Lots of scanners to choose from. Good variety. Kind of a lot of static but I guess that's not possible to avoid. Another minor complaint is that sometimes a scanner is misidentified. For example it will say it's a railroad scanner but it's actually police and fire. Not too many ads. Sometims there will be one annoying one. All in all interesting and enjoyable to listen to!
When you first open this app, it comes up with a page with a 3 day free trial, then $29.99/yr. There is no apparent way to decline this offer. My 12 yr old son clicked accept, since he couldn't figure out how to get around it. We got charged the $29.99. I immediately canceled it, but was informed that there was no refunds. Super sneaky way to make a buck!
This app is the best one. It's free and the ads are not intrusive. It gives me all the channels I need and want. Once I tuned in to a Puerto Rico channel and it was up and running and sounded clear & smooth. The biggest bonus for me was getting the NOAA weather radio!! I bought two of the little walkie talkie looking radios this year and they were garbage. So I'm very happy with this app! Great job!
The best app for listening to scanners nationwide, and in almost real time.for premium membership which is affordable, you can download feeds, but for FREE you can boost the volume and mess with the frequencies for each channel, so that you don't miss anything - even when the preset frequencies are a little off. I love this app, it plays over Bluetooth, doesn't need constant updates and doesn't take too much data!
Good app and all except for the massive increase in subscription. Last year I paid $3.99 a month, now it's $24.00. Maybe I missed something, but damn... Besides the excessive inflation increase, it's a great app, tested it against a real scanner, it's in real time, maybe a couple seconds if that behind. It allows me to know what is happening when I hear sirens and see cops flying out of town... I do appreciate having that knowledge instantly on my phone anywhere I'm at...
It's great when a feed is working. But when the feed you listen to has been down for a week and half now, there is NO support to get a feed fixed. Emailing feed, reporting it, and contacting Broadcastify has done nothing to fix a feed that says it broadcasts an area when it does not. Very frustrating. Plus the feed is down for days each month. Description on feed says enjoy, well not enjoying.
It's always been awesome. Unfortunately, from time to time, the operators who are providing these feeds have equipment failure, or they can no longer afford to maintain their connection to the app (which can be for any number of reasons), so you loose access to listen into that city or county connections. I say this as a friendly reminder, of your favorite connection is cut off, politely let the Admins know of the issue, and go find another station. Beyond that. I love this app.
The ads are ridiculous. This is my first time installing the app in maybe 5 years, and the ads have become so intrusive and annoying that it makes it hard to use. Full page ads that you click on if you try swiping back. There's also a full page ad for their subscription that pops up every time you open the app, with a tiny little x hidden up in the corner. I almost immediately uninstalled it. Trying to get people to buy your app by irritating the free users isn't the way to do it.
I don't use this app much. Pretty much used it when there was severe weather in the area to listen to the storm spotters. So, I did mind the banner adds. However, when I closed the app the other night after some bad weather and it splashed up a full screen add, and I couldn't close it. That was too much. I don't like the app that much, uninstalled.
I've been using this app for a long time. I guess they're AD money isn't enough, greed got the best of them and now charging a fee. Wish there was a counter on here to see how many uninstall this app (edit. No I updated the app and it prompted me to use the free 3 day trial and after the 3 day trial was up i would be charged a monthy fee and had to enter my credit card info to continue. This is review was posted right after that.)
