- Price$4.99
- CategoryUtilities
- Versions11 archived
- Installable11 of 11
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerNew & Popular
- Bundle IDcom.smartestapple.50radiopro
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Report an issueFree police scanner app with no subscription or account required. 5-0 Radio is the #1 most downloaded police scanner app since 2009. Use our crime radar to be the first to know about hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, shootings, riots, looting, protests, earthquakes, bombings, terrorist, radiation, nuclear fallout, outbreaks, biological or chemical attacks, and crime waves happening near you.
Tap into over 50,000 live police, firefighter, emergency medical ambulance, emt, air traffic control (ATC), airport, plane, railroad, trains, ham radio, NOAA weather, news, talk, sports, and music stations.
* 5-0 Radio is a Police Scanner app designed for Pros * - Free to use without a subscription or any payment - Live Captions (read what they're saying) - Rewind a Feed and Share/Listen to Audio from the Past - Record Feeds and Share Recordings via Email, AirDrop, Text, etc. - More Feeds than Competing Apps - Sleep Timer (turns off when you're asleep) - Police Siren Noise Maker - Access and Use Cool New Player Backgrounds - Even more extra Airport/Railroad/NOAA weather/Radio/Scanner feeds - Get new feature updates + More
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Listen to real events happening live in other parts of the world or in your local town. Listen to radio chatter in the background while you run other apps. Listen to new music as you surf the web. Share the stations you are listening to with your friends. They do not need to buy this app to listen to the feeds that you share with them.
* Features * - "Past Recordings From This Feed" lets you access our archives and listen to past audio from the feed. - You can rewind time and go back to an earlier time frame in a feed, even if you weren't actively recording the audio. - “Feeds with Active Alerts” shows you feeds with interesting on-going activity happening right now along with a description of the alert and feed. - Listen to feeds in the background while you run other apps or write emails/text messages. - Chat with other listeners in real time. - International support, including USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Europe, Israel, and more. - Automatically attempts to reconnect the feed if you lose the connection. - Browse one of the largest collection of feeds you will ever find in the App Store. - Search through the feeds with any keywords (enter your city name to find local radio stations). - Browse through radio feeds by genre (Police, Railroad, Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, R & B, etc.) - Customizable Interface. Download new skins for free or create your skins. - Integrated map finds your location and the location of most scanner feeds. - List the Top 100 most-current-listeners feeds so that you wouldn't miss an important event - The catalog is instantly updated as soon as you start browsing it, with new feeds added every few hours. - Built-in Web Browser; so that you can browse the web while using this app. The built-in web browser is a powerful browser that can block ads. - Use the built-in web browser to browse the web for more feeds such as air traffic control feeds, weather, and railroad. - Search for air traffic control feeds by the airport code (i.e. LAX, JFK, HKG). - Share feeds to your friends by email. All they need is a computer or iPhone to listen to your feeds. - Listen to feeds on your own desktop computer or laptop. Just email a link to the feed to yourself and open it with a web browser. - You location not listed here? Add your own feeds. There are plenty of feeds on the internet. Now you can add them all to one app. - Your favorite feeds show up as soon as you start the app, and they can be sorted/edited by you.
Feed Requests For feed requests, go to https://SmartestApple.com for more information
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Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Bundle Size Over Time
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 10 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 7, 2010 | 6.0 | — | 181 | $1.99 |
| January 9, 2011 | 19.0 | — | 11,954 | $1.99 |
| January 6, 2012 | — | — | 17,377 | $1.99 |
| March 7, 2013 | — | — | 19,991 | $2.99 |
| August 31, 2013 | 28.1 | ★ 4.0 | 20,558 | $2.99 |
| December 2, 2020 | — | ★ 4.7 | 36,786 | $4.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 26Having this alleviate a having to worry about buying an expensive police and fire scanner to knowing what emergencies are taking place. Not everybody has money to go out and buy expensive equipment.
Glad this app is stiff free, love using it especially durring the summertime
I’ve used this app for years. The majority of the settings for the app are actually hidden behind using a scanner channel itself and it was just explained to me today. I’m not sure why they wouldn’t make it accessible from the front of the app or use a sprocket icon rather than a simple plus since a lot of the items are things like changing skins, managing subscriptions, etc. One thing to know too is that a lot of LE are using encrypted radios now and it’s making it a little less useful. That’s not the apps fault however and Fire and EMS channels work great in my area! Knocking a star off because the UI could be more intuitive. Otherwise it’s great.
As a veteran volunteer firefighter I like to keep informed about local events as well as national events. Great service.
Awesome
Way too many ads makes it not usable or worth it
I wish there was some way there were no ads as I paid for the 'pro' package as I thought there was no ads with the package.
Sucks cause what I paid for it I didn’t have ads but then later on they added ads just not what I paid for so basically it’s like using the free version with ads again
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.