After starting a new life in Germany, you probably also started to look for resources to make settling in easier. Don’t overlook apps. While some apps are international, some are locally specific and can provide lots of convenience to life in Germany. Here I compiled a comprehensive list of 50+ most useful apps for life in Frankfurt. They are sorted under different categories:
Let’s start to take a look at what the most useful apps for life in Frankfurt are!
Money Saving
Among the most useful apps for life in Frankfurt, cost saving apps definitely take the top spot for me.
Too good to go
With a way cheaper price, you get the food that was not sold out on the day using this app. It helps not only to save money but also to save food. Very cool concept, huh? I am a huge fan of this app myself. One of my personal favourites is to get baked goods worth 10 euros from Einstein Cafe for 3 euros with the app.
Check 24
Check 24 is a price/cost comparison portal. It compares the prices from many websites/sources and helps you to locate the cheapest option. It offers comparisons for a huge range of things from travelling, electricity, cars to simply a coffee machine!
IDEALO
The biggest price comparison website in Germany. It covers all types of products, flights, hotels and holiday flats.
Clever-tanken.de
Not only can you get live info about all gas and charging stations around you in Germany, you also locate the best fuel prices in their magic map.
Payback
You can collect points by purchasing at partner shops with a payback card. On the payback website/app, you can see what the points you collected can exchange for. There are also daily discounts of points needed.
Mydealz
You can find on Mydealz all kinds of goods on sale.
MyTopdeals
Similar to Mydealz, another app/website to find goods on sale.
Groupon
Unlike the other deal apps/websites, it has a broad range of deals with more focus on events, activities and restaurants but less on commercial goods. I personally use Groupon quite often for the restaurant deals.
Shoop.de
Another deal app. The difference is you get cashback when buying the deals. Sometimes you also get cashback + coupon from the app.
Kleiderkreisel
Thinking about what to do with some clothing you don’t want anymore but feel a pity to just throw them away? Why not sell them out via Kleiderkreisel? Kleiderkreisel is a clothing/accessory exchange portal. You can be either a buyer there to get some cheap stuff or a seller. You can also exchange your unwanted stuff with others.
Shpock
Another second market place to buy and sell. Unlike Kleiderkreisel which focuses on clothing/accessory, it is a market for a wider range of categories including electronics, cars, furnitures etc.
German learning
Linguee
One of the most used and best English-German dictionary, with more than 1,000,000,000 translations. It gives many example sentences in literature or other sources which is quite useful to help to understand the meaning in the context instead. It has translation function as well.
LEO dictionary
Another commonly used dictionary. You can also add your own lexicons and vocables in the app. Another cool function is the forum, where people can post to ask language related questions.
DW Learn German
In my opinion the best platform for German self-learning. Not only does it offer abundant good articles, videos and audios, it also offers courses for different levels ranging from A1 to C. The videos there also come with exercises. It covers nearly every part of language learning- grammar, vocabulary, listening and reading.
Quizlet
A great tool to broaden your vocab. You can find millions of flashcards created by others. You can also create your own online flashcards. There are also quizzes that test your memory of the vocab.
PONS Vocabulary Trainer
You probably have already heard or seen PONS before, a publisher dedicated to language learning. This PONS app helps you to practise your vocabulary with either flash-card mode or its own methodology.
Babbel
A language learning app that offers many courses. There are grammar tips, different topics to choose, well-rounded exercises and speech recognition function.
HelloTalk
Wanna find a language tandem partner to learn languages together? With this app, you can connect to people around the world that speak the language you want to learn.
Tandem – Language Exchange
Similarly to HelloTalk, Tandem is another language exchange community as its name suggests. On top of that, there are also one-on-one tutor lessons offered on the app.
Transportation
RMV
The Rhein-Main area local transportation service app. You can check live connections, future schedules and buy tickets with the app. If you live in other states, there should also be the local transportation app available. For more information on the transportation in Frankfurt, please check out my article on public transport around Frankfurt.
Free Now
A taxi booking app, previously known as “My Taxi”. You can prebook a taxi up to 4 days in advance and pay the fare through the app. It is available in major cities across 9 countries. The last time I checked, Germany does not allow Uber services except for in Munich and Berlin. For Frankfurters, Free Now is the app.
TIER
Currently the most popular e-scooter sharing app.
A must-have app for all travellers. You can see the live and future schedule of all Deutsch Bahn run and many local trains. You can buy the tickets or Bahncard super easily with the app. Instead of printing out tickets, you can show the mobile ticket in the app and even the mobile Bahncard to the conductor. You can even load any tickets bougth at ticket machines to this app using the ticket number.
Call a Bike
The bike sharing app run by Deutsch Bahn. It shows live information about available bikes nearby. The advantage of the DB bike sharing is that the DB bikes are really everywhere.
Nextbike
Another bike sharing app. They also cover many German cities.
Flixbus
The most popular bus service in Germany. The prices are really pleasant.
BlaBlaCar
An app for car pooling. With relatively low cost, you travel with strangers who are going to the same destination. You can discuss with each other where to meet up and when to depart.
Omio
A very useful website/app that helps to compare different approaches (by train, by bus, by flight) to go to different destinations in Europe.
SWOODOO
A very popular flight/travel booking app in Germany. It compares prices from hundreds of different websites. You can also find many budget or deal offers with SWOODOO.
Skyscanner
A famous website/app that helps to find the best deals on flights, hotels, and car rentals. You can also see the deals of certain months.
Leisure/Event
Cinestar
If you are a movie fan, having the Cinestar app definitely provides many conveniences. You can find movies and events going on by dates and even the planned release date of future movies. You can also buy tickets via the app. However, I have to mention that the app crashes unexpectedly from time to time.
Meetup
A great platform to find a group of people who are interested in the same things as you and join their activities. You can also create a group and be the event organizor. There are all kinds of groups available such as tech, outdoor, sports, learning, start up, language etc.
Komoot
Komoot helps you to plan hiking or trip routes and navigate through them. It is frequently used by cyclists or mountain bikers as well.
Kino.de
A very useful app for all movie fans- it helps to find all screening timetables of movies around you. It also gives information such as summaries and trailers of the movies. What to highlight is that it also gives a list of all movies and TV shows that are offered on different streaming websites.
InterNations
InterNations is an expat guide and network app. It also has an expat community network built in Frankfurt. There are guides and tips for moving to as well as living and working in Frankfurt. It also has similar features as Meetup where you can sign up for groups and join their activities.
Eventbrite
With this app, you can discover local events, get event recommendations and save mobile Eventbrite tickets and event information. There are all kinds of events on Eventbrite such as concerts, festivals, workshops, conferences etc. You can also follow event organizers and collections to get event updates.
Food
Lieferando
THE food delivery service in Frankfurt after acquiring its biggest competitors- Foodora and Deliveroo
Foursquare
Foursquare helps to find local restaurants and bars and the tips written by others regarding the restaurants and their food.
Simply Yummy – Backrezepte
A German baking app that has recipes with high quality videos and step-by-step photo instructions. A great way to follow and learn how to bake!
Chefkoch – Rezepte & Kochbuch
An app with more than 330,000 recipes with ratings and reviews. It covers all kinds of food and drinks. You can share your own recipes with others as well in the app.
Vivino
A great app for wine lovers. You just simply scan the wine lable or restaurant wine list and you get to see detailed info about the wine including the purchasing options and people’s ratings and reviews. You can also buy wine, track the ones you have tried and contribute your own reviews to the wine community.
Shopping
REWE
The REWE online supermarket where you can shop online and get delivery or pick-up service. It is very popular during Corona time. I still remember in March or April we tried to get our REWE groceries delivered and couldn’t find delivery slots at all.
GETNOW
Another online supermarket. Here I really want to thank GETNOW. While we had lots of difficulties getting delivery slots from REWE and other websites, we saw hope with GETNOW. The delivery service is perfect and there have been plenty delivery slots available. GETNOW is buying from Metro, so it is more suitable for buying in large quantities or for commercial purposes. They also offer a wider range of fruits than Rewe.
Douglas
The app of the biggest drugstore chain in Germany. You can collect beauty points when shopping with the app and find beauty tips & news.
Zalando
The German shopping website where you can find clothing & accessories of all kinds of brands and deals of the day.
eBay Kleinanzeigen
The market place where you can find over 35 million of ads and post your ads for free. You can find, sell, buy, swap and give away almost anything in all kinds of categories. The app may require certain knowledge of German as many ads are posted in German.
Flat hunting
Flat hunting apps are another staple for most useful apps for life in Frankfurt. The three listed below are the most used flat and housing search websites/apps. Also check out my article on Frankfurt neighborhoods.
Immobilienscout 24
Immobilienscout 24 is the app with the most offerings.
Immonet Immobilien Suche
The offers on Immonet and Immowelt are largely overlapping.
Immowelt
WG-Gesucht.de
The website/app that helps to find and advertises flatshares. Cool features of the app is that you can directly call the advertisers and import viewing appointments in you phone calendar.
Health
Health apps are often overlooked although they are definitlely among the most useful apps for life in Frankfurt.
SHOP APOTHEKE
Online pharmacy, where you can shop all non prescription medication. The prices are usually cheaper than in the physical pharmacies.
DocMorries Apotheke
Another online pharmacy but with this one, you can also get prescription medication by sending the prescription via post. It has fast delivery and good price. The app is said to be not so easy to use though, so better use the web version instead.
TeleClinic
TeleClinic is an app that allows you to have online/ remote doctors appointments. You briefly describe your issue and when you would like to have an appointment and the app matches you with a suitable doctor. The appointment typically takes place with a video call on the app. It’s important to note that these doctor appointments are not covered by the public health insurance, so you have to cover the cost yourself. An appointment normally costs 35 euros. You can also get online prescriptions through the app.
Doctolib
Doctolib is another app/website that provides the same service as TeleClinic.
Job Hunting
For job hunting apps/websites refer to my article on searching finance jobs in Frankfurt as International.
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