Your preference may even change depending on where you're going. For my daily commuting and basic errands, I pretty much always take the most direct route. But

Your preference may even change depending on where you're going. For my daily commuting and basic errands, I pretty much always take the most direct route. But then, I don't need an app for that, since it's the same every day. Even for recreational riding, I have a bunch of routes that I know well, and really only need to consult a map if I'm somewhere unfamiliar. And then it's usually not 'tell me how to get home' but 'get back to somewhere I know'. Usually a minute of scrolling around on the map will do that.