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.
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
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.
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 installed the Radio Garden app today. Scrolled around the globe to hear what’s playing out there. Then I left the app. When I returned the screen told me that the app found stuff to clean from my phone. Amongst the suggestions were contacts. My contacts need to be removed???? What’s up with that?
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.
Developer Response
We are aware of the issues that some of our platform users are having with saving their favourites and are currently inventorizing those issues. In the meantime, if you use the web version of our platform, we advise you to bookmark radio stations in the browser that you use while listening via Radio Garden.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.
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.
Developer Response
Thank you for reaching out and for your support of our app. We understand your concerns regarding the audible ads and would like to clarify the situation.
The audible ads that you hear, which are tailored to your location, are not injected by our app. Instead, these are broadcasted directly by the radio stations themselves. Many radio stations nowadays use advanced broadcasting technologies that detect where listeners are tuning in from and adjust their ad content accordingly to serve local advertisements. This is why you might hear ads that are relevant to your country, state, or even county.
While our app does give the option to remove visual ads for a smoother user interface experience, we unfortunately cannot control or influence the audio content that individual radio stations decide to broadcast, including their ad choices.
We appreciate your understanding on this matter and hope you continue to enjoy the diverse range of stations our app offers. Please let us know if you have any further questions or concerns.I don’t know why an app like this wasn’t made sooner! I’ve always wanted an app that could tap into any radio station, and I think this is perfect! The ads are skippable after 5 seconds and never interrupt the music playing and they’re not that frequent! Really really great app for radio listeners!
Music from anywhere anytime. App has no ads, has every station you could possibly think of, a search function, and best of all works when you turn your phone off or enter another app. 10/10
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