Daily Coupons for you: Can Your Smartphone Really Make you a Smarter Couponer?

There have been plenty of smartphone apps accessible which guarantee to have regulating coupons for your shopping faster as well as easier. But do they unequivocally live up to which promise? Using my Iphone 4 in my home town of Omaha, NE, we set out to find out only that.

Here is the skinny upon the different types of banking apps we found:

Location Based Couponing Services

The idea: These offer we coupons based upon where we have been physically located. Examples are: www.yowza.com , www.GeoQpons.com, as well as www.thecouponsapp.com.
The verdict: Taking in to comment we dont live in the biggest city in the country, we was sorely unimpressed by the offerings upon these apps. They offering the single or dual discounts for places which were totally obscure as well as basically useless to me. Its not so often we will be walking around, demeanour during my phone as well as randomly decide which buying the guitar sounds similar to the great approach to outlay the afternoon. Maybe in the bigger city or as they become some-more popular, Ill try again. Right now, its not value my time or space upon my phone.

Store Loyalty Cards Apps

The idea: Stores have had rewards cards for ages. Now they have been moving them in to the brand brand new direction. You can right away make make make make use of of of of the website or the phone app (Like Krogers brand brand new app) to load your label with coupons which have been practical automatically when we hand over the label during checkout. In the small cases, we dont even have to carry the actual card; we can present your phone to the assistant instead. Some stores, similar to Target, dont have the earthy label during all though will content scannable store coupons to your phone for you.
The verdict: While these have their issues (like usually being means to make make make make use of of of of them once as opposed to being means to imitation dual copies), they have been certainly handy. we might find myself without my banking binder once in the while; though being caught without my phone is reason for panic! So we will always have which mobile banking with me when we need it. As far as loading coupons onto my earthy card, we imagine we will still be some-more expected to do it around the pc as well as website only since its faster. But its great to have the option to do it upon the phone if we forget until the final notation upon the approach to the grocery store.

Printable Coupon Lists

The idea: Generally these have been only phone app versions of existent websites which list printable coupons such as afullcup.com, couponclipper.com as well as ladysavings.com.
The verdict: we adore to imitation coupons as most as the next person, though even I, the self-proclaimed phone geek, dont have my phone set up to imitation right now. Yes, there have been wireless printers which phones can imitation without delay to, though unfortunately they have been the small pricey (starting during about $99 for the Canon 5320), so for me it is not value the cost right now. If we did not have readily accessible entrance to the printer from my pc, we would positively be purchasing the wireless printer to imitation coupons from my phone. But for now, whilst we spasmodic browse these apps when bored, when we get home, we find we frequency make make make make use of of of of them.

Coupon Databases

The idea: we was most vehement for these earthy banking trackers similar to www.ladysavings.com as well as www.couponmate.com. These have been either the database of all the well well known coupons available, your own personal collection, or both. So if we have been seeking for Crest coupons, we can poke Crest as well as it will either tell we which there were coupons accessible in final months SS or we have dual in your personal collection.
The verdict: When we proposed couponing, my plan was not to shave coupons though to keep the inserts total as well as make make make make use of of of of an app similar to this to see where to go when we needed the coupon. Unfortunately, we was let down again. we could not find the single app which did both your personal pick up as well as well well known coupons. This meant seeking in dual places for each banking we needed. Nope, sorry, not going to happen.I additionally found, during least in my area, the values of so many of my coupons were different than what was listed in the general banking database, so we still had to go find my earthy banking to see what we had. My next thought was to go forward as well as shave coupons though come in them all in to my personal database so we could easily know what we have. Great plan! But we barely have the time to cut them all out, let alone manually come in each the single in to the database.I would LOVE to see someone design an app which uses the built in camera scanner to check coupons in as well as out of the database. we consider we would unequivocally make make make make use of of of of as well as adore which the single though sadly we cant find anything similar to which yet.

The Final Verdict: Non-Coupon specific apps valid the most useful.

What we do make make make make use of of of of is the great syncing program which syncs files to both my work as well as home pc. With it we can emanate the spreadsheet of my programmed purchases upon the full keyboard when its accessible to me. It afterwards becomes accessible upon my phone when we get to the store. (I make make make make use of of of of www.sugarsync.com.) we additionally make make make make use of of of of the web browser to check my favorite couponing website (such as www.krazycouponlady.com, of course!) to see their suggested matchups as well as great buys whilst we am in the stores.

I keep searching as well as as fast as mobile apps have been changing, Im sure someone will invent the unequivocally great couponing app someday. But for now, with the exception of store loyalty label apps, we shall keep couponing the aged fashioned way–with the large aged beautiful pinkish binder!

This has been the guest post by Sarah from Omaha, NE
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