Drive Smarter

In-app purchases
4.6
6.61K reviews
100K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

NOW AVAILABLE ON ANDROID AUTO!

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.
Updated on
Apr 14, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Health and fitness and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.6
6.42K reviews
Alex Karol
April 15, 2025
This app has come a long way from where it started. Communication with the Raider detector is far better and the overall speed of the app has drastically improved. However, somebody needs to do something about this horrible navigation interface. It is just so bad. Huge bubbles for small direction text which prevents you from seeing the map. The map also has the center shifted up which is inverse of how it should be. You need to see what is ahead and not what you've driven past!
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Darko Resnik
March 24, 2025
Why did this replace a better app? If you purchased an $800 detector marketed to professional drivers why this? Does anyone want to gamify a radar detection? Does anyone want mapping that is inferior? Does anyone want an app that struggles with accurate speed data? An app that only sometimes works in the background? An app that gives less useful data than it's predecessor? To all these, it's a resounding NO.
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Cedar Electronics
April 2, 2025
Hi, we are always looking to improve the experience for our users, and really appreciate the feedback. If there is anything specific we can look into, please contact us at https://drivesmarter.com/support/app-support/.
Joe Summers
November 29, 2024
Right now the app doesn't display (or doesn't know) the speed limits for a very large amount of roads, and therefore the overspeed alert can't work on those roads. Escort Live is by far more useful but you can't set a destination with escort live. I wish that there were options for route planning, such as avoid highways, toll roads, dirt roads and ferries like in garmin.
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Cedar Electronics
November 29, 2024
Thanks for your feedback. We’d like to know the details of the problem you mentioned. Please send the details or screenshot to https://drivesmarter.com/support/app-support/. We'll pass it along to our development team and see if there is any way we can improve it.

What’s new

Minor bug fixes