This app is an indispensable tool at the airport, especially if you fly infrequently. It will inform you about changes in the status of your flight, remind you to open online check-in, tell you Wi-Fi passwords and the best places to eat. The app has the largest coverage worldwide, with over 1,000 airlines and over 5,000 airports.

What to do if the flight is delayed for a long time, while the air carrier does not provide the compensation required in such cases? What to do if the flight is canceled altogether? If you need help asserting your rights, contact AirHelp - essentially an online aviation lawyer. The application will help you receive compensation for a canceled or delayed flight. In return, he takes a 25% commission for his services.

Finds offers of decent hotels with big discounts. Hotels are selling rooms at low prices that risk going unsold. An excellent option for those who decided to go on a spontaneous trip, suddenly found themselves without a roof over their head, or wanted to live in luxury for a day or two. Use the application to book hotels in the USA and Europe; there are few offers in Russia yet.

In an unfamiliar place, especially in a densely populated metropolis with complex transport interchanges and many subway exits, a regular map will not be enough. Citymapper is the recognized king among applications that help you move around the city. It controls the metro, ground transport, electric trains, bike rental and taxis. It will build your route based on constantly updated data and use an alarm to remind you that it’s time to go out. In Russia, coverage extends to Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Comprehensive map guides to cities and countries. Contains detailed routes to the most visited cities in the world. The maps are detailed and work completely offline. You can search in different categories: restaurants, cafes, tourist attractions, hotels, ATMs and public transport. On cycling or walking routes, the app shows the slope - uphill or downhill. You can also use it to book hotels through Booking.

A replacement for traditional printed travel guides, featuring over 100 guides to world capitals and smaller cities. Recommends attractions, restaurants, places for walking and shopping. It works without a network connection, which means there is no need to buy roaming. In Russia it provides data for Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Universal translator, the database contains 103 of the most common languages. Translation into 59 languages ​​is available without an Internet connection. There is a convenient function for real-time translation: just point your camera at a menu in a Japanese restaurant or an announcement at a bus stop in Paris, and you will immediately receive a translation. Or you can draw hieroglyphs or letters directly on the screen. A microphone for speech translation will help you communicate with local residents.

For those who can’t get enough of attractions and restaurant guides all the time. Local designers, gallerists and musicians recommend their favorite spots in different cities. If you wish, you can get personal recommendations, find out the opening hours, addresses and websites of the establishments you like, and also call Uber to the place you like so you don’t get lost.

An opportunity to save on expensive excursions and better experience the local atmosphere. The application contains a large collection of audio guides for cities in Russia and Europe. Izi.travel will automatically determine your location and start playing the story. Just walk along the scenic routes and listen. If you don’t want to use roaming, download audio guides to your phone before your trip.

The Russian-language giant in the world of guidebooks will guide you through Barcelona, ​​Prague, Rome, London, Berlin, Budapest, Vienna, Amsterdam, Madrid, Tbilisi, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sochi. The application will tell tourists the most important things about the main museums, restaurants and city events. It has a map on which it is convenient to build routes. Weather forecast, currency converter and useful tips are also provided.

The Vegetarian Guide covers a huge range of restaurants, cafes, eateries and health food stores in more than 180 countries. There is a convenient search by keywords: “organic”, “gluten-free”, “raw” and many others. Addresses and opening hours are complemented by mouth-watering photographs of food.

Connects drivers who have empty seats in their car with fellow travelers who need to get to another city. For the driver, this is an opportunity to save on fuel, and for passengers, getting to their destination is much cheaper than by train, and more comfortable than by bus. From Moscow to St. Petersburg for 1000 rubles - quite realistic.

A living classic for independent travel. It will help you rent a room, apartment or an entire villa from owners in almost 200 countries around the world. It's cheaper than renting a hotel room. And as a bonus, you get the comfort of home and spiritual communication. When choosing an apartment, be sure to pay attention to reviews.

Generates monotonous sounds - binaural beats that will help you fall asleep and relax. Recommended for those who are tired of jet lag and want to acclimatize faster. True, there is no scientific confirmation of the effect of this practice, but users like it.

Traveling is not only about package tours and relaxation under the hot sun. If you are the type of traveler who prefers adventure and the challenge of a five-star hotel, a survival guide will be a great companion for you. He will tell you how to explain any request in Morse code (even SOS, even “Mom, more money has come”), how to light a fire in the desert or survive in snow captivity. The guide can be used offline; an internet connection is only required for the initial download of data. The app was created by a former Special Air Service soldier and instructor, so you can trust it.

For example, we were amazed when we found ourselves in the Apple Store - despite the fact that this huge two-story store is one of the largest in the world, we observed incredible crowds in it, and we counted about 40 people in line for the iPhone 5 (and this is six months later after its release to the market).

However, in Russia, the situation is significantly different - devices based on the Android OS are leading in terms of sales, increasing the gap every year (75% versus 15% on iOS in 2012). However, this is not surprising, because Android smartphones are produced by such monsters as HTC, Samsung, LG and Sony, and in addition, their range also includes budget models, which cannot be said about Apple products.

We couldn’t ignore this popular operating system, and today we bring to your attention a brief overview of Android apps for traveling.

This powerful navigation app will help you get the most out of your device's built-in GPS and compass. GPS Essential allows you to see data such as coordinates, altitude, speed (current/maximum/minimum), moon phase. With it, you can record tracks, plot routes, put marks on the map, take pictures with a camera, with data overlay, and much more. The application can work with OpenStreetMap, Google Maps and MapQuest maps.

This is a mobile application for a popular airline ticket search engine. In addition to directly selecting tickets, what is especially valuable is the widget that allows you to easily monitor cheap flights to a specific destination. For example, if you want to fly from Moscow to Barcelona, ​​but it doesn’t matter to you exactly when, you can configure the widget accordingly and look at it periodically - once a day, the information in the widget will be automatically updated and you will always have fresh information about the best offers on this direction.

Another ticket metasearch engine. It does not have such a convenient widget as Skyscanner, but, firstly, the application itself is very conveniently implemented, and, secondly, this search engine searches, according to the developer, “by 728 airlines (including flights from low-cost carriers and charters), 40 agencies and 5 reservation systems." And, indeed, very often it gives the most advantageous offers.
By the way, we talked about what other ways to save money when buying air tickets in our article "
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We already wrote about these cards in the article "", but I would like to mention them here too. This application, as they say, is a must have for everyone who periodically travels outside their city/country.
Unlike most navigation applications that use online maps and, therefore, are of no value in the absence of the Internet, MapsWithMe allows you to download a map of any country to your device and use it completely offline. For some countries, the maps are more detailed, for others - less, but in any case, all the main roads between cities are drawn. Another plus is that the maps are stored in vector form and, accordingly, take up quite a bit of space.

This application is very useful for those who cannot imagine life without the Internet. WiFi Manager very quickly searches for available wireless networks, displays the type of network protection and signal strength, and also provides the ability to systematize the found networks. The application has several widgets that allow you to find, analyze and connect to the network in seconds.

If there are no Wi-Fi points nearby and you have to use GPRS when roaming, but you don’t want to receive a bill for several tens of thousands of rubles, it is advisable to take into account the volume of transmitted and received traffic. 3G Watchdog does an excellent job of keeping records, and among other things, the application can set up notifications with daily/weekly/monthly statistics.

Almost every new smartphone user strives to install as many useful applications as possible. Most of them turn out to be not as wonderful as they say in the description, so in order not to turn your device into a trash heap, it makes sense to periodically remove unnecessary software.
Unfortunately, it is not always convenient to do this using built-in tools, and besides, not all applications can be completely gotten rid of; it is in such cases that Uninstaller comes to the rescue. The application's functionality is very modest, but it copes with it quite well.

If during your travels you have gone to a place where the cellular network signal level is not strong enough, this application will help you. OpenSignal locates the tower you're currently connected to, maps nearby towers, and shows you the direction you should move to get a stronger signal.

This application, of course, will not protect you from theft or loss of your smartphone, but it can make your life much easier if this does happen. AndroidLost provides the ability to control your Android device from a computer (or another smartphone): delete data from the card, block the smartphone, send SMS, search for the phone by GPS signal and cell towers, and much more.

One of the main advantages of Android is the ability to fine-tune the interface. Therefore, despite the fact that this application is not directly related to travel, we decided to mention it in this article.
With help, you can completely customize the smartphone interface. Themes, icons, gestures and, most importantly, widgets - everything can be controlled from this application.

When traveling, especially long ones, carrying paper books with you is an unaffordable luxury. The best option is an e-book, but you can also read on a smartphone/tablet, although your eyes get tired faster.
Cool Reader is one of the most convenient and functional applications for reading books on Android. The application has many settings that allow you to customize it as much as possible to suit your taste. There is nothing special to say about the application, if you like to read books on your smartphone, it’s better to just install it and see for yourself

Bigg

If you are not a linguist and English is not your native language, then one of the very important applications that will certainly come in handy while traveling is an English-Russian-English dictionary. With all the wealth of choice, there are not so many truly high-quality and complete dictionaries, and the most optimal price/quality ratio is the Bigg application.

Conclusion

Despite the fact that, according to statistics, the most popular applications for Android are games and many travelers like to while away their time with mobile toys, we are not fans of this category, so we did not consider them in our review.

If you like to play on your smartphone, then you may be interested in reviews of Android games.

If you just recently got a smartphone and you don’t know how to install applications, read the instructions for installing Google Play for Android.

Travel apps, which will help tourists book tickets, choose seats on the plane, buy profitable tours, see the sights and find the right points on the map. Any month of the year is suitable for traveling to a new country, and mobile applications for tourists will come in handy.

Travelata

Travelata is a new mobile travel application from the tour hypermarket. Not a single travel agency will offer you last-minute tours for 5,000-10,000 rubles, but they actually exist. Such tours are found and booked online! While you go to the travel agency, someone will book your tour online. In the application for tourists, search for 120 tour operators, you can find really low prices, cheaper than buying air tickets. There are filters by price, number of stars, food, etc. All documents are completed online and notifications are sent to you by email. With the Travelata app, you don't have to overpay for travel agent services.

Level.Travel

Level.Travel is one application instead of 100 travel agents. Here you can find profitable tours; they are always shown first in searches. There are tours with the “instant confirmation” option, which means that they will be booked immediately. You can choose the budget, star rating of the hotel, type of food, even distance from the sea. Level.Travel has also introduced a bonus system that makes traveling even more profitable. For each purchase you receive points with which you can pay for tours in the future. For the first tour booked you receive 2% of points, for the next ones 1% of the tour cost.

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Another new travel app. Offline maps showing attractions, hotels, cafes, stops, ATMs. Maps work completely offline, no internet required! They plan a route, show nearby attractions, exchange rates and interesting places.

Aviasales

Aviasales - includes top useful travel apps. The beauty of the application for tourists is that with its help you can find and buy air tickets at the lowest price. The application is multifunctional and contains a lot of useful information. Tickets from over 700 airlines are available for purchase in one app. Regular, charter, low-cost airlines - everything is here. Also, Aviasales was the first to introduce the function of selecting air tickets without luggage. The mobile application for tourists can be downloaded from the App Store, Google Play and WindowsPhone. Installation links:

Hotellook

Hotellok is the best travel and tourism app. Using it, you can select and book a hotel anywhere in the world. The application for tourists allows you to compare room prices on different sites. There are many filters and a convenient hotel map. Moreover, you can book a room not only on well-known websites, but even from tour operators who sell pre-purchased hotel rooms.

BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar is a useful travel app that every traveler needs, especially budget travelers. It offers services for finding travel companions anywhere. Allows travelers to get to their destination at a low price, and also saves drivers on gasoline.

Tourist Eye

Convenient mobile application for traveling. This service specializes in making travel plans. This is your personal guide to any city and country in the world. You no longer need to order someone else’s tourist trips, but you can choose what you want to see, plan the time and all the details.

Couchsurfing

Another sensational mobile application for tourists, the essence of which is to find free accommodation for a traveler. Included in the global top travel apps. You just need to register and fill out the necessary form. But it’s worth considering that each tourist has his own rating, which affects whether you will be invited or not.

WikiRoutes

One of the best travel apps. This is an online guide to transport around the world. Very convenient for traveling around Russia. All route options on the map, stops, and fares are indicated. You can be absolutely sure of the honesty of this application, because this directory is edited by the users themselves. The prospect of getting lost in an unfamiliar city does not threaten owners of such a mobile travel application.

CoPilot GPS

An offline application for tourist drivers that plots the best routes for travel. This useful travel app is well optimized and supports real-time road quality information.

MAPS.ME

Mobile application for travel, detailed and fast maps of the whole world. Absolutely everything - from a giant city to a small inconspicuous village. And most importantly, the application provides all this information offline. For the map to work, you need to download this area to your phone, and that’s it. The location is determined by satellite. The map provides routes without the Internet. You can mark your interesting places.

HERE

Another useful travel app that provides directions. Allows the user to choose the optimal route. Suitable for any type of transport.

Free WiFi finder

Free Wi-Fi finder is one of the top travel apps. With this application, everything is extremely simple and clear: it searches for the nearest wi-fi distribution points, which allows the traveler not to waste Internet traffic.

Google Translate

Known as the best travel app around the world. It translates anything from any language to any language. Helpful for travelers in overcoming the language barrier in any country.

SeatGuru

A mobile travel application with which you can find out information regarding your aircraft: flight status and flight number. The app also contains a map of the cabin, which shows the most comfortable seats.

GateGuru

This mobile travel app shows all the information regarding the airport. It will help you not get lost and shows you places where you can spend time while waiting for your flight.

Redigo

Another useful travel app, an offline travel guide and guide with maps for all countries, available for download.

TripAdvisor City Guides

This is a series of mobile guides where users leave all the information: from choosing the best tickets to recommendations for choosing a hotel. It is most useful if you are visiting a place for the first time and do not want to get lost or make a mistake with your choice.

Foodspotting

A social mobile travel app that specializes in curating and searching for places to eat. Cafes, bars, restaurants - reviews of any establishment in one application.

XE Currency

A mobile travel application tracks changes on the currency exchange and provides them to the user. Very convenient for people who keep their savings in other currencies. The application is able to work offline, as it saves all information from the last time you accessed the Internet.

Pin Drop

A compass application that shows the way to any bar in the world. You can mark your favorite places there. So if you don't know where you want to spend the evening, just look at the map

Flight Radar

Many people know the computer version of this program. But there is also a mobile travel app that can track the flight route of any civil aircraft. The owner of this application is able to check his coordinates during the flight.

TripIt

An indispensable assistant for those who travel for a long time. The application for tourists allows you to plan a vacation or any other trip. The data is saved and at the right time the application will ask you to confirm your hotel or flight reservation.

Now you know about the best mobile phones apps for tourists . All these travel apps will make your life and vacation in another country much easier. So don’t put off such adventures on the back burner. The world is too huge and beautiful to waste time in one place. And if you have long been entertaining yourself with excuses that organizing a trip costs enormous work, then everything is simpler than you think! Travel and explore.

Buy train or plane tickets, book a hotel room or arrange a free overnight stay with locals, create a cool route or find the most delicious burgers in the city - we have collected the best travel apps that will make your life much easier!

Mobile application from ZagraNitsa

The ZagraNitsa mobile application can recommend you what to see, where to eat, how to have fun, where to stay, etc. Its database contains more than 10,000 objects and is updated weekly. Here are local attractions, cafes, restaurants, hotels, theaters, museums, parks, shops and other places in the city.

The application is entirely in Russian. You can download it for free in the AppStore and Google Play Market.

Once you download the app, you can use both online and offline versions. The next step is to select the city of interest. After that, using four main tools - "Filter", "Map", "List" and "Nearby" - you can work with the application.

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Flights

Skyscanner

Helps you find the most suitable flight, hotel or transport rental, as well as compare their costs. He does not make a sale, but only redirects to the appropriate site. There is a version of the application for travelers in Russian.

Allows you to find a flight, car, hotel room or tour package, and compare prices for them. It does not make direct sales, but redirects to the appropriate website. A Russian-language localized version is available that supports most of the services of the main resource.

Aviasales

A travel metasearch engine that allows users to compare prices for air tickets, hotels, car rentals and other services. The site does not sell tickets, but only redirects users to the websites of agencies and companies that deal with this.

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Rent a Car

Car Rentals Market

Helps you find and compare prices for renting cars of different classes in Europe, the USA and Canada. Works with more than 25 leading companies such as Budget, Dollar, Enterprise, Hertz and Sixt. You can book a car directly from the application.

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Public transport

The American railway company Amtrak is a state-owned enterprise. Its trains serve 500 destinations in 46 US states (excluding Wyoming, South Dakota, Alaska and Hawaii). Provides discounted vacation packages to the most popular attractions.

Greyhound

The company provides regular intercity bus services. Serving more than 3,800 destinations throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. You can book and purchase a ticket directly on the website.

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Hitch-hiking

Hitchwiki

A very informative service for hitchhikers. The site contains articles, tips and other materials from experienced users from all over the world. There is an application for Android.

Not exactly related to hitchhiking, but it helps to save a lot. The resource is designed to search for private drivers. You can pay using a bank card. The application operates in more than 200 cities in 40 countries.

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Housing

Booking

Travel apps cannot be imagined without one of the most popular online hotel booking systems. The database contains complete information and reviews of approximately 320 thousand hotels in 184 countries. The site is available in more than 40 language versions, including Russian and Ukrainian. There are applications for Android and iPhone.

Hostelworld

Allows you to book a room or bed in a hostel. The database contains about 35,000 hostels, hotels, motels and B&Bs around the world, as well as millions of reviews about them. You can make a reservation and payment directly through the website or application. There is a Russian version, but for American hostels it contains automatic translation.

Allows you to rent housing for a short period of time directly from the owner. Offers more than 500,000 houses, apartments or rooms in 192 countries. Payment is made through the website, but the full amount is withheld within 24 hours after the expected check-in date. There are applications for Android and iPhone.

CouchSurfing

A resource that unites more than 7 million people in 246 countries. Provides the opportunity to spend the night with one of the locals for free, having previously written off and agreed on the Internet. A member's profile contains reviews from previous travelers who have stayed with the member. There are versions of the application for travelers on Android and iPhone.

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Food

The best apps for food-loving travelers are about food and restaurants. Yelp is the most popular and most informative search service for restaurants, cafes, bars, etc. in USA. It allows you to view information about the establishment, its rating and customer reviews. The application can be downloaded for Android and

Horizon Avenue

Creates a route online based on the popularity rating of TripAdvisor attractions. The route will contain a description of each object, and the built-in constructor will allow you to add and remove additional objects, select duration and event intensity. You can also book excursions, buy tickets for concerts and theater performances on the website.

GPS navigator working in offline mode. In addition to maps, it contains information about traffic jams and road events, as well as built-in search in Foursquare, Google and Live POI. There is a special version for the USA.

YouRoute

The application helps you plan your future trip route. Contains information about interesting places, hotels, restaurants, car rental points, as well as a complete tour schedule in a convenient calendar format.

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Rest

PackPoint

Useful apps for travelers are not limited to ticketing and hotel booking services. PackPoint helps you never forget anything while packing. The application allows you to create lists of things and suggests what you may need on your trip, depending on its duration, goals, and the characteristics of your destination.

SitOrSquat

The app finds the nearest public toilet, provides information (such as cost or availability of a changing table) and reviews about it. The list of locations is constantly updated by the users themselves.

The most pleasant thing about traveling is the anticipation of new experiences, acquaintances and discoveries. To make the trip a success, you need to carefully prepare: think in advance what useful mobile applications travelers will need, download them at home - abroad there is not always access to free Internet. Maps, dictionaries, current exchange rates and phrase books will help you plan your trip and save your nerves, time and money.

All Online Courses have found the best free travel applications and programs for phones, smartphones and tablets on Android and iOS systems that will replace a personal guide, travel agent and translator.

MapsWithMe

Detailed and detailed maps of 300 countries and islands that are available offline. It is enough to download the map of the desired country in advance and enjoy the journey. The service is especially useful for car enthusiasts. In the free version, you can only download a map with all the objects and details, but the paid package allows you to add places to bookmarks, allows you to send tags, and use the autofollow mode. Included in the TOP 25 free applications on Google Play in the “Travel” category. Average rating - 4.5.

Triposo

Free guide around the world - more than 8,000 destinations with a database of maps and attractions. The application will give you access to a database of hotels and restaurants in the selected city. Each of the objects can be found on the map and you can see the optimal route on how to get there. The service allows you to get acquainted with local tours and entertainment (you will need Internet access to order a tour). The rating on the market is 4.4. English language.

City Maps 2GO

The service allows you to plan the perfect trip, providing detailed offline maps with detailed information on popular places, and useful tips. The program gives access to addresses, reviewing and GPS location without Internet access. Menu in English.

TripAdvisor

Yandex.Maps

The mobile application provides offline maps of 1854 cities. To do this, you just need to download a map of the desired city through the application and use it at a convenient time. Included in the TOP 15 free applications on Google Play in the “Travel” category.

Google translate

The familiar translation service from 90 languages ​​of the world will not give you a chance to remain misunderstood while traveling. The program works without the Internet, but to do this you need to download the package of the desired language to your smartphone in advance. The camera translation feature works for many languages. You can also translate your interlocutor using the microphone function. Editor's Choice. Half a billion downloads. Rating - 4.4.

Instabridge

Wi-fi search service that unites more than 5 million users. They are the ones who share passwords and logins for Internet connections, both closed and free. This is more than 3 million secure points and access areas around the world. Ten million downloads. Rating - 4.4.

Swift WiFi

A free application that will help you find Wi-Fi access points in another country. The application database is constantly updated and currently contains more than 5 million hotspots. By the way, Swift WiFi helps you measure your connection speed with one click. More than fifty million installations.

XE Currency

When you find yourself in another country, it is important to know the local currency exchange rate. An offline currency converter is simply irreplaceable. To use the application in stores, cafes, or just on the road, you need to update the program in a hotel or place where there is Wi-Fi, after which it can be used without access to the Internet.

Map My Ride

Do you like to travel by bike? With the Map My Ride app, you can search for safe cycling routes and create your own tracks. In fact, the application was created more for cycling training, but the traveler will be able to use the database of current cycling tracks. Just choose the city you want and study the maps.

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Redigo

The application from Rambler&Co combines several useful data at once: offline maps of 800 cities and regions, a phrasebook in 6 languages, a list of attractions, information on obtaining visas, currency and time zones. There is a guide to popular tourist destinations. Rating 4.6.

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