One thing we usually carry with us to any place is our cell phones, no matter the environment. It feels natural to take your smartphone to the kitchen, bathroom, toilet, worship places, schools, hospitals and even inside water.
But the most awesome thing to achieve is this: where ever you go, let your smartphone be productive and may be indispensable.
With proper planning, you can have rush free, stress-free trip because you know what’s ahead of you. It’s possible to have a completely worry-free vacation, whether you’re traveling for a stuffed holiday trip or just a quick weekend getaway.
From trip/itinerary planners, online marketplaces for flights and hotels, leisure places to travel to, maps etc, there’s an app for you.
As a friend to so many techy traveling freaks, I will be showing you the best hand selected travel apps for Android that can make every journey a pleasant and memorable one.
Best Travel Apps For Android
Google Translate
The Google Translate app is an indispensable app for any techy traveler. It has a simple objective which can make every journey, no matter the location, a thrilling one.
Imagine going to more than 5 foreign places and you were able to understand both their spoken and written language. This is possible with Google Translate app.
Take Google Translate with you as you travel. You can
- Translate between 103 languages by typing
- Copy text in any app and your translation pops up
- Translate 59 languages when you have no Internet
- Use your camera to translate text instantly in 38 languages
- Take pictures of text for higher-quality translations in 37 languages
- Two-way instant speech translation in 32 languages
- Draw characters instead of using the keyboard in 93 languages
- Star and save translations for future reference in any language
Yahoo Weather
It feels good what nature holds ahead of your trip.
With beautiful and stunning Flickr photos to match your location, time of day, and current conditions, Yahoo Weather prepares your trip with the most accurate hourly, 5-day, and 10-day weather forecasts.
It’s a good travel app for Android users as well as other mobile OS.
TripIt: Travel Organizer
With a simple name that tells you what it does, TripIt: Travel Organizer makes your trip as hitch-free as possible.
By instantly organizing all your travel plans in one place( Simply forward travel confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com), TripIt will create a master itinerary for each of your trips and you can access your plans anytime, anywhere, for free.
You can sync TripIt with your calendar, so your travel plans show up alongside other meetings or events.
Download TripIt: Travel Organizer
Google Maps
Google Maps/Maps – Navigation & Transit is a must have app for travelers. If it comes pre-installed on your device, it’s a good one.
Wherever you are going, you can rely on Google Maps app for real-time GPS navigation, traffic, transit, and details about millions of places, such as reviews and popular times.
I see people who use it all the time when they get lost. It can work offline and can be your guide whenever you need one.
Download Google Maps Navigation & Transit
Offline Maps & Navigation
This is an outstanding app that can literally replace Google Maps on your Android phone. This Navigation app combines the best of offline and online features to create the ultimate navigation experience.
With compact maps of over 200 countries specially optimized to take up less space on your phone, you can carry it with you as you travel. Follow accurate voice directions, avoid traffic jams and get speed limit & speed camera alerts with no hidden costs.
Download Offline Maps & Navigation
TripAdvisor Hotels Flights Restaurants Attractions
With over 500 million reviews and opinions by travelers, TripAdvisor makes it easy to find the lowest airfare, best hotels, great restaurants, and fun things to do, wherever you go.
You can book hotels, restaurants, and flights with just simple clicks.
Download TripAdvisor Hotels Flights Restaurants Attractions
Google Trips – Travel Planner
Google Trips simply turns your smartphone into an all-in-one travel assistant, consolidating travel itineraries and reservations from your emails into automatically sorted trips.
The Verge says
Google Trips is a killer travel app for the modern tourist.
And that’s simply what it’s and does.
Google automatically collate your flight details, hotel and car reservations, tour itineraries and other information available in your emails, while also providing recommendations, suggested day plans, and related local sights and attractions based on your tastes, interests and local travel tips.
You can save your trip details to your smartphone and view it offline when there’s no mobile data or WiFi available.
Download Google Trips – Travel Planner
Guides by Lonely Planet
In the simplest explanation possible, it’s a travel app that gives you everything you need to know when visiting a new city. It’s probably the best app for getting the most initial straightforward info about any worthwhile city and it works offline.
Download Guides by Lonely Planet
Whatsapp Messenger
Surprised to see Whatsapp messenger on the list of best-traveling apps? Here’s why.
Whatsapp Messenger is a cross-platform instant messaging that is used by millions of people including your friends, family, team or co-workers. Traveling without keeping in touch with friends and family would really be boring.
It saves you the roaming charges for texts and SMS and even calls. Using Whatsapp you can do Video or audio calls, chat with friends and tell them how thrilling your trip is.
Sharing stuff that pops up would be more snappy and fun. Imagine traveling without chatting with friends and family? Hmm, unless you are out for something fishy.
Uber
Whether you’re going to the airport or across town, there’s an Uber for every occasion. Uber is available in more than 630+ cities worldwide—download the app and take your first trip today.
- Requesting your Uber is easy—here’s how it works:
- Just open the app and tell us where you’re going.
- The app uses your location so your driver knows where to pick you up.
- You’ll see your driver’s picture, vehicle details, and can track their arrival on the map.
- Payment can be made by credit card, cash in select cities, Android Pay, PayPal, and more.
- After the ride, you can rate your driver and provide feedback to help us improve the Uber experience. You’ll also get a receipt by email.
Skyscanner
Sounds like an app that scans the sky for rain or weather changes right? It does a better job than that.
With Skyscanner travel app, you can easily search, compare and book cheap flights, hotels, and car rentals anytime, anywhere for your next trip and you get just the best deals. The best part of it, it’s just as free as the air.
Push notification alerts you of price changes so you can stay updated in real-time.
KAYAK Flights, Hotels & Cars
Similar to Skyscanner, KAYAK helps you book the perfect flight, hotel or rental car and save money with mobile-only rates and Private Deals.
KAYAK Trips lets you organize all of your travel plans in one place including free flight status updates, airport terminal maps and security wait times. KAYAK is a good app for planning, booking, and traveling.
Download KAYAK Flights, Hotels & Cars
PackPoint travel packing list
As Featured In The Washington Post, BBC, LA Times, CNN, Lifehacker, Fast Company’s Co.DESIGN, and The Next Web
“A Travel App That Practically Packs Your Bags For You”
Download PackPoint travel packing list
Hipmunk Hotels
Hipmunk Hotels presents a fast, all-in-one travel planning and booking solution, with a powerful flight and hotel search engine.
In addition to the usual flight search criteria such as price, Hipmunk also includes an agony index for flight duration, number of stops and other factors.
AirHelp – Flight Tracker & Delay Compensation
Not every flight makes it on time, and missed connections and flight cancellations can deep-six even the most well-planned trips. AirHelp helps you file compensation claims for delayed or canceled flights.
Simply file in your details and scan your boarding pass or flight details through the app to make the claim, and if it’s valid, AirHelp will help you process it, handling the necessary paperwork and legal action if required. If the claim is successful, then you get the money straight into your account, minus fees.
Download AirHelp – Flight Tracker & Delay Compensation
Waze – GPS, Maps, Traffic Alerts & Live Navigation
With Waze, you can always know what’s happening on the road beforehand. Even if you know the way, Waze tells you about traffic, construction, police, crashes, and more in real-time. If traffic is bad on your route, Waze will change it to save you time.
That data includes accidents, speed traps and other hazards that might keep you from getting to your destination as soon as possible.
Download Waze – GPS, Maps, Traffic Alerts & Live Navigation
Expensify
Are you on a business trip or on a vacation that would attract a lot of spending? Well, Expensify is your #1 travel companion.
Expensify is the #1 tool for expense report management, receipt tracking, and business travel. Snap a photo of your receipt using SmartScan and Expensify takes care of the rest!
Download Expensify – Expense Reports
Currency – travel exchange rates
Unless you aren’t traveling to a foreign country, either way, you will need a good and user-friendly currency converter to always keep yourself updated.
It’s a nice app and does a good job.
Download Currency – travel exchange rates
Merriam Webster Dictionary
As long as you are out on the road, via sea or on air, you will surely encounter new stuff that you might not know. With a dictionary installed on your phone while traveling, your journey becomes exciting and educative.
Whatever you learn stays with you.
Download Merriam Webster Dictionary
Finally, just to give yourself a little security touch, you can use a VPN app when accessing most sites so your private information stays safe or anonymous.
Most free VPNs work very well but if you really care, you can also get a fully functional paid VPN app and keep your www life anonymous.
With these apps or a selected few, your trip would always be remarkable. Safe journey!
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