10 Of The Best Apps For Independent Travellers

Want an adventure and don’t care where, Luckytrip is the smarter version of showing up at the airport and buying the first flight you can afford. Just set a budget and let the app plan the perfect trip: it will figure out somewhere to go, a place to stay and something to do, with handpicked activities in more than 300 cities. By allowing users to describe their travel preferences and personality - such as “foodie” or “luxury” - it claims to be able to gear recommendations to personal travel tastes, saving hours of research time. This widely praised travel app focuses on tips from people who know the destination best. It uses a “community of local tastemakers”, from artists to entrepreneurs, who share their tips for everything from clubs to coffee shops. It also has recommendations for boutique hotels, and suggested itineraries. The app has tips for cities around the world, but is particularly strong in the US, where it covers 50 major cities. Another app that focuses on the trusted recommendations of locals is Cool Cousin, in use in 16 cities worldwide.

As well as connectingusers with a city resident, and providing a map and guidebook based on their tips, it has a facility for messaging the local directly for personalised advice. For some rewarding armchair travelling, and a break from all the yoga poses and shots of coffee from above on Instagram, 500px is worth a look. The app is geared towards serious photographers, and with a community of more than 11 million it’s easy to get lost in the sea of stunning imagery. As well as being a showcase for stunning images from around the world, it allows users to share their own travel snaps and get feedback and reactions to help improvetheir photography skills. Two apps to inspire days out in the UK. Both allow users to scan through hundreds of heritage locations and natural wonders, searching for whatever is nearest or to discover special events. The apps also hold all the visitor information for planning an excursion.

From Accra to Tokyo, the brand synonymous with city breaks around the world makes it easy to explore virtually, with lists of the best places to eat, drink and shop, and events to discover. It is as much a tool for inspiring a trip as it is for helping you get the most out of it once you arrive. Available in more than 350 destinations worldwide, Musement is another city guide app that picks out interesting local experiences. What Musement is particularly strong for is its ticketing element, which makes it easy to book events and attractions, as well as priority tickets, through Apple Pay. This community-focused app from Lonely Planet lets users explore travel experiences through the eyes of fellow travellers, and contribute their own media-rich stories, sharing video, photo and text from their trips. With a beautiful design that will sing to fans of indie travel mags such as Boat, Cereal and Sidetracked, Wander and Co is a photo journal app geared towards adventure travellers. Just like with Trips (above), users can tell their own story, tracking outdoor adventures with GPS and and adding stats like average pace and elevation. Journals of the app’s community of adventurers are a good source of ideas for future trips.

Crackle is a movie app which is supported by almost every device including smart TVs, streaming players, gaming consoles and many more. The iPhone version of this movie app could be used with an ease. There is no need of logging in to stream videos but this app provides you an option for doing so. This app is available only on a few of devices but this app has a very easy user interface. This app tells you where you exactly need to go to find movies for no cost. Movies could be filtered in a number of ways such as by premiere date, MPAA rating, genre, source. You could also hide the movies which you have already watched. Yidio does not host all the movies. It could sometimes ask you to install other apps like Crackle or Hulu app in order to watch movies. Available for : iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Android, Windows Phone, Amazon Kindle and many more.