Recently I wrote about the art of consolidating guidebooks, travel docs and maps using apps; and boy-oh-boy, does this next app make the iPhone indispensable! Forget the multi-page travel folders with hotel, flight, train and car rental confirmations, now there's an app that combines and gathers all your travel plans into one nicely packaged "app-tinerary." TripIt organizes your trips and saves trees. How green!
This helpful app follows in the footsteps of TripIt.com, a travel itinerary generating site launched in 2007. And here's a bit of travel trivia for you, guess who is one of the company's executives: Hotwire co-founder Gregg Brockway. Hum, this guy seems to know a thing or two about spotting great business ideas.
I'm using the TripIt app for my upcoming trips to Eastern Canada and Cali (and hopefully Australia) and I couldn't be happier with the result. After I took 1-minute to set up my account, all I did was forward my flight, hotel and car confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com and voila, customized travel itinerary all in one place, with included maps. Genius. How did I travel without it?
TripIt App Details
- free
- works with iPhone, iTouch and iPad
- see all the details of your TripIt itineraries, whether you’re online or offline
- link to airlines, hotels, restaurants and more, directly from your itinerary
- get maps and directions straight from your itinerary
- dial phone numbers on your iPhone straight from your TripIt itinerary
TripIt Pro If you're a hard-core traveler, check out TripIt Pro ($69/yr) which includes flight alerts, alternate flight options, point tracker and more.
Other Travel iPhone Apps we’ve Reviewed
- Trip Advisor
- StayHIP
- Trip Journal
- Bug Spray
- CameraBag
- Convert Everything
- GateGuru
- Kindle for iPhone
- Packing Pro
- Skype
- World Fact Book
- AAA/CAA Savings
- Royal Caribbean
- Medical Concierge
- Tourism British Columbia :: Near Me BC
- Postman Postcard
- 2010 Guide
- Nat’l Geo World Atlas
- hostelworld.com
- kayak first class
- flight control (game)
Yay and f-i-n-a-l-l-y! After much anticipation, 
An iphone bug repellant? You've got to be kidding me. No joke. It exists and some people actually think it works. If you don't want the pesky little blood-suckers zing'ing around your ear or circling your head, download this app. Apparently the mosquitoes get scared away by one of three high-frequency tones the app can emit---not sure if this means that city mosquitoes are scared off by one tone and country mosquitoes another? Some of the app's reviews say it works well with fruit flies and ants, some say it's effective with mosquitoes, some say it bothers their dogs and others think it doesn't work. What have you got to lose, a few bug bites? Trying it out sounds good to me.
Bug Spray App Details
Launching last week, the newest travel industry giant to join the app world is