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10 Apps Thrifty People Use To Save & Earn Money

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Even though owning a smartphone can be expensive (although it doesn’t have to be mine costs me $20 a month) you can  use certain smartphone apps to help you recoup back some of that expense.

10 apps thrifty people use to save and earn money

Saving money or earning money with these apps isn’t time consuming. You probably won’t earn much with each app but when you combine the earnings of several apps together it can start to add up to a nice sum of pocket money.

10 Apps Thrifty People Use To Save & Earn Money

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5 Apps That Save Thrifty People Money

a step by step guide on how to use ibotta (medium)

1. ibotta

Ibotta is a rebate style App. It isn’t just for groceries but also for movies, clothing, and more. You can cash in your rebates for either Paypal deposits when you reach $5 or gift cards to Starbucks, Regal Entertainment Group, and iTunes when you reach $10. You can read my full tutorial that contains step by step instructions on how to use ibotta for all the details.

How to use Receipt Hog to earn gift cards (med)
2. Receipt Hog

Receipt Hog is a super simple app where you simply upload your receipt and earn points that you can cash in for Paypal deposits or Amazon gift cards.  You can go here to sign up. enter the code YECT1667 to get a bonus spin that could help you earn points.

3. Gas Buddy

Gas Buddy is one App I don’t mind using some of my precious data for as what I learn from it will pay me back and then some. The app uses your devices locator system to show you the cheapest gas prices in the area you are driving through. Very helpful on road trips where you don’t know what station has the best prices in town.

4. Text Free

Those of you with unlimited texting plans won’t benefit from this app but those of use with pay as you go plans will. I use the text free app to text my hubby at work where he uses his text free app to text me back. This saves us several texts per day. My daughter also uses it on her iPod to text to my cell phone while I am out and she is at home with her older brothers.

5 Apps That Earn Thrifty People Money

1. Shopkick

Shopkick is a fun way to earn points while you shop by checking in and also scanning certain items. I wrote a tutorial of how shopkick works that you might want to read to learn all the ins and outs of how Shopkick works.

3 Apps That Will Help Your Earn More Swag Bucks (medium)

2. Swagbucks

Swagbucks  has 3 different apps   (update now the total is 6) that help make it possible to earn at least $30 a month from Swagbucks if not considerably more.

3. Inbox Dollars

Inbox dollars has an app that allows you to check your earnings on the go as well as do you daily earn mail.

7 ways to earn gift cards with my points (medium)

4. My Points

My Points has an app that allows you to do your monthly earning searches right from your device as well as make purchases around the web for Mypoints, redeem points for gift cards and more. If you are unfamiliar with Mypoints check out my post on 7 ways to earn gift cards using MyPoints

What are your favorite apps for saving and earning money?

 

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  1. Jen @ Save to Splurge says

    October 31, 2014 at 1:12 pm

    I love ibotta and Swagbucks! I’ll have to try some of your other suggestions. Thanks!

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    • Victoria says

      November 1, 2014 at 11:23 am

      Your welcome. I love ibotta and Swagbucks too.

      Reply
  2. Holly says

    May 4, 2015 at 11:55 pm

    i know this is an old post but I saw it on Pinterest and was interested. I want to comment on your smart phone issue. Assuming you’re still using a tracphone, you should check out consumer cellular.. The hubs a me I just switched from dumb phones to smartphones by using them. Rate number 2 nationally above al, the “main 4 ” providers. We pay $30 per phone/month for 1.5G data, 1500 minutes and unlimited texts. We use wifi mainly, and only turn on the data when needed. We haven’t even used half of it between the two of us lol. The best part is it isn’t a contract, so you can raise or lower your data, minutes, texts, as you need to and pay accordingly. Pretty amazing company 🙂

    Consumercellular.com

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    • Holly says

      May 4, 2015 at 11:56 pm

      Wow lots of typos I hate typing on my iPad lol

      Reply
      • Victoria says

        May 5, 2015 at 12:36 pm

        I have typos even when I am not typing on an iPad :). My fingers can never catch up to my thoughts.

        Reply
    • Victoria says

      May 5, 2015 at 12:35 pm

      Thanks for the tip. I actually just recently switched to Ting. I bought a refurbished iPhone 5c through them and my first bill was just under $18 https://snailpacetransformations.com/how-to-get-smartphone-service-for-under-20-regardless-of-brand/. I am really liking the service so far.

      Reply
  3. MsCrookedHalo says

    August 1, 2015 at 5:36 pm

    There are so many apps to earn or save money, that I have decided to start trying and reviewing them too. I forgot about Shopkick. Swagbucks recently made some changes and I am not sure that I like them. Don’t forget that their are apps that are only available on Android and other apps that you can also use on Apple and run them at the same time.

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    • Victoria says

      August 2, 2015 at 11:44 am

      Thanks for the tip.

      Reply
  4. Steph says

    January 2, 2016 at 11:05 pm

    Great article! One small correction-iBotta app has a $20 minimum to cash out to PayPal or venmo. As for the gift cards, it appears all have $25 minimum, except iTunes with a $10 minimum.

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    • Victoria says

      January 4, 2016 at 11:59 am

      Thanks for the update, those limits have changed since I first wrote this article.

      Reply

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