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items These are the travel apps I actually use every time I travel. Whether I’m booking flights, finding hotels, navigating a new city, or trying not to blow my budget on day one, these apps make the whole trip so much easier. Download them before your tri...
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📍 Travel Planners & Guides
✈️ Flights, Stays, & Excursions
🚕 Local Transportation
🍽️ Meal, Grocery, & Essentials Delivery
📱 International eSIM
🤝 Social & Community
📍 Travel Planners & Guides
From weekend getaways to international trips, these travel planning apps and guides keep everything in one place. Less “wait… what terminal?” and more actually enjoying your vacation.
The travel planner app you desperately need. It’s literally FREE to plan any itinerary, you can even add friends to view the trip or plan with you.
Wanderlog travel planner: free vacation planner and itinerary app
The cutest travel journal app! Also such a good way to share all the photos with the groupchat 📷
Polarsteps Travel App | Plan, Track & Relive Your Trips
Top tier collection of travel guides for basically everywhere. Perfect for serious planning or dreaming about your bucket list trips. I use this a lot for inspo and ideas for building my own itineraries! It’s also great if you want perfect plug and p...
GetYourGuide: Expert Travel Guides
For the type A travelers. No surprises with this travel budget app!
TravelSpend: Vacation Budget Tracker.
Super cute lightweight IOS style travel planning app. Handles flight tracking, stays, and more.
Tripsy: IOS Style Travel Planner
Simple dedicated packing list app.
Packr: Simple AI Travel Packing List App
All in one travel planner app! Find flight deals, plan itineraries, and book excursions.
KAYAK: Complete Travel Planner | Book Flights, Stays, Excursions
Love this app! It’s fun to use! It’s an AI travel guide so you can ask it questions live while traveling. I also use it while I plan too!
Mindtrip AI | Travel Guides & AI Chat Travel Recommendations
✈️ Flights, Stays, & Excursions
Cheap flights, hotel deals, vacation rentals, and tours that are actually worth booking. Because spending less on travel means spending more on tacos, souvenirs, and iced lattes.
Sooo useful for booking discount flights, hotels, and rental cars. Also they have some great all-in-one bundle deals where you can combine flight and hotel to save all in one. 10/10 essential!
Expedia | Book Discount Flights, Stays, & Excursions
We know Airbnb for booking stays, buut they also have amazing excursions hosted by locals & even services like massages and photographers
Airbnb | Book Stays, Activities, & Services
Girls trip, family reunion, or maybe just a private villa for yourself. Amazing vacation rentals for bigger spaces & unique locations.
Vrbo
My got to for last minute excursions and sightseeing tours.
TripAdvisor
Like TripAdvisor but with more reviews/a community. Great for last minute stays, flights, and excursions.
Viator
Fully furnished apartments & houses for long term stays.
Furnished Finder
The ultimate cruise planner app! Works with every cruise line. And has some fun social features!
Shipmate App: Cruise Ship Tracker - Get Real-Time Ship Positions
Ultra last minute deals on hotels! Live on the edge and book a last minute stay or use as a save for travel date mix ups.
HotelTonight
I love this app to find great flight deals and discounts.
Skyscanner
LOVE this app! Essentially it helps you find HIDDEN-CITY Flights with layovers in destinations that you want to visit. These layover flights can be cheaper than flying direct to the location, and essentially you just get off at the layover stop and s...
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🚕 Local Transportation
Skip the rental car stress. These ride share, public transit, and transportation apps make getting around like a local way easier, even if you still can’t pronounce the street names.
Rideshare app that’s an essential lifesaver. If you have DashPass you get up to 10% off rides
Ride or drive with Lyft
Uber! Reliable, and in some select locations now has a request female driver for extra safety.
Explore the Uber Platform | Uber United States
Love this app for finding local public transportation when I travel
Transit
🍽️ Meal, Grocery, & Essentials Delivery
Forgot sunscreen? Need snacks after a red-eye? These food delivery and grocery apps have your back when leaving the hotel sounds like way too much work.
Slow breakfast in bed, chaotic grwms, pre-game essentials, or whatever was still open after a long day (or night out). DoorDash is an essential download, highly recommend dash pass to save with discounts & free delivery.
DoorDash
I love DoorDash but Grubhub comes in clutch when I can’t find something on DoorDash
Grubhub
I use this app to find places to eat, read reviews and get reservations wherever I go.
OpenTable
📱 International eSIM
Easy and Affordable virtual eSIM you can manage from your phone via the app.
Get Saily: Affordable eSIM plans for international travel
Avoid surprise international charges from your phone plan and get the international eSIM you can manage from the app.
Airalo eSIM
Another great option for international eSIM! Easy to manage from your phone with the app.
Holafly: Buy eSIM for International Travel
🤝 Social & Community
Apps to meet fellow travelers, track your trips, and share your adventures.
Capture & share travel memories with a journal style entries and a simple public, private, or friends only social feed.
Journi Blog - Journal & Photo Book App
Solo travelers this one is for you! Find others traveling in the same areas. This app is a great way to meetup with fellow travelers and make friends
nomadtable
Love using this app to find local events and meetups near wherever I’m staying.
Meetup
I always check eventbrite wherever I’m traveling to see if any fun local events, activities, or workshops are happening during my trip.
Eventbrite
I like to use this on longer trips to find new friends for activities, coffee chats, and girls night outs.
Bumble BFF app
Another app I’ll use to find local events and parties while traveling.
Posh
Host events or meetups for the groupchat or open invites to the public.
Partiful
✨ Tools, Safety & Extras
The random travel apps that somehow end up saving the day. Think safety tools, translators, weather, currency converters, and other vacation MVPs you didn’t know you needed.
Google translate is a staple. Makes sure it’s DOWNLOADED to your phone. Use the camera feature to quickly read signs, menus, etc.
Google Translate
Life happens, don’t sleep on this. Better safe than sorry always.
World Nomads USA - Explore Your Boundaries
Need an Airbnb clean after that party you weren’t supposed to have? Checkout lifesaver when you need a quick cleanup.
TaskRabbit
Plan out your looks for your trip. You can add items from your closet or grab from your vacay haul receipts from Amazon, fashion nova, SHEIN, etc
Alta | Your personal AI stylist that truly gets you
Another app option for planning your outfits! Love the colors and fun branding of this app.
Compared to Alta this one has less AI features, so if you prefer that this is a great option. It also has a little more social features.
Whering
I prefer Microsoft Translate for follow multi-speaker conversations. It does a great job of splitting the dialogues up based off who’s speaking.
Microsoft Translator