Every travel blogger has a list of “essential” apps. Most of those lists are padded with garbage nobody opens twice. I’ve been traveling full-time since 2019, and my phone has exactly 11 travel apps on it right now. Some I’ve used for years. Some I installed once and deleted within a week. This is the honest breakdown. Navigation Apps: Google Maps vs. Maps.me vs. Rome2rio Navigation is the one category where a bad app ruins your day. I’ve missed trains in rural Japan because an app didn’t know a station existed. I’ve walked 40 minutes in the wrong direction in…