19 essential applications to travel

GPS? Weather? Restaurants? The more you need to fill your directory bags, useful applications will make your trip easier!

A journey, whatever it is, is planned, prepared, organized and most often, leaves room for little improvisation. With the rise of new technologies and the latest development of smartphone and tablet applications, it has become equally important in addition to the well-filled suitcases and bags, to bet its phone of useful mobile apps that will make life easier during the trip. What applications are useful? What goals? Here's our review of the essential applications to travel.

Manage budget

• Tricount

Android What? iOS

It is well known, good accounts make good friends. True to the adage, the Tricount application is specialized in budget management for a journey between friends. All payments associated with a trip are listed in the tool, as well as participants (maximum 30 people). So, Tricount lets remind who paid what, who has to pay back to who, who has paid too much, etc... In short with Tricount, the account is good!

• Wallet

Android What? iOS

On holiday, if there is a resolution that we never stand at the centre, it is to respect his budget. To do so, the Wallet app endorses the accounting role and allows you to control your overall budget in time and time. On your side, you just need to indicate the initial amount for your holiday and to introduce expenditure categories (accommodation, food, outings...). Simple and easy to use, Wallet synchronizes even with your current account!

• Easy Currency

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As a master of the currency it is, the Easy Currency tool is one of the flagship applications to travel. Just create your personal currency list so that the app gives you the exchange rate. The most? Easy Currency doesn’t need the Internet to work.

Find a flight

• Kiwi

Android What? iOS

Small by his name, greedy by his performances, Kiwi resonates like THE reference of online flight comparisons. Among 18 billion combinations and not less than 700 airlines to its assets, the app offers you the best offer for an unbeatable price. Its most, unique correspondences whose tool has the secret.

S’organization

• CheckMyTrip

Android What? iOS

Traveling regularly requires a millimetre organization. Whether you’re a businessman/wife or just an inveterate globe-troteur/trotuse, CheckMyTrip is the ideal manager of your travels. His role? Regroup them in detail (vol, hotel, rentals) thanks to the different planning tools, on a single application. A sort of calendar of your trips, all-inclusive! Importantly, CheckMyTrip alerts you in case of delayed, cancelled or modified flight.

Find accommodation

• Booking

Android What? iOS

We're not here anymore. Best hotel booking site with more than 260,000 hotels worldwide, Booking is one of the most important applications to travel properly. The principle is simple: enter your destination and Booking is responsible for offering you a selection of accommodations (apartments, hotels, holiday homes...) at the best price.

• Airbnb

Android What? iOS

There too, the name Airbnb is enough to speak to the world. A pioneer in community vacation rental, the site has become a must in housing. By downloading the app, you have in hand what to find accommodation “as at home” , whatever tastes and colors, in a few clicks and wherever you are.

• Couchsurfing

Android What? iOS

Based on the community aspect, Couchsurfing offers you a full-fledged accommodation experience. The app allows you to find a home for a few hours rich in meetings. Apart from the beaten paths, Couchsurfing is surprised by its values of sharing and conviviality. And for cause: you stay free at the premises in exchange for a simple reciprocity!

• Hostelworld

Android What? iOS

Looking for a youth hostel? Hostelworld.com brings you the perfect app to find accommodation on your trip. Most importantly, Hostelworld share its 36,000 properties in 170 different countries. His credo? « Meet the World! »

Move

• Uber

Android What? iOS

Don't want to pay a taxi, take public transport or move your vehicle? Uber is waiting for you at the turn! With the app, order a driver in a few minutes, 24/7. Just fill in your address and choose a driver from those offered nearby. You can follow his progress on a map. When at the payment of the race, it activates as soon as your journey is validated by the driver. Simple and effective.

• Blablacar

Android What? iOS

Carpool pioneer, Blablacar allows you to travel while sharing costs. The principle is no longer easy: look for a journey according to the desired date, choose the person you want to travel with and the tour is played. If you travel with your own vehicle, why not offer your ride as a driver? Just sign up on the app and post your trip. You only have to choose with whom you will leave!

Seizure

• Maps.me

Android What? iOS

Renowned as LA reference card, Maps.me works only with GPS: with the application, no connection required. Whether you’re lost in the heart of a forest or in the middle of a mountain, the tool works without the Internet and promises to always place you. No panic, so you can explore everything!

• Citymapper

Android What? iOS

Whether by train, tram or long-distance buses, Citymapper, public transport in major cities will no longer have any secrets for you. This world-famous app is available in both English and French, on Android and iOS. It provides users with information on public transport of a city centre, both French and American, or British.

Discover

• Mapstr

Android What? iOS

What if you build your own world map? A true little gem in the Mapstr material allows you to list your good addresses and classify them by tags. To prepare your trip, the application allows you to consult other maps (friends, influencers...) and thus to list new addresses to experiment! The most: Mapstr works all the time and everywhere, even without the Internet.

• iziTRAVEL

Android What? iOS

Full-fledged guide, iziTRAVEL offers you to filter your headphones and let you carry through his visits. Like a guide, the app offers you an audio tour of the most beautiful museums as well as audio tours in more than 900 cities around the world. Almost all of the visits are free and offered in French. For an optimal experience, think about downloading the desired guide before barouding: once downloaded, it does not need a connection to be launched.

Communicate, exchange

• Google Translation

Android What? iOS

It is impossible to move, walk, eat, rent a vehicle, discuss the conditions of a dwelling without being able to speak in the language of its interlocutor. To help you with this problem, your best friend will be Google Translation. Travelling to Turkey a few weeks ago, lost in the alleys of the Istanbul Grand Bazar, Google’s application proved very useful. How? We type the text in the area provided for this in the application and in our language (French), then we start the translation and once this was done, we started reading the text in the language of our interlocutor, who was doing the same to answer us in French.

• Travello

Android What? iOS

Social network for globe-troteurs by excelllence, Travello is an indispensable application to exchange worldwide. Whatever your destination, the TravelloApp travel community is there to answer your questions, give you advice, recommendations and even good plans. From the experienced profile to the weed traveler, the application is full of profiles of people who have a single passion: the whole world.

• WhatsApp

Android What? iOS

Free messaging, WhatsApp made a place of choice in the trip. The app works like your phone, with a difference: it uses the Internet. Thus, once connected to a Wifi terminal, you can send messages, photos/videoes, voice messages and even make calls without fearing out of package.

Stay connected

• WifiMap

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Today, the Internet connection is one of the essentials when you go on a journey even if yet, the goal is to... disconnect. However, this is a fact: the Internet is still very useful in addressing many situations. If you don’t have a local data package, you can help you with WiFi Map. The app allows you to spot in real time wireless terminals with free Internet access around you.