Worldwide · All day · All night
Live radio · 50,000+ stationsThe world is on air.
Spin a living globe and drop into a jazz bar in Lisbon, city pop in Tokyo, or your hometown FM. Thousands of live stations, calm, warm, and ad-free. Listen free in your browser, or get the app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Free · no account · no ads.
This globe really plays: hundreds of live stations · the app tunes 50,000+
—By the numbers
39.1° N · Kansas City · Live
01The Globe
Spin to tuneDiscovery that feels like travel.
The globe up top is the real thing: the same planet you spin in the app, nearly ten thousand stations glowing at their true coordinates. Drag the world, follow a coastline, and the station under the crosshair starts playing. No menus, no tapping. Spin, settle, listen.
- Every dot is a real station at its real coordinates
- Stop spinning and the nearest station tunes in by itself
- Feeling lucky? Shuffle to somewhere unexpected
02The Dial
Zap. The world surfs past.
One flick and you're somewhere new. A tap moves you station to station, like turning a dial straight across the planet. Lean back and let pure chance pick the next sound.
- Jump station-to-station like a radio tuner
- Star the ones you love with a tap
03The Front Page
Your front pageA front page worth opening.
Open to a featured station, a “For you” that quietly learns your taste, moods to match the room, and what's trending around the planet, drawn from what the world is actually playing, never cluttered with ads.
- Say what you're after — “calm jazz for a rainy night” — and search understands it
- A “For you” that learns what you love, worked out right on your device
- Or browse the whole catalogue by country, language or genre
- See what's on the rise around the world right now
Natural-language search and your “For you” run on-device, private to your device.
Live · On-device · Private
04Flagship
★ The flagship featureUnderstand radio in dozens of languages.
Tuning into a foreign-language broadcast? Turn on Live Captions and Radio Dad writes out what's being said as you listen. If it's a language you don't read, it can translate the captions into one of around twenty languages, in real time and private to your device.
- Captions in 50+ languages, written out as it's spoken
- Runs entirely on your device, private by design
- Translate into about 20 languages. See which ones
A Premium feature, with a free preview so you can try it before you decide.
Millions of shows · transcript translated · on your device
05Podcasts
On your own timePodcasts, in your language.
Follow shows from anywhere and listen on your own time. Hit a foreign-language episode? Read the transcript and translate it into your language, in real time and private to your device.
- Shows and episodes from around the world, browsable by language
- Transcripts you can read and translate, on-device
- Downloads, chapters and a queue, all free
Reading and translating transcripts is Premium, with a free preview. Follows, downloads, chapters and the queue are free.
41.0° N · 28.9° E
Every city has a frequency.
Thousands of them, always live. One spin away.
Radio Paradise · United States · On air
06Now Playing
Never lose a songCatch what's playing, keep what you find.
Hear something you love? Radio Dad names the track with Shazam and opens it in Apple Music or Spotify, with synced lyrics to sing along. Every song you identify is saved to your collection, grouped by the country you found it in.
- One-tap song recognition → Apple Music or Spotify
- Synced, scrolling lyrics to read along
- Your identified songs, collected and grouped by country
A few song IDs a day are free. Premium adds unlimited recognition, lyrics, and your full library kept forever.
Portugal → Italy · 2,720 km · live local radio
07Road Trip
Cross the borderTake the radio on a road trip.
Pick two countries and Radio Dad plots the real driving route between them, right there on the globe, then hands you from one country's local radio to the next as the journey crosses each border. A road trip for your ears, no car required.
- The real driving route between any two countries, drawn on the globe
- Local stations hand off as the trip crosses each border
- Share the whole journey with a single tap
Free for everyone, with a tap to share the trip.
Radyo Boğaziçi
Tap for the weather & the city17:42 local · İstanbul · 14°
08Postcard
A sense of placeA living postcard of where you're tuned in.
Tune a station and the screen quietly fills with its world: the local time where it's broadcasting, the weather drawn into the sky behind the logo, and the city it calls home. Tap the little strip and the whole picture opens up.
- The broadcaster's local time and weather, live under the station
- A short note on the city you're listening to, with a tap to read more
09On Your Wrist
Apple WatchThe whole world, on your wrist.
On Apple Watch, Radio Dad is a radio in its own right, and every bit of it is free. Tap a station and it streams straight from your wrist, no iPhone needed. Spin the Digital Crown to tune from station to station, leave the phone on the charger, and go.
- Spin the Digital Crown to tune, with a haptic tick for every station
- Plays on its own, with no iPhone nearby, on a walk or a run
- Favorites and history ride along, synced through iCloud
No subscription, no sign-in, no catch.
—Also Inside
Small touches you'll feel every day.
Free sleep timer
Drift off to the radio. The sound fades out gently and switches itself off. Free for everyone, no paywall.
CarPlay
Your favorites and recents on the dashboard, glanceable and safe for the morning drive. Free for everyone; Premium adds in-car Browse and Genres.
Driving Mode
Huge, glanceable controls that flip to dark for the car, and can start on their own when your car connects over Bluetooth. No CarPlay needed.
Widgets, Siri & Shortcuts
Start the radio from your Home Screen, Lock Screen or Control Center, or just ask Siri.
Favorites folders
Group your favorites into folders, one for mornings, one for focus, one for the drive, and switch with a tap.
Light & dark
A warm paper palette by day, candle-lit ink by night. Never a harsh pure-white screen.
Speaks your language
Fifteen languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Polish & Arabic, with full right-to-left support.
A fact a day
A little something about the world's radio waits on Discover each morning, in your language.
No account, no ads
Open it and listen. No sign-up, no email harvesting, and no ads. Ever.
—Colophon
Calm by design. Private by default.
Radio Dad is the opposite of the ad-heavy, cluttered radio app. It's quiet, considered, and respectful of you and the broadcasters.
Streams stay direct
Audio plays straight from the broadcaster to your device. We never relay, record, or inject ads into a stream.
On-device intelligence
Live Captions and translation run entirely on your device, and even natural-language search and your “For you” picks are worked out on device. Song matching uses a private audio fingerprint, never a recording of you.
No account, no trackers
No sign-up. No third-party analytics and no advertising SDKs. Your favorites and history stay yours, never on our servers.
—Subscribe
Free to listen. Premium to go further.
The heart of Radio Dad, global discovery and unlimited listening, is free, with no ads. Premium unlocks the extras for people who live in it, and starts with a 14-day free trial.
Free
- Globe & unlimited listening
- Podcasts: follow, download & queue
- Free sleep timer
- Favorites & history
- A few song IDs a day
- Apple Watch radio
- No ads, no account
Premium
≈ $3 / month, billed yearly · 14-day free trialBilled monthly · 14-day free trial
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited Live Captions & translation
- Song lyrics & translation
- Podcast transcripts & translation
- Unlimited song recognition
- Your song library, kept forever
- In-car Browse & Genres
Monthly or yearly, billed through the App Store · cancel anytime. Final pricing is shown in the app before you subscribe.
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