Top 20 iPhone Travel Apps

Top 20 iPhone Travel Apps

1. Next Flight
Next Flight tracks scheduled departures from more than 4,200 airports and 1,100 airlines. It sounds overwhelming, but you can filter by carrier.

2.UrbanSpoon
Urbanspoon is the gold standard in the U.S., London, Melbourne, and Sydney: Shake your phone, watch the dials spin like an old-school slot machine, and up comes the best guide to local restaurants.

3. HearPlanet
HearPlanet tells you what attractions are nearby and then plays the Wikipedia description aloud.

4. Air Sharing
Air Sharing lets you save HTML Web pages, PDFs, text files, you name it, for off-line perusal anytime, anywhere.

5.Tweetie
Tweetie you can send vacation pics and witty comments from afar faster and more easily than with any other app.

6. IAmHere
IAmHere sends an email with a link to Google Maps.

7. World Customs
World Customs dispenses international dos and don’ts, one for every day.

8. Wi-Fi Finder
Wi-Fi Finder tracks over 200,000 hotspots in 135 countries.

9. The Weather Channel
Weather Bug and AccuWeather come close in the race for full-featured meteorological apps, but the Weather Channel’s gets the nod for customization and the ability to check out conditions in multiple locations at a glance.

10. Google Earth
Although slow even on Wi-Fi, browsing satellite images of anywhere from your vacation destination to the top of the Matterhorn is still one of the best ways to get the lay of the land.

11. Packing
Become a packing perfectionist with this easy tool. Create lists of necessary items and check them off as you go. The packing application will make preparing for your vacation a breeze.

12. Room
If you're always forgetting your hotel room number—and modern keycards don't remind you, of course—log it in this free program.

13. FlightTrack Pro
Made for busy travelers like you, just forward your airline confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com and TripIt flight itineraries will appear automatically in FlightTrack Pro.

14. Lonely Planet Phrasebook
At $10, it's spendy for a one-language application, but—very cool—it speaks the translated phrase aloud. Perhaps not such a big deal in Mexico, but in tongue-twister countries, such as Morocco, it's a huge plus.

15. Skype
Break the international calling shakedown—jumping on a Wi-Fi network lets you make free (or cheap) calls.

16. WriteRoom
Amazingly, the iPhone comes with no way of syncing text files and its Notes app stinks. This simple word processing tool transfers text easily between desktop and handset so you can leave your laptop at home.

17. Amazon Kindle
The Kindle's nice, but why carry two devices when you can download e-books directly to your phone? Have an iPhone AND a Kindle? Once you've bought the book, you can read it wherever you want.

18. Cheap Gas
shows you the least expensive petrol wherever you are. Awesomely helpful if you don’t know the area.

19. Babelingo
Great linguistic value—300-entry phrase book with 11 languages

 20. Where
Shows you what’s around you, from Starbucks to movie theaters and show times.