everyone its Adrienne welcome back to my youtube channel today I have an exciting
video obviously I always have exciting videos I'm gonna be talking about my top
7 favorite travel apps that'll help you save money when booking travel or when
already on a vacation on a trip so these are apps that I've not only used but
fallen in love with and they have absolutely helped my travel journeys as
you guys know I travel a lot so I'm constantly looking to budget and save
money and I feel like you guys probably are too especially in the summer I'm
sure you're going on a lot of fun trips comment down below let me know if you're
going on any trips this summer and where you are going so yeah I'm gonna talk
about my top 7 apps there are plenty more than seven that I have used but
these are definitely the ones that I would recommend starting with if you are
trying to book travel or if you are going on a trip soon if you guys have
more suggestions for my 7 iPhone apps video series please leave them down
below this one was highly recommended for a while and I just haven't done it I
don't know why but here I am doing it so without further ado let's get into the
7x so the first app that I want to talk to you guys about is called hit list I
don't know if you've ever heard of it before but my friend Mikaela showed it
to me it's incredible basically hit list is an app that helps you find unreal
flight deals and so how it works is I'm assuming that it kind of generates all
of the cheapest tickets from every airline for every possible date and time
and then puts it just all on this app because the one downside of using this
app is that you don't really have flexible dates so essentially how it
works is you set your home Airport and then once you set your home Airport it's
going to give you some suggested trips some last-minute getaways that are very
cheap but you can also search for flights as you wish and basically if I
click on Europe from LAX as you can see already we are going to be finding
unreal deals so here we have Madrid Spain usually a round-trip ticket to
Spain could be upwards of $1,000 here we have three hundred and eighty five
dollars round-trip that's unreal so these ticket prices are
so so so low I'm honestly like however that you can doing this but I will say
again with the flexibility so the downside is just that you have to go for
this set number of days so for example this $385 price happens to be a 19 day
trip that may not be doable it's these exact dates that it's giving you but if
you are someone who has a relatively flexible travel schedule
and you work flexibly or remotely this is absolutely great for you or if you're
someone who's a student and you're on summer vacation again this is great I
just love how they also put together like cool little categories for you like
most popular last-minute getaways so New York 136 dollars round-trip is like
unheard of from Los Angeles San Francisco I always have friends that I
want to go visit so it's like $68 round-trip that's actually insane that's
hitless the next app I'm going to tell you about is called trail wallet so this
is a trip budgeting app I actually haven't used this one yet I heard about
this one today and I can't wait to use it I wish I had known about it when I've
gone on several trips but I've recently gone on but essentially it is to budget
your days throughout your whole trip so once you're about to start a trip you
would go on to this app add a new trip and you could say what it's called let's
just say fourth of July I'm not actually going anywhere pretend so once you go to
that trip you can basically decide how much money per day you want to spend so
you set your budget so you set the budget by clicking on the little eye
right next to the trip that you just created and you can have an automatic
start date and an automatic end date which would basically mean that you
would just whip out this app once you're already on the trip and it would kind of
just tally the days and it would end when you want it to end or you can turn
that off and actually set the dates so I would just go in like when I first get
on a trip let's just say my budget is $30 per day so then when you click on
this it'll basically show you okay today you have 30 dollars remaining and so
then if you buy something during your trip so let's just say you went and ate
food $12 at Chipotle you can also take a picture of your receipt just so that you
can like track your expenses especially if you're going work trip or anything
like that where you need to or maybe you are going with a boyfriend or a friend
and you want to keep track of who's paid for what you can add a picture of your
receipt you can categorize it so obviously this one is food I love it
bribes is bars that's funny and the date obviously and then you would just push
Save and there we have it so it shows today
I've spent $12 I have a remaining $18 so on and so forth so this is just a fun
little way like yes you have to input them manually but it's a fun little way
to really stay on budget for a trip because I know often times on vacations
you really want to not worry about money and spending money but you also know
that you have to budget it so this is kind of like a way to not be consciously
worrying about it but knows that you're taking care of your budget the next app
I'm going to talk about is called Sikh guru I've actually have this app for a
long time and I really love it because it essentially shows you a lot of
details about the flight you're about to go on about the seats when you're
choosing a seat etc so essentially when you go to it you can click on get seat
advice if that's what you're trying to do let's say you already have a trip
booked you can just type in your airline number and your flight nut or your
airline name and your flight number or like I obviously don't have one right
now so let's just forget it you can look at each type of jet that
they have and then once you click on that it'll show kind of a diagram of the
full plan to what's really cool about this is if you click on info it shows
you the amenities so this way you know ahead of time if you have Wi-Fi if you
have power audio and video entertainment food things like that and so and it
actually shows like guru tips it features seat back televisions blah
blah blah blah that's always really helpful for me I always have to predict
whether or not there's gonna be entertainment or outlets and sometimes I
don't like charge my devices correctly before hand so this way you can really
know what you're getting yours help you do before you show up for the flight and
then also you can look at the seat map and what's really cool about this is not
only can you see what the flight actually looks like and it'll have like
whatever type of plane your flight is based on your flight number it knows
what I love is so all of the green marked seeds are like really good seats
the yellow ones there's something to worry about so if I click on a yellow
one it'll give you notes so this one says that there's no floor storage the
tray table and video monitor are in the armrest making the armrest kind of
unable to move and slightly reducing the seat width this one says like this seat
is very close to the bathrooms and it also may have a
recline because obviously you don't wanna get on some big international
flight and not even be able to refine your seat like that would suck and I'm
not gonna talk about this one in depth but just on that note there's also one
called gate guru which is basically the same a seat guru but it has to do with
airports so like if you click on a certain airport it'll show you all the
amenities they have shop services food it'll show you a map so like yeah just a
little side note bonus app gate guru the next app is called Gas Buddy so this
is awesome because as you guys are probably aware of if you drive gas
prices can be absolutely insane sometimes especially when you're
traveling and you don't know where the best places to find cheaper gas are so
basically gas buddy is an app that based on your location will show you the
cheapest places to get gas in that place so obviously you can enter your location
and say find gas near you all of these are kind of showing like what prices
there are and the ranges so obviously I want to filter by price so the cheapest
would be this Arco like however many miles away which is just awesome and you
can also look for like which types of gas if you need premium or diesel you
can find that amenities like air and stuff like that this one is just like
honestly nice especially if you're going on a road trip and you know that you
need to stop for gas frequently if you may as well save money by using this app
like why wouldn't you you also can pay with this app so you can connect your
checking account and then when you pay for gas using this app you get 30 cents
per gallon cash back and you also get 10 cents per gallon for the first fill-up
and 5 cents per gallon after that so basically you're getting cash back for
using this app which just honestly like why not do that it's just a really easy
way to save money on gas which has to be so expensive goes up and down super join
the next app I'm going to talk about is called student universe I found out
about this from my roommate Morgan actually basically student universe is a
website and app to get discounted flights and hotels if you are a student
so I'm no longer a student but I was actually part of a screenwriting
incubator lab through my University for the last year so technically because of
that I actually was registered as a student at LMU
so I got to go on to student universe and basically get verified as a student
it's pretty an easy process if you are one cuz I also think of your faculties
this might apply to don't quote me on that I'm not positive but I think so you
just would type in your destination where you want to go you can find
flights in the new search and you're basically just gonna find more
discounted flights and hotels than you would normally
so sometimes it's only a discount of you know 10 or 15 bucks
but overall it's definitely worth it you definitely will save money I've gotten
some very cheap flights on here when other airlines and other websites have
been very expensive the next app I'm gonna talk about you guys probably know
of it is called kayak I am obsessed with kayak before I discovered student
universe I only use kayak to book flights now it's kind of both but I'm
about to stop being a student and obvious so hot to go back I also love
the fact that like when you are trying to find a date to fly on they'll show
you dates that are like cheaper to fly on with a green dot so if you're like a
little bit flexible and you don't know whether or not you want to leave Sunday
or Monday but maybe there's a green dot like here on the 21st it's that's great
right so you know that that's better so if you're a little bit flexible you can
click on that you know you're getting a better price which is awesome instead of
like having to actually calculate both I also love that you can have a watch list
so basically when you know that you want to go on a trip maybe it's a lot in
advance you can actually set the dates and locations of your trip and it'll
alert you when it's the best time to buy it or when a price went down so you can
watch specific flights and you can also watch like dates and times also these
are the same updates that I was searching on student universe and as you
can see $217 is what it says there 202 or $6 was what it said on student
University yes sometimes it's only a 10 to $15 discount but still why not do
that love kayak great app for finding flights and hotels and rental cars
actually and these final app I'm going to talk about is Google Translate so
this has nothing to do with saving money but I did think I would mention it
because I didn't realize how handy Google Translate is I didn't realize
that you could speak and do it take a photo of something so when I was in
Greece for example I just opened my Google Translate went to the camera and
I actually took a picture like obviously this is in English so it's not really
gonna work what it's gonna do is it's gonna try to find text that's
another language again like fishes in English so it's not fully gonna do it
let's say it was in Spanish you can use your finger to highlight a word so I
just highlighted the word solve so it recognizes what the word says you go to
it and again obviously there's no translation because it's in English but
let's just say like I want it to switch and do English to Spanish salt and then
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