These days, we are living inside a digital sphere where most of us are always ‘online’, even while asleep. It might be by force or willingly, but in parallel, there are times when we want to go completely offline, especially on vacation, and then there are these clever, helpful apps which make us cling to our phones.
Here are 15 such amazing apps which will make travelling a bit easier than before.
Plan and organise
- Rome2Rio: An app which helps you with different transportation methods if you are travelling from one place to another anywhere in the world. It will show you various means by which you can reach a destination, with an approximate fare listed alongside. You may choose options that come under your budget.
- PackPoint: This one is for all those who find it difficult to pack. This app lets you pack all the essentials you need based on your destination, activities, duration and weather.
- Stippl: It’s an all-rounder app which lets you book travel options, get an itinerary, do budget planning, help with getting eSIMs, and so much more. Along with all of these, the app helps you to convert the photos and videos you took into ready-to-upload reels.
Design experiences
- Klook: This app helps to make your travel experience richer by helping to book tickets for shows, theme parks, cultural events, local gatherings, and so on. It also helps with transport booking and travel essentials like SIM cards.
- Meetup: This app allows the traveller to connect with various local groups and get informed about gatherings or community meetups. By bringing people together, it opens a window to indigenous culture, practices, food and more. It also allows you to connect with like-minded people with specific interests like reading, tech, photography, etc.
- Workaway: An app which connects global travellers to local hosts, while allowing the guest to exchange services like carpentry, cooking, housekeeping, tutoring, web design, and so on in exchange for shelter. This app helps you connect with the locals as well as make your travel budget-friendly.
Food and basics
- HappyCow: If you are someone looking for vegan or vegetarian options to eat out, then this app can come in handy. It helps you find convenient plant-based options nearby.
- Flush Toilet Finder: As the name suggests, this app lets you find toilets nearby. It also works well by providing data even when you are offline. It provides information about fees, the entry process and whether the restrooms are disabled-friendly. The app is designed to provide data even without internet.
Make it safe
- Life360: This is more of a safety app which helps you to share your live location. It’s a real-time GPS location tracker which also has automatic messaging options for check-ins and check-outs. It offers roadside assistance and accident alert notifications too. The makers claim that the app can also report overspeeding and phone usage while driving. It can be used to send SOS messages and even help monitor phones, watches, luggage and so on.
Outdoor trails
- AllTrails: This is an app designed for those who love hiking, cycling or motorbike riding. This one provides curated trails to hike as per your needs. You can also find out hiking spots nearby and even find pet-friendly or wheelchair-accessible routes to explore. It enables users to read community reviews and see pictures shared by fellow travellers.
- MAPS.ME: Most people, while travelling, will face the difficulty of not having access to a map or any other navigation-related information if there is no internet. MAPS.ME comes as a solution for this by offering offline maps and navigation commands. It also allows users to download offline maps, which makes it a trustworthy name for millions of travellers worldwide.
Budget and shelter
- Splitwise: A great financial app which will help you split the trip expenses well. It can be split equally, by percentage, exact amount or by flexible shares. It also lets you use multiple currencies, making this app a great pick for international travel.
- TrustedHousesitters: If you are someone who loves pets and wishes to get free accommodation in exchange for a service, then this app will come to your aid. This app lets a traveller find places that allow pet-sitting in exchange for housing. It recreates the barter system in some form.
Pictures plus network
- Lens Buddy: If you are a solo traveller hesitant to ask for help with taking photos, this one app will be the best travel companion for you. This app takes photos and videos hands-free while being adjustable with specific instructions. It helps you customise the number of photos, shutter speed and wait time.
- NordVPN: At times, when you travel to another country, there are restrictions on streaming certain shows or series which you were following religiously. To avoid missing out on them, this app might come in handy. This is one of the world’s leading virtual private network service providers. It provides high-speed service and works in more than a hundred countries in the world.
