The 10 best travel apps

The 10 best travel apps

Lots of mobile apps to help us with just a click

There are a lot more than ten, but this selection will make your trip easier, more efficient and satisfactory.

  1. Tourist Eye

Allows you to adapt your own tourism guide based on your taste and needs with maps, notes and routes. It works without an Internet connection, making it extremely useful when travelling abroad, but you need to have previously uploaded your trip.

  1. Maptia

A mix between a blog and a social network that helps you find interesting spots based on previous experiences shared by other users. Each place is related to the stories told by the community. Several writers also collaborate and write reports about the places they’ve visited.

  1. Trip Tribe

If you’re travelling alone and would like to meet people with the same interests as you, this app is great. The only drawback is that you must adapt to destinations beforehand.

  1. Yelp

One of the most well-known and most used with comments and honest reviews gathered on establishments both good and bad.

  1. Settle Up

If you’re travelling with a group or sharing expenses with other travellers this is extremely useful. You can control all the spending and split the cost among all your friends or just a few. It helps to avoid the typical problems that often occur on these types of trips. It also comes with several currency types.

  1. Word Lens

An app that provides real time translations for posters, signs, menus, and indications through your device’s camera. As with tourist eye, the app works without Internet and is translates several several languages.

  1. Wifi Finder

This app lets you find Wi-Fi networks in both the location where you search from and also for places you’re planning to visit. Without a doubt, one of the easiest and most useful apps to keep you connected as much time as possible.

8. Field Trip

If you want to discover something new and get away from the typical routes and places, then this is your app. Your trip is sure to be different with this one.

  1. Entrain

It helps to readjust schedules and sleeping time to combat jetlag. However, you need to spend some time to see how it works as it can be tricky to to use.

  1. Mimento

If you’re one of those people who still loves sending postcards, then this is your app. With the photos on your mobile, you can print postcards (10x12cm) and send them to your family and friends.