Scanner Radio App Reviews

Worthless. More crashes than NASCAR. Action Scanner Pro works best out of the 9 “Police Scanners” on my iPhone/iPad. Spend your money on a working app.

CRAP! Waste of my dollar! Not one single location worked and I tried all over the US! Don't buy this app it's junk!

This is a now brainer: with background play this is a must have app. Highly recommended.

can you get pembroke pines police and fire in broward county, Florida on their on frequency? thanks

This is a "crowded" fild, but after after having purchased 6 scanner radio apps from the App Store, this is the best:. Nightly updates of feeds, reporting of online/offline status, background play, and most of all extremely good sound quality. I highly recommend this app.

I followed the hurricane with this app. It was very educational to listed to all the emergency units and how professional thy are. Great app.

I specifically bought this because in the write up about the app, Tampa Police Dept was listed as one of the agencies you could receive. Not so.

I work in the emergency service field and recommend this app to everyone I work with. It would be nice to have a shorter delay and to be able to add frequency codes if you've got them, but other than that I love it. It's the best scanner app available.

It doesn't give you live radio frequencys. It is recorded and then played on this app!! Dont waste your money!!!!!!!!

It seems to freeze up on occasion. Wish the labels would scroll on screen while listening

This app seemed like it was going to be ok....until it loses feed in 30 seconds and you are forced to re-click on it. It's basically worthless!

I am following the Boston FD and Boston Police and is is great to have this scanner available in this dine times with the hurricane.

This is the only scanner app that I found that offered stations for the Las Vegas Police. I have a handheld scanner and this app is better than that. You will never miss a thing. There is a problem with signal loss and on occasions I have had to reset the station. Overall I am happy with the app.

This app is great for all you freq'rs. Hear what's going on locally or in the biggest cities of America as it's happening! Very addicting. Let it play in the background while at work and especially on the late shift. Working at the local gas mart? Wouldn't you like to know what's goin' down in your vicinity? I recommend this app highly.

Great fun listening to the redondo beach and Manhattan Beach stuff going on in the neighborhood. Great quality. I was amazed given that these are low frequency streams. ALso fun lo list to new York, Dallas, and all

I love this app. So many channels to choose from. Gotta get this, so worth the $.

This is an area where there are a lot of apps and I got them all, but this one is my favorite. I love tis app and it gives the right data from radio reference, great quality audio. Thanks makers.

Not impressed

This app used to work decently, it was a little glitchy and crashed sometimes but it usually worked. At that time I would have given it 4 stars. Now it doesn't work at all. Sometimes when you open it, it will play the scanner for about 5 seconds before it goes dead but most of the time it doesn't play anything at all. I wrote the developer and requested that they fix it in my city (Yakima, WA) or that they refund my money. They never responded. Don't download this app because there's a chance it won't work and you'll be SOL on getting your money back. Buy an app with better ratings...there are a lot of good ones out there.

I love this app, and being able to quickly find feeds from a large number of agencies. However, the audio is choppy, I lose a lot of the audio intermittently, and after some period of time, the audio tends to stop all together. It appears the program is still recognizing different input- i.e. the display will change from dist 4 to nw disp. to dist 3 ems, etc, however there is no audio output. This happens occasionally as soon as 5 minutes after queueing a feed, sometimes not till 20 or 30 minutes later, but happens on various feeds. If I pause the feed, then restart it, it will buffer again and audio is restored. Not a total killer, but a b***** to be sure. I am running version 4.0 on a 3gs with 4.01 OS. Thanks, hope to see a fix soon!

I added to get Orleans county Ny Please add Orleans county ny. :0)

Works good but definately needs a facelift. I mean it's only a scanner but still would be nice to look at something a little more eye appealing. It's about as bland as you can get...

This app sukssssssss asssss

This app has alot of potential, but it has a bug which causes it to crash and is unreliable at best. I was satisfied when I purchased this app about a year ago. My city was not online yet but I was content listening to surrounding areas. Shortly after, I was pleased to find my city on this apps list! After getting use to having my city's scanner radio right on my phone, I was obviously pretty bummed out when it stopped allowing me to listen to it (Waco). There's some major technical issues which need fixed, but I will be keeping the app in the hopes of having Waco online again soon! Unless u live in a major city which is listed on the page, I would hold off on purchasing this app.

Mentions Portland police scanner in description, but this is not to be found. There are only a few local music stations for portland. They got my dollar though............. :(

Awesome. The stuff is really live. Just listened to Redondo Beach police. Very interesting. Useful to find out what is going on in your neighborhood.

Will not work- will not open- worked fine for a while- DOA

I found all possible fire, police and EMS in Los Angeles is available and the streams are LIVE! This is fun!

I am listening to all the channels I want. I got very quick and helpful answers to my questions. This fills my scanner needs nicely.

This app rocks! I can easily listen to the police radio in my neighborhood, plus listening to other police and EMS around the country is really fun. AN in foreign countries too, and it is all "live". At 99c, it is a great value.

Great app but of course there's nothing available for my community. Can anyone tell me how to find out how to get my community on or why mine wouldn't be in there?

I am listening to NYC Police and FDNY Manhattan. You must have this app in these kinds of situations as it works also with 3G and EDGE.

As a scanner buff for over 30 years, I also own almost all the scanner apps. The best thing about this app are the number of feeds to choose from (it seems to have them all!) and the ability to share what you are listening to via facebook and twitter. That's a good feature. It's not my favorite scanner app (though it is in the top 3) because I am not crazy about the GUI. It's rather plain. And moreso, I recently discovered another scanner app that actually scans multiple feeds for activity the same way a real scanner does. I've gotten spoiled with that feature. That being said, this is a solid app. I'll love it when the developers combine all the best features into a single app. 5 stars for the selection alone and the ability to add custom feeds.

The use of the word "scanner" would make you think that you can choose multiple stations that are scanned. Like the one in a patrol car or from Midland etc. Not true. Knowing that, it works very well with a single station at a time that you select.

Love this app. Works great all over the US and many foreign countries. Keeps me up to date on things when I am out and about.

All of a sudden hundreds of new police and fire sterams showed up. Thanks Intersect and Radioreference!

Doesn't work half the time

So far it's a great app but would be better if there was a stop button instead of a pause button. While app is still running and in pause mode, phone service resets and stream reconnects unexpectively. Should stop the stream comletely while in pause/stop mode. Hopefully that can be fixed asap. Thanks!! eNubiX - California

This is a "crowded" field, but after havin purchased all, this is the best: nightly updates of feeds, reporing of online/offline status, background play and most of all, extremely good sound quality. Highly recommended.

Works great and I use it in my car to listen to what is going on in my county.

Won't come up.

I am a feed provider and this app does not broadcast all audio. It is intermittent at best. I am listening to my scanner that is broadcasting the feed and listening to this app at the same time and the app is very choppy. I tried other apps that work perfectly. Pleas fix ASAP!

The Best

This is a Awesome App.Love It!!! Thanks makers

Certainly not the flashiest scanner app I have seen, but this one does offer the most channels to listen to and seems to always be updated and accurate for finding online agencies! I have bought 5 scanner apps, some offer some different bells and whistles which are very nice, but this app offers the most to frequencies to listen to! Some record, some offer maps, some offer outdated and often inaccurate 10 codes, some show how many listeners are listening, some even look more like a real scanner, some have "banks" and let you listen to more than one channel at a time, and some let you run the app in the background while you still have access to your other apps. Maybe they can incorporate the best features of all the scanner apps in future updates! Thanks!

Love hearing what is going on in the neighborhood. The selection is huge: over 4000 stations!

The J8483 guy hasn't a cue of what he is talking about. I have totally live scanners following LAPD, LAX and Redondo Beach and South Bay PD. All the streams are from RadioReference, which is simply the best live fire, Police and EMS on the planet.

Grat app. Must have for emergency situations like this weekend hurricane, as it works with 3G.

Touch App and resume play from last previous use

My advice . . . Do not waste your dollar. I got screwed, as this only works part of time and sound is so low you can hardly hear it, and yes I had the volume turned up all the way, and still could not hear it. Don't waste your money.