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Police Scanner: Crime Radar
Sepia Software LLC · Lifestyle

We analyzed this app across 3 independent signals and corroborated nothing unfair. That is a signal, not an audit.

Nothing unfair corroborated · unauditedConfidence: High3 signal sources406 reviews scannedNot human-reviewedas of 2026-10-04
 Which version this describes

This analysis describes version 2.0.21 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 2.0.21, updated 2026-10-01.

What the analysis found

Each finding shows what agreed and how strongly. Automated analysis

One source only — shown, not confirmed 3

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.

Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 16 distinct reviewers (3.9% of 406 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.5% of 406 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (2.0% of 406 reviews scanned)

What reviewers said

Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.

Aggressive ad load

Ads — Even though I paid for the yearly subscription, I’m still having pop up ads.

1★ · App Store · 2023-01-25

Overrun with full screen ads every 2 minutes. — Awful!

5★ · App Store · 2022-02-07

Way too many advertisements! — Not worth it try another app. P.S. I was offered money to write a positive review.

1★ · App Store · 2021-12-29

Trial converts to a charge

Doesn’t have my county — Doesn’t have my county, and I haven’t found where to cancel my free trial before I get charged

1★ · App Store · 2026-05-15

Misleading 7 day free trial — This was supposed to be a 7 day free trial before charging the full amount and instead was charged the full amount. No free trial. I want a refund!

1★ · App Store · 2026-05-14

Why didn’t I get the free 7 day trial? — I hit the button that said start 7 day free trial and it charged me immediately, how do I get in touch with this company?

1★ · App Store · 2025-12-30

Hard to cancel

DO NOT DOWNLOAD — If you’ve seen ads of this app, you’d know that they say “This is police scanner, it is a completely free app” NOT FREE. THEY FORCE YOU TO GET A FREE TRIAL TO EVEN SEE THE MAP, AND ONCE YOU GET THE TRIAL YOU CANNOT…

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-16

Cancellation — This app make it very difficult to cancel

1★ · App Store · 2026-02-21

No way to cancel!!! — Watch out. You’ll be paying for this one forever.

1★ · App Store · 2024-10-23

What this app sells

Every purchase the store discloses. Store listing
 What this app sells

From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.

Subscriptions6
Police Scanner Premium - WeeklyWeekly$4.99
Police Scanner Premium - MonthlyMonthly$9.99
Police Scanner MonthlyMonthly$9.99
Police Scanner Premium - 1 YearYearly$39.99
Police Scanner Sub - 1 YearYearly$39.99
Police Scanner Premium YearlyYearly$29.99
Ad removal1
Unlocks All Features + No AdsTerm not stated$49.99
Show 1 more purchase we couldn’t categorise

These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.

Police Scanner PremiumTerm not stated$4.99
This list is cut off. Apple shows at most 10 in-app purchases, and this app is at the limit — so it very likely sells more than we can see.

How the automated analysis works

Automated, corroborated, and never human-reviewed without a person.

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

 Not yet human-reviewed

Several measurements above say “Not assessed” because no artefact we hold can answer them. A human review is what resolves those — and it can remove a favourable band as easily as add one.

Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

 How this page was produced
Analyzed 2026-10-04 Version analyzed: 2.0.213 independent signals406 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.