Live radio from anywhere on Earth
59,498 stations in 241 countries, free in your browser. No sign-up, and no app needed, though there is one if you want it. Press Drift and land somewhere new.
Press Drift and we'll tune you to a random station somewhere on Earth.
Your stations
See allA radio dial for the whole planet
Air Drift is a free web player for live internet radio. It puts 59,498 stations from 241 countries behind one search box and one globe: national broadcasters and college stations, round-the-clock jazz, news in every language, and community radio from towns you have never heard of.
There is nothing you have to install and nothing to sign up for. Pick a station and it plays, straight from the broadcaster to you. The directory is refreshed every day, so stations that have gone quiet drop out and new ones appear.
What you can do
- Browse by country
- Spin the globe or scan the list. Every country with a station on air is there, from the United States' seven thousand to a single station in the Pacific.
- Find a genre
- Around 160 genres, grouped into families: jazz and classical, news and talk, every decade of pop, and the long tail after them.
- See what's playing
- Artist and title appear wherever the station sends them, in the player and on your lock screen.
- Watch it play
- The stereo panel draws a spectrum analyser and VU meters from the stream itself, and shows where the station broadcasts from.
- Keep favourites without an account
- Stars and history stay in your browser. Export them to a file to move them to another device.
- Take it with you
- Get the app for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, CarPlay, Android, Android Auto, Windows, Fire TV or Fire tablets, ask Alexa for it, or add the site to your home screen. Play, pause and skip work from headphones, the lock screen and the car.
Get the app
Air Drift plays in any browser, and there is an app where you would rather have one. Same stations, same favourites, free.
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iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch and CarPlay
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Android phones, tablets and Android Auto
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Windows 10 and 11
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Fire TV, Fire tablets and cars with Fire TV built in
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Echo and other Alexa devices: “Alexa, open Air Drift”
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Bose SoundTouch speakers: radio back on the six preset buttons
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ESP32-S3 boards: a little touch-screen radio you build yourself
Questions
Is Air Drift free?
Yes. There is no subscription, no account and no premium tier. Open the page and press play.
Why do some stations play ads?
Every stream comes straight from its broadcaster, exactly as it airs. Commercial stations run their own adverts; Air Drift does not add any.
Where do the stations come from?
From a volunteer-run public directory of internet radio, kept up to date by listeners and broadcasters. Air Drift refreshes its copy every day, so stations that go quiet drop out and new ones appear.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes, in any modern browser, and there is an app for iPhone and iPad and an app for Android. On other phones, add the site to your home screen to use it like an app, with play, pause and skip on the lock screen, headphones and car.
Why won't a station play?
Stations go off air, move their stream or refuse other sites. Air Drift hides stations the directory has marked broken and tells you when one does not answer; try another, or drift again.
Do you track what I listen to?
Only in aggregate. Air Drift counts visits, plays, which buttons are pressed and roughly how long the app stays open with its own analytics: no cookies, no advertising trackers, and nothing that identifies you. For some visits it also notes where on the page people click and how far they scroll, for a heatmap; it never records what you type or what is on your screen. Favourites and history stay in your browser. By default the id of a station you play is also shared with the station directory to keep its rankings honest, and you can turn that off in settings.