ALIX RECOMMENDED APPS AND RESOURCES
SAFETY
bSafe is a personal safety app designed to keep you and your friends safer 24/7 by allowing you to create your own personal social safety network. It is packed with features for both everyday safety and real emergencies, making it the ultimate safety tool for you and everyone you love.
Devices: iPhone & Android
Price: Free
The only trusted, customized, location-sensitive personal security app on the market, dedicated to making travel safer for everyone. GeoSure is powered by a highly sophisticated analytical engine that combines information from hundreds of renowned and trusted sources like the CDC, WHO, United Nations, State Department, Interpol and local authorities. It informs you on everything from political threats and cyber concerns, to health risks and environmental hazards.
Devices: iPhone & Android
Price: Free
TRAVEL
Book a taxi and get to that all-important business meeting, your favourite restaurant or the next shopping spree in style. Quick, safe and reliable is right at your fingertips. Hailo is exclusively black cabs, ensuring drivers qualified from “The Knowledge” examination and metered fare.
Available: iPhone & Android (UK only)
Price: Free
This reliable and easy-to-use global travel companion provides detailed offline maps, GPS, in-depth travel content, popular places and insider tips, allowing you to plan and have the perfect trip and discover new places! Stores offline data so no Wi-Fi connection necessary.
Devices: iPhone & Android
Price: Free
PackPoint is an intelligent packing app and packing list builder for serious travelers. PackPoint will tell you what you need to pack based on length of travel, weather at your destination, and any activities planned during your trip. Punch in the city you're traveling to, the departure date, and the number of nights you'll be staying there.
Devices: iPhone & Android
Price: $2.99
The official State Department app for U.S. travelers. Invites you to see the world with easy access to frequently updated official country information, travel alerts, travel warnings, maps, U.S. embassy locations, and more. With Smart Traveler, you can create personal itineraries, add notes, and organize your trips. Smart Traveler also provides access to the State Department's Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP). Free STEP enrollment enables the State Department to better assist you in emergencies such as natural disasters, unrest in foreign countries, or lost/stolen passports overseas. During your travels, STEP can also help your family and friends reach you in an emergency.
Devices: iPhone & Android
Price: Free
Optimized for your iPhone and iPod Touch, the free SeatGuru app lets you access over 700 seat maps from approximately 100 airlines. It features advice and insights drawn from tens of thousands of passenger reviews, so you can always find the best possible seat for your flight.
Devices: iPhone
Price: Free
This app makes it remarkably easy to book fabulous hotels at amazing last-minute rates on your mobile device, for tonight, tomorrow and next week. When hotels have unsold rooms, they load them on the app, which means you get incredible deals. We screen every hotel featured, and only work with ones you’ll love. By booking on Hotel Tonight you get the flexibility to play it by ear or plan at the last minute, while knowing you’ll get a great price and a great place to stay.
Devices: iPhone & Android
Price: Free
Flight tracking app from the leaders in real-time flight information. Track upcoming and in-air flights, and receive status alerts via push notification. Check gate assignments, delays and cancellations and use the attractive flight map to see a flight's progress. Forward your itinerary confirmation emails and FlightView will automatically load them into your Trips. See your Trips across mobile devices and at www.FlightView.com. View a North American airport delay map with radar weather overlay.
Devices: iPhone, Android, Web Browser
Price: $0.99
This app creates a digital journal of your travels on gorgeous maps with unparalleled detail so you can look back on your trips on an interactive map. Effortlessly build a truly vivid, high-fidelity diary of your journeys. The app tracks you as you go, marking a red line along a map on the exact route you take; the app also monitors your speed and altitude, making it great for adventure travellers, though it’s just as fun to look back at your route around a city. You can add pictures, video, audio and text along the way, creating a multimedia travel diary you can share live.
Devices: iPhone & Android
Price: Free
DEVICES
Take pictures worth 1,000 likes with the perfect social media accessory. The award-winning 4-in-1 Lens for iPhone 6/6s & iPhone 6/6s Plus delivers the most versatile and premium mobile lens experience in a compact, easy-to-use design. It features four advanced optic quick-change lenses (Fisheye, Wide-Angle, Macro 10x & 15x) that weigh in at less than an ounce.
Devices: iPhone & Android
Price: $79.99
The powerstation 2X external battery is one of the thinnest universal power solutions ever created by mophie. Delivering up to two full charges to most smartphones, its slim design and premium aluminum finish make this pocket-sized model easy to carry and charge on-the-go.
Devices: Smartphones & Wearables
Price: $59.95
FUSE Universal Word Travel Dual USB AC Adapter Charger
The FosPower FUSE Universal Dual USB AC Adapter keeps your devices charged wherever you go. Built-in with 4 different plug standards that is compatible with most of Africa, most of Asia, Australia, most of Europe, UK, and most of North America, and some parts of South America, this adapter will allow you to charge your devices in more than 150 countries.
Price: $29.99
FINANCE
This quick, pretty and tip calculator allows you to calculate tips and split bills among friends in just 5 seconds!
Devices: iPhone
Price: Free
Expensify makes capturing receipts, tracking time or mileage, business travel and creating expense reports quick and easy. Acknowledged by the tech community as the best app for expense reporting, Expensify takes the time, paper, and headaches out of your expense reports.
Devices: iPhone & Android
Price: Free
Convert every world currency with the XE Currency App. It offers live proprietary currency rates, charts, and even stores the last updated rates, so it works when the Internet doesn't.
Devices: iPhone, Android, Web Browser, Windows, Blackberry
Price: Free
HEALTH & FITNESS
Clue is a period tracker that predicts dates for your next period, PMS and the days you’re more or less likely to get pregnant. Are your moods connected to your cycle? Just track what you’d like to know more about, and Clue takes care of the rest. It’s beautifully scientific.
Devices: iPhone & Android
Price: Free
Philips Sonicare DiamondClean Electric Rechargeable Toothbrush
An excellent, elegant electronic toothbrush that comes with a dual charging system, which includes a USB charging travel case and a charger glass. The lightweight charging travel case connects to your laptop via USB or plugs into a wall socket—for power and protection away from home, with space for an extra brush head too.
Price: $175.00
LIFESTYLE
Flush Toilet Finder is the quickest, simplest way of finding a public bathroom or restroom. Simply open the app and it will display the nearest toilets. It has over 100,000 bathrooms from around the world in its database. You can even search for restrooms without an internet connection, find which WC's have disabled access, a fee for usage or require a key and get immediate directions on how to locate them.
Devices: iPhone & Android
Price: Free
LANGUAGE
iTranslate is an award winning translation tool that helps you break down language barriers. With its state of the art technology, you can speak any language in a second. Translate words, phrases, and text between 90 languages by simply speaking or typing into your device.
Devices: iPhone, Android, Windows, Kindle
Price: Free
TripLingo is the ultimate tool for international travelers. Learn essential phrases (in four slang levels!), instantly translate your voice or connect to a live translator, get a crash course on the local culture and so much more.
Devices: iPhone & Android
Price: Free