Radio Garden Alternative: Black Duck Media Library

Radio Garden main screen — **Radio Garden** suits you if its main feature matches what you listen to.

Black Duck Media Library is better if you want radio together with podcasts, books, and TV.

Radio Garden is built around a spinning globe: you pick a city and listen to stations from around the world. Its listing describes favorites synced with iCloud, background playback, and a sleep timer in Premium.

If you are looking for a replacement for Radio Garden, Black Duck Media Library is one option to consider. It plays radio from a world map and keeps it next to podcasts, books, and TV in one library.

Where Black Duck Media Library is stronger

What to listen to: 60,000+ internet radio stations, podcasts, audiobooks, and live TV.
How to search: two interactive maps, by country and by city; search by genre and station name.
Your collection: favorites, custom stream links, and optional iCloud backup and sync.
Player: background playback and a sleep timer.
Extras: media downloads and podcast auto-download.
Standout: 10,000+ TV channels, podcasts, book tracking, and more.

Where Radio Garden is stronger

Finding stations by spinning an interactive globe and choosing a city.
Favorites synced with iCloud.
AirPlay, listed among the extras.

Price

Radio Garden: Free with ads. Premium at $2.99 and $24.99 (billing periods are not labeled in the listing).
Black Duck Media Library: free with ads. Ad-Free: $7.99 (US App Store).

You enjoy finding radio by exploring places on a globe. Black Duck Media Library is the better choice if you also want podcasts, books, and TV in the same app.

Black Duck Media Library city map of radio stations

Black Duck Media Library player with a live radio station

Radio Garden lists its own website alongside the App Store page. For the full comparison of radio apps, see iPhone Radio Apps Compared.

Disclosure: this page is published by the developer of Black Duck Media Library. Listing-based criteria are the same for every app, and prices are from the US App Store as checked on October 27, 2026.