Mobile Apps for Travel Abroad

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WhatsApp Messenger. Avoid international charges for basic messaging with WhatsApp. Users can also create groups, send each other unlimited images, video ...
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Flying Information The #1 Mobile Travel App. Includes flight and car search, hotel search and booking, flight tracker and My Trips, so you have your full itinerary at your fingertips. Track your flight status, view and manage your trip itinerary, look up baggage fees, access airline numbers and airport info. Hipmunk shows all the relevant flights on a timeline, and besides finding the cheapest flights, the app sorts by "agony," which incorporates factors like flight duration, number of layovers and price. Also, see hotel options. Long flight ahead? Put in your airline and flight and type of plane, SeatGuru will show which seats have limited legroom, won’t recline and good or bad seats relative to restrooms and galley , etc. GateGuru is all about your travel day. It includes flight status, airport weather, gate information, security wait times, and gate amenities at all your airports. It will even keep track of travel points accrued. Skyscanner is the most flexible and powerful flight search app in the world. Compare millions of flights from over 1000 airlines around the world in seconds; save money, save time. Book your flights direct with the airline or travel agent and get the best deals. Plan and have your perfect trip. With over 100 million reviews and opinions by travelers, TripAdvisor makes it easy to find the lowest airfare, best hotels, great restaurants, and fun things to do, wherever you go TouristEye gives you the option to choose cities you want to visit and build a customized daily itinerary of the places you want to see. You also get to find out about transportation bookings, lodgings, as well as travel events. Want to beat jet lag? Let the JetLag Genie help you customize an action plan, based on your flight info and personal sleep pattern, that will include daily plans for days before your trip, during your flight, and at your destination to significantly reduce the effects of jet lag.

Kayak Hipmunk SeatGuru GateGuru SkyScanner Trip Advisor TouristEye JetLag Genie

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Organizing – Documenting – Itineraries - Expenses TripIt Evernote Trip Journal Expensify Trip Splitter Lite TripDoc

Awarded Best Travel Mobile App for 2011, TripIt automatically takes all your trip details and creates a truly helpful itinerary. Simply forward your confirmation emails to [email protected]. TripIt instantly recognizes all kinds of reservations including cruises, restaurants, concerts and more. If you like it on your desktop, you’ll love it more as an app! Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create todo lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes searchable. Trip Journal is the ultimate travel app to track, record, document, and share your travels with friends and family. Trip Journal can automatically define your location and you can easily add geo-tagging to photos and videos. #1 app for business travelers. Tracks purchases as they happen. It will pull in eReceipts, digital copies of the paper receipts, for most purchases under $75. Cash purchase? Snap picture of receipt, and SmartScan will pull out the merchant, date and amount of the sale from the image and save it. Split expenses with a travel companion in a matter of seconds. When you split a bill, open the app, enter each participant's costs, and the IOU is calculated and stored. For more than 2 people, upgrade for $1.99. TripDoc helps you organize all the places you want to go when you travel. See all your places on a single map and plan your day.

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Communication WhatsApp Messenger WiFi Finder

Avoid international charges for basic messaging with WhatsApp. Users can also create groups, send each other unlimited images, video and audio media messages. Over 650,000 locations in 144 countries worldwide! Quickly and easily find free or paid Wi-Fi hotspots. Download all of the locations offline, so you know how to stay connected when you are on the road. The Wi-Fi finder will tell you exactly where the closest Wi-Fi hotspot is, and how to get there.





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Dropbox offers 2 gigabytes of free cloud storage, perfect for saving important documents and information while traveling. It allows you to set up a photo album of your travels with free access to it for friends and family. It’s also perfect for very large files too big to email.

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DropPhox

DropPhox is an iPhone Camera app that automatically sends photos to Dropbox as you take them.

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Skype Wifi

Get online at over 1 million WiFi hotspots around the world. Pay per minute (rather than by hour) with Skype Credit. A must-have app for international travel. Only pay for the time you’re connected - there are no limits on the amount of data you can upload or download.

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Postagram

Postagram turns your iPhone, Instagram & Facebook photos into a beautiful postcard delivered by mail.

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mTrip AutoStitch

mTrip uses augmented reality to display tourist attractions in your area, and it guides you to each tourist attraction with directions. mTrip also allows you to share your trip through e-postcards over Facebook or email. AutoStitch is the only panorama app that can stitch photos in any order or arrangement, including vertical, horizontal, or mixed arrangements. It achieves superb image quality by stitching full-resolution camera images rather than low-resolution video frames as used in other apps.





Getting Around Internationally XE Currency Google Translate Convert Clothes

Lonely Planet Wikitude TripLine TripWolf Tipping Bird OffMaps2 Yelp Pocket First Aid & CPR mPassport

Convert every world currency with the XE Currency app. It offers live proprietary currency rates, charts, and even stores the last updated rates, so it works when the Internet doesn't. This easy-to-use currency calculator has received over 14 million downloads. Translate words and phrases between more than 60 languages. For most languages, you can speak your phrases and hear the corresponding translations. Display in full screen mode to make it easier for others to read. Looking for clothes on your oversees trip? Convert Clothes is a simple clothing sizes conversion app for women’s and men’s clothing including shoes. The ultimate public transport guide for more than 400 cities around the world. One application for all your trips: download the cities you need and search your route by subway, bus, tram, railway... (depending on cities). NO network connection is required after you have installed the cities. Start your journey with the world’s favorite travel guides and phrasebooks, all available in one free app. Plot itineraries and use AR capabilities to find local information and tips. Search by interest, address or actual location. Using your mobile device’s camera and its built in sensors, local information of all kinds becomes available in Wikitude’s AR display as well as in lists and map overlays. Tripline is an easy and fun location-based app that you can use for your trips. It's designed to work with the tripline.net site. There are lists and maps. Trips can then be played with the animated trip player. WYSTC Award Winner for the best youth & student travel app 2011. All guides, features, and maps function offline. Includes trip planner, augmented reality viewer to locate the attractions near you, and “You Are Here” marker on the map, which displays the direction you are facing. Tipping Bird is your guide to tipping conventions around the world. It has recommendations for common situations like restaurants, bars, and taxis. Convert easily between your home currency and the local currency. It also calculates your tip for you. OffMaps 2 allows you to access searchable maps, your position and bookmarks wherever you are, even offline and abroad. OffMaps stores maps directly on your device and lets you search the map offline. With built-in Wikipedia, it includes articles and photos of your points of interest. Use us to search for places to eat, shop, drink, relax and play then read reviews from an active community of locals in the know. Narrow your searches by neighborhood, distance, price, and what's open now. Updated to reflect AHA Guidelines on CPR & Emergency Cardiovascular Care. 34 videos and 46 high-resolution illustrations plus hundreds of pages with illustrations, including topics such as CPR, choking, bites, bruises, burns, seizures, diabetic emergencies, and more. Search, map and choose among carefully selected doctors, dentists, hospitals and pharmacies. Schedule appointments. Find equivalent medication brand names and translate important medical terms and phrases. Download to your phone, no Internet connection needed.



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