Mobile app · Audio & music
RadioScout
Free worldwide radio player. No accounts, no tracking.
- Free, with trade-offs
- Android
- Open source
Overview
RadioScout is a radio mobile app, available on Android.
Features described in its GitHub repository: offline use.
Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.
Excerpts that establish this information
- “RadioScout is a free worldwide radio player — top stations, genre search, favourites and history, on the web and Android.” — official website, 10 November 2026
- “Light/dark theme, quick-find palette, PWA install on desktop” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “It is a plain static build, so it works offline once loaded and needs no account.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
At a glance
RadioScout is free, with trade-offs: it relies on a non-free online service.
Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.
Strengths
- Open source code
- No advertising
- Commercial use allowed
Weaknesses
- Flagged by F-Droid: relies on a non-free online service
Sources and checks
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