5-0 Radio Police Scanner

Name: 5-0 Radio Police Scanner
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5-0 Radio Police Scanner

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User Reviews for 5-0 Radio Police Scanner

Garbage

I downloaded this app years and years ago. It used to be great...fast, responsive, reliable, and minimal ads. Now? The app is absolute garbage. Every single time you open a feed, a totally irrelevant, loud, useless ad takes up the whole screen. Often, you can’t find the exit button to close the ad, and frequently this causes you to miss important audio. Want to switch feeds? More ads! Listening to an event or a feed for an extended period of time? Watch and wait as it silently pauses the feed every 8 minutes and 52 seconds on the dot. I, along with many other first responders, use this app to get vital radio traffic, and it just isn’t reliable enough for that anymore. This ad merely pulls audio feeds from Broadcastify, if you’re going to pay for a premium source, why pay this developer who has sold out when you could just pay the source? This app asked me to write a review for years, so here it finally is. 0 out of 5 stars, get something else.

ammonoosuc, Nov 14, 2019

Waaaaaaaaaaaaay more ads than previous versions!

Been using this app for years & the most recent version will play an ad in the middle of dispatch or officer response. Disappointed but great way to get people to spend the $5 to go ad-free I suppose. Either that or test other scanners apps to see if there is a better value for $5. Maybe just make it so the ads don’t interrupt the use of the app, say perhaps only play ads when changing stations? Just disappointing after using the app all these years. Seems to be an trend in many apps increasing ad frequency in free versions; especially ones only used occasionally such as this, which I use when hearing sirens or when others in my city text saying “turn your scanner on!” Any other scanner recommendations with less ads in the free version or more features in the paid version? Thank you fellow Law Enforcement scanning enthusiasts!

App User - Ad Hater, Mar 02, 2022

One of the best apps in the store

I've used this app for several years and gladly paid for the upgrade. I'm in public safety, and this app is my backup to my portable and pager. Here are a few notes on getting the most out of the app... The audio is a data stream (like listening to an Internet radio station). Therefore, it uses both battery/adapter power. Unless you have either unlimited data or a wifi connection, you might go over your limit. Also, it's a good idea to use a power adapter and not batteries. The audio typically comes from local scanners connected to the Internet. Therefore the quality may vary. Also, there may be a lag from the time a station transmits, until you actually hear it. All in all, it's a great app and highly recommended.

Arcanum1, Dec 05, 2015

Been disappointed.....still

There’s no sense in complaining it never really improves a great deal. Various problems sometimes it sounds like you’re in a tunnel sometimes it sounds like a bubble machine sometimes you can barely understand anybody. Maybe you should try listening to it from our end from an iPad or a phone. It is not a pleasant experience.Comment: January 2, 2022, I understand about the transition from analog to digital. But it’s worth us having this program available when most of the time we’re here mostly static or unclear transmissions. Very disappointing over these last several years. Most of us are not in a position to afford a digital scanner.

Bingo beach, Jan 02, 2022

Doesn’t work like it used to

This app has gone to crap. It used to work fine. You’d open the app and choose the scanner you want and watch a quick ad and then move onto the scanner you’ve chosen. It would play the radio traffic you’ve chosen. Now you do all the same, but you have to watch multiple ads and if you are lucky the scanner will work. It usually doesn’t. You usually have to fiddle with it and you are forced to watch a couple ads, then fiddle with it more, then watch more ads, then fiddle with it more, then watch more ads. Then after a few times of doing that, if you are lucky, the scanner works. But by then, you’ve been screwing around so long, you’ve missed the info that was broadcast that you were tuning in to hear. So it’s pointless. Way to screw up a good app. This app is almost useless now. I’d recommend people find a better app. I hope I find a better one.

CaptainTugBoat, Nov 09, 2021

The best scanner app I have found.

I have used this scanner app for years now. A few times I tried out other apps that did not come close to this one. I check out what is happening locally most of the time. I hear sirens in the town I live in, turn on the scanner app and quickly I am able to hear what is happening. It also has a list of what the codes stand for that I really appreciate. To be honest sometimes I listen to the scanner and I hear of car accidents and emergencies and get my mind wondering if it involves someone I know. I feel I need to contact my kids to make sure they are safe. They are adults. When that happens it is time to stop listening because I am getting a little too overboard. I also enjoy listening to the scanner in large cities. It is quite entertaining to me. There are only a few adds that really are not a bother. Years of using this app has not cost anything. It is one of the best apps I have on my phone. My only complaint is the channel for the county I live in at times has a lot of talking from a different county in my state and is a bit confusing and sometimes annoying. But I don’t know if that has anything to do with this app. It probably does not but I am not knowledgeable about how it works. I thank the administrators of this app for the free service I use quite frequently. Great job!

CC&JM, Oct 22, 2021

Love This App

I've been using this app for years. Ever since my iPod gen 2 was new. It has the ability to access emergency services radio from all over the world. But for me, I primarily use it to find out what's going on in my home town. When the fire whistle goes off it's nice to be able to listen in and find out what's going on and where. It can help to alleviate some anxiety for people like me, who can be a bit paranoid about their loved ones safety. It's pretty impressive, it even has my small towns emergency services radio on there and it's just a small town with a population of around 2000. There's no draw back to having this app. It doesn't take up much storage space on your data drive and even the free versions adverts are barely noticeable. Check it out, there's no reason not to really.

Cerealkeller, May 19, 2018

Great app

One thing to understand with this app is that there is a delay and transmission. I use it to listen to the Fire Station my son is a Explorer at and he often text me concerning calls he is on when I’ve not even heard the call on the scanner. My best guess is that it is roughly a 13 to 15 minute delay but as long as you understand that it’s fantastic. I would have to pay roughly $400 for a high quality scanner to get real time dispatches and I would have to remain in the transmission coverage area to hear the call. This app allows me to hear the calls from anywhere I have a connection to cellular or the web. Well worth the upgrade to pro to get rid of the ads and I think the Pro version stays in the background better then the free app does.

Fcpli, Dec 24, 2017

Ads won’t close

I have had this app for years and always liked it. I haven’t used it in a while until today.It didn’t save my favorites from before so I went to browse to add then again.I could add one or two and then an ad would pop up which is expected in the free edition. But as I was going back and forth adding favorites, each ad would run a little longer every time I went back to browse. They were running for up to 5 minutes before allowing me to close them. Then the next time I went to browse some Super Cleaner ad popped up and it would not close at all. I waited for more than 10 minutes. I closed 5 0 Radio and opened it a minute later and the same ad was still there and there was no way to go back to 5 0 Radio. At hey point I came here to write this review. It’s obvious the developer is trying to force users to buy the paid version by these tactics. I tried the app on my other phone and it the ads started getting longer and longer. I’m going to file a complaint with Apple and see if that helps.I’ve never seen ads in any other app that made u wait more than 30 seconds before allowing you to go back to the app.

Mistertokr, Sep 12, 2023

Everyone should have this

I am so thankful for this app. It has helped me to become more aware of the calls our local police and other emergency services take. A lot more happens than the news reports and there is a lot of good work those folks do. I live in a smaller city and our police were called to 3 different situations at practically the same time: one was domestic abuse, another a peeping Tom and another reported suicidal person. The team worked together and took them all seriously and being the first responders. This was all at 3 am. And this was in the midst of many riots in other cities and many people telling the news that police are not doing there job. Seriously? Those people need this app and to listen to it throughout the wee hours of the morning to appreciate these folks.

Nettskiicat, Apr 30, 2023

Description

The largest collection of live police, firefighter, aircraft, railroad, emergency, news, and ham radios. Be the first to know about weather, news, and crime updates. Thanks to our fans for making 5-0 Radio the #1 most downloaded police scanner app on the market.

This app is one of top 100 most downloaded iOS apps since 2009. Features ====== - New “Feeds with Active Alerts” feature that shows you feeds with interesting on-going activity and breaking news happening right now along with a description of the alert, breaking info, location, and feed. - Listen to feeds in the background. You can run other apps while listening to the police. Pause the feeds via the media controls on your device. - Automatically attempts to reconnect the feed if you lose the connection. - Listen to feeds on your desktop/laptop computer. Email yourself a link to the feed, and open that link on your browser or with your favorite mp3 player. - Ability to add custom feeds - Chat with other users - The web browser also automatically detects feeds and integrates it with the radio. Now you can add feeds from the web by simply tapping on the feed's link via our browser. - Share feeds with your friends by email. They do not need to buy this app to listen with you. They can listen in with any device that has a web browser. - Worldwide coverage. Listen to feeds from the United States, Canada, Australia and more. Our app is always expanding and looking for new police radios to tap into. - List scanners by county. Don't just list all feeds in a state, get only the ones that are from your city/county. - Integrated map that finds your location and the location of the feed. Now you can find where the action is happening and follow along. - Built-in police/EMS/fire/military codes and phonetic alphabet for easy interpretation. Good for any beginners who do not have the proper training and have trouble remembering what the codes mean. - Save your favorites to the front screen of the app for quick one-tap access. - This app will dynamically grab a new list of sources so that you will always be the first to get any new police feeds out there. - See the popularity of each feed. Each feed lists the number of listeners who are following the action along with you. - Choose new skins or make your own. Skins can be any photo you choose from your photos library. - New police feeds and others are added on an hourly basis, so keep checking if we added yours recently. Upgrade to 5-0 Radio Pro to remove ads, add even more feeds, and new features. Legality ====== It is legal in most countries to listen to police feeds. However, it is illegal in some places to use this app to aid in the commission of a crime or to pose as a police officer when you are not. It may also be illegal to use it while driving. Please consult your local laws before using this app outside of your home. Is it fake? ======= It's very real. Each feed comes from a person in that region with an expensive police scanner sharing the signal with you via the internet. Real-time ======= The delay between the real radio feed and this app is only a few seconds depending on buffering and internet speeds. Recommendations ============== Check out our website SmartestApple.com for other great apps from us Privacy Policy: https://smartestapple.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/