Police Scanner User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience37.3% of reviews
Neutral4.7% of reviews
Negative experience58.0% of reviews

~ Based on 212 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Police Scanner Safe?

Police Scanner: Crime Radar appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Police Scanner is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 28,113 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

89.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
6.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 28,113 App Store ratings for Police Scanner.

Is Police Scanner Legit?

Police Scanner: Crime Radar appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Police Scanner is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Trash app

This scanner app is doing the one job it has and still failing.
113 people sitting there staring at a map of Waukesha County like something’s about to happen, and the app just slaps up “This feed is off the air right now.” Then a giant orange refresh button, like hitting that is going to invent a radio signal.
Half the time the feed isn’t even dead. The app just lost the stream, choked on the server, or decided midnight on a weekend was a good time to lie to you. “Try Again” is developer-speak for “we don’t know, you figure it out.”
Enhance Audio. Show Captions. Volume slider ready. Map looking official. All the costume of a real scanner — and then silence. It’s a flashlight with no batteries.
Broadcastify-style apps have been like this for years: pretty UI, dead streams, and a star button so you can favorite the disappointment. The cops didn’t go off the air. The app just quit and blamed the feed.
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They don’t have the area I live in on here

I live in a area that is private from the actual county and they don’t have it on here

Waist of time

This app is trash . It won’t give you local scans

Disappointed

I am in Santa Rosa county Florida and there is no local reports on this app. I can here emergency vehicles up and down the road but app says no activity

Audio Doesn’t work

Audio isn’t working

Still nothing for my city

I mean the county is there but the feed is not. I’ll check back next year. Again.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD

If you’ve seen ads of this app, you’d know that they say “This is police scanner, it is a completely free app” NOT FREE. THEY FORCE YOU TO GET A FREE TRIAL TO EVEN SEE THE MAP, AND ONCE YOU GET THE TRIAL YOU CANNOT CANCEL IT, AND THEY MAKE IT TO WHERE YOU CANT CANCEL IT SO THEY CAN CHARGE YOU FORTY BUCKS. And lastly it is NOT USER FRIENDLY.
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Not quite as advertised

It’s says 24 hour active, but it only goes back 12 hours. Quite disappointing considering what they charge and the fact that I can listen to the same scanner for free. I paid specially for the archives.

False advertisement

When I downloaded it, I read somewhere that it's free to listen with no account necessary, yet when I opened it, I immediately was greeted with an inescapable pay wall. I signed up for a free trial, because I badly needed the app in the moment, but now I'll be cancelling after also discovering that the app itself also wasn't helpful.
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Not gud

Other scanners is just better I like a refund

False advertising

We can’t get police calls or it is not a Police Scanner for any work miles around my area, which makes it worthless to me. The whole point was to see what’s going on.

Not user friendly

Not user friendly canceled!

SCAM ALERT! STOLE $39.99 FROM ME!!!!

I’ve been looking for a new scanner app since my last one stopped working. Downloaded this one for the free trial to see if it worked well (IT DID NOT, poor quality app, glitches and doesnt work half the time). My subscription screen says it will charge me AFTER the trial ends. Almost immediately thereafter it charged me $39.99 for a year’s subscription. I DON’T WANT A YEAR OF THIS GARBAGE, MUCH LESS EVEN A FREE TRIAL. They aren’t responding to multiple emails like a scam artist. Calling my bank to dispute the charge. Scam artists!!!
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Doesn’t work all the time

I’ll hear something going on in my neighborhood and of course that’s when the scanner doesn’t work,

Waste of money

Only shows live time but doesn’t go back the 30min waste of money

Costly app

No one time purchase. no free with ad version. $40 per month

SCAM

Supposed to be a free trial but was instantly charged $50 DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS IS A SCAM

Not happy

Unsubscribed before payment due date still on my account like I’m being forced to pay 😡😡😡messed up my whole Apple Store. I can’t download nothing on my phone that important then on top of it, you can’t get a hold of support . Very annoying.

Feeds

Love this so much thank you

Scam

You gotta pay to listen to the stations might I add crime radar does the same thing that this does and more 100% free