Whether you are looking for a platform to stream your music or an app that allows you to listen to your favorite radio stations, Pandora is definitely a great fit for your device. Pandora gives you a personalized streaming and listening experience that continually evolve with your taste. This wonderful app is more than just creating a playlist of songs. It allows you to personalize your listening and select songs or music that fits your jam. To top it all, Pandora comes with other equally impressive features such as hand-free listening, and an overwhelming listening modes to pick from.

Personalize Your Music

Which genre of music fits your taste? Are you into Pop Music or you love Rock Music more? Maybe you prefer country music or maybe you are into jazz? Whether you are an old music lover or you love current music, Pandora will sort them out for your own personalized listening. As soon as you download the app, it prompts you to a simple and user-friendly interface. The screen is divided into four tabs such as For You, My Collection, Search, and Friends.

“For You” tab allows you to effortlessly find new music or new podcasts. It allows you to browse songs based on your very own preferences. Pandora allows you to browse songs based on their respective categories. After selecting your preferred music, album or genre, the playlist or the song goes directly to your Collection. This app allows you to create your own stations from your favorite songs, artists, genres, or anything that matches your mood or activity. Just head over to My collection tab to browse for your favorite jam.

Podcasts and Radio

Aside from your favorite music, Pandora also allows you to listen to some of the popular podcasts. That app features more than 1,400 podcasts including notable SiriusXM talk shows like those podcasts hosted by celebrities like Kevin Hart and Andy Cohen. With Podcast on Pandora, listeners can enjoy a wide variety of podcasting’s most popular shows like The American Life, Dr. Death, The Moth, The Dave Ramsey Show, and a whole lot more.

With Podcasts on Pandora, find your favorites and listen to personalized recommendations that actually make sense. Just search on your mobile phone or tablet and play to start listening, then tap + to add to your collection. Sirius XM recently acquired Pandora which now gives you more access to tons of their radio stations whether you are using Pandora Premium, Plus or Radio.

Pandora Modes and Hands-Free Listening

It is also interesting to note that Pandora comes with six different modes which you can switch up anytime you want. There’s “My Station” which features everything you know and love, Crowd Faves mode which allows you to listen to the songs that are liked by other listeners. If you want to hear less-familiar songs from station artists, you can switch to Deep Cuts mode or better yet explore the Discovery mode and listen to more artists who don’t usually play on the station.

To be updated with the latest releases from the station artist, you can jump on to Newly Released Mode but if you want to listen to a particular artist, the Artist Only mode suits you well. Another interesting new feature of Pandora is the handsfree mode. Here, you can use your voice and command the Podcast virtual assistant of the things you want to do. You can ask Pandora to play your favorite music, play the music you like, skip a song, and many other related commands using nothing but your voice. Simply grant this app access to your microphone to embrace this amazing feature.

Verdict

If you are a music lover or an avid Podcast listener, Pandora is definitely an app that you should not miss. However, much like similar apps like Spotify or Apple Music, the app comes with two subscription plans. There’s the free subscription but supported by overwhelming advertisements and a Fee-based subscription without the advertisements. The Pandora Premium allows you to listen to and create playlists of individual songs on demand. Regardless of the subscription plan you are using, this app will surely give you an excellent streaming and listening experience.

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