LocalWave

LocalWave is the easiest way to discover and listen to Australia's community and regional radio stations. Browse a live map of 1,300+ AM, FM and DAB+ radio stations across every state and territory, from inner-city Sydney to remote outback broadcasters, and tap any pin to start streaming. Built for Australians, travellers and anyone curious about the country's incredible community radio scene. No accounts. No ads. No subscription tiers. Just free, local Australian radio.

FEATURES

• MAP-FIRST BROWSE: every Australian community radio station plotted by location. Pan, zoom and tap a pin to listen.
• 1,300+ STATIONS: a curated database of AM, FM and DAB+ community and regional radio broadcasters, sourced from radio-browser.info and ACMA's Licensed Broadcasting Transmitter Data.
• NEARBY: find the radio stations broadcasting closest to you. Coarse, foreground-only location; you can decline and the rest of the app still works.
• FAVOURITES: heart a station to keep it one tap away.
• BACKGROUND PLAYBACK: keep listening when the screen is off, with full lock-screen and notification controls.
• ANDROID AUTO READY: built on Media3 so audio behaves cleanly in the car and across Bluetooth.
• SLEEP TIMER: drift off to your favourite community station and LocalWave stops the audio for you.
• ADD YOUR OWN: can't find a station, or want one from overseas? Paste its stream address and LocalWave tests it, fills in the name, genre and town from the stream itself, and drops it on the map for you. Your stations stay on your device.
• SEARCH: find stations by name, callsign, frequency or city.
• HONEST APP: no analytics, no tracking, no data leaves your device.

WHY LOCALWAVE?

Most radio apps focus on big commercial networks. LocalWave is built for the other side of the dial: community broadcasters, regional voices, and the Indigenous and multicultural stations that don't always show up in the big aggregators. Every town has a voice. LocalWave helps you find it.

WHO IT'S FOR

• Locals who want their hometown community radio one tap away.
• Travellers and road-trippers who want to tune in to wherever they are right now.
• Expats missing the sound of home.
• Anyone who likes their music and talk radio with a local accent.

ATTRIBUTIONS

Station data sourced from radio-browser.info and ACMA Licensed Broadcasting Transmitter Data (CC BY 2.5 AU). LocalWave is independent and not affiliated with the broadcasters whose streams are listed.

PERMISSIONS

LocalWave only requests what it needs to play radio: network access, foreground media playback service, notifications for the playback controls, wake lock to keep audio running, and optional coarse location for the Nearby tab.

FEEDBACK

Spotted a missing station, a broken stream, or a station that's moved frequency? Email [email protected]. Station data is updated regularly.