APPS TO KEEP YOU ENTERTAINED
1 Peak Brain Training
Price Free Available For IOS and Android n Keep your mind in trim with some entertaining but intense mental work-outs. These short games, developed in conjunction with leading research, will help to test and improve your focus, memory, problem-solving and mental agility. Advanced programmes, challenging specific brain skills including memory and attention, are also available.
2 Skyview Lite
Price Free Available For IOS and Android n Ever laid back on a clear, balmy night and wished you knew more about the stars and planets? This illuminating app can help! With it, you can identify major stars, planets and constellations. An augmented reality screen shows you what’s in the sky in the direction of the phone camera and there’s a search facility if you’re looking for particular heavenly bodies. Out of this world!
3 Picturethis
Price Free Available For IOS and Android n We get to see some wonderful natural habitat on our caravanning tours, but if your skills in plant identification are somewhat lacking, this ‘blooming’ marvellous app will help you to pick out everything from buddleias and hydrangeas to oaks and elms, and let you know which bit of vegetation is which. Simply take a photo of the plant and let the app do the rest.
4 imovie
Price Free Available For IOS n Bring out your inner Spielberg with this fun app that will enable you to make glitzy Hollywood-style trailers – a brilliant way to record memories on your next trip. What will your holiday adventure become? A teen movie, a fairytale, or perhaps a romance? Hopefully not a horror!
5 Practical Caravan
Price Free Available For IOS n Get Practical Caravan delivered to your phone and have the full range of inspirational travel features, expert product reviews, tests of the latest new caravans and advice on buying, all at your fingertips. Download the app and you can take a free trial, buy a single issue or subscribe. Back issues, specials and future issues are available to buy, and there are links to other Future Publishing titles.
6 Go Jauntly
Price Free Available For IOS and Android n Never have we appreciated the freedom to go for a walk more than in the past few months. This useful app helps you to find the best walks local to you and provides simple photo-guides to assist with navigation. It also details information on a selection of points of interest, places to eat and the nearest public toilets. And you can save your favourite walking routes to share with friends.
7 Alde Smart Control
Price Free Available For IOS and Android n The ability to heat your van remotely sounds great, and that’s exactly the idea behind this Alde heating system app. It works by sending out SMS messages to a GSM device. The device then interprets and executes these instructions, and transmits a response message with the heating system’s current status. Read more about how to set up the system here: www.practicalmotorhome.com/advice/ how-to-fit-smart-control-for-aldes-3020-heating.
8 Truma App
Price Free Available For IOS and Android n Heating and air conditioning specialist Truma has developed this app to allow users to control their Combi heaters and Truma air conditioners any time and anywhere. Functions allow you to check your gas supply with the Truma Levelcontrol and give you access to operating instructions and how-to videos. The sun-alignment display helps you to find the ideal location for your tourer, while the levelling function ensures that it is positioned perfectly horizontally.
9 Swift Command
Price Free Available For IOS and Android n Linking users’ phones to the Swift Command unit on Swift Group’s caravans, this app is split into four handy sections – control panel, remote features, information and settings. Control panel is used when you are inside the van, for systems that include lighting, power, the water tank, heating and air conditioning. The remote section offers access when away from your van, while the information section links to user guides and handbooks. In settings, you can link to your Swift Command account.