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Best Radio Listening Apps for iPhone (2026)
TuneIn Radio: Music & Sports is the top-ranked of 40 radio listening apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.7/5 from 1,122,192 ratings.
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 1,122,192 ratings · score 99 - 2
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 244,455 ratings · score 98 - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 531,964 ratings · score 97 - 4
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 6,553 ratings · score 97 - 5
$9.99 + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 57,686 ratings · score 95
What belongs in this list
A person wants to listen to live radio stations from their phone.
Not here: A podcast player alone; An audiobook player alone; A music library player alone; A single-station app alone; A radio-themed title alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 1,122,192 ratings · score 99 · best in class
- 2Free download · ★ 4.8 · 244,455 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 3Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 531,964 ratings · score 97 · best in class
- 4Free download · ★ 4.8 · 6,553 ratings · score 97 · best in class
- 5$9.99 + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 57,686 ratings · score 95 · best in class
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 41,754 ratings · score 93 · best in class - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 89,758 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 70,075 ratings · score 91 · best in class - 9
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 5,592 ratings · score 91 · excellent - 10
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 19,273 ratings · score 90 · excellent - 11
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 8,647 ratings · score 88 · excellent - 12
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 24,462 ratings · score 87 · excellent - 13
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 650,350 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 14
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 4,567 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 15
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 8,566 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 16
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 69,047 ratings · score 83 · excellent - 17
Free · ★ 4.8 · 6,707 ratings · score 83 · excellent - 18
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 75,031 ratings · score 82 · excellent - 19
Free · ★ 4.6 · 19,124 ratings · score 80 · good - 20
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 10,400 ratings · score 73 · good - 21
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 132,898 ratings · score 72 · good · provisional - 22
Free · ★ 4.9 · 13,241 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional - 23
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 22,223 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 24
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 3,378 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 25
Free · ★ 4.7 · 20,123 ratings · score 68 · situational - 26
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 12,713 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 27
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 3,321 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 28
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 4,942 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 29
Free · ★ 4.7 · 7,201 ratings · score 67 · situational - 30
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 3,042 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional - 31
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 9,134 ratings · score 66 · situational - 32
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 6,710 ratings · score 64 · situational · provisional - 33
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 4,021 ratings · score 60 · weak · provisional - 34
Free · ★ 4.8 · 19,541 ratings · score 56 · weak · provisional - 35
Free · ★ 4.7 · 4,952 ratings · score 54 · weak · provisional - 36
Free · ★ 4.7 · 4,640 ratings · score 54 · weak · provisional - 37
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 2,491 ratings · score 54 · weak · provisional - 38
Free · ★ 4.8 · 5,927 ratings · score 54 · weak · provisional - 39
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 3,108 ratings · score 53 · weak · provisional - 40
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 19,700 ratings · score 53 · weak · provisional
Beyond the top 40
New in the last 30 days
- British FM Radio - Live Player (S)
- FM Radio - AM, FM, Radio Tuner (A)
- Radio App (A)
- Lyra - Music, Radio, eSound (A)
- FM Radio App (A)
- Brazil Radio: Live FM & AM (A)
- Radio Philippines - Live AM FM (A)
- Live365 Radio - Music & Talk (A)
- ZenoRadio (B)
- Radio FM & AM ! (B)
- Moody Radio (C)
- Radio Hamrah (C)
- E-Radio - Stream greek music (C)
- Oldies Radio+ (C)
- Police Scanner + Fire Radio (C)
- Radios France: Live FM (C)
- HK Radio 香港收音機 - Chinese Radio (C)
- Country Radio: Streaming Music (C)
- Radio Guatemala FM Online (C)
- Classical Radio+ (C)
- Radio App - FM Transmitter (C)
- Radio Tuner - Live FM Stations (D)
- Christian Radio+ (D)
- 80s Radio+ (D)
- 70s Radio+ (D)
- Jazz Radio+ (D)
- EstrellaTV: TV en Español (D)
- Sports Radio+ (D)
- BBN - Christian Radio (D)
Questions people ask
- What is the best radio listening app for iPhone?
- TuneIn Radio: Music & Sports, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.7 by 1,122,192 people.
- Which radio listening apps are free?
- 39 of 40 are free to download: TuneIn Radio: Music & Sports (S), myTuner Radio - Live Stations (S), Simple Radio - FM AM Stations (S), British FM Radio - Live Player (S) and more. 15 of them sell in-app purchases. 9 report no in-app purchases.
- Which radio listening app has the best App Store rating?
- BBN - Christian Radio at 4.9 from 19,700 ratings.
- How many radio listening apps reach S or A tier?
- 18 of 40. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.
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