# FDR - Old Time Radio — Stream 23,000+ vintage shows

> Stream 23,000+ vintage shows (iPhone/iPad app by Byte The Rhino LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fdr-old-time-radio/id6772833194 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Byte The Rhino LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1799066063)
- Category: Entertainment, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 18.6 · 18 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-05-30
- Data updated: 2026-08-25
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fdr-old-time-radio/id6772833194/reviews.md

## What is FDR?

FDR - Old Time Radio
Step into the golden age of broadcasting. Forgotten Decades Radio brings the original audio archive of old-time radio to your iPhone — 23,000+ episodes across 200+ shows.

Browse legendary series:
• Mystery & suspense — The Shadow, Suspense, Inner Sanctum
• Crime & noir — Dragnet, Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade
• Comedy — Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly
• Westerns — Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger
• Sci-fi — X Minus One, Dimension X
• Variety, drama, news, and more


Features:
• Stream 23,000+ public-domain episodes
• Browse by show, genre, decade, year, or search by title
• Surprise Me — random, by genre, by decade, or quick-listen
• Favorites and custom playlists
• Listening history with resume-where-you-left-off
• Lock-screen controls, Control Center, AirPlay
• Background playback, headphone-aware
• Dark theme designed for late-night listening

All content is public-domain old-time radio. 
Historical recordings preserved as-aired. Some episodes contain language or depictions that reflect the era and may be offensive by modern standards.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 2.1 — 2026-05-31

Fixed: a subtle bug where user history captured only the episode but not where the player left off.

### 2.0 — 2026-05-30

Added:  IPad Support 
Added: Screen rotations on both IPad and IPhone has been fixed as well.
Added: Updated Privacy policy link within app, it now loads the same content from our main parent site.
Added: Ability to increase show card sizes with slider(Ipad only)
Added: Ability to increase font on show info card(Ipad & Iphone)
Added: Audio interruption handling — pauses correctly during phone calls, Siri, alarms, and headphone unplugs.
Added: Dedicated iPad home screen layouts for portrait and landscape with new vintage microphone artwork.
Added: Color theme by decade — tint the app to match the era of whatever's playing, or lock it to a single decade.
Added: Show categories cleaned up — 210 shows now sort into 11 clear genres (Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery & Crime, Horror & Suspense, etc.) instead of a hundred sub-tags.

Fixed: Episode share links use shorter opaque IDs that don't expose internal file paths.
Fixed: Show info panel readability — larger default text plus an A→A slider for accessibility.
Fixed: Users can now share links to episodes with others, where it either opens the web-app or our mobile IOS app. 
Fixed: The play list now works as intended - Added a confirmation box on remove, in the episode search screen when loading a playlist, it now shows only those shows in the playlist, not every show of the grouped items.

### 1.0 — 2026-05-30

No release notes.

## More apps by Byte The Rhino LLC

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