Finding stations
Search by name, jump to a country, or filter by tag. A catalog this size only works if you can get from “I wonder if…” to a playing station in a few taps.
Thousands of radio stations stream online, but each one lives on its own website with its own player. WorldTune gathers those public streams into one catalog you can search, filter, play, and come back to, on Android or in the browser.
The Android app is the main event. The web player is the same catalog with nothing to install.
Search by name, jump to a country, or filter by tag. A catalog this size only works if you can get from “I wonder if…” to a playing station in a few taps.
Press play and it plays. The app is built for daily use on a phone, and the web player keeps the same flow in a browser tab for when that’s easier.
When a station sends the song title with its stream, WorldTune shows it and can add cover art, a bit about the artist, and lyrics. When it doesn’t, you still get the station name and the audio.
The Android app is where most of the work goes. It has the full catalog, a now playing panel with artwork and song details, and favorites that follow your device.
The web player is the same catalog in any modern browser. Nothing to install, favorites saved locally, and handy for a desk, a laptop, or a phone that isn’t yours.
Both exist for the same reason: live radio should be easy to explore and easy to come back to.
Broadcasters publish their streams openly, and community-maintained directories collect them. WorldTune builds on that data and keeps its own copy organized by station, country, and tag.
The catalog syncs every night, and each update is checked before it replaces the previous one so a bad import can’t wipe out working stations. Dead streams and broken logos still slip through sometimes.
We don’t own or host any station. Whether a stream is up, where it can be heard, what it says about the current song, and what ads it plays are all decisions made by the broadcaster.
If you’re curious how all this came to be, read our history of online radio. If you just want to get listening, the listening guide is the faster read.
No onboarding tour, no account wall, no pop-ups asking for a rating. Open the app, find a station, listen.
Streams go down, and usually it’s not something we can fix. When that happens we’d rather tell you plainly than hide it behind a spinner.
Favorites and remembered filters are there so the app gets more useful the longer you use it, not just the first time you open it.