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Best Apps to Save Money on Groceries - The 7 best apps for HUGE savings on groceries! - YouTube
Channel: Lauren Greutman
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Are you looking for the best apps to save
money on groceries?
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Well, look no further, because today I'm going
to share with you the seven best apps to save
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money on groceries and give you some money
back in your pocket.
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So if that interests you, let's get learning.
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All right, welcome back to my channel.
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If you are new here, my name is Lauren from
LaurenGreutman.com.
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I am a debt free life coach as well as the
author of the book, The Recovering Spender.
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Over the past decade of teaching people how
to save money, get out of debt and learn how
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to scrimp on their budgets, I've learned that
the number one place where people are actually
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overspending is on their food bill.
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Huge, massive, thousands of dollars a month.
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I'm going to teach you how to reduce this
by using these money saving apps.
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Really simple, really easy, so you want to
make sure that you stick around to see all
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the ones that I'm talking about today.
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Now, each app that I'm going to be talking
about today is a little bit unique, a little
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bit different.
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You can actually use multiple apps on the
same grocery shopping trip.
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We're going to learn how to stack these savings
today, so that you don't just use one app
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to save, you're using all seven on the same
receipt and being able to see huge savings.
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All right, let's dive in.
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The number one app that we're going to talk
about today is the Fetch Rewards app.
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The Fetch app actually is an app that lets
you earn rewards for uploading pictures of
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your receipt and you trade these in for free
gift cards.
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This actually is my favorite app right now
that I'm using, and I'm earning probably the
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most amount of money on.
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So you simply take a picture of your receipt,
and you earn bonus points, 25 points, just
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for adding the receipts in.
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But then you also earn extra points for items
that have extra specials going on.
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For example, let's say that a certain kind
of butter has a $1, or whatever amount of
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points that looks like, when you buy that
and scan your receipt with the Fetch app,
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it'll upload those points directly into your
Fetch app.
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It's super duper easy.
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All you just do is take your receipt... and
I usually do this right after I get in the
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car from the grocery store, and I take a simple
picture of the receipt.
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I've been able to earn Dunkin' Donuts gift
cards, Sephora gift cards, Amazon gift cards,
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and the points really stack up pretty easily.
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What I really like about the Fetch Rewards
app is that it's not like Ibotta, which we're
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going to talk about next, where you have to
actually pre-shop and see what those deals
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are before you buy them.
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This can give you rewards on any receipt,
at the dollar store, the gas station, you
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can upload any kind of receipt.
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It doesn't have to be from a specific store
like Aldi, or Walmart or Target, and that
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makes saving really, really easy.
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You want to sign up, I actually have a special
coupon code where you can get a few thousand
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free points.
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If you use the coupon code UG MAP, then you
can get a couple thousand points to get started
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just for free.
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I also left a link to sign up for it in the
comments with the coupon code, just in case
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you missed it, so that you can get those free
points.
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The second app that we're going to be talking
about is actually called SavingStar, and SavingStar
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is pretty similar to a lot of these other
ones.
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There's nothing to clip or print to earn these
digital coupons.
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You simply link your grocery store cards to
this app, and then when you check out using
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some of the rewards from this store, then
you have to upload your receipt and they give
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you points or cash back.
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I really like SavingStar, you can use this
on top of Fetch and on top of all the other
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ones that you have.
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They also have some really great healthy offers,
50 cents off of grapes or something like that.
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They tend to gear more towards that.
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That's really helpful.
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When you really like fresh produce, that SavingStar
can really help you to save money on those.
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With SavingStar, you ask to get your earnings
up to $20 before you can cash out.
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They can give you gift cards, and you can
also get a check or they can send you money
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via PayPal, but you have to get up to that
$20 reward bonus before they'll give you any
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money back.
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The third app we're going to talk about is
Ibotta, and this is an app similar to the
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other ones, but just a little bit different
in the sense that you have to get them from
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a certain store.
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For example, they have offers from Target,
and it's a Target only offer.
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So you have to buy the item at Target.
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When you upload your receipt, it has to be
a Target receipt.
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With Ibotta you get cash back, and you just
need to keep your receipt handy, scan your
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products.
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Don't throw the product barcode out, you have
to actually scan the barcode of the product
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that you've purchase before you get your money
back.
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Keep that in mind when you're looking at Ibotta,
that these are pre-approved offers from certain
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stores and you have to upload the receipt
and the barcode of the item.
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But it really has a lot of really great offers,
and again, you can stack these savings, you
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can get, if let's say there's an offer at
Target and both SavingStar and Ibotta have
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this same offer, you can use the same receipt
to scan into both apps and earn cash back
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on both.
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The fourth one we're going to talk about is
called Checkout 51, and this is actually great
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because it works at any store.
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So, unlike Ibotta, Checkout 51 works at any
store, Dollar Store, Aldi, Walmart, wherever
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you want to save money, and it really works
very, very well to give you those cash back
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offers.
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Again, Checkout 51 a lot of times we'll give
you offers on produce and things like that.
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Definitely go and check that out, and download
at Checkout 51.
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With Checkout 51 the one thing you need to
know is, again, you have to get up to that
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$20 price point before you can check out,
but they'll give you PayPal or cash.
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So just keep that in mind, that these are
bonus offers that you're going to get back
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over.
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This is more of a longterm savings plan.
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You can use coupons, and meal plan and all
of that as well as using these, and these
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are kind of like icing on the cake I think.
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The fifth one that we're going to talk about
is called the Flipp app and I love the Flipp
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app.
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What they do, is they have the digital circulars
of the stores in your area right inside the
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app.
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You can flip through the circulars.
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If you tap on something inside one of the
digital circulars, it'll actually add it to
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your shopping list so that you can see where
it is in the circular, and it's really, really
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simple, easy to use.
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One of my favorite things that I like to use
the Flipp app for, is it helps me compare
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items across stores.
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Let's say I'm looking for chicken for a recipe,
and I need to know where I can find chicken
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the cheapest.
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I can simply go into the app, I can search
for chicken and it's going to pull up all
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of the stores around me that have chicken
on sale, or that have deals on chicken so
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that I can go to that store and I don't have
to actually flip through all of the circulars.
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They do all the work for me.
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Another thing that I love about the Flipp
app is the grocery shopping list.
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When I make my grocery shopping list, I use
my personal finance planner and then I transcribe
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that list into the Flipp app, so that I can
easily check off what I need inside the list
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and it makes shopping super duper easy so
I don't miss a thing.
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Another cool thing about the Flipp app is
they store all of your store loyalty cards
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right within the app, so you don't have to
have them on your key ring all the time.
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I know my key ring has so many different keys
and whatever on it.
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ut you can actually store, you scan your cards
right in there.
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So I'll just do is pull out your phone and
show them to the clerk and you're good to
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go.
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All right, the sixth app we're going to talk
about today is called RedLaser.
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What you do with RedLaser, is you scan the
barcode of any item that you want.
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What it does is it compares prices for not
only your local stores but also online.
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This is very helpful for me because I eat
gluten free, and a lot of the items in the
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stores are actually more expensive than I
would buy on Amazon, or Vitacost or other
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health food stores online.
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So, if I'm buying something at a health food
store here that's gluten free, I can scan
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the product with a RedLaser, and it's going
to tell me the price of that and compare the
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prices across not only my local stores, but
also online vendors, which makes it very easy
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for me to make an educated decision while
I'm in the store.
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All right, and the last app that we're going
to talk about today is Instacart.
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Now, I know that this does not need an introduction,
but this app works very well to actually save
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people on groceries.
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So, let me talk a little bit about this.
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A lot of people think, "Oh, Instacart is more
expensive."
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But actually, what happens, if you have a
problem with impulse buying or going over
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budget, I highly recommend that you use Instacart
for at least a month to three months to learn
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your spending issues, or problems or weaknesses,
because it's really going to help you to see
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where you typically overspend.
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Now, I'm a huge Aldi shopper, and Aldi has
what we like to call the aisle of shame, if
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you know what I mean.
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This is the aisle that has all of the fun
decorations, and activities, and workout gear,
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and grilling stuff and cooking stuff.
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This can be very troublesome for a lot of
people.
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They go to Aldi with 100 bucks, and end up
coming home spending 200 because they found
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a canopy that was on sale.
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If you have a spending problem and you're
trying to get that under control, I highly
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recommend that you use Instacart to do your
grocery shopping for you, because you can
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super easily do that without overspending
and stay within budget.
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That app, even though it doesn't actually
give you cash back, will help you save a lot
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of money on your groceries.
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Especially, if you're really an overspender,
and you just can't seem to get it under control.
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Okay, so there we have it, seven apps.
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I've left links to all apps that I talked
about in the description box below.
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Make sure that you go, click on them.
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Some of them are my affiliate links, disclaimer,
so I earn a little bit of cash if you click
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on them.
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If you are trying to save money on groceries,
which is why you're probably here watching
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this video, let me help you.
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I have a free 10 dinner meal plan for you,
that you can click in the description box
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below.
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It's 10 Crock-Pot freezer meals.
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You spend 80 bucks and you assemble them all
in under one hour.
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If you love to save money on groceries, you
can save those receipts and input them right
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into these apps that I talked about afterwards,
so it's probably even cheaper than 80 bucks,
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you know what I mean?
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But it's a free meal plan, I want to give
that to you as a thank you for watching this
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video.
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And yes, thank you for tuning in and I will
see you next time.
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Bye.
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