50,000+ live stations, from 240-odd countries. Pick one and it plays — with the track that's on, where the station sends it, and what it costs your data plan per hour. Nothing to install. Or switch to Songs and ask for any record ever made.
400 million+ tracks — and growing. Every one of them plays in this player, free, with nothing to install.
Every play is a licensed play — the artist is paid and counted exactly as they are anywhere else you listen. Playlists need an account, because they have to still be there tomorrow.
Headphones, the lock screen, a car stereo and a watch already work. Play, pause, next, previous and the scrubber are wired into your phone’s own media controls, so “Hey Siri, pause” — or a squeeze of an earbud, or the button on a steering wheel — reaches Tunegether. Volume is your phone’s own and needs nothing from us.
To ask for a song out loud, make a Shortcut once. Open
Shortcuts on an iPhone, tap +, add Dictate Text, then add
Open URLs and set the URL to
https://tunegether.app/?play= with the dictated text dragged onto the
end. Name it Tunegether. From then on: “Hey Siri,
Tunegether” → say what you want to hear → it searches every catalogue
and starts playing.
A website cannot register its own Siri phrase — “play something on Tunegether” in one sentence needs an app installed from the App Store, which is a different thing and is not pretended here. On Android, say “Hey Google, open tunegether.app” or point an Assistant routine at the same address.
Stations play straight from the broadcaster — we carry the directory, not the audio. Your stations and lists are kept on this device.
Streaming audio costs you its bitrate and essentially nothing else. A 128 kbps station is about 58 MB an hour — in this app, in Spotify, in Apple Music, in your car. No streaming service is cheaper than another at the same bitrate; what differs is the bitrate each one defaults to. Music services usually stream at 128–320 kbps. A great deal of the world's radio runs at 64–128, which makes radio the cheaper listen more often than not.
| Quality | Bitrate | Per hour | ½ hr a day, a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low data | 48–64 kbps | 22–29 MB | ~0.4 GB |
| Standard | 96–128 kbps | 43–58 MB | ~0.9 GB |
| High | 192–320 kbps | 86–144 MB | ~2.2 GB |
| Video, for scale | — | 0.5–3 GB | — |
So: every station here shows what it costs per hour before you press it, the Low data chip filters the whole list to 64 kbps and under — about 29 MB an hour, or roughly 0.4 GB for half an hour a day across a month — and the player counts what this session has actually used. That counter is measured on your device from the stream's own bitrate — it is not sent anywhere, because we never carry the audio in the first place.
Two habits cost more than the bitrate does: leaving a stream playing when nobody is listening, and apps that download ahead. This one does neither — it plays what you press, for as long as you leave it on, and stops.
One beat. Everywhere.
Rooms, the challenge and coach voice all work in this browser tab today. The native apps add the parts a browser cannot do: playback that keeps going with the screen off, lock screen and car controls, and your stations saved for a journey with no signal. Drop your email and we'll ping you the day it hits the stores.
Tunegether isn't a stream you watch. It's a room you're in — a six-character code, and everyone hears the same thing at the same moment, wherever they are. No account needed to join one.
Open a room, send the code, and whatever you press plays for everybody at once — a station in Lagos, a record from the catalogue, your own queue. Nothing is re-broadcast through us, so the room costs the same with two people in it or two hundred.
You pick the music and talk over it. Your voice goes straight from your phone to each person's, on top of the mix they are already hearing. Time the drop to the last set.
Pick a subject — 90s hip hop, geography, or let it run like a pub quiz — and a question lands after every couple of songs. First right answer takes the round, settled on the server so the fastest connection doesn't win it.
Launch a record, then talk about it while it plays. Fans hear the master from the catalogue that holds it, the artist runs commentary over the top, and every play counts where it always would.
The coach's voice goes device to device, never through us. That is what makes it free, and it is also the honest limit: about eight listeners on ordinary wifi, and the room says so rather than falling apart.
Everyone lines up when the track changes and then each device keeps its own clock. Exact sync between machines over the internet isn't a thing anyone has; correcting continuously would be audible, which is worse.
Whoever opened the room picks. Everyone else rides it, sees what's playing, and can walk back in on the same link after a dropped signal.
The same room on the web, in the desktop app, and on a phone — in 36 languages, because a world radio that only reads in English is a world radio for one country.
The Tunegether MK II groovebox is a full pattern sequencer, keyboard, and FX board with a real recorder. Hit RECORD, ride the filter, download your take. Nothing installs. Nothing signs up. It's the signature moment of the app, up-front and free.
How to record: tap the pads to start audio, press RECORD, play your take, press STOP.
A DOWNLOAD TAKE button appears. Files save as
tunegether-take-YYYY-MM-DDTHH-MM-SS.webm. Post them anywhere.
