A private, ad-free radio app

Radio Dad is a private, ad-free radio app. It has no ads, needs no account, and carries no third-party analytics, trackers or advertising SDKs. You do not sign up, so there is no profile to build; your favourites and history stay on your device, syncing privately across your own Apple devices through iCloud if you choose. Live Captions and translation run entirely on your device, and stations play straight from the broadcaster to your device, so we never sit in the middle, record, or relay what you listen to. Most radio apps are ad-supported, which means an account, ad tracking, and the analytics that come with them. Radio Dad is the opposite: a quiet radio that plays the world and forgets about you the moment you close it.

Radio Dad playing Radio Paradise from the United States, with no account and no ads — No sign-up, no ads. Open it and listen.

The privacy problem with most radio apps

A free, ad-supported app is not really free, you pay with attention and data. That usually means signing in, so the app can tie listening to a profile, and a stack of advertising and analytics SDKs that report what you do to companies you have never heard of. For a radio, of all things, it is a lot of machinery just to play a stream someone is already broadcasting for free.

How Radio Dad is built

No account. There is nothing to sign up for. No name, no email, no password, no login.

No ads, no third-party SDKs. Radio Dad contains no advertising, no analytics services, and no tracking SDKs. It is not in the data business.

On-device by default. Live Captions and translation run on your device using Apple's on-device models. The audio never leaves your phone.

Direct streaming. When you press play, your device connects to the broadcaster's own stream. We do not proxy, record, or re-stream it, so there is no listening log on our side to leak or sell.

Your library stays yours. Favourites, recent stations, and identified songs live on your device. If you use iCloud, they sync privately across your Apple devices through your own iCloud account, which we cannot see.

What we do and don't touch

Radio Dad is designed to need as little about you as possible, and it runs no servers that store data about you. The broadcaster's server receives your device's IP and standard connection info, as it would with any audio player, and that is between you and them. Everything else, what you like, what you have played, where you have listened, stays on your device. The complete picture, including the few third parties a feature talks to and why, is in our Privacy Policy. Apple requires every app to declare what it collects, so you can cross-check Radio Dad's privacy label on the App Store.

Yes. There are no ads anywhere in Radio Dad, and no third-party analytics, trackers or advertising SDKs in the app. It does not build a profile of you or sell data, because it has no account and collects almost nothing to begin with. The full detail is in the Privacy Policy.

No. You can download Radio Dad and listen straight away, with no sign-up, no email and no password. Your favourites and history live on your device, and sync privately across your own Apple devices through iCloud only if you are signed in to iCloud. There is no Radio Dad account in the middle.

No. Streams play directly from the broadcaster to your device, so we never sit in the middle, record or relay them. Live Captions and translation run on your device, not in the cloud. The broadcaster's own server sees a connection, as it would with any player, but Radio Dad itself is not logging your listening.

The optional Premium subscription pays for it, not advertising or data. The core app, unlimited listening, discovery, favourites and the Apple Watch radio, is free, and people who want extras like live captions, translation and unlimited song recognition subscribe. That keeps the incentives simple: make the radio good, not the tracking.

Quiet by design

Just the radio.

No ads, no account, no tracking. Get Radio Dad for iPhone, or listen in your browser.

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