SPECIAL EVENT
Halloween on WEIRD
Spin to WEIRD for Halloween week: independent podcasts of ghost stories, folklore, UFOs and the paranormal, live.
Static Radio Podcast Discovery
Indie shows, ambient & sleep
Free · In‑App Purchases
Spin a live dial across nine hand-picked stations of independent podcasts. Everyone hears the same moment. Heart what you find and take it to any podcast app as OPML.
Static is community radio for podcasts. Break up with the algorithm and discover indie podcasts on a live dial: nine hand-curated stations of independent shows, playing any time of day. Everyone hears the same show at the same moment, so you're listening with others, just like real radio.
Discovery is the whole point. Static broadcasts unfound sound and unfiltered voices: working journalists, oddball historians, field recordists, makers, organizers, and late-night weirdos you'd never think to search for. We put real work into keeping corporate-owned and AI-generated shows off the dial, so what surfaces is small, singular, and made by people.
THE STATIONS
- MAKE: workshop, repair, craft, fabrication, DIY
- UNITE: labor, tenant organizing, mutual aid, movement history
- NEWS: reported journalism and audio documentary, no punditry
- LEARN: history, science, reported essays, criticism
- WORK: lofi beats, smooth instrumentals, ambient focus textures
- NATURE: birdsong, rain, water, weather, field recordings
- WEIRD: paranormal, UFOs, folklore, the fringe
- SLEEP: sleep stories, yoga nidra, brown noise
- SHEILA B: a hand-picked WFMU archive
KEEP WHAT YOU FIND
Heart any show to save it to your Faves. Export your Faves as OPML and import them into any podcast app to subscribe for good. Static is the radio that sends you home with the shows, not a walled garden that traps them.
BUILT TO BE TOUCHED
A tactile, hand-printed look and a physical dial you actually spin. Mute with a tap, share what you stumble onto. No account, no sign-up, nothing to set up.
BULLETINS BETWEEN SHOWS
Static is free to listen. Some stations carry 30-second community bulletins between shows, from small businesses, organizers, individuals, and the occasionally kooky. They never interrupt an episode: every show plays in full and unaltered, straight from the podcaster's own feed.
RUN BY ACTUAL PEOPLE
Static is a small independent project. If you love it, leave a tip in the app. Know an independent show that belongs on the dial? Suggest it at staticradio.app.
Also on iPhone Duo, iPad, and Mac.
Spin the dial and see what finds you.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Smoother start-up: the opening paper and dots now animate without stutter.
Smoother drawing on the mute screen, your favorites and the letterpress shading.
Your favorites now scroll on the same paper as the player.
Pressing the dial feels deeper and rounder.
Colors printed on the paper match it more closely.
iPhone Duo: a bigger dial when the phone is closed and held sideways.
The developer, MADE WITH BEST PRACTICE LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- MADE WITH BEST PRACTICE LLC
- Size
- 27.3 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Frequent
Horror/Fear Themes
Infrequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Profanity or Crude Humor
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Comrade! $4.99
- Supporting Member $1.99
- Underwriter $9.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Made with Best Practice LLC