Best Apps to Save Money Travelling Australia in 2026: 12 for Fuel, Food and Stays

Quick comparison

Pick by the bill you want to shrink. On a road trip, accommodation and fuel are usually the largest, so start there.

1. AussieCamps: cut what you pay for a bed

On a long trip, nights add up faster than anything else, and the cheapest bed is often a campground run by a park agency, or a rest area where the sign allows an overnight stop. AussieCamps lists 1,838 campgrounds from park agencies and 5,552 rest areas from road authorities, and you can filter places by cost, including free and donation sites. Place pages show the prices the source reports, such as a fee per night, per person or per vehicle, so you know what a site costs before you drive in.

It helps with the second bill too. A trip in AussieCamps shows the distance and drive time between stops, which is what a fuel budget is built on, and it marks 3,004 water filling points and 1,186 toilets, so you are not buying bottled water or paying for a powered site just to use the facilities.

AussieCamps is free to download, with in-app purchases, and runs only on iPhone. It has no fuel prices or traveller reviews; for those, use the apps below.

2. Petrol Spy: fuel prices across state lines

Fuel is the second big bill. Petrol Spy shows prices on a map for Queensland, South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory, using official feeds such as FuelCheck and FuelWatch, with price-cycle graphs for the eight capitals and alerts for a good time to buy. It is free with ads, or A$2.89 a year without them, and rated 4.8 from 184,903 Australian ratings.

In Victoria its prices are submitted by users, so the state's own Servo Saver is the better source there. Our comparison of fuel price apps covers each state in detail.

3. State fuel price apps: the official numbers

Several states publish station prices themselves, free to use. FuelCheck covers New South Wales and the ACT, Servo Saver sits in the Service Victoria app, FuelWatch publishes Western Australia's prices for the next day from 2:30pm, and FuelCheck TAS and MyFuel NT cover Tasmania and the Territory.

Each covers one state, so on an interstate trip a national app such as Petrol Spy saves switching.

4. My 7-Eleven: lock in a fuel price

The My 7-Eleven app's Fuel Price Lock finds the cheapest of up to five nearby 7-Eleven stores within 250 km and holds that price for 7 days, at any 7-Eleven selling that fuel. Under terms last updated in February 2024, the saving is capped at 25 cents a litre and covers up to 150 litres per fill, with one lock open at a time and up to two in 24 hours. The app is free and rated 4.8 from 269,554 Australian ratings.

It compares 7-Eleven's own stores only, not other brands, so check a fuel app before you lock in.

5. Flybuys and Everyday Rewards: points on what you buy anyway

The two big supermarket loyalty programs are free to join and work through their apps. Flybuys, linked to Coles, shows personalised offers for bonus points and lets you choose a fuel offer: points or 4 cents off a litre at Coles Express and Reddy Express. Everyday Rewards, linked to Woolworths, gives points on every shop at Woolworths and partners, with offers you can boost.

Points build up slowly on a short trip, so treat them as a bonus rather than a reason to shop: scan the card at the checkout and take the fuel discount when you fill up anyway.

6. WiseList: compare the supermarkets

WiseList compares Coles, Woolworths and ALDI prices as you add items to a shopping list, alerts you when items on your watch list go on special, and flags rare specials. It is free with ads. WiseList+ costs A$7.99 a month or A$49.99 a year and adds splitting a list by store, barcode scan and compare, and sending a list to a Coles or Woolworths online cart. It is rated 4.4 from 1,805 Australian ratings.

On a road trip, the free list comparison is the part that saves money: one stock-up shop in a bigger town usually costs less than topping up at a roadhouse.

7. Woolworths and Coles: the specials and the list

Both supermarket apps show the weekly catalogue specials and let you build a shopping list; the Woolworths list shows your total spend before you shop, and both find an item's aisle in your local store. They are free, rated 4.6 from 120,022 (Woolworths) and 4.7 from 61,703 (Coles) Australian ratings.

Each shows one chain only, so pair one with WiseList if you want to compare.

8. ALDI Australia: the Special Buys

The ALDI Australia app shows its Special Buys, which change on Wednesdays and Saturdays, sends notifications when new ones arrive and finds your nearest store. Its listing describes browsing specials and a store finder rather than online shopping. It is free and rated 4.8 from 10,919 Australian ratings.

Special Buys are limited-stock items, so the alerts matter if you are after something specific, such as camping gear.

9. Too Good To Go: cheap food that would be thrown out

Too Good To Go sells surprise bags of unsold food from cafes, bakeries, restaurants and grocers, from A$6.99 a bag, collected at a set time. It started in Melbourne and then Sydney. It is free, with no in-app purchases, and rated 4.9 from 58,393 Australian ratings.

The contents are a surprise and the pick-up windows are fixed, so it suits a few days in a city better than a day on the highway.

10. EatClub: discounts on eating out

EatClub offers up to 50% off the bill at restaurants with spare tables, applied when you pay with its digital card, with no booking fees or vouchers. It covers venues in most mainland states and lists more than 10,000 restaurants across Australia, the UK and New Zealand. The app is free, with an optional subscription listed at A$11.90 a month, and rated 4.8 from 9,482 Australian ratings.

Deals depend on which venues have spare tables at the time, so the choice changes through the day.

11. Wise: fewer fees on your money

For overseas visitors, bank fees on every card payment and cash withdrawal add up over a long trip. Wise holds money in 40 currencies at the mid-market exchange rate and gives you a debit card. On its Australian pricing page, the card costs A$10, paying in the account's currency is free, and the first A$400 of cash withdrawals each month is free, with 2.69% charged above that.

Fees and products depend on the country your account is opened in, so open it in your home country and check the fees there before you travel.

12. Splitwise: share costs fairly

Travelling with friends, the money leaks out in small shared costs: fuel, groceries, camp fees. Splitwise records who paid what in any currency, works offline and settles up at the end. It is free, with Pro in-app purchases, and rated 4.4 from 3,710 Australian ratings.

It records what people owe; you settle up in cash or by bank transfer.

Also worth knowing

ShopBack and TopCashback pay cashback on online bookings such as hotels and flights, but the money arrives only after the retailer confirms the purchase and is paid to an Australian bank account or PayPal. Foody Bag sells surplus food bags at a third of their retail price, mainly in Perth.

Half Price, a popular grocery specials app, had not been updated since March 2025 when we checked, so we have left it out of the main list.

How we picked them

We started from the bills that make up most of a trip budget, then checked each app's price, in-app purchases, rating and terms on the Australian App Store and the developer's own pages on 20 October 2026. Savings depend on how you travel, so each entry gives the catch as well as the saving.

We make AussieCamps; it is first because a bed is the biggest bill most travellers can change. No other app in this guide paid to be listed.

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