Drive Smarter

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Last verified 30 Aug 2026

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4.8 21139 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Great for detection but Navigation needs work

   I love this app concept and really want to help make it better. This is my first review ever. The detection and community notifications are nice. Some false radar alerts go away so fast you don’t have time to mark them as false so if there could be a 5 sec countdown timer it would be nice. For navigation it is painful to get the destination into the app please allow it to read the calendar and contacts so you can just tap the destination. The other problem I have is it won’t hold a route when stopped. I stop at a gas station and shut the car off then when I get going I have to put the destination back in. Fortunately it is at the top of the recent list. Another nice to have is the route covers the traffic highlights so you can’t see traffic jams until you are in them. Auto rerouting would be great.

   BarclayOlson · 30 Aug 2026

2. 3/5Cam shut downs and often failure to come on

   The app is pretty good. I like the functionality of it and I really like the ability of having my speed and GPS coordinates water marked on the videos and photos taken I especially like the ability to save important videos and photos taken in an emergency so that I can email them to my insurance provider if necessary that my opinion Is one of the main sellers of the device. Now what I don’t like is it when I first got it I had no problems with it but now, after having it installed in my jeep for a little less than four months, it has started to not come on when my car started and I have to unplug the dash cam and plug it back in for it to come on. Other times I will open a door or the liftgate and the dash cam will start recording. Other times when the dash cam is operating as expected, while driving down the road it will often shut down. By this, by shut down I mean the dash cam will turn off and not turn back on and I will have to unplug it and plug it back in. The dash cam is hardwired into my vehicle and nothing has changed from the first day It was installed to now. Other than that, I love the dash cam, and I love the app maybe I just have a faulty dash cam who knows if cobra could reach out to me and explain what’s going on and help me fix the problem or maybe have me send them this one and send me a new one I would give it five stars instead of the three that I gave it.

   :DeadMedic: · 30 Aug 2026

3. 1/5Useless map in apple CarPlay

   I’m not sure who developed this app but I can’t express how disappointed I am that THIS is the app I have to use for a $700+ premium radar detector. It’s beyond pathetic. Where do I start? (1) when using the drive smarter app in apple car play the map shows an orientation that is either North up or the only other choice is whatever direction your actual phone is facing I think, no mater how I placed my phone, still couldn’t seem to show the DIRECTION OF TRAVEL. You’d think even the dumbest software programmer would have included the option to orient the map in the direction of travel. The only time it does is when you have a destination set, which is maybe 20% of my driving. (2) doesn’t give ability to send directions to the app from other apps, like your calendar. So any address you enter has to be done manually. (3) after trying to connect the RD to wifi (had to repeat the steps multiple times before it finally worked), only shows that it’s connected to wifi, the escort servers, and Drive Smart account show red X’s which I assume to mean it’s not connecting to those even though it is connected to my wifi (green check mark). (3) doesn’t communicate with Waze which would be the better map since their programmers know how to orient it to the direction of travel. This app is really really really bad. It’s like they gave zero effort on the app to go with their really impressive radar detectors which makes no sense at all.

   Yoda18 · 30 Aug 2026

4. 1/5Unsat for the price of the hardware

   After purchasing Redline360 and M2 dashcam, nothing but problems both with updating the redline as well as accessing the recordings and live view function of the M2. For the price paid for supposedly “superior” products, the app functionality is some of the worst that I’ve seen. Ready to get a less capable detector and camera that actually works with its app the way that it’s supposed to. The minuscule performance increase claimed for the hardware is not worth the frustration induced trying to work with its “supporting” aps. NOT RECOMMENDED. Update after using for a year. STILL NO improvement. These apps and/or hardware are absolutely terrible. Nothing but problems. You think the (expensive) M2 has you covered and is recording as it should. Better check it every day, cause just found out mine apparently counted every video on a smooth highway an emergency, so saved it and filled up the memory card, then not recording more recent vids. They recommend level 1 for the sensitivity, and I had it set to level 2 (should be More difficult to trigger). Actually wanted to love this equipment and aps (long time Escort user for many, many years), but this Redline/M2 (expensive) combo has completely turned me against this company if they can not do any better than this. Wanted to duplicate setup for other vehicles, but after these ongoing headaches, NO WAY. Switching to competitor.

   aileyon · 30 Aug 2026

5. 1/5Disappointed- Buggy all

   I purchased two Max 360C Mark two detectors from escort and the behavior of this app is the same regardless of which unit I’m using or which phone this is connected to. The delay between the detector alerting to the presence of radar and the. Is disturbingly slow. On the order of 6 to 8 seconds. Sometimes there’s no alert in CarPlay at all. Connecting Wi-Fi has been nothing short of frustrating. I have yet to accomplish this task on either detector using either phone regardless of hotspot, I’ve attempted to connect to. The redeeming quality in this app is the ability to configure these radar detectors without going through a maddening sequence of buttons and limited display real estate on the device itself. However, if you are going to make features available as reasons to buy such as. CarPlay integration, this needs to work as advertised. I went with the escort brand of radar detectors. For the integration with CarPlay as one of the main deciding factors. I was a Cincinnati microwave customer loyal to the end before escort new generation. Radar detectors came out long ago. I’m not sensing the same quality or quality of customer care compared to what escort used to be under the Cincinnati microwave umbrella. I’m starting to regret purchasing these instead of valentine one radar detectors. I also have a Uniden R7 that seems to outperform these particular units and while I don’t miss the R7 because if it’s chatting us, it makes me wonder if I should have purchased two or eight detectors instead. I am within the first 30 days of purchase. so I do have the option to return these. Maybe I’ll just do that. Let’s see if escort gives a rip to respond to me.

   The Datanator · 30 Aug 2026

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4.7 13352 ratings · Google Play

1. 5/5

   I got it.

   Renee Matthews · 29 Jul 2026

2. 1/5

   AWFUL APP deserves negative stars. Cobra 400d dashcam is great, but app won't even connect to camera to let me see gallery on my phone. App is still a worthless waste of space

   Nimble · 29 Jul 2026

3. 1/5

   Battery draining. never before have I had an app drain my battery so fast. this app needs to put itself in standby the moment. it has a weak sense of the Bluetooth connection. the detector or as soon as Android auto is no longer connected.

   Trevor Kelson · 29 Jul 2026

4. 5/5

   Good 👍

   Yin Aung · 29 Jul 2026

5. 1/5

   When you're driving the car or your vehicle doesn't seem to be moving simultaneously in the same direction that you are.It's like off to the side or driving on the grass.And that's not good

   Ernest S · 29 Jul 2026

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