- PriceFree
- CategoryUtilities
- Versions5 archived
- Installable4 of 5
- AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
- SellerNew & Popular
- Bundle IDcom.smartestapple.50radiofree
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Report an issueThe 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.
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Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 11 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 23, 2010 | — | — | 101 | Free |
| January 9, 2011 | 18.0 | — | 104,609 | Free |
| March 17, 2012 | — | — | 134,473 | Free |
| March 7, 2013 | — | — | 141,766 | Free |
| December 5, 2020 | — | ★ 4.6 | 263,162 | Free |
| November 28, 2021 | 49.0 | ★ 4.6 | 323,952 | Free |
| December 2, 2021 | 49.0 | ★ 4.6 | 324,441 | Free |
| November 29, 2023 | 55.0.0 | ★ 4.6 | 411,283 | Free |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25When listening to an important dispatch, constant commercial interruptions Pretty annoying. Otherwise,, works well
So good
I know it’s a free app and some apps are to be expected, but this is continuous and it makes it hard to listen to the scanner.
This is a pay app. There should NOT be ads popping up when you select a channel / group to listen to. I replied what is written above the last time that I was asked to “rate this app”. Nothing has changed. 10-25-21
I get that you need revenue to run, which is Ok. What is not Ok is terminating a stream to pop up spam in the middle of monitoring. I’m sure you can come up with a starting/channel change timeframe to generate the same income.
Just a lot of ads
I usually like how the scanner works but am not able to connect to my primary area as usual
Since the update on 11/15/24, I’ve experienced multiple app crashes. I finally got it up, but now I am being bombarded with ads. When I first downloaded the app I PAID for NO ADS, in order to clear the ads I have to completely close the app and in some cases I have delete the app and redownload it. PLEASE HELP.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.