Best/most fun/most useful apps for your trip?

[kpk89]

Which ones do you use and love? How much do they cost, and are they worth the price?

 

[Renwoman]

My smart phone was soooo useful on our trip!

If you are doing most of your booking online and are getting e-mail confirmations I would greatly recommend an app called TripIt. It pulls reservation information from your e-mail. Then you link it to a trip. I had all my reservation information in one place and didn't have to go searching through my e-mail. Best thing is that it is free!
http://www.tripit.com/

Because I made some reservations over the phone I also decided to use my google calendar to enter reservation times, parade times, and park hours. I also used all day appointments to insert information on tips and tricks for each park and food tips for each park. We were on the DDP and there is a great thread here that lists what you can get for snack credits. Having that information handy allowed us to be really smart with our credits. Google calendar is also free, though you could use any calendar program to do this. I did make one mistake though. I'm in the central time zone and should have entered the information based on Eastern Time. My phone automatically converted the central times to eastern and I had to change my entries while I was on my trip.

I found WDW Lines very useful. It gives up to the minute estimated wait times. What I found even more useful was the reported wait times. You need a touring plans subscription to use the app. I found the information on the site very useful and the suggested touring plans worked great for us. You can access the touring plans on the browser on your phone as well.
www.touringplans.com

I also bookmarked a lot of useful sites on my phone's browser. The following are configured specifically for mobile devices:
m.disneyworld.go.com - Disney's official mobile site. You can pull up Disney park information and even make dining reservations.
http://pages.prodigy.net/stevesoares/index2.htm - WDW Live Entertainment Schedules for the present week.

While this site isn't specifically configured for mobile devices, I also found
http://www.allears.net/menu/menus.htm to be very helpful. We had the menus of all the restaurants at our fingertips.

I saved a lot of money on internet charges by using an app called PdaNet which allows you to use your phone as a modem for your computer. I took my netbook with me and was able to get free internet access for the entire week vs. 9.95 per day internet charges. It does use your data plan on your phone so keep that in mind. http://www.junefabrics.com/index.php

I hope some of this helps. Have a great trip!

 

[kpk89]

Thanks!

 

[jlm]

I liked the Lines app....mostly accurate and nice for show times!