COP SPOTTED
The screen edge glows red and light waves run out of the corner the car is in, with a chime. The badge shows how sure it is.
DASH ALERTS FOR ANDROID AND IPHONE
A second pair of eyes on the road.
Mount your phone. CopSpot watches the road through the camera and lights up the edge of your screen when it spots a police car. It runs on your phone. No account, nothing streamed.
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The screen edge glows red and light waves run out of the corner the car is in, with a chime. The badge shows how sure it is.
Save places where police like to wait. Within 350 m, CopSpot alerts earlier and scans faster.
Hold Mute to silence a spot for good, like a precinct lot full of parked cruisers. Add a reason by voice or text.
A double beep before known plate reader cameras in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Montreal. The map lives on your phone.
One tap keeps the 15 seconds before and the 15 after. Call it a Report or a Dashcam clip. Android only.
Video and location stay on your phone. The only thing that ever uploads is a clip you choose to send as a Report.
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It works only while CopSpot is open and on screen. iPhone does not let web apps run in the background or float over Maps or Waze, so keep the screen on and a charger in.
The first start downloads about 8 MB. After that it starts offline. Save Clip and the dashcam are Android only for now.
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No. It does best with marked cars with light bars and livery, in daylight. It can miss cars, especially unmarked ones and at night, and it can sometimes alert on a car that is not police. Always drive by what you see.
No. Spotting runs on your phone and works with no signal. The LPR camera map downloads once and updates when you tap Update.
Nothing, unless you send a clip as a Report. Then that clip, its time, its place and what CopSpot saw go to us so we can make CopSpot better. No account, no name, no email. Details in the privacy policy.
Yes, on Android and iPhone. On a phone facing you, the front camera sees out the rear window and alerts come from the bottom corners.
On Android, yes: a small floating bubble keeps watching and still flashes and chimes. On iPhone, no. Apple does not allow it for web apps.
CopSpot comes straight from this site, not the Play Store, and Android warns about every app installed that way. The SHA-256 fingerprint under the download button lets you check the file is ours.
CopSpot is a camera app. It does not touch radar or any police equipment. Rules about phone mounts and screens while driving differ by state and province, so check yours and mount the phone where it does not block your view.
A lot. The camera and the spotting run the whole time, so plug in a charger while you drive.
Your own saved places, stored on your phone. Near a Frequent Cop Spot, CopSpot alerts earlier. Inside a Mute Zone it stays quiet.