Top travel apps for 2025: more than Uber, Google Maps, and Airbnb

The world is in motion, and there are tens of thousands of mobile apps to help: trip planners, hotel apps, transportation, apps, mobility apps, all the apps you can think. There’s translation apps too, which are super-useful when you’re traveling. But what are the top travel apps for 2025?

Hint: Uber, Google Maps, and Google Translate are at the top.

But there’s hundreds more that are worth checking out for different countries and regions, like Where Is My Train in India and Bolt in Europe, or DiDi in China. The biggest and most popular apps tend to be in transportation apps (especially ride-hailing apps, trip planning apps like mapping and navigation tools, plus accommodation apps like hotel apps and Airbnb, Vrbo-type apps.

We’ll start by listing the 100 best: the top travel apps for the whole world, and then we’ll look at the top 20 in individual regions. We’ll also look at what are the most popular types of travel apps per region, and speculate on what that might mean…

Key takeaways

• The top travel apps of 2025 aren’t just Uber, Google Maps, and Airbnb; regional leaders like DiDi, Grab, and Where Is My Train show how local champions thrive.

• Travel app preferences vary by region: ride-hailing dominates LATAM, rail and transit shine in APAC, and hotel bookings lead in North America.

• Despite global giants, 75% of top travel apps come from smaller, regional players, proving there’s room to win without being global.

• The future of travel apps will be shaped by multimodal mobility, seamless digital experiences, and smarter integrations across devices and platforms.

 

Top travel apps: top 100 globally

Here are the top travel apps globally for 2025, based on Apptopia download data:

Rank	App Name	Developer
1	Uber – Request a ride	Uber Technologies, Inc.
2	Google Maps	Google
3	Google Translate	Google
4	Where is my Train	Sigmoid Labs and its affiliates
5	Waze Navigation & Live Traffic	Waze Inc.
6	Airbnb	Airbnb, Inc.
7	Booking.com: Hotels & Travel	Booking.com
8	Rapido: Bike-Taxi, Auto & Cabs	Roppen Transportation Services Private Limited
9	inDrive. Save on city rides	SUOL INNOVATIONS LTD
10	maxim: order a taxi & delivery	PT. SITO
11	Bolt: Request a Ride	BOLT TECHNOLOGY OU
12	Grab: Taxi Ride, Food Delivery	Grab.com
13	Trip.com: Book Flights, Hotels	Trip.com Travel Singapore Pte. Ltd.
14	Revolut: Send, spend and save	Revolut Ltd
15	Google Earth	Google
16	铁路12306	中国铁道科学研究院集团有限公司
17	Instabridge: eSIM + Internet	Instabridge Sweden AB
18	Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker	Flightradar24 AB
19	Yandex Go: Taxi Food Delivery	Mikromobilnost doo
20	美团-美好生活小帮手	美团
21	DiDi Rider: Affordable rides	DiDi
22	Moovit: Bus & Transit Tracker	Moovit App Global LTD
23	Zangi Private Messenger	Secret Phone, Inc
24	Qpon: Daily Deals & Coupons	HEYTAP PTE. LTD.
25	AMap Global	AutoNavi Information Technology Co. Ltd.
26	Agoda: Cheap Flights & Hotels	Agoda.com
27	Weather & Radar – Storm alerts	WetterOnline – Meteorologische Dienstleistungen GmbH
28	2GIS: City maps & camera radar	LLC “DoubleGIS”
29	Yango: taxi, food, delivery	YHub ZAF (Pty) Ltd
30	Expedia: Hotels, Flights, Cars	Expedia, Inc.
31	Skyscanner Flights Hotels Cars	Skyscanner
32	Speak & Learn English: Learna	Codeway Dijital Hizmetler Anonim Sirketi
33	Lyft	Lyft, Inc.
34	Radarbot: Speed Cameras | GPS	Iteration Mobile S.L
35	DiDi: Ride Hailing in China	滴滴出行(北京)网络平台技术有限公司
36	GetYourGuide: Plan & Book	GetYourGuide
37	ConfirmTkt: Train Booking App	Le Travenues Technology Ltd
38	Ola: Book Cab, Auto, Bike Taxi	ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
39	99 – Private drivers and Taxi	99 Taxis Desenvolvimento de Softwares Ltda. – Epp
40	redBus: Bus, Train Booking App	Pilani Soft Labs Pvt. Ltd
41	ixigo Trains: Ticket Booking	ixigo – IRCTC Authorised Partner, Flight Tickets
42	BlaBlaCar: Carpooling and Bus	Comuto
43	携程旅行-订酒店机票火车票	Shanghai Ctrip Commerce Co.,Ltd
44	Airalo: eSIM Travel & Internet	Airalo
45	Yelp: Food, Services & Reviews	Yelp
46	RailOne	Centre for Railway Information Systems
47	AllTrails: Hike, Bike & Run	AllTrails, Inc.
48	Yandex Maps & Navigator	Direct Cursus Computer Systems Trading
49	EasyPark – Parking made easy	Easy Park AS
50	trivago: Compare hotel prices	trivago N.V.
51	去哪儿旅行-订酒店机票火车票	Beijing Qunar Information Technology Company Limit
52	Xanh SM: Book EV rides	GSM GREEN AND SMART MOBILITY JOINT STOCK COMPANY
53	Ryanair	Ryanair Ltd.
54	Gojek	PT. GOTO GOJEK TOKOPEDIA TBK
55	Lime – #RideGreen	Neutron Holdings. Inc.
56	IRCTC Rail Connect	Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited
57	同程旅行-订酒店机票火车票,低价打车	Tongcheng Network Technology Co., Ltd.
58	Marriott Bonvoy: Book Hotels	Marriott International
59	OpenTable	OpenTable, Inc.
60	Yandex Navi – navigation, maps	Direct Cursus Computer Systems Trading
61	UK ETA	Home Office
62	航旅纵横-官方源头机票、值机火车票接送机免税酒店	China Travelsky Technology Limited
63	Trainline: Cheap Train Tickets	thetrainline
64	FlixBus & FlixTrain	Flix SE
65	Polarsteps Travel	Polarsteps B.V.
66	Flowbird parking	Flowbird
67	Klook: Travel, Hotels, Leisure	Klook Travel Technology Limited
68	Vrbo Vacation Rentals	HomeAway.com, Inc.
69	Omio: Book Train, Bus & Flight	Omio Corp.
70	MakeMyTrip Flight, Hotel, Bus	MakeMyTrip.com
71	Lalamove – Fast & Affordable	Lalamove Media Limited
72	Traveloka: Book Hotel & Flight	Traveloka
73	UTS	Centre for Railway Information Systems
74	Grab Driver: App for Partners	Grab.com
75	百度地图-路线规划,出行必备	Beijing Baidu Netcom Science & Technology Co.,Ltd
76	Hotels.com: Book hotels & more	Hotels.com
77	WiFi Map・Internet, eSIM Travel	WiFi Map LLC
78	哈啰-骑车顺风车打车租车	上海哈啰普惠科技有限公司
79	United Airlines	United Airlines
80	Transit • Subway & Bus Times	Transit App, Inc.
81	Easy Rout Map: Navigation Path	Travel Maps Tech
82	IRCTC eCatering Food on Track	Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited
83	Google Maps Go	Google LLC
84	Fly Delta	Delta Air Lines, Inc.
85	Holafly eSIM: Unlimited Data	HOLAFLY LIMITED
86	American Airlines	American Airlines
87	Dott (previously TIER)	Dott B.V.
88	OYO: Hotel Booking App & Deals	Oravel Stays Private Ltd.
89	Nusuk | نسك	Ministry of Hajj and Umrah
90	Saily eSIM: Data for travel	Nordvpn S.A.
91	OsmAnd Maps Travel & Navigate	OsmAND B.V.
92	DiDi Driver: Drive & Earn Cash	DiDi
93	Porter – Logistics Service App	Resfeber Labs Pvt. Ltd.
94	PayByPhone Parking	PayByPhone Technologies Inc.
95	Speak: Language Learning	Speakeasy Labs
96	Tripadvisor: Plan & Book Trips	Tripadvisor
97	GO / Taxi app for Japan	GO Inc.
98	MAPS.ME: Offline Maps, GPS Nav	Convexity Holdings AG
99	Grubhub: Food Delivery	GrubHub.com
100	飞猪旅行-机票酒店火车票门票轻松预订	Hangzhou Taomei Aviation Service Co., Ltd.

 

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Top travel apps by region

The top travel apps globally are mobility apps like Uber, trip planning apps like Google Maps and Where is my Train, and communication apps like Google Translate. Hotels and booking apps perform best in North America where they get about 8% of installs, while maps and navigation over-index in EMEA, where they get about 13.5% of travel app installs.

But there’s only 3 apps that are top 20 in every single region we looked at: Uber, Google Maps, and Google Translate.

The good news for those who want local flavor: of all the top travel apps in the world, 48 apps are “regional heroes:” meaning that they are top 20 travel apps in exactly 1 region.

Top travel apps in APAC: trains, bikes, and superapps

India drives the APAC rankings, with Where is my Train and Rapido taking the top two spots. But Grab is the Southeast Asian superapp story: mobility, food delivery, and payments all in one.

Rail and bike-taxi solutions dominate here, making APAC the world’s most multimodal region by downloads.

Rank	App Name	Publisher Name
1	Where is my Train	Sigmoid Labs and its affiliates
2	Rapido: Bike-Taxi, Auto & Cabs	Roppen Transportation Services Private Limited
3	Uber – Request a ride	Uber Technologies, Inc.
4	Grab: Taxi Ride, Food Delivery	Grab.com
5	Google Translate	Google
6	Google Maps	Google
7	铁路12306	中国铁道科学研究院集团有限公司
8	美团-美好生活小帮手	美团
9	Qpon: Daily Deals & Coupons	HEYTAP PTE. LTD.
10	AMap Global	AutoNavi Information Technology Co. Ltd.
11	Trip.com: Book Flights, Hotels	Trip.com Travel Singapore Pte. Ltd.
12	maxim: order a taxi & delivery	PT. SITO
13	Agoda: Cheap Flights & Hotels	Agoda.com
14	Ola: Book Cab, Auto, Bike Taxi	ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
15	DiDi: Ride Hailing in China	滴滴出行(北京)网络平台技术有限公司
16	inDrive. Save on city rides	SUOL INNOVATIONS LTD
17	ConfirmTkt: Train Booking App	Le Travenues Technology Ltd
18	redBus: Bus, Train Booking App	Pilani Soft Labs Pvt. Ltd
19	ixigo Trains: Ticket Booking	ixigo – IRCTC Authorised Partner, Flight Tickets
20	携程旅行-订酒店机票火车票	Shanghai Ctrip Commerce Co.,Ltd

 

And in EMEA: fragmentation

EMEA is a little more fragmented than the average region we looked at, with Uber, Bolt, and Yandex Go all battling for rides.

Revolut also shows up as a finance-travel hybrid, possibly showing a path to a European-focused superapp. Calling it a travel app might be a stretch, but it is used to spend in different currencies, and has chosen the travel category. And its marketing is heavily travel-focused: “spend in 140+ countries.”

Rank	App Name	Publisher Name
1	Uber – Request a ride	Uber Technologies, Inc.
2	Revolut: Send, spend and save	Revolut Ltd
3	Google Maps	Google
4	Booking.com: Hotels & Travel	Booking.com
5	Bolt: Request a Ride	BOLT TECHNOLOGY OU
6	Waze Navigation & Live Traffic	Waze Inc.
7	Google Translate	Google
8	Yandex Go: Taxi Food Delivery	Mikromobilnost doo
9	Airbnb	Airbnb, Inc.
10	maxim: order a taxi & delivery	PT. SITO
11	2GIS: City maps & camera radar	LLC “DoubleGIS”
12	inDrive. Save on city rides	SUOL INNOVATIONS LTD
13	Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker	Flightradar24 AB
14	Trip.com: Book Flights, Hotels	Trip.com Travel Singapore Pte. Ltd.
15	Yandex Maps & Navigator	Direct Cursus Computer Systems Trading
16	Weather & Radar – Storm alerts	WetterOnline – Meteorologische Dienstleistungen GmbH
17	EasyPark – Parking made easy	Easy Park AS
18	GetYourGuide: Plan & Book	GetYourGuide
19	Ryanair	Ryanair Ltd.
20	Google Earth	Google

 

Now for LATAM: ride-sharing is king

LATAM is the world’s ride-hailing capital.

Over 32% of installs in the travel category in LATAM go to Uber, DiDi, inDrive, and other mobility app players. Local champions like 99 Taxis and Maxim are also surging.

Rank	App Name	Publisher Name
1	Uber – Request a ride	Uber Technologies, Inc.
2	DiDi Rider: Affordable rides	DiDi
3	Waze Navigation & Live Traffic	Waze Inc.
4	inDrive. Save on city rides	SUOL INNOVATIONS LTD
5	99 – Private drivers and Taxi	99 Taxis Desenvolvimento de Softwares Ltda. – Epp
6	Google Maps	Google
7	Airbnb	Airbnb, Inc.
8	Yango: taxi, food, delivery	YHub ZAF (Pty) Ltd
9	Moovit: Bus & Transit Tracker	Moovit App Global LTD
10	maxim: order a taxi & delivery	PT. SITO
11	DiDi Driver: Drive & Earn Cash	DiDi
12	Zangi Private Messenger	Secret Phone, Inc
13	Instabridge: eSIM + Internet	Instabridge Sweden AB
14	Speak & Learn English: Learna	Codeway Dijital Hizmetler Anonim Sirketi
15	AstroPay – Global Wallet	AstroPay
16	Booking.com: Hotels & Travel	Booking.com
17	99 Motorista e Entregador	99 Taxis Desenvolvimento de Softwares Ltda. – Epp
18	SUBE	Nación Servicios
19	Google Translate	Google
20	Google Earth	Google

 

And finally: North America’s top travel apps

North America skews toward maps, rides, and bookings.

North America is classic “big three” region: trip planner apps, hotel apps, and transportation apps. Lyft is the only major counterweight to Uber here, and Expedia still has strength as a traditional online travel agent. ParkMobile also cracks the top 20, showing the region’s quirky reliance on car culture and parking apps.

Rank	Publisher Name	App Name
1	Google	Google Maps
2	Uber Technologies, Inc.	Uber – Request a ride
3	Airbnb, Inc.	Airbnb
4	Lyft, Inc.	Lyft
5	Expedia, Inc.	Expedia: Hotels, Flights, Cars
6	Waze Inc.	Waze Navigation & Live Traffic
7	Booking.com	Booking.com: Hotels & Travel
8	Google	Google Translate
9	HomeAway.com, Inc.	Vrbo Vacation Rentals
10	American Airlines	American Airlines
11	Delta Air Lines, Inc.	Fly Delta
12	United Airlines	United Airlines
13	Upside Services Inc	Upside: Get Cash Back on Fuel
14	Google	Google Earth
15	AllTrails, Inc.	AllTrails: Hike, Bike & Run
16	Yelp	Yelp: Food, Services & Reviews
17	Transit App, Inc.	Transit • Subway & Bus Times
18	Southwest Airlines Co.	Southwest Airlines: Travel App
19	Parkmobile USA, Inc.	ParkMobile: Park. Pay. Go.
20	Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.	Hilton Honors: Book Hotels

 

The big picture: what we can see from all these trip planners, hotel apps, and mobility apps

Travel apps are a kind of a mirror of travel itself: global in scope, but local in execution.

Uber and Google provide the backbone, but there’s a lot of depth in local rail apps, regional ride-hail apps, and niche booking apps that works best locally, serving specific cultural and logistical needs. For app publishers that want to make top travel apps, that means there’s room to win without being global. If you can own a region, or even a city, you can still chart in the top 20 for your area. 

There definitely is some consolidation in the space, but it’s not total:

• The top 5 publishers account for 16.5% of downloads
• The top 10 account for 25%
• 75% of top travel apps are from a long tail of hundreds of smaller players

Each region has different preferences of type top travel apps, too:

• APAC: rail/transit (about 13.7% of downloads)
• EMEA: maps/navigation (about 13.5% of downloads)
• LATAM: ride-hailing (about 32% of downloads)
• North America: hotel apps/booking apps (about 8.2% of downloads)

More to come in 2026

As preferences change and app developers come out with new experiences and new features, we’ll update this list regularly.

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