15 Best Radio Apps for Android You Can Use
Jun. 19, 20191. TuneIn Radio
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iHeartRadio has a large music catalog for you to choose from. The first time you open the app, you are prompted toselect the genreslike rock, pop, and country that you like. Based on them, you’ll be suggested some radio stations best suited to your taste. From these suggestions, you can choose to eithersave a station or discard it. You can evenadd local radio stationsbased on your location. For this, you can either grant the app your location access or select a location manually. Selecting one manually can come in handy when you want to listen to radio stations which are not available at your location.
There are more useful options available likeselecting a moodlike workout, chill, party, etc.,sorting songs based on decades, and choosing from different genres like Country, R&B, Hip-Hop, etc. Furthermore, if you listen to some selected songs often, you can create different playlists and add those songs to them as well. As an added bonus, iHeartRadio alsooffers apodcast player. You can either browse for one, select one from the popular ones, or select one from topics like business, comedy, entertainment, etc.
If you want to gain more control over the app, you can opt to buy either the “Plus” or the “All Access” version of the app that gives you additional features like unlimited skips, offline listening, and unlimited playlists depending on the version that you buy. The Plus version is available for $4.99/month and All Access for $9.99/month – both with in-app purchases. If you want to consider buying any of these, the app offers a free 30-day trial for both of these versions as well.
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myTuneRadio is one of the best radio apps you can find on the Play Store and App Store. Not only the app sports a beautiful and user-friendly UI but it also lets you access more than 50000 radio stations from over 200 countries and territories.myTuner Radio not only allows you to listen to online radio but also podcasts, internet radio, and FM radio. What I love about this app is the nearby section which allows you to easily discover and listen to radio stations in your area. If you want to discover radio stations which are not local you can search for them by country, genre, or city.
Other features of the app include the ability to paying radio stations in the background, setting up sleep timer, support for Chromecast (Android app) and AirPlay (iOS app) and more. One of my favorite features of the app includes theability to set up an alarm which wakes you up with your favorite radio stationplaying in the background instead of the alarm sound. Overall, it’s a pretty great radio app and you should try it out.
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Radio.net is a popular radio app which aggregates more than 30000 radio stations around the world, giving you access to all of them right at your fingertips. This is one of the best-designed radio station apps on the market featuring a clear and intuitive UI. It features a robust search engine allowing you to search for radio stations by country, city, genre, and more. It also allows you tofavorite the radio stations you like and save songs that you love.There’s a built-in sleep timer along with an alarm clock which will wake you up with your favorite radio station playing in the background.
One of my favorite features of this app is its“Similar Stations” feature which suggests similar stations to the radio stations that you listen to. This feature alone has helped me discover some of my favorite radio stations. The only thing that I don’t like about this app is the ads. While most of the radio apps offer a freemium model, radio.net’s ads are a bit too aggressive. Thankfully, there’s an in-app purchase to remove the ads which I highly recommend if you listen to a lot of radio.
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If you love electronic music then you are going to love this radio app. The app is not meant for everyone as itfeatures only radio stations which are specifically dedicated to playing electronic music.While all the other radio apps give you access to every radio station that’s playing in the world, Di.FM is an app with its own niche. The app features human-curated radio stations which plays the best EDM music. That’s why even though it only features around 90 radio stations which pale in comparison to other apps on this list, all the radio stations hosted here exhume quality.
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Replaio radio is one of the most popular radio apps on Android devices. On Relaio, you can not only find your favorite internet radio stations and Radio FM stations which broadcast via the internet, but also internet radio stations which play music online only.It features more than 30000 radio stations from around the worldin a user-friendly and easy to navigate UI. Like other popular radio apps, Relaio lets you both sleep (using sleep timer) and wake up (using alarm) listening to your favorite radio station.
You can not onlysearch radio stations using name, city, or country but also using genre, the name of the songs,your favorite sports, and more. One of the things that I love most about this app is that it directly allows me to add songs that I loved into my Spotify playlists so I don’t have to spend hours agonizing about the song that I loved but can’t remember. The app is free to use with ads while there is a premium plan to remove the ads.
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While Jango Radio may not be the fully-featured radio app for Android devices, it’s got everything covered to be a notable pick. The app hasa pretty clean user-interfacethat makes navigation both a breeze and less confusing. Probably the best part about this app is the ability to automatically create custom stations based on the music you love to listen to. As a result, you will have a more personalized radio listening experience. Another feature worth taking note of is the expert curation to cater to different tastes. Whether it’s the highly popularTop 100 or the Classic Rock, it’s got a ton of programmed genre stations that you would like to tune into.
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Simply put, RadioCut is one of the highly-rated radio apps for Android. As you may have already sensed, it’s got anever-growing library of thousands of radio stationsin many countries. Furthermore, it also features radio stations based on different genres like hip hop, ballad, classic, rock, and more. So, whether you love to tune into hip hop songs or enjoy listening to classy songs, it’s got you fully covered. What’s more, you can alsochoose to create your own radio stationsbased on your preferences and even fine-tune bitrates in line with your taste.
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As the name suggests, Simple Radio is a simple radio app that offersradio stations from all over the globe. Though you see only two tabs – “Favorites” and “Recommended” – on the home screen of the app, you cansearch for any radio stationin the search bar. In case you don’t know the name of the particular radio station that you are looking for, you can search by typing the country name, city name, area code, or even the genre of the songs. While it is a great app that offers many radio stations and doesn’t take up much space on your device, its strength is also its biggest downside. I’d recommend you to use this app only if you know what station you are looking for. If you want to explore new songs, then this app is not for you.
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On the main screen of the PCRadio app, the radio stations arealready sorted on the basis of different genreslike rock, pop, metal, etc. You can also search for particular radio stations in the search bar of the app. While the radio stations available are from different countries around the world, the default one is “All countries”. You can change this by tapping on the globe icon at the bottom-right of the screen. Like most other radio apps, PCRadio allows you tomark certain radio stations as a favoriteto access them later easily. Lastly, the app comes with abuilt-in equalizerthat you can use to modify the sound that you hear.
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Radio FM has a large music collection sorted on the basis of both countries and genres. You can listen to stations from any other country as well. To do that, you can either scroll down to that country or search for it in the search bar. The same thing can be done for different genres accordingly. These genres include pop, classic, electro, etc. For each station in the “Genre” tab, you can see the countries that station is available in and the bit rate that the songs play in. While playing a particular song, you can set asleep timerthat ranges from 5 minutes to 6 hours and can alsoset that song as an alarm tone. Needless to say, Radio FM also features thefavorite station featureas well.
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If you want a pretty simple yet highly user-friendly Radio app that can also double up asa handy music player, this one could be the right way to go. With this app at the disposal, you will getquick access to over 5000 live Radio stations from around the worldincluding the popular local stations. So, irrespective of what sort of programs you enjoy listening to, the massive library can comfortably cater to your needs. Thanks to the smart search function, you can quickly find out a specific Radio station from any country and tune into it. As for the music player, it hassupport for several music file formatsso that you can take control of your favorite music without having to face incompatibility issues. Considering these notable features, “FM Radio & Music Player” can safely claim to be one of the best free radio apps for Android.
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XiiaLive has a colourful interface that, in itself, should be enough to keep you entertained. Regardless, you can browse through a big music catalog that has different genres like alternative, rock, classical, electronic, and hip-hop. Each of these genres have radio stations that you can choose from. If you like a station, you canmark it as a favoriteto get back to it easily later in time. There are some additional features in the app likean equalizer and sleep timerthat make it a great app. In addition to the music, you can alsolisten to different talkson a variety of topics like business, comedy, news, etc. Like the radio stations, you will finddifferent podcast stationsunder each category as well. If the funky look of the app is not a deal-breaker for you, then you must definitely give this free app a try.
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To use AccuRadio, you’ll be required to sign up on the app first. Once you do that, you can access tons of online radio stations available on the app. On the home screen, you’ll find some of the popular channels on the app. You can either browse through that list or search for a radio station yourself. The app also has the stations sorted according on their genres like rock, opera, jazz, etc. Similar to most other apps on this list, AccuRadio also allows you tomark stations as a favorite. In case you forget to mark one and come back looking for it, there is a“History” tabin the app where you can find the channel.
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Now that you know some of the best radio apps that you can use on your Android device, you can enjoy music wherever you go. All you have to do is plug in your earphone and tune in to your favorite radio station. While some of the best apps are already included in this list, if there are some other good radio apps that you know of, I would love to hear from you in the comments section below.
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