5-0 Radio Police Scanner for PC

★ ★ ★ 5-0 Radio Police Scanner Overview

What is 5-0 Radio Police Scanner?

The 5-0 Radio app is a police scanner app that provides access to live police, firefighter, aircraft, railroad, emergency, news, and ham radios. It is one of the most downloaded iOS apps since 2009 with tens of millions of users. The app offers a range of features, including the ability to listen to feeds in the background, add custom feeds, chat with other users, and share feeds with friends. It also has an integrated map that finds your location and the location of the feed, and a built-in police/EMS/fire/military codes and phonetic alphabet for easy interpretation.

Software Features and Description

1. - New “Feeds with Active Alerts” feature that shows you feeds with interesting on-going activity and breaking news happening right now along with a description of the alert, breaking info, location, and feed.

2. It is legal in most countries to listen to police feeds.

3. - This app will dynamically grab a new list of sources so that you will always be the first to get any new police feeds out there.

4. Now you can add feeds from the web by simply tapping on the feed's link via our browser.

5. - New police feeds and others are added on an hourly basis, so keep checking if we added yours recently.

6. Each feed comes from a person in that region with an expensive police scanner sharing the signal with you via the internet.

7. - The web browser also automatically detects feeds and integrates it with the radio.

8. Listen to feeds from the United States, Canada, Australia and more.

9. The delay between the real radio feed and this app is only a few seconds depending on buffering and internet speeds.

10. The largest collection of live police, firefighter, aircraft, railroad, emergency, news, and ham radios.

11. Email yourself a link to the feed, and open that link on your browser or with your favorite mp3 player.

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Download and install 5-0 Radio Police Scanner on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
5-0 Radio Police Scanner	Get App ↲	424,376 4.60	Smartest Apps LLC

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install 5-0 Radio Police Scanner app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using 5-0 Radio Police Scanner on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "5-0 Radio Police Scanner"
The search will reveal the 5-0 Radio Police Scanner app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once 5-0 Radio Police Scanner is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including 5-0 Radio Police Scanner.
Now enjoy 5-0 Radio Police Scanner on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	Smartest Apps LLC	4.60	56.0.0

Get 5-0 Radio Police Scanner on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get Free on Mac	Smartest Apps LLC	424376	4.60

Download on Android: Download Android

5-0 Radio Police Scanner functions

- Feeds with Active Alerts feature that shows feeds with interesting on-going activity and breaking news happening right now

- Listen to feeds in the background and pause the feeds via the media controls on your device

- Automatically attempts to reconnect the feed if you lose the connection

- Listen to feeds on your desktop/laptop computer

- Ability to add custom feeds

- Chat with other users

- Share feeds with your friends by email

- Worldwide coverage

- List scanners by county

- Integrated map that finds your location and the location of the feed

- Built-in police/EMS/fire/military codes and phonetic alphabet

- Save your favorites to the front screen of the app for quick one-tap access

- Dynamically grab a new list of sources

- See the popularity of each feed

- Choose new skins or make your own

- New police feeds and others are added on an hourly basis

- Upgrade to 5-0 Radio Pro to remove ads, add even more feeds, and new features.

✔ Pros:

- Provides real-time audio stream for emergency services

- Easy to use interface for finding available frequencies

- Can be used as a backup to portable and pager

- Free to use with ads

☹ Cons:

- Limited to frequencies offered, cannot adjust frequency with a dial

- State police transmissions not available

- New ad system can be intrusive and interrupt audio stream

- App has become less reliable and responsive over time

Top Pcmac Reviews

One of the best apps in the store

By Arcanum1 (Pcmac user)

I've used this app for several years and gladly paid for the upgrade. I'm in public safety, and this app is my backup to my portable and pager. Here are a few notes on getting the most out of the app... The audio is a data stream (like listening to an Internet radio station). Therefore, it uses both battery/adapter power. Unless you have either unlimited data or a wifi connection, you might go over your limit. Also, it's a good idea to use a power adapter and not batteries. The audio typically comes from local scanners connected to the Internet. Therefore the quality may vary. Also, there may be a lag from the time a station transmits, until you actually hear it. All in all, it's a great app and highly recommended.
A must-have.

By jfrigginp1! (Pcmac user)

Not an old-school scanner where one could adjust the frequency with a dial, and you’ll obviously choose only the from frequencies offered. Aside from that, I do use it often. Once I look for the area I’m, I’ll see what’s available. Often I can hear whatever ambulance or police car just went by and the sirens in the background as they rush to the scene. State police do not transmit here as far as I’ve seen. It comes in real time, and I’ve made sure my family had it on their devices. I don’t review often, and usually only when the situation prompts me to give a horrible review. You can take that for what it’s worth. Get the app.
Ads are so LOUD

By Farley213 (Pcmac user)

I love this app and use it a lot. I’ve also recommended to many people. So why the two stars? I get that there needs to be ads to keep it free (thank you btw) but the new ad system is horrible. We had a big emergency on our street and needed to know what was happening and threw the app on and the video ad came on super loud and played over what was being said in the scanner. Missed the whole thing and whether or not we needed to be concerned. Now every time I put this on, the ads are just more than intrusive. Also, after having the app going for a while, I went to see if there were any new feeds in my area and got nailed with another ad. I have the volume up to hear the scanner and the ad just scared the hell out of me and my neighbors. Please go back to just the rotating banner ads. The video ones are just horrible and defeat the purpose of being able to throw it on fast when there is trouble nearby.
Garbage

By ammonoosuc (Pcmac user)

I downloaded this app years and years ago. It used to be great...fast, responsive, reliable, and minimal ads. Now? The app is absolute garbage. Every single time you open a feed, a totally irrelevant, loud, useless ad takes up the whole screen. Often, you can’t find the exit button to close the ad, and frequently this causes you to miss important audio. Want to switch feeds? More ads! Listening to an event or a feed for an extended period of time? Watch and wait as it silently pauses the feed every 8 minutes and 52 seconds on the dot. I, along with many other first responders, use this app to get vital radio traffic, and it just isn’t reliable enough for that anymore. This ad merely pulls audio feeds from Broadcastify, if you’re going to pay for a premium source, why pay this developer who has sold out when you could just pay the source? This app asked me to write a review for years, so here it finally is. 0 out of 5 stars, get something else.