All radio stations and podcasts in one app. Save your favorite stations and follow the best podcasts. Supports Android Auto, Android TV, and Google Chromecast.
Details
OVER 60,000 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RADIO STATIONS: Listen to your favourite local and international stations, including Magic Radio and Hot 108 Jamz, and discover many more radio stations recommended by radionet editorial staff and through their clear categories, or use the intuitive search function.
RADIO FUNCTIONS AT A GLANCE:
- Save favourites.
- Radio alarm and sleep timer.
- Access radio stations you have listened to recently.
- Clear search option for stations and songs.
- Radio stations sorted by theme, genre and city/country.
Explore the world of podcasts, with categories ranging from news, comedy, health, music and sport. Don’t miss any episodes of The Ted Interview, Joe Rogan or Crime Junkie.
PODCAST FUNCTIONS AT A GLANCE:
- Favorite and subscribe your podcasts.
- Save episodes to your personal watchlist.
- Download episodes and listen offline.
- Skip the breaks using the Skip Silence feature.
- Auto-delete option to save storage space.
- Receive episode notifications for the podcasts you have subscribed to.
- Decide for yourself whether to only download new episodes over wi-fi.
- Search for podcasts, episodes and topics easily.
THE BENEFITS OF PRIME:
– Fewer adverts*: no video or banner ads!
– No subscription: pay a one-off fee and enjoy lifelong use of the app.
View on Google Play StoreFree or paid:
- Paid with one-time purchase
Accessibility and User Comments:
Fully accessible with a couple of minor issues.
The app is accessible with TalkBack and its few unlabeled buttons are also detected and announced by the screen reader. Radio.net has 4 tabs accessible at the bottom of the screen: Radio, Podcast, Favorites, and Search. Both the Radio tab and the Podcast tab display the Search station, song, podcast and episode edit box located at the center of the screen towards the top. By default, the search results displays a tab called See all. However, you can select the Stations, Podcast or Episodes tabs to the right of it if you want to limit your results to radio stations, podcast series or episodes, respectively.
One annoying point about Radio.net is that TalkBack tends to say "Logo of the station that is currently selected or playing" before each station title, or "Logo of the podcast that is currently selected or playing" before each podcast title. So we should always hear these extra phrases before the intended station or podcast name. Moreover, in the search results the button to the right of each station or podcast is the Like button, an unlabeled button which gets properly labeled by TalkBack.
The Settings button, on the top left corner of the screen in all tabs allows us, apart from various other things, to modify the behavior of the app upon downloading or streaming with or without a Wi-Fi connection. I disabled the Stream only over Wi-Fi option there as I want my radio stations to be streamed when not connected to Wi-Fi, too. The Back button in the Settings window is unlabeled but TalkBack properly detects and announces it. The Search tab, the final and fourth tab of the app, provides more control over the search operation.
For instance, we can view our recent searches or see the latest search trends among users.
Some extra points worth mentioning:
- 1. Radio.net also offers a free app with text and video ads. It can be used either freely or via a monthly/yearly subscription to make it ad-free. However, the Prime version, whose link is provided here, requires a one-time payment.
- 2. At the time of this writing, Radio.net can play all BBC Radio stations which, given the way BBC tends to disable or alter its online streams outside the BBC Sounds app on a regular basis, is a huge bonus.
- 3. Stations and podcasts can be bookmarked for easier access via the Bookmark option.
- 4. The app responds well to TalkBack's two-finger double-tap gesture to pause or resume playback.
Last Tested App version and Android version:
5.13.3.1. Android 14
does this use the radio.browser data base?