Radio Xen: Live World Stations

Digital & Services

About this app

Drag your finger across a world map and the radio follows it.

Radio Xen is a live radio app built on one idea: the world is easier to hear than it is to search for. Press the glowing world map, drag, and the audio cross-fades between the live radio stations you pass over. Lift your finger and you are locked on to that station, live.

50,000+ live radio stations. 200+ countries and territories. 190+ languages. Free.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Open Radio Xen. The world map is the first thing you see. No account, no setup, no tour.
2. Press and drag. Every dot you cross is a real radio station broadcasting right now, and the sound follows your finger.
3. Let go. You are locked on, live, and the player keeps going while you carry on browsing.

FREE, WITH NO ADS AND NO ACCOUNT
No ads, no subscription, no trial, no sign-up. Radio Xen opens straight onto the world map and plays. Nothing in the app is locked behind a purchase, and there is no advertising between you and the station. The sleep timer is free too.

THE WORLD MAP
More than 11,000 live stations sit on the globe as dots that glow brighter the more popular a station is, so a busy radio city looks busy. Open the nearby sheet to hear the stations on air around you right now. Location is optional and approximate only, and refusing it costs you nothing but that shortcut.

THE SONG THAT IS ON AIR NOW
Stations that broadcast track data show you the song playing this second, with the last few titles underneath. Not every broadcaster sends it; where it is missing, Radio Xen leaves it blank rather than guess.

BROWSE AND SEARCH 50,000+ LIVE STATIONS
- Trending stations right now
- Genre chips: country, rock, oldies, jazz, hip hop, classical, gospel, dance, news and talk
- A country grid covering 200+ countries and territories
- Browse by language across 190+ languages
- Full search across the whole catalog, by station, city or country
- Station pages with genre tags, bitrate and listener votes, so you know what you are tuning before you commit

YOUR LIBRARY
Favorites and recently played live in one place, so last night's station is two taps away. Signing in is optional and only syncs your library between devices; every feature works signed out as a guest.

BUILT FOR REAL LISTENING
- Background playback that survives a locked screen
- Lock screen and notification controls
- Android Auto
- Sleep timer
- Dark and light themes
- Tablet and foldable layouts
- Full TalkBack support, and layouts that hold together at the largest system text sizes

AM, FM AND INTERNET-ONLY STATIONS
Radio Xen streams the online feeds of AM and FM broadcasters alongside internet-only stations, so a clear-channel AM signal and a two-person webcast sit on the same map. This is internet streaming and not an FM chip: you need a data connection, and in return you get the whole world instead of whatever is within 60 miles of you.

WHAT RADIO XEN PLAYS
Live broadcasts, and only live broadcasts. There is nothing to save and no way to hear a moment again once it has aired. Everything here is on the air at this moment, which is exactly the point. A small number of broadcasters restrict listening by region, and streams occasionally go down at the station's end; tell us and we will chase it.

WHO IT IS FOR
People a long way from the town they grew up in. People who want a country station at 6am and a jazz station at midnight. People who like knowing that somewhere there is a place of four thousand people with a transmitter and somebody at the microphone. And anyone who has had enough of an ad break every eight minutes in an app they already paid nothing for.

Radio Xen. Live radio, the whole world, free.

Radio Xen is an independent radio app. We do not own the stations and do not represent them; we help you find them and listen. If you are a broadcaster and want your stream added or removed, write to us.

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