Drive Smarter User Reviews

Drive Smarter
Drive Smarter
CEDAR ELECTRONICS HOLDINGS CORP.

Customer Experience

Positive experience22.9% of reviews
Neutral12.5% of reviews
Negative experience64.6% of reviews

~ Based on 424 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

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 20,926 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 20,926 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

Connectivity Issues

Needs to connect automatically to Redline 360C if app is open, radar detector is on, and Bluetooth enabled. Shouldn’t have to manually search for radar detector. Also, needs to be able to connect to same iPhone hotspot as phone being used for app - shouldn’t need two iPhones to connect to a Apple hotspot.
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App

It takes multiple attempts to view my gallery at times and right now I can’t even view my gallery just says device not connected when it’s connected.

Fix your support portal

Can’t send any support request, can’t link my device, no one can help!!!

Missing important features.

Finally the HUD speedo is back, which was a big feature of Escort Live, and you don’t need readers to see it. Still no directional arrows displayed on the app from the top of the range 360. When the detector has to be hidden, it would be nice to show what I’ve paid for in a high end unit, especially when Escort live showed threat direction. Hopefully the job will be finished, and a first class app eventuates.
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REALLY needs updated red light camera locations.

I’m using an Escort Max Ci 360. It’s been an amazing piece of tech and I love it. However, since switching to the new app there are dramatically less user crowd sourced reports, missing red light cameras that are a few years old, and just puts a sense of doubt in the device that wasn’t there before.
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Can’t connect a hotspot

I can’t connect it because on my iPhone, the keyboard won’t go down to connect

Basic

Can’t setup the camera to see if it is at the correct angle or location because I have CarPlay. Also can't see live view because of the same thing. Idiots developed this app.

Drive Smarter

Love ❤️ this App

More iPad support

A lot of people are using iPads as their infotainment screen these days, would be nice if the app was able to use the full iPad screen, and specially if it supported split-screen to be able to show the map and other apps at the same time. Imagine the map on one side and music on the other side. Besides that the app works as it should.
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Needs Improvements

Vehicle does not continue to track on the map if you zoom out in order to see further ahead on the road. If you zoom out, the map stops tracking your location. The old Escort Live app would keep tracking if you zoomed in or out. With the Drive Smarter app, you can only see 1 mile ahead when it is tracking your movement. At 90 mph on the interstate, you have to look down at the screen every 40 seconds to see if there are any marked alerts ahead. On a 1000 mile trip at 90 mph, that requires you to take your eyes off the road and look down at the screen over 400 times to make sure you’re not driving into a speed trap. Need to update the app to allow you to zoom out on the map to the users desired preference and the map still tracks your current location and movement.

Also, I’ve seen multiple red light cameras marked on the map and get alerts that there is one ahead but yet these intersections I’ve never had a red light camera on them since I’ve lived in this area for 30 plus years. I do not see where there is a way through the app to either delete or at least permanently mute/ignore the incorrectly marked camera or provide any feedback through the app that it does not actually exist.

Please make these app improvements with the most important one to me being the map tracking after zooming out.
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Useless

Way to screw up a great detector. Since the switch it has not found my 360. I'm ashamed to say that I have spent hours trying to get it to work. The old app worked like a charm and was user friendly. I'll be getting rid of the 360 soon and move on.

Horrible

Setting up has been nightmare zero intelligence on app

Best of all

Love this camera

No speed limits

The app stop showing the current speed limits unless is running on the foreground all the time. The instant another app start running the speed limits stop showing. This should be addressed.

Bring back the dashboard

Don't really need navigation. The dashboard is more relevant to the app. Why did you remove the dashboard?!?!?
Update: Just received a generic template response. Very disappointed. Changing my rating from 4 Star to 2 star. You guys can do better. I will definitely change it again to 5 Star once you bring back the Dashboard.
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Broken

Seems like the app no longer displays the speed limit for a given area.

Works perfectly with my Escort and Cobra.

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

No Dashboard

Older Escort App would show speed and speed limits. Could switch between map view and radar detector view. I don’t need another map. I have Apple Maps and in vehicle map!!!

Must delete! Always running, often wrong

At first I thought the biggest problem with this app was its tendency to falsely give “overspeed alerts” every time I drive past an off-ramp (terrible, terrible bug). But no, it’s worse. The app uses battery constantly even when not running. I don’t mean running in the background, I mean not even running. Even after quitting the app and restarting your phone, that kind of not even running. There can be no justification for this. Is it spying on my location 24/7? How is it even allowed in the App Store?

I have no choice but to delete.
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Bring back the dashboard

Don't really need navigation. The dashboard is more relevant to the app. Why did you remove the dashboard?!?!?