Whether you plan on staying home or taking a road trip, there are a number of apps available that can enhance your long weekend activities.
Out of Milk
Out of Milk can help you prepare for your long weekend plans with customized grocery lists and to-do lists. To learn more, check out my review of this app.
Cost: Free
Downloads: Apple App Store / Google Play
Allrecipes Dinner Spinner
Whether you’re BBQ’ing at home this weekend or planning snacks for the road, Allrecipes Dinner Spinner is an excellent choice to help with food prep. If you have ingredients on hand but aren’t sure what to make, the Dinner Spinner will make suggestions that fit your criteria for dish type, ingredients and prep time. You can also search through their full recipe database or your saved recipes for a specific dish you have in mind.
Cost: Free
Downloads: Apple App Store / Google Play
Garden Time Planner
If planting your garden is on your long weekend to do list, Garden Time Planner will give you helpful information on when to plant or transplant vegetables or herbs based on your growing region. A checklist will keep you on task throughout the year.
Cost: Free
Downloads: Apple App Store / Google Play
Flipp – Flyers & Weekly Ads
For anyone planning on some shopping during their stay-cation long weekend, Flipp will help bring all of your favorite sale flyers straight to your mobile phone. You can create a list of clippings for anything that catches your eye. And you can also search through all of your flyers for something specific.
Cost: Free
Downloads: Apple App Store / Google Play
BBQ Apps
These free BBQ apps will help you perfect your grilling skills. Both apps provide steak recipes as well as timers that allow you to keep track of multiple steaks independently.
Omaha Steaks Steak Time
Download: Apple App Store
Steak Timer & Recipes
Downloads: Apple App Store
GasBuddy – Find Cheap Gas
If you’re heading out of town this weekend, GasBuddy can help you find the cheapest gas prices near you or somewhere specific in your travels.
Cost: Free
Downloads: Apple App Store / Google Play
Road Trip Games
Here are some fun games that can help to make your road trip fly by!
Heads Up
Guess the word shown on the screen as it’s being described to you before your time runs out.
Cost: $0.99-$1.24
Downloads: Apple App Store / Google Play
Mad Libs
Create hilarious stories by filling in the blanks with substitute words.
Cost: Free
Download: Apple App Store
Road Trip Fun
A list of games you can play in the car with your family along with the rules for each game.
Cost: iOS: $1.19 / Android: Free
Downloads: Apple App Store / Google Play
Star Chart
Getting away from the city for the weekend? Try out this star gazing app! Just point your device at the sky and it will show you where each star and planet is and what they’re called.
Cost: Free
Downloads: Apple App Store / Google Play
Have a lovely long weekend!
