Drive Smarter Reviews: Is It Legit?

Drive Smarter
Drive Smarter
CEDAR ELECTRONICS HOLDINGS CORP.

Customer Experience

Positive experience23.9% of reviews
Neutral12.4% of reviews
Negative experience63.7% of reviews

~ Based on 444 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Drive Smarter

Is Drive Smarter Safe?

Drive Smarter appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Drive Smarter is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 21,971 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

94.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 21,971 App Store ratings for Drive Smarter.

Is Drive Smarter Legit?

Drive Smarter appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Drive Smarter is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Terrible

They make a bad app and sue anyone who tries to make a better one

Update: escort doesn’t know what the hell im talking about but if you were to ask them, what other apps but drive smarter can I use they’ll say, NONE

My opinion since using it

App is really smooth and straight forward to use. I haven’t ran into any problems, great features!

Escort Max 360 S/N 79*****

The Escort MAX 360 itself works great and detects radar very well, but unfortunately, the S/N 79 version is not compatible with the Drive Smarter app. I spent time trying to connect it through Bluetooth and troubleshooting the app, only to find out that this version isn’t supported. If you’re buying one used, make sure to check the serial number and compatibility with Drive Smarter beforehand. Other than the app issue, the radar detector itself works perfectly.
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Perfect Pair for Escort Radar Detector

Drive Smart connects quickly, stays connected and provides wealth of info through the cell phone connectivity. The Escort device takes on a whole new meaning with the Drive Smarter App.
Get it, use it, you’ll love it!

Worked amazing

Works totally amazing with our cobra 700I it’s nice to have something that works alongside a radar detector. We love it.

Works perfectly with my Escort and Cobra.

9/28/26

Update: The multiple profile features are very buggy. Aside from it taking me a half hour to figure out.

When I try to apply a profile I get a message indicating success, then a message indicating a conflict with two settings. Then when I shut off power a red error message saying something to the effect that the profile settings failed and try again later.

I give up. I removed the profiles and went back to the old way with the original settings. I hope I didn’t screw it up but it’s probably OK now.

Kindly look at a way to make setting up profiles more intuitive or at the very least do something about the settings failing and the unhelpful error messages.

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Works flawlessly. Very helpful. I would suggest adding a feature that would let you exclude live alerts older than a selected number of hours.
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Great I like

Awesome

Terrible

They make a bad app and sue anyone who tries to make a better one

Good detector. Awful navigation

Never takes into account traffic conditions. Awful map, good detector

Notification to death

Sitting in a parking ramp at 2am and after
A 1/2 hour still getting
k alerts asking me to
Verify hot POS

Absolute garbage

I bought this sc-100 on clearance, I still feel like I got robbed. Accessing the gallery, which I would think should be a primary feature, fails to connect more often than it establishes. Assuming it does connect, I see more black thumbnails that I do recordings. Then it again fails more times than not trying to access those recordings. So the dash cam does record to an SD card but almost guaranteed I have to take that card out and put it into a computer if I want to retrieve any of that data
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Ok App

Fix it when you close the app it closes and not keep opening

Works great with Escort

The radar/gps configuration is flowing perfectly together, only complaint is needing more rural roads with speeds posted on the app and the interstate needs a little adjustment when passing the exits

Not happy

This is about the worse radar and dash cam I’ve ever bought. The dash cam never records when I’m driving and the radar goes off all the time It goes off in my garage when I’m not even driving. I pass cops it never goes off When it does not a cop in sight….. I have redline 360 and it should be called the false impression. Cause that all I got when I bought it… There customer service is just as bad and don’t help what so ever They have so many company’s I should have know next time I’ll buy a better brand… They should be out of business
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Horrible

This app is terrible on so many levels. First the audio is so bad you can not distinguish between K and KA alerts. While using the app on my motorcycle as soon as I get an alert it stops my music and never restarts. This causes me to pull over and repeat the set up.

Owner

Love it 🥰

Saleen S281

App works awesome

Like the dash cam but the app almost makes me want to trash the whole thing.

Have to make an account.

Wants all sorts of information about my car before I can even add the device camera.

Can’t even add the device camera to the app. It just spins/loads indefinitely.

App starts out with live “notifications” that always show it in the dynamic window. If you click it the notification is ‘no events’. This is truly a laughable app that falls short of any attempt at usefulness.

If you get the camera just buy an SD card dongle and don’t waste your time with this.
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Needs updating

Accurate speed limits? More like just putting a speed limit in not caring if it is accurate. How many times do I get a speed limit of 25 MPH on a highway where the speed limit is 65?
THIS IS THE MOST CURRENT UPDATE OF THE APP 4.12.1

check if your email address is valid

Why does it say- check if your email address is valid - I have the email for years