Comparison

WPSD Local 6 vs Murray Scanner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

WPSD Local 6

Stay informed with breaking news, weather updates, and sports scores on the go. Receive real-time alerts and submit your own photos to contribute to news reporting. This app covers west Kentucky and surrounding areas.

Highlights
  • Breaking news alerts
  • Local weather forecasts
  • Sports scores
  • Submit photos for news
  • News stories
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Get breaking news, weather, and sports everywhere you go. Our updated app provides news alerts, stories, and weather that affect you. When you first open the app, it will ask you to allow push notifications. This allows you to get breaking news alerts. You can also allow notifications through your general phone settings. Our app also allows you to submit a photo and help report news. WPSD Local 6 is the Breaking News and Weather Authority in west Kentucky along with Illinois, Tennessee, and Missouri.

About

Murray Scanner

Listen to live emergency services radio streams for police, fire, and EMS in Western Kentucky. Features AI-transcribed call logs, live weather radar, and instant alerts for severe weather and local incidents. Offers hyperlocal proximity notifications and a daily recap of classified events.

Highlights
  • Live scanner streams
  • AI-transcribed call logs
  • Live weather radar
  • Instant storm warnings
  • Hyperlocal proximity alerts
  • 24-hour audio history
Features
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Murray Scanner is the live emergency-services scanner streaming app for Murray, Calloway County, and Western Kentucky. Listen in real time to police, sheriff, fire, EMS, and dispatch radio across Calloway, Marshall, and Graves counties — with AI-transcribed call logs, live weather radar, and instant alerts for tornado warnings, fires, and major incidents in your neighborhood. LIVE EVERYTHING • 24/7 scanner streams: Calloway County Sheriff, Murray Police, Murray State, Marshall County, Mayfield, Graves County emergency services • AI-classified transcripts with CRITICAL/HIGH/MEDIUM severity — read along while you listen • 24-hour audio history — replay any call from the past day • Live weather radar with KPAH NEXRAD imagery, animated time slider, reflectivity / velocity / composite products • Real-time NWS storm warnings — pushed instantly when severe weather hits • Local callout map — geocoded incidents filtered by county and time window • Hyperlocal proximity alerts — be notified when a critical incident is reported near your home address (or work, family, etc.) • Daily Digest — morning and evening recap of every classified incident • Reference: 10-code dictionary, news articles, daily digest archive PREMIUM Unlock every county stream, the full transcript feed, audio history, weather radar, real-time warnings, and alert customization. PRO Premium plus transcript archive search, storm-cell tracking with arrival ETAs to your location, lightning visualization, the firehose alert feed, custom alert keywords, and up to 3 extra hyperlocal locations. WHO IT'S FOR Local residents, first responder families, neighborhood watch members, storm chasers, journalists, and scanner hobbyists. Purpose-built for Western Kentucky — Murray, Mayfield, Benton, Hardin, Calloway County, Marshall County, Graves County. PRIVACY Murray Scanner does not track you across other apps. Subscription billing is handled by Apple via secure StoreKit. We collect only what you provide (email, optional address for proximity alerts) and use it solely for the app's functionality. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Auto-renewable monthly or yearly subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://murrayscanner.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://murrayscanner.com/terms Support: https://murrayscanner.com/support

Screenshots

WPSD Local 64 screens
Murray Scanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Murray Scanner at 5.0 against WPSD Local 6's 2.8. Murray Scanner also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months). WPSD Local 6's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (81 vs 2). On price and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Murray Scanner sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. WPSD Local 6 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Murray Scanner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WPSD Local 6 has 81 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WPSD Local 6 ships an update every 4 months, Murray Scanner every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
WPSD Local 6 versus Murray Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWPSD Local 6Murray Scanner
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (81 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews48.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings81 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB6 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperPaxton Media Group LLCBlake Hughes

Customer experience

WPSD Local 6

All ratings81 ratings
Positive40.7%
Neutral6.2%
Negative53.1%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive48.5%
Neutral4.4%
Negative47.1%

Murray Scanner

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

WPSD Local 6

Reported bugs

23 issues
  • App is worthless after latest update
  • Cannot read stories
  • Request cannot be processed
  • No news update since Sept 2020
  • No data available
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  • App has not updated news in over a week
  • No new info
  • App is junk
  • App never loads
  • Cannot see news reports or watch videos
  • Cannot read news
  • Cannot open any stories
  • Update fail
  • New update brings new look, but doesn't work
  • App updated and hasn't worked since
  • Pull up 1 story and that's it
  • Lousy update, doesn't work
  • Latest version does not work
  • Cannot open any stories to read
  • Cannot get to other categories
  • Too much old news taking up space
  • Breaking news scroll runs same story for days
  • Viewer comments section has hateful comments

Requested features

6 requests
  • Lower bandwidth audio-only stream
  • Option to watch live weather without commercials
  • Hour-by-hour weather forecast
  • Weekend updates and local sports scores
  • More in-depth information on some items
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  • Advertisement-free version

Murray Scanner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

WPSD Local 6

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Murray Scanner

Subscriptions4
  • Premium Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Pro Monthly$15.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$69.991 Year
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  • Pro Yearly$159.991 Year

Questions

Is WPSD Local 6 free?
WPSD Local 6 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Murray Scanner free?
Murray Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, WPSD Local 6 or Murray Scanner?
Murray Scanner is rated higher. WPSD Local 6 averages 2.8 out of 5 from 81 ratings, while Murray Scanner averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do WPSD Local 6 or Murray Scanner have ads?
WPSD Local 6 shows ads; Murray Scanner does not.
Which is updated more often, WPSD Local 6 or Murray Scanner?
WPSD Local 6 ships an update every 4 months, and Murray Scanner every 6 weeks. Most recently, WPSD Local 6 was updated on October 14, 2026 and Murray Scanner on October 6, 2026.

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