Ham Listening
World Radio via KiwiSDR
Free
Ham Listening turns your phone into a window on the world's radio. Browse hundreds of public KiwiSDR receivers around the globe and tune the shortwave and amateur bands live — no radio, no antenna and no licence required.
LISTEN ANYWHERE
• Browse hundreds of public KiwiSDR receivers hosted by operators worldwide
• Pick a receiver by country, then by source — or let "Best available" jump to the strongest open one
• Receivers near your grid are sorted first once you enter your locator
• Hear CW, SSB and distant broadcasters, and find out how the bands really sound from another continent
• A bundled receiver list means the picker still works when the live directory is having a bad day
TUNE LIKE A RADIO
• A live waterfall with a fixed centre cursor — drag the waterfall under it to tune, pinch to zoom, tap to jump
• AM, LSB, USB, CW and NFM demodulation, each with the right passband applied for you
• A band-plan overlay showing what each part of the band is for, in IARU Region 1, 2 or 3
• An S-meter and a live audio-FFT spectrum for receivers that offer no wideband waterfall
• Save frequency marks and jump straight back to them
• Direct frequency entry, step keys and adjustable volume
BUILT TO KEEP PLAYING
• Audio keeps running when you switch apps or lock the screen
• Reconnects gracefully on its own when a stream drops
• Works over Wi-Fi or mobile data, and runs on modest data using compressed audio
• Remembers the receiver, frequency and mode you were last on
• Light and dark themes, adjustable font size, weekly tips and in-app version history
• No account, no sign-up, no ads, no analytics and no tracking
PERFECT FOR
• Shortwave listeners and DXers with no antenna space
• Licensed operators checking how their band sounds from the other side of the world
• Anyone curious about radio who does not own a receiver
• Travellers, apartment dwellers and anyone in a high-noise location
• Teachers and clubs demonstrating HF propagation live
PRIVACY
• Your callsign, grid and email are stored only on your device.
• No account, no sign-up, no ads, no analytics SDKs, no advertising ID and no tracking of any kind.
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Yousuf AL Balushi — Unixeer, Oman
Ratings & Reviews
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Record what you hear. A record button now sits beside the frequency: press it and Ham Listening saves the receiver's audio to your device as a WAV file, press it again to stop, and while it runs the button breathes red so you can see at a glance that it is still going. The 30 seconds before you pressed are saved too — the app always keeps the most recent half minute of received audio in memory and drops it into the file when you press record, so when you hear an interesting callsign or the start of a broadcast and reach for the button, the part you wanted is already saved instead of missed. A new Recordings page, opened from the button beside it, lists everything you have captured with its frequency, mode, receiver, time in UTC, length and size, and lets you share a recording to another app, give it a name of your own, or delete it. There is no time limit: every 30 minutes the app rolls into a new file so each one stays easy to share and to open, and all the pieces stay together as one entry in the list. Pausing silences your speaker rather than the recording, recording continues when you leave the app or lock the screen, and if the app is closed while a recording is running nothing is lost — it is repaired and relisted the next time you open the Recordings page. No microphone is involved at any point: Ham Listening records the radio audio arriving over the internet, which is the same audio you are already hearing, it needs no new permission, and nothing leaves your device unless you share it yourself. Also in this release, the frequency row is re-aligned so the mode and keypad controls sit properly at the right edge on every screen width.
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The developer, Yousif AL Balushi, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Yousif AL Balushi
- Size
- 22.7 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- 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.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Unixeer™. All rights reserved.
