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Travel Apps That Will Make Your Trip a Breeze

Travel Apps That Will Make Your Trip a Breeze

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Traveling can be a huge hassle – packing, rushing to the airport, navigating the terminals and lines – not to mention the long flights and ensuing jet lag. It sometimes gets to the point where you’re too exhausted and run down to even enjoy your destination! Luckily, there’s an app for that. Download a few of these helpful travel buddies and make your next trip a breeze!

TripIt DownloadMoz.com
TripIt
DownloadMoz.com

TripIt
Particularly helpful if you’re heading to more than one place, TripIt organizes all of your travel information so you can access everything in one place. From flight reservations to hotel bookings, it connects to your email account so it can pull the information directly from your confirmation notices, saving you the hassle of trying to figure out the time difference between your departure and arrival cities. It’ll also back up online, so you can access important information even if your super-cool money belt gets stolen with all the documents. Although if you lose your passport, you’re still on your own.

WhatsApp AtlantaBlackStar.com
WhatsApp
AtlantaBlackStar.com

WhatsApp
One of the most troublesome and oft-overlooked expenses of traveling comes when you need to communicate, either with people from home or with new friends abroad. Download WhatsApp to save yourself from expensive international plans, or having to “top up” every other day for more minutes. Just use a WiFi connection to send all the texts your heart desires!

GateGuru Jaunted.com
GateGuru
Jaunted.com

GateGuru
Long layover? Missed connection? Ten-hour flight delay due to mechanical difficulties? Make sure you hit the best spots in your new airport-home with GateGuru, which will tell you prime locations for eating, mingling, shopping, or doing bizarre things you’d never think to do in an airport. Who knew there’s a yoga room in San Francisco International Airport? Why am I not surprised? GateGuru has more than 120 airports so far in the database, and is growing.

FlightTrack IntoMobile.com
FlightTrack
IntoMobile.com

FlightTrack
Integrated with TripIt, FlightTrack will download your flight itinerary and give you the most up-to-date flight status information, usually faster than the airlines themselves. Not only will it show the current status that is being reported, but it will also give you weather updates in your departure and arrival cities (so you can infer that an impending blizzard may mean some delays). Furthermore, others can check in on it as well, so your airport pick-up buddy doesn’t end up cooling his heels with the cabbies for two hours while you circle overhead.

XE Currency Exchange AndroidAuthority.com
XE Currency Exchange
AndroidAuthority.com

XE Currency Exchange
Make sure you never get swindled again by having the some of the most reliable currency conversion technology in your pocket. You can set your default currency to translate foreign prices into something you can comprehend, and make sure that the shady currency exchange place on the corner isn’t ripping you off. It will update automatically whenever there is a WiFi connection, but will also remember the most recent data so you can access information even when you’re off the grid.

Google Translate iTunes.Apple.com
Google Translate
iTunes.Apple.com

Google Translate
Translation books are so last year, mainly because they’re incredibly unhelpful and slow to use. Enter Google Translate, the app version of the website, and one of the more accurate translation services available. While it still encounters the standard problems of literalness and grammar, it’ll at least give you a good idea of what is being said or how to tell somebody you have been robbed. It even lets you speak rather than type out what you’re trying to say. For even more services, couple it with Google Goggles, which will let you take pictures of foreign text and will translate that as well.

AroundMe RoundedOff.com
AroundMe
RoundedOff.com

AroundMe
If you’re in a brand-new area – especially if you can’t quite figure out where that is exactly – AroundMe is perfect to let you know about interesting things in the surrounding area. GPS technology detects your location and you can filter exactly what you’re looking for – bars, restaurants, hospitals (yikes!) or points of interest. It often has user-submitted reviews, so you can pick the most happening emergency room in the city.

TravelSafe Pro AppsZoom.com
TravelSafe Pro
AppsZoom.com

TravelSafe Pro
Access critical country-specific information with the click of a button, whether it be embassy details, emergency numbers, instant contact with police or ambulances. It’ll save you time running around trying to figure out what the 911-equivalent is, and can be a life saver for those moments when you realize you left your bag in the taxi, complete with driver’s license, passport, credit cards, and midday snack.

Expensify Ttunguz.Wordpress.com
Expensify
Ttunguz.Wordpress.com

Expensify
If you happen to be a frequent business traveler, Expensify lets you track all your expenses by syncing with your credit cards and accounts. It’ll save you tons of time upon your return when you need to submit those pesky expense reports, and even allows you to scan receipts if you are one of the few souls left that still pays in cash. You can access a print-ready PDF report of your spending, saving you from the temptation of sneaking in things to pad your expenses to cover that $300 hotel massage you just had to have.

JetLag Genie iTunes.Apple.com
JetLag Genie
iTunes.Apple.com

JetLag Genie
One of the most debilitating things about traveling is the inevitable jet lag that follows any time-zone traversing. Whether you try to power through or succumb to six-hour naps and the ensuing insomnia, Jetlag Genie can become your best friend. It will start altering your sleeping habits before you leave (after you’ve input all of the pertinent travel information), and will come up with a detailed sleep schedule that sets alarms to help you adjust to the impending change. This isn’t to say you won’t be thrown off by your airplane neighbor snoring at the decibel-level of a thousand chain saws, but it may help you cut down on the Ambien once you land.