ORBITAPE
TERMS OF USE · LAST UPDATED 6 OCTOBER 2026
ORBITAPE is free, has no accounts and no ads. These terms say what it promises, what it does not, and who is responsible for the sound coming out of your speaker.
Using the app means you accept them. They are short on purpose.
ORBITAPE is a sound player. It does two separate things and the difference matters:
The app is provided as it is. There is no uptime promise, no promise that a particular station will be there tomorrow, and no promise that a recording will keep playing. Stations go offline, change addresses and close down; when that happens ORBITAPE moves on to the next one.
Nothing here is a warranty, and liability is limited to what the law does not allow to be excluded.
Each station is responsible for what it broadcasts.
ORBITAPE does not produce, select, edit or moderate the audio inside a live stream. A station may play anything at any moment and no one can know in advance what that will be. If something you hear on a station concerns you, the station is the right address — and if you tell me, I will remove it from the list.
ORBITAPE shows no ads and earns nothing from any.
A live station decides what goes into its own stream, so the promise above is about the app, and the list is kept as close to it as can be checked: stations that mark advertising breaks in their stream information are taken out of the list, and the whole list is checked again every month. That check can only see a break the station itself announces. A station that carries advertising without marking it may still be heard — if you hear one, tell me and it comes out.
The record button captures your screen together with the sound. It runs entirely on your device; nothing is uploaded and I never see it.
Live radio is never recorded.
If a live station starts while a recording is running, the recording stops and the reason appears on screen. What was already captured is kept — only the live part is refused. This is a rule inside the app, not a setting you can turn off.
What you do with a recording afterwards is up to you and subject to the licence of whatever it contains. Archive recordings carry a Creative Commons licence, shown on screen; most of them require you to name the artist and the licence if you share it.
Do not use ORBITAPE to redistribute the streams it opens, to strip attribution from recordings, or to build a service on top of it that does either. Do not try to overload the sources it depends on.
Write to hello@orbitape.app and it comes out of the list. You do not need to explain yourself or prove anything first — removal happens on request, and any question can be sorted out afterwards.
For users in Turkey, the following is the notice required under Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK).
| Item | Answer |
|---|---|
| Data controller | The person who runs ORBITAPE, reachable at hello@orbitape.app |
| Personal data processed | None. No account, no profile, no identifier, no analytics. Favourites, your settings and the camera level stay in your own browser and are never sent anywhere. The last station you played is not kept at all. |
| Camera | Asked for only when you switch the camera on, and only for the small picture inside the disc. It never leaves your device. The microphone is never requested — the app asks the browser for video only, and the site's own permissions policy blocks microphone access outright. |
| Purpose | Serving the page and protecting it from abuse. Nothing else. |
| Legal ground | Legitimate interest under art. 5/2(f), limited to the server logs described below. |
| Transfer abroad | The site is served by Cloudflare and the audio comes from the stations and archives listed in the privacy policy. Your request necessarily reaches them, as it would with any website. |
| Retention | I keep nothing. Cloudflare keeps standard request logs under its own policy. |
Under art. 11 you may ask whether data about you is processed, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, and object. Since ORBITAPE holds nothing, the honest answer to most of these will be that there is nothing to show — but write and you will get that answer in writing.
If these terms change, the date at the top changes with them. There is no mailing list to notify, so the date is the honest signal.
hello@orbitape.app
Takedown requests, questions, anything. Written by a person, answered by a person.