The fifty Best Fresh Travel Apps for 2017

Choosing the right app can be just as confusing as determining where to stay or how to get there. So we’ve combed through dozens of the latest travel apps (and a few mobile websites) to determine which devices are the most useful for planning a tour, getting around, finding friends, and saving money along the way. Unless noted, all apps are free and available for Android and iOS.

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Dealray

The $9.99 per month members-only airfare tracker finds low-cost flight deals and sends notifications when it detects massive price drops, error fares, or flash sales. iOS only.

Freebird

Register your flight on this website up to two days before departure, and if it gets canceled or delayed by four hours, book a fresh ticket on any airline. Fees commence at $Nineteen for a one-way flight.

Skiplagged

Find “hidden city” one-way tickets with a stopover where you get off the plane instead of continuing on to the destination on your ticket— they’re often cheaper than a nonstop fare.

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If you’ve only got a few minutes for a meal before boarding a flight, Grab will let you look at airport restaurant menus ahead of time, map them in the terminal, and in some locations order in advance and pick up your food on the way to the gate. The app presently serves one hundred seventy four eateries at seventeen airports in the U.S.; by early 2017, Dallas/Fort Worth Airport will suggest Grab’s mobile ordering at all of its two hundred dining outlets.

HappyCow

HappyCow lists vegan and vegetarian restaurants in almost Ten,500 cities worldwide, from major cities like London (Book & Kitchen) and Fresh York City (Blossom du Jour), to obscure places like Vatra Neamului, in Chişinău, Moldova. Each restaurant listing comes with a brief description of the menu and user-generated reviews. $Trio.99.

Velocity

This slick reservation app offers a very curated collection of the best restaurants, such as Drunken Dragon, in Miami Beach, or Petty Cash, in Los Angeles. You can also use it to pay your bill or split it with your dining companions. Coming soon: popular nightlife catches sight of in Aspen, Colorado, and Gstaad and Verbier, Switzerland.

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A typical hotel stay has you checking in around three p.m. and checking out by noon. This fresh last-minute-travel app is looking to upend that tradition by providing guest more plasticity to choose when they arrive and depart. AsYouStay has partnered with more than fifty properties in Fresh York City, including the Park Lane and the Paul Hotel, and a dozen hotels in Miami’s South Beach, with properties in Chicago and San Francisco coming later this year.

Chatnbook

Call it Tinder for hotels. After you’ve entered your destination, dates, and preferences (rating, free Wi-Fi, etc.), the app (the Android version is still in beta) presents a series of property profiles with photos. Tap on the green thumbs-up or the crimson thumbs-down and you’ll later be contacted by the hotels you’ve “liked” with their best rates.

Dayuse.com

Extra-long layover? Use this app to book a hotel room for a few hours to grab a shower, take a nap, or just freshen up after a red-eye. Dayuse offers hotel rooms for up to seventy five percent off regular nightly rates at Three,000 hotels around the world.

Hostelworld

Touting private rooms, joy communal spaces, and booze-fueled events to bring together solo travelers, Hostelworld is the go-to app to book 33,000 hostels globally.

Oasis

A cooler version of Airbnb? This short-term-rental company has a pared-down list of coveted luxury apartments and homes in close to two dozen destinations, including Rio de Janeiro, Miami, and Milan. Guests can also use the app to access a 24/7 concierge to help with restaurant reservations, theater tickets, and tour bookings.

One:Night

Similar to Hotel Tonight, the fresh app from the operator of Standard Hotels offers same-day stays at more than a dozen luxury hotels in Fresh York City, Los Angeles, Miami, and Austin, Texas. Every day at three p.m., the app unveils discounts for that evening. We recently spotted rates of $189 per night for the Standard Spa in Miami Beach and $568 for a stay at Fresh York’s one Hotel Central Park.

Roomer

Use this app to get deep discounts on hotel rooms from people who have had to cancel their trips, and save thirty to eighty percent. Likewise, if you’ve prepaid for a nonrefundable room, you can sell your reservation on the app.

TripHappy

This browser based customizable search instrument uses big-data analytics to comb through thirty seven million user reviews to determine the best places and neighborhoods to stay in. Sort results by price or rating. triphappy.com.

Vacasa

This vacation-rental manager recently expanded to fifteen states in the U.S. And it now also offers apartments and homes in Latin America, Italy, and Spain. Unlike VRBO or Airbnb, the properties are cleaned and managed by Vacasa, so you’re not dealing with the possessor.

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Cool Cousin

Collections of off the-beaten-path recommendations from savvy residents in fourteen destinations, such as a mixologist in London and an artist in Paris. Their suggestions aren’t ones you will find in a typical guidebook; expect hip fresh catches sight of in emerging neighborhoods.

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This urban route planner will help you find the best way to get somewhere — which doesn’t necessarily mean the shortest route. Sidekix will choose the best walking directions based on your interests and preferences. Looking for a fancy cafe for a lunch on your way to an art gallery? The app is packed with curated suggestions from in-the-know locals. Presently available for use in more than one hundred major cities, with more coming each week.

Streetography

For anyone missing the recently retired Maps feature on Instagram comes this fresh service that permits you to preview neighborhoods with user-generated photos. Want to check out an area before you book an Airbnb stay? With better photos than Google Maps, Streetography covers most major cities in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, Russia, and Australia.

Cork in your destination and Walc will give you directions based on easy-to-spot landmarks. A Pocket Mode feature gives step-by-step audio directions. Just cork in your ear buds, and you won’t have to permanently pull out your phone.

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AutoSlash

With rates for car rentals fluctuating every day, it’s not effortless to know if you got the cheapest price. AutoSlash asks you to input your car reservation details into its mobile site—an app is in the works for later this year—then tracks the rates for your dates and scouts competitor pricing, including coupons and discount codes. If a lower price for the same rental becomes available, you’ll be notified by e-mail and can rebook your reservation.

Maven

The fresh car sharing app from General Motors is taking on Zipcar as the most affordable brief term- rental service on the market, commencing at $8 per hour for most vehicles and $14 per hour for SUVs. The fleet features many Chevrolet brands, including the eco-friendly Volt. Every Maven vehicle is tooled with 24/7 OnStar assistance, remote begin, Sirius XM radio, and Apple CarPlay/Android Auto. It’s presently available in ten cities in the U.S., with more coming.

Rideways

Instead of taking your chances with an Uber after your flight grounds, use Priceline-owned Rideways to book reliable airport transfers, taxi rails, trains, and buses in more than five hundred cities worldwide. Just come in your excursion details and the type of transportation you want, and the app presents you with several options; on a latest journey to Paris, we had the choice of taking two different buses to our hotel for $Five.30 each or splurging on a $160 transfer in a chauffeured Mercedes-Benz.

Formerly known as RelayRides, the peer-to-peer app that lets you rent cars directly from their owners has received a big upgrade. Available to users in the U.S. and Canada, Turo permits you to search for exactly the type of vehicle you want—often at prices lower than what the big rental agencies charge. We found a two thousand fourteen SUV for $40 per day, while rates on Kayak were $140 per day from Hertz and Avis. The company recently expanded into Europe.

Wingz

Prebook affordable airport and other point-to-point transportation in a dozen metro areas across the United States. There are no surprises: travelers know in advance the total cost and who their driver will be—and can even request their dearest driver on future trips. Reliability and safety is a company hallmark: all drivers have had their DMV records checked.

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Binaural

Alleviate jet lag and reset your sleep clock with the help of binaural beats—repetitive sounds that cultures around the world have relied on for centuries to create relaxed states of mind. Besides helping you sleep, the hammers can improve concentrate and attention, foster learning, and reduce anxiety, according to the app’s creators.

Geosure

This location-sensitive individual security app will provide a safety score reflecting health risks, political uprisings, and environmental threats, and gives crowd-sourced information about thefts and assaults that have occurred in the area.

My Panda

Founded in response to the two thousand fifteen Paris terror attacks, My Panda tells you the level of security in the area via GPS. In some destinations, such as Fresh York City and Los Angeles, there’s a feature for the fastest route to the nearest police station and the option to call local authorities with one tap.

The fifty Best Apps for Travel in 2017, Travel Leisure

The fifty Best Fresh Travel Apps for 2017

Choosing the right app can be just as confusing as determining where to stay or how to get there. So we’ve combed through dozens of the latest travel apps (and a few mobile websites) to determine which instruments are the most useful for planning a tour, getting around, finding friends, and saving money along the way. Unless noted, all apps are free and available for Android and iOS.

flying-title-50APPS0217.jpg

Dealray

The $9.99 per month members-only airfare tracker finds low-cost flight deals and sends notifications when it detects massive price drops, error fares, or flash sales. iOS only.

Freebird

Register your flight on this website up to two days before departure, and if it gets canceled or delayed by four hours, book a fresh ticket on any airline. Fees commence at $Nineteen for a one-way flight.

Skiplagged

Find “hidden city” one-way tickets with a stopover where you get off the plane instead of continuing on to the destination on your ticket— they’re often cheaper than a nonstop fare.

dining-title-50APPS0217.jpg

If you’ve only got a few minutes for a meal before boarding a flight, Grab will let you look at airport restaurant menus ahead of time, map them in the terminal, and in some locations order in advance and pick up your food on the way to the gate. The app presently serves one hundred seventy four eateries at seventeen airports in the U.S.; by early 2017, Dallas/Fort Worth Airport will suggest Grab’s mobile ordering at all of its two hundred dining outlets.

HappyCow

HappyCow lists vegan and vegetarian restaurants in almost Ten,500 cities worldwide, from major cities like London (Book & Kitchen) and Fresh York City (Blossom du Jour), to obscure places like Vatra Neamului, in Chişinău, Moldova. Each restaurant listing comes with a brief description of the menu and user-generated reviews. $Three.99.

Velocity

This slick reservation app offers a very curated collection of the best restaurants, such as Drunken Dragon, in Miami Beach, or Petty Cash, in Los Angeles. You can also use it to pay your bill or split it with your dining companions. Coming soon: popular nightlife catches sight of in Aspen, Colorado, and Gstaad and Verbier, Switzerland.

lodging-title-50APPS0217.jpg

lodging-as-you-stay-50APPS0217.jpg

A typical hotel stay has you checking in around three p.m. and checking out by noon. This fresh last-minute-travel app is looking to upend that tradition by providing guest more plasticity to choose when they arrive and depart. AsYouStay has partnered with more than fifty properties in Fresh York City, including the Park Lane and the Paul Hotel, and a dozen hotels in Miami’s South Beach, with properties in Chicago and San Francisco coming later this year.

Chatnbook

Call it Tinder for hotels. After you’ve entered your destination, dates, and preferences (rating, free Wi-Fi, etc.), the app (the Android version is still in beta) presents a series of property profiles with photos. Tap on the green thumbs-up or the crimson thumbs-down and you’ll later be contacted by the hotels you’ve “liked” with their best rates.

Dayuse.com

Extra-long layover? Use this app to book a hotel room for a few hours to grab a shower, take a nap, or just freshen up after a red-eye. Dayuse offers hotel rooms for up to seventy five percent off regular nightly rates at Three,000 hotels around the world.

Hostelworld

Touting private rooms, joy communal spaces, and booze-fueled events to bring together solo travelers, Hostelworld is the go-to app to book 33,000 hostels globally.

Oasis

A cooler version of Airbnb? This short-term-rental company has a pared-down list of coveted luxury apartments and homes in close to two dozen destinations, including Rio de Janeiro, Miami, and Milan. Guests can also use the app to access a 24/7 concierge to help with restaurant reservations, theater tickets, and tour bookings.

One:Night

Similar to Hotel Tonight, the fresh app from the operator of Standard Hotels offers same-day stays at more than a dozen luxury hotels in Fresh York City, Los Angeles, Miami, and Austin, Texas. Every day at three p.m., the app unveils discounts for that evening. We recently witnessed rates of $189 per night for the Standard Spa in Miami Beach and $568 for a stay at Fresh York’s one Hotel Central Park.

Roomer

Use this app to get deep discounts on hotel rooms from people who have had to cancel their trips, and save thirty to eighty percent. Likewise, if you’ve prepaid for a nonrefundable room, you can sell your reservation on the app.

TripHappy

This browser based customizable search implement uses big-data analytics to comb through thirty seven million user reviews to determine the best places and neighborhoods to stay in. Sort results by price or rating. triphappy.com.

Vacasa

This vacation-rental manager recently expanded to fifteen states in the U.S. And it now also offers apartments and homes in Latin America, Italy, and Spain. Unlike VRBO or Airbnb, the properties are cleaned and managed by Vacasa, so you’re not dealing with the possessor.

navigate-title-50APPS0217.jpg

Cool Cousin

Collections of off the-beaten-path recommendations from savvy residents in fourteen destinations, such as a mixologist in London and an artist in Paris. Their suggestions aren’t ones you will find in a typical guidebook; expect hip fresh catches sight of in emerging neighborhoods.

navigate-sidekix-50APPS0217.jpg

This urban route planner will help you find the best way to get somewhere — which doesn’t necessarily mean the shortest route. Sidekix will choose the best walking directions based on your interests and preferences. Looking for a stylish cafe for a lunch on your way to an art gallery? The app is packed with curated suggestions from in-the-know locals. Presently available for use in more than one hundred major cities, with more coming each week.

Streetography

For anyone missing the recently retired Maps feature on Instagram comes this fresh service that permits you to preview neighborhoods with user-generated photos. Want to check out an area before you book an Airbnb stay? With better photos than Google Maps, Streetography covers most major cities in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, Russia, and Australia.

Ass-plug in your destination and Walc will give you directions based on easy-to-spot landmarks. A Pocket Mode feature gives step-by-step audio directions. Just cork in your ear buds, and you won’t have to permanently pull out your phone.

driving-title-50APPS0217.jpg

AutoSlash

With rates for car rentals fluctuating every day, it’s not effortless to know if you got the cheapest price. AutoSlash asks you to input your car reservation details into its mobile site—an app is in the works for later this year—then tracks the rates for your dates and scouts competitor pricing, including coupons and discount codes. If a lower price for the same rental becomes available, you’ll be notified by e-mail and can rebook your reservation.

Maven

The fresh car sharing app from General Motors is taking on Zipcar as the most affordable brief term- rental service on the market, kicking off at $8 per hour for most vehicles and $14 per hour for SUVs. The fleet features many Chevrolet brands, including the eco-friendly Volt. Every Maven vehicle is tooled with 24/7 OnStar assistance, remote commence, Sirius XM radio, and Apple CarPlay/Android Auto. It’s presently available in ten cities in the U.S., with more coming.

Rideways

Instead of taking your chances with an Uber after your flight grounds, use Priceline-owned Rideways to book reliable airport transfers, taxi rails, trains, and buses in more than five hundred cities worldwide. Just inject your journey details and the type of transportation you want, and the app presents you with several options; on a latest excursion to Paris, we had the choice of taking two different buses to our hotel for $Five.30 each or splurging on a $160 transfer in a chauffeured Mercedes-Benz.

Formerly known as RelayRides, the peer-to-peer app that lets you rent cars directly from their owners has received a big upgrade. Available to users in the U.S. and Canada, Turo permits you to search for exactly the type of vehicle you want—often at prices lower than what the big rental agencies charge. We found a two thousand fourteen SUV for $40 per day, while rates on Kayak were $140 per day from Hertz and Avis. The company recently expanded into Europe.

Wingz

Prebook affordable airport and other point-to-point transportation in a dozen metro areas across the United States. There are no surprises: travelers know in advance the total cost and who their driver will be—and can even request their beloved driver on future trips. Reliability and safety is a company hallmark: all drivers have had their DMV records checked.

health-safety-title-50APPS0217.jpg

Binaural

Alleviate jet lag and reset your sleep clock with the help of binaural beats—repetitive sounds that cultures around the world have relied on for centuries to create relaxed states of mind. Besides helping you sleep, the hammers can improve concentrate and attention, foster learning, and reduce anxiety, according to the app’s creators.

Geosure

This location-sensitive private security app will provide a safety score reflecting health risks, political uprisings, and environmental threats, and gives crowd-sourced information about thefts and assaults that have occurred in the area.

My Panda

Founded in response to the two thousand fifteen Paris terror attacks, My Panda tells you the level of security in the area via GPS. In some destinations, such as Fresh York City and Los Angeles, there’s a feature for the fastest route to the nearest police station and the option to call local authorities with one tap.

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