5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner Reviews – Page 4
5/5 rating based on 430 reviews. Read all reviews for 5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner for iPhone.
5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner is free iOS app published by Smartest Apps LLC
The best scanner app
MaurokNC
This is hands down the best scanner app on the market. More than worth the purchase price! Hint for users new and old alike: Since there is a bit of a time delay between a radio transmission and the audio playing through the app (because of all the receiving, compression, sending it to the server, then sending it back out to the app) use that lag to your advantage. The best way I’ve found to use this is that I save the local sheriff’s department dispatch channel as a favorite, move it up to the top of the list, and then in the settings for the app, turn on the option to start playing the first favorited channel when the app starts. Now when you open the app, it instantly starts that channel. I take it one step further and use the built-in Apple Shortcuts program to automatically set my volume at 100% and then launch the app and I’ve saved that shortcut as “Siren” to both my homepage as well as for Siri to run. As soon as I hear a siren, all I do is say Siri, siren and in less than 2 seconds, I’ve got the radio going and thanks to the lag between real-time and hearing the audio (all of the apps like this have that delay by the way, but 5-0 has one of the lowest lag times by as much as 45%) you’ll have a good chance of catching the initial dispatch. By the way (and this is something that I hope and wish that the dev’s will look into): apparently Apple is kinda lazy in their programming for their autocorrect engine dictionaries. Because of that laziness, autocorrect may or may not start autocorrecting anytime you type 50 as 5-0 because that’s part of the program name. ***To fix this, go into Settings, pull down to get the search bar, and then enter ‘text’. Select the search result that reads Text Replacement. Hit the + button and then enter ‘50’ for both the phrase and shortcut and save it (without the apostrophes obviously). Then, hit the + again and this time enter ‘50’ for the phrase and ‘5-0’ for the shortcut. This will act as a kill switch to that being autocorrected. You can still use what you type by clicking on it in the text suggestion bar before you use a space or anything though. Hope this tip helps.*** And devs, don’t feel bad because ac also does that where it will turn 20 into 2.0 a lot too, and we both know that that just proves their laziness. Thank y’all though for not being lazy and producing great app.
Great App and Bluetooth ability
vwritter
A+, love the App. I appreciate the ability to follow the authorities even at work, road trips, water trips, etc. Enjoy the idea and tech technology on this.
Great app
ZombieApocalypseGames
I use it for work so our security team knows what’s going on nearby. It has been exceptionally useful numerous times identifying situations we needed to be aware of, and has assisted our guys identifying potentially dangerous individuals near property we protect.
Great scanner app - worth fee for pro version
Redrumkev
Have had the free app for years - PD and FD near me were boring to listen to. Lately FD is many runs deep, using mutual aid (calling other departments to help). Police is super busy on calls like assault, man with knife, stolen vehicles, etc. The ads on the free version caused the steam to stop, without the ads, I hear 95-99% of the calls during any hour. Worth 5 bucks for sure. If someone happens nationally, say activity shooter, wild fires, etc; search that area and start listening. You can explain what’s happening, real time, better than the news. A+.
Great App
Rick813p55
I have used this app for several years. It keeps me up to date on the big stories not only in the US but in Canada and Australia. I have friends in both countries and it helps me to keep a breast of what is going on around them.
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bob_walton
I’m really like the app. The only downfall is when there are too many agency sharing the same channel and they walk all over one another. Maybe try to better categorize agencies or at least separate them into smaller groups.