The best travel inspiration apps for iPhone
Polarsteps
With the app Polarsteps, you can log your travels, and if you don't go, you can enjoy other people's travels. If you click on the magnifying glass in the app, you'll see different travels right away. This way, you can travel with other app users through mountains or cities. If you tap a travel log, you can see which way someone has traveled. Swipe through the different steps, view travel photos, and read travel logs about destinations all over the world. This way, you can collect nice tips for your next trip.
- Price: free
Trips by Lonely Planet
The travel guides of Lonely Planet are known internationally, but the company also has some apps. With the app Trips by Lonely Planet, you can see the world through someone else's eyes. Do you like road trips? Choose one of the many road trips in the app and imagine you're in a car on the way to adventure. Do you prefer nature? Choose the category 'Wildlife and nature' and travel digitally to the Falkland Islands to enjoy hundreds of penguins. With the text, photos, and a bit of fantasy, you're on the other side of the planet in no time.
- Price: free
Airbnb
With the Airbnb app, you can book accommodation from private renters in your own country and internationally. This way, you can still go out close to home, or a bit farther. In the app, you can also book great activities you can do from home. For example, choose a cooking course from a famous Michelin chef, or learn how to make cocktails with drag queens from Portugal. Meditate with a Japanese Buddhist, or learn more about the Apartheid in Africa from someone from South-Africa.
*Price: free, price of activities vary
Webcams - EarthCam
Are photos and text not enough for you? Watch live across the globe. See the Statue of Liberty in America, and the water of the Niagara Waterfalls in Canada with the EarthCam app. In the app, you can see live images from webcams from all over the world. You can watch the rush on Times Square from your living room, or the sunrise over Lauderdale Beach in Florida.
- Price: free, offers in-app purchases
