Apps to Help You Explore Germany

If you’re taking a trip to the exciting country of Germany, you’ll probably want some help in making sure you visit all the best attractions and places of interest. If you have an iPhone, there are lots of great apps that will assist you during your vacation. Here are some of the best apps in the iTunes store that will help you explore Germany.

Berlin Travel Guide – Lonely Planet
If you’re going to Berlin, this app will help you make the most of your trip. It works offline, so you can avoid costly data roaming charges. It uses your GPS to track your location and give you directions to your destination. It also suggest nearby attractions and places of interest. You can find hundreds of recommendations on restaurants, nightlife, shopping, museums, hotels, and more, with traveler reviews, price range, and directions. You can filter attractions by your personal interests, and you can read historic background information, get practical information such as how to find a doctor if you need one, and read all about different neighborhoods and popular attractions. This app costs $5.99.

Lonely Planet Munich City Guide
This app from Lonely Planet has all the same great features as the Berlin Travel Guide, but for the beautiful and historic city of Munich. If you’re traveling to Munich, this app will help you locate all the best places of interest and let you find your way around with ease. It also costs $5.99.

Berlin Travel Guide – mTrip
This app is another great tool for your visit to the city of Berlin. It works completely offline, and it contains thousands of attraction reviews by other travelers and suggestions on places for you to visit. The maps feature will show you the best way to get to your destination, and the augmented reality feature will track the places you visit in real time. One of the great features of this app is the personalized trip itinerary. Before your trip, input the dates of your visit, the kinds of things you like to do, your pace preference, and more, and mTrip will provide you with a customized itinerary that you’ll enjoy. If you’re online, you can share postcards, photographs and a travel journal with your friends and family back home via email or Facecook. This app costs $5.99.

Germany Travel Guide by Triposo
If you want a great travel aide but don’t want to spend any extra cash, you can download this app for free. It collects relevant and current information from a variety of open source websites to help you explore many cities in Germany, including Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Hamburg, and more. It provides you with user-generated reviews, historic background information, maps, and more. It draws on Wikipedia, Wikitravel, World66, Open Streetmaps, DMOZ, and Chefmoz so you can get complete travel information in one convenient location. This app works offline, too.

SmartGuide Germany
This offline app is a great way to augment your historic tour of Germany. It provides beautiful photographs and compelling audio narration for 13 different attractions and locations around Germany, including the Höchster Schlossplatz castle, Main Market Square, and the Dome St. Peter. If you activate the GPS feature, it will automatically inform you on the history of your current location.

Jess Brown writes about technology, travel and Social Media.  Without her trusty Grammar Checker, she’d really be lost!

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