Ten Top Travel Apps for Visitors and Residents in the Czech Republic

For us, this integrated bus, tram, metro and train timetable is the killer app. There are multiple versions which make use of the IDOS system, but this one, developed by Pubtran for media portal iDNES, has the fourfold advantages of being fully comprehensive, beautifully laid out, easily searchable, and free. For example, you can type in your local tram stop (in Brno, Ostrava or Prague) as your starting point and, say. London as your destination, and hey presto! The entire journey is mapped out for you, with times appropriate for your travel. A little miracle.

This is the app of the popular journey finder from Prague Transport. It costs more than the iDNES version because it comes as part of a package called Prague Trips, which also includes an offline GPS-based tourist guide of 33 planned journeys and walks around the city. Because the transport details are kept on the server, however, you have to go online to access up-to-the-minute details using the screen below. This will incur roaming charges, so be careful if you are using a non-Czech sim card in your phone.

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One of the most helpful free applications ever created for the traveler, Metro allows you to download complete public transport data for almost any city on earth (well, 400 of them anyway) and then get step by step directions as you go. While less flash than some more modern apps (for example, there is no real-time GPS tracking as you journey), this is nevertheless an incredibly useful tool for getting quick directions from one street or point of interest to another. If your journey involves transfers either between stations or between modes of transport, that is taken into account, and the results displayed in a very user-friendly way.

Aimed more at the short-stay visitor than the expat, the mTrip travel guide to Prague is one of the most up-to-date apps on the market. The principal mode allows the user to set up bespoke itineraries from a huge database of attractions and points of interest. Once on foot, however, you don’t really want to bother with entering names of places on the touchscreen. No problem. The augmented reality feature allows you to turn your phone through 90 degrees, and view your location through the camera, but with icons overlaid on the buildings in close proximity.

We all know it’s coming. That time of year when people descend on Prague and expect you to show them round… again. Give them a smartphone loaded with Minos, and you’re off the hook. Despite the enormous size (and download times) of its updates, the offline GPS-based app is probably the most comprehensive guide to the city, with over 800 points of interest, 400 pages of text, 15 bespoke tours (including routes for pedestrians and cyclists), and 1500 photographs. The historical essays are extremely readable and informative, and the app is fully localized for the four major languages above. Well worth looking into.