ARD Sounds: Podcast & Radio is popular, with 3 million installs. Users love it: 4.7 stars from 31,703 ratings. Its best ranking is #2 in Top Free, Music & Audio in Germany.

Official page on Google Play

ARD Sounds: Podcast & Radio is made and published by ARD Online. AppBrain is an independent app data site and isn't affiliated with ARD Online. The app name, icon, screenshots and description belong to ARD Online and are shown as published on Google Play.

About ARD Sounds: Podcast & Radio

ARD Sounds: Podcast & Radio is a music & audio app developed by ARD Online.

Install Statistics

ARD Sounds: Podcast & Radio has been downloaded 3 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 140 thousand times. It is ranked #2 in music & audio.

User Ratings

ARD Sounds: Podcast & Radio is rated 4.66 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 32 thousand ratings.

App Information

ARD Sounds: Podcast & Radio is freely available from Google Play. The APK size is 19.61 MB. The latest APK version available is 4.7.1. The last update was on September 29, 2026.

Technical Requirements

The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play since October 2017.

Description by ARD Online (from Google Play)

ARD Sounds. Der Playbutton für deinen Tag.

More data about ARD Sounds: Podcast & Radio

Price	Free
Total installs	3 million
Recent installs	140 thousand
Rating	4.66 based on 32 thousand ratings
Ranking	Top ranked
Version	4.7.1
App size	19.6 MB
Number of libraries	59
Suitable for	Everyone
Ads	No ads

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ARD Sounds

Sudwestrundfunk, Anstalt des offentlichen Rechts

4.6

Free

367 ratings

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Installs over time

ARD Sounds: Podcast & Radio has been installed 3 million times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 4.7 thousand installs per day.

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Developer information for ARD Online

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Comments on ARD Sounds: Podcast & Radio for Android

★★★★☆ Carmen Elbert · Oct 20, 2026

Does not cast to my echo dots. I used to listen to HR 3, Bavaria 3, etc. all the time on Tune In on my Alex. The functionality to cast it to my Alex devices doesn't work from this app when you are in the US. I tried various things and the app cannot connect to my echo dots. So for now I can only listen to my fav radio on my cell phone.

★★★★☆ Paolo · Mar 24, 2026

As a non-native speaker of German, I use the app to listen to interesting content but above all to practice my hearing and understanding. Often the spoken language is too fast, and I need to slow it down. The speed options in the app have clearly been designed by someone who has never needed to use this feature themselves: 0.25x, 0.5x, 0.75x, 1x, 1.25x, ... If 1x is sometimes too fast for me, 0.75x is much too slow! More helpful would be options like this: 0.8x, 0.85x, 0.9x. 0.95x, 1x, ...

★★★★☆ wesley peters · May 11, 2025

The variety of channels you can enjoy is great, but not all channels will play. I haven't been able to listen to RBB Radio 3 for example.

★☆☆☆☆ Andreas Fischer · Sep 15, 2026

Google home streaming not working, whereas BR worked fine. I cannot listen to Bavaria 3 anymore.

★☆☆☆☆ Volker M. Welter · Sep 15, 2025

Interesting audiobooks, Hörspiele, etc. but the delivery is pretty bad, constant interruptions and delivery issues. At least the app asks for understanding, what a nice gesture. Overall pretty öffentlich-rechtlich, means taxpayer funded=doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆ Klaus Herrmann · Oct 25, 2026

Radio playback stops every few minutes by itself. Has audio streaming suddenly become a rocket science. All I need is an app that just plays radio. If it pauses when the Internet connection is not sufficient and then continues - fine. But just completely stopping playback all the time for no apparent reason??? I am baffled!

★★☆☆☆ X Y · Sep 7, 2026

Somehow the all does not reliably run in background... Not relate to this app, but why are those podcasts not showing up in my standard podcast app? I don't see a point using another app to listen to podcasts.

Google Play Rankings for ARD Sounds: Podcast & Radio

Top rankings

Rank	Country	Category	List
2	Germany	Music & Audio	Top Free
74	Germany	Overall	Top Free
61	Germany	Applications	Top Free
23	Austria	Music & Audio	Top Free
38	Switzerland	Music & Audio	Top Free
147	Netherlands	Music & Audio	Top Free

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