14 Travel Apps For Your Vacation

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Travel apps can really be of assistance, especially when out of the country. Here is a list of the best travel apps that I personally use. Some may require wifi or internet connection, but I don’t find it hard to find a place that has that in this busy world! Let me know if you have a travel app that needs to be added to this list.

Waze helps you find the best route to your destination, using real-time help from other drivers. It alerts you of traffic jams, accidents, police, and other road hazards. This saves you time and gas money! There is a new added feature called “where to park” that suggests the nearest parking lot to your destination and then provides navigation to it. Because this app is community driven, it is best suited for bigger cities where there are more users.

Cost: Free

Edit your photos on your phone with the tap of your finger! This is one of my FAVORITE apps to retouch, edit, and make my pictures look more professional looking!

Cost: Free

Looking for a gas station or the cheapest gas close to you? Use this app to do just that! This app does depend on its users to update the gas prices, so they may not always be reliable. To help with this, GasBuddy rewards its members for updating the prices with points that can be used for raffles for prizes.

Cost: Free

WhatsApp is the best way to keep up with your friends and family around the world when traveling internationally. The app uses your internet connection (WiFi) to send and receive messages, pictures, and videos, etc. This is also great for the kids who don’t have a cell phone plan but do have access to wifi. I use WhatsApp to keep up with my friends all over the world.

Cost: Free

City Maps2Go came in handy on my recent trip to Europe when I didn’t want to use my cell phone’s internet, saving a ton in roaming charges. This app allows you to download to your phone the map you desire to use later. No internet connection is necessary to pull up the downloaded map.

Cost: Free!

Sponsored by Charmin, this free app helps you find a place when you really need to go, while you are on the go! You can filter for bathrooms that are free, handicap accessible, baby changing table, or if it is clean. If it is clean, then it is labeled as a “sit” restroom. If it could be better, it is labeled as “squat.” Haha!

 I recommend an online photo storage account, such as SmugMug, to avoid losing all of your precious memories. I have been using this for years after losing a whole trip’s worth of memories. Don’t have an incident like me and protect your images using SmugMug.

Uber and Lyft are amazing companies that allow you to order a driver to pick you up instead of a taxi. You can pay on the app using your credit card and can even add a tip. You can watch where your driver is in real time while you wait for them to pick you up. There are usually promotions for first time users.

Cost: Free

I’m a HUGE fan of TripAdvisor! I use this app to research my destinations to find travel tips and customer reviews. There is a “Near Me Now” tab that you can pull up things to do, restaurants, and hotels in the area you are in. This comes in handy when you are in a new place and don’t know where to eat or what to do. It is like having a travel guide in an app!

Cost: Free

Do you not understand the language on a sign or that someone is speaking? Google Translate is an app that can translate for you. You can even hold your camera phone up to a sign and it instantly translate for you.

Cost: Free

If you are looking for activities in your destination, look no further than Viator. I’ve been using Viator for years for cruise and vacation activities. I love that I can cancel within 24 hours of the activity. I try to find a Viator promo code to save some money, too.

Cost: Free!

This is a fun travel app! I have used it to find the world’s largest peanut and bubble gum alley. This app adds some excitement to your road trip by finding unique tourist attractions and oddities.

Cost: $2.99

This app is a MUST when traveling out of the country. It allows you to breeze through US airport’s Customs and Passport Control. All you have to do is download the free app, answer the questions, and go straight to the airport’s “Mobile Passport Control” express lane. This definitely comes in handy when you are due to catch another flight because you can skip the line of people who don’t have the app!

This handy currency calculator works offline to help easily convert currencies around the world.

Cost: Free