“Too many dumb pop up ads — Too many dumb pop up ads that you can not close in an attempt to force you to purchase another dumb game or app.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 541 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.6 ★88,739 ratings
—Downloads
9+Age rating
50 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
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.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 67.6 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 67.6, updated 2026-04-30.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 37 distinct reviewers — 6.8% of the 541 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (3 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 541 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Ads are out of control — I thought when I paid for this there were not supposed to be any ads. The ads are full screen and nearly impossible to get rid of without closing the app and opening again. Disappointing”
“FORCED ads — It’s one thing to have ads to keep the free app running. But it’s next level when the full screen ad gives you zero ability to X out of it for ridiculously long period of time before even being able to get audio. It’s at the…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 67.6.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown3
Lowest$2.99
Highest$39.99
5-0 Radio Pro+$39.99
5-0 Radio Pro+$2.99
5-0 Radio Pro+$9.99