R8 Companion App Reviews

I have now had the opportunity to spend some time with V1 Driver and R8 Companion (and DS1 Companion). They each are similar and each are different. But in the end, I choose Companion. It is a seemed, easy to understand, and intuitive partner to my R8. I never look at my phone screen and wonder..what is that reading or message. Sometimes with V1, and it’s a great app too, I just don’t understand what it is doing. As well, I find Companion far quieter. The ultimate judge is my wife. She hates rad

Support this dev as this is a great app for those radar geek and novice alike. Even novices will get a better and smarter radar detector adding value to their investment.

Feature request: my r8 always has power through mirror tap. Don't have accessories tap in this location unfortunately. Therefore, I have the r8 to auto shutdown after 1hour to conserve car battery. While I'm home during this 1 hour, the r8 app keeps connecting and disconnecting. Any possibility to avoid this?

Helpful app with a lot of features. Will help quiet your R8 with more options than the detector itself offers. Organization of functions and screen layout could be better. Would be nice to have more granular control over specific audio alerts that play over Bluetooth.

Best app for an R8. Really nice to change in the fly.

Stop so annoying faults

I’m really enjoying this app so far. It does seem like it is a must have app that will make life simpler to configure the R8. One question I have is can this app handle multiple installations of the R8? We have two vehicles with an R8 in each vehicle.

Super solid app! Works great.

I just bought my r8 and I know nothing about radar detectors, this app knocks down your false alerts by probably 80 percent it’s a must have if your tired of getting false alerts, plus there’s a bunch of cool and useful settings much easier than using the detector.

It works. It’s complicated there’s a lot of instructions. I’m very satisfied but it’s like learning a mini course or from the school of life.

Helps me get the most out of my R8 and very easy to use. I've been using for awhile now and while I enjoy a quiet ride, I haven't missed any real alerts. Appreciate that it has audio through carplay. Fingers crossed you'll be able to have a carplay app some day. I've read your response to this previously. Just adding my vote. And I would also pay an in app fee for it to help offset your dev costs.

This app takes the already stellar R8 detector to a whole new level! I’m still learning everything this app can do, but straight out of the gate it adds tremendous functionality with barely any need to learn the features, as the default settings are perfect for my needs. As you start investigating the app you will find a plethora of functionality that simply works as it should. The app is stable and connects reliably every time. I absolutely love it and actually get excited to hop in the truc

I have the volume of the app to 0 and whenever the radar picks something up it’s turns my music volume down on my car to about 20% and than it goes back up to 100% volume to what I had my music playing so the problem isn’t the voice app speaking it’s just I have it muted and it still turns my music down as if where speaking which it’s not it’s just annoying if you have a fix let me know I’ll change it to 5 stars

Overall amazing app and has really helped to quiet my detector. The only complaint is that the physical mute button on the detector causes the app to disconnect via Bluetooth. HOWEVER, this lies with Uniden and not with the app developer. Hopefully Uniden is able to fix this sooner rather than later. Otherwise, the app is outstanding and I would highly recommend it to anyone who owns an R8 paired with an iOS device.

Hopefully the app will let us update the R8 from the App directly. Like check to see if there has been an update from Uniden, and download the update to the iPhone, then upload the update into the R8. That would be the cherry on the cake. Hey, one can hope. 🙏😎

Finally someone Made a App for iso users to use with there Uniden R8 Thank you soooooooo much the App is awesome and a love it …. I’m sure you’ll be adding new features and stuff as time goes on . It was super easy to hook up to the Uniden R8 . Whoever made this, you are a genius !!!!! You took the uniden R8 to a whole Nother level. Wish I could give you 100 star review.

Can’t drive without this app.

Great app. 5 stars if worked with CarPlay.

I’ve been very happy with R8 Companion, makes my r8 much quieter. I do have 2 features I’d like to request. 1. Toggle to disable connection/disconnect notifications. 2. Option to force audio to play on phone speaker even with Bluetooth device connected

Developer is very responsive to my questions and suggestions. Much appreciated. App is terrific! Makes Uniden's R8 far more useable. Great! I use a dedicated iPhone SE 2020 just for R8 Companion.

Should really make it where u can back up and restore on another phone upgraded phone and realized that feature is useless in said case

Auto mutes for you, good features, only gripe is in the car it plays the sound from the app as if it was music and not navigation.

This app is amazing, I was have regrets about the R8 because it was very noisy compared to my buddies Redline. But now it’s super quiet and the only time it makes noise is when Leo is around. Don’t wait any longer and buy this app, it will be your best purchase you make this year.

Handy to use and packed with settings to tune your experience. I manually close my apps when done with them and would like to see the app auto launch when connected to the radar detector. Definitely looking forward to updates and new features like a home screen widget and/or a carplay app.

I currently have the uniden R8 and I purchased this app in hopes of connecting it through Bluetooth. Well since I got the app, it has never connected to my R8 and I assume it’s a problem with my uniden R8 but I just felt like this app was not necessary for me to purchase. This was probably the most useless app I have purchased and the R8 works perfectly fine without it. But with that being said, I will never know the benefits of this app because it never connected, and yes, I red my owners manua

Please optimize the apps display for iPhone 12 & 13 Mini