Travel money, budgets and safety, in plain steps

Short, practical guides for travellers: how to read a foreign price tag in three seconds, what card fees really cost, how to keep a daily budget, how to split costs fairly, and what to have on your phone when there is no signal. Every feature described comes from the Here & Home app.

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How-to guide

How to convert foreign prices to your home currency from your Android home screen

Tap the widget, type the price on the tag, read it in your home currency. No app to open, and it works offline.

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Checklist

First international trip checklist: money, phone and safety

Passport, money, phone and safety: what to sort before your first flight abroad, and what to do when you land.

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Use case

How much is that in our currency? Answering it fast while shopping abroad

The shopkeeper says a number. Your travel partner asks how much that is at home. Answer in three seconds.

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How-to guide

Is it overpriced? Compare foreign prices with home prices while shopping abroad

Convert, compare, then decide. A simple way to tell whether a price abroad is fair, with worked examples.

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How-to guide

How to convert currency in your head: quick tricks for travellers

A simple anchor method for reading prices in your head, with worked examples and its limits.

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Explained

Currencies with many zeros: how to avoid costly mistakes

One misplaced zero makes a meal cost ten times more or less. How to read and enter high-number currencies.

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Explained

Card foreign transaction fees and DCC explained: the real price abroad

The real cost of paying by card abroad: fees, rates and the dynamic currency conversion trap, with a calculator.

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How-to guide

How much money to take abroad: cash or card for a first trip

A simple formula for how much to take abroad, and how to split it between cash and card.

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How-to guide

How to set a daily travel budget and track your spending

A simple way to set and keep a daily travel budget, with cash in hand counted down as you spend.

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Guide

Shared expense tracker for group trips: what to look for, and no sign-up

A shared expense tracker for group trips with no account, shared and private entries, and a fair settle-up.

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How-to guide

How to split trip expenses with friends fairly and settle up

Who paid for dinner last night? Nobody remembers. A method that keeps it fair and finishes in the fewest payments.

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How-to guide

Split expenses unequally: who shares what on a group trip

Four went on the boat, three shared the taxi, one bought a gift. How to split a trip when not everyone shares everything.

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How-to guide

Multi-country trip expenses: one trip per country and one export

Three countries, two weeks, three currencies. How to keep spending straight across borders and see the whole cost at the end.

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How-to guide

How to make an expense report from a business trip with receipts, PDF and CSV

Save each expense as you spend it, then export a clean PDF and a CSV, with receipt photos inside.

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How-to guide

Offline currency converter: convert prices with no signal or roaming

Airplane mode, a metro tunnel, a village with no signal. How a converter keeps working, and how to trust it.

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Reference

Emergency numbers abroad: by country, and what to save on your phone

Police, ambulance and fire numbers for popular destinations, and how to save them before you travel.

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Reference

Emergency phrases to know abroad when you do not speak the language

What to say when you need help and do not speak the language, in five languages, with a sounds-like guide.

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Safety

Offline survival kit on your phone: flashlight, SOS, compass and level

Flashlight with an SOS strobe, a compass, coordinates and a level, with no signal, and the rules that matter more.

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Explained

Time difference between home and abroad: the best time to call home

Tokyo 4:45 am, home 1:15 am. How to read two time zones at a glance, and when to ring home.

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Reference

Plugs, voltage and driving side: a country guide before you land

Plugs and voltage, driving side and the basics, for fifteen popular destinations, and how to carry a guide offline.

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App guide

A two minute tour of Here & Home

The questions every new user asks, answered fast, from the widget to groups and Help.

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About

About Here & Home: a free travel converter and expense tracker

A quiet panic at a foreign price tag. This is the app built for exactly that.