I moved away from MRA to Scenic purely because Scenic’s WunderLINQ integration is fantastic and removes the requirement to touch the screen.
Not all my gloves are touch screen friendly, but even when wearing ones that are compatible I still find it much better to use the BMW wonderwheel.
The developer of Scenic has done a fantastic job of making everything work with the WunderLINQ, including the ability to play/pause/skip tracks in Spotify. I’ve done over 2,500 miles using Scenic and not had to touch the screen.
I still use MRA for route planning though - that’s where Scenic isn’t very useful. I plan everything in MRA and then import into Scenic and share the Scenic route with my wife. This works really well as any charges I make to the route are automatically updated for her so we’re know we’re both following an identical route (the route in her library is effectively a pointer to the real route in my library, not a point in time copy of my route). Scenic also uses the Apple family sharing, so we only need one license to cover both of us.
I really like MRA Next, but simply couldn’t get on with having to touch the screen. Not having the ability to quickly play/pause Spotify or skip tracks directly from the navigation app, without taking a hand off the bars, is something that will block me moving back to MRA as anything more than a planning tool.
Please don’t misinterpret this post as a hard sell of Scenic as it’s not. I’m just pointing out something that another app does that MRA doesn’t, and how this has influenced my choice of app. It’s an opportunity for improving MRA that could ultimately stop people like me using a competitor’s product.
