Useful apps for campers and trailers

Apps for campers and trailers are sure to come in handy when traveling. With their help, we can find out the weather, route, look for accommodation or tourist attractions in the surrounding area. In this article we will present some of them.

For many of us, using apps on our phones is an almost daily occurrence. We use car navigation, take and edit photos, make shopping lists, and communicate with friends and family. We can also use apps successfully while camping.  

Applications for planning a route with a camper or trailer

It is worth using applications that support route planning. The main function of such applications is navigation. How to choose the best? It's worth paying attention to additional features, such as offline operation, since our caravan routes can take us to places where the Internet does not reach. It would be good if the application also informs us about the nearest gas stations and allows us to assign routes taking into account the dimensions and weight of the car.

Applications worth paying attention to are, of course, but also . We write more about this in this article. 

We are looking for housing with an application

We can stay with a camper or van at a campsite, in a camper park, as well as at roadside or forest sites or in so-called wild places, a little further from civilization. We recommend two apps that are created jointly by travelers and collect information about such places in one place - already verified, verified, often with photos.

The first of them is the famous Park4Night, which works both online and offline. This is an international application in which you will find places in Poland and abroad.

We also have a Polish app with a similar feature called Grupa Biwakowa, which also offers locations throughout Europe. Here you will find places to stay and information about tourist attractions in the region. 

We cook in a camper

Cooking in a campervan or caravan is a topic for a separate article, because sometimes it is a very responsible task. Limited space, sometimes limited ingredients (too far from the store?) and finally limited time because we often travel to explore and relax and we don't necessarily want to spend that time in the kitchen. There are plenty of culinary apps that will tell us how to cook quickly and tasty.

Distinctive cooking apps that meet the above requirements include, but are not limited to, or, which is a community of sorts as it is where app users share their recipes with each other.

Weather app

The biggest advantage of caravanning is that you are not tied to a specific place. If we went to the Polish seaside, and it’s raining in the Tricity area and it doesn’t look like it will change in the coming days, we collect the kit and move on - for example, to the western part of the Polish coast. . Or anywhere else where the sun shines.

In the Google Play and AppStore stores you can easily find applications that show and predict the weather well. The most popular and accurate are: or. He is also good at weather forecasting.

Tourist attractions in the region

If you haven't spent a lot of time planning your route before leaving, nothing is lost. There is no shortage of apps that can help us find the best tourist attractions and places to visit in any region. With these apps, in addition to museums, galleries, water parks, amusement parks and monuments, we can also find restaurants. Many apps offer the ability to give opinions about places visited, making it easier for subsequent users to decide whether to go or not.

Number one in the category of this type of application, of course, but it’s also worth testing Polish or, which brings together recommendations from local users.

If you're exploring European cities, take a look at Tropter. The Visit a City app is also great for exploring the city on your own and planning an itinerary with attractions along the way.

It is also worth visiting the websites of local regions, such as marshal's offices. Many of them make it possible to plan a tourist route in the surrounding area.

Mobile apps on the go

Mobile apps can be an invaluable support when traveling. Why not take advantage of simple, fast and convenient solutions to make your road trip even more successful?

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The vast majority of the basic version of the app is free, although some features will require payment or a subscription. When choosing an application, pay attention not only to payments, but also to the need for Internet access, because this will not always be possible (you will need to download the selected data to your phone in advance). Most applications are available in both the Google Play store (for Android smartphones) and the AppStore (for iPhone).

Can applications be unconditionally trusted? We don't really recommend this. There wouldn't be much harm if the mushroom soup didn't turn out to be as tasty as the recipe's creator claimed, but an overpass that was too low on a route marked with navigation that theoretically took vehicle height into account would be quite a problem. Apps help and make things easier, but let's use them wisely and with limited trust. It's on the way!