Where it's cheaper: Mobile apps that help you find out about discounts. Application for discounts in the service of business

On the sixth of November appeared a new version iGuides app with the long awaited discount section in App Store. Now users can not only read the news high technology, device reviews, analytics and other usual headings, but also find out information about price reductions for games and applications. Discount notifications, as well as the listing algorithm, are implemented for the first time in a Russian-language news application, so there is still a lot of work, nice changes and new features ahead. In the meantime, we decided to compare the new iGuides with four popular discount services: Appsfire, AppShopper, AppRus and AppZapp.

A feature of Appsfire is the compilation of its own application ratings so that the user can be sure of the quality. All programs and games are rated from 1 to 100 points depending on popularity, number of downloads, reviews. Appsfire allows you to view information about daily discounts, app store news, thematic collections of applications, discounts by category, as well as interesting applications found by users. In addition, you can create a favorites list with interesting applications or a wish list so that the service notifies you when prices for programs and games of interest are reduced. All this is presented in a customizable ribbon interface, when the user can add to the screen what is interesting to him.

Social functions;

Ability to hide uninteresting feeds.

Flaws:

Not user-friendly interface;

Probably the most famous discount service is AppShopper. Unfortunately, he was left without a mobile application, and the only client for the iPhone, due to the requirements of the App Store, is made with an emphasis on social functions and does not offer such convenient tools for finding applications as the browser version. However, anyone who is not averse to learning about discounts in Safari should be attracted by applications for iOS and Mac, division into categories and popularity, information about new products, updates, programs and games that have become free or sold at a discount. It's also handy that you can RSS subscribe to interesting AppShopper newsfeeds and create a wishlist to receive price change notifications for certain apps.

Advantages:

New and updated applications;

RSS subscriptions to interesting feeds.

Flaws:

There is no mobile app.

The service, developed by our compatriots, offers a database of Russian-language applications, which allows you to keep abreast of changes in the cost of programs and games that are not in the American App Store. The application has price reduction notifications for applications of interest, a news section and application reviews, recommendations from other users, own tops and additional categories. Unfortunately, there are complaints about the stability of the application, and the interface leaves much to be desired.

Advantages:

Base of the Russian App Store;

Synchronization with AppRus.ru service;

Flaws:

Ugly interface;

Lots of extra features

Unstable operation of the application.

The AppZapp service is the most advanced of them all. With it, you can find out price changes, see top lists, read other users' comments, app reviews, and much more. Loaded with features, AppZapp is a great companion for the person who relentlessly follows the changes in the App Store and wants to get as much information as possible. There are 11 categories in the list of tops, 13 criteria in information about discounts, not counting App Store categories.

Advantages:

Information about applications for Mac;

Well developed social functions;

Flexible settings.

Flaws:

Excessive number of functions and search criteria;

Outdated interface.

Although the search for discounts is not the main function of the iGuides mobile application, it does a good job of this task. With the proviso that we are talking about undemanding users. The application has a general list of programs and games at discounted prices, a wish list for receiving discount notifications for applications of interest, and a search by category. Not so much compared to specialized services, but there is all the necessary information. Some may write this down as a disadvantage, others will like the simplicity and convenience when you don’t have to rack your brains on how to properly set up the service and understand dozens of menu items.

As the millionaire used to say in one old movie, I can afford expensive purchases precisely because I almost always look for where it is cheaper. The desire to be economical has never been reprehensible, and especially in difficult times, when price increases significantly outstrip wage growth. Even more so if you're not a millionaire.

According to AdIndex data as of mid-2015, almost two-thirds of Russians reported that their standard of living was declining. If so, then regularly looking for discounts on products, goods and services is a great way to start allowing yourself more even now - at the expense of savings.

There are a lot of mobile applications for the word "discounts", but many of them are useless, for example, because the information in them is out of date. We have selected only programs with high ratings in the app stores and, of course, only those that we have tried ourselves. All the programs in this review will help you make profitable purchases in ordinary stores near your home or work. Let's start with the most important thing - food.

This, in our opinion, is the most convenient application for searching for promotions in grocery stores of popular chains: Pyaterochka, Magnit, Perekrestok, Avoska, Magnolia and others. Later, not quite “formatted” ones also appeared. Child's world”, “Ship”, “Metro”. One way or another, products account for most of the range of products presented in the application, but there are also toys and products for children, industrial products.

In the program, you can view offers with discounts in stores of the same chain or in a product category, for example, “Dairy products” or “Fish”. On the map you can see shops with discounts in the neighborhood. There is a search by product name.

A definite plus is the ability to put items in a virtual shopping cart. And while in-app purchases aren't possible, the shopping cart lets you see a list of everything you need to buy and places to go to. The total cost of purchases in the basket is also indicated.

Edadil operates in dozens of Russian regions, including both capitals and their environs. In the description of the program in the app stores, it is always indicated current list. "Edadil" will be able to install mobile users operating systems iOS and Android.

Install app:

• Google Play
• AppStore

This application is mainly focused on finding clothes. It does not provide as handy tools as the previous program in this review. In particular, a list of goods with prices and discounts cannot be found here: the search is carried out only up to the category of goods in a particular chain of stores. On the other hand, choosing clothes in any case requires looking at many options and fittings.

Wizee Shopping will help you find a specific store not only by indicating the address and name of the shopping center, but also by marking the desired pavilion in this center on the map. By the way, maps of all floors shopping centers is in a special section of the application.

In addition, the program has a directory of stores. When you switch to the one you need, in the "Discounts" tab, you can see descriptions of current promotions, if any. Alas, all these descriptions are rather general character and will not give an idea of ​​​​the benefits when buying trousers, a jacket or a blouse. Wizee Shopping is more likely to set the direction for action, but the details will have to be sorted out on the spot.

The undoubted disadvantages of the application include the absence of many popular chain clothing stores. The program runs at 11 Russian cities, including Moscow and St. Petersburg. This list is updated in the app description in the App Store and Google Play stores.

Install app:

• Google Play
• AppStore
• Windows Store

The application has a trivial name, but the developers are responsible for it: perhaps this is the most universal application for finding discounts in the review. There are food, clothing, sporting goods, and household chemicals, and drugs in pharmacies - the list goes on. Among the stores there are also online platforms, for example, Aliexpress, and you can also ask to be notified about the appearance of discounts on a certain product, say, on the desired smartphone.

The above, however, does not mean that you can be satisfied with this program, ignoring everything else in this review: in some details, "Discounts" will be weaker. For example, in this program, you cannot view individual subcategories of products or types of clothing, there are only "Products" and "Clothes". You won't be able to see the shops on the map either.

The Deals app has a list of stores and a list of product categories. You can search either in one or the other, but, say, asking to show discounts on meat products in Pyaterochka will not work. All individual items are listed with the current price, although the amount of the discount is not always displayed. The desired items can be added to favorites, but the list thus generated will not contain all the prices and the total cost of the planned purchases.

For our taste, "Discounts" is heavily overloaded with advertising, including pop-ups in full screen.

Install app:

• Google Play
• AppStore

Whatever you might think when reading the name of this application, it is just a guide to discounts on alcoholic drinks, strong and not very strong. There are only three categories in Alcoscanner: beer, wine and spirits. By going to the desired section, you can refine the list to be displayed, for example, by marking only champagne in wines or whiskey - in strong drinks. The list of wines, however, does not indicate whether it is dry or semi-sweet - this information is available only when you go to detailed description product.

The program has the opportunity to see shops with discounts on drinks nearby. At the same time, the number of such offers in each of the marked outlets will be indicated on the map. The lists have an interesting option to view the recent price changes for a particular product. Lists can be sorted by novelty of offers, price and distance to the store.

Finally, if the feast is only planned, the option of laying a route for the car to the desired store will be useful. In any case, be sure to take moderation with you on the road.

"Alcoscanner" is useful only in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the surrounding areas of these cities.

Behind the awkward name is a useful application that collects discounts on groceries and children's products. Shows the application those supermarkets that are nearby. The list of stores is impressive. Among them are Pyaterochka, Magnit, Lenta, Magnolia, Daughters and Sons and a dozen more supermarkets - there is probably something from the list in your area. In the application, you can not only find promotions for products, but also compare prices. To do this, you can score in the search bar desired product, and the application will find this product in the nearest supermarkets and display its price.

In Edadil, you can make a shopping list by adding what you need from the store catalog. The application is designed not only for residents of Moscow, but also for other cities. Such, for example, as St. Petersburg, Ufa, Yekaterinburg, Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod.

Things

Tiendeo

The essence of the mobile application is the same as that of Edadil: to talk about discounts in nearby stores. But Tiendeo is not limited to food and toys, but covers different categories of goods, ranging from building materials, clothing and ending with sports equipment. There you can find shares in such giants as Media Markt, " Leroy Merlin”, IKEA, Zara, Mango, H&M, Decathlon and Auchan.

As an additional option, the creators of the application offer catalogs with company products, discount coupons and contacts of all points of sale, including address and opening hours. For convenience, you can create a list of your favorite stores and not miss any discounts and promotions. The main thing is to be able to overcome the desire to run to the store at every favorable price.

Internet orders

picodi

The service will be appreciated by fans of online shopping. By installing it, you get access to promotional codes with discounts in well-known online stores. To get a discount, you need to copy the promotional code of the store and enter it at the last stage of the purchase - order confirmation. The most popular sites were selected: Asos, Lamoda, Wildberries, Media Markt and others.

The app is also useful offline: Picodi has discount coupons for fast food (Burger King, McDonald’s, KFC, Subway, Teremok), cosmetics (L’Etoile, Ile de Beaute, Rive Gauche), household appliances and electronics (Svyaznoy, M.Video, Technosila).

Housing

HotelTonight

The habit of doing everything at the last moment can not always go sideways. The HotelTonight app is designed for those who do not book hotel rooms in advance, but wait until the last minute. And this makes sense: the discount on housing will increase as you approach the time of arrival. The biggest discount awaits the tourist on the day of arrival. At the same time, booking a room earlier than a week will not work.

In Russia, HotelTonight works with hotels in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Adler and the resorts of Krasnaya Polyana. Users around the world can book rooms in them at the last moment. The service has far-reaching plans (HotelTonight already operates in more than 70 cities around the world), by the end of the year Kazan hotels are planning a partnership with the service.

Loyalty cards

stockcard

"You have our Discount card? - when buying, the cashier always asks this question. The map is not always at hand: you can not find it in a bottomless backpack or even forget it at home. To avoid such situations, you can upload your discount card data to the Stocard app. To do this, you just need to take a picture of the barcode and save it in the database. But it is not necessary to use only your cards: the application has two hundred preset discount cards in its arsenal.

Among the stores are Sportmaster, L'Etoile, INCITY, Rive Gauche, Ile de Beaute, IKEA Family, Marks & Spencer and others. But be careful: if a laser or flatbed scanner is installed at the checkout, then the bar - the code cannot be read from the smartphone screen, then the cashier will have to enter it manually.

As the millionaire used to say in one old movie, I can afford expensive purchases precisely because I almost always look for where it is cheaper. The desire to be economical has never been reprehensible, and especially in difficult times, when price increases significantly outstrip wage growth. Even more so if you're not a millionaire.

According to AdIndex data as of mid-2015, almost two-thirds of Russians reported that their standard of living was declining. If so, then regularly looking for discounts on products, goods and services is a great way to start allowing yourself more even now - at the expense of savings.

There are a lot of mobile applications for the word "discounts", but many of them are useless, for example, because the information in them is out of date. We have selected only programs with high ratings in the app stores and, of course, only those that we have tried ourselves. All the programs in this review will help you make profitable purchases in ordinary stores near your home or work. Let's start with the most important thing - food.

This, in our opinion, is the most convenient application for searching for promotions in grocery stores of popular chains: Pyaterochka, Magnit, Perekrestok, Avoska, Magnolia and others. Later, not quite "formatted" "Children's World", "Ship", "Metro" also appeared. One way or another, products account for most of the range of products presented in the application, but there are also toys and products for children, industrial products.

In the program, you can view offers with discounts in stores of the same chain or in a product category, for example, “Dairy products” or “Fish”. On the map you can see shops with discounts in the neighborhood. There is a search by product name.

A definite plus is the ability to put items in a virtual shopping cart. And while in-app purchases aren't possible, the shopping cart lets you see a list of everything you need to buy and places to go to. The total cost of purchases in the basket is also indicated.

Edadil operates in dozens of Russian regions, including both capitals and their environs. In the description of the program in the app stores, the current list is always indicated. "Edadil" will be able to install users of mobile operating systems iOS and Android.

Install app:

• Google Play
• AppStore

This application is mainly focused on finding clothes. It does not provide as handy tools as the previous program in this review. In particular, a list of goods with prices and discounts cannot be found here: the search is carried out only up to the category of goods in a particular chain of stores. On the other hand, choosing clothes in any case requires looking at many options and fittings.

Wizee Shopping will help you find a specific store not only by indicating the address and name of the shopping center, but also by marking the desired pavilion in this center on the map. By the way, maps of all floors of shopping centers are in a special section of the application.

In addition, the program has a directory of stores. When you switch to the one you need, in the "Discounts" tab, you can see descriptions of current promotions, if any. Alas, all these descriptions are quite general and will not give an idea of ​​​​the benefits when buying trousers, a jacket or a blouse. Wizee Shopping is more likely to set the direction for action, but the details will have to be sorted out on the spot.

The undoubted disadvantages of the application include the absence of many popular chain clothing stores. The program operates in 11 Russian cities, including Moscow and St. Petersburg. This list is updated in the app description in the App Store and Google Play stores.

Install app:

• Google Play
• AppStore
• Windows Store

The application has a trivial name, but the developers are responsible for it: perhaps this is the most universal application for finding discounts in the review. There are food, clothing, sporting goods, household chemicals, and medicines in pharmacies - the list goes on. Among the stores there are also online platforms, for example, Aliexpress, and you can also ask to be notified about the appearance of discounts on a certain product, say, on the desired smartphone.

The above, however, does not mean that you can be satisfied with this program, ignoring everything else in this review: in some details, "Discounts" will be weaker. For example, in this program, you cannot view individual subcategories of products or types of clothing, there are only "Products" and "Clothes". You won't be able to see the shops on the map either.

The Deals app has a list of stores and a list of product categories. You can search either in one or the other, but, say, asking to show discounts on meat products in Pyaterochka will not work. All individual items are listed with the current price, although the amount of the discount is not always displayed. The desired items can be added to favorites, but the list thus generated will not contain all the prices and the total cost of the planned purchases.

For our taste, "Discounts" is heavily overloaded with advertising, including pop-ups in full screen.

Install app:

• Google Play
• AppStore

Whatever you might think when reading the name of this application, it is just a guide to discounts on alcoholic drinks, strong and not very strong. There are only three categories in Alcoscanner: beer, wine and spirits. By going to the desired section, you can refine the list to be displayed, for example, by marking only champagne in wines or whiskey - in strong drinks. The list of wines, however, does not indicate whether it is dry or semi-sweet - this information is available only when you go to the detailed description of the product.

The program has the opportunity to see shops with discounts on drinks nearby. At the same time, the number of such offers in each of the marked outlets will be indicated on the map. The lists have an interesting option to view the recent price changes for a particular product. Lists can be sorted by novelty of offers, price and distance to the store.

Finally, if the feast is only planned, the option of laying a route for the car to the desired store will be useful. In any case, be sure to take moderation with you on the road.

"Alcoscanner" is useful only in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the surrounding areas of these cities.