Radio Receiver

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Receive and listen to FM and AM radio broadcasts on your browser or ChromeBook using an RTL2832U-based USB digital TV tuner.

Latest reviews

• (2025-03-31) Nothing Toseehere: 2025 not working I have chromeOS downloads fine but gives some error "transfer stalled" When I hit power on.
• (2024-03-08) Jose Quintana: its works
• (2023-08-09) Louis LaPorte: HP Chromebook error when Radio Receiver app power -on button is selected with RTL SDR BLOG V3 inserted in USB slot - "There was a problem: USB tuner device not found. The Radio Receiver app needs an RTL2832U-based DVB-T dongle (with an R820T tuner chip) to work." I am not sure how to correct this issue and get the Radio Receiver app to work at all. Google Chrome 115.0.5790.160 (Official Build) (64-bit).
• (2023-01-07) Adriel Elfnet (ENCI): Doesn't work on HP chromebook: I get a USB write failed error,
• (2022-07-31) panplayer: Doesn't work... at all... on a 2014 Samsung Chormebook
• (2021-11-04) Ed Blake: Great app
• (2021-08-08) John Deker: Works great! Would be even better if I could avoid using up-verter with my RTL-SDR.com V3 dongle and instead change Direct Sampling to Q-ADC to access LW, AM BCB, and SW freqs. The Free Tuning mode lets me access a very broad band of freqs including aircraft band, NOAA weather, and AM BCB in addition to the default FM BCB. I have the app installed on all my instances of Chrome - Linux, Mac, Windows, Chromebook.
• (2021-06-29) David Mowery: Magnificent program, for people who just want to listen to FM radio rather than wade hip deep through SDR technical details. But then Chrome said I had to uninstall & reinstall it. I did so, and Radio Receiver started failing. It plays well for 15-25 minutes, then stops, and an evanescent bubble pops up that says the program has crashed. Google Chrome Status (self reported): Google Chrome is up to date Version 91.0.4472.124 (Official Build) (32-bit)
• (2021-04-12) Satstar: KISS. i would love the exact same app for android. Just amazing.
• (2021-03-31) Colin Plante: Great little app, but I have one question. I have 2 rtl-sdr's installed on my PC how can I select the second rtl? Ex: Launching program locks onto RTL2832U(0) and I would like to to lock onto RTL2832U(1). I clicked on the support link to email the dev but it took me to a google group page with error. I have been looking in the .js files but haven't found what I am looking for yet. Any advice would be great.
• (2020-09-15) Pascal Vriens: thanks for this app!
• (2020-07-19) Sam: Works Great
• (2020-03-23) K7MAP: 5 Stars for ease of use! This app rocks, for what it is. I was thinking that it was just a cute FM Radio Station RTL-SDR app. Nope, it does NBFM on the scanner frequencies too! Even AM Aircraft. So simple. So FREE. I had to read the comments section to figure out how to change to the other bands/modes however. Tuning display is in Hertz only. 162400000 OK, fine.
• (2020-01-13) John Zouck: Works well with my NooElec R820T2SDR NESDR Mini2+. Need good antenna to get more stations than the 4 I get with the included whip.
• (2019-12-26) Ted Tang: Great build of an SDR for Chromebook
• (2019-11-17) Bradley Cook: RTL-SDR dongle v3 doesn't appear to get AM. Maybe I need to know what number to type for the up converter? Or a Q-sample switch? FM and Weather works.
• (2019-09-02) Jim Purcell: Thanks! Works fantastic.
• (2019-08-10) Michael Puckett: I'm not having any luck getting this to work on my Raspberry Pi. The app appears to install fine and is just what I was looking for for my car computer setup as it's a simple GUI with nice large buttons I can use with a touchscreen, but when clicking "Power On" I'm not getting any audio. I know my dongle is working (it's an RTL-SDR v3) as I have other apps that use it and will stream radio fine. I get no errors running the app but I also can't close it. Clicking the X does nothing. Any ideas what might be going on? Running this on Raspbian Stretch at the moment on a Pi 3B+.
• (2019-07-07) Chrissy Freitas (Crispy Fritos): I remember about a year ago, this extension worked pretty well on Chrome and even allowed use of the RTL-SDR on Chromebooks. Now, it seems like the app is broken as no audio in coming thru while the dongle is connected via USB port. Even closing out of the app does not work as it should and you have to right click on the icon in the tray especially in Chrome OS. I would love there to be a fix but given that the extension hasn't been updated in three years, I guess I will wait out for Google to open more Android apps and USB usage and download SDRTouch.
• (2019-04-08) Ryan Toomey: This software used to work but not anymore. I can tune around to different stations but there is no sound when I power on even with the volume at 100. The scan buttons do not work either, nothing happens when they are clicked, it just stays on the same frequency. It DID work the last time I used it about 1 year ago. It seems like this program was updated and no longer supports the RTL2832U anymore. In the settings there is no way to troubleshoot or select the device. This same RTL2832U USB works perfectly fine in SDR Sharp, just not this program. So nothing is wrong with my setup.
• (2018-12-10) SIVARAMAPRASAD KAPPAGANTU: I give only 2 stars as it is working (for me) only for FM stations. FM stations are being received wonderfully.I have the RTL SDR with Up-Converter but, I am unable to receive AM stations. Can anybody who is receiving AM stations give details of configuration to be done. A step by step configuration will help a log. Thanks in advance.
• (2018-11-17) alan wesson: Inherited this LG Chrome-based PC, immediately loaded this little app & it seems to work simply + well.
• (2018-06-26) Brian Bailey: Could be so much better. All I get is local FM, I can't get anything outside of 88-108 Mhz. Would be great if it had the ability to scan an a lower and upper band scan like say 138 Mhz to 144 Mhz like scanners do.
• (2018-06-08) sri ram: Nice App...how do i tune into 50-54 mhz and HF bands..can anyone help
• (2018-05-03) Radovan Bro (Radovan787): This is great for testing RTL_SDR Radios and is perfect for when you want to listen to FM Radio. For me I would perfer using this to listen to FM radio because of the improved sound quality compared to using an application with a waterfall. This is perfect for FM radio. Thank you for making this application.
• (2017-09-20) ΜΙΧΑΛΗΣ ΔΡΑΚΑΚΗΣ: i cant delete it.probably i will delete chrome also!!!!!
• (2017-06-23) gaspo1sky: simple, works. dont change anything. if you do, make a fork and keep this one as is perfect for testing dongles.
• (2017-06-19) YASUMASA HENRRY: Good receiver and nice waves.
• (2017-06-14) Nigel Gunn W8IFF: Great little app. Now need one to decode P25 and DMR.
• (2017-05-29) Zack Braasch: Simple just like a radio receiver should be! Can you add dynamic full screen support? Would make it easier to tap the UI buttons on a touch device.
• (2017-04-26) Arutha RBXL (AruthaRBXL): Amazing! Runs smoothly. I got no complaints about this at all. Not bad for a chrome extension!
• (2017-04-08) Juan J. Manfredi, Sr.: It works really well on Mac OS Sierra. Amazing App!
• (2017-04-07) paul Czarnecki: error"THERE IS A PROBLEM: USB TUNER DEVICE NO FOUND. THE RADIO RECEIVER APP NEEDS AN RTL2832U-BASED DVB-T DONGLE WITH R820T TUNER CHIP TO WORK
• (2017-02-27) Curtis Russell: They took off the weather radio bands!
• (2017-01-25) Patrick Murphy: free band did not work for me.
• (2017-01-08) David Chamberlain: Works well, easy to use.. A waterfall display would make it perfect!
• (2017-01-03) Addison Guynn: Sometimes a bit difficult to get working depending on the dongle. Otherwise it works well. A waterfall display would add a great amount of versatility to it.
• (2016-12-20) David Crunk: love it! no config, setup required.
• (2016-11-26) Dannoone 1: It does what it does in a very functional way. It works.
• (2016-09-04) Kelvin Barnes: I am using this on my Ubuntu laptop. It works flawlessly.
• (2016-07-14) Kevin Crowston: Works great for getting basic FM radio on my laptop for trips, tho i'd love RDS support ;). Edit: Audio stutter on Acer ChromeBook 11 (cb3-111)
• (2016-06-26) Really good app. Only bug is the WX stations don't match up to the frequencies they should be (162.550 Mhz is supposed to be WX1 but is WX7 in the app, and that throws off the rest of the WX frequencies too). Fix that and its a 5 star app.
• (2016-06-25) Kaden Silveira: Works Well, Cannot complain.
• (2016-06-25) Great work Jacobo! Thanks so much! It deserves 5 stars if for no other reason than - can you find another? Rock on!
• (2016-05-30) Excellent as it works on my Chromebook !! would get 5 stars + if I could scan my airband and marine band frequencies I have saved. Please Mr Developer !!!
• (2016-05-30) balaji HN: Worked very smoothly. Great app, first not worked with stock driver then install driver with Zadig (Bulk in interface)
• (2016-04-30) d b: my dongle not supported ;(
• (2016-04-16) It's okay for local listening on AM and it's really good on FM, but not sensitive enough for shortwave. I compared it to my Windows apps and the signals using other SDR sftware won hands down. It doesn't bring the carrier through the static very well. Dxing is out of the question. One idea: A plain signal meter would help. I'm currently using longwire antenna w/balun and upconverter. Offset upconverter to 100000000 and worked for shortwave broadcast, CW, USB/LSB.
• (2016-04-12) Andrey Skladchikov: Usb device working with Chrome APP perfectly... I also have built rtl_sdr, SDR# on my mac, installed Gqrx while this simple tool just working immidiately
• (2016-03-14) Rob Ryan: Great app! Please add features to take more advantage of these SDR dongles.