V1 Companion

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Last Update
Oct 23, 2025

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V1 Companion
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V1 Radar Detector Companion
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**FEATURING - GPS location based 'false muting' via one of the best app systems called SpotLocks™ V1 Companion™ is a feature rich app, designed to give you the most out of your V1 radar detector, while enhancing your driving experience along the way. Featuring intelligent alerts and advanced muting, it takes situational awareness to another level! V1 Companion™ is the COMPLETE solution to enjoying your V1. V1 Companion™'s alerting and muting systems are optimized for each V1 platform. Intelligent voice announcements and on-screen visuals will always keep you informed and aware of the situation around you. V1 Companion™ full feature list: • SpotLocks™ - Location based false silencing has never been this good or easy. Turn on the intelligent location based learning, and let V1 Companion™ do the rest. Or, you can manually 'lock' or 'unlock' locations with ease from the main alert screen. • View and modify your V1's internal hardware settings. You no longer have to exit the app, and run the V1 connection app, to modify your V1's internal settings. • The ONLY iOS app with "Dynamic Volume Control" for V1 Gen2, completely silences unwanted alerts (No more annoying initial audio blip accompanying false alerts). • Play detector tones through app. • 'GPS Warmup' keeps the detector quiet for a 'user set' number of seconds or until a GPS connection is established with your iPhone. Useful for parking garages etc. • V1 Firmware version check & notification of new firmware. • 'Proximity' meter. • High resolution meters for front & rear signal strengths of the priority alert (Not limited to the # of bars on the V1 display). • MyRadarIQ™ - Threat probability meter. • 'K & X falses in area' meter. • 'Custom Phrases' for threat's audio announcements. • Customizable heads up display (HUD). • HUD displays the priority alert's band, signal strength, frequency, & direction. • HUD of the secondary alerts' bands, signal strengths, frequencies, bogey counts & directions. • Mute rear K & X band signals. • Advanced BSM/CAS/Ka False Muting (Optimized for each V1 platform). • 'Ghost' muting quiets false alerts when you are traveling behind a false emitting vehicle. • "Passive Mute™"- Quiets the V1 below user set speeds & during weak K & X signals. • Total bogey count display (Above the V1’s limit of 9). • Vehicle speed (MPH or KMH) display. • Mute status with the ability to manually mute/unmute alerts. • Detailed & intelligent voice announcements of direction, band, frequency, strength, number of alerts, occurrences of mixed signals & more. • V1 mode display (All, logic, Adv. logic - Tap to Toggle). • Automatic muting of Ka, K, and X bands ('Time before mute' set for each band). • 'Reduce Speed' notification for user set speed. • ‘Visual Awareness™’ – Slowly flashes the V1 display when the "Passive Mute™" system is actively muting. • Priority ‘Visual Awareness™’ - Rapidly flashes the V1 display after a Ka signal has been muted. • ‘Urgency Alerts™’ - Unmutes growing threats & announces these alerts via voice & notifications. • ‘Alert History’ - View your past alerts with detailed information about each encounter. • ‘Dark Mode’ support for use with V1 concealed display and/or iPhone as main display. • Compass heading. • ‘J-Out’ alert for Ka false alerts. • Imperial/metric. • Detailed trip summary at the end of your ride including duration, distance, alerts, muting stats, battery, & more. • Automatic connection to Bluetooth enabled V1's (V1 with Bluetooth LE Dongle & V1G2 supported). • iPhone & Apple Watch notifications of direction, band, & frequency of each alert. • Tips/Help system. This app requires a Valentine One V1G2 or V1 Radar Detector that is compatible with Valentine Research's Bluetooth LE Dongle. You should have Valentine Research's V1Connection App (freely available in the App store) operational beforehand, to ensure compatibility with the V1 Companion App. Some portions of this program are Copyright (c) 2020 Valentine Research, Inc.}
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Bustincider423
29 Sep, 2025
4
Works great. Wish there were more features but for what it is def awesome
stlblufan
28 Sep, 2025
4
Newest version has unreadable options for photo radar on the iPhone pro max. Also a CarPlay app or widget would be much appreciated! Great work keep it up.
jmac93427
25 Sep, 2025
5
This application was great before, but with the new software release (release date 9/25/25) it is incredible! I sure coincidence, I updated the app while in Santa Monica, California departing to the Santa Ynez Valley. The features work like they did before, but there’s an addition of a bar near the top of the screen that shows the confidence percentage of signals detected. Every time I got an X or K band, it displayed a confidence level of zero. But as soon as I got a Ka signal, I checked the screen and it said 100% confidence. Sure enough, about 3/4 of a mile in front of me was a highway patrol unit on the side of the road running radar. This occurred multiple times over the course of my hour drive. It would be nice to have the app work in landscape format as well, but other than that one small complaint, this gets a strong 5/5. If you have a V1 G2, you need this app!.
Dustin Kaplan
23 May, 2025
4
A great app that adds a ton of functionality to the V1 Gen 2. The logging and real time data are fantastic. The ONLY thing it needs is porting to car play so my phone can sit tucked out of the way. Any way we can get this added?
ryancclark1984
27 Mar, 2025
5
1. I truly believe that this application should be a mandated install on purchase of the V1 Gen2. In my local area, this is a game changer! 2. I feel that there should be an export function for the log file. I’d like to parse that for frequencies to modify my custom frequency profile.
DieselMadness
13 Mar, 2025
1
Won’t stay connected with Bluetooth on a brand new V1Gen2, then I tried to contact them and no response. But they got my money..figures 🙄
jmac93427
16 Jan, 2025
5
The application seamlessly works with the Valentine 1 Gen 2. I never used it prior to my purchase of the Gen 2. It adds so much more to my detector. I love the ability to do user spot locks. This app is running on my phone every single time I get in my truck! It would be nice to see this support landscape format in a future release.
SFCritter
18 Dec, 2024
4
App works great, however wish it supported landscape as this is how my phone best fits in my car or supported CarPlay, the latter I'd prefer ;)
Pdfour
26 Oct, 2024
5
Best app for Valentine. Don’t care a lot for the compass. would rather have the trip meter in its place to see distance away from alert. Where it’s at now is to small for me.

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Rating:
4.5
Voted: 374
App Store Link:
Price: 4.99 $
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Categories: Travel, Utilities
Size: 7MB
App Age: 5 years 3 months
Release Date: Sep 18, 2020
Last Update: Oct 23, 2025
Version: 3.25.13
Version history
3.25.13
Oct 23, 2025
Version 3.25 • Accessibility option to flash screen on alert. • Ability to turn on/off "threat" announcement. • Misc bug fixes. V3.23 - Big Update! This update provides full support for latest V1 Gen2 firmware V4.1037 features as well as new app specific features*** • MyRadarIQ™ - Threat assessment intelligent system for the radar companion series of apps. A new meter, visible at the top of the main alert screen, will show a graphical representation of the probability of a police presence (Ka or Laser) in the direction of your travel. Using your personal alert data, whenever a high probability exists for an encounter ahead, you will know about it well in advance of facing the actual threat. The meter will go from yellow (low threat), to orange (medium threat), to red (high threat) and flash on and off and a voice announcement will occur. The meter will also flash red when a Ka or Laser alert is actively being received to help draw attention to the alert. Probabilities are calculated down to the actual day of the week you are traveling, increasing the accuracy on any given day. • Alert display for, and identification of, Photo Radar. • Latest historical BSM/CAS data for better protection against K falsing. • Compiled with latest XCode 26. • New iOS 26 Liquid Glass UI elements. • New light, dark, & tinted icons. 4.1037 Firmware Features supported in the app's detector settings: • New 'K Sensitivity' setting. Select from Full, Original, or Relaxed sensitivity. • New 'X Sensitivity' setting. Select from Full, Original, or Relaxed sensitivity. • New Photo Radar settings. Select which photo radar you want the V1 to detect. • Original detector volume saved and restored upon power cycle. V3.0 introduced one of the most intelligent 'location based lockout systems' for any iOS app called SpotLocks™ featuring: • Automatic, intelligent, location based learning / unlearning of potential false alerts (you have the ability to turn this feature on or off). • Discrete signal locking™ - helps prevent locking out real police radar in close frequency range to the SpotLock™ frequency. • Frequency drift compensation™ - helps compensate for changes of the location's frequency drifting up and down over time at the saved location. • BSM guard™ - helps to keep non-stationary vehicle BSM/CAS signals from polluting the SpotLock™ stationary location database. • Continuous location tuning - Whether a SpotLock™ is actively locked or learning, the SpotLock™ system will continue to learn and tune itself over time to better handle future encounters. • Manual creation/deletion of SpotLocks™ - Manually create/delete SpotLocks™ by easily tapping a graphical 'lock' image on your phone screen if desired. • SpotLocks™ take advantage of the advanced muting ability of the V1 Gen2, so all SpotLocks™ are quiet from the onset, with no annoying initial 'blip' of audio. What others are saying: "V1 Companion Wow! ...so far it works so well and is so quiet that I was thinking the V1G2 was faulty!! It wasn't until the drive summary popped up that I realized it was obviously working hard in the background to keep my sanity intact from all of the weak K band sources." - D "It’s by far the best V1 app I’ve tried." "It’s frequently updated with new and advanced features." - IA "First drive today with V1 Companion and I am HAPPY!... The Ghost and BSM filtering works nicely!" - NCT "This app is my go-to now because of its simplicity. It’s what I’m looking for to just quiet down the V1 without all the technical advanced features in other apps that seems overwhelming to use." -RV "This release has really been a game changer for me… EXACTLY what I needed for my OCD using the V1 in my CX5." - C "This app transforms my V1G2 from unusable in city to works really good." - JB "[Other apps’] random beeps are a deal breaker. [They are] only marginally better than the gen1 with annoying weak notifications. The [V1] Companion rocks at killing unnecessary noise!" - GH
3.24.6
Sep 30, 2025
***V3.24 - Big Update! This update provides full support for latest V1 Gen2 firmware V4.1037 features as well as new app specific features*** V3.24 - Hotfix for issues found since V3.23 release. V3.23 - New App Features: • MyRadarIQ™ - Threat assessment intelligent system for the radar companion series of apps. A new meter, visible at the top of the main alert screen, will show a graphical representation of the probability of a police presence (Ka or Laser) in the direction of your travel. Using your personal alert data, whenever a high probability exists for an encounter ahead, you will know about it well in advance of facing the actual threat. The meter will go from yellow (low threat), to orange (medium threat), to red (high threat) and flash on and off and a voice announcement will occur. The meter will also flash red when a Ka or Laser alert is actively being received to help draw attention to the alert. Probabilities are calculated down to the actual day of the week you are traveling, increasing the accuracy on any given day. • Alert display for, and identification of, Photo Radar. • Latest historical BSM/CAS data for better protection against K falsing. • Compiled with latest XCode 26. • New iOS 26 Liquid Glass UI elements. • New light, dark, & tinted icons. 4.1037 Firmware Features supported in the app's detector settings: • New 'K Sensitivity' setting. Select from Full, Original, or Relaxed sensitivity. • New 'X Sensitivity' setting. Select from Full, Original, or Relaxed sensitivity. • New Photo Radar settings. Select which photo radar you want the V1 to detect. • Original detector volume saved and restored upon power cycle. V3.0 introduced one of the most intelligent 'location based lockout systems' for any iOS app called SpotLocks™ featuring: • Automatic, intelligent, location based learning / unlearning of potential false alerts (you have the ability to turn this feature on or off). • Discrete signal locking™ - helps prevent locking out real police radar in close frequency range to the SpotLock™ frequency. • Frequency drift compensation™ - helps compensate for changes of the location's frequency drifting up and down over time at the saved location. • BSM guard™ - helps to keep non-stationary vehicle BSM/CAS signals from polluting the SpotLock™ stationary location database. • Continuous location tuning - Whether a SpotLock™ is actively locked or learning, the SpotLock™ system will continue to learn and tune itself over time to better handle future encounters. • Manual creation/deletion of SpotLocks™ - Manually create/delete SpotLocks™ by easily tapping a graphical 'lock' image on your phone screen if desired. • SpotLocks™ take advantage of the advanced muting ability of the V1 Gen2, so all SpotLocks™ are quiet from the onset, with no annoying initial 'blip' of audio. What others are saying: "V1 Companion Wow! ...so far it works so well and is so quiet that I was thinking the V1G2 was faulty!! It wasn't until the drive summary popped up that I realized it was obviously working hard in the background to keep my sanity intact from all of the weak K band sources." - D "It’s by far the best V1 app I’ve tried." "It’s frequently updated with new and advanced features." - IA "First drive today with V1 Companion and I am HAPPY!... The Ghost and BSM filtering works nicely!" - NCT "This app is my go-to now because of its simplicity. It’s what I’m looking for to just quiet down the V1 without all the technical advanced features in other apps that seems overwhelming to use." -RV "This release has really been a game changer for me… EXACTLY what I needed for my OCD using the V1 in my CX5." - C "This app transforms my V1G2 from unusable in city to works really good." - JB "[Other apps’] random beeps are a deal breaker. [They are] only marginally better than the gen1 with annoying weak notifications. The [V1] Companion rocks at killing unnecessary noise!" - GH
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