TRAVEL NURSING

Top 10 Smartphone Apps for Travel Nurses

Written By: Kathleen Gaines

MSN, RN, BA, CBC

3 Min Read Published March 22, 2025

Top 10 Smartphone Apps for Travel Nurses

Travel nursing can be crazy and unpredictable. A smartphone can allow you to connect with your recruiter, keep track of your work hours, study for CEUs, and interview for your next contract. Staying organized is essential, especially at the beginning and end of contracts.

We’ve compiled the top 10 most helpful smartphone apps for travel nurses. All applications are free to download. However, there are some in-app purchases.

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Top 10 Smartphone Apps for Travel Nurses

1. ShiftLife Organizer

ShiftLife Organizer is a custom calendar app that helps you track your shifts, hours, and pay. More specifically, ShiftLife allows you to easily maintain and record overtime hours, working locations, hourly pay, total pay, and sick days.

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2. GasBuddy

GasBuddy helps you find cheap gas at over 150,000 gas stations based on your location in the United States and Canada.

3. Waze

Navigating traffic in a new city can be confusing. When the app is turned on, it tracks drivers and provides real-time traffic information. Users can also report wrecks and fender benders, as well as police radar traps. It provides directions with voice-based navigation. The navigation system will even reroute you based on traffic issues.

4. CamScanner

CamScanner will instantly scan, save, and share any document in PDF, JPG , Word, or TXT formats. This makes it super easy to send license updates to recruiters and hospitals and have all of your nursing licenses and documents easily accessible and ready to send off.

5. Evernote

A great app for keeping track of all the new information for each assignment, including codes, charting information, and names of co-workers. You can also use it to manage to-do lists — for both personal and work-related tasks.

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6. Rocket Money

Exploring a new city or state and meeting new friends can lead to many outdoor adventures and late-night dinners. This can start to become costly as the weeks go by. Rocket Money helps you keep track of your finances and can remind you when you're paying for too many subscriptions. This is especially important when you receive all of your bills electronically.

7. Bark Happy

Traveling with your pets can be amazing and an adventure on its own. Bark Happy helps connect you with other local dog owners to discover new friends, attend dog-friendly events, book dog-friendly hotels, and find other local dog-friendly locations. There are also custom lost and found alerts if something were to happen.

8. Foursquare City Guide

This app helps you find the best coffee shops, restaurants, bakeries, and bars in your new city. Suggestions are based on a series of questions, but you can also search based on your location.

9. Meetup

Travel nursing can get lonely when constantly moving to new places, but Meetup helps eliminate that. There are thousands of meetup groups, with interests ranging from career-related to music-related to athletics-related events. Whatever your passion, travel nurses can find local friends through meetups who want to share experiences with you.

10. Airbnb

Travel nurses have the ability to pick their own accommodations for an assignment. Airbnb provides a variety of options including listing guesthouses, rooms for rent in a home, or an entire apartment/house. These are often cheaper than a hotel. However, it does require some investigation to make sure the location, description, and pictures are accurate. Other options include Furnished Finder, VRBO, and local Facebook groups in your new city.