Squawster Downloads & RevenueSquawster - Police Scanner · App Store & Google Play
55 days old
Squawster - Police Scanner gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Squawster - Police Scanner by RadioReference.com LLC is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
Squawster - Police Scanner update history & changes
Last change · 39 events since 17 Sep 2026Full timeline ↓📈iOSCharting in a new country📦iOSUpdated to version 1.0.12📈iOSEntered the top 100⭐AndroidPassed 100 ratings📦iOSUpdated to version 1.0.11📦AndroidUpdated to version 1.0.10✏️iOSAdded hidden keywords: dispatch📈AndroidEntered the top 100📈AndroidCharting in a new country⭐iOSPassed 100 ratings✏️iOSAdded hidden keywords: incidents⭐AndroidPassed 10K installs🔎iOSTop 10 for “police scanner”📦AndroidUpdated to version 1.0.8🆕AndroidFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕iOSFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕AndroidReleased on Google Play🆕iOSReleased on the App Store
Full timeline · 39 events
- 📈Squawster - Police Scanner charting in a new countryiOSUnited Arab Emirates
- 📦Squawster - Police Scanner updated to version 1.0.12iOS- Calls playlists: see which groups a playlist scans and its description, right under the player.
- The Calls player now shows when each call was recorded.
- Playlist and feed pages are cleaner, without a duplicate player bar.
- Radiant Glow: a bell next to the dashboard name turns its push alerts on or off.
- Start a feed, Calls playlist or group from Apple Shortcuts and other automations with a squawster://play link.
- Archive playback no longer flashes or jumps between calls.
- Performance and stability improvements.… more - 📈Squawster - Police Scanner entered the top 100iOSTop Free · News · KR
- 📈Squawster - Police Scanner charting in a new countryiOSSouth Korea
- 📦Squawster - Police Scanner updated to version 1.0.11iOS- CarPlay: your favorites, feeds near you and the Top 50, one tap to listen.
- Ready for iPhone Duo: two-pane layouts on the open display for Browse, Calls, feeds, archives and Radiant Glow.
- Radiant Glow on iPhone Duo and iPad shows the incident list and the selected incident side by side.
- The talkgroup search keyboard can be dismissed and no longer hides the results.
- The Calls introduction notes can now be dismissed.
- Fixed the Browse tiles (Near Me, Top 50, New, Official) squeezing onto one row on some iPhones.… more - ✏️Squawster - Police Scanner: app got biggeriOS53 MB → 60 MB (+14%)
- ✏️Squawster - Police Scanner: needs a newer iOSiOSiOS 15.1 → iOS 16.4
- 📦Squawster - Police Scanner updated to version 1.0.10iOS- Calls Playlist Hang Bug Fixed
- Feeds that go offline now stop right away instead of trying to reconnect.
- Between calls, CarPlay, the lock screen and Control Center show "Waiting for calls" instead of the last call.
- Signing in works on the first tap, and sign-in problems now show a clear message explaining what to fix.
- Radiant Glow incidents show the reported address, and the map no longer drops a pin in the middle of the city when the exact location isn't known.
- When reporting a problem, the text box stays visible above the keyboard while you type.
- Tab names at the bottom of the screen stay readable with larger text sizes.
- Updated for iOS 27, plus performance and stability improvements.… more - 📦Squawster - Police Scanner: now updating weeklyiOS4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📦Squawster - Police Scanner updated to version 1.0.10Android- Calls Playlist Hang Bug Fixed
- Feeds that go offline stop right away instead of trying to reconnect.
- Between calls, the lock screen and notifications show "Waiting for calls" instead of the last call.
- Signing in works on the first tap, with a clear message if it fails.
- Radiant Glow incidents show the reported address.
- The text box stays above the keyboard when reporting a problem.
- Smaller app, plus performance and stability fixes.… more - ✏️Squawster - Police Scanner added hidden keywords: dispatchiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Squawster - Police Scanner entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · News & Magazines · SA
- 📈Squawster - Police Scanner charting in a new countryAndroidSaudi Arabia
- 📈Squawster - Police Scanner entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · News · CA
- 📈Squawster - Police Scanner entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · News & Magazines · TH
- 📈Squawster - Police Scanner charting in a new countryAndroidThailand
- 📈Squawster - Police Scanner charting in a new countryiOSRussia
- ✏️Squawster - Police Scanner added hidden keywords: incidentsiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Squawster - Police Scanner entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · News & Magazines · AU
- ✏️Squawster - Police Scanner added hidden keywords: radarscopeiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Squawster - Police Scanner added hidden keywords: incidentiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🔎Squawster - Police Scanner reached Top 10 for “police scanner”iOS#10 in Canada search · popularity 67
- 📈Squawster - Police Scanner entered the top 10iOSTop Free · News · AU
- 📈Squawster - Police Scanner entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · News · AU
- 📦Squawster - Police Scanner updated to version 1.0.8iOSWhat's new in Squawster 1.0.8
• Share what you're listening to. Share live feeds, public Calls playlists, talkgroups and Radiant Glow events. Links open right in Squawster, or on the web for anyone who doesn't have the app.
• Sort county feeds. Sort a county's live feeds, and Near Me, by listeners or A–Z. Squawster remembers your choice.
• Every feed in big counties. Large counties now list every live feed, not just the 50 busiest.
• Build playlists from any talkgroup. Turn on Show all in the talkgroup picker to add any talkgroup active in the past year, and filter by name or number. Works anywhere Broadcastify Calls covers, including Canada and Australia.
• Play alongside other audio. A new setting keeps Squawster playing with your music, radio or navigation apps.
• Smoother interruptions. When a phone call or another app takes over the audio, Squawster shows Paused and picks back up when it can.
• Hide call transcripts. A new setting turns off transcripts in talkgroups, playlists, call archives and the player.
• Easier-to-read feed names. Long names wrap to a second line in every feed list, including at larger text sizes.
• Recently Played no longer shows the same feed twice.… more - 📦Squawster - Police Scanner updated to version 1.0.8Android• Share live feeds, Calls playlists, talkgroups and Radiant Glow events
• Sort county feeds by listeners or A–Z
• Large counties now list every live feed
• Add any talkgroup to your playlists, including in Canada and Australia
• New settings: Play alongside other audio, Show call transcripts
• Better handling when a call or another app takes over the audio
• Long feed names wrap to two lines
• Keyboard no longer covers the problem-report box… more - 📈Squawster - Police Scanner entered the top 100AndroidTop Grossing · News & Magazines · US
- 📈Squawster - Police Scanner entered the top 100 in 3 chartsAndroidTop Free · News & Magazines · AE · Top Free · News & Magazines · AU · Top Free · News & Magazines · CA
- 📈Squawster - Police Scanner charting in a new country in 3 chartsAndroidUnited Arab Emirates · Australia · Canada
- 📦Squawster - Police Scanner updated to version 1.0.7iOSWhat's new in Squawster 1.0.7
• Near Me knows your county. Squawster now uses your phone's own location to find the county you're actually in, so you won't get sent to the county next door when you live near a county or state line.
• Calls talkgroups near you. Near Me now shows the Broadcastify Calls talkgroups that cover where you are, including agencies just across the county or state line.
• ZIP code search shows Calls too. Search a ZIP code to jump to that county's live feeds, Calls playlists, and talkgroups.
• Add to playlist. Found a talkgroup you like? Add it to one of your Calls playlists, or start a new playlist, right from the talkgroup list. (Squawster Pro)
• Favorite public playlists. Tap Favorite on any public Calls playlist to save it to Favorites → Calls Playlists, right above your own playlists.
• Put your favorites in your order. Every Favorites list (feeds, Calls playlists, and talkgroups) now has a Reorder button: drag items into the order you want. Your order syncs across your devices, and your own playlists keep the same order on Broadcastify.com.
• Hold works the way you'd expect. A bar now shows which talkgroup you're holding, even while you wait for its next call, with a one-tap Release. Tap Hold again to let go anytime, and every call on the playlist still shows in the recent calls list, so you can tap any of them to play it.
• Easier to read at night. Dim blue text, like incident addresses and captions, is now brighter throughout the app.
• A friendlier way to turn on alerts. Instead of asking the moment you open the app, Squawster asks once, after you've had a chance to look around, whether you'd like major-incident alerts. You can change it anytime in Settings.
• A cleaner Near Me screen, with clear Calls and Live Audio Feeds sections and genre filters right above your feeds.
• Much better VoiceOver and TalkBack support. Every button now has a clear spoken label, list rows read as one sentence, and actions like Favorite, Hold, Ignore, and Add to playlist are available from the actions menu. Reorder your lists with Move up and Move down, and hear playback changes like "Playing" or "Feed stalled" as they happen.
• Archives keep playing in the background. Feed recordings and Calls archives now play with the screen off or while you use other apps, with lock-screen controls. Recordings continue into the next one automatically (turn it off with "Continue to next recording"), and new Previous and Next buttons jump between recordings. (Squawster Pro)
• Top 50 now includes Calls playlists. Switch to the Calls Playlists tab to see the busiest public playlists by listeners.
• Full transcripts. Every call in a Calls playlist, talkgroup, and Call archives list now shows its complete transcript when one is available.
• Cleaner Calls pages. Playlist and talkgroup names are centered, and talkgroup actions (Favorite, Archives, Add to playlist) sit together under the player.
• Open Broadcastify and Incident Source links in Squawster. Tap Open on a Broadcastify.com feed, Calls playlist, or talkgroup page or an Incident Source major event, or tap a link someone sends you, and Squawster opens right to it.
• Plus a clear message when your talkgroup favorites are full, faster talkgroup lists, and other fixes.… more - 🆕Squawster - Police Scanner first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidUnited States
- 📦Squawster - Police Scanner version 1.0.7Android• Archives play with the screen off and auto-continue (Pro)
• Near Me and ZIP search show your county and its Calls
• Top 50 now includes Calls playlists
• Full call transcripts in lists and archives
• Broadcastify links open in Squawster
• Add talkgroups to your playlists (Pro)
• Favorite public playlists; reorder all favorites
• Clearer Hold with one-tap Release
• A gentler, one-time ask about alerts
• Better VoiceOver and TalkBack support
• Brighter text, cleaner screens, and fixes… more - 🆕Squawster - Police Scanner first spotted by AppInsideriOS#53 in Top Free · News · Canada
- 📦Squawster - Police Scanner version 1.0.6iOS• Favorites: tap a feed you broadcast to listen, and use the gear to manage it.
• Clear "Feed stalled" notice if a feed stops updating, with an automatic retry.
• New Privacy choices option in Settings.
• Better look-and-tap support on Apple Vision Pro.
• Reliability fixes and improvements.… more - 🆕Squawster - Police Scanner released on Google PlayAndroid
- 🆕Squawster - Police Scanner released on the App StoreiOS
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.5 ★
388 ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#19
App Store · 
News Free
News FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
80
▲ +10% vs the 2 weeks before (App Store)
Measured
App Store
App details
App ID
6802709530
Publisher
RadioReference.com LLC
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
Sep 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 16.4+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
12+
3 content notes below
Languages
1
EN
Size
61 MB
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude HumorInfrequent/Mild Realistic ViolenceInfrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
Google Play
App details
App ID
com.squawster.app
Publisher
RADIOREFERENCE.COM, LLC
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Teen
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v1.0.7, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Trackers
2
Permissions
37
Trackers
Google AdMobGoogle Firebase Analytics
Full permission listProSee plans
Squawster - Police Scanner downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 500+ | 10k+ |
| Google Play | 500+ | 10k+ Measured |
| Total | 1k+ Confidence | 50k+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
App Store: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Where Squawster - 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 before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: Subscription-led
How Squawster - Police Scanner makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchasesAds · 1 ad networks
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Squawster Pro subscription |
Hidden keywords
Squawster - Police Scanner shows up in App Store search (US) for 1 word 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
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #19 News Free | 4 of 30 countries | #19 | – |
| Google Play | #31 News & Magazines Free | 6 of 23 countries | #31 | #89 |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisApp Store
New ratings a week
62
▲ +10% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
1.2
US App Store
Recent ratings
4.7★
vs 4.6★ lifetime
Review momentum
84/100
faster than 95% of News apps
New ratings by country (3)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 56 | 91% | ▲ +6% |
 Canada | 4.8 | 8% | ▲ +10% |
 Australia | 1 | 2% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Google Play
New ratings a week
18
▼ -8% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
under 1
Google Play
Recent ratings
4.4★
vs 4.3★ lifetime
Recent written reviews
3.5★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
66/100
faster than 74% of News and magazines apps
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.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.6 ★ | 277 |
| Google Play | 4.3 ★ | 111 39 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.5 ★ weighted by ratings | 388 |
What users say about Squawster - Police Scanner
From the 18 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (56% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and speed. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “Where is the share option?”
- Speed & performance: “UPDATED REWIEW: Great app and improving fast”
About Squawster - Police Scanner
Squawster is the fastest way to listen to live public-safety radio and stay on top of major incidents as they happen.
LISTEN LIVE
• Thousands of live police, fire, EMS, aviation, rail, and weather feeds, powered by Broadcastify.
• Browse by county, state, or metro, search by name, or jump to what's active near you.
• Background audio with lock-screen controls; keep listening while you use other apps.
INCIDENTS, NOT JUST AUDIO
• A nationwide feed of major events — working fires, mass-casualty incidents, aircraft emergencies, hazmat, and more — surfaced the moment they escalate.
• Follow the areas and event types you care about and get a push the instant something breaks.
• Get notified when a feed surges past 5,000 listeners — usually the sign of something big.
SQUAWSTER PRO
Squawster is free to browse and listen. Squawster Pro adds:
• Scan individual Broadcastify Calls talkgroups live.
• Build and manage your own Calls playlists.
• Cloud-sync your favorite feeds across all your devices.
• Listen to archived recordings.
• An ad-free experience.
Squawster Pro is a $4.99/month auto-renewable subscription.
—
Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions in your App Store account settings after purchase.
Privacy Policy: https://squawster.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://squawster.com/terms/
LISTEN LIVE
• Thousands of live police, fire, EMS, aviation, rail, and weather feeds, powered by Broadcastify.
• Browse by county, state, or metro, search by name, or jump to what's active near you.
• Background audio with lock-screen controls; keep listening while you use other apps.
INCIDENTS, NOT JUST AUDIO
• A nationwide feed of major events — working fires, mass-casualty incidents, aircraft emergencies, hazmat, and more — surfaced the moment they escalate.
• Follow the areas and event types you care about and get a push the instant something breaks.
• Get notified when a feed surges past 5,000 listeners — usually the sign of something big.
SQUAWSTER PRO
Squawster is free to browse and listen. Squawster Pro adds:
• Scan individual Broadcastify Calls talkgroups live.
• Build and manage your own Calls playlists.
• Cloud-sync your favorite feeds across all your devices.
• Listen to archived recordings.
• An ad-free experience.
Squawster Pro is a $4.99/month auto-renewable subscription.
—
Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions in your App Store account settings after purchase.
Privacy Policy: https://squawster.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://squawster.com/terms/
Squawster - Police Scanner App Store
55 days old
Squawster - Police Scanner gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Squawster - Police Scanner is #19 in News Free in United States and charting in 4 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperRadioReference.com LLC
CategoryNews
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.6 (277)
Version1.0.12
Age rating12+
First seen by us 25 Sep 2026
25 Sep 2026Installs (est.)10k+ worldwide
Rating
4.6 ★
277 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#19
News FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
62
▲ +10% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Squawster - Police Scanner on the App Store
App details
App ID
6802709530
Publisher
RadioReference.com LLC
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
Sep 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 16.4+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
12+
3 content notes below
Languages
1
EN
Size
61 MB
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude HumorInfrequent/Mild Realistic ViolenceInfrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
Squawster - 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 Squawster - 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 Squawster - 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: Subscription-led
How Squawster - Police Scanner makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchasesAds · 1 ad networks
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Squawster Pro subscription |
Hidden keywords
Squawster - Police Scanner shows up in App Store search (US) for 1 word 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 | #19 |
| Australia | NewsFree | #19 |
| Canada | NewsFree | #36 |
| Canada | NewsGrossing | #91 |
| Australia | NewsGrossing | #95 |
 South Korea | NewsFree | #164 |
Apps near Squawster - Police Scanner on the chart
News Free, around #19.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
277 ratings
Measured
Ratings
277
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
62
▲ +10% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
1.2
US App Store
Recent ratings
4.7★
vs 4.6★ lifetime
Review momentum
84/100
faster than 95% of News apps
New ratings by country (3)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 56 | 91% | ▲ +6% |
| Canada | 4.8 | 8% | ▲ +10% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% | – |
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 Squawster - Police Scanner
From the 18 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (56% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and speed. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “Where is the share option?”
- Speed & performance: “UPDATED REWIEW: Great app and improving fast”
About Squawster - Police Scanner
Squawster is the fastest way to listen to live public-safety radio and stay on top of major incidents as they happen.
LISTEN LIVE
• Thousands of live police, fire, EMS, aviation, rail, and weather feeds, powered by Broadcastify.
• Browse by county, state, or metro, search by name, or jump to what's active near you.
• Background audio with lock-screen controls; keep listening while you use other apps.
INCIDENTS, NOT JUST AUDIO
• A nationwide feed of major events — working fires, mass-casualty incidents, aircraft emergencies, hazmat, and more — surfaced the moment they escalate.
• Follow the areas and event types you care about and get a push the instant something breaks.
• Get notified when a feed surges past 5,000 listeners — usually the sign of something big.
SQUAWSTER PRO
Squawster is free to browse and listen. Squawster Pro adds:
• Scan individual Broadcastify Calls talkgroups live.
• Build and manage your own Calls playlists.
• Cloud-sync your favorite feeds across all your devices.
• Listen to archived recordings.
• An ad-free experience.
Squawster Pro is a $4.99/month auto-renewable subscription.
—
Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions in your App Store account settings after purchase.
Privacy Policy: https://squawster.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://squawster.com/terms/
LISTEN LIVE
• Thousands of live police, fire, EMS, aviation, rail, and weather feeds, powered by Broadcastify.
• Browse by county, state, or metro, search by name, or jump to what's active near you.
• Background audio with lock-screen controls; keep listening while you use other apps.
INCIDENTS, NOT JUST AUDIO
• A nationwide feed of major events — working fires, mass-casualty incidents, aircraft emergencies, hazmat, and more — surfaced the moment they escalate.
• Follow the areas and event types you care about and get a push the instant something breaks.
• Get notified when a feed surges past 5,000 listeners — usually the sign of something big.
SQUAWSTER PRO
Squawster is free to browse and listen. Squawster Pro adds:
• Scan individual Broadcastify Calls talkgroups live.
• Build and manage your own Calls playlists.
• Cloud-sync your favorite feeds across all your devices.
• Listen to archived recordings.
• An ad-free experience.
Squawster Pro is a $4.99/month auto-renewable subscription.
—
Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions in your App Store account settings after purchase.
Privacy Policy: https://squawster.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://squawster.com/terms/
Latest updates
1.0.12
- Calls playlists: see which groups a playlist scans and its description, right under the player.
- The Calls player now shows when each call was recorded.
- Playlist and feed pages are cleaner, without a duplicate player bar.
- Radiant Glow: a bell next to the dashboard name turns its push alerts on or off.
- Start a feed, Calls playlist or group from Apple Shortcuts and other automations with a squawster://play link.
- Archive playback no longer flashes or jumps between calls.
- Performance and stability improvements.
1.0.11
- CarPlay: your favorites, feeds near you and the Top 50, one tap to listen.
- Ready for iPhone Duo: two-pane layouts on the open display for Browse, Calls, feeds, archives and Radiant Glow.
- Radiant Glow on iPhone Duo and iPad shows the incident list and the selected incident side by side.
- The talkgroup search keyboard can be dismissed and no longer hides the results.
- The Calls introduction notes can now be dismissed.
- Fixed the Browse tiles (Near Me, Top 50, New, Official) squeezing onto one row on some iPhones.
1.0.10
- Calls Playlist Hang Bug Fixed
- Feeds that go offline now stop right away instead of trying to reconnect.
- Between calls, CarPlay, the lock screen and Control Center show "Waiting for calls" instead of the last call.
- Signing in works on the first tap, and sign-in problems now show a clear message explaining what to fix.
- Radiant Glow incidents show the reported address, and the map no longer drops a pin in the middle of the city when the exact location isn't known.
- When reporting a problem, the text box stays visible above the keyboard while you type.
- Tab names at the bottom of the screen stay readable with larger text sizes.
- Updated for iOS 27, plus performance and stability improvements.
Store changes
What Squawster - Police Scanner changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
App got bigger
53 MB → 60 MB (+14%)
Needs a newer iOS
iOS 15.1 → iOS 16.4
Squawster - Police Scanner Android
51 days old
Squawster - Police Scanner gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Squawster - Police Scanner is #31 in News & Magazines Free on Google Play in United States and charting in 6 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperRadioReference.com LLC
CategoryNews & Magazines
PriceFree
Released
Installs10k+
Rating★ 4.3 (111)
Updated
Content ratingTeen
Rating
4.3 ★
111 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#31
News & Magazines FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
18
▼ -8% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Squawster - Police Scanner on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.squawster.app
Publisher
RADIOREFERENCE.COM, LLC
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Teen
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v1.0.7, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Trackers
2
Permissions
37
Trackers
Google AdMobGoogle Firebase Analytics
Full permission listProSee plans
Squawster - 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
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Squawster - 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 Squawster - 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: Subscription-led
How Squawster - Police Scanner makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchasesAds · 1 ad networks
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Squawster Pro subscription |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | News & MagazinesFree | #31 |
| United States | News & MagazinesGrossing | #89 |
| Australia | News & MagazinesFree | #31 |
| Canada | News & MagazinesFree | #34 |
 Saudi Arabia | News & MagazinesFree | #129 |
 United Arab Emirates | News & MagazinesFree | #95 |
 Thailand | News & MagazinesFree | #131 |
Apps near Squawster - Police Scanner on the chart
News & Magazines Free, around #31.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.3 ★
111 ratings
Measured
Ratings
111
Measured
Written reviews
39
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
18
▼ -8% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
under 1
Google Play
Recent ratings
4.4★
vs 4.3★ lifetime
Recent written reviews
3.5★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
66/100
faster than 74% of News and magazines apps
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 Squawster - Police Scanner
From the 41 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Mostly positive (78% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being easy to use, and being useful. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Ease of use: “easy to work with and set up as you'd like”
- Useful: “I enjoy this scanner app and like that it has a transcript but the transcript is not very accurate and therefore isn't that helpful”
- Price & subscription: “awesome app if you are a Radio Reference subscriber”
- Features & content: “clear and give a lot of options”
About Squawster - Police Scanner
Squawster puts thousands of live public safety and radio feeds in your pocket. Listen to police, fire, EMS, aviation, rail, weather, and more, streamed live from the Broadcastify network, and stay ahead of major events with real-time incident alerts.
LISTEN LIVE
• Browse feeds by location, from your country down to your county, or use Near Me to find what is around you.
• Jump to the top, newest, and official feeds, or search for a place, agency, or ZIP code.
• Tap a feed and it plays instantly, with a clean now playing bar that follows you across the app.
BROADCASTIFY CALLS
• Listen to individual radio calls from trunked and conventional systems, grouped into public playlists by county.
• Hold a single talkgroup, or ignore the ones you do not want for 30 seconds, 5 minutes, or for good.
INCIDENTS AND ALERTS
• Stay ahead of major events and breaking incidents with real-time alerts, powered by Incident Source.
• Get notified the moment something significant is happening, so you know what to listen to and when.
BUILT TO KEEP PLAYING
• Audio keeps going when your screen is locked, with full lock screen and notification controls.
• Save your favorite feeds and get back to them fast.
SQUAWSTER PRO
Upgrade to Squawster Pro to unlock:
• Feed archive playback, so you can go back and hear what you missed.
• Cloud-synced favorites across your devices.
• An ad-free experience.
• Push notifications for major events from Incident Source.
Already a Broadcastify Premium subscriber? Sign in to unlock Pro at no extra cost.
Squawster is built by the team behind Broadcastify, RadioReference, and Incident Source, the largest source of public safety and scanner audio in the world.
Squawster Pro is an auto-renewing subscription billed through Google Play. Payment is charged to your Google Play account at confirmation of purchase, and it renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Google Play subscriptions.
Terms of Use: https://squawster.com/terms/
Privacy Policy: https://squawster.com/privacy/
LISTEN LIVE
• Browse feeds by location, from your country down to your county, or use Near Me to find what is around you.
• Jump to the top, newest, and official feeds, or search for a place, agency, or ZIP code.
• Tap a feed and it plays instantly, with a clean now playing bar that follows you across the app.
BROADCASTIFY CALLS
• Listen to individual radio calls from trunked and conventional systems, grouped into public playlists by county.
• Hold a single talkgroup, or ignore the ones you do not want for 30 seconds, 5 minutes, or for good.
INCIDENTS AND ALERTS
• Stay ahead of major events and breaking incidents with real-time alerts, powered by Incident Source.
• Get notified the moment something significant is happening, so you know what to listen to and when.
BUILT TO KEEP PLAYING
• Audio keeps going when your screen is locked, with full lock screen and notification controls.
• Save your favorite feeds and get back to them fast.
SQUAWSTER PRO
Upgrade to Squawster Pro to unlock:
• Feed archive playback, so you can go back and hear what you missed.
• Cloud-synced favorites across your devices.
• An ad-free experience.
• Push notifications for major events from Incident Source.
Already a Broadcastify Premium subscriber? Sign in to unlock Pro at no extra cost.
Squawster is built by the team behind Broadcastify, RadioReference, and Incident Source, the largest source of public safety and scanner audio in the world.
Squawster Pro is an auto-renewing subscription billed through Google Play. Payment is charged to your Google Play account at confirmation of purchase, and it renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Google Play subscriptions.
Terms of Use: https://squawster.com/terms/
Privacy Policy: https://squawster.com/privacy/
What's new in 1.0.10
- Calls Playlist Hang Bug Fixed
- Feeds that go offline stop right away instead of trying to reconnect.
- Between calls, the lock screen and notifications show "Waiting for calls" instead of the last call.
- Signing in works on the first tap, with a clear message if it fails.
- Radiant Glow incidents show the reported address.
- The text box stays above the keyboard when reporting a problem.
- Smaller app, plus performance and stability fixes.
- Feeds that go offline stop right away instead of trying to reconnect.
- Between calls, the lock screen and notifications show "Waiting for calls" instead of the last call.
- Signing in works on the first tap, with a clear message if it fails.
- Radiant Glow incidents show the reported address.
- The text box stays above the keyboard when reporting a problem.
- Smaller app, plus performance and stability fixes.