I love being able to listen to so many radio stations in the world in so many languages with such clear quality. The only thing that bothers me is that I am not able to hit the x button on visual ads, looks like it’s because it’s too far in the corner. I would like this problem to be fixed. Every time there is an ad, if I want to get back to the radio garden earth screen, I need to quit the app. Thank you.
I have been using your website based for many years. Thanks. I often look at the geography around the station location. Super cool idea. I sometimes go look for images of locations online and demographics about places where I have found radio I like. Also thanks for the favorites feature. I recommend.
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.
I have been a radio geek for over 62 years, from my dad’s big Grundig living room radio, to my little Sony transistor radio, to FM stereo radio and years as a licensed Amateur Radio Operator I have loved them all. This app is nirvana. You explore the world’s commercial and some national radio stations as you search the globe. An easy and fun to use app. If you enjoy radio, please support the app and developers.
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 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!
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.
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.
Developer Response
Hello there, thank you for the feedback!
The latest update (Version 1.4) finally supports the iPad screen sizes natively! Also we're currently working on new ways for fans to submit their favorite stations, and constantly increase the amount of stations in less crowded spots on our globe.
I can only ask you to be a little patient for our upcoming big 2.0 update, that will include a lot of new features, making discovery and the interaction with stations easier. :-)I evangelized heavily for this app when I first got it, but in the last few months I’ve gotten an error message saying “Our servers are no longer responding “ every time I change the channel. Ithought updating would help but no dice. I deleted and downloaded again to see if that would help but now all o get is the same error message and I’ve lost all my favorites. It works fine on my iPad, but not my iPhone. Since my phone was the device I used it on the most this has soured me on the app altogether. Just writing this review on the hope it will get fixed.
The map is fantastic, small list of favorites is essential. I can easily jump from some eureka station to some Yemen station. I discovered humboldt 101 with this app, and find it much less fuss to simply use this app rather than download the app for every station I find, with their ads and clunkiness and radio malware for the PC I don’t have time for.
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