Love To Travel? Here Hidden Gem Travel App Tools For You!

 10 Best Hidden Gem Travel App Tools! 

When it comes to planning and taking vacations, travelers rely on their smartphones most of the time. Travel apps are not only a source of motivation but also extremely useful while traveling for bookings, making restaurant reservations, and finding a great business class wherever in the world you're flying next. There are plenty of apps to help you with everything from hotel booking, flight tracking, planning your trip, or building your routes without the internet, pack a perfect suitcase. There's an app for whatever you need when you hit the destinations. 

These are the most loved apps here at TravelWithSD. Some may be obvious and others more beneficial, but either way, get ready to start using. By reading our best-hidden gem travel app tools, you can have a great trip, too! 

1) Packing

Not sure what to pack then use packpnt.com.  Use this intelligent packing list app (ios & Android) it helps you remember what to pack for based on your destination, weather, and activities. Packpoint will help you organize what you need to fill in your luggage and suitcase.  Packpoint not only ensures you don't forget anything crucial, but it can also prevent over-packing.

Get a packing list that considers: 

• Number of days
• Destination (weather)
• Activity (Bussiness or leisure) 

2) Skyscanner 

Booking travel and want to find the cheapest flights possible? Then use this metasearch engine Skyscanner.com for buying airfare. This site is available in over 30 languages and is used by 100 million people per month.

Skyscanner is a metasearch engine that scans the interest and pulls the prices for your flight, hotel, and car rental search from thousands of online travel agencies and airlines across the globe. 

Save big with this one-stop shop!

3) Timeshifter

Avoid jet lag with this new popular app i.e. timeshifter.com. Developed by top scientists and used by athletes, CEO, and astronauts. 

How It Works: 

• Receive a jet lag plan (pre+post - flight) 
• See when to sleep, get light, skip coffee
• Arrive at your best

4) Tripit

Use Tripit.com to quickly create your travel itinerary. Tripit is a free application where you can have all your travel plans in one place. You can set your reservations to be automatically sent to Tripit, which will let you view travel confirmations, flight itineraries, tickets, hotel, and Airbnb booking info, etc without ever leaving the app. 

In one centralized app, access trip details: 

• Parking
• Car rental
• Flight
• Travel documents
• Covid Guidance

5) Duolingo

Duolingo.com enhance the experience, making it fun. You can learn languages on Duolingo completely free. An accompanying mobile app makes it easy to practice wherever you are. You can learn up to 30+ languages online on it.

It feels like a local.

6) Maps. Me

A powerful offline map tool Maps. I work very well. It's a free, open-source mobile app that provides offline maps using OpenStreetMap data. Getting lost anywhere can be stressful and possibly dangerous. This app will give you peace of mind.

How To Download Offline Maps. Me

• Open Maps. Me
• Select the country
• Select the map or maps to download
• Find an area to download
• Choose 'custom area'
• Name the offline area and hit save. 

7) Google Translate

Translate.google.com is a translation app that allows you to do it all, translate into 108 languages by typing, access 59 languages offline, translate 94 languages via photo, translate bilingual conversations for 70 languages and even use the handwriting tool to translate 96 languages. 

Download the app, and thank me later. 

8) Roadtrippers

Effortlessly plan your next road trip with roadtroppers.com. Planning your adventure has never been easier, but with Roadtrippers that epic road trip you always wanted to take can happen. Roadtrippers not only plan your driving route but also lets you book hotels along the way. 

This app is especially useful for finding interesting and off-beaten path roadside attractions as well as cool restaurants and ca don't-miss landmarks you can bookmark. 

9) Sherpa

Sherpa - The Travel Restrictions Map. Now, imagine if there was a place where you could check all this information with just the click of a button. Everything from visa regulations to COVID - 19 testing rules to quarantine information. Plus it's always a good thing to find out about the visa regulations of a foreign destination before you start planning your trip.  

Yes, you can trust the information that you are shown because it's pulled from the websites of governments, airlines, tourism boards, public forums, media outlets, and many other credible sources. 

10) Airbnb

To book home rentals instead of hotels, use the Airbnb app. After entering your destination and dates, you can filter results based on the home type, price, requisite amenities, and more. You can access all your bookings under the 'trips' tab, where you can view your reservation, address, and directions.

If you have a booking you can also pursue and book local experiences in your destination such as wine tastings, kayak tours, hikes, shows, concerts, and more. 

I hope you all enjoy this post! Share it with your travel partners and have a great trip :)