Description
**FreqOut — Live FM Radio, Reimagined**
FreqOut brings live broadcast FM radio to your iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Mac. Tune into thousands of real radio stations across the United States — by frequency, by city, or by your favorites — and experience radio the way it was meant to be heard, with modern tools that live radio never had.
**Tune In Instantly**
Spin the dial and land on any FM frequency in your area or across the country. FreqOut streams real broadcast stations — the same signal your car radio picks up — direct to any of your Apple devices. No algorithms. No playlists. Just radio.
**Rewind Live Radio**
Miss the beginning of a song? FreqOut buffers your live stream continuously so you can skip back, pause, and replay what just played. Jump to any song in your play history and listen again — as long as it's still in the buffer.
**Play History**
Every song that plays gets logged in your session history with title, artist, and album artwork. Tap any entry to jump back and hear it again. Never lose track of that song you almost caught.
**Song Lyrics**
FreqOut automatically fetches and displays lyrics for the current song — scrolling alongside your listen in real time.
**Station Favorites**
Save your go-to stations with a tap. Favorites sync across your devices and are always one swipe away, no matter what state you're tuned into.
**Multi-Source Station Data**
FreqOut pulls station data from multiple broadcast sources and intelligently deduplicates them, so you always get the best available stream for any frequency — no duplicates, no dead links.
**Local Weather**
See current conditions and temperature for both your location and the city the station broadcasts from. Know the weather where the music is coming from.
**Apple TV — Built for the Big Screen**
FreqOut on Apple TV delivers a full 10-foot interface designed from the ground up for the Siri Remote. Three-column layout puts tuning, play history, and lyrics all on screen at once. Navigate with swipes, scan the dial, and control playback without ever picking up your phone.
**Mac — Native Window Experience**
On Mac, FreqOut adapts to any window size with portrait, landscape, and mini player modes. The mini player floats above your other apps and shows album art, playback controls, and a scrolling ticker — perfect for background listening while you work.
**Now Playing & Lock Screen Controls**
FreqOut integrates fully with the system Now Playing experience. Control playback from your lock screen, Control Center, AirPods, or any connected Bluetooth device without opening the app.
**Last.fm Scrobbling**
Connect your Last.fm account and every song you hear gets scrobbled automatically. Your listening history, always up to date.
**What's Playing?**
Not sure what that song is? FreqOut uses audio recognition to identify tracks even when station metadata is missing or delayed.
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FreqOut is built for people who love radio — the spontaneity of it, the discovery, the feeling of tuning into something live and shared. It's radio for the streaming era: familiar where it counts, modern where it matters.
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*Requires an internet connection. Station availability varies by region. Some features require iOS 16 or later.*
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What's new (v1.0.2)
FreqOut 1.0.2 — Watch, drawers, and polish
• Apple Watch volume control. Turn the Digital Crown on the Now Playing
screen to adjust system volume — works with AirPods, Bluetooth speakers,
and any audio output.
• Apple Watch sync fixes. Tapping a favorite on the watch now updates the
watch's Now Playing screen instantly instead of after a delay.
• Play History and Lyrics drawers redesigned. Drag the drawer up to read
more — the window now travels straight up without resizing or shifting
content off-screen.
• Lyrics expansion. A new Lyrics button beside Play History opens a
full-screen, comfortable-to-read view of the current song's lyrics.
Tap anywhere on the inline lyrics block to expand.
• Shazam works on AirPods. Song identification now runs over AirPods
and Beats output, automatically. Generic Bluetooth car stereos still
skip the song tap to preserve playback compatibility.
• Keep Screen Awake. New setting in Preferences that prevents iOS from
auto-locking while FreqOut is open. Drains battery quickly — best for
use while the device is plugged in.
• Layout cleanup. AirPlay and Shazam buttons are larger and aligned with
the LIVE indicator and Play History controls in portrait mode.
• Long-press to rename. On iOS, long-press a favorite to open the
Rename / Remove menu in addition to the existing swipe shortcut.
• iCloud sync expanded. Accent color, CarPlay voice announcements, Keep
Screen Awake, and Mac mini-player preferences now sync across all your
devices automatically.
• Stability. Fixed a watchdog crash that could occur when changing
stations while a stream stalled. Improved CarPlay seek-button reliability
on cold launches.