Get ready for your next travel trip, and make these wonderful travel applications your best tourist guide and friend, both. Smartphones are now smarter than your expectation, resultantly the cleverest thing to carry on for a trip.
Now a Days they’re an all-in-one Camera, bank, translator, tip calculator, travel agent, food guide and map, but like a sleek carry-on bag, there’s no point filling space with useless apps that will never be used. To help Australians best possible way prepare for their next trip, Cheapflights.com.au has compiled the best travel apps that will see travellers through from the start to the end of their journey.
- Cheapflights
By using this app you can trawl countless travel sites to find a cheap flight. The Cheapflights app does exactly what it says, it helps you find cheap flights around the world. And it does it simply.Enter where you want to go, the dates you want to leave and you can search hundreds of flights from airlines and travel companies all over the world, and then easily compares them to find the cheapest options and book from the app.
- Pack Point
A lifesaver for those of us who struggle to know what to cram into our tiny and cheap airline approved carry-on duffel bag. With PackPoint, you just enter your destination, date of travel and length of stay, along with some activities you’re likely to be participating in, and it’ll generate a bespoke list of stuff you should pack!
- Citymapper
This handy app is now available for over 30 cities across the world and is the easiest app for navigating these major destinations. No longer will you have to stare blankly at complicated tube maps or chance your luck at jumping on the first random bus you see. Citymapper shows you how to get from A to B hassle-free. You can easily find the cheapest and most convenient bus, rail or pedestrian routes, it’ll update you on delays, and it has offline maps and Uber connectivity.
- Google Translate
Immersing yourself in a completely different country is an amazing experience, but language barriers can be a major obstacle. Get around like a local with the Google Translate app, not only can you type to translate over 100 languages, but its camera mode also allows you to instantly translate a sign or menu simply by holding your phone up to it!
- Wiffinity
There’s nothing worse than getting to a foreign city having forgotten to download a map and needing Wi-Fi so you can get directions to find your hostel. Enter Wiffinity, a free app that helps you locate free Wi-Fi hot-spots all around the world, without needing to be connected to the internet. It has so many helpful uses, from checking restaurants on the fly, to avoiding horrid international roaming fees, to being able to order an Uber when you’re stuck in a dodgy neighborhood.
- PolarSteps
In this crazy millennial world that we live in, documenting and sharing your journey is more important than ever. We’ve all got our favourite Instagram filter and Twitter hashtags, but it does start to get a little impersonal.This new innovative app tracks your route (ideal for backpackers and road trippers) and allows friends and family to follow it by populating a travel log out of your photographs.you can also turn it into travel book of your photos, stats and routes to have as a keepsake.
- Splittr
Splittr is perfect for those travellers who would rather shampoo with hot sauce than tackle an Excel spreadsheet to work out who paid for what. You can add expenses as you go, punching in who paid for what, and the app divides it all up at the end. It even emails you and your friends a PDF report with how much is owed, so you don’t have to ruin your post-holiday positivity by acting like a debt collector.
