5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner Downloads & Revenue5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner · App Store
5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner is #15 in News Free in United States and charting in 3 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperSmartest Apps LLC
CategoryNews
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.6 (90k)
Version67.6
Age rating9+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)5M+ worldwide
5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner update history & changes
Last change · 11 events since 4 Dec 2009Full timeline ↓📈Charting in a new country📈Charting in a new country✏️Added hidden keywords: crime✏️Added hidden keywords: broadcastify, incident🆕First spotted by AppInsider📦Version 67.6🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 11 events
- 📈5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner charting in a new countrySaudi Arabia
- 📈5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner charting in a new countryUnited Kingdom
- ✏️5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner added hidden keywords: crimewords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner entered the top 100Top Free · News · RU
- 📈5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner charting in a new countryRussia
- ✏️5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner added hidden keywords: broadcastify, incidentwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Grossing · News · AE · Top Grossing · News · JP
- 📈5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner charting in a new country in 2 chartsUnited Arab Emirates · Japan
- 🆕5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner first spotted by AppInsider#41 in Top Grossing · News · United States
- 📦5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner version 67.6No release notes
- 🆕5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.6 ★
90k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#15
News FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
205
▼ -5% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner on the App Store
App details
App ID
341776037
Publisher
Smartest Apps LLC
On the store since
Dec 2009
16 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 13.0+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
9+
1 content note below
Languages
33
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Size
50 MB
Also listed in
Utilities
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where 5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in 5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not in an overall Top Grossing chart, only in category charts: each category position is converted to the overall position it corresponds to, then priced on the same rank-to-revenue curve, inside the part of each market the charted apps leave over.
Business model: Ad-led
How 5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchasesAds · 16 ad networks
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | 5-0 Radio Pro+ subscription | |
| 2 | 5-0 Radio Pro+ subscription | |
| 3 | 5-0 Radio Pro+ subscription |
Hidden keywords
5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner shows up in App Store search (US) for 2 words that appear nowhere in its name, subtitle or developer name, so they are almost certainly in its private keyword field, and it ranks in the top 10 for at least one of them.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | NewsFree | #15 |
| United States | NewsGrossing | #35 |
 Canada | NewsGrossing | #39 |
| Canada | NewsFree | #45 |
 Australia | NewsFree | #52 |
| Australia | NewsGrossing | #82 |
Apps near 5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner on the chart
News Free, around #15.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
90k ratings
Measured
Ratings
90k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
205
▼ -5% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
8.5
US App Store
Lifetime rating
4.6★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Recent written reviews
2.8★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
78/100
faster than 98% of News apps
Growing fastest in Canada ▲ +44%
New ratings by country (3)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 199 | 97% | ▼ -7% |
| Canada | 5 | 2% | ▲ +44% |
| Australia | 1.2 | 1% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about 5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner
From the 108 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed (51% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for few ads, and being useful. The main complaints are about ads, and price and subscriptions. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Ads: “The ads are very intrusive”
- Useful: “Amazing app would recommend”
- Updates: “App no longer works for Calvert county Md, since hardware update”
- Fun: “I enjoy listening to local traffic”
Common complaints
- Ads: “Pro and still filled w ads”
- Price & subscription: “Which you can remove by paying even more”
- Updates: “Menu no longer works on last update”
- Crashes & bugs
About 5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner
Free police scanner app with no subscription or account required. 5-0 Radio is the #1 most downloaded police scanner app since 2009. Use our crime radar to be the first to know about hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, shootings, riots, looting, protests, earthquakes, bombings, terrorist, radiation, nuclear fallout, outbreaks, biological or chemical attacks, and crime waves happening near you.
Tap into over 50,000 live police, firefighter, emergency medical ambulance, emt, air traffic control (ATC), airport, plane, railroad, trains, ham radio, NOAA weather, news, talk, sports, and music stations.
* 5-0 Radio is a Police Scanner app designed for Pros *
- Free to use without a subscription or any payment
- Live Captions (read what they're saying)
- Rewind a Feed and Share/Listen to Audio from the Past
- Record Feeds and Share Recordings via Email, AirDrop, Text, etc.
- More Feeds than Competing Apps
- Sleep Timer (turns off when you're asleep)
- Police Siren Noise Maker
- Access and Use Cool New Player Backgrounds
- Even more extra Airport/Railroad/NOAA weather/Radio/Scanner feeds
- Get new feature updates
+ More
As seen on ABC News, CNN, FOX News, New York Times, NPR, Wired, Yahoo! News, and various other major news organizations.
Listen to real events happening live in other parts of the world or in your local town. Listen to radio chatter in the background while you run other apps. Listen to new music as you surf the web. Share the stations you are listening to with your friends. They do not need to buy this app to listen to the feeds that you share with them.
* Features *
- "Past Recordings From This Feed" lets you access our archives and listen to past audio from the feed.
- You can rewind time and go back to an earlier time frame in a feed, even if you weren't actively recording the audio.
- “Feeds with Active Alerts” shows you feeds with interesting on-going activity happening right now along with a description of the alert and feed.
- Listen to feeds in the background while you run other apps or write emails/text messages.
- Chat with other listeners in real time.
- International support, including USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Europe, Israel, and more.
- Automatically attempts to reconnect the feed if you lose the connection.
- Browse one of the largest collection of feeds you will ever find in the App Store.
- Search through the feeds with any keywords (enter your city name to find local radio stations).
- Browse through radio feeds by genre (Police, Railroad, Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, R & B, etc.)
- Customizable Interface. Download new skins for free or create your skins.
- Integrated map finds your location and the location of most scanner feeds.
- List the Top 100 most-current-listeners feeds so that you wouldn't miss an important event
- The catalog is instantly updated as soon as you start browsing it, with new feeds added every few hours.
- Built-in Web Browser; so that you ca
Tap into over 50,000 live police, firefighter, emergency medical ambulance, emt, air traffic control (ATC), airport, plane, railroad, trains, ham radio, NOAA weather, news, talk, sports, and music stations.
* 5-0 Radio is a Police Scanner app designed for Pros *
- Free to use without a subscription or any payment
- Live Captions (read what they're saying)
- Rewind a Feed and Share/Listen to Audio from the Past
- Record Feeds and Share Recordings via Email, AirDrop, Text, etc.
- More Feeds than Competing Apps
- Sleep Timer (turns off when you're asleep)
- Police Siren Noise Maker
- Access and Use Cool New Player Backgrounds
- Even more extra Airport/Railroad/NOAA weather/Radio/Scanner feeds
- Get new feature updates
+ More
As seen on ABC News, CNN, FOX News, New York Times, NPR, Wired, Yahoo! News, and various other major news organizations.
Listen to real events happening live in other parts of the world or in your local town. Listen to radio chatter in the background while you run other apps. Listen to new music as you surf the web. Share the stations you are listening to with your friends. They do not need to buy this app to listen to the feeds that you share with them.
* Features *
- "Past Recordings From This Feed" lets you access our archives and listen to past audio from the feed.
- You can rewind time and go back to an earlier time frame in a feed, even if you weren't actively recording the audio.
- “Feeds with Active Alerts” shows you feeds with interesting on-going activity happening right now along with a description of the alert and feed.
- Listen to feeds in the background while you run other apps or write emails/text messages.
- Chat with other listeners in real time.
- International support, including USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Europe, Israel, and more.
- Automatically attempts to reconnect the feed if you lose the connection.
- Browse one of the largest collection of feeds you will ever find in the App Store.
- Search through the feeds with any keywords (enter your city name to find local radio stations).
- Browse through radio feeds by genre (Police, Railroad, Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, R & B, etc.)
- Customizable Interface. Download new skins for free or create your skins.
- Integrated map finds your location and the location of most scanner feeds.
- List the Top 100 most-current-listeners feeds so that you wouldn't miss an important event
- The catalog is instantly updated as soon as you start browsing it, with new feeds added every few hours.
- Built-in Web Browser; so that you ca
Latest updates
67.6