The Best Travel Apps for Planning Your Trip

Here are a few apps that make leaving on a trip easier. From planning what to pack to rescheduling flights, these applications are fun and useful.

Packing
Are you compulsive about packing or wish you were? This type A personality tool creates lists of needed items that you check off as you go. The packing application will make preparing for your trip easy!

FlightTrack Pro
Forward your airline confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com and TripIt flight itineraries will automatically appear in FlightTrack Pro.

Next Flight
Changing your flight can be a pain. Next Flight tracks scheduled departures from more than 4,000 airports and 1,000 airlines. You can find what you want by filtering by carrier.

The Best Travel Apps for Staying Connected

Tech savvy travelers have more fun! Effortlessly update your friends and family back home with the coolest new travel applications.

IAmHere
Do you want your friends and family to know exactly where you are? IAmHere sends an email with a link to Google Maps. In my oppinion this app is accurate and easy to use. It's great for keeping your anxious spouse, mother or boss in the loop without the time and expense of a phone call!

Tweetie
A practical use for Twitter? Send vacation pics and snappy comments from abroad fast with Tweetie. Tweetie is your effortless online travelogue and much cooler than a postcard.

Skype
Are international calls costing you as much as your flight? Use Skype to jump on Wi-Fi networks for free or cheap calls. Skype can be used from your phone or laptop! If you need to communicate the old fashioned way, use this new technology to ease the financial pain.


Wi-Fi Finder
Finding Wi-Fi is key when trying to stay connected overseas, especially if you use Skype. Wi-Fi Finder tracks hotspots in 135 countries. It would be nice if it could better distinguish between free and paid spots.


Stay tuned for more travel app information. Find out how to use your phone to navigate a foreign land, find things to do and much more!