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Top 10 Must-Have Travel Apps Whether you’re prone to getting lost or you just want to know whether you can find a sit-down toilet within 2 miles of your location, have we got some travel apps for you. Four in ten cell phone owners have gotten some trip assistance from their phones, and six in ten have used a travel application on their phone. What are they seeking when they search? Over half were looking up restaurants or checking on flights. Nearly half were getting destination info, reading reviews or making hotel reservations, and about one in three were booking flights. Yes, you can do all this with apps and mobile-optimized sites! Check these out: TripIt is a free tool to organize your vacation. It syncs with your e- mail, putting all your confirmation numbers in one spot. You can also make reservations, find stuff to do and look up directions on how to get there—even check the weather before you leave. With Wikitude, your phone’s camera becomes a virtual encyclopedia. Related Wikipedia content loads directly over what your camera points at, using GPS, movement sensors and a compass to track in real time. It’s both free and amazing! FlightAware is (you guessed it) a flight tracker that wants you to stay informed for free. You enter your flight number and FlightAware sends you push notifications about delays, gate changes and cancellations. Never again will you arrive at A17 and tearfully watch your flight leave from A32. Postagram creates postcards on your phone! Snap a photo, write a message, type in the recipient’s address and Postagram prints out and mails the postcard. The app is free, and you pay just 99 cents per postcard. The trailhead has got to be around here somewhere… right? If you had the free Trailhead app, GPS would tell you where the closest hiking and bike trails are. Along the way, you can record your speed, route, distance traveled, elevation and more—even trek to the nearest North Face store.

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These 10 Travel apps are incredibly useful, if you don't know about Tripit, or Wikitude (*simply amazing), or Sit-or-Squat :) give these a try. They will change the way you do travel!

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Top 10 Must-Have Travel Apps

Whether you’re prone to getting lost or you just want to know whether you can find a sit-down toilet within 2 miles of your location, have we got some travel apps for you.

Four in ten cell phone owners have gotten some trip assistance from their phones, and six in ten have used a travel application on their phone. What are they seeking when they search?

Over half were looking up restaurants or checking on flights. Nearly half were getting destination info, reading reviews or making hotel reservations, and about one in three were booking flights. Yes, you can do all this with apps and mobile-optimized sites! Check these out:

TripIt is a free tool to organize your vacation. It syncs with your e-mail, putting all your confirmation numbers in one spot. You can also make reservations, find stuff to do and look up directions on how to get there—even check the weather before you leave.

With Wikitude, your phone’s camera becomes a virtual encyclopedia. Related Wikipedia content loads directly over what your camera points at, using GPS, movement sensors and a compass to track in real time. It’s both free and amazing!

FlightAware is (you guessed it) a flight tracker that wants you to stay informed for free. You enter your flight number and FlightAware sends you push notifications about delays, gate changes and cancellations. Never again will you arrive at A17 and tearfully watch your flight leave from A32.

Postagram creates postcards on your phone! Snap a photo, write a message, type in the recipient’s address and Postagram prints out and mails the postcard. The app is free, and you pay just 99 cents per postcard.

The trailhead has got to be around here somewhere… right? If you had the free Trailhead app, GPS would tell you where the closest hiking and bike trails are. Along the way, you can record your speed, route, distance traveled, elevation and more—even trek to the nearest North Face store.

Kayak, despite the name, does not deal exclusively in kayaking trips. Instead, it’s your booking hub for flights, hotels and car rentals. It’s also got a packing list, flight tracker, currency converter and locator for nearby attractions. Price alerts are available and the whole app is free.

AllSubway will save you money on taxis, since now you can navigate the subway systems of your destination cities. Check out maps for 137 cities, route planners and more. No internet connectivity required, and it costs just 99 cents. (That’s less than a penny per city…)

Yelp isn’t just for your home computer. Get free mobile ratings and reviews for hotels, restaurants and sights, plus advice on emergency necessities like dentists, doctors and pharmacies. Yelp finds what’s closest. If you’re standing on the sidewalk, unsure which building is your destination, use Monocle to superimpose business names onto buildings in your camera’s view.

Take a guess at what SitOrSquat is. You get one guess. … Did you guess “free toilet decoder and locator”? Bingo! In foreign countries, sometimes you just want to go to the bathroom in a familiar position. SitOrSquat details 100,000 toilets: how close, how clean, how comfortable and “sit” or “squat”.

Trip Journal is a virtual log of your adventures. It tracks your travels with GPS, geotags your photos and allows you to stick placemarks and notes in, too. Export your travels to Google Earth! $2.99 is the download cost—less than a scrapbook and far more portable.

Now get out there and travel with confidence!