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Tune the world.90K+ free stations · 1 app.

Cloud Radio is the internet radio player for people who actually use radio — record live streams, schedule shows, get lyrics, set alarms. 90,000+ stations across every country, region, language and genre.

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FREE 90K+ stations 20 languages Pro $8.99 one-time
How It Works

Three taps from install to a station from anywhere.

A radio app that works the way radio used to work — search a city, find a station, listen. Optionally record, schedule, set as your morning alarm.

01 — Search

Find any station, anywhere

Browse by country, region, language, or genre. Or search by station name — Cloud Radio carries over 90,000 internet streams covering broadcast, community, talk, classical, jazz, regional and faith stations.

● 90,000+ stations · 250+ countries & territories
02 — Tune

Listen, with lyrics on-screen

Tap to play. Album art appears automatically from lastfm and iTunes; live lyrics scroll on-screen when the broadcasting station tags the current track. Stereo / mono lock, signal strength and stream format are all surfaced in the player.

● MP3 · AAC · HLS · OPUS · FLAC · OGG · M3U · PLS
03 — Record

Capture the show, on a schedule

Hit record to capture the live stream. Schedule recordings ahead of time and the app will tune the station and start recording for you. Recordings are auto-tagged with artist, song name and artwork where the metadata is available.

● save to SD · auto-tag artist · scheduled or one-tap
Signature feature · The library

Ninety thousand stations. Two hundred fifty countries.

Most internet-radio apps gate their library behind a paywall, push a curated front page, or quietly cap the catalog at the thousand or so stations that have ads. Cloud Radio takes the opposite tack: 90,000+ stations from across the planet, organised by country, region, language and genre, all available on the free tier.

That includes the obvious ones (BBC, NPR, Radio France, NHK, KEXP, WDR, RAI, RTÉ) and a long tail of community, college, language-specific and faith stations that don't show up in directory apps. If your grandmother listens to a local station from the village she grew up in, there's a high chance Cloud Radio carries it — or will, once you submit it through the in-app form.

Stations are contributed and maintained by the community, which is what keeps the catalog this broad. The flip side: stream URLs occasionally rot when a station re-broadcasts on a new server. Fix is one email to the developer; turnaround is usually a day.

Who It's For

Built for people who actually listen to radio.

If music apps are how you discover new songs, radio apps are how you stay connected to a place, a community or a programme. Cloud Radio is for the second job.

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Expats & diaspora

Listen to the local station from the country, region or village you grew up in. Available in twenty interface languages so the app itself isn't a barrier.

T

Talk-show listeners

Schedule recordings of news, sports phone-ins, hourly bulletins or current-affairs programmes. Listen back on the commute, fast-forward the parts you don't need.

D

DJs & music heads

Pull live streams from KEXP, FIP, NTS-style stations. Live-lyrics-on-screen makes Shazam-style track-spotting easier. Discover music outside the algorithm.

A

Alarm clock people

Wake up to your favourite station instead of an iPhone chime. Sleep timer to fall asleep to a quiet talk show. Android Auto support for the car commute.

Features

Everything you'd want in a radio app. Almost nothing you wouldn't.

No social feed. No algorithm. No autoplay queue. Just radio, with the tools people actually asked for over twelve years of releases.

Recording

Record live streams. Schedule them. Auto-tag.

Tap once to start recording; the file lands on your SD card. Set a schedule and the app tunes the station and starts recording on time — useful for time-zone-shifted talk shows and hourly news bulletins you'd otherwise miss. Recordings are split by track where the broadcasting station tags songs, with artist, song name and album art applied automatically.

Lyrics

Live lyrics on-screen

When the station tags the current track, Cloud Radio fetches lyrics from chartlyrics, lyrics.ovh and lastfm.

Languages

20-language UI

EN DE FR IT ES PT RU JA KO ZH AR +9
Clock

Alarm & sleep timer

Wake to your favourite station. Fall asleep with a timer. Both work on Android Auto.

Battery

Zombie Mode

Disables artwork fetches, lyrics threads and metadata polling. Stream-only, low CPU. For long listens.

Sync

Favourites & history sync across devices.

Sign in once and your starred stations, song history and recording schedule follow you to every device that has Cloud Radio installed. Custom stations you've added stay in your library. Recording files don't sync — they stay on the device that recorded them, so you control disk space.

Honest Comparison

Where Cloud Radio wins — and where it doesn't.

The radio-app category has three big players. Cloud Radio's edge is recording, station breadth and a one-time Pro price; it doesn't have the polish or curated content of the bigger names.

Cloud Radio TuneIn Simple Radio myTuner
Live stream recordingYesPremiumNoPremium
Scheduled recordingYesNoNoNo
Live lyrics on-screenYesNoNoNo
Station count90,000+100,000+~50,00050,000+
UI languages20~10~8~12
Pricing$8.99 one-time$9.99/mo$2.99/mo$3.99/mo
Exclusive content (sports, podcasts)NoYesNoLimited
UI polishFunctionalPolishedMinimal & cleanModern
Pricing & features verified June 2026 from publisher pages.
From the Community

What twelve years of listeners say.

★★★★★
I moved from Tehran to Toronto eight years ago. There's exactly one Persian-language station I want to hear, run by a family back home, and Cloud Radio is the only app that carries it. The Pro upgrade was nine dollars once. Best nine dollars I've spent on a phone.
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Nasrin K.
Listener · Toronto
★★★★★
Honest take: the app works, but it shows its age. UI is functional, not pretty. About one in twenty stations I try has a dead stream URL — you have to report it and wait a day or two for the dev to update. The recording feature is genuinely killer though; that's why I keep it installed instead of switching to TuneIn.
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Daniel P.
Producer · Berlin
★★★★★
I run a small radio show on a community station in Ireland and I use Cloud Radio to monitor competing stations on my commute. Schedule the hourly news bulletin, listen on the drive home. The recording auto-tags songs from station metadata so it builds up a nice library of what's actually being played on FM.
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Siobhán O.
Community DJ · Cork
The Story

A radio app that survived twelve years on the Play Store.

Cloud Radio launched on Google Play in the early 2010s and has been on every major release of Android since. The author is MSoft Apps, a one-person studio reachable directly at [email protected]. There is no venture funding, no series A, no in-app subscription treadmill. The free version is supported by ads. Pro is eight ninety-nine, paid once, kept forever.

The original pitch was simple: most radio apps in 2013 had ten thousand stations and no recording. Cloud Radio shipped with thirty thousand and a record button. It quietly grew to 90,000+ stations as listeners submitted local broadcasters that didn't exist in TuneIn or iHeart's curated directory. The recording feature became the killer reason to install — for talk-show listeners in different time zones, for diaspora listeners who wanted to preserve broadcasts from home, and for community-radio people monitoring competition.

Today Cloud Radio is the kind of app that appears in screenshots of "unsung apps I actually use" threads on Reddit. It supports twenty interface languages, runs on Android Auto in the car, and ships features that take user requests seriously — Zombie Mode exists because heavy users wanted to leave the stream playing for ten hours without draining the battery on metadata fetches.

It's worth being honest about the limits. The UI is functional rather than beautiful — it looks like a 2018 app in 2026, and the redesign hasn't shipped. Lyrics depend on third-party services (lastfm, lyrics.ovh, chartlyrics) and they're not always available. Streams contributed by the community occasionally go dead when a station moves servers; the fix is fast once reported but it's still friction. iOS support is thinner than Android — main development effort lives on Google Play and Amazon Appstore. There's no exclusive content; this is a player, not a platform.

If you want polished design and curated podcasts, TuneIn or Apple Music's radio tab will serve you better. If you want a radio app that actually records broadcasts, carries the long-tail community stations, and costs nine dollars total — Cloud Radio is that app.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

How many stations does Cloud Radio actually carry?

Over 90,000 internet radio streams across more than 250 countries and territories at last count, all available on the free tier. Stations are organised by country, region, language and genre, and the catalog is contributed and maintained by the community. If your local station isn't there, you can submit it through the in-app form or email the developer directly.

What's the difference between the free version and Pro?

The free version has all the core features — 90,000+ stations, recording, scheduled recording, lyrics, sleep timer, alarm, sync — but is supported by ads. Pro is a one-time $8.99 unlock that removes ads, lets you save recordings directly to the SD card, and adds a few power-user features like continuous track-splitting on recordings. No subscription, paid once, owned forever.

How does the recording feature work? Is it legal?

Cloud Radio captures the audio stream the station is already broadcasting publicly and writes it to a file on your device. This is the same thing a tape deck did from an FM tuner in 1985. Legality depends on local copyright law — most jurisdictions allow recording for personal time-shifting (the so-called Betamax rule), and many explicitly permit private use. Re-distribution of copyrighted material is a separate matter and not something the app does for you.

What stream formats are supported?

MP3, AAC, HLS, OPUS, FLAC, OGG, M3U, PLS and ASX. That covers essentially every common internet-radio stream format. If a station broadcasts in something exotic that isn't on this list, the developer will usually add format support when asked — most updates start as user requests.

What's "Zombie Mode" and when should I use it?

Zombie Mode disables background tasks that aren't strictly required for stream playback — artwork fetching, lyrics polling, metadata sync, history logging. The result is a stream-only mode that uses very little CPU and battery. Use it for long listens (overnight, on a road trip, or as a sleep aid) where you don't care about lyrics or artwork and you want maximum battery life.

Does Cloud Radio work on Android Auto and in the car?

Yes — Android Auto support is built in, and many users report it being the main reason they keep the app installed. You can tune stations, play favourites, set the sleep timer and start recordings from the car interface. Screen-lock controls show the current track name and album art on the lock screen for non-Auto use.

What languages does the interface support?

Twenty: English, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Svenska, 简体中文, 繁體中文, Português, 日本語, Русский, Dansk, Suomi, Čeština, Polski, 한국어, العربية, Ελληνικά, Magyar, Español. Translations were contributed by users; if you'd like to help improve one or add a new language, email [email protected].

What are the limits I should know about?

The UI is functional rather than designed — it looks like a 2018 Android app. Stream URLs occasionally go dead when stations move servers; fix is one email to the developer. Lyrics rely on third-party services and aren't always available. iOS support is thinner than Android (Google Play and Amazon Appstore are the main distribution channels). There's no exclusive content, no live sports rights, no original podcasts — Cloud Radio is a player for what's already being broadcast.

Power on. Find a station. Press record.

90,000+ stations, twenty languages, recording, lyrics, alarm, sleep timer. Free with ads, Pro is $8.99 paid once.

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