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Top 24 Travel Apps for 2014: Essential, Lightweight Tools for Every Trip

Top 24 Travel Apps for 2014: Essential, Lightweight Tools for Every Trip

When every inch counts in your carry-on, isn't it nice to know that you can pack two dozen apps that don't weigh a thing?

In that spirit, we now announce our heavily researched list of the 24 Best Travel Apps of 2014, a collection of practical, inspirational, orientational, or just beautiful apps that make traveling the world easier, tech-ier, and more fun.

As usual with Fathom's 24 Best series, the selection process involved your friends at Team Fathom spending hours and hours downloading maps, discussing currency converters, and arguing the merits and demerits of exercise apps both popular and obscure to finalize our list.

So get to it: Browse, download, add a new collection of "Fathom Travel Apps" to your phone. Even if you collect them all, you'll still have room in your suitcase for another bottle of wine.


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