Summer is here, and these apps are full of ways to keep up with culture, explore the great outdoors, try new hobbies, and care for yourself this season.

Stream summer’s biggest sporting and entertainment events and follow your favorite creators’ adventures with TikTok, Twitch, and YouTube.

Sending Snaps this season? Try Snapchat’s Bucket Hat and Glasses Lens for a beachy vibe.

Crunchyroll’s summer lineup is full of anime premieres (like Black Torch) and new seasons of fan favorites (like The Elusive Samurai).

Flighty is your summer air-travel concierge. The app monitors departure and arrival times, nudges you when you should head to the airport, tells you all about the plane you’re on, and shows you exactly where you are on the runway.

Airbnb has been helping travelers discover truly unique vacation rentals, with flexible ways to search by date and destination. With Airbnb Services, whether you’re traveling or enjoying a staycation, you can schedule an at-home massage—or even book a street-style photography session with a local professional.

Tripsy’s automations seriously simplify trip planning, especially when organizing group adventures. The app keeps your need-to-know information easy to access. Forward booking emails for flights, hotels, and experiences to your special Tripsy address and each will appear in your itinerary with all the relevant details.

How many bookmarks does it take to plan a vacation? Swap all those tabs for neatly organized categories with Wanderlog and see your flights, hotels, attractions, and restaurants in one place. The app helps you build a robust itinerary and quickly drop locations and activities into a daily plan.

Enter a destination before your next road trip and the app Roadtrippers will show you where to eat, grab a much-needed coffee, hit a bathroom, or crash for the night. It provides a shareable turn-by-turn map of your travels with icons marking your potential rest stops and side trips, and you can specify routes that avoid annoyances like tolls and dirt roads.

With hundreds of thousands of crowdsourced trail suggestions, AllTrails is the ultimate guide for hiking enthusiasts. Various hikes are complete with helpful notes that give you a heads-up about trail flooding, limited shade, and more.

If you’re itching for a national park getaway, lean on Chimani’s itinerary builder to help you build a travel plan. Handy updates about park closures help you stay on top of last-minute changes that impact your trip too.

Looking to pitch a tent? Explore campgrounds in your area with Recreation.gov and see available campsites.

As you run, hike, cycle, swim, rock climb, surf, and more this summer, track it all in Strava. Join others in monthly Challenges, or see where you rank on the app’s leaderboards for popular running trails or bike paths.

Point your iPhone or iPad toward the sky with Night Sky to see the positions of constellations, along with planets, moons, satellites, and more. With a map of 1.7 billion stars, planets, and other celestial bodies, the app is among the most comprehensive astronomy apps in the galaxy.

Tide Guide helps you navigate the ocean’s tide and weather conditions and keep tabs on marine forecasts—a handy app to have around if you’re surfing, taking a boat out, or just exploring tide pools.

Paddle Logger is great for effortlessly tracking your journey with a kayak, canoe, or paddleboard. Looking for motivation to get out on the water? Turn to the app’s challenges and join the fun.

Oceanic+ allows you to use your Apple Watch Ultra as a dive computer, helping you track your scuba sessions right from your wrist.

Dive into expert training and guidance with MySwimPro—a comprehensive swim companion for beginner and advanced swimmers alike. With Apple Watch, the app records calories burned, laps completed, swim duration, and more.

Brush up on your language skills with Duolingo before you travel to a new country. Or when you have downtime, try mastering chess strategy and reading music with the app’s signature quick, gamelike lessons.

With a vast library of illustrated mini courses featuring renowned writers and thinkers, Imprint’s catalog is flexible enough to fit into your busy summer schedule. Only got a minute? Try a Quick Read on the Physics of Falling Cats, which has the most adorable illustrations.

Spend your summer getting up to speed on the fundamentals of coding with Mimo’s AI-powered coding lessons and vibe-coding learning environment. Before long, you’ll be writing and debugging your own code right in the app.

With Fable, dive into hundreds of dynamic discussions with fellow book lovers about your beach reads. Once you’re in a club, check out its schedule to read along with others at the same pace and share your thoughts in the club’s chats.

Rate, review, and track all the summer blockbusters you catch with Letterboxd, a movie-focused social app. Browse through the community’s detailed, thoughtful reviews—or hot takes.

Fishbrain is packed to the gills with tips on local hot spots, advice on bait and gear, and photos of people with shockingly giant halibut. The social media app helps you identify the best fishing locations in your area. Use the map layers to discover water depth, see hot spot predictions, and more.

With extensive guides and detailed maps, Birda makes swooping into the world of birding easier than ever. The app logs your life list—a record of all the bird species you’ve seen—and deepens your experience through fun challenges. If you see a bird but you aren’t sure what it is, add its photo to the Unidentified feed so others can chime in with suggestions.

With its adorable animal avatars and fun challenges, Waterllama makes staying hydrated feel like a game. After tapping one of the over 40 beverage types (you can also add your own), simply swipe up or down on the cup to adjust the number of ounces.

Open surfaces a different meditation, breathwork exercise, and movement class each day—helping you keep up with your summer self-care routines. Try the app’s Breathe Mixtapes feature, a dynamic mindful moment that pairs music with guided breathwork.

App Store Award–winning journaling app Day One goes beyond basic “Dear Diary” entries to include photos, audio, sketches, and other digital ephemera to capture your memories this season.

Improve your closest relationships by investigating emotions, reactions, and triggers with Ahead. Select from an array of emotions, physical reactions, and thoughts or behaviors, and the tool will help you discover patterns and learn from them.