5 useful travel apps that you probably don't use-and 5 others that you probably do

Veröffentlicht: 16. Juli 2022, 19:15 Uhr

Aktualisiert: 09. Juni 2025, 23:04 Uhr

Von: wom87

As travel authors, we are often asked about our favorite trip apps. For a long time we held on to old and reliable apps that fulfilled prosaic functions such as looking up places and searching for accommodation. However, we have recently discovered a number of new apps that offer unique services that are perfect for travelers. If you want to update your list of useful travel apps, take a look at our curated list below.

1. Food spots

Great for: Find delicious dishes on the way get it: free, iOS and Android, food spotting

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Food spotting is a restaurant evaluation app with a twist: Instead of evaluating restaurants as a whole, users rate individual dishes. This is particularly useful for vegetarians like me, who often suffer silently from thread vegetarian dishes, while the carnivore at the table dig in their juicy steaks.

To find a great dish, just look for your location and look for a certain dish you want, or browse in the recommendations of other "food spotters" in the area. The app focuses on visual elements so that you can see how a dish actually looks on the plate. If you have tried and loved a dish, you will be encouraged to take a photo yourself and tag it with "tried" and "loved". Interestingly, Foodspotting has no precautions for posting negative reviews, as it focuses on only discovering good food.

2. Together
Great for: Find someone who speaks your language abroad. Get it: free, iOS and Android, together
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The ingenious app ZUA enables users to find certain companies based on a number of diversity filters, including language, age, gender and disability (listed below). This means that if you need an English -speaking dentist abroad, you can find it in just three steps over together. Or if you need a doctor, she is only a few finger tips away. The app recognizes its state language and its location and shows relevant results nearby.

even better, Zusa enables you not only to employees, but also to "crowd". This function analyzes the customers of an event location and enables you to find like -minded people near you. Regardless of whether you are looking for a lot of British who are eager to see The Ashes, or for Chinese mid -twenties with whom you can go to clubs, show you where you are likely. You can "favor" companies that will be reused and check whether the information provided is true or false.

Personnel filter: Language, ethnicity, breed, religion, gender, age, LGBT, disabled and alliance (i.e. whether the event location supports a certain sports team or is geared towards a specific social group)

Mass filter: ethnicity, breed, religion, gender, old and alliance (ie sports team or social group). Crowd filters are of course only available for places where many people gather (bars, clubs, pubs, gyms, restaurants, accommodations, sights).

3rd emergency number

Great for: Get emergency aid if you need you get: free, iOS, emergency numbers

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When we set off a year ago, I entered the emergency numbers of Vanuatu for the police, fire brigade and medical care on my phone together with our travel insurance numbers and the contact details of the British embassy (there are none in Vanuatu). In the course of our trip, I became more and more complacent until I had no idea what the emergency numbers were during our visit to Colombia, one of the most violent countries in the world.

Since then I have discovered Emergency Phone Number, a comprehensive list of emergency numbers all over the world. It enables you to make a call out of the app and display your location as you make calls so that you can say first aiders exactly where they are. It is the type of app that you do not know about you need you until you need you, so be sure and download it now.

4. Onavo extension

Ideal for: Reduce your data roaming fees get: free, iOS and Android, Onavo

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Onavo extend reduces your mobile data use to help you avoid high roaming fees on your travels. Once installed, it works in the background to find options for storing data. This includes that images are only invited if you scroll down to you, adapt the image quality based on your settings and provide statistics on how many data is used by each app to recognize whether your permission is lost. Onavo carries out downloaded data via its own server and compression technology and switches off when they are connected to WLAN. Finally a way to regain something power!

5. Tap on "Retouching".

Great for: remove unwanted elements from pictures get it: $ 1.99, iOS and Android, TouchRetouch

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This is a great app for retouching pictures on your phone. Assuming you have photographed a beautiful landscape, but an annoying traffic light stands in the way. You can start touch retouch, highlight the traffic lights (shown in red) and the app will magically replace it.

It's not free, but for a small price it offers occasional photographers a great way to clean up their snapshots before they are posted on social media. Pictures in full resolution occasionally overthrow the app, but they store their progress so that they can open them again and continue where they have stopped.

and now to the more well -known apps:

6. Google Maps

Great for: navigate through unknown places get it: free, iOS and Android, Google Maps

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This old companion is a must for every traveler. Just start Google Maps, search your city, enter "Okmaps" in the search field and save a version of the card locally on your cell phone. This allows you to switch off data roaming and navigate with GPS. Note that you may have to swivel and zoom in to reach a level that can be saved on your phone.

7. Xe

Great for: currency conversion on the way get it: free, iOS and Android as well as other, Xe

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With over 25 million downloads worldwide, XE is the universal currency app of choice. With live change courses and historical charts, it offers more than enough for occasional users. We found it easy and reliable during our journey to use the world. The only disadvantage is that you have to think about downloading a certain currency if you have an internet connection. Otherwise it doesn't work.

8. Google translator

Great for: Find the right words to say them in another language get: Free, iOS and Android, Google translator

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Google Translate offers everything: text, image and language input on one of the more demanding translation offers on the market. What is really useful is the possibility of downloading a language package for offline use on your phone. Unfortunately, this is currently only available in the Android version. Fingers crossed that iOS will soon be.

9. Booking

Ideal for: Book of a trustworthy accommodation you get: free, iOS and Android, booking

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We migrated from Hostelworld to Booking after discovering the lightweight app. With a simple user interface, comprehensive lists and a reliable rating system, this is our preferred way of booking accommodations.

10. Tripadvisor

Ideal for: Search for honest reviews for hotels, restaurants and sights get it: free, iOS and Android, Tripadvisor

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Peter jokes that I have unshakable and unjustified trust in Tripadvisor. It was the Star of India restaurant in La Paz, which was the first right to me. Despite numerous terrible reviews, we decided to risk it anyway - and it was indeed terrible. Two months later we ate in a paella shop in the tiny city of Arygua in Paraguay. The morally dubious owners calculated the twice of what they had given for a paella (which cost $ 40 at the end). Later I checked TripAdvisor and at least five people commented on a similar experience!