As the season of hot chocolate and family dinners approaches, there is something that lingers over everyone’s head: buying gifts for yout mother, sister, uncle, great-grandfather, best friend’s cousin’s fiancé and everyone in between. Here are some free apps to save you time and money for the holiday season so you won’t break the bank.
Zoomingo
This app shows local deals when you provide your ZIP code or enable your location on your smartphone. You can customize it further by picking your favorite stores, such as JCPenney or Target, along with your favorite categories, such as electronics, beauty ot clothing. A cool feature of Zoomingo is getting a sale alert when the price of a product drops. You can even earn ZPoints by posting a picture of the deal and the store location and sharing it with friends, and by rating deals. Use the points toward prizes and gift cards for local retailers.
Shopular
Shopular lets you choose your favorite stores and if you enable your location while shopping, it will tell you the best deals happening in the mall or shopping center. A great feature is that the app uses cell towers and Wi-Fi signals to find your location rather than GPS, saving your phone’s battery life. You can save your coupons by creating an account or connecting through Facebook. You can also view coupons that expire soon, weekly ads for your favorite stores and picks from the app’s developers.
These apps should make your shopping experience less daunting and relieve the stress of holiday shopping. Since most retailers accept coupons from your smartphone, there’s no need to print or cut out easily-lost coupons. What are you waiting for? On your mark, get set, shop.
RetailMeNot
Put in your location to find the best local deals in this shopping app. Customize what stores you want offers from or type in the name of a store to see what in-store and online promotions are available. When you open the app, it will list the hottest deals for the day, so that you are always in the loop. Search by category and see what’s nearby and what’s trending and share the coupons with friends.
