29 May BEST FREE TRAVEL APPS 2025
No one can live without their smartphone nowadays , including us. We love to explore and wander, but I travel best when I can look something up quickly. There are more travel apps out there than ever and these are by far the best free travel apps of 2024!
These (travel) apps could make your next journey a little faster, cheaper and smarter!
Google Trips
Coming in at number 1, is the travel app from Google. It basically makes it a lot easier for you to plan your trip. Beforehand or when you are on the spot. Besides finding the usual “things to do”, you can also find travel details like reservations and confirmation numbers in one easy app. Google Trips simply gathers your travel information from Gmail and Inbox, then organizes it automatically. Plus, the entire app is available offline. Bye bye wifi hassle. Find out more here
Once Upon
When you return from your holiday or travel adventure, you’re often left with a overfull photo book on your smartphone. This is where Once Upon comes in handy. Collect your best photographs and create a printed photo book, right from your phone! You can create as many memories as you want, as your books are saved in your personal account. The layout options are stylish that vary from classic to modern, so you’re left with a beautiful photo book by Once Upon you can be proud of.
Timeshifter
Beat that killer jetlag by using this (partially) free app. It tells you when you should sleep, when you should seek the light, walk and it tracks your sleep patterns. You can use Timeshifter for your first trip, and if you like it you pay €9,99 per month. Great for people who travel far and beyond more than 4 times a year.
Hostelworld
Not everybody can effort a room at the Poseidon Undersea Resort in Fiji or The Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong, therefore this app is perfect for you. Search and book more than 30,000 properties in over 180 countries, from anywhere. Read millions of hostel reviews from fellow travelers & book your next adventure via this app. Get to budget travel in an instance here
Be a backpacker and check out the Hostel World app!
AirBNB
We all know Airbnb but with this app, staying in houses has just become a lot easier. Always wanted to sleep in a beautiful loft at the canals in Amsterdam, in a Treehouse at Kilauea Volcano in Hawaï or in a mini van right at Cala Cordo in Ibiza? The app is free and available on IOS and Android.
Polarsteps
This app helps you to log and share your journeys in an easy and beautiful way, turning your travel moments into a lifetime memories. It automatically tracks your route and places you’ve visited while traveling. It even logs your route when you have no internet connection and it has a minimal battery impact. The route is plotted on a colorful world map. Not only super handy when you own a travel blog but also when you want tip your friends by sharing this map with them. A new feature is that you can order your travel photo’s online and make it into a photo album. Download it here and check the story below.
Bonus: Want to see how much you have seen from the world? Check out the travel app BEEN. You can check how much of the world you’ve seen, where you would like to go, and what you rather skip. Crazy fact but true, we’ve only visited
So check out these free travel apps of 2017 and enjoy your next travels!
Love,
Wander-Lust
dionne
Posted at 11:02h, 18 JanuaryOeeeh! Wat een handige tips! Goed om te weten!
Mike Lee
Posted at 17:27h, 10 AugustWhat a wonderful list and a couple of Apps I did not know existed. Polarsteps sounds like the perfect online journal and one that can hold a lot more than a written one. I like the idea of favorite as well and that it uses local knowledge with that of bloggers to give an abundance
of information. Shall be trying out both soon. Thanks