AmazingRadio vs Giga
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AmazingRadio
Discover new and emerging music from artists worldwide through live streams and curated genre stations. Explore thousands of songs uploaded directly by musicians, featuring weekly charts and playlists of the latest tracks.
- Live radio streams (UK & USA)
- Non-stop genre streams
- Show rewinds
- Weekly charts and playlists
- 100% new music from artists
- Interactive radio experience
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Listen live to Amazing Radio UK or Amazing Radio USA, playing the best new and emerging music from artists around the world. Listen to Non-Stop Genre Streams, Rewinds of our Shows and our weekly Amazing Charts and Playlists of all the latest and best tunes curated by our team. Amazing Radio is a new kind of radio, with 100% new music sourced entirely from the artists who upload their tunes. We think it’s the first interactive radio station in the world; it’s definitely the first one where all the music comes from new and emerging artists. Since 2006 we've been gathering fresh music from new and emerging artists. There are now over 200,000 songs to choose from, all of them new, all of them from new and emerging bands. Amazing Radio -- where talent gets noticed.
Giga
This platform connects UK musicians with live music venues and event promoters based on genre and location. It aims to create a fairer music industry by using a peer-to-peer review system for visibility, bypassing traditional booking intermediaries.
- Merit-based artist discovery
- Genre and location matching
- Peer-to-peer review system
- Direct artist-venue connections
- Streamlined event organization
- Democratizes live music economy
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GIGA is a digital matchmaking and discovery platform engineered to democratize and revitalize the UK’s grassroots live music economy. The traditional live music booking ecosystem is highly fragmented, relying heavily on manual networking, social media follower metrics, and third-party booking intermediaries. This creates significant administrative friction, restricts market access for diverse emerging talent, and increases operational costs for independent entertainment venues. GIGA solves this industry challenge by introducing a merit-based marketplace that connects musical artists, live music venues, and event promoters based on genuine genre compatibility and geographic radius settings. To foster a safe, fair, and highly accountable industry ecosystem, platform visibility is driven entirely by a peer-to-peer review system rather than paid advertisements or artificial profile boosts. By removing traditional booking bottlenecks, GIGA serves as a vital infrastructure utility that provides struggling grassroots venues with direct access to a rotating pipeline of high-quality, affordable talent. The platform streamlines event organization, protects local hospitality revenues, and levels the playing field to ensure that artistic talent and professional conduct dictate commercial success in the live music industry.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Giga at 5.0 against AmazingRadio's 4.3. Giga also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 7 months). AmazingRadio's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (14 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Giga holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AmazingRadio has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
AmazingRadio ships an update every 7 months, Giga every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AmazingRadio | Giga |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Amazing Media | giga app limited |
Customer experience
AmazingRadio
Giga
In-app purchases
AmazingRadio
No in-app purchases
Giga
No in-app purchases









