Top 5 Free Thanksgiving Recipes Apps for iPhone and iPad

The Thanksgiving Day 2012 is coming soon. It is a great time for family together and delicious Thanksgiving Dinner. However, it may also be the busiest time for home cooks and it is difficult to save time and make delicious food at the same time. So it is better to plan and prepare the Thanksgiving recipes and related food in advance. To help you prepare the Thanksgiving dinner easier and make creative food, we suggest the following thanksgiving apps as for your reference. These top recipes apps can allow you to plan, search and even shop for the delicious dinner easily before the Thanksgiving night. With these cooking apps, you can prepare the recipes and food on the way or during the time waiting in line.

1.    Thanksgiving Menu Maker from Fine Cooking
Whether it is your first time to cook for the Thanksgiving Day, it is a good idea to free download this cooking app to help you. You will get a customized holiday menu from more than 75 of our all-time favorite Thanksgiving recipes, involving those recipes about Starters, Main Dishes, Sides, and Dessert.Even there are lots of delicious ways to cook turkeys. What’s more, after your menu is created, you will get the shopping list for every ingredient you need the Thanksgiving recipes and you can shop with iPad as you go. In addition, its Schedule planner will remind you of what needs to be done during cooking!

2.    Chow Thanksgiving Dinner Coach
The Chow app is a simple-to-use recipe app to offer you the easiest and most delicious traditional Thanksgiving recipes. The recipes app not only helps you make great recipes easily and fast, but also creates a step-by-step timeline and guide to tell you what to do through the entire Thanksgiving day. By the way, a shopping list is available to help your shopping quickly in the supermarket.

3.    Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List
If you still can’t find the satisfied Thanksgiving recipes or need more choices. This Epicurious app will be a good alternative to get more creative ideas for a delicious dinner. The recipes are mostly from the award-winning food site Epicurious.com. So you can search more than 30,000 delicious, professionally created recipes from renowned chefs worldwide for your favourite Thanksgiving food. Now its new version has allowed you to sync your Favorites recipes list on Epicurious.com to get more reviews, or email to your friends!

4.    BeTheChef! Creative Cooking Ideas!
If you are bored of those cooking times and instructions of thousands of recipes, this app may solve your problems. The app won’t tell you directly the recipes, but suggests you some amazing cooking ideas, such as combining some ingredients to make a delicious dish you never taste before! You will get inspired to know what to do with the ingredients and cook creative and healthily for your Thanksgiving dinner.

5.    Whole Foods Market Recipes

With this recipes app, you can get awesome Thanksgiving recipes, too. But it help you search and make your recipes differently and remove your worries about heath problems. You can search recipes by ingredients and dietary preferences such as gluten-free, low fat, and vegetarian/vegan. You not only find out the finest natural and organic foods, but also know nutritional information and cooking instructions of your Thanksgiving recipes. Of course, you are allowed to make your Shopping list with exact quantities automatically.

What should be mentioned is that its store locator can help you find out the stores near you, get links to their website for specials of natural and organic foods on sale!

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iPhone and iPad Tips: Top Free Must-have Utilities for iPhone 5 and iPad mini

Life of every iPhone and iPad user has been influenced by those iOS devices more or less! The App Store offer users much fun and convenience with its apps! In order to have fun with or take full use of iPhone and iPad, we should own some necessary or useful app or software for our iOS devices! However, it is difficult to find out these kinds of utilities especially those free ones online! Now we have rounded up some awesome and simple-to-use free utilities for iPhone and iPad from the Internet for your reference, wishing to help you save time and trouble!

Find My iPhone

All users of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch should install it into their devices! As we all know, it is developed and suggested by Apple. All of us are likely to lose our iPhone or iPad. If it happened, we would want to know where they are and were certainly worried about the safety of our data. So this is what Find My iPhone are designed for. We can find out where our iPhone or iPad are on the map by installing this app in another iOS device. What’s more, we can remotely lock our lost devices or even delete our data.

Free Wi-Fi Finder

Any smartphone and tablet swallow a great amount of network data, and so do iPhone and iPad! Naturally, we should get something to help us to find out free Wi-Fi Internet hotspots. This Free Wi-Fi Finder can search out Over 145,000 Free locations using your iPhone’s GPS. We can search by “near me”, geographic regions and location type (Cafe, Library, etc.). Of course, it is free version; another paid version will offer us more amazing functions!

iTransfer

Different from Android devices, our iOS devices can’t show as a readable disk on computer. If we want to transfer files between iPhone, iPad and PC, we have to use iTunes. However, our disappointment to iTunes is that we are not allowed to transfer movies, music and photos from iPhone to computer, especially those music and photos downloaded from website or friends! So that is why we mention Leawo iTransfer here. The iTransfer is a great alternative to iTunes and can help us to make up the disadvantage of iTunes. It can transfer not only movies, music and photos but also PDF files, apps and eBooks between iOS devices and PC! 

In addition, great news is that the iTransfer is free as a giveaway on November 12, 2012 limited! Even though the developer often carries free giveaway activities for Leawo iTransfer, this time is different before and anyone can get great discount on other iPhone and iPad converters from now on to November 22.

Keeper® Password & Data Vault

If we save some important information that we don’t want others to have access to in our iPhone, iPad and Mac, This kind of app is what we should own! Keeper stores our passwords and private information with a simple but military-grade encryption way. We can back up online and Syncs to All Your Devices. With Keeper, we can access our private info anywhere and anytime and securely protect important data from Hackers and rogue programs! Of course, you may find more paid safety app on the market!

Battery Doctor

The battery life is one of key features that we concern for mobile smart devices! Any new battery can only power our iPhone, iPad or other devices in 2 years at most. Apart from knowing some tips to saving battery life, it is great choice to install Battery Doctor for our iPhone and iPad. It can help us get real-time power consumption rankings, shut down those applications which consume phone power and battery life will be more lasting.

The Weather Channel

In last blog we suggest the Living Earth among top traveling apps. Similar to Living Earth, the Weather Channel can offer us real-time weather information worldwide. Based on the support of 200+ meteorologists, along with its patented ultra-local TruPoint(sm) weather technology, it provides us with full screen, customizable weather maps and allows us to plan our day, week, or even the next hour with the great weather tool!

Best Halloween Costumes Idea 2012[VIDEO] - Creating Horror Halloween Costumes with iPhone or Android Devices

Are you still wondering ideas for a unique and horror Halloween costumes?

As technology updates and smart devices is popular, we can create more and more horror Halloween costumes with the help of some Halloween costumes applications or just surfing internet for Halloween costumes ideas.

So this key point of this blog is telling you how to use your iPhone or Android devices to help create horror Halloween costumes. First of all, please take some minutes to watch the following video and you will be surprised by this awesome Halloween costumes idea.


Yup! Great Halloween idea! In the above video, an awesome app is mentioned, called Digital Dudz, which is free available now on the Apple or Google Play stores. The Digital Dudz provides various cool effects and also some Halloween T-shirts for purchasing!

How: Team it up with one of the many shirt options, and cut out a few holes on your T-shirt, then hide your phone or tablets to the inside of your shirt and BAM.

You will become the hottest star on the Halloween Party!

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Funny Free Android Halloween Games for Kids

It is annual Halloween trick-and-treat time. You may have been preparing for Halloween costumes and Halloween party! But what should the kids do before Halloween! It is a good idea to install some funny Halloween games on your Android phones and tablets for kids! Kids and even you could get into the Halloween spirit in advance! The following apps are some funny free Android Halloween games for kids we recommend!

1. Bubble Blast Halloween

This Halloween game is available for everyone and a great choice to challenge with your kids! The Bubble Blast Halloween offers two game modes, Puzzle mode with 5000 levels and free Arcade mode! Install into your Android devices and your kids can burst Halloween characters to trigger a chain reaction!

2. Connect'Em Halloween

If your kids like Bubble Blast or Mouse Trap, they can’t miss Connect'Em Halloween which is very addictive!

In Connect'Em Halloween users need strategically connect blobs together and make sure they all connect to each other the right way, because each blob only has a set number of connections available.


3. Happy Halloween Coloring Game

It is another great and funny Halloween coloring book game for kids!

In this Android Halloween game, your kids will find color inside of various Halloween-themed pages such as Happy Ghosts, Friendly Witches, Boy Frankenstein and Count Dracula. It features more than 60 funny Halloween coloring pages, over 200 colors, pencil and brush size adjustment.

4. Happy Halloween Fun Shape Puzzles

With this Happy Halloween Shape Puzzles, your kids will learn fine motor skills and Halloween related vocabulary words. Colorful fun puzzles pieces are easily snapped together to form cute Halloween puzzles. After the Halloween puzzle is complete, the name will appear and related words will be heard. Just shake the phone and the new puzzle will restart!

5. Coin Dozer Halloween

Do you want to know how brave your kids are? Here is a chance to test them! Install the Android Halloween game, Coin Dozer Halloween. And your kids will brave the haunted house to drop coins into the graveyard for prizes and treats! And at the same time kids need to watch out for ghouls and ghosts! If kids want special bonuses or even more coins, they should collect jack-o-lanterns, candy, the witch’s cauldron and more!

Halloween Ideas: Getting Top Free Halloween Apps for iPhone and iPad

The Halloween is around the corner and now the atmosphere filled with pumpkins, skeletons, horror movies and other scary things is spread across the houses, stores and web sites. Are you ready for this awesome day and have you got any Halloween ideas? Just Get into the Halloween spirit with these iPhone apps. These apps will help you find much fun and the best ideas such as the best costumes and haunted houses.

1. Halloween Wallpaper HQ

With this free Halloween app, great collection of high quality Halloween images will be offered to you and you can decorate your iPhone 5 and iPad nicely now. In addition, you can say goodbye to slow-loading problem and don’t need to download Halloween Wallpaper one by one. 

2. Halloween Costumes Fashion Fun 

Do you want to get Halloween costume ideas for yourself and your kids! Here the most impressive costumes app, Halloween Costumes Fashion Fun, help you get thousands of best Halloween costume ideas. You can email to your friends and check out the screenshots and see for yourself. What is more is that you can buy the costumes from your mobile devices. Halloween Costumes Fashion Fun has separate versions for kids and adults. Just get one for your iPhone and iPad.

3. Halloween City. 

In Halloween City, you can decorate your city with lots of Amazing Halloween Characters including Witches, Vampires, Pumpkins, Monster Plants, Werewolves, Mummies, Zombies etc. and it allows you to try different cross-breeds of the characters. By the way, taking pictures of your city and sharing with your friends are available now. Luckily the newest version has support the iOS 6.

4. Halloween!

Do you want to know scary sounds to frighten your friends and pick from Hundreds of Halloween costume ideas? It is Halloween time and just put “Halloween!” into your iPhone and iPad. Along with this app, you can download Halloween ringtones, know Halloween trivia, and even get some scary Halloween wallpaper.

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iPhone 5 Tips: Best Free iPhone Apps – October 2012

The iPhone 5 has been available on market for a short time, and most iPhone 5 owners must have been proficient in the new iPhone. Now why not getting more iPhone apps to play and enjoy with the new CPU and iOS? Here we recommend some best free iPhone apps in October for you!

1. Smart Office 2

If Microsoft Office is part of your daily work routine. You don’t want to miss Smart Office 2.
Creating, editing and sharing Microsoft Office and other documents on the go will be even easier with Smart Office 2. You even can convert Microsoft Office files into a PDF file or simply save your documents in their office file format and share to cloud services like Dropbox and Google Docs. Besides, printing function is included. You can print immediately to thousands of wireless printers including HP, Epson, Canon and Samsung.

2. AnyShape

Most people know the powerful Photo Editor Photoshop, but it is cost and a desktop program. Now the highly effective mobile editor has been fully optimized for your iPhone 5. AnyShape

is will allow you to create just about any shape imaginable in seconds and use it for irregular shape cropping, selective filtering, and selective colorizing. And it is equipped with 20 awesome filters and 15 professional enhancement tools. 

3. StickBo Zombies

StickBo Zombies is a zombie hunting game starring a stick figure hero, and you’ll get to use whatever weapons at your disposal to your advantage. You can choose from a ton of weapons, engage in all out, nonstop action with bloody effects, and enjoy fun, comical graphics and animation.

Top New Free Apps for Android This Week: Roku (Update), the Bard's Tale, Subway Surfers, and Bike Race Free

The September flies away soon and here are best new Android apps for the last week, including Roku (Update), The Bard's Tale, Subway Surfers, and Bike Race Free. Roku is a useful complement to watch your TV. And others are all games. These new apps are great and worthy to download to your Android devices.

1.  Roku

Are you complaining the remote control at home? If you're a Roku user, now you can turn your Android devices as a smart control center for your Roku streaming player. With this app, you can browse and add over 500 Roku channels in the Roku Channel Store, and also enjoy your Android phone's photos and music on your Roku player.


2. The Bard's Tale

Play The Bard’s Tale and you will prepare to immerse yourself in over 20-30 hours of adventure. You will choose from 50 enemy types and a vast world to explore with towns, wild forests, rivers, castles, and more will add your happiness and surprise. In Google Play you will find out more features of the new Android version.


3. Subway Surfers

It is a awesome game in which a fun, free endless runner keeps things simple but is also very addictive. You will help Jake to escape from the grumpy Inspector and his Pit-bull dog. And like movie scenes, you have to DASH as fast as you can and DODGE the oncoming trains. Now it is time to challenge with your friends.



4. Bike Race Free - Top Free Game

Here drive your bike through 64 challenging tracks with jumps and loops. It is simple and fast-paced physics-based free game and supports Multiplayer Mode. It will bring us much fun from biking.

Top Free IOS Apps for ESPN College Football Fans

The college football season is back. if you are super football fans, you are sure to keep you informed with all news, scores and schedules about the college football. Last week there were plenty of free football apps launched or updated on iTunes. Here we will pick some best apps of college football for your reference.

ESPN College Football
The new ESPN College Football App is all newly designed for your iPad, iPhone and iPod tough to become the perfect companion. This ESPN official app delivers you with the minute breaking news, stats and even video clips. Editorial coverage featuring game previews, recaps, analysis and highlights also comes to your hand easily! You can set score alerts for your favorite teams and any games you hope to watch. In addition, join social networking to discuss with your friends and team fans for example Team by team Twitter content and discussions. The last advantage unique from other similar apps is easy access to live games on WatchESPN. There is no reason not download such a good free app.

WatchESPN
Any more introduction for this app will mean rudundance.it is obvious that this ESPN app for iPad and iPhone can assist you to keep connected to live sports and shows from ESPN, no matter NBA Regular Season and Playoffs, Major League Baseball, The Masters, US Open and The Open Championships, Barclay’s Premier League, Spanish Primera Division and Euro 2012 Soccer, and College Football and Basketball. By the way, please make sure that your TV provider is available.

Team Stream by Bleacher Report
The Team Stream by Bleacher Report gives you all of your favorite teams' breaking news across the web as it happens. The Team stream help you to be first to know big news about your loved team. Moreover, more stories for your teams from local newspapers, websites, blogs, Twitter, and Bleacher Report, are always ready for you. This is another great choice other than to keep up with college football.

College Football Scoreboard
With this free app, latest scores, schedules and news are displayed by conference: ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Mountain West, Pac-12 and SEC- plus Top 25 schools. You can Keep track of your favorite teams and your rivals all at a glance. Real time scores are officially licensed from Sports Direct. Of course, Sharing scores and news stories via Facebook, Twitter and Email from within the app is supported. 

If you are interested in these free IOS apps and need more channels to get news of college football 2012, just get them now on iTunes.

Remote Controlling from Android Devices:Top 2 Free Home Automation Apps for Android

Can you imagine that in the future, we can control everything we use in daily life? Time will tell us the answer! Even though you are far away from home, most home appliances will listen to you whenever, from doors, home utilities to multimedia system and more. That day will be true mobile smart life. As the open-source Android system more and more popular, many smart apps with Android has been developed and changed our life. Today we introduce two of best home automation apps for your Android.

Panasonic Smart App
Panasonic just announced a new Android app, called the Panasonic Smart App, which is designed to help with home automation. It makes the utmost of NFC technology and network connection. We can communicate with any smart appliances, such as washing machines, refrigerators, and air conditioner. We can operate them and modify settings anywhere for our android devices. We will open air conditioner earlier we reach home, wash dishes after dinner on our phones. What a pity is that this app will be released only in Japan so far. We believe someday soon we also can get this perfect Android app.

Nexia Home Intelligence Mobile
Lacking of Panasonic smart app, we also have other home automation apps to choose, like Nexia Home Intelligence Mobile. This app can help us set the heating and cooling system, set temporary passwords of door for different guests and record video in real-time to take care of things and the people in our home from your Android phone. Moreover, we also can control Schlage Home Keypad Locks and other Z-Wave devices via phones wherever.

There are still many other home automation apps for android devices we haven’t mentioned. Some of them are free and some charges. There is no doubt that it is a long distance from the day mobile apps penetrates every aspect of our daily life, but it is a great future for developers and us and worthy to look forward to that day!

WWE SummerSlam 2012: Best WWE Apps on Your Android Devices

Are you fans of WWE? You certainly want to watch WWE superstar fighting on the scene! But you were not there every time and you were on one-track mind, latest news from WWE. What could you do especially you are out of door with no TV or radio. In Aug.17 the official WWE app was released on Google Play store. All android users can keep up with all latest news on phones. The following Android apps will assist you to have better experience with WWE. 

WWE
This official WWE app brings you breaking news, WWE videos – current and classic – along with 1000s of photos. You can get instant access to your favorite WWE superstar on Superstar pages and save their profiles. And The WWE app is your handy tool to have your voice heard and participate in live WWE programming. In addition, you are allowed to build a virtual community of WWE fans in your area to keep the conversation going after the bell, even set reminders and order tickets!

WWE Trivia
Do you want to check which level you are in among all real WWE fans? Here comes the opportunity! Install this WWE Trivia for your android devices and you will be taken to challenge best questions about WWE, from the real name of WWE superstar Edge to how many times John Cena has held the WWE championship. You will get lots of fun with it.

WWE Raw Live
As the developer says, lay the Smackdown on your friends with everything you need to know about the WWE! With this app you could get different experience from other WWE apps. Favorite superstars entrance themes, many funny interviews, smack talks, most amazing moments in WWE history will be on your hand. You also can keep up on all the hottest news, rumors, and even results.

Latest Android Apps for Aug. 16 to Simplify and Enrich Your Life!

Some of you maybe be busy to working or have little time to pay close attention to the world around you. With the smart mobile devices develops rapidly, all kinds of mobile apps help you simplify you daily life, but enrich it at the same time. In today’ fresh android apps, we will suggest three apps to assist you to have a beautiful life!

Pinterest
Have you ever been bored to plan your destination of next vocation and the new ideas for your home? Obviously, you need some tips for inspirations! Now the Pinterest app for android phones and tablets has been released! As Pinterest says, discover, collect, and share inspiration! This app allows you discover new things and get inspiration from millions of people who share your interests. It allows you to share all the interesting ideas in your mind and things you find on the web. You can use pinboards to plan you vocation, parties and even the recipes. With it, you will find that the world and your life could be more wonderful!

Flipboard
Most of you will get excited because of the release of Flipboard Android app. It is a great companion to help simplify your daily life. This app brings together world stories and social news in a beautiful magazine, finds out everything in one place and even keeps on with the things that matter you most. The other amazing part is that the Flipboard app aggregates content from 12 social networks, including Google+ and Facebook in a magazine-style format. You have no need to login in each social network and just continue to read and do activities like commenting, liking and sharing. Of course, you also can find inspiration for your travel, style and life from places like National Geographic. Make it as your handy tool and you’ll be amazed by what you see.

FlightTrack
Are you one of the frequent flyers? And you have been fed up with the pains from canceled flights, last minute gate changes, and unfriendly weather. Owning this FlightTrack app, you change your all things about air travel. It has beautiful and zoomable maps and can get real-time departure info, delays and gate numbers at a glance. You can track all airline flights worldwide.in addition, it will show you updated cancellations and help you find an alternate flight. Install one and you can arrange your time flexibly.

Best Free Shopping Apps for Your iPhone

Mobile shopping continues to skyrocket! Research has found that almost half of U.S. smartphone owners (47 percent) used shopping apps in June 2012. Have you installed some shopping apps for your iPhone, or you still need more? The following apps for shopping may help you save more money!  

1. Retailers' official apps 

Among all shopping apps, eBay and Amazon topped the list of shopping apps, attracting 13 million and 12 million unique users.

eBay 
With this app, you can shop directly in the world's largest marketplace on your hand. Buying and selling items, comparing prices and accessing our powerful search tools are simple and fast for you! The new eBay for iPhone app is more powerful than ever. It has integrated RedLaser barcode scanner, which makes it easy to search for items, sell and add tracking information. You can also share items with friends via email, SMS, Facebook & Twitter.

Amazon Mobile
Resembling eBay, you can buy much anything at Amazon.com from your iPhone! The app can syncs with the website, so it will show your shopping and wish lists automatically. What an amazing part is that takes a picture of a product with your iPhone's camera and the Amazon Remembers feature will identify that product and find it on Amazon.com. It means that you can compare the prices between online and stores.

2. Groupon
Groupon as famous group purchasing company now helps you get a price break on everything from food to tours on your iPhone. It is very easy and fun to use. It's available for deals in more than 500 cities and eleven fiefdoms around the world. Thousands of deals on demand can be found in real-time. Come on! Download the Groupon iPhone app now!

3. Shopping tools

In fact, the frequent use of mobile shopping apps is actual in-store shopping. So we need some more useful tool for shopping in stores

Shopping by The Find
This free app not only can scan barcodes quickly but also finds the best price and search for deals. It is a great on-the-go shopping companion for your iPhone. Just a tap of its button and the app will show you the lowest price from all over the web. Besides, it will tell you whether or not the lowest price is available at a local store.

Tinyview Mobile Browser for Shopping
If you are tired of installing an app for eBay and Amazon and are lazy to type URL for each store! It is OK! Owning this shopping browser, you can browse and shop at stores such as Amazon, Target, Wal-Mart, Zappos and so on. Buying movie tickets and order pizza is convenient for you, too! Further, there is no need to update the app for new stores. its auto-fill function can save and fill account information like passwords and shipping and billing addresses. In other words, you can complete most transactions just on your iPhone!

School Supplies: Top Back-To-School Mobile Apps

The summer vocation ends and all students should head back to school. Possibly parents start again to complain that phones or pads take most of their children’ learning time. But the fact is that these mobile devices also can help them study. Now there are many useful mobile school apps for smartphones and pads, and these apps have become the necessary school supplies.
Here are some best Back-To-School apps we should try!

Wikipedia Mobile
As we all know, Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia containing more than 20 million articles in 280 languages, and is the most comprehensive and widely used reference work humans have ever compiled. Now many students like to use Wikipedia data as article and research sources. Maybe some parents will worry because Wikipedia’s database of information is in large part curated by amateurs rather than historians. However, Most of the information published in Wikipedia is community-vetted, which is more trustworthy than Google search results. This app can save article to read later or offline, search articles nearby, share articles, read article in a different language, and even full text search and more! So this official Wikipedia mobile should be the first school app for students’ phones and tablets!

Dictionary.com
Time Magazine ‘Top 10 Back-To-School App’! Winner: CNET Top 100 Mobile App Award! This app gives you full access to Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, even when you're offline. With it, you can get over 2,000,000 definitions, the hot word daily and word origin & history. Besides, it supports Audio pronunciation and Voice search. So just keeps it handy while writing or reading. 

iStudiez Pro
No matter you are students, teachers or parents, this app will be choice for you back to school. It allows any student or teachers to enter his or her schedule with time management. Once your schedule is added, the summary of current classes and tasks is automatically reflected in Today view and even you can get more details like event type, location, time left and so on. It provides Push Alerts when assignments are due, and its GPA calculator helps you track the GPA for current and past semesters.

Documents To Go

Most students or teachers ever were troubled by the documents problem while in school. Now this app is available on any IOS and Android mobile devices, and could allow you to view, edit, create Word & Excel files (Office 2007/2008/2010), and even view PowerPoint, PDF, iWork, Text, .RTF, and more! You could send & receive attached supported documents using the built-in Mail app. Moreover, it is compatible on Win & Mac allows you 2-way file sync with a WIFI connection. In other words, you can manage your document, homework and class memos with your phones in the classroom!

How to Travel Around London with Your Phones Faster

Today is DAY 3 for London 2012, and hundreds of thousands of people have swarmed into London. As a local when you are on the commute, you will feel the transportation pressure. If you are travelers and today’s match schedule is not your favorite, you will prefer to go out into London for visiting some streets and famous places. So you absolutely need some navigation apps with your phones in order to ease the extra stress and travel faster. Here we will pick out some useful apps for you based on the possible and key travelling modes like walking, bus, cycling. 

Google Maps
No doubt it is the worldwide popular map app wherever you are. The latest release of Google maps offers you detailed maps with 3D buildings, and driving, public transit, biking, and walking directions. You also can get voice-guided turn-by-turn GPS navigation, live traffic information to avoid congestion, and in particular Google Maps Street View. Yes, it is the best map app for you. Of course, you could simply surf the Google maps website for navigation.

Tube Map
The most downloaded and used Tube map app on the App Store is the Official licensed Tube map from Transport for London, covering zones 1 through 6. It assists you plan your route to find the fastest journey or fewest changes, but also helps you find out the nearest station. You can get underground departure times and real-time service updates to keep track of delays on the lines. By the way, it can run feely on IOS, Android and Windows Phone.

Barclays Bikes

If you prefer to cycle rather than take the bus or tube around London, this is the app you should keep. The app takes the total number of available bikes to 8,300 from 15,000 docking points across central and east London. You can locate bike docks near you as you need and quickly find the nearest docking point to drop your bike off. At the same time, it helps you plan your route with route information and turn by turn navigation, set an alarm on your rental timer so you know when to return your bike, and also allows bookmarking the docking stations you use regularly. Obviously it saves you troubles to find bikes without hunting around. 

London Bus Checker

It is the Live Bus Countdowns for every stop in London on your iPhone and Android! In other cities, you may know which bus passes along your stop or destinations, but you are not sure when the bus will arrive. But the London Bus Checker can solve this and other troubles for you when you take a bus in London. You can instantly see when your bus is due and gain Real-time information - not from timetables of buses. Its Full route maps helps you see where your bus goes and the Stop Alerts will wakes you up when you get to your bus stop! Moreover, it automatically locates nearest stops on map and stores your favorites for you. Luckily, it is available on both iOS and Android.

With the help of these map apps, you are definitely glad to avoid the traffic problems and travel around London during the Olympics.