Transistor Radio · by Leovaa
Verified · September 2026
Every privacy claim.
Proven.
We audited our own code, permissions, and Apple Privacy Manifest — then published the findings. Here is exactly what Transistor Radio does, and does not do.
What we promise
Six commitments. Six clean results.
No ads, ever
Zero ad networks
No identifiers collected
Nothing to identify you
No third-party SDKs
Zero external code
No analytics or telemetry
Nothing phoned home
No permissions requested
No location. No mic. No camera.
No account required
Download and listen
The audit
How we verified each claim.
Third-party code
✓ NONE
Every feature — station search, audio playback, favorites — is built on Apple's native iOS frameworks. No external libraries, no wrapper SDKs, no dependencies pulled from third-party sources.
Every feature — station search, audio playback, favorites — is built on Apple's native iOS frameworks. No external libraries, no wrapper SDKs, no dependencies pulled from third-party sources.
Trackers
✓ NONE
A full source scan was run for every major tracker in the industry — analytics, crash reporting, advertising, attribution, and identity-resolution frameworks. Zero matches.
A full source scan was run for every major tracker in the industry — analytics, crash reporting, advertising, attribution, and identity-resolution frameworks. Zero matches.
Permissions
✓ NONE
The app requests no permissions from iOS. No location, no microphone, no camera, no contacts, no photos, no health data. It runs with the minimum system access iOS allows.
The app requests no permissions from iOS. No location, no microphone, no camera, no contacts, no photos, no health data. It runs with the minimum system access iOS allows.
Network calls
✓ FUNCTIONAL ONLY
Three network destinations are contacted, all required for the app to work:
· A public, community-maintained directory of radio stations (for search)
· A read-only curated list of featured stations
· The individual broadcaster servers you request audio from
No ad exchanges. No analytics endpoints. No telemetry.
Three network destinations are contacted, all required for the app to work:
· A public, community-maintained directory of radio stations (for search)
· A read-only curated list of featured stations
· The individual broadcaster servers you request audio from
No ad exchanges. No analytics endpoints. No telemetry.
Apple Privacy Manifest
✓ CORRECT
Apple requires every iOS app to declare its data practices. Ours declares no tracking, no tracking domains, no collected data types, and only the minimum required API usage for on-device storage of your favorites.
Apple requires every iOS app to declare its data practices. Ours declares no tracking, no tracking domains, no collected data types, and only the minimum required API usage for on-device storage of your favorites.
Entitlements
✓ NONE
No special system capabilities are enabled. Nothing is accessed beyond what the base iOS app sandbox permits.
No special system capabilities are enabled. Nothing is accessed beyond what the base iOS app sandbox permits.
Don't trust us. Verify us.
Three ways to check these claims yourself.
01
Read the App Store Privacy Label
Apple publicly displays every app's data collection practices. Ours says "Data Not Collected" — because that is what our Privacy Manifest declares.
View on App Store02
Audit with Exodus Privacy
Exodus Privacy is an independent non-profit that scans mobile apps for embedded trackers. Run it against Transistor Radio yourself.
Run the scan03
Inspect the network traffic
Use a proxy tool like Proxyman or Charles to see exactly what the app sends. You will only see the functional endpoints listed above — nothing else.
Try ProxymanVerified privacy isn't a marketing claim.
It's a technical fact. Transistor Radio is live radio, done right — with nothing hidden underneath.
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