Phaune Radio vs Format 3
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Phaune Radio
Discover unique, experimental music and nature sounds 24/7. This app offers a curated selection of tracks with a new design and a sleep timer for a seamless listening experience.
- 24/7 streaming of wild sounds and music
- Experimental and ambient music selection
- Sleep timer functionality
- New user interface design
- Copy song title feature
- Reactive playback controls
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Find on your iPhone and iPad Phaune Radio’s streaming, 24h/7: sounds of the wild, unheard-of music, eartoys - experimenting in a new form of listening, wild & edgeless. Nearly 10 000 tracks for an handmade airplay: effervescent and tousled during the day, horizontal and experimental from 10:00pm (Paris Timezone). (May contain ponies) In this latest version of your Mobile Phaune : • SleepTimer: you can now easily sleep on both ears with us - just touch the moon, and set up the duration you want • New design: the shaggy hairy button shows its true colours and the logo is now duly stamped. • As easy as ever: play / pause, it sounds great, and it's even more reactive, wherever you are. • You can copy the title of the current song by simply touching it and paste it wherever you want.
Format 3
Experience art through augmented reality, blending physical installations with virtual elements and sound. This app allows you to engage with immersive audio-visual art wherever its visuals are present.
- Interactive augmented reality
- Combines physical artwork with virtual objects
- Immersive audio-visual experience
- Works with Format 3 visuals
- Sound integration
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Format 3 is an interactive augmented reality experience by Foo/Skou that combines physical artwork with virtual objects and sound. Use this app to interact with the immersive audio visual experience anywhere Format 3 visuals are on display.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Format 3 at every 4 months against Phaune Radio's every 19 months. Format 3 also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Phaune Radio's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Phaune Radio holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Phaune Radio ships an update every 19 months, Format 3 every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Phaune Radio | Format 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Freq-Out | Aaron Sutula |
Customer experience
Phaune Radio
Format 3
In-app purchases
Phaune Radio
No in-app purchases
Format 3
No in-app purchases
