Whether to go around the world or for a weekend getaway, new technologies can facilitate our trip and even get us out of more than one hurry.
Essential apps during our trips
APP IN THE AIR
An essential travel app for those of us who are more clueless. Depending on the characteristics of our flight, it will inform us of the expected time that we will have to invest to complete the check-in process at the check-in desk, security control, arrival at the boarding gate, etc.
There is also the option to notify us of unforeseen events such as change of boarding gate or status of our flight via sms if we do not have an internet connection.
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WIFFINITY
The application with which we can find public access WIFI signal wherever we go. Although many of us travel to take a break from the world around us, it is undeniable that we end up doing the impossible to stay connected.
No more paying the operators exorbitant bills for connecting to their data network in another country or going around like a duck looking for an area with public WIFI. With this app you can see in real time the places around you where you can connect.
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PACKPOINT
Another must-have travel mobile app for the clueless. An excellent advisor when organizing your luggage depending on various factors such as the destination you are traveling to, time of year, planned activities, luggage limit etc. A real lifesaver for the most clueless.
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ACCUWEATHER
A classic among the classics but no less useful and interesting for that. It is the application par excellence to know the weather forecast wherever we travel. It has the best user ratings of its reliability in forecasts.
Very detailed meteorological information with a very acceptable level of precision. Getting soaked by not planning an outdoor activity properly can have the days numbered.
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LIVE TREKKER
This app is amazing to document our routes every time we go out to explore the area. Whether in the city or the countryside, live trekker will help us capture places, panoramic views, events or people that we have encountered during our route in order to have a complete and visual travel diary. A really interesting application for trekking enthusiasts.
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CITYMAPPER
According to the developer himself: «Citymapper makes the most difficult cities easy”. Very useful app to plan your routes in public transport in real time. Updated information on arrivals, departures or interruptions of services. It also adds meteorological information and a calorie and kilometer counter if you move on foot or by bicycle. It is not available in all cities but its implementation is growing at a dizzying rate and in Spain it works in most of the territory
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GOOGLE TRANSLATE
The essential travel app when we travel to a country with a language other than ours. We all know the famous Google application that has given us a hand on more than one occasion during a visit abroad.
The tech giant has endowed this tool with some extremely useful novel features such as translating the text of a photo into any language and even listening to someone in a foreign language, detecting what they are speaking and instantly translating it into the language we want.
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XE CURRENCY
The application to know in real time the exchange rate between any most accurate currency in the world. Essential for trips abroad where the local currency is different from ours.
Convert any foreign currency to our own currency in real time, with maximum reliability and precision. Knowing the exact price of anything that interests us in our own currency will help us maintain our travel budget.
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Is there anyone today who does not know her? The most important social network of photos on the planet will not only allow us to share the favorite photos of our trip with the entire community of instagramers But with the new update we can save images in private collections, such as Pinterest, in such a way that we can create specific albums of our trips differentiating the photos that we allow to be public and those that will only be for private use.
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SITorSQUAT
An app that can save our lives when we have no choice but to attend to our biological needs on the street. Its database has more than 100,000 public toilets to show us the ones closest to our location and it goes further because users can rate and add the toilets according to their experience. “Sit” if the bathroom is okay, or “Squat” if it is not entirely acceptable. Don’t you think it is essential?
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