5 Mobile Apps That Help You Travel Smarter

[Sophie Andersen]

In this day and age it´s crucial to utilize technology in almost every aspect of our lives.Traveling is no exception since there are hundreds of thousands of helpful travel apps out there and more coming out every day. These programs make our vacation planning less stressful, our payments and transactions seamless and our quests for places to see easier than ever. What follows are some of the best travel apps for 2015 and, hopefully, the list will provide you with much needed insight into how to optimize your whole vacation experience.

Localeur

When we plan our holidays, usually what we do is search for interesting places to visit prior to arrival. The problem with this is that we, as tourists, get to see the usual attractions of a certain place. There is a problem, however, if we want to explore the local culture, history or cuisine and entertainment. This is where Localeur comes in handy.

This app is a guidebook made by locals themselves. Localeur writers have their own profiles which provides insight into the local culture. They write entertaining articles about their experiences in certain venues and reveal what you should expect if visiting that particular restaurant, bar or anything else worth paying a visit to. The list and articles read as friendly emails and are full of valuable pieces of information.

Kayak

This is another useful travel companion, especially if you want to be careful about how you manage your budget. The app allows you to search for hotels and flights by their prices. Anyone who had tried Kayak knows that their search is often everything you need to find the best deals.

Imagine that your flight got cancelled and you quickly have to reserve another one. Yes, you could try the usual way, but if you were to just open Kayak, you would realize that the app will provide you with exactly what you are looking for and save you some hard'earned cash.

Gas Buddy

Travelling by car can be a very costly endeavor, because, while you can calculate how much you need to get to the desired location, you cannot know for sure how high the gas prices are in a certain place.

Gas Buddy is an app that connects peers who provide drivers with information on where one can find the cheapest possible gas prices. The more people use it, the greater the network. The less you pay for gas, the more cash you have to spend on things that are more important. That being said, In think this is a great traveller's companion.

Weather+Free

This app is your personal meteorologist, and it cost absolutely nothing. Situations in which this app is useful are countless. If you don’t know the language of the country you are staying in, you definitely cannot presume what the weather will be like just from watching a forecast.

Weather+Free gives you information on the weather circumstances in English, wherever you are. This app just might make the difference between a ruined night and a successful one. It features humidity, temperature, local time, visibility, wind speed and numerous other relevant parameters. Quite neat!

Trippeo

If you hate receipts, as well as managing and tracking your expenses, then this piece of software will be your best travel companion ever. It will help you with your expense management, with the sheer power of its sophisticated algorithm.

Trippeo enables you to capture all the credit card transactions during your trip and makes it easy to review and submit expense reports for approval. This is perfect for your business trips, because you will have one less hassle to think about on an already important and semi-stressful occasion.

All of these apps represent the future of travel and the direction in which we, as a race, are evolving and adapting to living and exploring the globe while going side by side with what today’s technology has to offer. The sooner we start using such tools, the better our experiences will be. So, if you are about to embark on a journey, don’t forget to try out some of these apps that scream, ‘We will make your life easier!’