Drive Smarter
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Description
Drive Smarter enhances your driving experience when you are using select* connected Cobra and Escort devices. Drive Smarter lets you use your smartphone as a companion to your DashCam. A streamlined onboarding process lets you quickly connect your Dash Cam and configure it as part of your dashboard. You can "add" a virtual vehicle to your account, then add compatible* Cobra and Escort branded devices to your vehicle. Users with mobile WiFi hotspots** can optionally connect their cameras directly to the Drive Smarter cloud, to avail of instant upload of videos and to share time-sensitive data and event information. View recordings stored on your Dash Camera SD card; recordings are conveniently sorted by timeline which highlights events of importance; such as possible collisions or impact. Select files to download to your phone; trim video clips and share with your contacts using your favorite communications app. Take advantage of streamlined reports generated for insurance claims processing. Get help using the in-built Mayday services that are automatically triggered in severe collisions - send details regarding your current situation to a designed in-case-of-emergency contact. Keep your devices' firmware up-to-date so you are enjoying all the latest features that your devices' have to offer. Emergency videos stored in the Drive Smarter cloud. *** Convenient Snapshot button lets you remotely take photos via connected cameras, with a tap on your smartphone screen. currently the Drive Smarter app and service is compatible with the Cobra SC- series Dash Cameras. Check out drivesmarter.com for up-to-date information. * should have upload / download speeds equal to or exceeding 4G / Cat 4 speeds ** See drivesmarter.com for latest storage / deletion policies for free user accounts on the Drive Smarter cloud.
What's New
What's new: • Average Speed Camera Control: easily stay within speed limits with new average speed camera alerts and notifications that guide you through average speed control sections • FAQ link: access the FAQ page directly from the App Support form to quickly find answers to common issues • Bug Fixes & Performance Improvements
Details
- Developer
- CEDAR ELECTRONICS HOLDINGS CORP.
- Main Category
- Navigation
- Version
- 4.10.0
- Version Release
- 2026-04-24
- Initial Release
- 2020-08-19
- Size
- 717 MB
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Price
- Free
- Languages
- EN
- Bundle ID
- com.cedarelectronics.drivesmarter
- Version Rating
- ★ 4.77 (19,591)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-28
Metadata updated 2026-06-14
Rank History
Free · Max 90 days · Top 5 categories shown (Y-axis: rank, lower is better)
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Competitive Benchmark — Navigation Top 10
What it takes to beat this app — comparison with the category's top apps. The orange row is the current app.
| # | App | Price | Rating | Ratings | Langs | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google Maps | Free | ★ 4.68 | 7,232,701 | 42 | 2026-06-12 |
| 2 | ParkMobile: Park. Pay. Go. | Free | ★ 4.76 | 1,326,831 | 24 | 2026-06-03 |
| 3 | Waze Navigation & Live Traffic | Free | ★ 4.84 | 3,172,410 | 47 | 2026-06-08 |
| 4 | SpotHero: #1 Rated Parking App | Free | ★ 4.86 | 391,216 | 1 | 2026-06-04 |
| 5 | Transit • Subway & Bus Times | Free | ★ 4.63 | 949,205 | 9 | 2026-06-12 |
| 6 | Shell: Fuel, Charge & More | Free | ★ 4.78 | 87,284 | 2 | 2026-06-01 |
| 7 | MTA TrainTime | Free | ★ 4.88 | 211,098 | 6 | 2026-06-11 |
| 8 | onX Offroad: Trail Maps & GPS | Free | ★ 4.38 | 8,377 | 1 | 2026-06-01 |
| 9 | ParkWhiz - #1 Parking App | Free | ★ 4.81 | 187,673 | 1 | 2026-05-18 |
| 10 | Metropolis: Remarkable Parking | Free | ★ 4.86 | 45,032 | 1 | 2026-06-11 |
| 93 | Drive Smarter | Free | ★ 4.77 | 19,591 | 1 | 2026-04-24 |
User Reviews
The automatic Day/Night mode in the app settings doesn’t work, it’s just always in day time (light) mode. Everything else seems to work just fine
Sometime in the past few months the Drive Smarter app has become a huge battery drain, persistently active in the background, consistently in my top 3 apps by battery usage. Even on the days I don't drive (or connect to my Escort Max 360c) the Drive Smarter app eats through my battery in the background. For example, today I drove 6 miles in my vehicle for 15 minutes. I used 149% of my battery and the Drive Smarter app consumed 15% while on the screen for 1 minute and in the background for 15h 17m. I’m going to disable Background App Refresh, but shouldn’t be so much of a loss of capability now that the app no longer syncs the posted speed limit on my radar detector for most roads now.
Had been using the discontinued Escort app, which had a “dashboard” feature, displaying speed and speed limit, without the map. Would be nice to have that in this app. I already have 2 maps displayed with Apple CarPlay and vehicle’s map. A 3rd isn’t necessary. I’m using the Redline 360C radar detector. Thanks
Unlike Apple Maps and Google Maps. This app doesn’t have the speed limits for the Local and County Roads. Only the highway. I didn’t think the app could be worse than the old Escort Life App. But. It is. You should work with Apple and Google to integrate with their apps. Also sort reviews by most recent reviews. Majority of the most recent reviews are horrible. Epic Fail.
I’ve had the Cobra SC201 for several years now and have had constant issues with the app syncing with the camera. After updates things were a little better but would get worse over time. My new camera, Vanture N4 Pro arrives in 2 days and I’m done with this app and that camera.
Application will not connect to my Radar detector. Radar detector is on the latest firmware. I just had this Radar detector refurbished by Escort within the last year and a half and now I can’t change any of the settings on the Radar detector. The radar detector will directly connect to My Phone’s Bluetooth, but the application will not recognize the device when scanning I’ve tried multiple devices and it will not work.
That’s the worst system created radar supposed to scan for police radar and Mark not the app sending information to radar. There’s a cop when there’s no cop in the radar gives me a warning the biggest scam 99% of fake warnings :(( radar doesn’t it’s not doing job:( radar doing what the app tells what is there’s a police there’s no police 99% There’s a no police :(( the app Should not send the information to radar to give me a warning there’s a police, the second where in the world you find traffic lights on the freeway that’s the dumb stupid again. The app comes with rider there’s a traffic light on in the middle of the freeway and third about 1/4 miles time at the time gives me warning like 15-30 miles speed limit.:(( Junk app and radar :(
Приложение абсолютно не вменяемая и показывает постоянно чушь то чего нет на самом деле из 10 заявленных радарах может быть ни одного а часто там где стоит коп ни радар не видит ни в приложении не стоит отметки
Does not seem to be able to switch from portrait to landscape modes. That is an important feature that appears to be missing. If it’s there, then tell me how to do it.. also, how do you make your travel always pointing up in the app?
I had to use this app because the escort app stopped being supported but I can’t connect my radar because it says its paired with another device but I disconnected it on my bluetooth and escort app and it still won’t connect
Perfect
If you use this for navigation, it sucks. No updates for two years. There are roads missing. I use Waze for navigation but it would be nice if the app was functional to use on long road trips to get good directions and alerts. Wish there was an API so Waze and this app could exchange alerts.
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