# RNZ

> Radio New Zealand

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id407890305](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id407890305)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id407890305`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Radio New Zealand
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 3.60 / 5 (17 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.3.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-16
- **First published:** 2010-12-14
- **Size:** 51 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rnz/id407890305)
- **Website:** [http://www.radionz.co.nz/listen/app](http://www.radionz.co.nz/listen/app)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.radionz.co.nz/about/digitalprivacypolicy](http://www.radionz.co.nz/about/digitalprivacypolicy)

## Description

RNZ (Radio New Zealand) is New Zealand’s 100% ad-free, multimedia public broadcaster. Follow the latest breaking news, listen live to your favourite RNZ radio stations, programmes and podcasts and enjoy video or audio on demand - anytime, anywhere with the new RNZ app for iPhone.

The all-new app is clear and simple to use, with bookmarking, favourites, sharing and options to personalise your experience – including a great new play queue and player.

New features and highlights:
• Get breaking news alerts, video and live coverage on a homepage news feed 
• Listen live to all RNZ’s radio stations – National, Pacific and Concert - plus the latest RNZ news bulletins, live blogs and live-streamed video
• All-new build eliminates crashes and bugs and ensures audio play reliability
• Live streaming sounds better than ever
• New design is clear and simple to use
• Easily discover all RNZ’s great programmes, podcasts and series, in their entirety
• Add whole programmes, podcasts or individual audio items to your play queue for listening later or downloading for offline use
• Favourite or bookmark to ‘My RNZ’ and easily find and listen to the latest content from all your favourite radio programmes
• Listen offline without internet access

The app was designed and developed in partnership with Alphero.

If you have any feedback, a feature request, or wish to report an issue, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us at appproject@radionz.co.nz.

## Rankings

- #293,029 — Overall

## Review summary

RNZ app is praised for strong live streaming and on-demand audio, a broad library of news, podcasts and interviews, and useful features like topic-based notifications and saving interviews. Users note fast access to live streams and generally solid performance. However, the app shows recurring issues with streaming reliability (crashes/bugs), notification flood (too many/duplicate alerts despite controls), and the absence of a full daily programme listing. Helpful UX requests include dark mode and sleep/background playback, but core strengths are content breadth and customizable notifications.

### Pros

- Strong live streaming and on‑demand audio.
- Broad content library including news, podcasts, and interviews with easy access.
- Customizable topic-based notifications and the ability to bookmark/save interviews for later.
- Fast access to live streams and straightforward navigation.

### Cons

- Streaming crashes/bugs and reliability issues (crashes at launch or during use).
- Notification overload: too many/duplicate alerts despite controls.
- Missing full daily programme listing (lack of a complete schedule).

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