Acorns

Invest Spare Change from Everyday Purchases into a Diversified Portfolio

Acorns helps you save & invest spare change from your everyday purchases and invest into a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds. You can easily get started in minutes: anytime, anywhere.

 

Shopkick

Rewards & Free Gift Cards for Shopping plus Deals & Discounts

Get rewarded with FREE gift cards for the shopping you already do! Join the over 15 million users who have already earned over $60 million in free gift cards from popular stores like Target, Starbucks, Sephora and many more!

 

Mint

Money Manager, Budget & Personal Finance

From Intuit, the makers of TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint Bills, and Quicken: The free Mint app helps you spend smarter and save more. Easily pull all your accounts, cards and investments into one place so you can track your spending, create a budget, receive bill reminders, and get customized tips for reducing fees and saving money.

 

 

Slice

Automatic Package Tracker

Shopping, shipping, and saving have never been easier or more fun. Slice keeps an eye on your purchases for you—watching for price drops, tracking your packages, and alerting you on hazardous product recalls. Never enter a tracking number again! It’s all done automatically with the e-receipts in your email … that’s why it’s so smart!

My favorite two features:

SAVE RECEIPTS: Slice also manages your shopping activity by organizing your purchases into categories, keeping records of your receipts for easy returns, warranty redemption or reference and all other relevant details.

◈ BUDGET: Slice tracks your spending habits so you can see how much you’re spending, on what, making it easy to keep an eye on your budget. The interactive “Slice and Dice” visualizes your shopping activity into bubbles and charts, so you can watch your spending in a whole new way in a detailed way!

 

ShopSavvy

Barcode Scanner, Price Comparison Assistant, QR Code Reader and Sale Search

ShopSavvy is your one-stop app to save time, money and find all the best sales from your favorite stores! ShopSavvy helps you make smarter purchase decision by finding and comparing all the best online prices, local prices and reviews.
Scan with a barcode, use a Matrix QR Code or search for the product or sale.

– Scan UPC product barcodes, QR Codes, Data Matrix or search for products to quickly find the lowest prices.

– Price Match while in Store! ShopSavvy will do the hard work of figuring out if a store will price match any item you scan in a store, and display a screen you can show your cashier at checkout to get instant savings! Make sure you always scan any product with ShopSavvy before checking out, or you could be missing huge savings!

– Enable sale alerts on any search and get notified whenever there are new matching deals!

 

Chuze

Chuze gives you the Power to Shop Smarter.

Improve your grocery shopping experience by:
– Creating lists as needed
– Scanning barcodes to add items to lists
– Sharing lists with family, roommates, friends
– Receiving discounts on your items
– Displaying items in aisle or category order
– Checking off items as you pick them
– Saving lists and items for recurring use
– Organizing your shopping

A great way to use Chuze is to scan items as they get consumed – these will immediately get added to your list.
No barcode? Then text search can find the item.

As you add items, related discounts and suggested items become available.

Sharing a list lets you collect all the requests in one place, and then makes it possible to have any of the contributors pick the right items when they go to the store.

 
For more ideas on how to shop, save, and celebrate this holiday, visit a few of my favorite bloggers:

• How To Have a Greener Christmas by Confessions of an Overworked Mom
• Black Friday Gift Ideas for the Man in Your Life by Controlled Confusion
• Cutting Edge Tech Gifts by Champagne Living
• 6 Apps to Help You Save Money by Tools 2 Tiaras
• The Gift of Music for the Holidays by Rajean Blomquist

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