Phone based navigation- Recommendations please!

[Monkeypony]

Evening chums!

After Many years, I think it may be time to ditch my trusty Tomtom Rider, and switch to some sort of app for my route planning. The question is, which one?

My primary need is the ability to plan my own routes in advance, road by road, then access them when needed. So just using Google Maps is out (I think).

All other niceties, live traffic, speed cameras etc, are secondary.

Any suggestions?
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[MCN]

A priority is a map that suits continuous navigation on the move.
And with a setting to show progress route up rather then compass point up.
It's simpler to find left/right turns that way.
And one with a good stash of offline capabilities.
I've tried to work with Navmii and Google maps they work but my Garmin Bike navs kick those apps into the hard shoulder as far as real functionality is concerned.
I don't yet need to persevere with phone apps. So far they have mostly disappointed.
TomTom is not as functional as Garmin.
I have looked at GPS systems for decades even before satnavs became a thing.
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Disclaimer: The comments above may be predicted text and not necessarily the opinion of MCN.

[SirFallalot]

Some lf my riding buddies use co-pilot, also good for plotted routes.
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[GettinBetter]

I've just switched to Magic Earth (free version), so that I could delete another one of the virus apps from google. Not quite as good as google, but definitely works fine, and doesn't require permission to access to every app on your phone.
Is there an app that let's you choose 'road by road' ? I believe you'd choose destination to destination and store them as favourites/history and select the next as you finish the last...

Will checkout that 'co-pilot' though.

[Marlin]

Have a look at scenic
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/scenic-motorcycle-navigation/id1089668246

I've used for a few years including touring holidays.
It's strong points are planning interesting routes and import and export of routes, including creating routes from recorded rides.

Down sides: Doesn't do any live traffic so not an every day get places satnav, and iPhone only.

[martin734]

I use Google maps. You can plan a route on there, you put in a start point and a destination and add various waypoints. It then gives a suggested route which you can edit as you wish. You can then save the route and send it to your phone or print it if you want to.
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[stinkwheel]

I've used OSMand before. I haven't really used anything else so can't compare it because I usually use actual maps. It got me out of bother trying to navigate Metz town centre in 40 degree heat one summer though. I've also used it for mountain biking and foot navigation in Portugal where the mapping is apalling.

Plus point is it has full offline mapping capability in addition to downloading maps on the fly and doesn't use google maps, it uses open street map which is pretty detailed, especially overseas.

Minus is you have to pay for additional tiles once you've downloaded your free ones... Or you could uninstall and re-install to start again. You can also pay for additional features like contour lines etc.

I use OSM on my GPS logs/plans/routes so it integrates well with that.
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[MarJay]

I thought Waze was the go to Sat nav app these days? I use Google Maps generally and Calimoto sometimes though.
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[MarJay]

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[ThunderGuts]

Calimoto is quite good for "spontaneous riding" - pop in a destination and it'll get you there on generally reasonably interesting roads. It's not perfect though and you're limited to downloading a finite amount of maps for free (obviously more available if you pay).

I have a TomTom Rider that Mrs Thunderguts got me for Christmas; it's much better than a 'phone as it'll work with gloves on, it's completely waterproof (without worrying about cases) and doesn't have the faff of every other notification (texts, whatsapp etc. etc.) popping up on your screen when you least want it. It's not perfect though; when left to plot a route by itself, it does tend to pick backlanes unless you set it to "thrill - fastest route". My intercom sometimes gets in a twist too as it connects to my 'phone and the satnav independently, but the satnav also connects to the 'phone (for an internet connection for live traffic etc.), but generally it's only an issue when turning it on then it works after that.
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[A100man]

Buy a map, get lost, ask a stranger. enjoy life as it was 20 (30?)years ago. Bollocks to sat nav.
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[Pigeon]

[PotatoHead202...]

Did some research into this recently.

Seemed the Tom Tom Go app is the best one for that. Also is supposedly the most accurate for speed cameras as well.
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