SomaFM Radio Player2.0 - App Store

SomaFM's official app, giving you access to over 40 year-round channels of listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio, with all music hand-picked by our award-winning DJs and music directors.

Lifehacker.com calls SomaFM one of the "Five Best Internet Radio Services" and says "completely user and listener-supported, which means no ads or commercials during your broadcasts, and the channels and programs aired at SomaFM are rarely heard anywhere else."

Features include:

- No registration required; no additional purchases required but in-app donations welcome.

- Full CarPlay Integration

- High & low bandwidth streams: 128k AAC (high); 32k AAC-HE for great quality audio with very low data usage

- View channels by Popularity, Genre or your favorites

- Bookmark, Share song info and search Apple Music

- Siri Shortcuts Support

- Play on Apple TV & AirPlay, Chromecast devices

- Integration with many car stereos without CarPlay units via Dock Connector or Bluetooth

- Remote control: Pause and restart playing as well as skip between favorite channels from your headphone remote, lock screen controls.
Never listened to SomaFM before? Here's our lineup, which are all commercial-free:

Groove Salad: A nicely chilled plate of ambient/downtempo beats and grooves.

Secret Agent: The soundtrack for your stylish, mysterious, dangerous life. For Spies and P.I.s too! Cinematic downtempo, stylish lounge and more.

Drone Zone: Served best chilled, safe with most medications. Atmospheric textures with minimal beats.

Fluid: Drown in the electronic sound of instrumental hiphop, future soul and liquid trap.

Indie Pop Rocks!: New and classic favorite indie pop tracks. Crafted by Elise Nordling.

Left Coast 70s: Mellow album rock from the Seventies. Yacht not required.

cliqhop idm: Blips'n'beeps backed mostly w/beats. Intelligent Dance Music.

Beat Blender: A late night blend of deep-house and downtempo chill.

Bossa Beyond: Silky-smooth, laid-back Brazilian-style rhythms of Bossa Nova, Samba and beyond.

Dub Step Beyond: Dubstep, Dub and Deep Bass. The place for Bass Music!

The Trip: Progressive house / trance. Tip top tunes.

Illinois Street Lounge: Classic bachelor pad, playful exotica and vintage music of tomorrow.

Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Spaced-out ambient and mid-tempo electronica.

Doomed: Dark industrial/ambient music for tortured souls.

Boot Liquor: Americana Roots music for Cowhands, Cowpokes and Cowtippers.

Lush: Sensuous and mellow vocals, mostly female, with an electronic influence.

Digitalis: Digitally affected analog rock to calm the agitated heart.

Suburbs of Goa: Desi-influenced Asian world beats and beyond.

ThistleRadio: Exploring music from Celtic roots and branches. Crafted by Fiona Ritchie.

Underground 80s: Early 80s UK Synthpop and a bit of New Wave, with rarities you forgot you remembered.

Sonic Universe: Transcending the world of jazz with eclectic, avant-garde takes on tradition. NuJazz/Avant Garde/Euro-jazz.

PopTron: Electropop and indie dance rock with sparkle and pop. Less guitars, more synths.

Metal Detector: From black to doom, prog to sludge, thrash to post, stoner to crossover, punk to industrial.

Mission Control: Ambient and experimental music mixed with the historical sounds of the space program.

SomaFM SF 10-33: Live San Francisco Fire and Police radio with an electronic music soundtrack.

Tiki Time: Classic Tiki music and Vintage island rhythms to sip cocktails by.

The In-Sound: 60s/70s Hipster Euro Pop where psychedelic melodies meets groovy vibes.

Vaporwaves: All Vaporwave. All the time.

Synphaera Radio: Music from an independent record label focused on modern electronic ambient and space music.

n5MD Radio: Emotional Experiments in Music: Ambient, modern composition, post-rock, & experimental electronic music.

SF in SF: Author readings and discussions from the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and genre literary fields.

Version History We've completely updated our app to be fully iOS 26 (and 27) optimized, while remaining compatible on iOS 18. This involved a major rewrite of the app to modern iOS development standards. We've updated the stream playing engine to be more resilient, user interface to be more responsive to screen sizes.

Requires iOS 18.6 or later. 2.0 Sep 17 • Fixed issue with AirPlay 1.17.1 01/13/2025 Improved sharing compatibility. 1.17.0 12/15/2024 Fixing issue with switching from WiFi to or from WAAN. 1.16.0 08/28/2024 New streaming engine, performance enhancements, bug fixes 1.15.0 08/03/2024 Fixes bug with right swiping to get back to channel selector 1.14.0 02/12/2024 This is an important bug fix for our previous release.

- Channel display layout improved for normal and small text sizes
- App opens to Favorites tab if Favorites have been set
- Chromcast now continues to play when app is in the background
- Bandwidth change option during playback fixed
- Bluetooth Car Stereo display improvements
- Shortcuts working properly
- Song notifications working properly
- Crash when no network available fixed in many cases
- Auto Bandwidth for Cell/Wifi

Ongoing issues we will have fixed in an upcoming release:
- Improving Large/Small buffer settings
- Playlist history option to show only songs you've heard or last 10 played
- UI improvements, including indicating when network connection isn't available or too slow
- Scale channel art sizes along with text sizes 1.13.1 12/22/2023 • Updated look for the main screen 1.13.0 11/30/2023 • Performance improvements when switching between different audio devices
• Fixed issue of player not restarting after using video camera
• No longer stops audio to take still photo
• Update UI to provide easier access to Airplay
• Updated Chromecast support 1.12.0 01/22/2021 • Fix for iOS 9
• General compatibility updates and bug fixes (including Sleep Timer setting)
• Siri support (Play Groove Salad on Soma).
• Updated sharing options. 1.11.1 08/18/2020 • General compatibility updates and bug fixes (including Sleep Timer setting)
• Siri support (Play Groove Salad on Soma).
• Updated sharing options. 1.11.0 07/28/2020 - Adding Siri Shortcuts. Now you can play your favorite station using Siri. 1.10.0 07/26/2019 - Fixing bug with AllPlay support 1.9.1 05/14/2018 - New design for now playing
- Updating Chromecast support
- Updating translations, Adding Russian
- iPhone X support
- CarPlay fixes 1.9.0 04/18/2018 • Various fixes for CarPlay. Let us know if you are having any issues
• New Home Screen Quick Actions. Can start/stop playing from the app icon 1.8.0 03/06/2018 - Updated Chromecast
- CarPlay support
- Fixing various bugs 1.7.0 11/17/2016 - Chromecast support
- Optional iOS notifications about playing song
- Handoff/Continuity support for iOS8
- Performance enhancements and bug fixes 1.6.9 08/04/2015 Audio will once again stop other audio, and no longer mix with other music. 1.6.8 09/21/2014 Adds support for Qualcomm® AllPlay™ compatible wireless music systems; Minor bug fixes and enhancements. 1.6.7 09/08/2014 - iOS 7 updates and fixes
- Fixes to streaming behind proxies
- Improved Support for switching networks and continuing playing
- Improved Support for audio switching and charging status 1.6.0 02/20/2014 - Fully iPad compatible
- Sleep timer
- Bookmark/share/buy songs from history
- "Love Song" button to give feedback to your DJ
- Tap channel icon in player to show current and total data usage
- "Shake to shuffle" option to switch to a random channel in your favorites
- Settings now moved to settings menu within app.
- Text size now adjustable to small/med/large
- More responsive and robust streaming engine 1.5 07/18/2013 Bug fix to allow app to install on iOS 4.3 and iOS 4.3.5.
Fix with missing status bar during rotation. 1.4.1 02/08/2013 Support for iPhone 5; new landscape views; improved streaming performance. 1.4 11/28/2012 Thanks for all the support.

Features in this version include:

- Updated GUI with Retina support.
- Enhanced support for AppleTV, and Dock connectors & iPod-compatible car stereos.
- Better handling of network issues - streams will recover from network dropouts and aggressively try to - reconnect when in bad coverage areas.
- Faster playback when starting a stream.
- Better transitioning between wifi to 3g
- Landscape "Now Playing" screen.
- New Community tab features other SomaFM supporters.
- Pull to Refresh channel listings. 1.3 06/20/2012 1.2 12/04/2010