Best Travel Apps
Nowadays a smartphone makes your travel easier, faster, cheaper, and more comfortable. According to a recent survey, more than 50% of travelers booked their hotels, flights or trains by using any mobile apps. Even they search and plan their tour itinerary after using different apps. A wide range of travel-related android and iOS apps are available in Google Play or Apple Marketplace. Unfortunately, most of them are terrible, misleading, difficult to plan a perfect trip and worthless to use. So, it is very hard to choose a perfect, suitable and user-friendly mobile app for your smartphone.
We are trying to sort out some useful mobile apps and describe in brief. Hope it will give you a basic idea before installing it on your smartphone. We don’t try to enlist any top 10 or top 20 travel apps, but the best choice for your travel planning. There have some more country-specific travel apps on the web, which may we missed to enlist. We will discuss those mobile apps in our next apps related article.
Google Translate
Type: Multi-language Translator
Cost: Free
Google Translate is one of the most useful apps for travellers, when you are visiting a destination and you don’t understand their language or hard to communicate with them. It can translate more than 100 languages by writing. If you download the desired language dictionary, it can translate 59 languages without any internet facilities or offline. You can translate 38 languages instantly, once you point your smartphone camera on the text. Two-way speech translations of 32 languages are also possible by the Google Translate app. It has some more facilities, which are very useful for your day-by-day activities at your travel days. In short, it is a polyglot at your travel days.
Google Trips
Type: Tour Planner
Cost: Free
Google Trips make your travellers life easier. It gives you time-to-time suggestions about the nearby attractions, customised day plan and travel tips. If you are a user of Gmail, Google Map and Google Calendar, then Google Trips automatically collect all tour related information and organised into a trip plan for you. You don’t require searching all your flight, hotel and restaurant or car reservation details from Gmail. It is also working at offline.
TripAdvisor
Type: Airlines, Car and Hotels Booking
Cost: Free
TripAdvisor is one of the best travel apps on the web. You can get all the details about the hotels, restaurants, and sites to see. You can get thousands of reviews and photos uploaded by users. It will help you to decide and plan your trip. You can compare price and booking hotel, restaurant, flight, buses and tour packages by the TripAdvisor. Even offline, you can access your booking history. It is just a complete online travel guide.
Airbnb
Type: Non-Hotel Accommodation Booking
Cost: Free
AirBnB is an online marketplace, where user can search, booked or rent out homes, apartments, private rooms, hotel rooms or private spaces within homes. It becomes an all-in-one travel solutions for travellers. It also assists to book cars and hire a local guide to complete your tour. One, who enthusiast about the local test and culture at travels days, Airbnb is the best option for them.
XE Currency Converter
Type: Currency Converter
Cost: Free
When you are traveling abroad, XE Currency Converter can be very important to easy your life. It gives real time live updates of exchange prices about 180+ currencies. So you don’t have to rely on a local broker, to know the value of the right currency exchange prices. Now you can transfer money abroad through the XE Currency Converter also. It's very fast and secure.
Kayak
Type: Airlines, Car and Hotels Booking
Cost: Free
Kayak is one of the best and known flights, hotels & cars booking website, which also offer mobile apps for android and iOS. It searches hundreds of other travel booking sites. So you can compare and book the perfect hotel, car or flight as require and save money & time. Not only that, you can set a hotel or flight price alert to notify you. It has another feature to organize your tour plan. Once you booked your hotel, flight and rent a car, just share details with Kayak to trips@kayak.com.au and they will provide you real-time status and timely notifications.
mTrip
Type: Travel Guide
Cost: Free
mTrip is a travel guide, provide details to cities all over the world. You can access this app even offline except sharing and update. The best part of this app is offline map and navigation, which is very important for some remote destinations. You can create your own and customized tour itinerary to reflect your travel interest.
Google Maps
Type: Navigate & Explore
Cost: Free
Google Maps is renowned as the best navigation app around the world. It covers 220 countries and territories map and millions of places and business on the map. You can access real-time traffic report, public transport information, GPS navigation and explore the location to stay, drink, eat, go, etc. By the app, you can check the shortest route to reach your desire location with estimated time and total distance you drive. If you are new in a location and want to explore it yourself, then Google Map is the best option for you. It gives you every possible direction by walk, by car, by bus or by train to reach the place you search. It also suggests all nearby restaurant, attractions, hotels, etc. on request.
Uber
Type: Cab Rental
Cost: Free
Uber is another popular app for travelers. It is a car rental service provider app on-demand. Once you choose your destination location, you may get several options to choose the right one. You can contact the driver directly and can track the real-time location of the cab provided to you. Don’t worry about the fare, it must be pre-defined, and have to pay the same by cash or card after complete your ride.
Roadtrippers
Type: Tour Planner
Cost: Free & Paid
The Roadtrippers is a tour planner app, once you define your starting and destination location, traveling date and interesting area; it will suggest all roadside attractions, or scenic points, national parks, and hotels on the way. If you use a free version, then it will be plotting up to 7 waypoints. The paid version of Roadtrippers will suggest you up to 150 waypoints. Currently, it provides services in USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand only.