The Pandora app keeps it simple. Pandora is a free service that relies on ads to make money. You'll hear and see ads quite frequently, almost one between every song. (If it's not an ad you can hear, it's a pop-up ad that shows up on the screen.) With a free account, you also get the chance to skip six songs per hour per station and up to 24 total skips per day for all of your stations. Selecting the skip button, downvoting tracks and shelving music with the "I'm tired of this track" option are all considered "skips."For more freedom to skip songs and remove ads, you'll need to pay $4.99 per month for Pandora's paid service, One. Pandora One offers higher-quality streaming (up to 192 Kbps on the web only), offline listening and five hours of continuous music without pauses and unlimited skips per day. However, the six skips per hour per station limit still applies.

Where it excels, Where it falls flat, Best for: those who like radio stations that choose your music intelligently, flow well and give you plenty of control to tweak your music, Though Apple Music is its own a la carte streaming music service, it also offers a unique, free radio experience, Via iTunes or the Apple Music app, you can together iphone case tune into Beats 1 Radio, Apple Music has a live, worldwide radio station, Beats 1 Radio broadcasts live worldwide with highly-lauded DJs like Zane Lowe and exclusive programs hosted by popular musicians, like Drake's OVO Sound station, which regularly debuts new music from top hip-hop and R&B artists, Beats 1 radio is free for anyone to tune into, but you do need an iTunes ID to listen..

Similarly, you can listen to stations like CBS Radio News, ESPN Radio and Bloomberg Radio, for free as well -- if that's more your jam. Availability and selection depends on location. Apple Music offers traditional, on-demand internet radio stations that you can curate based on genre, artist, theme, etc., but these are part of the Apple Music subscription. If you don't have one, you can't listen to them. Where it excels. Where it falls flat. Best for: those who only want to listen to Beats 1 Radio. Or already have an Apple Music subscription.

If there's a local radio station you love (or miss listening to) TuneIn is the 21st-century way to, well, tune in to an actual radio station, You can browse and listen to 100,000-plus live radio stations from your local area or all over the world, TuneIn allows you to listen to your favorite local radio stations, Stations are grouped by location and genre, with the addition of select podcasts, Unlike Pandora and others on this list, TuneIn does not create on-demand stations, Everything you'll hear in the service is from a live station that is currently broadcasting somewhere in the world, You can't search for songs or artists to create stations, but you can search to see if any live stations on TuneIn are currently playing your favorite together iphone case music, and then tune into them..

TuneIn Pro, a totally separate app from TuneIn, requires a one-time $9.99 charge and it removes ads from the app itself (not from the radio broadcasts) and lets you record shows and music to listen to later. There's also TuneIn Premium, which is $7.99 a month. It includes NFL, NBA and MLB game broadcasts and audio books. Where it excels. Where it falls flat. Best for: anyone who wants to listen to live radio from all around the world. Slacker is more like a guide for music enthusiasts, built by enthusiasts, than purely an internet radio service. Much like Pandora, Slacker Radio lets you build or browse stations based on your favorite music. The difference here is that, with a paid subscription, you can play songs on demand and download them for offline listening.