Apps and games

The nearest restaurants, the best attractions, the way to the northern lights … It is certainly true that there is an app for everything these days.

Norway Lights

Norway Lights is a website with a northern lights forecast as well as an app with an overview of places known as main “northern light cities” in Norway. It has a user-friendly interface that is designed to help you decide when and where to go aurora chasing, as well as how to get there.

The app provides a three-day northern lights forecast with an hourly forecast for the current day. It gives recommendations to go, try or wait for the northern lights in a specific city, based on weather forecast and solar wind activity.

Useful information such as facts about the northern lights a map indicating your position in relation to other Norwegian cities, photo tips and other tips & tricks are also included in the app in addition to handy short-cuts to flight and tour options.

Visit Norway - Norway in your pocket

The official travel app for Norway gives you information about travel businesses nearby when you are in Norway. You can also use it as a planning tool before you travel to Norway.

The app has literally thousands of places to stay (hotels, hostels, B&Bs etc.), restaurants, activities, attractions and events.

Drivers should pay attention to the “Norwegian Scenic Routes” section to find the 18 Scenic Routes: bold and innovative architecture in majestic nature all over Norway.

Norway in virtual reality

With the Visit Norway VR app, you will get a bird’s eye view of Norway in virtual reality through immersive 360 panoramas. Fly hundreds of meters above the deep blue fjords, waterfalls, mountains and glaciers – all from the safety of your own couch.

You can explore the panoramas from your smartphone. To experience it in real VR, you need a VR headset, such as Google Cardboard.

Other Helpful Travel Apps

Whatever you plan to do, you bet there is an app for it. The Norwegian online magazine amobil.no put together a list of useful apps for tourists in Norway. Here is a selection of their recommendations:

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Games

Add a little adrenaline and try your luck as a professional skier with our fun skiing games.

Trysil Twin Tip
Set in the beautiful hillsides of Norway's biggest ski resort, you have access to dozens of jumps, rails and neck-twisting slopes. Rail-to-rail-action or maximum airtime on the spring jumps? It's up to you.
Play Trysil Twin Tip

Holmenkollen Ski Jump 2
Can you jump all the way to the bottom of the slope? Play against your friends or alone!
Play Holmenkollen Ski Jump 2

Or try the first game: Holmenkollen Ski Jump