Tuesday, February 17, 2015

What's on your phone?

Recently, I put together a list of top smartphone apps to share at my neighborhood Home & Garden club and thought it would be fun to share here!

What are your favorite apps?  How about your favorite fitness apps?  I love MyFitness Pal, Mind Body Connect app to book my fitness classes and my Up band (and app!)

Enjoy!

Bea


LIFESTYLE

  • Amazon
    Access to full Amazon catalog, streamlined for mobile. You can even search with your voice or with your camera and compare products before you buy.  Access to Amazon Prime from app as well.
  • AroundMe
    Allows you to quickly find restaurants, gas, ATM, etc around you based on your location. It quickly identifies your location and allows you choose the nearest bank, bar, gas, hospital, movie theatre, restaurant, and more.  You can also check out Find Me GF, an app focused on finding you the closest Gluten Free options.
  • Houzz
    Design ideas that allows you to browse by style, room and location and save them to your virtual ideabook. They even have children’s app called Houzz Kids.
  • Groovebook
    Ability to create personalized photobook with pictures you take with your iPhone. For $2.99 a month, you can a monthly book of photos. You can upload up to 100 photos.
  • Starbucks
    App is designed to allow you to pay and have easy access to My Starbucks Rewards.  You can track your rewards status and continue to build rewards by paying with the app. You can also redeem rewards using the app.
  • CVS
    Manage prescriptions, scan to refill prescriptions, send ExtraCare rewards to the card, and upload and order photos directly from app for pickup.
  • Publix
    Allows you to see weekly ads and manage digital coupons by clipping coupons and adding them to your account. It’s tied to your phone number so you will need to enter your phone number when you checkout for the coupons. 
  • Pulse
    A news app designed by LinkedIn allows you to customize your news reading experience with customized feeds and easy to digest headlines.
  • Yummly
    Recipe search that allows you to search recipe sites you love, create digital recipe box and receive recipe recommendations based on your settings.
  • Our Groceries
    Automatically tracks your grocery list with up to date changes to every family members phone. Every change is shared and is visible to every phone linked to app. You can also track key ingredients in your favorite recipes.
  • Stocard
    Store all of your reward cards in one app, at the store just pull out app and scan barcode.
  • Map My Run
    Track your workout details and determine your running routes, directly from app. 
  • MyFitnessPal
    Fast and easy way to track calories, water, food and workout directly from app.
  • Mind Body Connect
    Allows you to conncet to fitness classes, book online and even pay from the phone. You add your favorite studios to the app and you can quickly and easy book your classes and manage your fitness schedule.

SHOPPING
  • ShopSavvy
    Helps your find the best online and local prices. You can quickly narrow search to check out sales and deals and you can scan or search for products to find the lowest prices.
  • Target Cartwheel
    Different offers are made available on various weeks.  For example, 20% off Circo clothing.  You select which offers you want to be in your "cart."  When you checkout at the cash register, you have the cashier scan your cartwheel barcode on the phone app and the offer is applied to your order. 
  • Walmart Savings Catcher
    Scan after purchase to determine whether you could have bought the products cheaper somewhere else.  The difference goes into an account. 
  • IBOTTA
    Each week different products are featured.  If you purchase the product and take a picture of your receipt, you receive the allotted amount of money into your account. Eventually that money is transferred into a PayPal account.  You can link up with others on a "team" to earn money faster. 
  • Checkout 51
    Same principal as above except the money goes into a gift card that is mailed to you. 
  • Receipt hog
    Take pictures of your receipts and once you have earned a certain amount of coins, you receive a gift card to Amazon. 
  • Shopkick
    Get "coins" when walk into variety of stores.  (i.e. Target, Macy's, Old Navy, Best Buy, etc)  You can also scan products with your phone, while in the store to earn more coins.  You can trade coins in for e gift cards to stores.

TRAVEL
  • Waze
    Traffic app that helps navigate based on real-time traffic. It helps to save time with live routing based on community driven, real-time traffic alerts.
  • 511 Georgia
    Official app of DOT and provides real-time access to traffic and travel information.
  • Uber
    Request a ride with one button and set your destination for an easy pickup. You pay be credit card and tip is included.
  • Delta
    Delta’s app allows you to check-in, check flight status, track luggage and have your boarding pass available all from your app.



1 comment:

  1. Soo my husband is having all of us use Cozi family organizer app. So we are just starting. It says you can do family calendar, grocery lists, family journal and chore lists. We all just downloaded so will let you know how it goes.

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