Digital Travel Helpers: Best Apps to Manage Your Trips

A smartphone may hold all the necessary travel documents, including credit cards, directions, hotel bookings, and even tickets. The only exception is passport. It will help you handle financial concerns on vacation more quickly, if you have room for multiple programs in your phone’s memory.

Below, I’ve listed some helpful travel-related mobile apps that are available for free. And with some of them, if you’re ready to pay a little extra, you may get more selections or, for instance, a version without commercials. So what can you do with financial assistants on your smartphone?

Account for Expenses  

Expensify  

The application helps in gathering all relevant data regarding travel expenses. You can simply scan your receipts or manually enter the total of your transactions. And if you can link your bank card to the app, the costs will be calculated automatically. In addition, you have the option of selecting various currencies. The app shows to be very practical if you rent a vehicle and travel on toll roads. The cost of the trip can be automatically determined if you switch on GPS. The application will compile all expenses into a single report after the trip and email it to you.

Expensify is excellent for simple information gathering app for a business trip report as well as for leisure. Unfortunately, only English is presently supported by the application.

Platform: iOS, Android

Trail Wallet  

Another tool to keep track of your travel costs. This application allows you to enter the daily spending cap that you prefer. One drawback is that all charges must be manually entered. However, it is possible to use the application without an online connection. The sums will be automatically updated when the link appears based on the currency rate you have chosen. Unfortunately, the app is only offered in English currently.

Platform: iOS

Convert Currencies  

XE Currency 

Easy to use currency converter. A list of 10 currencies can be configured, and the rate update frequency can be changed. In addition, the software includes a built-in calculator that performs fast currency conversions. The data can be downloaded once and used offline, so a constant Internet connection is not required. However, updating the currency rates regularly is preferable because they might change several times while you’re on vacation.

Platform: iOS, Android

Get Bonuses  

Stockcard  

Enables you to use discount cards without bringing them on a trip. Any discount card can be uploaded to the app simply by being scanned using the camera on your smartphone. Retailers will scan the barcode on the phone.

It is especially useful if you obtain cards when traveling because it is unnecessary to constantly carry a foreign pharmacy or grocery card. However, you can use the card on your upcoming trip if you download it using the application. Additionally, the application makes it easier to stop worrying that you left the card at home or that it has already been lost.

Of course, you can use this or a similar program when traveling and at home to use discounts and collect bonuses in coffee shops, pharmacies, and businesses.

Platform: iOS, Android

Award Wallet  

Award Wallet makes it easy to gather bonus cards in one place. You will always have access to all of your loyalty programs with this application, from bonus programs for restaurants, shops, and petrol stations to airline and hotel loyalty programs.

You must grant the application access to your personal bonus program accounts to accomplish this.

One positive aspect of this program is that it provides you with information about your balance, expiration dates for bonuses, and available promotions. However, you must enter your login information and password on the airline websites, or enter your bonus card number in-store, to use miles and points. The application offers a bonus of its own. You can create a vacation itinerary and assign appropriate rewards to each item on its website so that you don’t forget to utilize them when you get there.

Platform: iOS, Android

Share the Budget  

Buggy  

Taking a trip with friends? Thanks to this software, you won’t need to quarrel about money any longer. All expenses must be entered into the application, who paid them, and the chosen payment currency. Labels may identify all costs, such as “dinner at a bar” or “horseback riding.”

You must list each person on the trip in the application so that it can determine who owes whom and what amount.

You can mail in the trip’s financial report. Unfortunately, there is just an English version of the program currently available. One of the advantages is that offline data entry is possible.

Platform: iOS

Find ATMs  

In addition to the well-known and familiar Google Maps, many other interactive maps are explicitly designed for tourists.

Maps.me

Maps.me operates offline, so you can rapidly locate ATMs in the city while reducing Internet traffic. All you have to do is download a map of the country or place you’re visiting beforehand. The software shows you the quickest route to your destination and assists you in locating cafes, stores, banks, and public transportation routes.

You can mark locations on the map with your annotations and share them with people who will be traveling after you. For clarity, labels can be divided into categories like “food”, “clothing”, or “gas stations”, and color-coded.

Platform: iOS, Android