# Loudwire

> Rock Music News

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1181053983](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1181053983)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1181053983`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Townsquare Media, LLC
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (117 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.8.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-28
- **First published:** 2016-12-06
- **Size:** 76 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/loudwire/id1181053983)
- **Website:** [http://loudwire.com](http://loudwire.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://loudwire.com/privacy](http://loudwire.com/privacy)

## Description

Loudwire is the world’s premier hard rock and metal site. It delivers the latest news, original video features, and exclusive interviews with top artists in the scene.

The app supports push notifications for breaking news, offline reading, background audio with controls, AirPlay, and social sharing on Facebook and Twitter. You can save articles for later, send us feedback from the app, and access the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy from within.

## Rankings

- #130,055 — Overall

## Review summary

Top positives: the app keeps users current with music news and the metal scene and is widely seen as a solid, impressive daily-driver app. The dominant downside across reviews is intrusive advertising—pop-ups, banners, and ads that disrupt reading and can block interaction (like the load-more button). Other concerns are minor accessibility requests and occasional loading glitches, but the ad experience is the prevailing issue.

### Pros

- Keeps you updated on music news and band announcements; many users rely on it as a daily driver.
- Considered a great, reliable app for metal/music news; users are impressed with its quality.
- Widely seen as a long-awaited, solid app that delivers music news.

### Cons

- Ads are excessive and intrusive, with frequent pop-ups that disrupt reading.
- Ads sometimes block UI elements or interfere with navigation (e.g., load more button) and cause glitches.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1181053983)