Emerald City Comic Con vs Pierce County Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Emerald City Comic Con
Navigate your experience at Emerald City Comic Con with this official digital guide. Access schedules, guest lists, exhibitor details, and event information all in one place. Stay updated with the latest news and announcements to ensure you don't miss any highlights.
- Panel schedules
- Guest and creator lists
- Exhibitor directory
- Show features
- Event notifications
- Latest news updates
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The Emerald City Comic Con Mobile App is your digital guide to everything ECCC! It's chock full of panel schedules, guests, comic creators, exhibitors, Show Features, and everything else ECCC has to offer. You will also receive notifications for the latest news, guest announcements, exhibitor info and special events so you don’t miss a thing! Download the Official ECCC App now and have all of the information you need for this show at your fingertips.
Pierce County Scanner
Listen live to police and fire dispatch audio from Pierce and King County, Washington. Search transcripts and go back in time to review past transmissions. This app provides access to P25 Phase 2 transmissions captured by volunteer-operated radios.
- Live audio streaming
- Searchable transcripts
- Historical playback
- Coverage of PSRS, PSERN, WASP, SouthSound911
- P25 Phase 2 transmission capture
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Listen Live, search transcripts, go back in time, from PSRS, PSERN, WASP, and SouthSound911 in Pierce and King County Washington. Audio is provided by scannerlivestream.com which uses radios located in North Pierce County, WA to capture P25 Phase 2 transmissions. We are volunteers, please report issues to records@scannerlivestream.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pierce County Scanner at 100% against Emerald City Comic Con's 34%. Pierce County Scanner also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.8) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months). Emerald City Comic Con's advantage is ratings volume (72 vs 7). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pierce County Scanner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Emerald City Comic Con has 72 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of Emerald City Comic Con's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pierce County Scanner's.
Emerald City Comic Con ships an update every 5 months, Pierce County Scanner every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Emerald City Comic Con | Pierce County Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (72 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 72 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 167 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Reed Elsevier Inc. | Olav Giertz |
Customer experience
Emerald City Comic Con
Pierce County Scanner
In-app purchases
Emerald City Comic Con
No in-app purchases
Pierce County Scanner
No in-app purchases
Questions
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