Radio Garden Live

Originally from Kenya and through this app i am able to keep in touch with my home country and other neighboring countries in East Africa. Technologically this is the best means of getting the latest and greatest news from the entire globe. Hands down to the developers. Without this app, i would not have maintained the much needed contact with my home country. Very impressed with this app, i listen to my stations every freaking day. Night or day am always here streaming my favorite radio stations. As a dj also, it helps me learn what other people from different cultures listen to. Browsing through various cities, countries and radio stations. It gives me an immense sense of pride that i can learn more from others. Hence expanding my knowledge in Music. Big up Radio Garden. Long Live Radio Garden... Peace👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿💯💯💯

Pros: Having now been through a few competing programs (looking for an alternative), I can say that RG unquestionably accesses the most stations, in a way that makes a lot of sense. Cons: Not so good if you don’t relate well to maps in the first place. If you’re the classic, “They couldn’t point to {x} on a map!”, welllllll…. that’s the user interface RG uses. Another problem I’ve run across: Because there are no accounts, every now and then my Favorites will disappear. I assume this is because they’re held in some local file. So not only do I have to recreate my Favorites on each device I use ( because, without accounts, they don’t propagate), not only are my lists different on each device ( see earlier point), sometimes I have to recreate my lists from scratch. This is not good. I think this must be a cost-saving method. No accounts means local storage, so no leases. But, really, guys…. Shell out the money for the 1 or 2U of rackspace it would take. At least from me, it would eliminate a lot of hassle, and it would earn that 5th star. ETA: Having switched from an iPad/7 to an iPad Air/5, the lack of a physical home button really makes a difference with this UI. I keep not flicking from the bottom fast enough, so the map interprets that as a change of town. I keep having to go back to Favorites, pick my station, then repeat. Stage Manager fixes this by having the selection windows to the side, but that seems a very brute force approach.

Radio Garden is fantastic, a wonderful way to explore world radio. One thing it taught me right away is how profound the hold American pop has on the entire world—as another reviewer said, it’s almost unbelievable the number of stations everywhere playing ‘today’s’ crappy, throwaway English-language dance-ish pop, and then you have nearly as many doing “Hits from the 80s” etc. Depressing. But if you’re diligent you can find all kinds of ear-opening stuff. Radio Garden needs: 1. Manual URL entry of new stations. It’s nice they have a ‘submit station’ form, but why not let me test the URL first—within the app—and why not give me immediate access to the feeds i want to listen to? The app could list manually-entered stations in the Favorites area. When you play a manually-entered station the app could display the station name in a special color and rotate the globe to some place out in the ocean—or just leave the globe as it is 2. Support for iPad screen sizes. Currently on iPad it runs as if it were on a phone, with that wide black border around the app. 3. Chinese and northern and central African stations. Where are they? 4. Tags/categories so stations can be grouped and selected for play by genre, language or whatever. We should likewise be able to order the station list in whatever order makes sense to the user.

I enjoy a large variety of music from all over the world. I usually have to do a lot of work to find different world genres, search the internet until I’ve found a few examples of what I want. But with this app, all the music I like is in one place, easily found, and the favorites menu allow me to save those radio stations that hit just right. So far I’ve collected stations from the UK, India, Japan, South America, Eastern Europe … and I’ve just scratched the surface! This app is a must-have for travelers, students, music lovers, and anyone who is looking for a connection to the rest of the world. Five stars!

I’ve only heard the radio in taxis, buses and at my relatives homes but those all don’t count as I don’t understand the languages being spoken so this is a cool app to find stations around the world broadcasting in a language you understand. This also is cool because it kind of helps me see(or hear) the differences between a radio and watching the news on my phone as I am not old enough to remember the radio being used. 2 ideas which I have seen and want to share are •Random station button •Country/Language guesser(like geo guesser) with other people

Brilliant idea, offering a window onto the world. And it generally works well — unless you want to stream to an AirPlay device. First, I’ve not found an obvious UI feature to send to AirPlay when you select a station — you either select AirPlay in a different audio app first, or you have to click the screen off and then off again, because the interface on the Lock Screen offers a way to select it. Second, once you do that, it still drops out frequently; and if you try streaming to two speakers at once, the sound stops entirely, though the app tells you it’s playing. Very, very frustrating. But if you don’t need AirPlay, this is a no-brainer.

I love this app so much. Amazing way to feel a little more connected to the rest of the world. Love all the different public and community stations. Check out Chico CA and Kilkenny Ireland. Early 80s babies like me might like KBXR out of Missouri. I even listen to air traffic control sometimes. The other day I heard Monty Python bits on two different stations within an hour. A little faith in humanity restored. Great interface but would be nice to see town names, state and country borders, etc on the map. Love that I can save favorite stations but would like to be able to scan through them. Thanks for a cool app!

Don’t tell them (shhhh!), but they should be *charging* for this amazing *free* app...I just spent a half hour (ok, an hour!) traveling around Europe’s radio stations (lots of American music out there!), and coincidentally learning which countries are where, which are next to/above/below each other, and so this app is not only loads of fun - it’s also *educational*! And whatever map service they’re using let’s you zoom in really closely, so my trip this evening ending we me exploring the Oxford area of England, with amazing overhead views of the various colleges...wish I’d gone there! Think I’ll visit Norway next...

So when I first heard of this app I was looking at google for fun websites. I came upon 8 fun websites and radio garden was first. Out of curiosity I decided to read the intro to what it was and why it was fun. Google said a fun website to see what people all over the globe listen to such as radio talks, music, sermons, Etc Etc.. so the first one that was on the website was in Mongolia tx with preaching. On the side it said experience the app on App Store so I decided to get it. After a while of playing it it seemed creepy, but overall I love this app. No difficulties other than some not responding but that’s fine for a free app. Thank you :)

I love this app but recently not working great what it’s doing now is it stops playing but it shows that it is still playing then I unlock my phone and a commercial pops up then I close the commercial and it still shows playing even though it’s not and I have to press stop and the n play again to get it to resume the stream. I think this gets triggered sometimes by my cell connection changing from 5G to lte because I use fit in the car mostly. iPhone 15 running 17.4

I really like this app. I would give it 5 stars, and probably pay for the ad-free version, but for one flaw. When switching between apps: when you return to Radio Garden Live, the geographic interface shifts. So, you lose the station you were listening to (does not happen every time?). Your ability to recover that station now depends on your memory. You can sort of deal with this by marking a favorite, but this limits exploration. I am currently really enjoying a jazz station from Romania, here in the USA. I love the random element of exploration, which seems to have been the goal of the author.

This app is truly wonderful for when you have nothing else to do and just want to take a music vacation from your local stations, or even hear radio stations from your home town or country when on a vacation! Some things that I would had to the experience that is arguably a lot of work would be like a clock for each station so we can see what time it is where the station is located, that way we can tell when type of music is being played (late night as opposed to morning tunes).

I use this app every day. Great if you’ve lived a lot of places and want to drop in to an old locale. Great if you’re traveling and want to stay in touch with whats going on at home. Great if you listen to specific genres (classical, jazz- some great jazz around the world). Great if you want to listen to other languages. The favorites feature is so useful. I like this app so much I paid to get rid of the ads just to support this company - the ads are some of the least intrusive I’ve seen on an app. Thanks Radio Garden.

When looking at the purchase to remove ads it states that only visual ads are removed due to having no control over audible ads. While this statement makes since, I find it very hard to believe when the audible ads that I do hear are directed towards my country, state, and even county. And whenever I resume a station I was listening to earlier, there always happens to be one of those directed ads playing. I love this app and what if brings, but please expand on how you have no control over audible ads.

As the title says, this is an excellent app. It works perfectly and is seriously littered with radio stations from around the WHOLE world. If you're looking to really broaden your horizons, looking to get a little taste of home or even reminiscing on past trips and adventures in distant places, this app while suit your needs. I must also mention that I rarely, if ever, rate and review apps for the Apple Store- so this app really blew me away- not just now but also years ago. To the developers- you really put a lot of effort into this and it shows! Thank you!

It’s work on my service plan and I can listen to any country. it’s just as good as apple radio but this time you Liston to country. But I wish they keep it free forever. Because I think it is good as it is. Please don’t charge money. These people just want you to please don’t do it! 😣 and don’t hate on this app But do agree on were there are to many ads pop up I just close them. 😡 I wish they would remove them. But keep it up radio garden 😁 I really enjoying your app.

I found this app after I realized getting an actual shortwave radio was a losing proposition. Wow, I realized that using this app is a way better experience than anything I could do with a shortwave radio. The visual “spinning globe” interface is incredibly engaging. It’s surreal to just spin the globe, zoom in on an area, and start browsing local stations. I feel like all the world’s radio stations are at my fingertips. This is unreal. Thank you! Will upgrade to ad-free version right now.

I love this app! Hands down one of the coolest apps I’d say I’ve ever downloaded! You can listen to almost any station anywhere! You can also submit stations and get them on here and the process is pretty easy. Also mentions pop up ads but I haven’t seen any and I’ve had this app for about a year now if I start seeing a lot for some reason it’s $3-4 to remove them which I am certainly happy to get to help out radio garden definitely worth it! Thank you radio garden!

This app is stunning - it’s really fast and responsive, has a clean and simple interface, and is insanely fun to explore. It creates a powerful sense of connection to the entire world. However, the green radio-station dots are incredibly difficult to see when you start zooming in, which essentially renders the entire point of the app as useless. I fumbled around different stations for about a minute before I gave up in frustration. Had there been an option to enlarge these dots or replace them with consistently sized icons, I could easily see myself subscribing to this and keeping it open all day at work.

What a thrill to tune into stations around the globe! I appreciate the hand picked, quirky ones they select for you. I would encourage DJs out there to be as interesting & eclectic as possible as there are too many American sounding stations: being an American, what I seek is something completely different. However, check out Africa, South America, the Soviet Union or Papua New Guinea & you’ll realize what a humbling & beautiful Earth we all share. Also visually, this is a stunning app.

I was like a kid with a new shortwave radio, exploring for hours. The interface is so cool, and although many stations the world over play the same old boring music, there are real gems. Absolutely one on my favorite apps. But the advertising really gets in the way. The ad screens are very difficult to close. It’s hard to be transported by music when you’re jabbing at an “X” trying to close the ad and explore further. I’d pay something fir an ad-free version, or at least make it easier to close the ad windows.

Radio Garden is my most favorite app to use for listening to radio stations. So far everything has been great except one thing, the song that is displayed as whats being played isn’t actually whats playing. It hasn't changed for at least a week or so now. Its just pretty annoying because id have to go to the station’s website to know what’s on but otherwise its great. Please fix this

This is the best app I use. Explore local music, rekindle memories of past visits, learn new cultures. All form the comfort of an easy chair. What kind of jazz is played in Kyoto? What is popular music in Zanzibar? (spoiler alert: Abba is everywhere!). Did you know the only 24 hour a day Muslim radio station is based in the Fiji’s? Bottom line: this is best reason why the internet exists: a tool with global reach that can provide exposure and understanding.

want to hear what’s on a station? Sit through a commercial. Oh...that station is awful. Let’s check another. Time to sit through another commercial! That station is offline, let’s check another! Time for a new commercial! Needless to say you will have listened to thirty minutes of awful commercials before finding a station you like. Once you do find a station you like, the commercials are at a vastly different volume level than the radio stations due to poor loudness normalization quality control. A good idea very very poorly executed. Another app designed to shove as many ads down people’s throats as possible.

Simply put, this is the finest international radio app I have used. One moment, you are in India, the next moment you are in Iceland. It is an ethnomusicologist’s treasure trove (present day)! I cannot thank you enough for your hard work on this wonderful app! I discover the world with this app. I hope you will develop a separate app exactly the same but for shortwave frequencies, if that is possible. Again, congratulations and thank you for an app that shares the world!!! Warm Regards.

Growing up my parents did an amazing job tell us and showing us Haiti history. We would send cassette tapes back and fourth in the 90s but I always wanted to know what is my People listening to on the radio. This is a big help. Especially when you want to connect to the Afro Latin Diaspora! You want to grow your playlist✅want to listen to what people are Jamming to in anywhere in the world ✅✅✅

I highly recommend that you avoid this app. Either it is malicious or it has been compromised by nefarious parties. The app stopped playing and I got what looked like a legit pop-up warning saying the app had stopped because the phone memory was near capacity. It was not the usual bogus iPhone "memory storage full" pop-up that is common. It had a button to click to fix the "problem" or another to "dismiss" if I remember right. I didn't have the presence of mind to screen shot and simply closed out of the app. I'll be deleting it immediately. Too bad, because I really looked forward to using it as I travel daily.

Unexplainably, whenever I load into the app, all I see is the privacy policy and the cookies paragraphs at the bottom of the blue screen. All I want to do is to start listening and explore, but I can’t because whenever I try pressing the “play button” in the middle of the screen, literally nothing happens. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app numerous times, and ex’d out of the app and gone back in numerous times, as-well as power off and on my phone, still, nothing. Please explain how I would be able to fix this issue.

I love this app, it’s probably my favorite app on my phone. A great feature would be to see your recent stations! Sometimes I’ll leave a station and won’t save it or I’ll jump away to quick just when it gets good and I won’t be able to find it again. One other great feature would be to add some sort of way to add custom names to stations. Ex. In the favorites tab be able to add custom tags or text, this would make it easier to identify what that station most often plays! Would really appreciate this feature! Dear developers, great job! I love this app! Please reach out to me, I would love to support this app and will eagerly tell friends and family about this app!

Fantastic app, marvelous idea, but please figure out a way to remove the audio ads before the station starts. I don’t mean ads from the station, I understand those are out of your hands, and they make the station even more interesting. Charge me for it, put a price on your effort. There is a lot of potential growth for the app. Try crowdfunding, raise money, ditch the ads!

I love Radio Garden because it gives me the opportunity to practice listening in Italian. It is simply a great app. My only complaint is that from time to time it freezes and I have to delete then reinstall the app. And lately an ad for the Discover app pops up and I have not been able to get rid of it by touching the x, forcing me to delete and reinstall. Still a great app!

First problem is the newer iPads and iPhones don’t have buttons so when they get out of the app while listening to the radio it changes station because it moves. Second problem I wish I could move around while still hear the same radio station. For example when I'm listening to KDWB I want to look at others, but not actually listen to it.

I use to be a big fan of this app. I liked to openness of the format and the ability to “tune-in” the globe. Yes, I tolerated their intrusive adverts resigning myself to the reality they need to make money somehow (they impose themselves upon the broadcast station often incessantly) but I’m totally annoyed by their adverts intruding on other stand alone radio apps installed on my phone. A bug? A mistake? How about an annoyance? Very nudgy. It makes me suspicious of what other mischief this app is up to! Guys help me like you again.

My parents are from Michoacán, Mexico and constantly long for the same music and memories from their home. Introducing this app to them made them incredibly happy and it even warmed my heart knowing that we can listen to music from where my family resided. It feels very sweet, I feel closer to my mother especially as she and I would just relax and listen to the radio. 🩷

Pretty much I love this app. Decades ago, in the golden age of shortwave radio, I would listen for endless, endless hours to distant stations with a real, serious shortwave radio, mostly music, without regard to understanding a word. That world is gone now, but this is the modern, totally easy, way to hear other cultures. Truthfully I don’t care about the domestic coverage at all. I particularly love the global map and the listing of all stations in a city. I would love a way to avoid the audio advertising, it’s gross and offensive, I’d happily pay a subscription fee, but I understand that’s not the issue. All one can do is not patronize the advertisers. The app itself gets a full five stars for the interface and content.

One of the best ways to experience a culture is through its music. Radio garden makes it possible to tap in to the zeitgeist of the moment, anywhere in the world. It’s fascinating. I currently use the free version. For me, the one killer feature that would put it over the top is CarPlay support. If the author made that a premium feature (at a fair cost), count me in.

This app is fantastic. It’s extremely user friendly and has very little ads. I hardly even listen to my own music now because I’ve found stations that are awesome. Only thing I could think of recommending is a feature where I could see what song is playing on the station but other than that this app is a must download.

The only app I’ve written a review for. I love this app on the desktop or on my phone. Pretty foolproof layout and great reception wherever I’m at. Few stations are inconsistent in playback but I find it depends on the time of day. I recommend this app to all my friends who are stuck in a rut with music discovery. A great way to reach out and feel like you’re somewhere else when you’re at home or at work!

What a fantastic job you have done. I am looking forward to more curated content. One thing I would love to see tho is the ability to share my favorite stations – I have you on my phone and on my laptop and I haven't found a way to create an account that would share those across my devices. Cheers!

I was born in 1972 and I never ever imagined having a device with almost all the radios of the world in my hand. Now when I look back in time, it is amazing how Radio Garden developed an amazing app. I already traveled to a dozen of countries in 3 continents to date, and I can fly over the world with this app and listen to all radios as I desire. From San Salvador to Rio de la Plata, from Santo Domingo to New York, from Paris to Cameroon, from Russia to Chile, from Brazil to Iceland, the possibilities are almost endless. I speak two languages and a third one is in progress of learning, this app helps me to listen to as many languages as they exist in the world. I am writing this review listening a radio from Germany and I am in the US. Simplemente maravilloso! Thank you, gracias, muito obrigado! Peace! ✌🏼

I downloaded this app yesterday and loved it, it was so cool to skip around the world listening to local stations, but I put it on again today, and every time an ad pops up, the music stops and I have to physically close the ad and restart the radio, which is difficult while I am at work, so I just shut it off altogether and put on a different music app. That is the only issue I have with this app.

I got hooked on Radiogarden when it was launched in late 2016. It was so fascinating and fun to spin the globe and listen to local radio. I only wished there was an app I could put in my music folder. There were earlier ones that were very sub-par. This one is the best and as my title said, Radiogarden has evolved as well, with countless more stations and it tunes in so quickly now. Spread the word friends! I sure have. 😊

I’m in New York. I see the Ukraine being attacked on the news and I can feel connected and empathize with people by listening to the same radio. I can impress my homesick Chinese friend with Chinese music. I can play Japanese music for another who is trying to learn that language. I can also surf the world and see what’s popular in Africa, or Greece, this is pretty cool.

I just discovered this app and have been listening to radio stations all around the world. I cannot believe how fast this app works. Just select the country and the stations are loaded without any wait time. Many ad-free stations. This was worth $2.99! It is just as good without paying, but these developers deserve the money for creating such an excellent product.

I was amazed. I sat for two hours straight after first getting this app listening to music from around the world. I must have tried 100 stations or more, and it was easy creating a robust favorites list. I was so impressed $2.99 donation seemed a small amount for an app I will be using several hours every day. Great job!

This app became an instant favorite! I absolutely love being able to check out my favorite radio stations from not only my hometown I don’t live in anymore but anywhere in the world. Love the variety you get with international stations and I love pretending I know what people are saying in radio ads with language I’m not familiar with!

Love this app normally as I can’t get certain stations after installing an after market radio in my car. For some reason after the update whenever the app throws an ad the radio stops streaming. Normally this has never been a problem. I have to force close it and then restart the app. Could you please fix.

This has become my favorite app. I have family and friends in other parts of the country. I enjoy listening to stations in their areas to see how things are going. I enjoy listening to different music from around the world. The clarity and speed is great! I highly recommend this app.

This app does exactly what it advertises and makes it easy to listen to radio stations from around the world. Not only was I able to listen to radio from my home town while being halfway across the world, but the app helped me discover some cool and special stations from around the world!

Once again a developer sneaks in a subscription model without warning in the change notes. Simply saying ”new tier” is too vague. Only AFTER I updated did I see the subscription details. Apple should ban this practice because too many developers rely on users not reading change notes before updating. If a subscription is now required just to remove ads I will have to abandon this app to the pile of other subscription based apps I’ve had to stop using.