“Gee wiz it’s about bloody time.” says Macquarie’s and EFTM’s Trevor Long.

“It just works,” says the Adelaide Tech Guy Richard Pascoe.

Australian Radio’s new app, developed by All In Media, that puts 250 commercial and ABC stations at consumers’ fingertips, was launched with great fanfare last week to mostly rave reviews.

Trevor Long says, “It’s a magnificently well designed interface, with great usable features such as sorting and re-ordering your favourites and searching by town, station name or even radio frequency.”

Richard Pascoe contends, “It is an intuitive app and that is a sign of a good app, simple to use and to get it to work exactly how you should think it should work.

“I showed the app to my wife and she loves it and started adding in stations straight away – and she is very tech challenged,” says Pascoe.

At radioinfo we found the app to be super fast in switching from one station to another. For those of us with an Apple TV, which also supports the RadioApp, we found the audio quality when played through our home HiFi sound system, to be more than adequate.

But then there was this negative from Trevor Long, “I was disappointed there was no Apple Car Play integration as this would certainly have been a killer feature, however EFTM understands both Apple Car Play and Android Auto are in development for launch soon.”

One of our sight impaired readers has also reviewed the app, lambasting it for its inaccessability to those who cannot see: “It is totally inaccessible for the many blind and vision impaired Australians who listen to radio. Unlike other apps such as TuneIn Radio, this app is very very disappointing. It effectively shuts out blind Australians from using it.”
See his full comment in the comments post below.

Read Trevor Long’s full review here.

For Richard Pascoe’s review, go here.