Listening to the radio remains a popular pastime, but you really don’t need good reception via FM frequencies for that. With these radio apps you can listen to music quickly and easily on your iPhone and iPad.
Best Radio Apps for iPhone and iPad
Streaming services such as Apple Music and Spotify are great, but sometimes you just want to hear music without having to choose. Also, radio is still a fantastic medium for listening to in-depth interviews, interesting reports and talented DJs. In this article we therefore list some fine radio apps. Have fun listening!
1. TuneIn Radio
This has been the most complete radio app out there for years. TuneIn Radio offers a choice of more than 100,000 radio stations from every country in the world. In addition, it offers access to millions of podcasts that can be listened to via the app.
With so much choice, it’s nice that the app lets you search well. Naturally, a choice can be made per country, so that Dutch radio stations can be found quickly. You can also search by interest, to quickly bring up sports or current affairs, for example. By saving favorites, radio stations can be found quickly.
If you create an account, you can see what others like and leave comments on radio stations. The TuneIn app also has a car mode, with a simplified menu for when you’re behind the wheel. TuneIn is free to use, but a Pro or Premium version offers no ads.
2. Radio.net
Not as extensive in the range as TuneIn, but with a choice of 300,000 channels and 600,000 podcasts you are not easily bored and searching between the range is fortunately made easy. For example, radio stations can be found by country, genre, subject or which one you have already listened to. Many broadcasts can also be listened back afterwards.
The podcasts on the platform can all be listened to offline. The option to delete them automatically after you listen to them prevents your phone’s memory from getting full.
Handy for the advanced listener, you can adjust the playback speed of podcasts to speed through them. The app has a sleep timer and alarm clock and supports AirPlay and Chromecast.
3. Instagramsta
For those who find a modern and sleek design important, Instaradio is one of the nicer radio apps for iOS. This allows you to listen to radio stations that mainly come from all over Europe. Searching by country or by music offer will quickly take you to the right station.
The design is enhanced by the fact that Instaradio displays an album cover of the music being played. The app also makes it very easy to see what you’ve been listening to and put it back on Spotify or Apple Music.
The free app is ad-free and offers a lot of functionality. If you want things like recording music or setting a sleep timer, you have to purchase the premium version.
4. Radio App
Do you miss the old-fashioned feeling of analog radio, where you had to turn a station knob endlessly to get good reception? Then you can go to RadioApp. This is a simple radio app for iOS where you search stations manually.
Although the interface is modern, it mainly consists of an old-fashioned FM/AM tuner. You slide it to find the radio station of your choice. Apart from the vintageway to find a channel, the app is also quite modern.
The audio comes in ‘just’ via the internet, you can choose between which country you listen to, save favorites and get information about songs and artists.
5. RadioNed
The RadioNed app offers more than 650 Dutch radio stations. This includes not only the big names such as 538 and 3FM, but also many small, local stations and pirate stations. The stations are easily searchable in a clear interface. This can also be done by genre, region or decade.
In addition, like other radio apps for iPhone, the application shows additional information about what is playing where possible. Not only do you see the song and the artist in the picture, you also see briefly information about the radio station you are listening to. Recently played music can be found, there is a sleep timer and the app works seamlessly with tvOS and macOS.
The app contains no advertisements, apart from the advertisements broadcast by the radio stations themselves. There is also a paid variant, where you thank the developer with a small amount. This also maps the quality of the streams.
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