Police Scanner + Fire Radio Reviews

Been hooked on scanner traffic for years. PoliceScannerFireRadio gives you the ability to listen to many locales. My town is small compared to the big cities on here but has its share of crime and other issues. I particularly enjoy streaming PoliceScannerFireRadio to my vehicle when driving through town. We've all driven by those multiple police or fire vehicles and wondered what was happening. With PoliceScannerFireRadio, you'll know. So many things that go on in a community that are never reported on the news and with a scanner app like this, you can be prepared or aware.
Obviously, the information you hear on the scanner is delayed slightly (usually a few seconds) but for the most part it's pretty much real time. So addicted, love it!

If you’re reviewing apps and trying to decide on one, I’d recommend this one, with only 1 bit of advice...

The free app has everything I needed for years, BUT it also comes with a TON of pop-up ads.... its tolerable unless you’ve got a sensitive touch screen like mine. The ads run at the bottom and with a slight movement above them they will trigger.

Some of these adds will not provide a close mark (X) for up to a full minute and there are some that won’t close and always take you to their website. I had to close PoliceScannerFireRadio all together to get these types of obnoxious adds off.

I get why they’re on there, businesses wanna make money. But some of these are just ridiculous .. maybe Admin should locate the apps that don’t show a X, renegotiate those contracts... I’ve actually vowed to NEVER support those pop-up... that’s just me.

However, I recently purchased PoliceScannerFireRadio (to stop the ads mainly) but it’s a small charge that seems like a good price to pay to stop those ads.

💯 love PoliceScannerFireRadio , easy to use and fun to listen to things happening in almost anywhere in the world. If anyone has read this looonnnggg review, I’m amazed and you won’t be disappointed when you use it! 🇺🇸👌🇺🇸

I tested out a few different police scanner apps but ultimately decided to purchase this one because it has a radio feature with some interesting channels, and the interface is user-friendly and pleasing to look at.

This is the only type of police scanner I have experience with. I’ve never used a real, physical police scanner. With my inexperience, I have no idea what any of the streaming info means, or why some of the scanner areas are similar to others in name, but all scanner apps seem to display the same info with no way to get an explanation. An option to pull up a reference tutorial of some sort would be helpful, if at all possible.

DEVELOPERS, Are you answering questions privately? 🤔
I’m wondering about the same things others have asked and seeing your response would be👌very nice.
I didn’t notice much change after buying PS+Pro. Is the circular object surrounding the power button a dial? What does it mean when the “circle” lights up? Growing up, my dad had a scanner that had different channels we could tune in and we made our own “guide.” Do App Users have ANY control in +Pro? In your App, the squeaky wheel (i.e.; sketchy city) gets the oil (broadcast time). Albeit entertaining, I'd like to tune-in to hear about MY city when something’s going down. Unfortunately, we don't make the cut. My city gets buried under higher crime areas, never to reach the surface for air(time). Unless... i just don't know how to.🤷🏻‍♀️🆘 Need the info 👨‍🦲

Use the BROWSE function in PoliceScannerFireRadio menu. Find your country, state then city or county. There's a button to press which lets you toggle the listing from city to county which is very useful.
NOTE: The city scanner feed you're looking for will only be listed if someone has a scanner, hooks it up to a computer and takes the trouble to broadcast it online at broadcastify and radioreference.
The scanner feeds used by scanner apps come from these websites.
It's not magic and it isn't a public service.
The police scanner+ app wraps it up in an easy, intuitive package so you can find everything quickly, and with some extra goodies thrown in.

These apps all pull from the same source, so there’s little variation in content. The interface generally makes the difference. While this interface is good, I would prefer an app that allows fewer maneuvers to get to a desired state or county. PoliceScannerFireRadio allows marking a station as a favorite; perhaps they should let us make a state or city a “favorite” as well.

Overall, PoliceScannerFireRadio is excellent and worth the ad-free price.

My critique may be misplaced here, but I don’t know why we don’t have the ability to select individual departments or create our own “playlist” to scan. Is that a limitation of what’s out there or a limitation of PoliceScannerFireRadio ? For instance, I live in an area with 5 connected cities with just around 250,000 people total. I’d like to be able to just listen to one or two departments, but I’m limited to one selection that has all the cities PD’s plus some FD’s too. That waters it down for me and makes it confusing. I can see the “channel” numbers come up during the scanning phase and when there is communication going on. Why can’t we take that information and use it in a filter?

This is far is the best scanner app that I used, I haven’t tried all of them but this one exceptionally works out without needing to search for any others. Very stable and professional built platform in my opinion. When you hear the sirens in your neighborhood or find an area that news is reporting, just turn on PoliceScannerFireRadio and you’ll get the information on what’s really happening. Also hook it Bluetooth to your sound system via auto, home, or just smart smart phone it works just find. I like the flashing blue red visuals along with siren which is hilarious 😆 lol. Also a useful distraction tool to get you out of a uncomfortable location/situation to use as deterrent 👍 - Sean B. Santa Barbara Ca

I love PoliceScannerFireRadio but had to uninstall January because it overheated my iPhone. When I checked the apps and saw the developers have fixed some bugs a month ago I wanted to give this a try again because I love the apps radio stations. When I loaded my phone heated up again. I’m really disappointed! I’m just going to have to find the addresses for these radio stations I like and listen to them on a different platform/app. I really do hope they fix this problem of PoliceScannerFireRadio overheating the technology!

Just what am looking for got a little bit of everything to choose from from around the world to your own town that being said..there’s always room for improvement only thing I’d suggest is using lower bandwidth channels for Marine channels
But all in all it a great app if you like to follow emergency situations ect..from fire ,police ,train ,airports even state police/sheriffs department ect..thanks again I like it nice job just add marine radio

It’s a great scanner app to listen to what’s going on in your country or your state. User friendly. I liked it so much I paid for the Pro version with no interference from commercials plus u can get airplanes too that’s also a plus. I mainly just listen to what’s going on in my county and do get local state police also. Great app I would recommend purchasing the pro version.

I am a retired EMT- Fire- Rescue in the Mat-Su Borough. I don’t see reason why your transmission can’t be as rock solid as a scanner one can purchase at your local Radio Shack or Fred Meyer store. I listen to My ATT iPhone scanner while outside working on my farm or while on the road going someplace. The signal I receive is terrible and it only gets maybe 25 to 30% of all transmission. It’s really better I just leave it off when not at home, In my house

This is the 3rd time where the scanner would not work. I paid to have the upgraded version with no ads and I have the updated version of the scanner and it will not play on my iPhone or my iPad. The first. Error message stated that I needed to have wifi on my iPhone, than it stated it couldn’t reach the server. Ugh! When I got home and connected to my wifi, I would push play and it wouldn’t do anything, not even an error message.

this is a great app and I have the pro version but it constantly freezes up on the iPhone X max running the 12.0 update I’ve spoken to Apple iPhone has no issues have spoken to Sprint they have no issues I have an excellent signal it works two or three times then it doesn’t work at all and I have to delete it and reload it very unhappy spending the four dollars was hoping it would work but there are some bugs to be worked out somewhere

PoliceScannerFireRadio is decent and does the job! Clear scanning! Although I live in a small town and wish it had those channels or a section where you can program a channel.

Finally it does not allow me to save a favorite. I can click favorite but it stayed in that screen. Does not allow me to save it. I have to close app and re-enter which is annoying.

I’ve been using PoliceScannerFireRadio for years, decent to use. Recently the state caught on fire and I needed to follow police/fire by the minute. Ads got overwhelming, every time I had to restart, full screen and audio ads would take over. The need for scanner is crucial, so I paid to remove the ads. All’s good. I use it on iphone and ipad.

I have a couple of actual police scanners that I listen to at home and in the car. This is a great addition as background sound for times I'm using my phone or the iPad for internet use, mail, writing and during other tasks. PoliceScannerFireRadio sometimes surprises me and I hear things the scanners miss. Excellent app.

The only thing that doesn’t make sense is trying to add a favorite, it pops up and asks you to name the favorite but there is no ok or enter button to save it. The only way to get out is to force close PoliceScannerFireRadio . So favorites is basically useless. I’d think this should be an easy fix but a pretty major over site.

It’s great! Nice interface, great features and 5 bucks for add free. I would give it five but I think there is always room for improvement. For example an auto search by location, or (and this might not be possible) a sound equalizer to maybe let users control sound quality. A sound even option so that 1adam6 cop with an annoying loud voice doesn’t over power everything? Great app!

Works just fine on my iPhone 6s Plus, but on my iPad, have yet to hear a peep from it. When trying to listen to radio stations it immediately exits as soon as I pick a station. When trying to listen to scanner all I get is the “loading “ indicator. I bought the pro version hoping it would correct the problem but it didn’t help. I checked to see if there was a setting conflict but couldn’t find any problem. Frustrating!!

Recently removed five star review don’t use the nature sounds for sleep. You’ll be sorry. I paid for PoliceScannerFireRadio yet they have commercials embedded into the relaxing water sounds feature. So much for falling asleep. Thanks for charging me for a no add experience but sneaking them in on sounds that are supposed to relax and fall asleep.