RNZ's 100% ad-free app, now with news, radio, podcasts and more.
About RNZ
RNZ is a news & magazines app developed by Radio New Zealand.
How many times has RNZ been downloaded?
RNZ has been downloaded 310 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 1.8 thousand times. It is ranked in the top 100 news & magazines apps.
What is the rating of RNZ?
RNZ is rated 4.17 out of 5 stars, based on 1.2 thousand ratings.
Is RNZ free?
RNZ is free to download. The APK download size is 10.87 MB. The latest version available is 4.2.2. The last update was on November 9, 2025.
What are the requirements for RNZ?
RNZ requires Android 8.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play October 2012.
Description
RNZ (Radio New Zealand) is New Zealand’s 100% ad-free, multimedia public broadcaster.
Follow 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 Android.
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.
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Yay! It now has dark mode now! Thank you! So good! 10/10 I use this as an alternative to an actual radio around my house it gets much better reception & can be moved anywhere in the house. It would be even better if it had a dark mode.
★★★★★James Viggiano· Apr 28, 2026
Look, you're not going to find an unbiased source of news here, but at least this app has a dark mode. As far as I can tell, it's the only major NZ news app I can actually read without blinding myself. 5 stars.
★★★★★Keith Beesley· Jun 21, 2025
I have a bunch of apps for international radio and TV, but RNZ is quickly becoming one of my favorites. I'm in the US, and it works fine here. Lots of useful features, and interesting content.
★★☆☆☆A Google user· Oct 28, 2025
No problem when playing RNZ radio first time in the day. But stopping and resuming, best the app could do is 15 seconds of playback. Workaround is to force close, launching again to play the radio.
★☆☆☆☆Alastair Tye Samson· Mar 13, 2025
RNZ is my favorite news source, but I'm at my wits end with this app. In the app's settings I have turned off notifications for everything except 'breaking news' yet I still get bombarded with unwanted notifications about sport and frivolous puff pieces. I _want_ notifications about breaking news from RNZ! But it looks like I'm going to have to turn off notifications entirely because RNZ considers sports results and an article about someone making pies in the US to be "breaking news." Ridiculous.
★☆☆☆☆Rod Hall· Dec 7, 2025
Still not working, often fails to load a news item once clicked to open to read, just gets stuck in a loop. Recently the app is not working properly. It displays the wrong details of what is playing and also will not load news item pages. It used to be fine but last week or so no good. The website works fine.
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