Albania Insider

A calm, honest field guide to Albania.

Places, buses and furgons, hiking trails, fair prices and safety, in English, Albanian and Italian. It keeps working when the signal doesn't.

Coming soon to the App Store for iPhone

What's inside

Built from open, checkable sources and from what travellers report on the ground. When the app doesn't know something, it says so.

Offline

Offline packs

Download a region to keep the map, places, essential phrases, bus and furgon routes and emergency contacts on your phone. Central Tirana is free.

Getting around

Buses, furgons and ferries

Where they leave from, when, and roughly what they cost, with recent confirmations from travellers who took them.

Outdoors

Hiking trails

Marked routes from OpenStreetMap, from the Blue Eye to the Peaks of the Balkans, with conditions reported by other hikers and GPX downloads.

Money

Fair prices

Typical prices by region, a receipt check that flags lines well above them, and what ATMs actually charged foreign cards.

Ask

Ask an Insider

Ask in plain words and get a short answer drawn only from the app's verified information, with its sources shown.

Language

Menus and signs

Photograph a menu or a sign to translate it, with dishes linked to the food guide so you know what you're ordering.

Safety

SOS and alerts

Emergency numbers (112, police 129, ambulance 127, fire 128) and location sharing are always free. Optional alerts for earthquakes and weather on your route.

Borders

Border waits

How long travellers recently waited at the crossings to Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Greece.

Free, with two one-time upgrades

No subscriptions and nothing that renews on its own.

Free

Safety, the map and the basics, for everyone.

Trip Pass

30 days of offline packs for every region, AI trip plans and the other premium tools. You can schedule it to start up to 60 days ahead.

Lifetime access

Every feature and every future pack, forever.

Where the information comes from

Map data and places © OpenStreetMap contributors. Exchange rates from the Bank of Albania, weather from MET Norway, earthquakes from the USGS. Prices, waits and confirmations come from travellers using the app.