Whether you need to book transportation, organize your itinerary, find cheap food
or just figure what to pack in your suitcase, I promise you there is an app
for that. So if you have a trip to Europe planned this year make sure to listen up
because this video is going to cover 20 must download apps for your Europe trip
that'll make your life so much easier so that you will be spending less time on
the floor crying and more time stuffing your face with food. Now be sure
to stick around till the end for a full list of download links and also for a
chance to win a postcard from me so without further ado please hit that
cheesy intro.
What's up, smarties? Christina here from HappyToWander.com except now I have
purple hair! Anyways on this channel we talk all about how to travel Europe
smarter, cheaper and more off the beaten path so if that sounds like your jam be
sure to subscribe and give this video a like. Now today we're talking all about
travel apps but before we do that I first need to give away a postcard. So
one thing I like to do is I give away a postcard a week to somebody who comments
so if you want to win this week's postcard just holler in the comments
with your favorite app that I showcased. Last week was especially special...
especially special... because I also gave away a free set of packing cubes with
the giveaway so a huge congratulations to last week's winner Mae who's gonna be
winning her own set of Eagle Creek packing cubes and also a postcard which
now I realize it's a very lame prize compared to the packing cubes anyways
today we're talking all about apps specifically wonderful mind-blowing apps
that are gonna make your Europe trip way way way way easier so without further
ado, these are the apps that are APP-solutely worth a download. I'm sorry -
please don't leave me. Anyways let's begin. Number one is a magical trip
planning app known as TripIt. So I love TripIt because it offers a really easy
way to organize your itinerary and aggregate all your different bookings
including your flights or transportation, your hotel bookings or event bookings
show tickets all that stuff. The best thing is it does it automatically
through scanning your inbox for confirmation emails so it makes it
really easy to completely organize everything without really doing too much
work. Although the automatic import can sometimes be finicky all you need to do
is forward emails to trips@tripit.com calm and it detects all the information
automatically from there. Magic! Number two is an app that you have probably
already heard of and that is Google Maps. So I'm quite certain that 99% of you
have used Google Maps at some point in your life... if not, navigation wizard, I
applaud you. So the good thing about Google Maps for when you travel is not
only for navigation but it also has all these other hidden features that a lot
of people don't know about so for me personally what I love to do is if I'm
browsing Pinterest or Instagram and I find a cool cafe or place that I
eventually want to check out, what I'll do is I'll hop on Google Maps and I will
star that place so that when I'm in the city I can just pull up Google Maps and
kind of see depending on where I am what
the cool spots are to check out that I've already vetted for myself. Another
great feature is you can actually save maps for offline use which is very very
handy if you don't have a data plan wherever you're going... and here's a
really cool hack for you that most people don't know about. If you're on
Google Maps and you see a certain chunk of the map that you want to save for
offline use, all you need to do is type in OK Maps in the search bar and it will
automatically download it for you for offline use which is mind blowing. Number
three is a travel comparison and booking app known as Omio so Omio is this
really great app that allows you to compare and book all the different modes
of transport so this is especially handy in Europe where there are like a million
and one ways to get from one place to another so imagine you want to search up
all the busses all the trains all the flights at the same time, Omio is an
app that lets you do that which is really really great. Number four is an
amazing translation app that I'm sure you've used before called Google
Translate but fun fact they have an app and it is amazing! So there's a lot of
different features that you can use with the Google Translate app. Having it on
you for example when you have data or Wi-Fi, you can basically translate any
language into English or into whatever language you choose so that you're able
to read signs and stuff but what's even cooler is you can actually download
languages for offline use just like how you download maps so let's say that
you're gonna be traveling to Germany you know you're gonna be there for a while
so you can actually download German for offline use and then that way you don't
need internet when you're translating all these phrases, talking up some cuties,
you know that kind of thing. And another really cool feature is also this image
scan translate so basically you can just hold up your phone camera to a sign, to a
menu or whatever and then it translates it in real time which is honestly quite
scary and I'm not sure how they have accomplished that. Technology has come
really far I mean I used to play with like a Tamagotchi so this is really neat
and I think that it's definitely a tool that people don't realize exists so be
sure to look into it be sure to have Google Translate on your phone. So number
five is another translation app known as SayHi so SayHi is really cool and is a
little bit different from Google Translate in the sense that its main
thing that it does is voice translation, so imagine you're in a foreign country,
you can't speak to anybody, what you can use SayHi for is you can input
your you know your language you're speaking and then the language that
you're hoping to translate it to and then you just use the voice dictation
and say "excuse me where can I find the cheese" and then it'll like you know
translate it and then say it out loud so if you're at a shop or if you're at
a bar talking to someone fun, you can actually just use that to speak
and translate what you're saying which to me is another like "technology has
come so far" so if you're looking for a great way to break the ice with locals
or have kind of a fallback in case you're in a country and nobody
understands you, this is a really good app that does that. Number six is an electronic
financial institution known as Revolut and they have a really great app that
goes along with their service if you want a functional debit or credit card
to use when you're in Europe that charges you no foreign transaction fees
then what you need to do is you need to look into Revolut. I've been using them
for years and making an account is so easy, it takes only a few minutes and it
can all be done on your phone and then all you need to do is request a free
card which is shipped to you within a few business days. With it you're able to
top-up your card and transfer money between currencies at the interbank
exchange rate which means a lot of potential savings. Number seven is an app
that is here to save your friendships okay by making splitting costs a lot
less awkward. This one is known as Splitwise. So you have probably... if at any
point you've traveled with friends, with family, with the significant other, ran
into like that awkward conversation that you need to have after every trip that's
like "hmm so you kind of owe me a lot of money". Somehow no matter which one you
are you think the other person owes you a lot of money so Splitwise is an app
that really takes the guesswork out of that and makes keeping track of things a
lot easier. Basically what you can do is you can input different expenses and say
"hey like I paid for this", "so-and-so paid for this", "I paid for this much of the
bill" or like you want to split it 50/50, there are so many different capabilities
within this app and it's great because it just does all the math for you and it
keeps all the information in one place which is great so that at the end of the
trip you can be like "hey Joe you actually owe me like five hundred
dollars". So if you want an app that makes doing the math so much easier and an
app that prevents you from going like full loan shark mode, then this is a
great one to have. Number eight is a packing app known as
Packr... Packr without the e so if packing stresses you out first of all, be
sure to check out my packing tips video - I think it'll help and also be sure to
download this app known as Packr which generates automatic packing lists based
on the information you give them so like your trip dates, kind of the activities
you'll be doing and you just enter all of that and it'll automatically generate
a packing list that you can keep on your phone. Number nine is an experiences,
activities, tours, attractions app called GetYourGuide. Basically GetYourGuide
is an aggregator for different activities that has great selection in
Europe so everything from walking tours and skip the line tickets to experiences
like cooking classes, you can actually book and pay all through this one app
which takes the hassle out of finding a fun activity to do. They also have a best
price guarantee so if you can find a place that does the exact same tour for
cheaper, they'll actually pay you the difference which I think is pretty
amazing. Number 10 is a great travel
documentation app known as PolarSteps so if you ever have trouble keeping a
journal, keeping your memories straight... I mean I
know I sure do or you just want a seamless way to keep track of your
travels, PolarSteps is an amazing app that does that actually automatically by
scanning your phone's camera roll and kind of matching it with geotags and
things like that to keep a seamless documentation of
where you've been and you can edit the info and add little notes, put in like
little places that you've been to and just really create this very nice visual
documentation of your trip. Number 11 is a waste reduction food app known as Too
Good to Go so if you're gonna be traveling Europe long-term or just on a
budget and you want to eat out but you don't necessarily want to be spending a
ton of money, Too Good to Go is a food app that operates in a lot of major European
cities and basically what they do is they match up with restaurants who sell
their leftover food at the end of the day or after their like lunch rush for a
really really cheap price... so I think their cap is actually like five euros so
you can get a full meal for less than five euros and you're doing good for the
environment by keeping food waste out of the landfills so I think it's quite a
win-win. You don't actually get to choose what meal you're gonna have but they
sometimes have different options like for vegetarians and stuff and it's just
like a really good way to eat cheap so that's nice and I highly recommend it.
Number twelve is a hotel accommodation app for
last-minute deals known as Hotel Tonighr so when you travel sometimes you want to
be spontaneous or you are forced into being spontaneous because something has
gone wrong, well Hotel Tonight is a great app to have on hand for moments like
those when you need to see at a moment's notice
what is a cheap hotel room I can get for tonight. Sometimes finding last-minute
deals can be daunting but they make it really really easy and seamless through
their app you can enter your date so today or tomorrow or for sometime in the
future and it'll show you all the cheapest hotel deals in your area and
they also have this really great thing called the daily drop which is an
especially cheap deal that you unlock once per day and I've always found that
those deals are amazing like you can sometimes save like half-price on like
four star five star hotels so it's really really good to check out, keep
that in your pocket just in case. Something in a similar vein for
number thirteen, we have an accommodation app known as Booking.com so odds are
you have maybe come across Booking.com when booking accommodations online on
your desktop, but their app is actually really fantastic so I love to have it on
my phone for instance when I want to book accommodation on the go. And the
reason I love Booking specifically is because their cancellation policies tend
to be really really chill for most hotels so if you are in a position where
you're not really sure if you're gonna be needing a place in a specific city or
you just want to have a place just in case, you can reserve a place on
Booking.com. You don't need to pay anything upfront most
of the time and then usually you can cancel within like 24 hours of your
arrival so this is really good if you want to have a bit of flexibility during
your trip but you don't want to be like potentially homeless during your trip
either. Number 14 is a very popular European taxi app known as FreeNow,
formerly it was called MyTaxi so if you plan on taking any taxis during your
trip in Europe you should definitely make sure to download this app because
they operate in most major cities and basically they're like Uber or Lyft but
they partner up with licensed taxis so that way you can hail an actual taxi all
through an app, you can pay either in person or on the app
and it's a really seamless way to make sure you don't get scammed by taxi
drivers and can also make sure you're able to hail a cab no matter where you
are so number 15 is another public transport app known as City Mapper.
So if you're gonna be visiting any major cities in Europe like London, Paris, Rome
and dozens of others, they are fully operational in these cities and it's a
really great app that lets you compare how to get from point A to point B with
a lot of different options so like public transport, walking, cycling, going
by car and honestly I have actually found that a lot of the time their
information is more up-to-date than Google Maps. I'm not sure why but it's
just what I've noticed in some cities and the great part is you can save
routes for offline use and also some of their functionalities are available
offline as well so that's really handy in cities like London for example where
you don't have service underground, so it's really really good to have this in
your pocket just in case so that you're able to plan your trips and even tell
you how many calories you burn if you walk. Not sure how accurate that is
because you don't really input any body data but that's still pretty cool. Number
16 is a Wi-Fi location app known as a WiFi Map - very creative name but
honestly if you're like me and when you travel, the priorities go water food and
then Wi-Fi... then this is an app you need. Maybe Wi-Fi os even number one. Let me know
in the comments if you also feel like Wi-Fi is perhaps more important than
water when you're traveling. Number 17 is a guidebook and audio tour app by Rick
Steves so if you've ever turned on a television or walked into a Travel
section of a bookstore you probably know Rick Steves, he's kind of like an OG
European travel guru who has been doing this... filming TV shows writing guidebooks
since I was like a fetus probably so he really knows his stuff and he's got this
great app or you can download different audio tours, different like you know
little snippets about destinations all around Europe and he's just got this
really wonderful little like grandpa... or but no, a
nice older uncle who's just really wise and just like wants you to live your
best life that's the kind of vibe I get from Rick Steves so yeah he's really
great. Make sure you download the app and you get access to all these cool audio
tours and like podcast II type things for free. Number 18 is a currency
conversion app known as XE Currency so if you've ever found
yourself in a situation where you're in a foreign country and the currency is
different and you're like "is that a great deal or like a horrifically
terrible deal", this app is perfect for making those really quick currency
conversion exchanges. That way you can avoid getting scammed and you know
exactly how much you're paying and this is especially handy if you're gonna be
traveling all around Europe because contrary to popular belief not all of
the content is on the Euro so there's quite a few countries that use different
currencies so it's nice to have this in your pocket so that you're able to be
prepared all the time for quick calculations. And speaking of
calculations, number 19 is a great tipping app known as Globe Tips so if
you've ever found yourself in a restaurant kind of like "ooh what am I
supposed to tip here", this is a really great app that has tipping guides for
countries all around the world and also an inbuilt tip calculator so that you're
able to quickly calculate how much your total bill should be depending on like
whether the service was good, just okay, it was great,
etc. What's cool is they also offer tipping guides specifically for
different scenarios so this is how much you should tip your taxi driver, this is
how much you should tip a server at a restaurant which is really great. Lastly
for number 20, we have a vegetarian and vegan food app known as Happy Cow so if
you're a vegetarian or have like a plant-based diet, one of the things that
you might struggle with when you're in Europe is finding a good restaurant to
eat, where you can have more than just french fries like all the time right so
Happy Cow is this really really great app... it is paid but all my veggie friends
rave about it so I'm quite certain it's worth the money if you're traveling for
a while and it basically aggregates all these different reviews and restaurants
that have vegetarian friendly options so that you're able to see at a glance like
in your area where are all the veggie friendly restaurants where can I find a
meal that I can actually eat so I don't starve to death or only eat fries for
the rest of my life. Alright smarties I hope you enjoyed this list of
awesome travel apps for Europe. if I missed any of your favourites just let me
know in the comments and also for a chance to win a postcard, be sure to let
me know which of these apps you found the most mind-blowing
or the coolest and so thanks so much for watching. If you enjoyed this video
please give me a like and subscribe if you haven't already and I will see you
guys next week. Until then, byeeee!!!!