Suggestions on privacy-respecting radio stations app on Android

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Hi all,

Do you have any recommendations on privacy-respecting “network radio station” apps for Android?

I checked some apps in play store and it seems that “Simple Radio” is not bad in terms of privacy.

Are there other apps you can recommend?

Thanks!

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No specific recommendation per-se, but I can guide with:

  • looking at F-droid packages, in the first place to narrow down decent candidates
  • then inspecting the source code of the select project by checking: commit history, if releases do export an .apk, seeing if the project is still alive (frequency of the updates, repo’s issues)
  • the amount of permissions/trackers it does have
  • [optional] double-checking how it behaves with no Gplay, good apps don’t enforce it on your usually

The rest is more about maintainer’s street cred + features of the app itself given your subjective taste. :+1:t2:

If this is the Simple Radio we’re talking about, it feels quite clean + fine given the list above with no big red flags[1]. :white_check_mark:

  1. even if the maintainer has not enabled the issue on that repo, he is still reachable by email + they allow it on their other projects ↩︎

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Transistor is good: y20k/transistor: Transistor - Simple Radio App for Android - Codeberg.org
Simple Radio is very much not good: Report for com.streema.simpleradio 6.1.1 - εxodus

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Love how Transistor Simple Radio is messing up the whole discussion. Damn them with all the same names. :joy:

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tbh on iOS and WatchOS support this seems to be the least evil option of many
all of them I’ve seen based oof the privacy nutrition labels were outright alot more invasive than it.
If there is even a good alternative im open to it but I doubt

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Thanks for your guidance! I’m gonna try Transistor, but I indeed was thinking of the one app that @anon63378639 mentions as bad.

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Thank you very much! I completely forgot about exodus :+1: