1st Impressions

MyTtuner (as in “Mighty-Tuner”) is an interesting take on an Internet radio app. Instead of searching by genre or station ID, MyTuner shows you a list of all the song artists currently being played. By selecting the artist name, you are presented with a screen showing a selection of stations currently playing that artist. Obviously, the more current and popular the artist, the more choices you have. Once playing the selected station, you can add it to your favorites list or pull up a page of information about the song.

One nice feature of this $2.99 app is the ability to not only scroll through a list of playing artists, but create a list of favorite artists and/or song titles. When you launch the app, it shows you if any stations are playing each of those favorites.  This screen is also updated every time you update the current selections screen as well.

I do have some suggestions for the app. I would love to see counters next to the artist list showing station count like there is on the screen of searched for artists. The addition of current artist and song on the page of favorite stations would be nice as well. Finally, I would love to see some kind of filtering or color coding based on genre and/or favorite stations would really help when sorting through the long list of artists.

Overall, this app is unique enough to stand out. My concern is the price point though. With so many other free alternatives, I think that the $3 price tag is going to limit sales. That being said though, the app seems solid and I would recommend it to the fans of Internet radio.

UPDATE: I just saw that MyTtuner is now on sale for $0.99.  Makes trying it out that much easier!