Cobra iRadar Reviews

by Open Highway

I hate the new updated app! It use to work fine before for many years without a hitch. Now it flashes the cobra logo screen and crashes. Tried dumping other apps off my phone, cleaned up the memory, deleted all email - text messages - and voice mails to free up space. Nothing helped. Tried to start app first. The irad radar unit crashes, same old same old. Did it in reverse still crashes. I consider this upgrade a piece of junk. Maybe you should have road tested it before you released it. If I don’t get a solution and fast. I think I might just get an escort set up.

by PeckhamJW

Blue tooth is tricky to get working. Sometimes resetting it would work sometimes it doesn't. Like a coin flip. No more updates it seems or just poor communication from the company to customers. and more false alerts lately. Works great without CobraiRadar features, but manly bought for the features. The wifi app works great for the camera. Would have been smarter to build one app inside the other for ease of use, or really 1 app with both features. but I guess they'd rather there customers do twice the work for their expensive unit, guess it's a money move for higher profits, less development. Another user made an excellent comment just use Waze maps and features and overlay your extra stuff on top

by Chris12132

Been using it for years no problem but with this recent update, anytime your connected the radar with CobraiRadar and you either lock the phone so the screen is off or if you put CobraiRadar to the background it disconnects from the radar...

THIS NEEDS TO GET FIXED...

On another note to the developer instead of putting a link to the cobra website for app support which does not help why don’t you have it as a direct email or number because the onetime I called over the phone for support to cobra they did not know what to do

by Jtwheels2007

App force closes constantly. I’ve been keeping it open in the background so that it will automatically connect every time my camera turns on. Half the time it won’t connect and when I go to see if it’s still in the background it has closed on its own. When it’s working, it DOES notify you as well as does it send notification to the camera. However if you don’t check your camera every few minutes to make sure the Bluetooth emblem is WHITE and not gray *meaning it’s connected* it won’t always work.

by Southern Doc

Bought a dash cam not to long back and installed it in my truck. Dash came works great few bugs but nothing major. On the box it tells you to download load CobraiRadar to access the camera that way I can quit pulling off my window. So I downloaded it got the camera connected and lo and behold nothing works can’t access the camera or it’s data and all of the features that CobraiRadar offers I can already do with my vehicle. In all what I’m trying to say is...... one star, don’t waste your data!

by Mountain Driving

I hadn’t used iRadar for several months. When I attempted to open CobraiRadar today, it wouldn’t open unless I registered with iRadar online. I was in the Colorado mountains in an area with no cell service. CobraiRadar would not open. Instead, the screens boasted about the improved app but would not open without online registration. VERY FRUSTRATING! Clearly CobraiRadar was designed by someone who doesn’t get far from home and who doesn’t think outside outside his/her own limited box. It was 2 hours until I had WiFi access at a restaurant and could register my app. Once registered, I opened an app that is much less user-friendly than the previous app. I am very disappointed with this product! 😖

by Suckapump

By charging for CobraiRadar , adoption is likely too small to be useful. I bought a subscription and tested CobraiRadar side-by-side daily with Waze in a highly populated area of California. CobraiRadar maybe achieved 1% parity with Waze alerts. No false positives, but in a month, I counted ONE time when I observed an alertable event that was actually represented in CobraiRadar. The rest of the time, it was stupidly silent.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t like Waze. It’s a nightmare for anyone who values privacy. I was in search of a replacement for advance notice of speed traps, which is why I tested CobraiRadar. CobraiRadar was a huge disappointment. I’m still looking for a viable alternative to Waze.

by Buzzboo

I downloaded app and bought monthly subscription. From first sign-in, screen had a pop-up that my subscription expired. I attempted to write company via their email address. That was a month ago and have yet to get a response. I searched reviews of CobraiRadar with the purpose of finding out if CobraiRadar is still in service for an update has not occurred in over a year. Truly just want to know status of app. I cancelled my monthly subscription, but would join again if had confirmation that service was working. Now I use Waze in conjunction with my Cobra detector.

by Phillysteakmmm

CobraiRadar is badly outdated. No routing function so you have to switch between Google Maps and iRadar. They use an old low resolution format so when an alert comes up you can barely see the map. There are no instructions to indicate how the buttons to mark items work. Also does not base community alerts on the road you are traveling on, so you get lots of alerts from adjacent or crossing roads, including on the highway where this is distracting and dangerous - had to turn off red light canera alerts for this reason. Does not measure speed or speed limit accurately - kept getting over speed limit alerts on the highway when traveling below my speed threshold - system thinks the speed limit suddenly jumps to 35 on a 65 mph interstate - had to turn off that feature, too. About the only thing that works well is that it has the locations of the ubiquitous speed cameras in NYC. Connects to my i480 fine, though will not auto adjust sensitivity for speed and there should be controls for the detector built into CobraiRadar such as mute. Good idea, weak execution and badly in need of upgrades.

by The Judge9

This used to be a great app. Now, some not so smart person decided to have bright green bars at all times making it a distraction—if everything’s OK ... why clutter things up ? The voltage read out was handy too; now it seems to be gone.

When there’s an alert, the red is less prominent than the green. When you reach the speed limit, the digital speed read out turns to ‘invisible’ red numbers that you can just see in dim lighting & not at all in broad daylight. Come on now, who needs a radar app that you can’t read when you hit the limit ? If you drove under the limit you wouldn’t need radar in the 1st place.

I leave the thing on in the background to utilize the full features of the detector & turn on another app to get a speedometer read out that you can actually see & other critical info

by Subscription Failed

Paid for a year subscription because it wouldn’t even allow me to pay for the month subscription first of all and than when I do pay for subscription it charges my card but i log into CobraiRadar and the first thing that pops up is a message telling me my subscription has expired connect to a device or renew my subscription mind you I just paid for the 1 year subscription 10 minutes before I seen this message horrible way to keep a customer other than that CobraiRadar is great but that’s a pretty big downfall in my eyes.

by Emacias303

CobraiRadar makes for a nice secondary precaution while driving and helping notify others of police when CobraiRadar works…. The last update was over a year ago and with the most recent iPhone update it just crashes as soon as it opens. I wrote cobras technical support over 2 weeks ago about it and have yet to hear back. So don’t count on using CobraiRadar if you are an iPhone user and expect a company to continuing being proactive in their app development and customer service.

by GhostriderGaleJ

Nice to see the upgrades to CobraiRadar for my iRadar , but not sure all the upgrades actually work as their supposed to? I’ve used the lock out feature several times in the same area and yet the radar detector keeps going off in those same areas where I locked it out. Another frustrating issue is I get false alerts for train crossings and there’s no train tracks for miles! Same with ambulances/emergency vehicles, etc. for some reason every time I got to my bank and facing the building I will get a false alert for train crossing and/or ambulance approaching. It’s comical and yet annoying at the same time! Also wish there was more time to get a chance to lock out a alert. At times I can’t get to the lock out feature quick enough before it disappears
So CobraiRadar / radar detector could still use some work getting the bugs out! Hopefully those will be fixed and made better soon?

by Danart68

So I was finally able to log in and use CobraiRadar after it being down for over a week. And I gotta say, “looks and works much better than before. I’m liking the new format and how user friendly it is.

I do have some recommendation. While in map mode, the navigation, report and speed icons are too big, and take up too much space on the screen. They need to be smaller like the traffic and volume icons. Second, the tool bar on top needs to disappear by tapping on the screen and reappear by tapping again. Giving the user a full screen of the map without obstruction. Third, the Bluetooth icon does not need to be on the screen because there already is a “device connected” telling the user it’s on.

Good work updating it. I only gave it 3 stars because of the 3 things I mentioned should be addressed.

by Jaricher

Love the look and features of CobraiRadar . Radar seems to be on point. App keeps crashing while in use and has to be restated. Sometimes up to once every 10 minutes or so. PLEASE FIX and u could easily give a five star rating!

by Moompa

I have used CobraiRadar for quite a few years with at least 5 different detectors, but this is the first time I remember having to pay for the service. I could probably avoid seeing what others report, but they also included the displaying of current speed limits with the add on. That doesn’t seem really fair.

by Marketmanpro

Fair is the best I feel about CobraiRadar . I have owned 4 Cobra Radar Detectors & I think they are the best. CobraiRadar is beneath your Radar standards. Additionally I am being harassed by notifications that are NOT VALID. What good info does SHARED RADAR provide to me? Most Red Light Camera’s in NJ, PA & DE have not been in service because is was determined that these devices have a failure rate at 8%. Can I stop the SHARED RADAR & THE RED LIGHT CAMERAS? Please help, I drive 35-40,000 miles a year. Lawrence Levin, Marlton. NJ

by ITman53

The laser will pay for itself in one week, if you drive a car that police like to target, like my Audi it’s good to know where they are long before you see them, so if you’re having a spirited drive you’ll know when the fun is over. In addition, you will be alerted to red light cameras and other driving cautions. It never gave me a false alarm so far, if so you can make it less sensitive. Another plus is you can connect to CobraiRadar and control the radar by phone.

by ARMY CopterDoc

Same as every one else updated app 4.1 on 28 Apr and HELLO Black screen. Tried serveral ways of contacting Cobra. Finnally got thru by sending a message on their web site on the 30th of Apr. I heard back 6 May in the evening -new update posted 4.1.1 and APP works again. Just felt left out in the wind a little bit. Cobra needs to work on keeping people posted when things like this happen. I only owned this system for less than a year. My family has several of these units and compared to the escort it is the better deal and better features in my opinion. Glad it works again. Really is a good deal.

29 Nov 2020
Still have my unit and it still works. Wish it was updateable, due to false alerts from newer vehicles with that crash avoidance system. I would buy an newer version if it was offered for the remote mounting S120EU. But I do not see one offered.

by Sledgehomer

Has a lot of great features integrated into it. A lot like Waze app. The dash cam I bought seemed to have GPS built in however it doesn’t so you need theirs app to sync that data via Bluetooth to that device. Kinda weird.

My only real complaint about CobraiRadar is that once you go over the speed limit, on the ‘dash screen’ , the digital speed turns from white to red. There doesn’t seem to be any place to change this freestyle, even if you turn off the ‘over speed limit’ notification.

by Another Beautiful Day

No battery voltage. If you turn on the battery voltage it automatically shuts down radar detector. CobraiRadar is also not Apple CarPlay adaptable so what good is CobraiRadar and the mapping if you can’t displayed on the screen. Can’t control city or highway. When I’m not 95 it goes off so much. The old app was better easy to control less battery drain and now we have to pay for CobraiRadar signing in for one year looks like bye-bye to me in a year.

by Elbailey@2

I have used this along with my cobra radar for several years now and loved it.....it’s crap after the update.

This was a great device but then the update just happened. USED to be accurate and consistent probably 95% of the time with spotty reading only when going through heavily wooded areas. Now it’s not accurate but 20% of the time. Inaccurate MPH and sometimes doesn’t even pick it up. Radar is just ok now. Doesn’t read my battery voltage now.
Why did you mess with a good thing? Why

by C_giby

The latest version of CobraiRadar appears to have updated the user interface (iPhone X support) while downgrading the core functionalities that it provides. I feel as if my iRadar is now less adapt at identifying false threats than it was before the update. It is also more difficult to quickly discern threat information and tag a threat as true or false. CobraiRadar continues to send countless notifications, sometimes hundreds per trip, and continuously notifies about stationary threats when I, myself, am stationary. CobraiRadar could be substantially more useful by providing range and direction for threats and, at the very least, could learn what threats are false on the routes that I travel daily without the need for me to mark every one when that alone is an arduous task while driving.

by Viper0580

Just purchased the Cobra DualPro 360 and I can not get it to connect to Bluetooth. The connection keeps dropping. Deleted CobraiRadar and reset the iPhone 11 Pro Max connection and still can not get it to connect to CobraiRadar . I had a previous Cobra iRad radar detector and it keeps dropping from Bluetooth as well. Something needs to be updated to fix this issue.

by Timothyellisky

While the new features and GUI are nice, we lost one very important feature: city versus highway sensitivity! With more and more vehicles in the road having their own radar for cruise control and accident prevention, I cannot drive 1/4 mile without multiple useless alerts, which makes the detector nothing but a false alarm. WHERE IS MY HIGHWAY SETTING???

by Jak847

It would be nice if it was updated to WiFi enabled.
Also be able to monitor the car when in park mode if it is triggered.
Also be able to see and save videos on the phone.

by SouthernGrizzly

I don’t have a lot to say. I bought my first iRadar after being caught in a small town speed trap. Liked it enough to buy a second when the first failed. My question is, can you make this Apple CarPlay comparable? That would make it almost perfect.

by Dr. Karnes

Been driving with my new Cobra Road Scout and the new iRadar app and there is an Amazing amount of alert information coming thru the display of my detector and CobraiRadar . It is so cool to have the alerts come thru my multi media system and override my music. I love CobraiRadar!