Name: Police Scanner Radio & Fire
Rating: 4.64 (528333 reviews)
Author: GordonEdwards.net LLC

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Analyst summary

Last verified 8 Aug 2026

Police Scanner Radio & Fire is a News application published by GordonEdwards.net LLC. It holds a 4.6-star average across 528,333 public ratings.

It is actively maintained: the most recent update we observed shipped 4 Aug 2026. The listing has been on the store for 14 yrs 184 d.

On the listing it is a 76.0 MB download, runs on iPhone 5s and newer · iPad.

A summary of the measured figures recorded on this page, kept current as the numbers change.

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Position in category

Each bar shows where Police Scanner Radio & Fire sits in the distribution of News apps we track. Percentiles are computed over apps with the field observed, not the whole category.

Rating volume 99th pct.

Average rating 63rd pct.

Download size 74th pct.

Price 5th pct.

Distribution computed with the category report · Full category report

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Review intelligence

Medium confidence

Users praise the app's functionality and new features but are frustrated by unclosable ads and unavailable content.

Computed from 114 public reviews, 16 May 2026–1 Aug 2026 · 32 in the last 30 days. Sentiment and themes are model-derived from the review text, not categories we imposed.

ads Negative · 13

content availability Negative · 10

app functionality Positive · 9

subscriptions and cost Negative · 3

new features Positive · 3

In users’ words · verbatim public App Store reviews, unedited

★★★★★

Great update

I enjoy seeing the text from the LAPD along with the audio 5🌠

Henri Graham/ Bach · v2.7 · 27 Jul 2026

★★☆☆☆

Ads make it challenging to use

The ads pop up and freeze the app. I then have to restart my phone when I want the feed to stop because I can’t get out of the ads. A simple pop up that you could close out of would be the function so much better.

Jsredin · v2.7 · 1 Aug 2026

Trajectory: stable · recomputed when new reviews arrive · limitations

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Health timeline

A dated record of what has actually happened to this app — launch, updates, price moves and record-board milestones. Every point is a stored observation, never an estimate.

Daily rating & price tracking began 9 Aug 2026; the growth curve fills in here as observations accrue.

4 Aug 2026 Update Updated to v2.7.1 The most recent version we observed on the listing.
13 Jul 2026 Board Entered News Kings Best position observed: #12.
5 Feb 2012 Launch Launched on the App Store Original release date stated on the listing.

Dates are read from the listing and from our own daily observations; the rating curve accrues going forward. How we track.

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Listing & advisories

Download size

76.0 MB

Minimum iOS

16.6

Devices supported

iPhone 5s and newer · iPad

Age rating

12+

Advisories

Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References · Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor · Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence · Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling

Screenshots

7 on the listing

Screenshots are hotlinked from the public store listing and belong to the publisher.

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Rankings this app appears on

No. 13 News Kings −1, 30d

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Peer set

Peers are well-rated apps in News, selected by category and rating — not by similarity of description, so the comparison is like-for-like on scale.

App	Rating	Ratings	Price
Police Scanner Radio & Fire	4.6	528.3K	Free
Watch Duty: Wildfire & Floods	4.9	46.8K	Free
The Atlantic Magazine	4.9	133.4K	Free
TrueShort - Stream True Crime	4.9	16.9K	Free
The Bulwark	4.9	1,966	Free
Podcast App & Player - Castbox	4.9	198.7K	Free
Church News	4.9	85.2K	Free

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Questions this record can answer

How was every figure on this page produced?

Each figure is read from public App Store metadata or computed from it, dated to when we read it, and traceable to a stored row. Percentiles, cadence, longevity and sentiment are derived by us; ratings, prices, sizes and dates are taken as the store reports them.

Why can the star average and recent opinion disagree?

The star average is cumulative over the app’s whole life, so recent opinion barely moves it. Any sentiment figure we compute reads only recent review text, which is why it turns first. Treat a divergence as an early indicator, not a verdict.

What can this page not tell you?

Downloads, revenue, active users, subscription pricing inside the app, and anything about security or data handling. None of those are visible in public store metadata, so we do not estimate them.

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Provenance

Source: Public App Store listing metadata and public customer reviews.
Collection window: Last read 8 Aug 2026. Listing re-read daily; reviews re-read on a slower cadence.
Derived figures: Percentiles, update cadence, longevity and sentiment are computed by us, not supplied by the store.
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