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25 Free iPhone/iPad/Android Apps to Save Money Everyday

May 28, 2012 24 Comments

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Earlier I mentioned how smart phones can help you in managing your personal finances. Today we’re going to talk about the different apps that will help you save money if you’re using a smart phone.

Now, some of these apps are currently installed on my iPhone, while the others are contributed by SMB, my friends and colleagues.

1) RedLaser (Free)

RedLaser is Apple’s version for Google Shopper. They both share the same function. What they do is to help you compare prices of online and offline goods, so you’ll see where you can find the better deal. All you have to do is to use your tablet’s or phone’s camera, take a picture of the bar code, run the application, and let it compare the bar code with the rest of the products found online. If my phone’s not with me, I use my iPad and this app. It works wonders. Usually, what we do is to window-shop first, scan bar codes, compare, and then determine which items we can buy offline.

2) Gas Cubby

Let’s admit it. We do spend a lot of money in maintaining our vehicles. We might as well make sure we are making an investment, not really an expense. One of the things I like about Gas Cubby is I can keep track of a lot of things about my car. Of course, I’ll know how much I’m spending for gas, but it also permits me to monitor my mileage and the local gas prices. Moreover, I can set alerts so I’d know when it’s time to change tires or check oil.

3) TripAdvisor (Free)

My wife, my friends, and I just love to travel. Whenever we get the chance to do so, we take it. However, we want to be conscious travelers. This simply means we plan ahead first before we take the dive. It’s difficult to spend a lot of money for unnecessary expenses, more so foreign currency money. One of the best apps to use for any avid traveler is TripAdvisor. It simply contains a lot of user-generated information from people who have been in your preferred destination. We know which restaurants to go to, what activities to do, and even how much money to spend and bring. When we get there, it’s as if we know the place for such a long time.

4) Skype and Google Voice (Free)

Just because Google Voice is so identified with Android you can no longer download it in your iPad or iPhone. That isn’t exactly true. I do have both of these apps installed because some of my friends and contacts are in Google Voice, and they have no intention of shifting to Skype. This is also helpful since it’s possible one of them breaks down. At least you’ll have some form of backup.

Both are free, unless you’re going to buy some Skype credits. These two apps assist me in talking to friends, colleagues, and some clients who are currently far away from home, especially abroad. They save me tons of money from roaming charges.

5) Nike Training Club (Free)

Surely, you’ll be quite shocked why I included this. It’s for health and fitness, after all. However, I’d also like to emphasize that you need to take care of your health properly if you want to save a lot of money. Health care, even if you have insurance or we have Medicare, isn’t cheap at all. You don’t want to spend your savings on medications and treatments, right?

There are several exercises you can browse on the app, and you can also keep track of your progress, which is the most important thing.

6) Epicurious Recipes and Shopping List (Free)

My wife and a lot of her girl friends have this app installed in their iPhone and iPad. Epicurious is probably one of the biggest food websites in the world. But this app is the bomb. It doesn’t just lists down all the decadent recipes, but it also tells you what recipes to buy. You can make it your own shopping list now.

7) Coupon Clipper (Free)

If you enjoy discounts—I think everybody does—then surely you’re going to love this app. Coupon Clipper displays all the coupons and double-take deals available in your local neighborhood. You can skip scanning magazines and dailies or even buying them. This is also a great place to spot potential places for great bargains. We already found a couple.

8) Mint (free)

This application helps you to manage your budget and keep a track of it. When you spend more or cross your budget limit you get sent alerts by this application. So by using this application you can save your money and can unwanted or unnecessary spending.

9) eBay Mobile

This application helps you bid on your favorite goodies anywhere, anytime, anyplace

And you can see the status of your own auctioned item. Same As eBay, on eBay mobile application you can purchase anything you want and on this application, too you can do a whole lot of bargain. This is a very useful android application.

10) ATM hunter

Many of us use ATM card of one bank in another bank’s ATM center to save our time. We neglect the charges for using such ATM service as we save our lot of time. It is true that it takes too much time to go to ATM centre of our bank if we are new in that area. But ATM hunter helps you to find nearest ATM centre of your bank. By using this application you can save charges for using other bank’s ATM.  So get this free application.

11) Wi-Fi finder

This application allows you to access you to the internet at a considerably faster speed. It is faster than the 3G network. This application helps you to find all the free Wi-Fi hotspots nearby you. So it helps you to save your very precious time and money.

12) Skype

This application helps you to have a video call with other people for no price that is absolutely free of cost. If you have to call on landline it is the best option because, due to international texting it is really cheap option. Skype is a very good option for longer call.

13) Gas buddy

This application enables you to find the latest petrol prices in the petrol pumps near you. This application also allows you to find the nearest petrol pump near you and is a time saving application.

14) Google Maps

This application helps you to find roads to reach your destination, low traffic roads areas, nearby restaurants and hotels, etc. This application is based on Google Maps and so, it is accurate and reliable. This application helps you in new places, cities or countries.

15) Coupon Sherpa

This application offers you coupons and exclusive deals at shops. You can search the name of the shop or the category of the article you want, contact merchants, buy coupons and e-mail them to your friends and relatives. This is a very useful application for shopping lovers.

16) Grocery Gadget

This application helps you to update your grocery lists. This application helps you to find nearest supermarkets, grocery shops, etc. that offer considerably low cost and provide better quality goodies. It can scan bar codes, provide pictures of the item, compare between prices at two shops and much more.

17) PayPal

This application enables you to access your PayPal account. Not only this but it also allows you to carry out transactions, check balance and do much more. This is an outstanding application for all the PayPal users and another interesting thing is that, that you can snap a photo of your check and credit the money to your account absolutely free of cost!

18) MapQuest

This successfully replaced my Garmin GPS. This is free of cost Satellite guided GPS navigation system which has amazing voice control. You don’t need to buy a costly (near obsolete) GPS device.

19) Price line

Needs no introduction. Specially useful for unplanned stay over or travel needs. You can bid on flight/hotel or car en-route airport. On our recent road trip we saved good amount of money on hotel rooms using this app.

20) Foursquare

This is an app which combines local media (social media with local emphasis). When you are visiting a mall or a shopping complex, the app can alert you on the deals that are going on at nearby shops/restaurants.

21)  App-O-Day

Get one app a day for free. Even a game which usually costs money can be obtained for free through this app. Its like Groupon for smart phone apps.

22) NetPlenish

Using the NetPlenish app, you can scan bar codes of everyday things you need to buy. Then, this app compares and finds the best price across retailers. It can also indicate the best deal from your shopping list, so that you don’t have to go shop hopping buying individual cheapest items.

23) Amazon Kindle (free)

You don’t have to spend money on buying Kindle reader from Amazon, because this free app allows you to read e-books on your smartphone. With more than a million free books available for download from the Kindle Store, you will never run out of books to read.

24) GroceryIQ

The shopping list app makes your shopping list really interesting. This helps you arrange buying list by aisle of the grocery store. You can also scan and record favorite items for future consideration.

25) Pennies ($2.99 per month)

Pennies lets you establish a monthly budget and track your daily expenses against it. The app displays a fuel gauge that indicates how much money is still left in your monthly budget at any given time of the month.

Now that I am editing the article after writing it down a few weeks back. I now feel listing 25 apps is a tedious job. SMB helped a lot in writing this article, I am thankful to her for this. Some of the apps may not be available for android phones.

Readers, Do you use any of these? And, do you know of any other apps that is worth mentioning here?

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Comments

  1. Save Green Team(Save Green Going Green) says

    May 28, 2012 at 8:30 AM

    I have use or do use many of these, but there are a few I am glad you shared. 24 & 25 are interesting and I am going to give them a try.

    Thanks
    Steve

    Reply
    • SB says

      May 30, 2012 at 12:27 AM

      Let us know how you found them.

      Reply
  2. Daisy @ Add Vodka says

    May 28, 2012 at 9:05 AM

    Wow, what an awesome list! I know some of them I can’t use, being Canadian, like I don’t think any of the coupon ones or gas buddy work here. Canadian gas stations have the weird habit of all adjusting their prices to the exact same thing anyway, which I guess makes it easy to find gas prices.

    Reply
    • SB says

      May 30, 2012 at 12:27 AM

      There must be some other Canadian apps that can save you money there.

      Reply
  3. Sid @ RealEstateGrasshopper says

    May 28, 2012 at 11:14 AM

    Cool list of apps! I do use some of them, others I am going to check out! One app that I use on a regular basis is the Moviefone app. It is free and lets me check movie showtimes no matter where I am in the US!

    Reply
    • SB says

      May 30, 2012 at 12:29 AM

      Sid thanks for sharing this information. I am sure to download that app. But, I hate too many apps due to nagging ‘updates available’ count on Appstore icon in my iPhone. I just hate seeing any number there.

      Reply
  4. Julie @ Freedom 48 says

    May 28, 2012 at 10:18 PM

    I’ll have to check a few of those out.
    I LOVE the Tripadvisor app – I won’t go on any vacation or stay in any hotel before checking it out on Tripadvisor.

    Reply
    • SB says

      May 30, 2012 at 12:25 AM

      Yeah ditto here. I do use TA and Priceline a lot. I even bid from car for hotel through Priceline.

      Reply
  5. Charlotte @SmartMoneyFocus says

    May 28, 2012 at 10:32 PM

    Great list! I’m so app illiterate. I’ll have to check out a lot of these.

    Reply
    • SB says

      May 30, 2012 at 12:24 AM

      yeah I know you’re busy doing a lot of ‘other’ stuff 🙂

      Reply
  6. Robert @ The College Investor says

    May 29, 2012 at 12:09 AM

    I love Mint, but I wish that PayPal has an iPad app!

    Reply
    • SB says

      May 30, 2012 at 12:24 AM

      off-course they have!

      Reply
  7. Jai Catalano says

    May 29, 2012 at 9:37 AM

    I love mint too. I need to use it more. Some of these I have never even heard of… Time to look into them.

    Reply
    • SB says

      May 30, 2012 at 12:19 AM

      yeah perhaps you never know what you’re missing. I can vouch for coupon Sherpa at least.

      Reply
  8. Ravi Akula says

    May 29, 2012 at 10:32 AM

    Thanks. Really appreciate your sharing.

    Reply
    • SB says

      May 30, 2012 at 12:18 AM

      My Pleasure Ravi!

      Reply
  9. mycanuckbuck says

    May 29, 2012 at 7:49 PM

    I must admit I don’t think I use any of them – and some of them may not work on Canada. But I’ve bookmarked this so I can go through at my leisure and check then out!

    Reply
    • SB says

      May 30, 2012 at 12:18 AM

      Buy many would work in Canada give them a try at least.

      Reply
  10. [email protected] lessons says

    May 30, 2012 at 10:56 AM

    FourSquare is awesome both if you go to certain places a lot, or if you are visiting places for a first time. There are “newbie” deals, if you “check-in” somewhere for the first time you can get say, a free appetizer. And if you become the “mayor” of somewhere- meaning you are the person who “checks-in” the most, you can get special deals as well. Its a really cool app!

    Reply
  11. Crystal Evanisky says

    June 6, 2012 at 1:31 AM

    I have a post scheduled for tomorrow listing the apps i use for blogging. I love your list. i WISH mint would work for me , but my little local bank isn’t on its list. i wonder if anyone knows of a comparable one that they could recommend.

    Reply
    • SB says

      June 6, 2012 at 7:37 AM

      mint is notorious in that effect. I seem to have found an answer with Yodlee. I use Yodlee.com site as the app is priced at $4. You can firs give Yodlee site a try and if your bank if found, you can try their app.

      Reply
  12. samyria says

    September 29, 2012 at 8:14 PM

    i have always wanted an iphone for my whole life

    Reply
    • SB says

      September 29, 2012 at 9:17 PM

      go for it? and isn’t whole life a bit over statement? its been around for 5 yrs only!

      Reply
  13. Beryl Lynn Strong says

    February 5, 2013 at 1:16 PM

    I love Amazon Kindle, but there are 2 free apps that I like even better: Audiobooks and Bible Gateway. Both of these apps read to you. I love to listen to my stories while I am cleaning the house, and I have found that it is a healthy way to relax and de-stress before going to sleep at night. Another favorite free app, though it doesn’t read to you, is iTriage. iTriage is a medical app that lists information about symptoms, conditions, medications, etc. I like iTraige better than WebMD.

    I want to say thank you, to all, for the great information I have received here! I am looking forward to checking out several of the suggestions provided.

    Reply

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