The apps I've tried are often very annoying in one way or another. Some force ads on the listener - one even made me watch a full screen video ad after a while. Many have various types of in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Sound Salvation is low cost (AU$2). It doesn't collect any information on users. It doesn't show any ads in the app. The radio station directory comes from https://www.radio-browser.info/ which has over 46,000 stations in its database. The only monitoring the app does is to send a "click" to Radio Browser for each play of a station for their popularity ranking.
You can add your own station if you know the streaming URL. The app also supports a URL Scheme so that opening a URL on device like the following one will add a station to the list.
Being a brand new app I decided to use the very latest Apple technology so it's built in SwiftUI and uses SwiftData for the database. The experience was a very smooth one but means that the app requires iOS 17 and above and I know that's a problem for some people with older devices.
Like all good apps, I wrote this for myself. If you want to stream radio, please give it a go.
Update
Well, I'm slightly boggled to see that currently Sound Salvation is the number 1 paid app in the Entertainment category.
Just ahead of "iFart" and that's undoubtedly a high bar. ;-)
Nice one! Purchased & rated, thanks Peter.
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Thank you!
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