Traveling across Europe is so much easier with the assistance of travel apps. These 12 apps are all you need to feel like a local while adventuring across the European continent.
Last updated: March 25, 2025
The Only 12 Apps You Need for Traveling across Europe
Gone are the days when guidebooks and maps were occupying much-needed space in your luggage during our adventures across Europe. Together with extra weight, the constant state of worry and anxiety also disappears way before your adventure starts.
Nowadays, travel apps firmly replace the old way of traveling, making it easier, more convenient, and less stressful. Yet with new apps appearing almost every month, it’s getting harder to choose the right ones when planning your travels across Europe.
I’m not the most tech-savvy person and I don’t like the idea of letting travel apps control my plans. But when traveling across Europe, I alway use a handful of travel apps. Not too many, just enough to book all my flights, rides, sightseeing activities, and find the best vegan food. Without further ado, here are 12 apps I use for my European travels.
THE ONLY 12 APPS YOU REALLY NEED WHEN TRAVELING TO EUROPE
The Best Travel Apps for Transportation in Europe
1. Google Flights
First thing first, you need to book your flight to Europe. Google Flights is one of the first apps I came across when planning my European travels. I still use it most of the time. In fact, I can search for greater deals elsewhere and come back and book my flight through Google Flights. I guess, you can call it love from the first use.
On top of helping you pick the best deals, Google Flights gives you the most affordable prices a few months in advance.
2. Skyscanner
Similar to Google Flights, Skyscanner is one of the best apps to book your flights to Europe. Moreover, it can suggest the cheapest flight from your destinations. Although I still prefer planning the majority of my trips to Europe with Google Flights, Skyscanner comes in handy as the second best option.
This travel app is especially useful when you’re not sure where to go. In this case you can simply enter the word “everywhere” in your final destination line. The app will give a list of the best places to travel to starting with the cheapest. With Skyscanner, I was able to find a flight from Los Angeles to Dublin for $230.
3. Omio
When it comes to traveling across Europe, Omio is one of my go-to travel apps. Formerly known as GoEurope, Omio suggests the best routes and transportation options from trains to planes and buses. It even helps you with booking local trips, such as a ride from a city center to the airport. I stumbled upon this travel app when planning our yearly trip to Europe and can’t stop using it.
4. Uber
Uber is one of the travel apps that is not limited to only traveling across Europe. It’s very useful especially when you don’t have time to use public transportation. This ride sharing app helps with fast, reliable, and cheaper than regular taxi rides in minutes any time of the day.
5. FREE NOW (mytaxi)
Unfortunately, you can’t always rely on Uber when traveling across Europe as some countries restrict or prohibit Uber services. In this case, turn to FREE NOW, once known as mytaxi.
Just as Uber, FREE NOW offers effortless taxi booking. It covers over 100 European cities making traveling here more convenient. Moreover, in some countries that allow booking taxi services from both Uber and FREE NOW, the latter offers slightly better deals.
6. Google Map
Today you can hardly see travelers exploring Europe with old-fashioned hard copy maps. Instead, people often peer at their phones and follow directions provided by Google Map app. Regarded as one of the best travel apps, this popular application provides the best routes for traveling across Europe by car, train, bicycle, and even on foot. Make sure to download offline maps before your European trip in case your Internet connection is slow or absent.
7. Citymapper
Citymapper is another powerful app to use when traveling across Europe. It combines public transit maps for buses, trams, and subways with real-time schedules and offers transit status updates. Be sure to save your routes to the app to use them when WiFi is unavailable.
The Best Travel Apps for Communication and Conversion in Europe
8. Google Translate
Google apps make traveling to Europe so much easier and convenient. Even when it comes to such a big issue as communicating in different languages, Google is ahead of the game with its Google Translate app.
The app helps you translate between more than 100 languages. You can either type the word or phrase or speak it into the microphone in order to get it translated. Google Translate even enables translating text in real-time using the phone’s camera.
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9. GlobeConvert
With different currencies and physical units, GlobeConvert is one of your best apps to use when traveling across different countries in Europe. This simple app converts over 160 currencies and more than 350 physical units.
The Best Travel Apps for Booking Your Activities in Europe
10. Viator
You want to explore different places and see the area from a local’s perspective when traveling in Europe. Finding the right guided tours can be overwhelming at times. Viator app solves this problem and gathers the best guided or self-guided tours in the area for you to choose from.
11. Booking
Although Booking or booking.com is better known for booking accommodation, it offers some great options for discounted tours and trips when traveling across Europe. Similar to Viator, this app has tours that suit everybody. Moreover, after booking a hotel through this company, Booking emails you the list of things to see and do in the new city with a discount rate up to 15%.
The Best Travel Apps for Eating in Europe
12. HappyCow
Traveling in some parts of Europe can be a real issue for vegans and vegetarians. But not that often if you use HappyCow app. The listings cover well over 100 countries. You can refine your searches to places that are strictly vegan, vegetarian, or both.
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hi there, thanks for the reco on Omio, super helpful. Ill share with you another app that was super useful to me – its called ATM Fee Saver – helps in many countries to find the fee free ATMs or cheaper ATMs available. Could see the atm fees and withdrawal limits and calculated fees with what looked like an easy calculator inside the app. Was a life saver as ATM fees abroad can really add up! You can try it out!
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I will. Thank you!