# The #2 result for "crime radar" isn't the original: a side hustle riding a brand's App

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> The original is driving brand searches through creator videos on TikTok that reach tens of millions of views. This one ranks #2 for "crime radar" in the App Store and catches some people who search or tap the wrong thing.

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Crime Radar · Muhtadi Muhammad

# The #2 result for "crime radar" isn't the original: a side hustle riding a brand

**What it is** An app that maps public police incident reports from the UK and about a dozen US cities. Its name and icon are copied from CrimeRadar, a hit from the NewsBreak family, and it charges a weekly subscription.

**Why it took off** The original gets brand searches from TikTok creator videos with tens of millions of views. Searching "crime radar" on the App Store, this app ranks #2, catching some people who searched wrong or tapped the wrong result.

**C** **How you could play it** Don't clone another same-named app. Target free apps that get their installs from TikTok but have a clear gap, and build a direct alternative (for example, a version that doesn't send false alerts and doesn't track you). Go after "alternative"-style search terms, and use the original's false-alert news as material.

Grade C: the brand-term overflow tactic is worth learning, but this app has no product strength. Three copycats already crowd that spot, and a copied name and icon can get pulled at any time, so following it isn't worth it. Few people know about this yet

Data (updated daily) · launched 2026-09-13 · US store rating 155 · charted in 11-08 of 5 stores

iOS · best category chart rank · by store

US store Canada UK

Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations). Lower rank is higher; gaps mean it wasn't charted that day

iOS · rating count · US store

Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations). Apple doesn't publish download counts; rating growth is a proxy for downloads.

In the US App Store, a crime map called "Crime Radar" jumped to #17 in the US News free chart in October. One person built it, and the name, subtitle and icon all imitate a hit app. Its downloads mostly come from people paid to pull them in on TikTok, plus people who searched wrong, and it earns from a $2.99-a-week subscription. The business does bring in some money, but there's only one tactic worth taking from it, and that tactic isn't really its own.

### A blank map

In October 9, a user in southeastern Virginia left a 1-star review titled "Horrible! Don't buy the annual pass!!!":

> The map is empty. No crime in southeast Virginia?! Come on. I asked for a refund and the company never replied. Switch to another app and save your money!

The same day another user wrote: "It shows my house and my neighborhood, but says we're in Canada, and shows nothing." In October 15: "Every time I open it, it's an empty map. Useless."

In October 28, someone spelled it out in a review titled "Scam that is a direct copy of another app": this app is copying an app called CrimeRadar - Dispatch Audio, "and charges for features the original offers free", "the name, icon and store description are all copied", and the developer's contact details and privacy policy are just a Google Form.

The app is called Crime Radar, built by developer Muhtadi Muhammad, launched in September 13, and this is the only product on the account.

### Who it copied from

The original is **CrimeRadar Dispatch Audio** , from Scoopz, part of NewsBreak. Its pitch: AI transcribes public police radio across the US in real time and pushes an alert when an incident happens nearby. It's free and monetized with ads. As of Nov 6 it has 46.7k iOS ratings, consistently sits in the top 5 of the US free News chart, and adds more than 200 ratings a day. The Android version has 4.61M installs on Google Play (11-06).

Most of its volume was bought through TikTok. On Feb 9, @lifeaccordingtoeli posted "Professional neighborhood snoop @Crime Radar," with 25.2M views; on Jul 28, @decker's "Stay informed in your area with CrimeRadar" got 1k 15.5M views; @ttjason and @yamiflex each have over 480 million. From late October into early November, a batch of smaller accounts with only tens to hundreds of views posted nearly identical copy: "Download Crime Radar now!" "Hear Sirens? Now You Can Know What's Going On" (TikTok, 10-30 to 11-05).

Note that in these videos, what's said aloud and shown in captions is often the two-word "Crime Radar," and the original's TikTok account display name is also "Crime Radar." But its App Store name is the single word "CrimeRadar."

### How it stuck itself on

Put the two apps side by side:

|  | Original | This app |
|---|---|---|
| Name | CrimeRadar Dispatch Audio | Crime Radar |
| Subtitle | —— | Dispatch Audio & Crime Alerts |
| Icon | Black background, segmented location pins, green left, blue right, orange below, a sound wave in the middle | Black background, segmented location pins, green left, blue right, orange below, with a masked burglar in the middle |
| Live police radio | Yes, AI transcription | States in its own description that it provides no live 911 or live dispatch audio |
| Coverage | All of the US | UK, plus Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and about a dozen other US cities |
| Pricing | Free | $2.99/week (3-day trial) or $19.99/year |

Every keyword in the original's name, it moved into its own name and subtitle. On Nov 6, searching "crime radar" on the US App Store, the original was #1, and **this app was #2** , ahead of Citizen (525k ratings) and NewsBreak (iTunes search, 11-06). Some people who searched the two-word "crime radar" after watching TikTok tapped the second result.

The product itself is a template: it plots police incidents from the UK's police.uk and open-data portals in about a dozen US cities onto a map, with a heatmap, a "check incidents along a route" feature, and an alert within a 1,000-metre radius. The store description is clearly AI-generated and pasted in unchanged. The data-source line still has an unfilled placeholder: "including [list portals, e.g. police.uk under Open Government Licence v3.0]". It hasn't been updated since it shipped in October 10 1.0.2. Most of the US has no data at all, which is why people keep reporting "the map is empty."

### How much it's actually getting

Not much, but enough for one person to get by (inferred).

- US News free chart: 10-28 #18,11-02 at best, 17 #11-04, 28,11-06 #34. It has never made the overall chart. The spots from #15 to #35 on this chart are crowded with police scanner apps and community apps, so the bar is low.

- Ratings: 10-28 has 88, 11-06 has 143, it added 39 over 7 days, with an average of 4.24 (US App Store). Over the same period the original added 7 ratings in 1,531 days. This app's growth is roughly **2–3%** of the original's, about the size of the small group who searched the brand term and tapped the wrong result.

- It has also hit the news free chart in 16 other countries, including Angola, Estonia and Lithuania, but those markets have only 0 ratings. Small countries' news charts can be reached with a handful of downloads, so this doesn't show paid acquisition.

- It has no Top Grossing rank, so its revenue isn't visible from outside. With a weekly subscription and a 3-day trial, the money probably comes from people who installed by mistake and got charged without noticing the trial had ended. That's where reviews like "don't buy the annual pass" and "no one answers refunds" come from.

It doesn't run any marketing of its own. I couldn't find its TikTok or X accounts or any press coverage. The website is Google Sites with a Google Form.

### It's not the only one riding the name

In the same search results, #7 "Crime Radar USA" (4 ratings) and #8 "Crime Radar: Police Scanner" (126 ratings) are both same-named apps that appeared this year. #4 "Police Scanner: Crime Radar" is an old police scanner app that has been around since 2016, so it doesn't count as a copycat. There's also a group of open-data crime map apps launched in 2026 (Crime Map: Local Safety Alerts, SafeZone, Lantern and others). They do roughly the same thing, but they don't have the brand term in their names, and they have between 0 and 73 ratings.

This comparison makes one thing clear: the same map template with the brand term attached has over a hundred ratings, and without it, almost none. **What it sells isn't a map. It's the second spot in the search results.**

And websites doing the same thing (SpotCrime, CrimeMapping and others) have existed for a long time, for free.

### The original's weak spots

The original has problems too. At the end of 2025, BBC Verify reported that its AI transcription repeatedly pushed drills and misheard radio chatter out as shooting alerts, and the company publicly apologised. Many people in local Facebook groups and scanner-enthusiast forums criticise it. In November 3, Fort Worth creator @rico.tv8 broke down an alert that scared a lot of people: "Crime Radar pushed a notice that there were gunshots at a school in Tarrant County and a suspect was down." He pulled up the raw radio recording and checked it line by line.

False alerts, scaring people, privacy: these are the original's real gaps. This copycat fixes none of them. It's just worse, and it charges money.

### If it were you

**C** Don't build a fourth "Crime Radar." The one thing to learn is this: watch for apps that build large-scale TikTok creator campaigns, and check whether their brand term has taken over the store results. But copying the name and icon gets complaints and takedowns at any time, and this brand term already has three copycats crowding it.

**Who it suits** : solo developers who know ASO and can quickly ship a decent app, and who want to build a direct alternative rather than a reskin.

**Who it doesn't suit** : anyone planning to copy this app again (the #2 spot is already taken, and a later entrant landing at #7 or #8 won't get meaningful traffic, plus takedown risk). Also anyone hoping to earn from an open-data crime map alone (the data doesn't cover most of the US, and free websites already do this).

**How to do it** : find an app whose original is free, gets its installs from TikTok, but has a clear gap. Take CrimeRadar as an example: the gap is false alerts. Build a version that only pushes incidents with an official source or multiple confirmations, marks unconfirmed ones as such, or positions itself as a privacy version that doesn't track location. Make your own name and icon, and target store terms like "alternative," "without false alerts" and "no tracking." Subscriptions can work, but the trial period and renewal terms should be on the first screen. Don't rely on accidental installs and forgotten cancellations to make money.

**How to get users** : ride the original's attention, not its name. Every time the original makes the news or goes viral on TikTok over a false alert (like @rico.tv's video8), that's your material: "The same night, here's what we sent and what we didn't."

**When to get in early** : this kind of opportunity follows the original's ad spend. It's still posting new TikTok videos (small accounts were still posting in early November), and once the spending stops, the search overflow stops too.

**Where this reading goes wrong** : ① This Crime Radar was pulled by Apple, while the two other same-named apps are still live. The problem is that the icon is too similar, and the brand term still converts. ② After it was pulled, the official brand search's #2 slot switched to another copycat, and its ratings kept rising. The spillover is stable, and building a legitimate alternative is worth serious effort. ③ The official TikTok has stopped posting new videos, and it has dropped out of the top 20 of the free News chart. The spillover is gone, and this approach has run its course.

### Data and sources

- Store: App Store US store page, description, price (11-06); free News chart rank in the US and 16 other countries (10-28 to 11-06); rating count (10-28 to 11-06); user reviews (10-04 to 11-04).

- Search results: iTunes search for "crime radar", US store, 11-06.

- Original: App Store rating and charts (11-06); Google Play installs (11-06); BBC, "AI app causes distress across US with false crime alerts"; NewsBreak Ads help center, "CrimeRadar" page.

- TikTok: public videos and view counts for the search "crimeradar" (11-06).

- The "enough to live on" figure and the subscription revenue are inferred. Real downloads, revenue and refund rates aren't visible from outside.

[iOS store page ↗](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6806774360)

**Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report**

Competitors

| Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from this one |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CrimeRadar Dispatch Audio(Scoopz/NewsBreak) | iOS | 2025-05-27 | 46.6k ratings, 7 days +1,531, US News free #3–4 | Original: AI transcribes live US police radio, free and ad-supported. The copycat has no live radio, covers only a dozen or so cities, and charges weekly. |
| CrimeRadar: Dispatch Alerts(Scoopz LLC) | Android | 2025-05-22 | 4.61M installs, +102k in 7 days | The original's Android version. The copycat has no Android version. |
| Citizen: Safety & Live Video | iOS | 2016-02 | 525k ratings, US News free #10 | Live alerts plus user livestreams plus a paid Protect tier, with far wider coverage. |
| Police Scanner: Crime Radar(Sepia Software) | iOS | 2016-01 | 28.4k ratings | Listens to police radio, no open-data crime map. |
| Crime Radar: Police Scanner(Mariia Devytera) | iOS | 2025 | 126 rating | Another same-name copycat, ranking #8 in search. |
| Crime Map: Local Safety Alerts / SafeZone / Lantern, etc. | iOS | 2026 | 0–73 ratings | Open-data crime map templates of the same kind, but they didn't catch the brand name, so no volume. |
| Nextdoor / Neighbors by Ring / NewsBreak | Big-company features | 2013–2018 | Millions of ratings. | Community safety posts and local news, free. |
| SpotCrime / CrimeMapping, etc. | Web | Years | Not verified | Free open-data crime map websites doing the same job. |

Where users come from

- **Confirmed** **App Store brand-search spillover** : searching "crime radar" in the US puts it at #2, just behind the original. Its name, subtitle (Dispatch Audio & Crime Alerts) and icon all copy the original. Reviews call it a direct copy.

- Inferred **The original's TikTok creator and alt-account network (indirect)** : #crimeradar videos: @lifeaccordingtoeli 25.2M views, @decker1k 15.5M, @ttjason 4.9M; 10–November there's also a batch of small accounts with tens to hundreds of views shouting "Download Crime Radar now". Users searching "Crime Radar" land on the copycat.

- Inferred **Small-country News chart stuffing** : charted in 16 storefronts, e.g. #17 in Angola and #26 in Estonia. But those storefronts have ratings counts of only 0, a low bar, so this doesn't prove paid acquisition.

## Crime Radar (iOS 6806774360) research report

> One-liner: this is a **brand-riding clone app** . The original is "CrimeRadar Dispatch Audio" from Scoopz, part of NewsBreak (iOS 46.6k ratings, US News free chart #3–4; 4.61M Android installs). The original ran a large number of creator and smaller-account videos on TikTok telling people to "download CrimeRadar." The individual developer Muhtadi Muhammad launched a same-named "Crime Radar" with the subtitle "Dispatch Audio & Crime Alerts" in 2026-09-13, copying the original's colors and icon style. It ranks **#2** for "crime radar" in App Store search, right behind the original. Most of its installs are **misdirected traffic spilling over from the original's brand search** , monetized through a $2.99/week subscription. The product itself is a map template built from public incident data. Reviews focus on "the map is empty" and "I was tricked into an annual plan."

### 1. How to read the data card

- **US News free chart** : 10-28 #18 → 11-02 #17 (best) → 11-04 #28 → 11-06 #34 (appstore.app_day, us). Never charted overall.

- **Ratings** : 10-28 has 88, 11-06 has 143; 7 days added 39, averaging 3–13 per day (appstore.app_day). iTunes lookup 11-06 shows 148, average 4.24. The version has stayed at 1.0.2 (released 10-10) with no updates since.

- **Versus the original** : over the same period the original added about 200–250 ratings a day (11-06 had 222 that day), 1,531 over 7 days (appstore.app_profile, us). The copycat's ratings growth is roughly **2–3%** of the original's, consistent with "a small slice of people misinstalling via brand search".

- **Small-country charts** : charted in 16 storefronts' News free chart: best #17 in Angola, #26 in Estonia, #55 in Lithuania, #64 in Croatia, #78 in Ghana, #80 in Mexico, #91 in Canada, plus Hungary, the Philippines, Russia, the UK, Poland and Denmark (appstore.chart_rank, 10-28 to 11-06). These storefronts all have ratings counts of 0. The News category chart in small countries has a very low bar, and a handful of downloads can get you listed. The "paid/stuffed traffic" evidence cited in the recall is **insufficient** : it's more likely scattered organic installs, or the developer testing ad spend, though this is unverified.

- **Corrections needed in the recall reasoning** : the recall says "Similarweb 11/1 #18", which matches our database's 11-01 #18. But the claim "broke into the top 20" needs discounting: between US News free #15–35 sit apps like Police Scanner, Squawster and Neighbors by Ring, so the bar isn't high.

### 2. Copying evidence (is it really riding the brand?)

1. **Name** : on the App Store the original is "CrimeRadar Dispatch Audio", on Android "CrimeRadar: Dispatch Alerts". This app is "Crime Radar" with the subtitle "Dispatch Audio & Crime Alerts" (App Store page, developer page), carrying over the original's keywords wholesale.

2. **Icon** : the original is a segmented map pin on black, green left, blue right, orange at the bottom, with sound waves in the middle. The copycat is also black with a segmented pin, green left, blue right, orange below, but swaps the middle for a masked thief (side-by-side comparison of two 512px icons, artworkUrl).

3. **Search position** : 11-06 searching "crime radar" in the US App Store: result #1 is the original, and **#2 is this app** , ahead of Citizen (525k ratings) and NewsBreak (iTunes Search API, queried via macmini).

4. **User accusation** : 10-28 has a 1-star review titled "Scam that is a direct copy of another app", saying it is "directly copying another app called CrimeRadar - Dispatch audio… asks you to pay for features that are free on the original… directly copying their original logo" (appstore.review).

5. **Features don't match the name** : the original's selling point is "AI live transcription of police radio". The copycat's own description says it "does not provide live 911 or live dispatch audio", offering only "Where available… archived dispatch audio". The description also still contains an unreplaced template placeholder, "including [list portals, e.g. police.uk under Open Government Licence v3.0]", suggesting the copy was AI-generated and pasted in unedited.

6. **Coverage** : the data comes from the UK's police.uk, plus open-data portals for a dozen or so US cities such as Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. Most of the US has no data, hence reviews like "Southeastern Virginia has no crime?!", "the map is empty every day" and "it says I'm in Canada" (appstore.review 10-09, 10-15).

### 3. Competitors

| Competitors | Platform | Launched | Scale | How it differs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CrimeRadar Dispatch Audio (Scoopz Inc. / NewsBreak-linked, bundle com.newsbreak.radar) | iOS | 2025-05-27 | 46.6k ratings, 7 days +1,531; US News free #3–4, overall #77–136 | The original being copied. AI transcribes public US police radio nationwide, pushes alerts live, is free and ad-supported (NewsBreak Ads integrated). The copycat has neither live radio nor nationwide coverage, and charges weekly. |
| CrimeRadar: Dispatch Alerts(Scoopz LLC) | Android | 2025-05-22 | 4.61M installs, 7 days +102k (googleplay library) | The Android version of the same app. The copycat has no Android version. |
| Citizen: Safety & Live Video(sp0n) | iOS/Android | 2016 | iOS 525k ratings, US News free #10 | An established real-time safety alert and livestream app, with a paid Protect tier. |
| Police Scanner: Crime Radar(Sepia Software) | iOS | 2016-01 | 28.4k ratings | A police-radio listening app that already had "Crime Radar" in its name. |
| Crime Radar: Police Scanner(Mariia Devytera,6751895576) | iOS | 2025 | 126 rating | Another same-name copycat, from the same kind of operator. |
| Crime Radar USA(Francis Clarke,6753016343) | iOS | 2025-09-29 | 4 rating | Same-name traffic, never really took off. |
| Crime Map: Local Safety Alerts (KOVAN APPS), SafeZone, Lantern - Crime Map, etc. | iOS | 2026 | 0–73 ratings | Open-data crime map templates of the same kind. They didn't catch the brand name, so volume is minimal. |
| Police Scanner Radio & Fire, 5-0 Radio, Squawster (RadioReference, 2026-09) | iOS | 2009–2026 | 538k / 90k / 238 ratings | Listens to police radio, doesn't do crime maps. |
| Nextdoor, Neighbors by Ring, NewsBreak | iOS/Android | big tech | Million-level | Community safety posts and local news, already covered by big players. |
| SpotCrime, CrimeMapping, crimeradar.app and other sites | Web | Years | Not verified | Free open-data crime map websites. What the copycat does has long existed on the web, and for free. |

The original itself is controversial: at the end of 2025, a BBC Verify investigation found its AI transcription repeatedly pushed drills and misheard audio as shooting alerts, and the company publicly apologized (bbc.com/news/videos/c4g4v3yd28yo, also reposted on Yahoo). Local Facebook groups and RadioReference forums have plenty of criticism too. But that also shows the brand has real recognition, which makes it worth riding.

### 4. Where users come from

| Channel | Evidence | Confirmed |
|---|---|---|
| App Store brand-search spillover (main channel) | Ranks #2 for "crime radar", just behind the original. Name, subtitle and icon all imitate the original. Some reviewers say they only found out they were being charged after misinstalling. | Yes |
| The original's TikTok creator and alt-account network (indirect traffic) | TikHub search for "crimeradar": @lifeaccordingtoeli 25.2M views (2026-02), @decker1k 15.5M (07), @ttjason 4.9M, @yamiflex 4.8M, @ranranlucy 1.63M (09-22), etc.; 10-30 to 11-05 there's also a batch of small accounts with tens to hundreds of views, including serewave, trumjkl, xulltlk123888, fucinso7, kevin66701, all with the copy "Download Crime Radar now!". The videos say "Crime Radar" (two words), so users searching for it land on the copycat. | The primary's ad is confirmed; whether these videos pulled in the copycat's users is inferred |
| Small-country News chart | Angola, Estonia and other stores have it in News Top Free, but the rating is 0 | No (most likely sporadic downloads, paid acquisition can't be confirmed) |
| Its own ads or content | No TikTok, X or press coverage found for it; the developer contact is Gmail, and the website is Google Sites plus Google Forms | None found |

Monetization: $2.99/week (3-day trial) or $19.99/year (per the App Store description). People who installed by accident and didn't notice the trial get auto-charged, which is why reviews say things like "Don't buy the annual pass" and "refunds ignored." No Top Grossing ranking, so revenue scale is unknown.

### 5. Why it can break out

- **Piggybacking on a hit brand** : the primary is a top-5 News Top Free app in the US, adds 200+ ratings a day, and keeps pulling brand searches through creator videos with millions of TikTok views and a network of alt accounts. The copycat sits closest to it in name, subtitle and icon, which is how it landed at #2 in search.

- **App Store review split the primary's name** : the primary is written "CrimeRadar" (one word), the copycat is "Crime Radar" (two words), and it got approved anyway, which gives it a better exact match for the query "crime radar."

- **Product cost is minimal** : public-data API plus a map and heatmap, an AI-written description (placeholders never removed), and only one version shipped in a month.

- **Weekly subscription with a 3-day trial, collecting money from people who installed by mistake** ; average rating 4.24 is not terrible, possibly from in-app prompts, but recent reviews skew negative.

### 6. Differentiation

No genuine differentiation. Compared with the primary, it lacks live radio and nationwide coverage and charges money; compared with free open-data crime maps on the web, it adds nothing. Its only "difference" is **being closest to the primary in name and icon** , which is why it ranks, and that is imitation, not product strength.

### 7. Visibility and copycats

- **Visibility: few people know about it yet** . Neither press nor X has covered this copycat (x-radar has no related content for "crime radar" in the last 60 days); the only mention is one user complaint on the App Store. The primary, by contrast, has been widely covered, including by the BBC.

- **Copycats** : at least two more same-name apps are riding the traffic, "Crime Radar: Police Scanner" (Mariia Devytera, 126 ratings) and "Crime Radar USA" (Francis Clarke, 4 ratings). Sepia's "Police Scanner: Crime Radar" has had its name for 2016 years, so it doesn't count as a copycat.

### 8. What to borrow

- **Seeing an app mass-recruit creators on TikTok, then targeting its brand search terms** : its own store keywords are often not fully covered, and an app whose name and subtitle both match exactly can capture 2–3% of spillover traffic. This is legitimate ASO logic, but copying the icon and name risks removal and complaints.

- A more defensible move: find a category where the primary is free but has an obvious gap (say, lots of false alerts or heavy privacy controversy), build a head-on alternative, and target searches like "alternative" or "without AI errors."

- A category of open-data crime maps is already a red ocean with no moat; a weekly subscription plus trial only works on traffic from accidental or impulse installs.

### 9. Still unclear

- Real downloads and revenue (there's no Top Grossing ranking); how many trials convert to paid, and how many get refunded, is unknown.

- Whether the developer bought Apple Search Ads or other ads for the small-country chart: no evidence.

- Whether Apple will remove it over copycat complaints (10-28 users have already mentioned policy violations).

- How much of the 4.24 average rating comes from in-app rating prompts.

### Sources

- appstore library (app_day / app_profile / chart_rank / review, 2026-10-28 to 11-06); googleplay library app_profile (11-06)

- iTunes Lookup / Search API (11-06); App Store page apps.apple.com/us/app/crime-radar/id6806774360, developer page apps.apple.com/us/developer/muhtadi-muhammad/id1754303267

- NewsBreak Ads help center, "CrimeRadar" (adhelp.newsbreak.com/hc/en-us/articles/45870702577037-CrimeRadar)

- BBC, "AI app causes distress across US with false crime alerts" (bbc.com/news/videos/c4g4v3yd28yo); related RadioReference forum threads

- TikTok (TikHub search "crimeradar", 11-06)

This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.