Useful Apps and Websites for Travellers

Onavo

Onavo Count is a stunning app with intuitive reporting to help you understand how you use mobile data. It also lets you compare how much data you use in specific apps to other people.

Features

1. Simple setup: Get going in seconds by setting your monthly cap and billing cycle
2. You compared with everyone: See how your data use measures up to other people for each app
3. Your data life: Understand how you use your data in categories that matter to you like music, maps and videos
4. Real-time alerts: Know when you're approaching your data limit and get an indication of where you stand in your current data cycle with notifications on your phone
5. Onavo Extend integration: See how much data you’re saving with Onavo Extend right from the Onavo Count home screen

How it works

Onavo Count monitors and analyzes all types of mobile data and phone use. This includes background, foreground, and Wi-Fi use.

 

Perfect World Clock

Does pretty much what it says on the tin, this one, providing easy access to the time in hundreds of cities and therefore averting arithmetic-induced stress your jetlagged brain could really do without. Nothing revolutionary, but still an essential download, especially considering the rather nifty option of adding several clocks as home-screen widgets.

 

Sunscreen

Until the bashful lobster look finds its way into the style zeitgeist, this is a crucial piece of kit for those venturing to sunny climes. Having detected the UVI rating of your current location, this nifty little app sets a countdown timer to alert you when you’re due your next slathering of sunblock. All you have to do is input your skin type and the SPF of your lotion, then kick back and soak up some worry-free rays.

 

XE Currency

Need to calculate currencies on-the-go? With the XE Currency App, you can access live exchange rates, view historical charts, and calculate prices on your smartphone or tablet. With over 25 million downloads worldwide, this FREE app is available for iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry, Windows, and Firefox OS devices.

 

The Snow Report

The North Face® Snow Report has everything you need for your next trip to the mountains. Select and save your favorite resorts for quick access to detailed snow conditions, weather forecasts, lifts and runs open, webcams, full trail maps and more. Feeling inspired? View up-to-date reports for the top 10 global resorts.

Resort-based snow conditions with 24, 48 & 72 hour totals.

Forecasts, including the day's highs and lows and wind speed.

 

Waze

Waze is one of the world's largest community-based traffic and navigation apps. Join drivers in your area who share real-time traffic & road info to save time, money, and improve daily commuting for all.

Just by driving with Waze open, you're already contributing tons of real-time traffic info to your local community. You can also actively report accidents, speed traps and other hazards you see on the road. Get road alerts on your route, and find the lowest fuel prices around you shared by the community. Plus, Waze makes it easy to keep up with friends and contacts on the go. Say goodbye to pesky texts and calls ("leaving now," "Stuck in traffic," "Almost there!") and let Waze do the work for you.

• Live routing based on community driven, real-time traffic & road info
• Community reported alerts including accidents, hazards, police, road closures, and more
• Turn-by-turn voice guided navigation
• Live maps, consistently edited and updated by Waze community map editors
• Automatic rerouting as conditions change on the road
• Learns your frequent destinations, commuting hours, and preferred routes
• Add contacts as friends on Waze
• See friends' ETA when driving to the same destination
• Send automatic updates on your location & ETA
• One tap navigation to Facebook & Calendar events
• Earn points to climb the ranks in your community as you contribute road info

 

Foodspotting

As seen on The Today Show & Time Magazine's 50 Best Apps!

Foodspotting is a visual guide to good food and where to find it. Instead of reviewing restaurants, you can recommend dishes and see what foodspotters, friends and experts recommend wherever you go.

Unlike other restaurant apps, Foodspotting answers questions like…

• Where can I find the best…
  Because it's about dishes, not just restaurants, you can find whatever you're craving, from Dumplings and Dosas to Cronuts and Ramen Burgers.
• What’s good here?
  Because it's positive, you can see what's good at any restaurant and recommend your favourite dishes by snapping a photo or tapping "Loved it!"
• What does it look like?
  Because it's powered by people who take pictures of their food, deciding what to eat is as easy as looking in a bakery window and seeing what looks good.

Since Foodspotting launched in 2010, over 4M dishes have been spotted around the world, and we're counting on you to represent your city!

 

Wi-Fi Finder

Over 650,000 locations in 144 countries worldwide!

Quickly and easily find FREE or paid Wi-Fi when you travel with the JiWire Wi-Fi Finder for iPhone and iPod Touch. Download all of the locations offline, so you know how to stay connected when you are on the road.

Using the GPS function on your iPhone, the Wi-Fi finder will tell you exactly where the closest Wi-Fi hotspot is, and how to get there.

If you prefer certain providers such as Comcast, you'll be able to see which hotspots are served by those providers. You can also filter by location type (restaurant, cafe, hotel, etc..). When you find the location you want to use, you'll be given a phone number and directions on how to get there.

JiWire works closely with the top pay and free service providers in the world to give you the most accurate and up-to-date information available.

 

Photosynth

Interactive Panorama Capture and Sharing, with new Social Features! – Now in Version 1.6.2

With Photosynth's new social features it’s easier than ever to get your best work noticed!

Photosynth for iOS is the panorama creation app that makes it easy and fun to capture and share interactive panoramas of the places, people, and events that are important to you. Using the latest in computer vision techniques, you can create panoramas not only from left to right, but also up and down, enabling you to capture a full sphere.

Once you've created a panorama, share it as an interactive experience on Photosynth, Facebook, Twitter, or in email (using the free Photosynth service) or as a simple image. Interactive panoramas you share publicly can be viewed by anyone, are searchable, and may be featured by Photosynth and Bing to be seen by millions!

 

Yelp

Top-ranked Yelp for your iPhone or iPad has over 50 million reviews on businesses worldwide — all in the palm of your hand. Whether you are looking for a pizzeria that is open now or a coffee shop nearby, Yelp is your local guide to finding just the place to eat, shop, drink, relax, and play.

• Discover great local businesses.
• Search for nearby restaurants, shops, and services.
• Filter search results by neighborhood, distance, rating, price, and what's open now.
• Read millions of reviews written by a community of active, expert locals.
• Get to know a business through beautiful photos.
• Find great Deals offered by your favorite local businesses.
• Look up addresses and phone numbers, call a business, or make reservations directly from the app.
• Write reviews, check-in to businesses, upload photos, and add tips of your own!

 

Packing Pro

Packing Pro is a super-enhanced version of the popular, top-ranking Packing app. If you desire great syncing & sharing options, display customization, a huge catalog, lots of sample lists, & additional, built-in Expert assistance, then Packing Pro is for you!

• Featured in Apple's "10 Essentials," "Traveling Home" & "Staff Favorites"
• #1 iPad Travel app in U.S. & Finalist for 2010-2013 Best App Ever Awards
• As seen on CNN, BBC, Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Fodor's
• Travel+Leisure, Budget Travel, Mashable, TUAW, 148Apps, iLounge & Macworld

 

Triposo

One travel guide for the whole world. It's free and works offline.

Triposo offers you the best travel guide for your phone. Complete and up to date information from the best open sources and handy maps. Download city or country guides and use them offline while you travel. They are all free.

• Start the Triposo Travel Guide and pick the country you will be visiting. The download starts immediately.
• Download once and the guides work offline.
• The guide includes an overview map for the country and detailed city maps for the top cities.
• For major cities, you get a special city guide with information about all the major sights, a list of great restaurants and different nightlife options.
• Travel dashboard with currency converter, weather and useful phrases.

 

Accuweather

Stay connected to the latest forecast with AccuWeather – Weather for Life. This free, award winning weather app features the new AccuWeather MinuteCast®, the leading minute-by-minute precipitation forecast that is hyper-localized to your exact street address. Now supporting iOS 8!

AccuWeather MinuteCast® – minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts for the next two hours hyper-localized to your exact street address. Includes precipitation type and intensity, and start and end times for precipitation. Available for the contiguous United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, and a growing list of global locations.

 

iTranslate - translator & dictionary - translate 80+ languages

iTranslate is an award winning translation tool that helps you break down language barriers. With its state of the art technology you can speak any language in a second.

VOICE OUTPUT
Ever wanted to know what an Australian English female sounds like? With iTranslate you can select between lots of different dialects, choose a male or female voice, and even control the speech rate.

VOICE INPUT (Premium)
Speak instead of type. No training needed. Just start speaking and we recognize your voice, transform it into text and translate it into another language.

DICTIONARIES
Most translator apps give you only 1 result per translation. However, if you are translating words and phrases there are often different meanings, depending on the context. iTranslate gives you dictionaries for many languages so you can find the exact solution to your problem.

TODAY WIDGET
Add iTranslate as a Today widget to the new iOS 8 Notification Center and easily translate copied text from any app without even opening iTranslate!

ROMANIZATION
Romanization lets you turn "你好" into "Nǐ hăo", transforming non-Latin languages into Latin characters. Available for many languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Hindi, Russian, and Thai.

TYPE FASTER
iTranslate is optimized for fast text input. Get suggestions while you're typing, turn your phone to the side and use both hands for typing with the bigger landscape keyboard or use our popular swipe gestures for quick copying & pasting.