Amazon / Health & Fitness / MIJNRADIO (FM NEDERLAND)
REVIEW
mijnRadio is a no-frills Dutch radio dial on the Fire tablet.
A free, single-country aggregator of Nederlandse FM stations from a developer that ships dozens of these. It does what it says and very little else.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
mijnRadio (FM Nederland)
EUROPEAPPS
OUR SCORE
6.5
AMAZON
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
There is a whole category of app whose entire job is to be a digital version of the radio that used to live on the kitchen counter. mijnRadio is one of them, scoped specifically to the Netherlands and specifically to Amazon’s Fire devices.
The pitch is in the name. “Mijn Radio” — my radio. A list of Dutch stations and a play button, and for a particular reader in Rotterdam or Eindhoven that is the entire job. It is not trying to recommend anything, sell anything, or replace anything. It is trying to play NPO Radio 1 when you tap NPO Radio 1.
That modesty is also the ceiling. The app is one of dozens of country-specific builds from the same developer, dropped into a Health & Fitness category that has nothing to do with audio, with no Fire TV layout and no Alexa hooks. As a free kitchen-tablet radio it earns its install. As anything more, it does not pretend to compete.
It is a list of Dutch stations and a play button, and for a particular reader in Rotterdam or Eindhoven that is the entire job.
FEATURES
mijnRadio is a Dutch-language radio aggregator for Amazon Fire devices. The catalogue is the FM dial of the Netherlands — NPO Radio 1, 2, 3FM, 4, 5, Sky Radio, Radio 538, Q-music, Veronica, SLAM!, BNR, and a long tail of regional and online-only stations. Each entry streams the public Icecast or Shoutcast feed the broadcaster already publishes; mijnRadio is the wrapper around them.
The interface is a scrollable list of station logos. Tap a tile, audio begins. There is a favourites tab, a basic search, and a small now-playing bar that shows the current station name. No track metadata. No alarms or sleep timer. No Chromecast or Alexa Cast handoff — playback stays on the Fire device. It is free, and the developer's listing says nothing about in-app purchases or premium tiers.
Developer EuropeApps publishes a near-identical app for almost every European country on the Amazon Appstore. The template is the same; only the station list changes.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The station list is current and the streams resolve quickly on a Fire HD over Wi-Fi. For an expat in another country, a Dutch speaker on holiday with a Fire tablet, or anyone whose kitchen radio happens to be a Show 8, it is a genuinely useful one-tap dial — and the price is zero.
Sticking to a single country also keeps the UI uncluttered. There is no "discover" carousel or recommendation engine to fight with. You open it, you tap NPO Radio 1, you go back to cooking.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The category listing as Health & Fitness is the first clue this is a template build — it has nothing to do with the app and reads as a metadata mistake the developer never bothered to correct. The interface is the same flat tile grid EuropeApps ships for every country, with no Fire-specific layout for the 10-inch tablet and no remote-friendly focus states for use on a Fire TV. There is no sleep timer, no recording, no podcast catch-up, no track or programme metadata, no integration with Alexa for voice control of stations. Stream reliability depends entirely on the broadcaster's feed — when a station's Icecast endpoint changes, the tile simply stops working until the developer pushes an update.
TuneIn covers the same dial and adds podcasts, smart-speaker handoff, and a working Fire TV interface. The local broadcaster apps (NPO Luister, Talpa Radio) carry their own stations with on-demand content. mijnRadio sits between them, doing less than either.
CONCLUSION
Install this if you want a free, single-purpose Dutch FM tile grid on your Fire tablet and nothing more. Skip it on Fire TV — the layout was not designed for a remote. The right comparison is not Sonos or Spotify; it is the cheap kitchen radio it is trying to replace. On those terms it is fine.