iPhone · Free · In the App Store
Bølge
Radio you can read.
Tune in to a news or sports station and the words appear on screen as they are spoken — as real sentences, with capital letters and punctuation. It all happens on the device using Apple's speech frameworks: no audio is recorded or uploaded, and no account is needed.
Read the airwaves
- Live transcription of news and talk radio, on device
- Follow along on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island
- Home Screen widget showing the station on air and the latest line
- Adjustable text size for comfortable reading
Keep and understand
- Broadcasts are saved as text you can re-read later
- Translate saved transcripts into your language, also entirely on device
- Search by station name or by country
Listen
- More than a thousand hand-checked stations from 65 countries
- News, sport and music, plus headlines from public broadcasters
- Favourites, sleep timer and background playback
- A newspaper front page with today's date and your local weather
Radio playback is free and stays free.
Privacy
Bølge collects no personal data. Transcription and translation run locally on your device; transcripts never leave it and can be deleted at any time.
Built with
Swift, SwiftUI, AVFoundation and Apple's Speech framework, live stream handling, local storage and multi-language support. The station catalogue is open and updated without an app update — pull requests are welcome.
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