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About Donut Scanner

Donut Scanner turns live police and emergency dispatch traffic into a real-time feed of what's happening around you — car accidents, fires, assaults, gun incidents, thefts, missing people, and more. KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW • Live incident feed built from real scanner traffic • Breaking section for urgent incidents as they unfold • Incident details with a location map, dispatch timeline, and playable dispatch audio when available • Weekly report: incident totals and trends near you, broken down by category • Search incidents, filter by category, and tune your feed to a radius around you — or browse city feeds EXPLORE THE MAP • Color-coded incident pins by category, with address and ZIP search • Sex offender registry mode: view registered offenders near any area, with photos, registration status, and offense details sourced from public state registries ALERTS, YOUR WAY • Pick how each category reaches you: instant push, end-of-day digest, in-app only, or off • Set your alert radius anywhere from 1 to 100 miles • Preview your estimated alert volume before you commit DONUT PRO Upgrade to our most powerful experience: • Ad-free • Saved locations — keep tabs on home, work, school, and the places your people are • Push alerts for incidents near your saved locations Coverage keeps growing across the U.S. If we haven't reached your area yet, you can still browse city feeds and look around on the Explore map. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://donutscanner.com/privacy

Ratings & reviews

4.4

13 ratings

5 ★ 85% 4 ★ 0% 3 ★ 0% 2 ★ 0% 1 ★ 15%

What’s new

Version 1.6 · Updated July 24, 2026

We've gone nationwide! Donut Scanner is available across the country, with coverage reaching roughly 80% of the U.S. population. What's new in this update: Sex Offender Name Search — Type a name in the Explore search bar while in Sex Offenders mode to find registered offenders, jump to them on the map, and view their full registry details. Improved UI — A refreshed Explore screen with cleaner frosted-glass controls and sharper details throughout the app. Sharper geolocation — Faster, more accurate positioning for results you can trust. Donut Scanner Pro — our most powerful experience: Ad-free — Nothing between you and seeing the crime in your area. Multiple location tracking — Keep tabs on all the places that matter to you. Real-time alerts — Get notified the moment something happens or set a catch-up alert and check them out later. Thanks for scanning with us. Update now to see everything new!

App privacy

The developer, donut scanner, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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