To celebrate the beginning of summer, and with him of the vacation, a couple of weeks ago we brought you a compilation with some of the most interesting applications that we can use when planning our trips, specifying that they were more purely tourism applications and that we left pending a selection with other types of applications, with more diverse functionalities but that are undoubtedly equally welcome when we are away from home. Well, as promised is a debt, here you have them: the top 10 (+1) of the most useful applications for our trips of which we can have in iOS y Android.
Waze
We start with a fundamental application for our movements in car, whose main virtue is to combine some of the usual functionalities (such as maps or information about gas stations) with a dimension of social network whose fruit is a tremendously useful feature: live traffic information on various roads generated by the community itself.
Transit App
If, on the other hand, we have opted to visit one big city and more than with the car with what we need help is with the public transport, one of the best options at our disposal is Transit App, which not only has plans and the option to plan routes and connections, but also gives us real-time forecasts of the time we will have to wait. It already covers about 100 cities around the world.
Google Maps
Although specific applications to help us manage transportation can be most useful, having a good map is something essential always and those of Google they are still the best option for the moment. And it is worth remembering that we do not have to consult them online, since we can download and use them offline also.
The Weather Channel
Wherever we are, one of the main conditions that we are going to find on our trips is undoubtedly the tiempo. This is one of the easiest fields to cover and you probably already have a favorite one but, just in case, we leave you a recommendation in case you don't: The Weather Channel is free and one of the most recognized reliable.
Rain alarm
An application that allows us to leave the hotel with a forecast of what awaits us does not hurt, but there is also a meteorological application with an even more specific and urgent function: simply notify us with a alarm if we have rain heading towards us or, the other way around, if we are the ones moving towards the rain. It's based on Real-time information, not in forecasts.
WeFi
We move on to address another recurring problem when we are away from home and our beloved Wi-Fi: the mobile connection. The first solution, of course, is to search for networks Public Wi-Fi of which we can go pulling and this is what it does WeFi, search for them and connect us automatically. There are many alternatives, but this application has what is probably the most extensive database.
Onavo Extend
Depending on where we are traveling, being realistic our options to find public Wi-Fi can be quite scarce and our best option is, simply, to find a way to save at our data plan, which is exactly what Onavo Extend does, compressing and using part of the device memory (which we decide) to store images and avoid having to charge them every time we use it.
Settle up
This is an application designed specifically for those who travel with Friends and, therefore, they find themselves in the need to be constantly sharing expenses. With Settle up we can take the accounts with clarity and share the data so that no one has doubts and we even have options to settle the debts that are generated through PayPal at no additional charge.
Unit converter
Especially if we move to Anglo-Saxon countries, whose measurement system It has nothing to do with ours, we will appreciate having an application with which we can make the corresponding conversions. Both will be useful to us, in any case, if we leave the euro zone, since both also have Currency converter.
Google Translator
Of course, if we leave Spain, we will probably need translate more than coins and units, so it never hurts to have a good dictionary to lay hold of, even if we think that in principle we are not going to need it. It is not necessary to complicate your life too much: the application of Google it is still probably the best option.
Entrain
We end with a recommendation aimed especially at those who are going to travel long distances on their trips, since the sadly famous jet lag it can become your worst enemy in the first days. There is no magic solution, unfortunately, but with an application like this we can prepare in the previous days so that the impact is the least possible.
