We have put together an extensive resource list of 100% FREE iphone applications.
We have conveniently grouped them in the following categories: Essentials, Pre-Travel, Currency Conversion, Accomodation, Language, Flights, Health & Safety, Transport & Directions, Guides, Food, Photography and more.
If you have any FREE iphone App’s you love and use, let us know in the comments and we might add them to this extensive list.
| ESSENTIALS | |
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Facebook The best way to stay connected to your friends on the road. Facebook for iPhone makes it easy to stay connected and share information. |
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Twitter Discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world with the official Twitter for iPhone app. |
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Skype With Skype on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, you can make and receive calls, and instant message anyone else on Skype, wherever they are in the world. |
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Wifi Finder Quickly and easily find FREE or paid Wi-Fi when you travel with the JiWire Wi-Fi Finder for iPhone and iPod Touch. |
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Pandora Radio Pandora Radio is your own free personalized radio now available to stream music on your iPhone or iPad. |
| PRE-TRAVEL | |
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Simply Pack Simply Pack provides a easy to use checklist building process for managing trip packing |
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Travel Tips 101 This great application is your survival guide to safe and healthy travel! |
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Trip It This Travel Organizer puts all your travel plans right on your iPhone no matter where your travel was booked! |
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Trip Organiser Lite This all-in-one application will help you plan the perfect trip abroad! |
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Tips & Trip This is your pocket notebook where you write down your travel notes and discover the best tips from users all over the world. |
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Currency It provides up-to-date exchange rate information for over 100 currencies and countries. |
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Xe Convert 180+ currencies on the go with the XE Currency converter by XE.com – now with currency charts as well. |
| ACCOMODATION | |
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Hostel Hero Find and book over 19,000 backpacker hostels and budget hotels worldwide, NOW WITH NO BOOKING FEES! |
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Hostel World Search and book over 23,000 hostels and budget properties in over 6,000 destinations worldwide. |
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Hotel Booker You can find and book over 200,000 hotels worldwide. |
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Air BnB This is a trusted community marketplace that connects you with people who have space for rent. Cheap alternative to a hostel or hotel. |
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Hotel Negotiator Stuck without a place to stay at the last minute? Give this app a shake, pick the exact neighborhood and star level you want, and save up to half-off when you bid for a hotel. |
| LANGUAGE | |
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iTranslate Translate words, phrases and even whole sentences into 52 languages. |
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World Nomads Language Guides Learn basic travel phrases in 25 different languages including Spanish, German, Dutch, French, Hindi and many more. |
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Word Lens Instantly translate printed words from one language to another with your built-in video camera, in real time! |
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Translator with Speech Use this cool talking translator to instantly translate any text into any of 32 languages. It also pronounce the translation for you. |
| FLIGHTS | |
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On The Fly This App offers an advanced and comprehensive way to shop for airfares for any itinerary in the world. Quickly and easily find available flights with optimal fares using a friendly and intuitive interface. |
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Kayak Flights, Hotels, Cars, Trip Itinerary, Flight Tracker. |
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Orbiz This App lets you quickly search and book flights, hotels and rental cars. You can also view your trips, check flight status and find hotels near your current location using your phone’s GPS. |
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Book Me With BookMe, you can easily search the best travel sites for flights, hotels, car rentals and cruises in every country in the world. |
| GUIDES | |
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Hear Planet Turn your iPhone into an Audio Guide to the World. Everything on the planet is an exhibit that you can hear about, no matter where you are or what you’re doing. |
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Tripwolf It is the only mobile travel application that gives you access to expert advice for any destination worldwide from the most trusted travel guide publishers, all in one neat little app. |
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Goby This App helps you find fun things to do. Whether you’re traveling across the country, or staying close to home this weekend. |
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Rough Guides This app showcases the best rough guides photographers and what they have seen on their travels. Amazing festivals, celebrations, remote paradises, people at work and at play, powerful art and amazing architecture. Overall, their objective has been to document the sheer richness and pleasure of the world at large. |
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MetrO This App helps you find your way in the public transportation systems in more than 400 cities around the world. |
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Hop Stop This App provides detailed public transit directions and information. Whether you’re traveling by bus, subway, taxi, or walking, this app will get you where you’re going. |
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Map Quest 4 Voice-Guided, turn-by-turn directions right from your iPhone. |
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Offline Trip Guide This App takes the guess work out of directions by saving maps and step by step directions to your iDevice for offline use. |
| HEALTH & SAFETY | |
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World Customs & Cultures This app is essential for any traveler. It includes customs, cultural information, and facts on over 165 different countries. |
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Travel SOS This App allows you to contact emergency services easily. |
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Travel Emergency Quickly search for local and international emergency phone numbers, including ambulance, police, English-language hotlines, poison control centers, embassies, hospitals, and more |
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iFirst Aid Lite This is Emergency First Aid assistant which includes essential First Aid topics, with voice instructions. |
| FOOD | |
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Urban Spoon Can’t decide where to eat? Urban Spoon can help. SHAKE your iPhone and the Urban Spoon slot machine will pick a good restaurant for you to try. |
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Food Spotting This App is a visual guide to good food and where to find it. Instead of reviewing restaurants, you can find and share where to find your favorite dishes using photos. |
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Open Table With this App you can make free restaurant reservations at more than 15,000 OpenTable-enabled restaurants in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom. |
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B&H Photo & Video Use this App to search, browse, and purchase from our entire inventory of the latest in photo, video, pro audio, computers, home and portable entertainment, binoculars, scopes and much more. |
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Light Meter Shows exposure value (EV), shutter priority metering, aperture priority metering and configurable film speed ISO setting. |
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Field Tools Easy to use depth of field calculator for photographers working in the field. Using just a few touches, you can quickly calculate hyperfocal, near focus and far focus distances, all from a single screen. |
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Almost DSLR This is a camera application for recording movies and taking pictures on your iphone. |
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Wikihood Within a few clicks you not only get access to all the locations around you, but also the vast information related to these locations categorized by “persons” and “culture/buildings”. |
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Happy Hours It shows all of the food and drink specials going on near you. Click through to see a photo of the bar or restaurant, and details such as the menu, location and amenities. |
