In the past, we used to equip ourselves with maps, compasses, tourist guides,... but today, all this travel equipment has been reduced to smartphone applications. But the tasks of travel apps do not end there. They can make your journey easier at almost every step, as you can use them to check flight delays, find and book accommodation, call transport, find the nearest gas station,... and they also serve as guides and weather forecasters. We present to you the indispensable travel apps that you must have on your smartphone before you go on a trip.
Mobile apps for travel they are a mandatory part of travel equipment if you want to get the most out of your trip and not allow anything negative to surprise you along the way. In addition, these types of applications not only they help, too advise to you when you yourself don't know how and what. In the following, we present some of them, after using which you will wonder how you could travel without them until now.
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TripIt - the ultimate assistant
The TripIt application is a business route organizer that serves to plan your trip. Here we mean the reservation of plane tickets, restaurants and hotels, car rental, etc. And when we said organizer, it's not just proverbial. You send travel information by e-mail, and in the return you will receive a prepared itinerary of the business trip. The basic version is free.
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Dark Sky - the best weatherman
A lot of traveling depends on the weather, and if we know one thing, it's that it has its own schedule. With the Dark Sky app, you can coordinate as much as possible. It uses its patented weather forecasting system and offers insight into each of the 24 hours for a week ahead. It also supplies you with temperature, humidity and visibility, air pressure and dew point, and when a storm is approaching, Dark Sky lets you know when it will catch up with you and how strong it will be.
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TripAdvisor Offline City Guide - the best guide
When you ask someone who's still sticking to the map why they don't use the app, you'll often hear the lame argument that they won't feel lost when there's no wireless connection. But such a person does not know that applications such as TripAdvisor Offline City Guide do not need an Internet connection for their operation, as they are fully functional even without it. And because it's TripAdvisor, you can count on reviews, advice and opinions from other tourists, as well as things to do in the immediate vicinity, in addition to photos, maps and travel information.
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Google Maps - The best maps
When it comes to maps, despite the many offerings, Google is still king. It also works when you are not connected to a router or satellite. We recommend that you download the map of the place before going abroad to avoid a potentially expensive download. It makes navigation easier and you have all the information you want at hand. It offers (voice) guided GPS navigation for driving, cycling and walking, instructions for using public transport, reports live on road conditions, redirects you, and via Street View also invites you to virtual visits to museums, restaurants, etc.
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Google Translate - the best translator I
When we are abroad, the biggest obstacle is usually the foreign language. But since the advent of Google Translate and similar applications, not knowing a language is no longer something that robs us of experience and puts us in an awkward situation. Even when we are offline no. And even then it offers much more than conventional dictionaries. It translates from more than 90 languages and allows you to speak naturally, and Google does the rest, interpreting by relying either on your speech, or on the keyboard, handwriting or camera.
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CamDictionary - the best translator II
Street signs, signs above shops, leaflets, maps, instructions, warning signs,... crucial information on a trip, but useless if you don't understand it. Therefore, in addition to Google Translate, you also need CamDictionary, which will decipher them for you. You simply take a picture of the text you don't understand and the application will translate it. It recognizes 16 languages, including exotic Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and adds an explanation (in English) to the translation.
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Just Landed – the best "timing"
It is true that you will pay one and a half euros for an application that operates with information that is free, but Just Landed refines it concretely and therefore justifies the price of the coffee. It collects data such as the time you need to get to the airport, the traffic situation, constantly refreshes the flight status (which means that you will no longer have to stand in front of the screen and press F5 every second on the airport website), in addition, when the plane takes off, gives an audible warning.
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Uber - the ultimate transportation finder
The Uber app has raised a lot of dust, saying that it is unfair competition to taxi drivers, but as they say, there is always dust behind a good horse. And as long as it's legal, you can use it to help you get around big cities. And what are you doing with her? You call the transport. Based on your location, the application notifies the nearest available driver and delivers information on how quickly we will get the transport. We then pay for the distance traveled via the mobile application.
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