breaking US & World News; Nextdoor: Neighborhood Network; NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts;

Download and install NPR on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
NPR	Get App ↲	7,697 2.80	NPR

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install NPR app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using NPR on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "NPR"
The search will reveal the NPR app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once NPR is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including NPR.
Now enjoy NPR on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	NPR	2.80	6.1.6

Download on Windows 11

For Windows 11, check if there's a native NPR Windows app here » ». If none, follow the steps below:

To get started, Download the OpenPC software »
- Upon installation, open OpenPC app » goto "Playstore on PC" » click "Configure_Download" button. This will auto-download and install PlayStore on your computer.

To use NPR,
- Login to the PlayStore we just installed
- Search for "NPR" » then Click "Install".
- NPR will now be available on your Windows start-menu.

Minimum requirements	Recommended
8GB RAM SSD Storage Processor: Intel Core i3, AMD Ryzen 3000 Architecture: x64 or ARM64	16GB RAM HDD Storage

Get NPR on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get Free on Mac	NPR	7697	2.80

Download on Android: Download Android

NPR functions

- Access to the latest breaking news from NPR

- Hourly newscasts and breaking news alerts

- Live radio streams from local public radio stations

- On-demand access to NPR programs and podcasts

- Personalized content and messages from NPR's sponsors

- Data protection choices and transparency about how user information is collected, used, and shared

- Support for local public radio stations through a simple tap to visit their donation page.

✔ Pros:

- The app provides access to NPR news and programs.

- The app has a modern design.

☹ Cons:

- The app lacks the ability to browse and listen to locally produced programs from other parts of the country.

- The app has a pointless feature that is inconsistent with normal app functionality and is a privacy concern.

- The app lacks the ability to create personalized playlists.

- The latest release of the app is a train wreck, making it crashy, slow, and quirky.

Top Pcmac Reviews

Already miss the Old App

By VoiceOver user. (Pcmac user)

I should have known better than to go with the new this app app that replaced this app News. There was so much to love about it. Although I do Support my local this app Station, I also like to browse, including locally produced programs from other parts of the country, which are not carried by my local station. That was easy to do in the old app. I simply brought up the station, and chose an on-demand program. These shows were displayed alongside the live streams. In addition , I could create a Favorites list, and even add items to a playlist for later use. In the new version, all of these features are gone. Now, the only way to get on-demand material from other stations seems to involve changing one’s favorite station; and, even if you do that, you then have to go to a separate On-Demand tab to get such material, and there are fewer choices of podcasts and topics. For instance, on the old app, I could go to WUNC (not my local station), and listen to podcasts from The People’s Pharmacy. Now, even by making that station my favorite, I found very few choices—and The People’s Pharmacy wasn’t one of them. Then, I had to reset my favorite station; then, to get back to where I was (if it wasn’t my local station), I had to go to Recently Streamed, and _hope to find it there. I hope I will grow to like the new app better, but don’t count on it. The reason I even gave it 4 stars is that I’m a huge fan of this app.
Why is there “already played” list that can’t be deleted?

By Tiff227 (Pcmac user)

This is a pointless feature, totally inconsistent with normal app functionality, and is a privacy concern. Why even have this feature? It’s nice that you guys brought back a somewhat functional app but why do you insist on overthinking everything? The old this app app worked fine, this app One was deeply overthought (and overwrought) and barely functional and this new this app app brings in some some of that limited functionality. It seems like it was designed by someone reviewing the corporate description of this app - obsessive focus on repetitive news that generates local revenue for national this app, as if it were the 90s and we weren’t able to get a news summary immediately by swiping on our phone - rather than actually providing access to the rich diversity of content available throughout the this app network. It just doesn’t seem that hard to give people what they want and have clearly asked for for some time. It honestly seems like there are developers “guessing” at what users might want. Why not just ask them if it is so hard? Why waste all this time, money and waning good will creating limited functionality?
Bring the NPR News app back, please

By Ryan9157384 (Pcmac user)

The new this app app seems designed like the this app One app, which is really unfortunate. On the old this app News app, I could create my own playlists, listening to these three stories but not that one. That functionality has all been removed from the new (and certainly not improved) this app app. Sometimes I might want to listen to most of one day’s All Things Considered program, but would (for example) delete the sports stories because I just don’t care about them. With the change to this new this app app, it’s not possible to curate my own this app playlist. It’s frustrating that this app’s “digital” department thinks that this is what their listeners want. The new this app app is much less listener-friendly and makes it more difficult to seek out new/interesting content. It is still easy to find Morning Edition or All Things Considered—but it is very difficult to find the off-the-wall and obscure programs produced by smaller this app member stations across the country. The old this app News app was great for that. Ugh. I gave up on using this app One years ago because I didn’t like how that program “decided” for me what it thought I would want to listen to. I was an active user of the this app News app for years and years. I used the Playlist feature on a daily basis. It was a very frustrating morning to be forced into using this new this app app that has taken away much of the functionality of the old this app News app. Please bring the old this app News app back!
4.x release is useless garbage, bring back the old app!

By JDubman (Pcmac user)

The latest release is a train wreck. We live for the news and I even used to work for an this app affiliate, and the 4.0 update has destroyed our relationship with this app in our home. The old app was crashy, slow and quirky but functional. We love this app so much we put up with it. We used to listen constantly, curating our own playlist with a few taps on even a 5 year old phone and it worked fine. One day I hear cries from the shower, what happened to the this app app? I find out there's an update, saw some bad reviews, rushed to turn off automatic updates on my iPhone, but not in time. The fact that the old version is gone without warning and replaced with something missing the only meaningful feature of the app is completely irresponsible. The new app seems to do basically one thing which is to stream some tiny subset of this app content in a predetermined order without the ability to decide in advance what I listen to while showering, driving, running, etc. This is torture after getting accustomed to the playlist feature for the last several years. I have read every review here and this is basically the consensus about the 4.0 app. I have searched for an alternative, to find nothing. I may write one myself as my next side project. Until then, goodbye this app, just when we need you most. I beg whoever is in charge to bring back the old app, immediately. Update: Just installed latest version and it crashed on startup. Deleted.