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What Users Really Think About Drive Smarter

We analyzed 396 negative reviews of Drive Smarter from the App Store. Here's what users are saying.

396
Reviews Analyzed
Dashcam
Category

Key Weakness

Frequent connectivity issues and poor video retrieval functionality.

"The app continually crashes now"
"App says 'Unable to join the network SC400…'"

What Users Are Saying

This app is terrible. It takes forever to connect to the device and then it takes even longer for the files to download and then when you looking for the video by the time you find the video it kicks you out. I wish I could cause this is terrible. There’s probably better dash cams with apps that are...

Does it get updates ?? Every time I check it’s the same firmware and I can’t view the clips anymore.

Can set it up, make it work, connect to my phone via Bluetooth. But good luck pulling any video files from the dash cam or updating firmware because the app refuses to ask permission for network access from iOS so therefore it won’t connect for these features via WiFi. I have a cobra SC 400. I have ...

The app keeps giving me red light camera alerts for nearby roads while I’m on the highway. Same thing for speed cameras. I live in the NYC area and so basically I get non stop bad warnings. What the heck? You would think absolute basic functionality requirement would be to only alert you about the c...

While the device works ok, the app is outdated and unstable. You can only have one account, so it it difficult to share between drivers. I needs Bluetooth AND Wi-Fi, so if you have Apple Car Play, you have to disconnect to see recorded videos. The mapping and routing of the app is generally not need...

This new app supposed to replace the old Escort mobile app, but it doesn’t connect with my MAX360

They killed the old app that worked flawlessly, made you upgrade to this app, and now it won’t connect to my radar detector at all! So I have features on my radar detector I can’t use.

Will not join SC400 camera WiFi. The app throws an error and will not connect to camera. Bluetooth connects fine but when you attempt to update firmware or view gallery there is an error message “Unable to join the network SC400…” I’ve contacted support, tried every recommendation and still no acces...

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