Postsnap stamp-free postcards
£Free (in-app purchases)
iPhone and iPad
It’s a sign of the times that you might be more likely to find a data connection abroad than a stamp for a postcard but this app for sending real postcards from your phone assumes just that. Use your own photos with the app’s templates and effects, to create your card and then send. Of course your postman and mum will still be able to read it before anyone else.
Spyglass
£2.99
iPhone and iPad
If you like moving around in the outdoors you’ll find this advanced compass and GPS navigation app both useful and fun. Spyglass turns your device into a hi-tech viewfinder, a military spec compass – which can overlay a variety of maps, as well as the view through the phone’s camera – a range finder, inclinometer, route logger, waypoint navigator, sextant, speedometer, night sky navigator and much, much more!
First aid by British Red Cross
£Free
iPhone, iPad, Android
Accidents happen, and in outdoors, the nearest first aider is likely to be you, or someone in your group – which is why every Active Traveller should have this app on their device. With simple, easy, connection-free advice and videos on 18 everyday first aid scenarios, such as burns, asthma attacks, allergies and broken bones, as well as travel preparation and safety tips, this app could literally be a life saver.
Outdoors Great Britain
£1.99
iPhone and iPad
Outdoors GPS is a routing app with OS maps. Included are 14 National Parks in 1:50,000 detail, as well as an OS Road Atlas of GB at 1:250,000 scale. You can access free Open Street, Open Cycle and Google Street Maps, Satellite, Terrain 3D and Hybrid maps. Behind Outdoors GPS is a community sharing a database of 200,000-plus routes, which can be uploaded and followed. Additional maps are available online.
The Crag
FREE
Android
With constantly updated access notes and topo images from a climbers who are adding to its database from destinations around the world, The Crag has over 254,000 routes listed, and it’s growing fast. You can download the routes and browse offline, find routes nearby with your phone’s GPS, and subscribe to different levels of detail. The app also uses your phone’s connectivity by letting you chat with other climbers online, and organise trips.
SAS Survival Guide
£3.99
Android, iPhone and iPad
This app reinvents former SAS soldier John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman’s legendary million-selling book, bringing the elite training and survival knowhow of Britain’s crack fighting force to your phone. It includes the original book, galleries and videos, photos of animal tracks, knots, edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, sea creatures and snakes, as well as a morse code function, a quiz, and a first aid section.
