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Thank you for the list. I will check them out.

I do wonder if any of them are compatible with CarPlay as I do not wish to use the small screen of the phone. The whole idea is to get the apps to work through my Sync 3 system using the larger screen of the vehicle entertainment display. I know that Waze, Google Maps, Apple Maps and Sygic are compatible, but don't know about the others.
I don't use CarPlay (I don't have a compatible system) but I seem to have read somewhere that you can be doing other things on the iPhone and still have maps, etc, sent to CarPlay. If that is the case, run Sygic through Car Play, bring up Altimeter, or MotionX on the iPhone.
 

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I don't use CarPlay (I don't have a compatible system) but I seem to have read somewhere that you can be doing other things on the iPhone and still have maps, etc, sent to CarPlay. If that is the case, run Sygic through Car Play, bring up Altimeter, or MotionX on the iPhone.
That is true although I can't say whether it is true for all apps. I've only had a CarPlay capable system for a few months and don't use it every day but you can have one app on the car screen and something different on the phone screen simultaneously. I've had Maps and Safari open simultaneously as well as Apple Maps and Google Maps simultaneously.
 

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