Bento: Local Travel Apps

You land somewhere new and nobody tells you which app hails a taxi, which one delivers food, or which wallet the corner shop expects. Bento is that missing briefing, researched country by country.

Pick your destination and get the shortlist: ride hailing, food delivery, payments, messaging, navigation, transit, shopping and more, each with a short note on what it is good for and what to watch out for. The apps that genuinely matter are marked essential, so a two-day trip does not turn into an evening of downloads.

WHAT IS INSIDE

- 101 countries, from Japan and Brazil to Georgia, Rwanda and Uzbekistan
- Over a thousand apps, each one checked against local sources
- A pre-arrival briefing per country: cash or card, what surprises people
- Mobile internet guidance per country: eSIM or local SIM, ID registration rules, where to buy, what a tourist plan usually costs
- Sources and a last-checked date on every country, so you can see where a fact came from and how fresh it is

BUILT FOR TRAVEL, NOT FOR ENGAGEMENT

Everything ships inside the app. No account, no sign-up, no network connection needed once installed, which means it works at the airport before you have a SIM, on the plane, and in places where roaming is expensive. Bento collects no data about you at all: no analytics, no advertising identifier, nothing to opt out of.

Tap Get on any app and the Play Store opens on the right listing.

Bento is made by a full-time traveler who has spent years actually using these apps, not by scraping app store charts.