A hand-checked directory of the free apps that actually help refugees and migrants translate, find their way, scan documents and settle in.
For people arriving in Germany and along the Balkan route, and for the volunteers and aid workers who help them find the right free app.
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Germany uses apps like few countries do. Bank accounts, train tickets, apartment viewings and even the queue at the Bürgeramt often start with a download.
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A Balkan route migrant crossing from Greece through North Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia or Hungary into the EU typically needs four categories of free smartpho
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migrants in Europe today means choosing between roughly a dozen genuinely useful free tools — from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees' B
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