Pandora: Music & Podcasts

Pandora Media, LLC

4.80star11,282,593 ratings

MusicMusic streaming apps shelf$3.99–$12.99 · 3 tiersUpdated Aug 11, 2026

Biggest complaint · Ads

30.2%

62 of 205 negatives · store typical 10.7%

Recent reviews negative

30%

its 10 shelf rivals run 46% · 673 reviews held

Counted from real App Store reviews · 2026-08-24 · nothing estimated or modelled

Ratings.

5.0out of 5

11,284,239 ratings · Apple’s own count, fetched daily

59,834,105

4961,598

3272,037

276,082

1140,417

4 decisions.

Investigate ads first

high · 30.2% of this app’s 205 negative reviews, against 10.7% typical store-wide.

How it compares

this app: 30.2%; 62 of 205
its shelf: 14.1%; rivals only
store-wide: 10.7%; typical

Watch limits & caps

elevated · 3.4% of this app’s 205 negative reviews, against 2.8% typical store-wide.

How it compares

this app: 3.4%; 7 of 205
its shelf: 3.5%; rivals only
store-wide: 2.8%; typical

Performance is at typical — skip it

14.6% of this app’s 205 negative reviews, against 16.9% typical store-wide, which is normal for the store.

How it compares

this app: 14.6%; 30 of 205
its shelf: 25.1%; rivals only
store-wide: 16.9%; typical

Protect support, ux, login & auth, accuracy, sync & data and billing

Support, UX, Login & auth, Accuracy, Sync & data, Billing all run well below the store’s typical rate.

n = 66. Too thin to act on — we recount weekly.

How it compares

Support2% of 205 · shelf 5.2% · store 9.2%
UX1% of 205 · shelf 2.6% · store 2.9%
Login & auth4.9% of 205 · shelf 7.1% · store 13.2%
Accuracy5.4% of 205 · shelf 8.6% · store 11.5%
Sync & data1% of 205 · shelf 1.8% · store 2.2%
Billing18% of 205 · shelf 20.1% · store 32.1%

The shelf in numbers

All 11 panel members · 2026-08-24 snapshot.

App	Ratings	Ads
Audiomack - Play Music Offline	1,998,967	53.3%
Pandora: Music & Podcasts	11,282,593	30.2%
SoundCloud: The Music You Love	1,972,922	26.5%
Spotify: Music and Podcasts	41,695,950	22.2%
Music : Cloud Music Streaming	7,632	15.2%
LiveOne Music	29,202	11.6%
Demus: Easy Music Streaming	106	10.9%
Amazon Music: Songs & Podcasts	3,328,764	9.3%
YouTube Music	1,514,831	7.5%
TIDAL Music: HiFi Sound	245,861	1.4%
Musivo: Music & Video Player	4	0%

The whole shelf, counted

Every complaint across music streaming apps, frequency-ranked from real App Store reviews — the gaps nobody on this shelf has fixed.

Read the music streaming apps report

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly — nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. Shares are of this app’s own recent negative reviews; the shelf figure is its rivals with this app excluded. The graded words have fixed cutoffs against the store’s typical rate: elevated from 1.15, high from 2, extreme from 3.5 times it. The page says what is broken and how it compares — never how to fix it, and never whether this app can win.