Highway Radar, Companion or Waze

I have a R8W in my car and when I drive local I don’t use an app alongside. I live in the ATL area so the device alone supports my daily to and from locations. I drive to SC and AL regularly and use Waze alongside most of the time on carplay when I do. I have played around with Dukes app but it’s not fully up to par yet. I was looking at purchasing Highway Radar or R8 companion to use in place of Waze.

I am not sure if either of these will do what I am wanting tho.

I don’t want to run my phone open the whole time. I don’t have a phone mount in my car nor want one that I have to see the display. If there is a CarPlay option that I can use when I travel I am open to that. I use GPS regularly, not for the direction but for the fastest route in ATL.

Ideally I’d like something that works on CarPlay or can alert the detector on the backend based on gps (Waze alert). Also I would like something I could run on my phone/ CarPlay if I am in my wife’s car that doesn’t run a detector at all. So something that monitors the other detectors and Waze alerts that I could use if we travel in her car.