4 Best Radio Apps for iPhone 2016
Best Radio Apps for iPhone 2016
Today, entertainment media on a smartphone can be said very diverse. Not only watching television or videos, listen to music, or taking pictures that can be done. Currently in a gadget, you can also be used as a medium for listening to radio broadcasts.
When boredom struck, listening to the radio maybe one alternative to get fun. You can listen to the funny and fresh announcer’s at the same time can also listen and request your favorite song.
In addition, the radio application is also equipped with a very attractive appearance and also user friendly. Some radio app even supported many languages so that can be used by anyone.
Most smartphone is equipped with a feature to listen to broadcasts from local radio stations around you. It is because the radio just catch a nearby radio waves.
Well, if you want to listen to radio stations in other cities, you need to install a special application for streaming radio. You can listen to radio broadcasts from outside the city, outside the island, and even abroad. Here, we provide the best radio app for iphone recommendations for you.
1. TuneIn Radio
TuneIn Radio is one of the best streaming-radio apps for you. You can listen more than 40,000 radio stations. It has many interesting contents besides the radio streaming feature like audio documentaries, audiobooks, or web-exclusive news streamers. It has 2 categories: sports and talk radio.
In TuneIn Radio app you can browse local radio, recommended stations, stations for different languages, and even podcasts. TuneIn gives you many list of music genres. Each list come with many options from around the world and local choices.
Overall, TuneIn has great interface and really easy installation and setup.
2. Freemake Musicbox
This app is very good in finding music radio stations by an artist’s name or a genre. You can start searching using many hashtags like #pop #rock and others. With the hashtags, it is easy to find new tracks and golden hits.
Freemake Musicbox has many interesting feature. The Favorites is one the feature that i like, you can add every radio station into Favorites and have quick access to it. If you are bored with the radio channel, you can removed from the list, easily.
My second fav feature is Traffic Economy Mode. When i have a slow Internet connection, i always jump to Traffic Economy Mode and continue listening music without interruptions.
The app lets you access on-demand music. You also can create your personal playlists. Switch from the Radio to the tracks tab and get your favorite singer’s name. The app will bring a relevant list of songs.
This app only searches free — and legal — music videos on YouTube.
3. iHeartRadio
iHeartRadio is one of the best radio streaming app that available. It has more than 15 million tunes in its catalog. If you like, you can mix and match as live radio stations. Besides that you will find many stations with music, news, podcasts, sports, and comedy shows.
I like the player redesign, recommended stations, and stations based on our current mood. But it has 1 deficiency, there are no play, pause, or record controls.
4. Pandora Radio
Pandora’s has been offering music streaming for a very long time ago. To find music: you choose an artist or song. The app will uses information from the Music Genome Project to identify similar songs to play on that station.
The app has a rating feature. You can give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to any song.
The music player also has nice design. It has lyrics, song and artist information.