Best Social & Travel Apps for iOS & Android 2020
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
With this list of best travel apps we want you to take full advantage of your Android and iOS devices on your next trip. Save time, money and get useful information that will make your trip more enjoyable and relaxed.
Conceal Friendly is an app that helps legal gun owners find places that are conceal carry friendly. It acts like a community app where users can vote and recommend or not recommend places for other legal gun owners.
Google Play Download Link: My Route Planner
Vloggah is a vlogging app for all of you active vloggers to improve your work or for vlogging fans that are looking for new vlogging content. Trim and edit your vlogs with ease and use it as your vlogging editor,
vlog maker and vlog camera app to post live videos or already recorded videos
on your vlog channel. Also use it as a platform to create your channel where
you can post unique video material, grow audience and become a vlog star.
Official Website: https://www.taggery.de/
Love Push is a new social dating app featuring an in-built messenger, swipe matching system, nearby users, and versatile connection & communication features. You can use it as a free app to meet new people, partners or for flirting and mingling.
Website: Faverity
Dockit is a social events calendar that lets you create and share events, or discover events you want to visit.
Website:
Dockit
Skyscanner is the official app of the website www.skyscanner.com. This app will enable you to save money and time in finding the best and cheapest flights directly from your smartphone. Skyscanner strives to be independent and it will show you all flights, even the cheapest ones. On top of that the app is user friendly, fast and clean. Definitely a must have if you travel frequently with airplanes.
Places Explorer, the amazing travel
guide app, is developed on the Android platform, very easy to use and
helpful for travellers that need help to discover the best places nearby,
anywhere they are, directly from their phones. With this app, the traveller can
even check the weather forecast, find restaurants, hire a taxi or simply find
directions to any place of his choice.
Google
Play Download Link: Places
Explorer
The Barcelona Forbidden is one amazing entertainment app which is developed for both Android and iOS users, specially created for Barcelona travelers. With this app, all the travelers to Barcelona are able just by using their GPS to discover all interesting and fun places around Barcelona where they can go out or go eat without spending much time looking. User-friendly and easy to use, the app helps users in finding places in the area where they can enjoy a perfect night in the city.
Google Play Download
Link: Barcelona
Forbidden
The Vacay – Places NearBy Me is a location app which is very helpful and practical offering each user a chance to discover local businesses, services and service providers in his area based on his current GPS location, instantly on his phone.
The MULMIN Sightseeing is developed for both android and IOS users as one incredible and helpful sightseeing app that allows the users to learn everything they need to know about the place they travel to, getting all detailed information on their phones. Easy to use and very practical this personal tour guide is allowing the user to just take a picture and immediately get all information about that showplace. Users with the app will have the chance to build up their knowledge on the go, no matter where they are in the world.
So if you are like us, too lazy to cook, but craving your favorite dish right now, you ought to try out the new foodie app on the block – Plate Rater. This is an excellent option to find nearby restaraunts when you are in a city that you want to explore. Plate Rater can help you find new and popular restaurants or places to eat but it is mostly focused on the food. For example, a few days ago we were craving some good pork dumplings and instead of searching for all the Chinese restaurants around us, we searched specifically the dish, and within the results we found all the restaurants that served it and which one has the best ratings.
App Store Download Link: Plate Rater
Official Website Link: Plate Rater
Google Play Download Link: eyeParaty
Google Play Download Link: Perfec
The Check and Pack app is highly efficient practical
and helpful backpacking planner app which is developed for android and IOS users
to help them organize and manage lists with items to bring and things to do for
their upcoming hiking, backpacking and other exotic holidays they plan. With
the help of this easy to use and customize app and its amazing interface, users
are able to easily remember each thing they need for their trips, never
forgetting anything they need to do or bring with them. This checklist app is
saving users time and helping them organize the most incredible trips.
Google Play Download Link: Check and Pack
Google Play Download Link: WAZE
Google Play Download Link: TRIPADVISOR
Google Play Download Link: GOOGLE
TRANSLATE
ParkQuest
This comprehensive us park travel guide to America’s national parks is simple to use and quite practical to
plan all your next big adventures in just a few minutes. Developed on the IOS
platform, the app is giving you the chance to find your way to every national
site, national monument, to all the campsites and campgrounds easily. With
detailed maps, tips, and advice for exploring available for you with just a
tap.
Official Website: ParkQuest
App Store Download
Link: ParkQuestConceal Friendly
Conceal Friendly is an app that helps legal gun owners find places that are conceal carry friendly. It acts like a community app where users can vote and recommend or not recommend places for other legal gun owners.
Google Play Download Link: Conceal
Friendly
Apple download link: Conceal Friendly
Website: Conceal FriendlyMy Route Planner - Live GPS Satellite, World Earth & GPS Maps
My Route Planner is an easy to use, simple and advanced travel
assistant that is developed for Android users. The app offers you find the
safest and fastest routes and directions on a live voice map with a few clicks
to ease your journeys on the road with a real life GPS transit map and journey
assistance. Get traffic alerts, get live traffic assistance and more with the
help of the app.
Google Play Download Link: My Route Planner
Vloggah
Google Play Download
Link: Vloggah
Website: Vloggah
Taggery
Taggery for iOS & Android is a new social network on the app market which offers different tools to improve your online social activity and enhance your social media experience. This app gives you the chance to be part of the online stories of your friends or maybe some of your favorite influencers. It features great discovery content feature, commenting, video & photo upload and more.
Google Play Download
Link: Taggery
App Store Download
Link: Taggery
Love Push
Faverity
Faverity is a social get opinions app in which you can give or get opinions. It differs from the other similar apps because it enables its users to get opinions from influencers.
App Store Download Link: Faverity
Google Play Download Link: Faverity
Dockit Social Calendar
Dockit is a social events calendar that lets you create and share events, or discover events you want to visit.
How can Dockit help you?
Dockit can help you organize events and
manage events in your calendar. It links with your iCal or Google Calendar and
lets you add events you are interested in from friends or other publically
organized events. In short: it’s a social event creator and calendar.
Google
Play Download Link: Dockit
App
Store Download Link: Dockit
Skyscanner
Skyscanner is the official app of the website www.skyscanner.com. This app will enable you to save money and time in finding the best and cheapest flights directly from your smartphone. Skyscanner strives to be independent and it will show you all flights, even the cheapest ones. On top of that the app is user friendly, fast and clean. Definitely a must have if you travel frequently with airplanes.
Google Play Download Link: SKYSCANNER
App Store Download Link: SKYSCANNER
Places Explorer
Barcelona Forbidden
The Barcelona Forbidden is one amazing entertainment app which is developed for both Android and iOS users, specially created for Barcelona travelers. With this app, all the travelers to Barcelona are able just by using their GPS to discover all interesting and fun places around Barcelona where they can go out or go eat without spending much time looking. User-friendly and easy to use, the app helps users in finding places in the area where they can enjoy a perfect night in the city.
Official Website: Barcelona Forbidden
App Store Download
Link: Barcelona
Forbidden
Places NearBy Me
App
Store Download Link: Vacay
– Places NearBy Me
Google
Play Download Link: Vacay
– Places NearBy Me
MULMIN Sightseeing
The MULMIN Sightseeing is developed for both android and IOS users as one incredible and helpful sightseeing app that allows the users to learn everything they need to know about the place they travel to, getting all detailed information on their phones. Easy to use and very practical this personal tour guide is allowing the user to just take a picture and immediately get all information about that showplace. Users with the app will have the chance to build up their knowledge on the go, no matter where they are in the world.
Official
Website: MULMIN
Sightseeing
Google
Play Download Link: MULMIN Sightseeing
App
Store Download Link: MULMIN Sightseeing
Navigator PRO
This is an amazing GPS navigation app which is developed on Android platform as one easy to use and very practical navigation tool that will help the user reach any destination of choice as fast as possible and always safe. The app is working both online and offline and the user is getting the help he needs to find any location within a certain distance that can be reached. Well, detailed and powerful offline maps are available on the app so the user just by typing an address can reach any destination without any mistake just in a few minutes with the advanced optical and audio guidance of the app.
Google Play Download Link: Navigator PRO
Website: Mapedy
Plate Rater
Google Play Download Link: Plate Rater
App Store Download Link: Plate Rater
Official Website Link: Plate Rater
eyeParaty
eyeParaty is easy to use and very interesting virtual reality app that is offering its users to virtualy visit the most beautiful and preserved places of Paraty located in Rio de Janeiro. Developed for android and IOS users, this app is allowing users to have the most realistic virtual experience of Paraty, meeting all places of this historical city that is listed by Unesco as the most harmonious colonial architectural set of the country. If you ever wanted to visit Brasil, and you haven't had the chance, this is the app that will take you there!
Official Website: eyeParaty
App Store Download Link: eyeParaty
Perfec
Perfec is a simple and polished tool that brings tons of information at your fingertips – places, services, products and so on. So, if you want to discover things or locations around you with an ease, this is the right way to do it. It's a really simple app where you can find locals & events nearby to plan and do fun things no matter the location.
Official Website Link: Perfec
App Store Download Link: Perfec
Check and Pack
App Store Download Link: Check and Pack
CompareHunt - Cheap Hotels & Flight Tickets
For all travel lovers that like to book hotels and flight tickets online, this is one very practical and useful travel app which allows all of them to easily and effortlessly compare prices of tickets and hotels before booking them and find the cheapest prices that will save them money each time they travel. Developed on android platform with simple interface and very easy for using, this app is comparing prices on various popular booking websites and find for users the prices that suits him, allowing him to choose the best travel arrangement for him. All travel information for any worldwide destination to save the user’s money!
Pearshare - Get recommendations from locals
Pearshare is a social travel app that helps you create collections that you can you later use or recommend to other people. We are sure that this app can largely help you
if you are traveling a lot or if you are hosting people, especially through Airbnb. Users can use the already prepared collections of locals (pearls) so they can experience the places they visit in the best possible way. The app is free and available on the App Store.
App Store Download Link: PEARLSHARE
OANDA Converter
This app is great because it works offline, it is more
precise from the stock currency converter, and you can also implement the 2%
ATM rate and the 3% credit card rate when you calculate your payments in a
foreign country. Simple and useful.
Tourist Language Learn & Speak
This app will give you tons of translated phrases for various tourist situations like: transport, food and accommodation, emergency situations, spoken interaction and basics, like telling the time, day and great list of numbers. It supports Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Also the app offers text to speech and some other useful additional features.
Google Play Download Link: TOURIST LANGUAGE LEARN & SPEAK
App Store Download Link: TOURIST LANGUAGE LEARN & SPEAK
Quality Navigation App
There are numerous quality navigation
apps on Google Play and App Store. Google Maps is probably the best, and you can use it offline if you download the maps of desired location in advance. iOS devices have good stock maps app, but it needs work to be better. Some other quality navigation apps are the widely
popular Waze and the less known, but great, Scout and Map Quest. But if you
need a navigation app that will also work offline, without downloading any maps, and will give you directions,
than try Sygic. It looks great, it’s in 3D and it has tons of additional neat
features.
Google Play Download Link: WAZE
WiFi Finder and Skype WiFi
If you are out of your country and mobile internet services
are expensive, use this Wi-Fi finder to find free and paid Wi-Fi hotspots that
are nearest to you. Is a must have if you use internet often. Another similar app is Skype WiFi. It is an official app released from Skype. They offer around 1 million Skype wifi hotspots around the world on which you can connect to with your Skype credit. They charge only per minute which is great if you need the internet shortly.
Google Play Download Link: WIFI FINDER
App Store Download Link: SKYPE WIFI
Gas Buddy
Having Gas Buddy is a must. It will save you great amount of
money, it is user friendly and with precise prices for most of the gas
stations. The great thing is that it has tons of gas stations and you will
definitely find the nearest and cheapest one on your next trip.
TripIt
TripIt is one of the best trip organizers that is available
free on Google Play and iOS. You can keep all your travel plans in the app and view
them whenever you want, forward confirmation emails for every reservation to plans@tripit.com and don’t lose them ever
again. You can also search for restaurants or places, get the directions and
store it to the app with one click. You can share your plans with your friends
and even sync them with your calendar.
The official app from the famous travel website is a must
have. It is fast, responsive, clean and it is perfectly optimized for Android and iOS.
It will give you the standard information for places near you, reviews, hotels,
restaurants, things to do, flights and forums.
Google Play Download Link: TRIPADVISOR
App Store Download Link: TRIPADVISOR
Google Translate
If you are in a foreign country in some situations you will
definitely need a translator. The Google Translate app is the best solution
because it is perfectly optimized and designed for your Android devices. Apart
from the standard translator feature, it offers offline mode, input words with
your voice handwriting and camera.
Google Play Download Link: GOOGLE
TRANSLATE
Expedia Hotels and Flights
Expedia will offer the best hotels near you, or your desired
location, and you can sort them by price, deals or reviews. The app, and the
website (expedia.com) frequently offer discounts, enabling you to save money.
It offers booking of flights as well and the search of a flight is flawless and
very fast. Actually the booking and reservations are very easy and fast to do,
and with the discounts and the perfect UI Expedia is surely one of the best
free travel apps on Google Play and App Store.
Google Play Download Link: EXPEDIA HOTELS AND FLIGHTS
App Store Download Link: EXPEDIA HOTELS AND FLIGHTS
Other Hotel booking apps
The Expedia app is great for booking hotels, but there are
some other great booking apps like the official app from booking.com and
hotels.com. They are even maybe slightly better. For example, Booking offers not only hotels,
but other accommodations as well, and the number of accommodations is maybe the
biggest on the whole Internet. Hotels also has wide variety of hotels, offers
reviews and great amount of last minute deals and discounts. Another quality
hotel booking app is Hotels Tonight. If you need to book the hotel the same day
and find the latest and best deals for that day, than Hotels Tonight is the perfect solution.
Google Play Download Link: HOTELS TONIGHT
App Store Download Link:HOTELS TONIGHT
Note: The article was published originally in 2013 but since then the list was updated several times to remain relevant and up to date.
