Auto-tuning reticle
A ring sits at the centre of the globe. Whatever station drifts under it starts playing — no lists, no search box, no decisions.
Free live radio · 200+ countries
Spin the globe.Hear the world.
Searcho Radio is a free way to listen to live radio online. Tens of thousands of real stations from more than 200 countries sit on a single interactive planet — point the reticle at a city like Lagos, Reykjavík or São Paulo and hear exactly what is on air there, right now. No account, no download.
- 30,000+
- live stations
- 200+
- countries & territories
- 0
- accounts required
Rádio GaúchaPorto Alegre · Brazil · Portuguese
Why it feels different
Radio you steer, not radio you search
Every other streaming app hands you a search box and asks what you already know you want. This one hands you a planet.
The whole planet, mapped
Tens of thousands of live stations plotted where they actually broadcast from, clustered by city and lit up by how many are on air.
Lock what you love
Found something good? Lock it. Keep spinning the globe to explore while the audio stays exactly where you left it.
Favourites and history
Save the ones worth returning to. Everything you actually listened to lands in recents automatically.
Sleep timer
Ten minutes to two hours. Falls asleep with you and reconciles against the wall clock, so a sleeping tab can't overshoot.
Nothing to sign up for
No account, no email, no paywall. Open the page and you're listening within seconds.
Three moves
You already know how to use it
01
Spin the globe
Drag to rotate, scroll to zoom. The dots are cities with stations on air right now.
02
Let it settle
Stop moving and the nearest station snaps into the reticle and starts streaming.
03
Stay a while
Lock it, favourite it, or open the panel to hear what else that city is playing.
What is on the globe
Every kind of radio, from every kind of place
The map is built from live streams that broadcasters publish themselves, so what you hear is the same signal going out over the air in that town — not a playlist assembled somewhere else. That includes national broadcasters in the capitals, city FM stations playing whatever charted there this week, university and community transmitters with a range of a few kilometres, and the odd internet-only station run by one person.
News and talk
National broadcasters, all-news channels and local morning shows — the fastest way to hear how a story is being covered in the country it is happening in.
Music, by where it comes from
Afrobeats out of Lagos, cumbia out of Medellín, city pop out of Tokyo. Not a genre playlist — the stations those cities actually listen to.
Community and campus radio
Small transmitters that never make a top-stations list: student stations, village FM, temple and church broadcasts, hospital radio.
Languages you are learning
Continuous native speech at natural speed, free, in whichever language you are working on. Park the reticle on a city and leave it there.
Sport as it is called at home
The same match, commentated in the language of whichever side you drop the reticle on. Local commentary carries things a highlights package never does.
Places you are curious about
Somewhere you have never been, or a town you left. Radio is the cheapest way to hear what an ordinary evening sounds like there.
Because stations are pinned to where they broadcast from rather than sorted into a list, moving across a border does what you would expect: cross from Spain into Morocco and the language, the music and the adverts all change at once. It is the difference between reading a directory of stations and actually travelling across the dial.
Also in your pocket
The same globe, built natively for phones
Background playback, lock-screen controls and a sleep timer that survives a locked phone. The web player and the app share the same station map, so a city sounds the same on both.
Coming toApp StoreComing toGoogle Play
RRadio ReykjavíkIceland · Icelandic
Questions
Frequently asked
Is Searcho Radio free to use?
Yes. Searcho Radio is free, needs no account and has no subscription. You do not have to download anything either — the player runs in your browser, on a phone, tablet or computer.
How many radio stations can I listen to?
Tens of thousands of live stations from more than 200 countries and territories, covering everything from national broadcasters to a single community FM transmitter in a small town.
How do I listen to radio from another country?
Drag the globe until the country you want is under the reticle in the centre of the screen, then zoom in on a city. Whichever station falls under the reticle starts playing, so you can move across a border and hear the difference immediately.
Do I need to create an account?
No. There is no sign-up, no email and no password. Your favourites, recent stations and volume are stored in your own browser, not on a server.
Which browsers and devices does it work on?
Any modern browser with WebGL: Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. You can also add it to a phone home screen and it will open full-screen like an app.
Why does a station sometimes fail to play?
Stations are streamed directly from the broadcasters themselves. If a broadcaster takes its stream offline, changes its address or limits how many people can listen at once, that station will not play until they fix it on their side.
Can I listen with the screen off or in another tab?
Yes. Playback continues in the background, and the station appears in your device's media controls so you can pause or skip from the lock screen.
Somewhere out there, a song is starting.
No account. No download. Just a planet full of radio, one tap away.
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