R8 Companion User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience82.5% of reviews
Neutral8.7% of reviews
Negative experience8.7% of reviews

~ Based on 126 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is R8 Companion Safe?

R8 Companion appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for R8 Companion is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 1,491 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

95.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,491 App Store ratings for R8 Companion.

Is R8 Companion Legit?

R8 Companion appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for R8 Companion is 100/100.

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

Top reviews

Great! But..

One request, can you get the detector to automatically connect via Bluetooth when CarPlay starts? I have to manually go in and find the r8 each time and I have a lot of Bluetooth devices

Almost perfect

Great app. I originally gave it 4 stars and said 5 stars if it worked with CarPlay. It does now so I changed it to 5 stars.

Good R8 companion

It’s worth it

The best.

Incredible adaptability.

Why can’t all radar detectors be connected?

Why does escort 360 have an app that will show you active KA band but Uniden doesn’t

Must buy if you have a detector

Literally amazing, just trust me

so good

actually worth every penny. great app if you have a Uniden R8 detector. 10/10

Car Play integration

What an awesome surprise update and win!!! Ka alert triggered and next thing I see, is that it is showing up on my Carplay screen! Huge thanks team!

Great investment

A must-have when you have a R8!

No doubt worth every penny

Best Radar app out there for Uniden Keep up the great work fellas! It works on my car play along side WaZe. Genius!
Yall should make the alert band that would light the outer boarder or edge of the screen and flash colors to get your attention. Every millisecond matters when running radar!

R8 CarPlay

Works fantastic, except there should be system voltage displayed on the screen.

Annoying Popups on CarPlay

The app was great until a recent update where it was implemented into CarPlay now there is annoying popups at the bottom of my CarPlay Screen every 5 seconds and it’s impossible to mute.

CarPlay!

App just gotten better. Got in my car and noticed I was getting hits seen on my car screen. One suggestion if possible. Can we get car battery voltage to show please

App works extremely well

The only thing I can think of to make this app better is update the speed limit data. A lot of local city streets speed limits aren’t displayed. I know in Google Maps those speed limits are available. Having it up on my vehicle display in CarPlay would be nice too. It does add value to my R8 for sure.
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Makes the R8W 10x better

Very nice app. My R8W is installed on my motorcycle and this app just needs to run in the background on my phone for it to send all alerts to my helmet com system (Cardo) seamlessly. Excellent app! Well worth the $10 cost.

Amazing App & R8 Tool

This app is simply amazing. This is a perfect tool to complement the R8. The app seems to be updated pretty regularly and it’s amazing how it works. Great app Angela keep up the awesome work, please!

Incredible

At every opportunity, I recommend this app to anyone that can benefit from it. It has been a miracle on my somewhat noisy R8W and has made the auto-lockout function much better. It would be foolish not to have this, and add R/Tach app while you are at it, and you will have the perfect setup. As a bonus, and I just saw this today, apparently CarPlay was added. Thank you for all tour hard work, and smart work, in getting this created and continually making it even better through updates. I never drive without my radar detector, and I never drive without R8 Companion.
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Absolutely the BEST

This app works flawlessly, now that you added car play it’s a must have for every owner of a R8 or R8w

Thank you for having the best app out there! My drive just got a lot better

Connected finally

After I updated my r8w I tried connecting and it wouldn’t connect… Until I turned it off and then turned it back on and it connected right away.

Great but needs custom frequency filter

My 2026 CT5 constantly falses at Ka 35.100 one bar strength , probably from the entertainment system. Lowering Ka sensitivity to 80% doesn’t help. Need a low strength Ka frequency filter without merely blocking off an entire Ka segment.