Developed by Gabriele Petrone, Australia Travel features some pretty comprehensive information and awesome pictures to boot. Whether you’re interested in the best bars in Sydney, what types of crocodile you can expect to see in the outback, what tourist attractions there are in Cairns or where to surf near Melbourne, you’ll find it all explained here.

Available for iPhone and iPad, this app carries up-date-information for travelling in Oz, including reviews centred on its major cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Cairns and Broome.

It also carries data on Australia travel packages, tourism, flights, foodie news and lots of tips besides. What’s more, it’s absolutely free to download and is available via the iTunes store.

After ranking number one in our own review, this app gets a big thumbs-up and comes top for us. But, if you’re not convinced, there are a number of other Australia travel apps to try – but bear in mind they aren’t all free:

• MyCityWay – an impressive 30 apps in one based around your chosen city
• Australia Offline with directU – free offline map browser
• Aussie Slang (Australian Slang) Dictionary – a fun app featuring more than 700 colloquial phrases used in Australia every day

Happy exploring!

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Therefore, our Travel App of the Week is Star Walk and here we explain why…

One of the great things about visiting Africa – especially on safari – is the huge expanse of brilliant night sky, punctuated by clearly visible stars and constellations. It’s a star gazer’s paradise, offering rare glimpses of the Milky Way in all its majesty, the Southern Cross and even the odd planet or two.

But if, like us, you don’t know your plough from your Pluto, then this award winning Star Walk app is just the ticket. All you have to do is point your smart phone or iPad towards the sky and Star Walk will tell you exactly what you are looking at.

Great for amateur astronomers, the app helps you pinpoint and identify more than 20,000 objects in the night sky so it’s no wonder it won an Apple design award.

Star Walk’s 360-degree, touch control star map shows constellations, stars, planets, satellites and galaxies from anywhere on Earth – impressive stuff and great for holidaying outdoors.

It continues to be developed and is the only star gazing guide of its kind currently on the market. Not only that, but its capable of Twitter integration to reach out and share with the star gazing community and provides a full calendar of Celestial events.

So whether, you’re touring in Africa, hitting the peaks or just camping out in your back yard, don’t leave without Star Walk. May the force be with you!

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Created by two former ‘Googlers’, Triposo has more than 8000 destination specific travel guides available to download and is clever enough to be able to make informed suggestions based on its user’s location, the time of day and weather.

It has the capacity to support blogging on the move with its Travel Log feature and means you can publish your itineraries, pictures and highlights and share them with friends quickly and easily on the move.

But just what makes it so special? Well, the answer is that its creators claim to have an algorithmic approach to travel and use sources such as wikitravel and openstreetmap and, as a result, Triposo is surprisingly accurate – on an international scale.

Perhaps the best bit though is that the app doesn’t incur any roaming charges as you don’t even need an internet connection – all the detailed maps are downloaded and stored on your device.

Meanwhile, other useful features include a currency converter, phrase book and activity suggestions based on local attraction opening hours.

But, as always, don’t just take our word for it. Download this cheeky little app for yourself and have fun finding out what it can do.

It’s available free for most mobile devices, including iPhone and Android, and has a neat website too – featuring plenty of travel logs to whet your appetite.

Happy apping!

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Hey guys, describe TripTapp in one sentence?
TripTapp is the new way to share travel experiences: starting from a map anyone can follow your steps around the world.

What problem are you trying to solve in the travel tech space?
Travel itineraries and attractions are shared online almost entirely by using blogs. However, even if you add extensive descriptions and photos, users cannot visualize your journey: they won’t be inspired as much as you’d like. With TripTapp, you can now share your emotions, memories and photos on a map right in the place where you lived them and your travel experiences are turned into valuable travel guides in no time. The map makes your users able to follow your trips and learn from you: they’ll be inspired in an authentic way. We are looking forward to build a common place where the community of travellers can meet: we believe that it is the only way to (re)discover new places in a completely different way.

What stage are you at and what traction have you seen to date?

We’ve just started, triptapp.com has been online for only two months but we have reviews from media and a number of users that grows every day. We’re talking with them to fit their needs at every level, constantly releasing improvements and new features.

Talk to me about the team, how did you get together with your co-founder?

The team at TripTapp is made up of two person: Riccardo (@CoppolaRiccardo) and Andrea (@tassi_andrea). First of all, we’re friend and… engineers. We have started working together since last year of University in Florence. We know and complete each other and face problems together with different approaches, this make us a strong team. We are both passionate about photography, so we have several opportunities to meet and share our passion.

Who do you see as your major competitors?

There are attempts in the industry to make something like TripTapp, but they usually focus on single places: we focus on the journey as a whole. Services like Foursquare are a target more than a competitor to us.

What are the growth plans and KPI’s you want to hit over the next 12 months?

We’ll focus on building a community that shares experiences, so our KPI’s will be: ‘shared trips’, ‘new and returning users’ and, ‘unique visitors’. We are looking forward to host, over the next 12 months, at least 2000 trips (spread all over the World) and become a showcase of a different way to travel.

Best and worst travel destination you have been to?

Riccardo: Dublin is my best: it’s an amazing city, people are great and Ireland is very beautiful. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for Berlin, it was so cold there!
Andrea: When I visited Kyoto, I fell in love with Japan. That is a living stunning piece of art! I didn’t enjoyed Corsica, differently than Riccardo I have some problems with high temperatures.

How did you enjoy #tbe12 and what did you get out of it? (#tbe12 was an Italian travel bloggers conference both MyTravelMoney and TripTapp attended)

#tbe12 was just great. We had a really good time there, the audience was great and the workshops were very helpful. We were interested in building a better online brand and the information we got were very, very useful.

How did the bloggers take to the product?

We had the opportunity to talk with many bloggers and showing them a “live of TripTapp” from a notebook: results were simply awesome. They loved the idea and, most important, everyone suggested an improvement or a new feature. This is what we were after: ideas and suggestions from our target users. They were so great!

How do you buy your travel money?

A by-product to be Italian citizens it that we have the Euro. Hence, we can visit the most part of the Europe and use the same currency. If it is not possible, we tend use ATM all the times… but now we have found that there’s a better way: MyTravelMoney.com

Thanks chaps. You couldn’t wish to meet two nicer co-founders and we wish the guys all the success in the world!

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The verdict… a well deserved honour.

Not only does this app enable you to book flights on the go – from wherever you are and straight from the app – but it has the capacity for you to search flights and statuses based on flight numbers; book extras, such as Speedy Boarding and additional baggage, up to two hours before your flight; manage your bookings, and even add sporting equipment.

It’s available for iPhone and Android – with the option of downloading it to your PC also – and comes in six different languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.

Even better, scan the QR code here and it’ll immediately download! Not only that, but you’ll find a great video for the app and a sneak peek of the TV campaign.

What’s not to love?

Now go forth and enjoy!

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It means travellers can be the first to know of any delays or whether their trip is running exactly to schedule. But it’s also great for aviation anoraks like us who are just curious about where people are in the world.

To get a flavour of this app and how it works, visit the website , which couldn’t be simpler to use. Just hover over the aircraft symbol for a flight number and voila – you can see on the map exactly where the flight is and watch its progress in real time.

This clever piece of technology also lists flight numbers, types of aircraft, and many other aviation variables, such as speed and altitude, with the ability to see individual aircraft on the map at the touch of a button.

In short, its main features are:

• Ability to see the aircraft moving in real-time
• An augmented reality view with the means to identify planes flying overhead by pointing the phone’s camera to the sky
• Specific flight searches
• Capability to filter by airline, altitude, speed and more
• Flight trails and callsigns shown directly on the map
• Possibility to show different aircraft icons, for different aicraft types
• Images of featured aircraft

Not only that, but the Twitter feed for this app also keeps you up-to-date with delays, diversions and cancellations so you can be ahead of the game before the airport starts handing out its meal vouchers.

Unfortunately, it’s not free but, at around £1.24, it’s well worth the spend and is available for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and Android.

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This clever little app, which is great for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, is the ultimate foodie traveller’s trip companion. Whether you’re looking for food and drink in Singapore, Japan, China, The Phillipines, India, Vietnam or North or South Korea, its real time technology will find it for you.

It covers a whole host of other destinations besides and lets you view comments and reviews, including photos, of local restaurants while on your travels.

Restaurant listings and other data are being updated constantly and there’s even an ‘Offers’ section in which to access deals and discounted food and drink.

On a recent trip to Thailand, we found it incredibly easy to use – and the information accurate to boot. But if you’re still not convinced, let us give you ten reasons why this little gem is an invaluable tool for travelling in Asia:

1) The food and drink scene, particularly in South East Asia, changes incredibly quickly. One week Italian’s hot, the next it’s not. Restaurants can open and close at the drop of a hat according to these trends.

2) Sushi, noodles, Mexican, Muslim, organic, seafood, burgers, tapas, pizza, curry, Cantonese, Kosher, Halal, vegan, and vegetarian are just a few of the popular food types listed.

3) More than 75,000 restaurants, cafes, street markets, wine bars and pubs across the UAE, Asia and Australasia are constantly being updated.

4) The app uses location-based navigation to find food and drink where you are and includes directions on how to get to your chosen restaurant or bar.

5) There’s an active forum on which you can discuss food till your heart’s content.

6) The app can be integrated with both Facebook and Twitter and you can even have ratings and reviews sent directly to your Twitter account.

7) Get reviews and recommendations from peers rather than food critics.

8) The new Augmented Reality feature lets you view locations around you.

9) Restaurants and bars with Wi-Fi are tagged – making it easy to spot one where you can get online.

10) Halal tagging is also added to relevant restaurants and bars – making it easier for those with special dietary requirements to choose a suitable venue.

To buy or download, go to iTunes.

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The app, which will set you back £1.49, has had mixed reviews so far, with some subscribers citing difficulties with the 360-degree panoramic view feature, but we checked it out and think it’s well worth the money.

While not all destinations are featured, the ones which are, such as India, are truly brought to life via personal experiences from experienced travel writers, amazing photo galleries, 360-degree panoramas, videos, maps and insider facts. Not only that, but it gives you the chance to create your own bucket list with an interactive checklist in which to document your own places of a lifetime.

Here you’ll find coverage of the globe’s most iconic destinations – available in a number of languages, including English, Norwegian, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian and many more.

The app’s key features and functionalities are:

● Photo galleries which take you to the world’s most picturesque places
●Videos and 360-degree panoramic footage which brings destinations to life
● An interactive fact file which offers fascinating details about the places featured
●A personal checklist which allows you to tick off “Places I’ve Been” or “Places I Want to Visit”
● Short personal essays which reveal the essence of each place from well-known writers
● Five themed sections entitled Urban Spaces, Wild Places, Country Unbound, Paradise Found, and World Wonders.

If you haven’t already, we urge you to go and check it out.

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We decided to investigate some of the best mobile apps on the market and are delighted to say that TripIt is our Travel App of the Week. Want to know why? Read on…

“If you ever travel, you should be using @TripIt (pro if you travel a lot) to keep all your stuff in one spot. Can’t imagine trips without it,” tweeted TripIt follower @ryanfitzgerald recently – and with good reason: he’s right.

We reviewed TripIt and now must confess that it’s become an essential in our daily lives. The thing is, TripIt isn’t only great for travelling abroad. Yes, it has guides covering just about every destination under the sun, from Disney World and the Grand Canyon National Park to the likes of Spain and South Africa, and you can track flights, but it’s also brilliant just for getting from A to B in Britain.

It has the facility to plan driving trips by allowing you to create maps and generate directions, route details and more so you can access online on the move or by printing out before you travel. The online route planner is free and you can combine travel times, flight and hotel details too.

But this app offers so much more than that. As its websites states, TripIt drags travel kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

It has a fantastic online team ready and waiting to answer your queries on Twitter and is incredibly responsive at suggestions for all your techy problems.

Perhaps the best bit about TripIt, however, is that you can combine all your travel plans into a single itinerary which you can then access anywhere in the world.

Check out the website for more features but we rate it our Travel App of the Week – great for both leisure and business travellers.

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