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

The first luggage locator in the world. Every year, over 30 million people lose their luggage while traveling. LugLoc keeps track of where your luggage is, always.

Devices: iPhone, Android, Web Browser

Price: $69.99