Here are some of the best apps for your next road trip:
WAZE
(Free, available on iOS and Android)
Waze is a navigation app that leverages its database and a very active community of drivers to guide and even reroute your trip. It provides real-time intelligence and alerts on speed traps, traffic tie-ups, road hazards, cars stuck in the road or on the shoulder, and the snowstorm ahead.
You may be driving alone, but you won't necessarily feel that way with Waze users' constant updates. Heading toward a Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner? You can send a link to your hosts, who can view your estimated time of arrival and monitor your location live on a map. While Waze's directions can occasionally be off-target, its users provide feedback and corrections.
GAS BUDDY
(Free, available on Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry)
With the Gas Buddy app, you can view prices for regular, midrange, premium or diesel fuel at stations close to your location. You can also search by city, state or ZIP code.
If you search for cheap gas prices to refuel, Gas Buddy will let you know how far the station is off the highway exit so you are not driving endlessly. Fellow Gas Buddy users submit prices as they visit or drive by stations, and users can see how recent the update is.
Trapster
(free on Apple products and Android)
It's not that we condone speeding, we just condone you knowing where speed traps and speed cameras are.
So far, Trapster boasts a community of nearly 15 million users who have reported a total of more than 5.2 million speed traps across the world.
Open Table
(free; iOS, Android)
A day spent eating McDonald’s and Subway deserves a dinner where a fork and knife are required. OpenTable lets you check out menus, diner reviews, and photos from nearby restaurants wherever you're spending the night, and helps you reserve the table, too.
ROADTRIPPERS
(Free, available on iOS)
The RoadTrippers app can help you find both tourist attractions and offbeat destinations, replete with driving directions and maps, as you are motoring through the area. Using its database of more than 75,000 places, as well as recommendations from local experts, the app offers suggested guides as well, from the Haunted Northeast to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.
You can also use the app to find restaurants, hotels, scenic vistas and shopping, although there are glitches. A search for places in Pittsburgh turned up Pittsburgh Willy's, a spot for "Pennsylvania pierogies" in Chandler, Ariz.
FIELD TRIP
(Free, iOS and Android)
This app from Google runs in the background on your smartphone, and a card pops up with information when you are driving near a local attraction that's cool or interesting. You can pre-select your interests, and the app may notify you about a nearby historic golf course, a Civil War battlefield or a restaurant.
Field Trip will also help you when you aren't in the car. You can get directions to the attraction by car, walking or using mass transit. Expect a lot of reviews by Google-owned Zagat. Unlike Roadtrippers, the attractions in Field Trip tend to be on the beaten track.
CANDY CRUSH SAGA
(Free, Android and iOS)
If you are not going to be "there yet" for many hours, then the Candy Crush Saga app can help the hours zoom by. Gamers, whether kids or adults, mix and match sweets in various combinations and at ever-increasing levels of expertise as the game progresses.
The game syncs up whether you are playing on a desktop, on Facebook or in the car so you can continue in the car what you started at home and vice versa. Like Waze and Gas Buddy, there are social aspects to Candy Crush Saga as you can sign into the app through Facebook to view your friends' scores and levels.
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