Used to be great…
I live in a pretty rural area, so there isn’t a ton to listen to, so I generally only pick this up when I hear sirens in my area. Because of that it is not worth a subscription to me. And with this last update, the inundation of lengthy, annoying advertisements in order to push your new subscription service is completely obnoxious. I will just delete the program. I don’t need to know that badly. I don’t mind paying for an app or a service if it’s worth it, but I’m not giving you three bucks a month to listen to two channels once in a blue moon. I don’t need to talk to the other 86 listeners in my area thanks.
Update : so I forgot to delete, heard a bunch of sirens, picked up the app. Nothing on the radio channel, and it took me 2 minutes of advertising to figure that out and that there isn’t another channel in my area to hear it.
I don’t mind an ad or two, but it’s horrible unless you have one channel you can log into and just stay on that. If you switch, swap, or close the app, be prepared to start over, and watch King Robert die again while some influencer I’ve never heard of tells us how awesome that stupid game is 500 times. Nope.
Update : so I forgot to delete, heard a bunch of sirens, picked up the app. Nothing on the radio channel, and it took me 2 minutes of advertising to figure that out and that there isn’t another channel in my area to hear it.
I don’t mind an ad or two, but it’s horrible unless you have one channel you can log into and just stay on that. If you switch, swap, or close the app, be prepared to start over, and watch King Robert die again while some influencer I’ve never heard of tells us how awesome that stupid game is 500 times. Nope.
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Lost all but fire for scanner. Very disappointed
Used to be able to listen here in Ontario Canada but your app must have been zapped it doesn’t work at all anymore.
Useless app
Wanted a 3 day trial but charged immediately. We decided to give it a try anyways. Our station worked for approximately 8 days and now silence. Says last scan was from 12 hours ago when clearly we hear sirens and know we are missing calls. Very disappointed especially when we didn’t get a free trial.
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Perfect app and underrated!
This app is great, does not let you down except for the ads, but other than that this app is absolutely amazing and fantastic!
So many ads!
I love the scanner app because I can choose the local stations and it’s very convenient. I especially like that you can tell which department is using the radios. I really can’t stand the ads! I know the point is to convince you to purchase the app but at the same time having advertisements that play on top of the scanner makes no sense and I don’t know about other people, but I often listen to the scanner while I’m driving. the downfall is that when the start and the go over, you can’t make it stop unless you start touching your phone which causes a safety issue. Just my personal opinion, but if they had the ads at least had at least muted them at least it wouldn’t eat or fear with the purpose of the app
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Is okay
It’s a good app. I’ve tried quite a few and come back to this one all the time BUT there are waaaaay too many ads. I turn it on when I hear sirens and by the time I work through all of the ads and connect to the local station the info about what is happening is done. I’d consider paying to avoid the apps but not $50 a year.
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Works good
I like it, you can hear legit conversations, TONS of ads but the station plays in the background so idc much, only concern is if they can hear you or if your mic is being tampered with but I believe it doesn’t
50 bucks later
50 to find out my area does not work. No thanks.
App doesn’t seem to work for me anymore
I enjoyed it before as I could turn it on when emergency vehicles were going by but now when I do that this past few months, it just freezes and I hear nothing
Awesome app
This app works totally exact as expected Local events happening at every level Enjoyable listening 😃👌
Not free anymore
This app was good but with to many advertisements now they want a monthly subscription . No thanks . Deleted
Great app, works for my curiosities.
When I hear the fire whistle go off in my town, I can turn on the app and usually catch what the call is about. Unfortunately my county selection no longer works so I have to use the one for Central PA which gives me a lot of areas I don’t want but I can usually hear my local report through it. Once I saw several fire trucks, from many companies, (in a different county) head to a huge plume of smoke we saw in the sky, which ended up being a barn fire. I could hear all communications among the fireman. Was very interesting. Just wish I could only get my county, which wouldn’t be an app problem.
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Crappy
App isn’t working.
GREAT APP
I am and have always been NOSY🫣😲 there are so many channels to listen to!
My only critique is the ads and the price
However i know ads are needed to fund the game and its content creators and I don’t mind that unless I’m getting an ad every two seconds then it kind of makes it hard to enjoy the app and as far as the money goes I don’t feel like it’s really that far off of how much it should cost I think if there was a lifetime option where I could pay 50 to 100 bucks and just listen for life I’ve seen that option on other apps before but altogether great job to the content creators and thank you for making this app. I’m currently sick right now and I’ve been in bed for three months so listening in to the radio and the fire department really helps especially because my father is a detective I really mean it.
My only critique is the ads and the price
However i know ads are needed to fund the game and its content creators and I don’t mind that unless I’m getting an ad every two seconds then it kind of makes it hard to enjoy the app and as far as the money goes I don’t feel like it’s really that far off of how much it should cost I think if there was a lifetime option where I could pay 50 to 100 bucks and just listen for life I’ve seen that option on other apps before but altogether great job to the content creators and thank you for making this app. I’m currently sick right now and I’ve been in bed for three months so listening in to the radio and the fire department really helps especially because my father is a detective I really mean it.
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Ads are out of control
I completely understand that there are going to be ads in any free version of an app, but this scanner has the longest ads, that interfere with the use of the app in the first place. I often open this app because there’s sirens nearby, and I want to see what is going on, but the fact that the ads pop up almost immediately, after opening the app, and then run anywhere from one to three minutes, by the time the ad finally closes, whatever radio chatter was going on you have now missed. I know the ads are necessary for the free version, but definitely think that you should be able to have the app open for a couple of minutes prior to your first ad popping up, and they should be quick 10 to 15 second ads, not 60+ seconds long.
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Love it but disappointment in issue
Have used this app for years and absolutely appreciated what you did for the app being quite an active developer. I also enjoyed your Reddit comments as they were often informative and your pic would give me some familiarity.
Anyhow - Somehow downloaded a Pro version I didn’t even know existed and thought you had just began charging for this app which was fair enough and clicked along for some trial or something but then was debited $50 something when had only about $60 to my name. Have tried to report an issue to Apple to have it refunded but it wasn’t accepted… I’m usually quite vigilant about charges and in app charges so I’m pretty disappointed in however this happened plz make it less easy to happen for others in future.
Thanks mate.
Anyhow - Somehow downloaded a Pro version I didn’t even know existed and thought you had just began charging for this app which was fair enough and clicked along for some trial or something but then was debited $50 something when had only about $60 to my name. Have tried to report an issue to Apple to have it refunded but it wasn’t accepted… I’m usually quite vigilant about charges and in app charges so I’m pretty disappointed in however this happened plz make it less easy to happen for others in future.
Thanks mate.
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Had this app for years
When this app first come out years ago it was fantastic. I listened to it all the time but, as with anything over the years, it has become less! By less I mean there is no police on it anymore and a lot of the other channels have gone to. I refuse to pay for it, so I have to watch ads which doesn’t bother me unless it drops out the link I’m listening to, which happens to often.
I would of given this app a 5 star but with all the changes it’s not worth a 5.
I would of given this app a 5 star but with all the changes it’s not worth a 5.
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👎
Too many ads and they actually cut out and turn off transmission also your fees are MUCH too expensive for time used etc way over the top
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.
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.
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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.
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