The birthday of King Willem-Alexander is, as always, celebrated with many events. iPhoned has therefore listed the best King’s Day apps for you.
The best King’s Day apps for your iPhone
While you probably won’t be staring at your iPhone all day during this holiday, the device can come in handy throughout the day. Whether you want to know if it’s going to rain, or are looking for your friends; with these apps, your iPhone is an indispensable helper while you roam the free market.
1. Storm alarm
Although normally a pleasant spring sun shines around the end of April, this year the weather is unfortunately a lot less beautiful during King’s Day. All the more convenient to have the Buienalarm app in your pocket. The app shows if and when rain, hail or even storm is coming in your area. The app shows the expected precipitation at your location via a table.
Buienalarm works throughout the Netherlands. The app shows on a map how the showers are developing. In the free version you can set a total of three locations, to see what the weather is like in these places. Handy when you want to know what the weather is like at home or at the next event, for example.
2. Google Maps
Google Maps has a very handy feature for holidays. With the live location feature, you can see the exact position of your friends on the map in real time.
Handy if you have an appointment in a busy city and know exactly where and when you will meet. If you go to a concert, you can easily see if someone standing in line is on their way back. In our tip we explain step by step how the live location function works.
3. Tikkie
During King’s Night and King’s Day you will undoubtedly spend money on food and drinks, and the chance is just as good that you pay for this with pin. Then you have come to the right place at Tikkie to ask for all those rounds that you have shot for. With this handy payment app you can quickly create a link, so that your friends only have to open the page and they can immediately transfer the money. Also read our Tikkie guide for more helpful tips.
4. Discogs
When you stroll through a free market, you almost trip over the cardboard boxes containing vinyl records. A great opportunity to expand your music collection for a small price, although you probably don’t know exactly what that one rare Beatles record is really worth. That’s where Discogs comes in, a vinyl app where you can find the average sales values ​​of LPs. This makes haggling very easy.
5. Find my Friends
At big festivals, it’s quite a task to stay together with your friends. More often than not, if you’re at a loss, the directions you give via WhatsApp won’t help unless you share your location. With the Find My Friends app you can easily find each other.
After everyone has downloaded the app, add each other via the contacts screen in the app. After this you can see in a folder where everyone is and how many meters you are apart.
6. Periscope
Real parties should be shared. Periscope understands that idea as one of the best and lets you livestream wherever you are. Share the stream on Twitter to show all your followers how cool it is at your location.
If your live stream gets a lot of likes, it will rise in the Periscope charts. Who knows, the stream will be picked up by major TV programs, so that the whole of the Netherlands can enjoy your adventures in front of the tube again.
7. Shazam
Shazam is one of the most important, if not the most important app during King’s Day. Many events go big with great performers entertaining the crowd for hours. With Shazam you can still enjoy all the cool new music you’ve heard after King’s Day.
When you start the app, a large button will appear. Press to ‘Shazam’. The app listens to your surroundings and with a bit of luck it recognizes the song that is being played at that moment. The app then shows the name, artist and further background information of the song in question.