39 ESSENTIAL Travel Apps for iPhone & Android in 2025

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After 8 years of running my travel blog and helping over 20 million travelers plan their adventures, I’ve become pretty obsessed with finding the perfect travel apps. And let me tell you – I’ve downloaded some absolute duds along the way. Remember that time I ended up totally lost in the Philippines because of a sketchy navigation app? Yeah, not my finest moment.

But through all that trial and error (and countless deleted apps), I’ve finally nailed down the ones that actually make travel easier and more fun. These aren’t just random downloads that’ll collect dust on your phone – these are the 30 apps I personally use and swear by in 2025. From scoring cheap flights to finding my way around cities where I can’t read a single street sign, these are the real deal.