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App Description

Thank you for making 5-0 Radio the #1 most downloaded police scanner app. 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.

Join the tens of thousands of new users daily and tap into over 50,000 live police, firefighter, emergency medical ambulance, emt, air traffic control (ATC), railroad, ham radio, NOAA weather, news, talk, sports, and music stations.

* Why Upgrade to Pro? *
- Adds More Feeds
- Removes Ads
- Record Feeds and Email Recordings
- Sleep Timer / Alarm
- Siren Noise maker
- Access to cool new backgrounds
- Even more Airport feeds
- Even more Railroad feeds
- Even more NOAA weather feeds
- Get new feature updates
+ More

"Hot App of the Day" - Appmodo
As seen on NPR, CNN, New York Times, 9to5 Mac, MacWorld, Wired Magazine, and various other 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 *
- New “Feeds with Active Alerts” feature that 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. There are feeds in many parts of the world, including USA, Canada, Australia, Chile, Russia, Japan, Sweden, UK, Israel, Europe, 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 can browse the web while using this app. The built-in web browser is a powerful browser that can block ads.
- Use the built-in web browser to browse the web for more feeds such as air traffic control feeds, weather, and railroad.
- Search for air traffic control feeds by the airport code (i.e. LAX, JFK, HKG).
- Share feeds to your friends by email. All they need is a computer or iPhone to listen to your feeds.
- Listen to feeds on your own desktop computer or laptop. Just email a link to the feed to yourself and open it with iTunes.
- You location not listed here? Add your own feeds. There are plenty of feeds on the internet. Now you can add them all to one app.
- Your favorite feeds show up as soon as you start the app, and they can be sorted/edited by you.

Feed Requests
Want to make a feed request? Go to https://SmartestApple.com for more information on how to do so.

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • April 25, 2011 New version 23.0
  • April 19, 2011 New version 22.0
  • March 21, 2011 New version 21.0
  • January 13, 2011 New version 20.0
  • January 05, 2011 New version 19.0
  • August 16, 2010 New version 17.0
  • July 30, 2010 New version 16.0
  • July 08, 2010 New version 15.0
  • June 15, 2010 New version 14.0
  • May 01, 2010 New version 13.0
  • April 15, 2010 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
  • April 13, 2010 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
  • April 09, 2010 New version 12.0
  • April 06, 2010 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
  • April 05, 2010 New version 11.0
  • April 04, 2010 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
  • March 30, 2010 New version 10.0
  • March 25, 2010 New version 9.0
  • March 19, 2010 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
  • March 18, 2010 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
  • March 17, 2010 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
  • March 15, 2010 New version 8.0
  • March 13, 2010 New version 7.0
  • March 12, 2010 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
  • February 20, 2010 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
  • February 16, 2010 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
  • February 15, 2010 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
  • February 04, 2010 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
  • January 28, 2010 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
  • January 28, 2010 New version 6.0
  • January 10, 2010 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
  • January 04, 2010 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
  • December 23, 2009 New version 5.0
  • December 12, 2009 New version 4.0
  • December 05, 2009 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
  • December 20, 2011 New version 24.0
  • April 26, 2012 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
  • April 26, 2012 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $1.99
  • April 26, 2012 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
  • May 09, 2012 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $1.99
  • May 13, 2012 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
  • May 30, 2012 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $1.99
  • May 31, 2012 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
  • June 01, 2012 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
  • June 05, 2012 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
  • June 08, 2012 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $0.99
  • June 10, 2012 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
  • June 13, 2012 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
  • June 20, 2012 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $0.99
  • June 20, 2012 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
  • June 21, 2012 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
  • July 12, 2012 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $0.99
  • July 13, 2012 Price increase: $0.99 -> $2.99
  • August 24, 2012 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $0.99
  • August 25, 2012 Price increase: $0.99 -> $2.99
  • October 16, 2012 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $0.99
  • October 17, 2012 Price increase: $0.99 -> $2.99
  • April 20, 2013 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $0.99
  • April 24, 2013 Price increase: $0.99 -> $2.99
  • May 11, 2013 New version 28.0
  • May 22, 2013 New version 28.1
  • September 20, 2013 New version 29.0
  • October 09, 2013 New version 30.0
  • October 17, 2013 New version 30.1
  • October 28, 2013 New version 31.0
  • November 20, 2013 New version 31.3
  • March 27, 2014 New version 32.0
  • June 27, 2014 New version 33.0
  • September 06, 2014 Price increase: $2.99 -> $3.99
  • October 04, 2014 New version 36.0
  • April 28, 2015 New version 39.1
  • December 07, 2017 New version 40.0
  • January 11, 2019 New version 41.1
  • January 19, 2019 New version 41.2
  • January 20, 2019 New version 41.3
  • May 01, 2019 New version 41.4
  • July 23, 2019 New version 42.0
  • December 31, 2019 Price increase: $3.99 -> $4.99
  • May 24, 2020 New version 45.0
  • June 07, 2020 New version 46.0
  • May 19, 2021 New version 50.0
  • December 11, 2021 New version 51.0
  • August 07, 2022 New version 52.0
  • September 23, 2023 New version 60.0
  • November 03, 2023 Price increase: $4.99 -> $9.99

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