11 Awesome Android Travel Apps To Assist You This Summer Planning to travel this summer? What about using your Android phone to take care of all your travel needs?
Here we have a list of Android apps that can be very useful while you travel. We tried to include all the relevant ones here. But if you know some good ones outside our list, feel free to share it with us in the comment section.
1 ) GPS Compass Maps
Definitely an Android app a traveller would not want to miss! The gadget holder's movement is shown on the map. There is a compass that leads the person to the place where he/she intends to go. There is also an off-road map mode (ordinary map) that comes in handy when there is no internet access.
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2) Wikitude
Wikitude is a very useful Android travel app, based on Augmented Reality. It uses the phone's camera, GPS, Google Maps and Wikipedia to display information of a particular place. All you have to do is “look through” the phone in any given direction and the app gives you information like sights of interest, public transport stations, restaurants and many more within the vicinity.
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3 ) GPS Speedo
As the name indicated, GPS Speedo is a driving speed checking application for Android. This helps the traveller in calculating the time needed to reach the destination. GPS Speedo can be useful when the speedometer of the vehicle is not working or even to check if the speedometer is accurate or not.
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4 ) ConvertMe (Beta Version)
While on travel, keeping track of fluctuating currency rates is one thing but there are also a bunch of stuff that vary with places like measurement units, cloth and shoe sizes and a lot more. This app helps you to convert among hundreds of units and currencies. The currency rates are updated very frequently to keep you in track of the most updated rates. ConvertMe is a must have app when you are on an international trip.
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5 ) Trip Journal
Archive your holiday with the Trip Journal! This app allows you to document your trip, automatically track your itinerary in real time and many more. The trip statistics like distance, direction, geography are automatically detected and recorded in the journal.
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6 ) Waze
Waze helps a commuter to discover the optimised route to the destination, to map out new roads, etc. Once the app is downloaded to your Android, you’ll find a map which may look like a normal one but is dynamic. This map is updated with the real time information gathered by tracking the GPS positions of other Waze users on the road. A commuter just has to turn on the application in the Android while driving and let Waze help him/her find the best path to his/her destination. It is a very useful application to avoid traffic congestions.
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7) Traveledge
With Traveledge, avoid overloading your brain calculating expenses/reimbursements. With this app business travel expenses can be recorded and reimbursements can be calculated with just a few clicks. It also sends the travel details to the user's inbox. Source
8 ) TrailBlazer
Keep track of important GPS locations using the TrailBlazer. This smart app also gives other details like temperature, elevation and directions of a particular location.
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9) Locale
The Locale app uses GPS to track the place and update a person’s profile accordingly. “Situations” can be set up in locations like Office, Home etc. When a user steps into a particular “Situation” appropriate profile is set automatically.
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1 0 )My Tracks
My Tracks records all the movements of the user along with the essential information such as time, distance travelled, speed and elevation of the user. The data recorded can be added to Google spreadsheets making it easier for the user to save the data.
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1 1 )SpeedyMarks Translator
SpeedyMarksTranslator allows you to translate words, phrases and whole sentences between various languages using the language translation service provided by Google. It is a handy app which gives you a grip on at least the basics of a language when you are abroad.
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