CitizenBand Radio
Olivier Bertaud Social Networking iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
CitizenBand Radio is a free Social Networking app for iPhone and iPad by Olivier Bertaud. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 21, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 13 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Oct 21
- 2026 · v1.1.3
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About CitizenBand Radio
CitizenBand is the truckers' CB radio, on your phone. Pick a channel, press TALK, and everyone around you hears — like a real radio. ONE CHANNEL, ONE RADIUS • Channel 19, the road channel: traffic jams, police, road closures, gravel. • 40 public channels, 5 to 100 km around you. • A private channel for your convoy, your motorbike ride, your rally: create it, send the link, and whoever opens it hears you, wherever they are. A REAL RADIO • Listening, silent or off: three modes, one indicator. • It hears even with the screen locked, and while you use your GPS. • In the car on the CarPlay screen, on your wrist with Apple Watch, or with a Bluetooth talk button — without touching the phone. • An end-of-message beep, so you know the channel is free without looking. • Radio check: the server plays your message back, "loud and clear", even when nobody is around. NOTHING GETS LOST • Missed a message? During a call, in silent mode, out of coverage: it waits for you in Messages, for 24 hours. • Every message is transcribed; anything said in another language translates with one tap. • Keywords that alert you: "accident", "traffic jam", your crew's name… • Out of coverage, what you say is sent when the network comes back. • Just arrived somewhere? Tap the channel number: what was said there in the last hour, ready to replay. NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACE • No sign-up, no phone number. • Report an offensive message with a long press; stop hearing a radio that bothers you. • A rough position (an area a few kilometres wide), never your route — except on an event that tracks its participants, if you agree, and for its organisers only. • Messages stay 24 hours on the server, encrypted, then vanish. 26 languages: those of the European Union, plus Norwegian and Ukrainian. Channel 9 is reserved for emergencies by tradition; no emergency service is listening. In an accident, call 112.
What’s new
Version 1.1.3 · Updated October 21, 2026
• Backup server: if the main server stops answering, the radio switches to the backup server and keeps listening; an orange “Backup server” light says so, and it returns to the main server by itself. • Radio on standby: when iOS refuses the push-to-talk channel in the background, the app warns you with a “Radio on standby” notification and shows who is talking instead of going silent.
App privacy
The developer, Olivier Bertaud, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Precise Location, Coarse Location
- User Content: Audio Data, Other User Content
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Diagnostics: Performance Data
Used for: App Functionality
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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