OpenMHz App Reviews

Doesn’t capture the calls in real time. You have to click on the list to hear the calls

I’ve had this scanner for a while and it’s been great but now it’s having feedback issues to where you can’t hear the call. I love that you can specifically save it for your area. Hopefully whoever made the apps can adjust whatever they need to so there is no more feedback/static. I would have given 5 stars but the app is unusable at the moment.

I’ve used this for 15 mins and I’m in love! Awesome free app. Kudos to the developer! My only wish is the audio would play in the background. But still gets 5 stars

Charlotte NC is not updating

Great app. I love how it operates! I listen to the Sacramento area but its squelches a lot. So most of the time I cannot hear any words only the squelching. Could this be fixed?

Simply the best police scanner app out there

Hey developer… this app is great I enjoy listening to the call that go on in the world quick question for you. Could you please add meridian Mississippi frequencies. Thanks so much.

Best scanner app with archives no cost!!!

Great app I'm sure they adding more departments and cities I use it on my iPhone 13 and it's plays a couple of transmissions/conversations out of nowhere it pauses 2-6 seconds into a transmission app freezes only choice is to force close and open it sometimes after that it reopen let you choice what department freezes again

I’ve been using this app for a few months now to listen to Charlotte (NC) Fire. In the past few weeks it has steadily lost ops channels. My husband is a dispatcher so I know when there’s a call on a certain channel and it’s not coming through. Lost Echo first, and now Hotel is gone, and all feeds have gotten very spotty and break up terribly. Sad, cause I really loved this app but it’s not much good to me anymore.

I absolutely love how being able to get down to listen to direct channels only.

Still working.

This is the one you want. They have hard to find channels. Ones even broadcastify doesn’t have.

This thing could be incredible but there’s a gazillion choices with very difficult to decipher names. A map of the sources with icons would be super helpful. Tags would also be awesome. Please let me know if any of those are available so I can bump up my review.

I wish it was truly live in real time and not just a recording. I provide two feeds and use it a few times daily to make sure my feeds are good . I just wish it was truely live

This scanner app is the best for local p25 phase 1&2 trunking systems. Can search by your state and city and listen in on your local PD/Fire/EMS/etc. You wont be restricted on only the big cities & counties systems like most of the scanner apps are.

Luke, just downloaded and started to play with this on iOS and Ventura/Mac/OS. Thanks for doing this. Had a couple of crashes already, but not to worry.... Do you have a support / funding link? Like to make a contribution to your noble effort.

Scrolling down the list of saved broadcasts, the list on the right just notes the time but not the day! If I wanted to check out what happened a week ago, that would be a lot of scrolling and impossible to keep track of the exact day I wanted. Maybe a way to jump from day to day would be helpful. I’d also like a way to favorite the location I listen to. Thank you. Also, does this not stay active in the background?

Great app, although it is hard to navigate. I do wish there was a feedback option as my local feed in Colorado Springs is down and I don’t my know who to contact so that they can get it fixed. This app and service is a valuable tool for the community.

Super useful. Glad to see that it’s available as a native app now. It would be nice if you could bookmark some systems so you don’t have to search for them each time.

Add a place where you can mark certain locations under your favorites at the search for them every time

I work in Philadelphia and love listening to this in the background where I work. I used to bring in a Uniden BCD436HP scanner but there are a lot of simulcast issues in the area. This is actually a lot better than using a scanner because it queues up the calls, so you don’t miss anything. My only wishlist items would be a way to “favorite” a system so I don’t have to find it each time and CarPlay support.

Excellent application and system. OpenMHZ is a great tool for first responders. The ability to go back and listen to radio traffic is a nice feature for training and recaps. By the way it's free! Thank you for all of the hard work and for making this available.

Fantastic for listening without a radio, however the inability to save your "favorite" channels or systems requires extra time to find or input exactly what you want to listen to.

This app used to be fairly reliable and consistent but the past few months it’s been consistently useless. Logs never show up the screen is just blank refreshing the page does nothing or breaks the app completely.

Needs iPad landscape mode.. nobody uses their iPad in portrait all the time. I’m confused on stations .. either it only covers stations that are odd and not in my areas (Texas!) or I don’t understand how to find them? Interface is clunky. I like the idea of the archive.. but I don’t want to listen to some farmer’s emergency network in BFE…