6 Free Must-Have Android Apps For Travelers

picturesque-view-of-a-sea-gulf Equipped with the right set of mobile apps, your smartphone makes for a perfect travel assistant and a tour guide, giving you timely and relevant location-specific information each time you need one.

Here are six free Android apps that you will find exceptionally useful especially if you travel a lot.

Exchange Rates

A lightweight app for your Android device, Exchange Rates provides you with an integrated calculator that deals with multiple currencies. Usable in an offline mode, the Exchange Rates app has capabilities for working on override and invert rates, as well as displaying currency charts.

GO Weather Forecast & Widgets

GO Weather Forecast is an excellent app that offers local weather forecasts in over 100,000 places all over the world. The free mobile app comes with interactive maps, as well as satellite and radar images for cities you may be visiting. The weather reports from GO Weather Forecast are also quite detailed, giving you the date, time, temperature highs and lows, wind strength, humidity level, visibility level, and the predicted sunrise and sunset.

Weather & Clock Widget

A great alternative to GO Weather Forecast, the free Weather & Clock Widget makes for a nifty travel app on your Android phone. It gives weather-related data for all cities around the world, providing you with location-specific temperature, humidity level, atmospheric pressure, weather condition, as well as wind speed and direction. Weather & Clock Widget can also detect your location automatically and can give you a five-day weather forecast.

Hotels.com

Simplify your hotel booking itinerary with the free Android app Hotels.com. You can even save money if you use the mobile app, because there might be applicable discounts during the time you book a room. Tens of thousands of last-minute deals and promotions are available. You can also choose from more than 260,000 hotels in 200 countries.

TouristEye

TouristEye helps you to efficiently plan your trip. Create a visual travel agenda incorporating any of the more than 300,000 locations and activities found in TouristEye. This free mobile app for Android users has offline functionality, giving you access to travel-related tips, location-specific recommendations, and maps on your smartphone even without connecting to a Wi-Fi network or racking up expensive roaming charges.

Google Translate

This ever-reliable Android app gives you quick access to foreign language translations. Google Translate supports translations concerning 80 languages and has offline functionality. To translate, you can speak, type the words, or take a snapshot using your smartphone’s camera. There are also a number of other Android translation apps that have been reviewed on the Intenet if Google Translate just doesn’t cut it for you.

One final tip from me: As you are going abroad, just make sure that you take a charger adapter so you can keep your phone powered-up! There are plenty of things to worry about before traveling and udring traveling, but these days without a phone to keep you company when you are stuck – that’s one nightmare you don’t really want to run into.

This post was published by Craig who enjoys reviewing apps that can be used for a vareity of different things, from travel right through to apps that help you with your car.