WatchOut Downloads & RevenueWatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio · App Store
WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio is #28 in Magazines & Newspapers Grossing in Japan and charting in 7 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperSILVER APPS
CategoryNews
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.7 (58)
Version1.1.1
Age rating17+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)10k+ worldwide
WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio update history & changes
Last change · 45 events since 25 Aug 2026Full timeline ↓✏️Description updated✏️New iPad screenshots🚀Now shown next to Police Scanner Radio & Fire, Police Radio Scanner +, Police Scanner Live Radio +5 more📦Updated to version 1.1.1⭐Passed 100 ratings⭐Passed 100 ratings📈Entered the top 100📈Entered the top 100🆕Its developer released another app: DeepStalker: Phone Detective📦Updated to version 1.1.0
Full timeline · 45 events
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: description updated· FR
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: new iPad screenshots· FR
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: new screenshots5 screenshots (was 5) · FR
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: new iPad screenshots· US
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: new screenshots5 screenshots (was 5) · US
- 🚀WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: now shown next to Police Scanner Radio & Fire, Police Radio Scanner +, Police Scanner Live Radio +5 morethe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: description updated· KR
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: new iPad screenshots· KR
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: new screenshots5 screenshots (was 5) · KR
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: description updated· IT
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: new iPad screenshots· IT
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: new screenshots5 screenshots (was 5) · IT
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: description updated· JP
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: new iPad screenshots· JP
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: new screenshots5 screenshots (was 5) · JP
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: new iPad screenshots· GB, CA, AU
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: new screenshots5 screenshots (was 5) · GB
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio added 10 languages+ DE + ES + FR + ID + IT + JA + MS + PT + TR + ZH
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: description updated· DE
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: new iPad screenshots· DE
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: new screenshots5 screenshots (was 5) · DE
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: new screenshots5 screenshots (was 5) · CA
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: new screenshots5 screenshots (was 5) · AU
- 📦WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio updated to version 1.1.1Bug fixes and performance improvements.
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio added hidden keywords: radarwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio entered the top 100Top Free · Magazines & Newspapers · KR
- 📈WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio entered the top 100Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · CN
- 🆕WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: its developer released another app: DeepStalker: Phone Detective
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio added hidden keywords: newspaperswords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio updated to version 1.1.0Minor bug fixes and new improvements
- 📈WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio charting in a new country in 2 chartsChina · Russia
- 📦WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio: now updating weekly4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📈WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio charting in a new countrySouth Korea
- 📦WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio updated to version 1.0.6Minor bug fixes and new improvements
- 🎉WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio in-app event: Map of Incidents Near YouLIVE EVENT · until 31 Oct
- ✏️WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio added hidden keywords: 災害情報words in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio entered the top 100 in 3 chartsTop Grossing · News · GB · Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · GB · Top Free · News · US
- 📦WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio updated to version 1.0.5Minor bug fixes and new improvements
- 📦WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio updated to version 1.0.4Minor bug fixes and new improvements
- 🆕WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio first spotted by AppInsider#13 in Top Free · News · Japan
- 📦WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio version 1.0.3No release notes
- 🆕WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio 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
4.7 ★
58 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#28
Magazines & Newspapers GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
14
▼ -40% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-02. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A live police scanner and crime map application designed for residents, commuters, journalists, and public safety enthusiasts to monitor real-time emergency dispatches and local incident data. The app is currently ranking in the top 20 free charts in Japan and Canada within the Magazines & Newspapers category, while also appearing in grossing charts in Japan, indicating early traction in specific regional markets despite a low total rating count of 58.
Similar apps: Scanner Radio, Citizen, PulsePoint
WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio on the App Store
App details
App ID
6798656481
Publisher
Optimism Labs OU
On the store since
Aug 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 15.1+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
17+
1 content note below
Languages
11
EN FR DE ID IT JA MS PT ZH ES TR
Size
114 MB
Also listed in
Magazines & Newspapers
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio 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 WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio'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 WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio 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 WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchases
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | WatchOut PRO+ Weekly subscription | |
| 2 | WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio subscription | |
| 3 | WatchOut PRO+ Yearly subscription | |
| 4 | WatchOut Offer | |
| 5 | WatchOut Weekly subscription | |
| 6 | WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio subscription | |
| 7 | WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio subscription |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #28 |
| Japan | NewsGrossing | #31 |
 United States | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #92 |
| Japan | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #91 |
 United Kingdom | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #66 |
| United States | NewsFree | #195 |
| Japan | NewsFree | #191 |
 France | NewsGrossing | #85 |
| France | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #90 |
| France | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #80 |
 Italy | NewsGrossing | #61 |
| Italy | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #67 |
 Canada | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #87 |
| Canada | NewsGrossing | #88 |
| Italy | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #60 |
 Australia | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #98 |
| Australia | NewsGrossing | #99 |
| France | NewsFree | #151 |
| Canada | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #137 |
Apps near WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio on the chart
Magazines & Newspapers Grossing, around #28.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.7 ★
58 ratings
Measured
Ratings
58
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
14
▼ -40% vs the 2 weeks before
Lifetime rating
4.4★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
65/100
faster than 90% of News apps
New ratings by country (7)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
 Germany | 2.8 | 21% | ▼ -14% |
| Japan | 2.8 | 21% | ▲ +17% |
| Canada | 2.2 | 17% | ▼ -43% |
| United Kingdom | 1.8 | 14% | – |
| United States | 1.5 | 11% | – |
| Italy | 1.2 | 9% | – |
| Australia | 1 | 8% | – |
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 WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio
From recent reviews.
About WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio
WatchOut: Police Scanner & Crime Map
Stay informed with live police radio, real-time incident updates, and an interactive crime map. WatchOut helps you monitor police activity, emergency responses, and public safety events as they happen.
Whether you're commuting, traveling, or checking your neighborhood, WatchOut gives you the information you need to make smarter, safer decisions.
Features
• Listen to live police, fire, and EMS radio communications.
• Explore nearby incidents on an interactive crime map.
• Follow active emergency responses in real time.
• Discover crime reports and police activity near your location.
• Search cities, counties, and scanner channels across the country.
• Track developing events with live updates.
• Identify crime hotspots and recent public safety reports.
• Save your favorite locations for instant access.
• Receive timely alerts about important incidents nearby.
• Stay informed before heading home, to work, or while traveling.
Why WatchOut?
Awareness starts with information. Instead of wondering why sirens are outside or police are responding nearby, WatchOut lets you listen to live dispatch radio, explore crime reports, and follow incidents as they unfold.
Whether you're planning a trip, checking on your neighborhood, or keeping your family informed, WatchOut helps you stay connected to what's happening around you.
Perfect for
• Local residents
• Travelers
• Daily commuters
• Journalists
• Storm chasers
• Neighborhood watch groups
• Public safety enthusiasts
• Anyone who wants to stay informed
Premium Subscription
Unlock the full WatchOut experience with advanced alerts, enhanced crime map features, premium police scanner access, and additional safety tools.
Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the current subscription period ends.
You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time from your App Store account settings.
Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/watchoutapp/privacy-policy
Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/watchoutapp/terms-of-use
Download WatchOut today and always know what's happening around you.
Stay informed with live police radio, real-time incident updates, and an interactive crime map. WatchOut helps you monitor police activity, emergency responses, and public safety events as they happen.
Whether you're commuting, traveling, or checking your neighborhood, WatchOut gives you the information you need to make smarter, safer decisions.
Features
• Listen to live police, fire, and EMS radio communications.
• Explore nearby incidents on an interactive crime map.
• Follow active emergency responses in real time.
• Discover crime reports and police activity near your location.
• Search cities, counties, and scanner channels across the country.
• Track developing events with live updates.
• Identify crime hotspots and recent public safety reports.
• Save your favorite locations for instant access.
• Receive timely alerts about important incidents nearby.
• Stay informed before heading home, to work, or while traveling.
Why WatchOut?
Awareness starts with information. Instead of wondering why sirens are outside or police are responding nearby, WatchOut lets you listen to live dispatch radio, explore crime reports, and follow incidents as they unfold.
Whether you're planning a trip, checking on your neighborhood, or keeping your family informed, WatchOut helps you stay connected to what's happening around you.
Perfect for
• Local residents
• Travelers
• Daily commuters
• Journalists
• Storm chasers
• Neighborhood watch groups
• Public safety enthusiasts
• Anyone who wants to stay informed
Premium Subscription
Unlock the full WatchOut experience with advanced alerts, enhanced crime map features, premium police scanner access, and additional safety tools.
Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the current subscription period ends.
You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time from your App Store account settings.
Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/watchoutapp/privacy-policy
Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/watchoutapp/terms-of-use
Download WatchOut today and always know what's happening around you.
Latest updates
1.1.1
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
1.1.0
Minor bug fixes and new improvements
1.0.6
Minor bug fixes and new improvements
Store changes
What WatchOut: Police Scanner・Radio changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated
New iPad screenshots
New screenshots
5 screenshots (was 5)
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