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REVIEW
App Radio PRO is a quiet utility for the TV nobody listens through.
A no-frills internet radio aggregator on Samsung's Tizen store, aimed at the small audience that uses a 65-inch panel as a kitchen speaker.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
App Radio PRO
VIRTUES TECHNOLOGY
OUR SCORE
6.2
SAMSUNG TV
★ —
PRICE
Free
Smart-TV radio apps live in a strange corner of the catalogue — useful to a few, invisible to most, and almost never the reason anyone bought the TV. App Radio PRO arrived on Samsung’s Tizen store in April 2026 with the modest goal of being one of those apps. There is no marketing push, no developer blog, no press coverage to point at. There is only the listing, the icon, and the install button.
That is not, on its own, a problem. The TV-radio genre has always been quiet. People who use it tend to be specific — the kitchen-TV listener, the workshop-TV listener, the household where the largest screen doubles as the loudest speaker. For them, the question is not “is this app exciting” but “does it find my stations, and does it keep playing.” Those are answers a store page cannot give.
What can be said is that the app exists, is free, and is recent enough to still be maintained. In a niche where a major incumbent like TuneIn has drifted off newer Samsung models entirely, a working alternative on Tizen has value just by showing up. Whether App Radio PRO becomes the one people remember depends on the boring details — catalogue size, D-pad responsiveness, sleep-timer behaviour — that only emerge after actually using it.
Smart-TV radio apps live in a strange corner of the catalogue — useful to a few, invisible to most, and almost never the reason anyone bought the TV.
FEATURES
App Radio PRO is an internet radio aggregator published to the Samsung Tizen store in April 2026. It sits in the broad category of TV-based radio clients — the same niche occupied historically by myTuner Radio, TuneIn, and a long tail of regional alternatives. The premise is simple: turn the TV into a station tuner without forcing the household to power up a phone or a separate speaker.
Public details about the app's specific station catalogue, regional coverage, and remote-control mapping are thin — the Samsung store page is the primary source and there is no developer-run website surfacing release notes or feature lists. What is verifiable is the listing itself: free, no rating data (Tizen rarely populates one), recent release date, and a single 512px icon as the only visual asset Samsung's catalogue carries.
The genre is well understood even when a specific entry isn't. A TV radio app is judged on three things — how many stations it actually finds, how the D-pad navigation handles a long list, and whether playback survives a backgrounded app or a sleep timer. Those are the questions a buyer should bring to the install, because the store page won't answer them.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Existing on Tizen at all is a small win. Samsung's TV app catalogue is uneven — major aggregators like TuneIn have come and gone from newer models, and the gap leaves room for smaller utilities that target Samsung specifically. A free install with no signup wall is the right shape for this category.
The other genuine point in its favour is the use case. A radio app on a smart TV is not glamorous, but for kitchens, workshops, and homes where the TV is the loudest speaker in the room, it solves a real problem with one remote.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The lack of public information is itself the biggest caveat. With no developer site, no press coverage, and no visible review base, an installer is taking the app on faith — which is not a deal-breaker for a free utility, but it does mean expectations should stay calibrated. Catalogue depth, station metadata accuracy, and stream reliability all need to be confirmed in person rather than inferred.
The wider issue is platform fit. Tizen's app sandbox is not friendly to long-running audio — Samsung TVs aggressively reclaim resources from background apps, which is the opposite of what a radio listener wants. Any app in this genre lives or dies on how cleanly it handles the TV going to sleep, the screen dimming, or the user switching to a live input and back.
CONCLUSION
App Radio PRO is the kind of app you install because you specifically want internet radio on a Samsung TV — not because a review told you to. For that small audience it is worth a free download and ten minutes of testing. For everyone else, the more established options (or simply casting from a phone) remain the path of least resistance. Worth knowing it exists; not worth switching ecosystems for.