Travel smarter with the help of an app! Experienced travelers often have their own strategies for planning and enjoying stress-free trips. Now, with apps designed for organization and convenience, you can streamline your travel plans without adding any extra bulk to your essentials.
Here are the top apps I travel with in 2025. From Google translate to currency converters or itinerary apps the best are listed below:
- Google Translate– This app will translate in real time, so handy for communicating while traveling. The app also has a camera feature, just open the camera and point at the text you want translate, and Voila! translated. I will say that this works better on printed text and not as well when you are trying to translate hand written text.
- Vrbo– This vacation rental app lets you book rental accomodations and they focus on whole apartment or home rentals. I prefer this over AirB&B because you never have to worry about booking a shared accomodation. No more sleeping in someones spare bedroom!
- Airalo– This is an esim app that lets you download an esim for travel outside your cell service area.
- Wanderlog– This is a travel itinerary planning app. You can download your flight and hotel information into the app and plan out your daily sightseeing itinerary for easy on the go itinerary manager. I use this to budget, and organize my travel plans as well as add restaurants and businesses I don’t want to miss on vacation.
- Rome to Rio– This app will give you all the options for transportation to your travel locations. Do you need to take a flight, a bus, then a train to get to your destination? This app will give you the best options available for getting to your destination.
- Find Penguins– This is like an online travel journal. Plane, track and share your travels with this app. When you get home from your trip, turn your photos and travel notes into printed keepsake travel book. You can order a printed travel memento for your friends and family.
- Happy Cow– Are you vegetarian or vegan? This app has a large library of vegetarian and vegan friendly restaurants in a ton of destinations. Never worry about going out to eat with this app, you will always have food options. Not all the restaurants listed are strictly vegetarian restaurants, but restaurants with at least more than one vegetarian/vegan menu option.
- Alltrails– Going Hiking? Get this app. This app lists out hikes in your area with corresponding photos of the hike, details of the hike ( think distance, difficulty and other hikers recommendations )
- Harvest Hosts– Need a place to park your trailer or rig for the night? Join Harvest Hosts and stay at participating locations. Want to camp in a vineyard in Napa? or park your trailer on a farm for a night? Look no further
- Hopper–
- Google Maps– Google maps is one of the most comprehsive world view map apps in the world. Before your trip add pins to locations you want to go. You can save these pins, or marker tabs
- Right click on the location address and hit the “Want to go ” option
- You can download maps of areas for out of wifi maps you can use anywhere. I do this when we are going camping and need a map of the area to navigate but will be out of cell service.
- Send location pins to your travel mates. This also comes in handy when camping in out of cell service areas. You can pin your location, then send your location pin to friends and family to let them know where you are located.
- GoodGuide– Get realtime reviews on sustainable and ethical products. They review hundreds of product brands on how ethical their company practices are. Feel good knowing you are buying good brands when out shopping.
What travel apps do you use and love? Let me know in the comments. Also check out my tips and tricks for surviving a long flight here.
Also check out my tips for packing in a carry on only here and here
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