2016年2月1日星期一

Useful/Practical/Best APPs Travellers must Have/Use/Download

Nice Mobile Applications for Travellers

XE Currency– Currency Converter

While travelling, it may be quite troublesome trying to figure out the value of your currency and convert it into a foreign one. This is especially true if you head out to unfamiliar places very often and need to be updated with the latest currency rates.
For live currency rates and charts, XE currency is one of the best apps on the market. It features every currency in the world along with precious metals. You can calculate prices with the currency converter and check up to 10 currencies at a time.
It works even without internet as it stores the last updated rates in the app. You can also personalize settings like frequency of rate updates and display currency symbols.
 

WeatherPro–Weather

They say that the weather is unpredictable so you never know for sure. Yet, you don’t want your holiday plans to be ruined either by unexpected showers or too much sun.
With WeatherPro you will be able to estimate the weather up to a week ahead with 3 hourly forecasts. This includes temperature, wind direction and speed, air pressure, precipitation amount and probability, and relative humidity. The app is very user-friendly and forecasts are presented in an easy-to-read graphical format.
There are some additional features like alerts and warning levels for extreme weather conditions, especially beneficial for travelers. The app also displays weather reports for more than 2 million locations over the world.
 
Perfect World Clock – Time
It is not always so easy to keep track of various time zones for those who travel frequently to several cities or countries around the globe. Be it for work purposes or to contact people when traveling, it can get confusing about the time in different places.
In this case Perfect World Clock will be of great help. It displays the time for your current location as well as any location in the world. It captures data from over 20,000 cities in different time zones to keep you updated.
It has several widgets showing multiple time zones. It is extremely user friendly with digital and analog clock types.
 
Flightstats-Flight Tracking
Flightstats is one of the most popular and free flight trackers and the APP is a must have for every traveler.
1 Quickly access worldwide flight status by flight number, airport or route
2 Scan essential information like departure/arrival times, delay indexes, gates and weather
3 Watch the flight as it progresses towards the arrival airport
4 Check the flight timeline to get in-depth descriptions of all activities about your flight

 

GoogleTranslate – Language and Translation

Language is one of the biggest hurdles for many travelers going to new places. Being clueless about the native languageleads to a gap in communication with locals and this may lead to you missing out on a lot on your trip.
Google translate is an app that will help you in such situations. Any list for travel apps will be incomplete without this handy translator tool. It offers translation for 80 languages and even works offline without internet, making it even more beneficial for travelers. You can translate by input of text, through voice, or through pictures too.
This app gives you the option to save the translations which you can later access from any device. This is an ideal app for breaking language barriers across the world.

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