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These free apps turn iPhones into handy travel companions.

Plan your trip – TripIt

Feed TripIt all your booking and reservation confirmation emails and give it access to your calendar and the app will provide you a slick itinerary for your trip.

Make sense of foreign words – Google Translate

We’re not going to pretend it’s grammatically perfect, but put a foreign restaurant menu item, road sign or phrase into Google Translate and you’ll get the general gist of things.

Convert Currency – XE Currency

Crunching numbers in your head can be a real drag. With a couple of taps of your finger, the world’s leading currency converter will tell you the value of what you’re paying for.

Keep in touch – Skype

Sure, the iPhone already has FaceTime, but not everyone you know has an Apple device (their loss).

Feed – Foodspotting

Feeling hungry? If you’re in a major city, Foodspotting helps you see what dishes are available nearby – not just in restaurants but in places like bakeries and street vendors too. And when we say ‘see’, we mean it – other users have uploaded images of the dishes they’ve recommended.

See our list of the best travel apps for Android here.

Written by insider city guide series Hg2 | A Hedonist’s guide to…

(Image: Yutaka Tsutano)

 

About the author

Brett AckroydBrett hopes to one day reach the shores of far-flung Tristan da Cunha, the most remote of all the inhabited archipelagos on Earth…as to what he’ll do when he gets there, he hasn’t a clue. Over the last 10 years, London, New York, Cape Town and Pondicherry have all proudly been referred to as home. Now it’s Copenhagen’s turn, where he lends his travel expertise to momondo.com.

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