Great apps to plan your trips & share your travel exploits

People who likes to travel and discover new places, listen up,  I have two great apps that will help you manage your excursions as well as let you share your travel exploits with family and friends. The TripDeck app, available for free from iTunes, is really useful for planning and managing every little aspects of your holidays.

Even though this app is free to download, to enjoy greater functionality such as Live Flight Status checking and Push Notification, you will need to make in-app purchases. 

This app allows you to create several new entries at the same time, you can plan ahead if you have more than one outings planned in the future. You can plan for hotel reservations, restaurants, meetings, flights and so on to ensure you don't forget any of them when the time comes for your to leave for the trip. it's so easy to use, and the interface is very nice too.

You can keep track of departure and arrival times, as well as make phone calls directly to hotels/restaurants where you have made reservations. 

In addition to these great features, the app also allows you to share your trip itinerary with others and geo-tag your destined locations through maps. How cool is that? Very.

Now,  there's another app called TripJournal that will let you share your travels waypoint-by-waypoint, and you can download it for USD 2.99. Let me assure you that this app is worth every dollar spent as it's been awarded as the number one travel application by Google, and has been featured in some major presses like NY Times, Businessweek and Mashables.

The first thing you'll notice about this app is how gorgeous it looks. It has the design and feel of an old journal, and it has tons of nice features packed inside too.

You can start a 'New Trip', where you can geo-tag your current locations, start GPS-route tracking, take and post photos, write notes, add videos and even set your own waypoints.

This is a great way to showcase your travel exploits with others, no doubt!

On top of that, you can also share your entries via Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa and Youtube via the app. This app is designed for iPhone specifically due to its mapping functionality. For iPad users, they can still use this app, but will need to rely on wi-fi access if they want to geo-tag their locations.

With these two great apps, you trips will be really well-organized and made more memorable!