12 Apps to Have Before Going on Your Next Adventure

Traveling with well organized everything is no longer a dream. Download these apps before you set on your adventure and they will help you with the food, accommodation, transportation, just traveling like a local.


1. TripIt

It is the best app to manage your traveling itinerary.

Using this app, you can check all your travel information including the flight name, flight time, car rental, accommodation. It will keep you on track day-to-day. and you can even share the organized traveling itinerary to your travel partners.

You can just input the information by yourself or allow this app to access your emails for traveling reservation, then it will pull the information though your emails and create your own itinerary.

This app can also notify the on-time or delay information for your flight.

It helps to track your travel stats by year, such as the distance traveled, total days, countries visited, carbon footprint.

Tripit has a pro version and charges $49 a year which gives a heads-up that things happen and helps to navigate along the way. But actually the free version is basically enough for normal use.

A little tip here, if you are the new user and sign up between March 13 to March 31, it will automatically give you access to Tripit pro version for 6 months. If you are using the free version, you can update your account by March 31, it will extend the same value.


2. Solotraveler

Traveling alone doesn’t mean you have to travel lonely. It's a widely used and trusted app which helps you to make friends by connecting you with other solo travelers in this area in real time.

It also helps you to save money by pairing the travelers to share the Taxi. You can search and find the travel mate by sorting by gender, age or hobbies.

Another app, Tourlina, is exclusively for women to find a travel mate. Simply input your destination and travel day, the App will show you potential travel partners and you can message them and plan a trip together. Tourlina App is a great option for a female concern with her safety while traveling alone.


3. Splitwise

If you are going to travel with your friends, this app will definitely help you out with the travel cost.

It helps you to split the bill. No matter if one person pays for the whole trip or each of your guys pay different bills, this app helps you to record every bill on your adventure.


4. Cruisesheet

Similar to Skyscanner which is helping to list the flight option from every airline company by price or by date, Cruisesheet is doing the same thing on cruises.

You can input where you want to travel, and it will show you the cheapest deal on cruises.

Sometimes you can find a really nice price such as dozens of dollars for one day per person to travel around Europe by cruises, and it’s much cheaper compared to the national transportation between countries in Europe.


5. Tunnel Bear

Free and secure movable wifi

when you go traveling, you may need access to local wifi which probably is risky and cause all sorts of issues for you, no matter your personal data or credit card and bank account information.

Tunnel Bear initially provides 500MB of secure browsing without cost. And you can earn more data for free as well. Every month you can trade with this app and get free data such as tweet it to get 1GB once a month, bring a friend to get 1GB when they sign up, or put a bear in your computer for 1GB.

If you would like to check your email, facebook, instagram instead of watching video, this app is sufficient for your needs.

This app also provides the paid version, $3.33 monthly for unlimited secure browsing, 5 connected devices.


6. Priority pass

In this app, you can pay and get the access to airport lounges all around the world, such as $99 annually for occasional travelers to use the standard lounge, $299 annually for regular travelers to use the standard plus lounge, or $429 every year to use the prestige lounge for regular travelers.

This app really helps you to take the time stress out of the flight day, and you can go to the airport and relax there, drink a little bit of alcohol, and enjoy a nice meal.

For frequent travelers, the cost you spend outside the lounge for food and drink in the airport covers almost the whole price of the lounge.

Also the individual price for lounge goes down if you go to use them a lot after you get priority pass.


7. Waze

You can check the local traffic by using this app.

Inputting the starting point and your destination, this app will show you if there is traffic jam on the way for your driving and the estimated arriving time, as well as the actual traffic situation on the highway. And if you meet the traffic jam, this app can help to reschedule the route to avoid it. It also can guide the cheap gas stations along your way.


8. Couch surfing

This app can show your destination if the local host would like to share the available bed or room for travelers. Staying with the locals, travelers have the opportunity to discover and know about the life of people in this nation.

You can search the available accommodation by host’s gender, interests, or by friends’ friend, and check the references for the host.


9. Accu Weather

The good weather does booth the experience of your traveling. Download this app and don’t forget to check the local weather.


10. Safety Wing

It provides travel medical coverage super cheap and it’s just $37 for 4 weeks.

You need to sign up your information and then get your medical insurance covered which is available in 180 different countries. Also you can purchase this insurance while you are traveling.


11. Ice

This App is for emergency use while traveling.

With Ice App, you can lock your phone allowing hospital staff or emergency service to only access your Ice App in the case of an emergency that you’re incapable of talking or badly injured.


12. Google translate

It’s pretty normal that travelers meet a language barrier, and this app make it become a last issue.

It has more than 52 languages you can choose from.

With this app, you can select the language you want to translate it to and from. Or even you can take a picture of what you want to translate and use the instant translation item, and it will translate for you right away.

The nice point is you can download the translated file and you can access it offline.



Using these apps to help you improve your travel experience, it really helps to make travel smooth and hassle-free, so you can focus on enjoying your adventure.