Best Shopping Apps For Android 2014

Android shopping apps may be small, but they still pack a significant punch when it comes time to organize your grocery lists, extend the ability of existing big apps, or make the most of utilities. You might find lesser counterparts around the iTunes store that accomplish exactly the same things, but you can guarantee they'll be hand in hand with poor reading user reviews.

Some of us tend to overlook the shopping category whenever we think about innovative and helpful apps, but thankfully there are plenty of developers out there that do think of it and develop shopping android apps accordingly. So when it comes to these shopping apps, users notice iOS brings some meager choices to the table.

Amazon App Store

Among the great things about Android is that you’re NOT locked into only one app store, like you are with iOS and Windows Phone. You don’t need to root or “jail brake” your Android phone to set up another app store. It’s perfectly legitimate to do this on Android and is activated with only a simple settings change on any Android phone or tablet.

Best to buy

This is a front end to the Best to buy web site and is very useful when you’re inside a physical Best Buy store. If you’ll notice, most products possess a ticket on the shelf with a price, a little description, and a 2D QR barcode. Scan it with this app and you’ll obtain the full details of the product.

FedEx

The FedEx app is extremely useful when you’re tracking a packing you’ve either sent or expect to receive (such as one you ordered with say, the Amazon app). The screen shot right pretty much sums up what this app does. It’s short and simple… It will the things you expect and nothing fancy.

QR Droid & Barcode Scanner

Both apps “QR Droid” and “Barcode Scanner” allow you to scan those 2D barcodes you’re seeing everywhere. They usually represent a URL and it’s extremely easy to scan them in places like BestBuy on product tags in the shops or on movie posters or perhaps on web sites on your desktop computer to bunch the URL on your phone. Installing QR Droid also provides you with the ability to create your OWN QR Codes.

Google Shopper

Google continued a rampage last year, axing many apps. Google Shopper was one of these. So, this is no longer available. But see “Google Offers” below. But, here’s my review from this past year: Google Shopper integrates with “Barcode Scanner” (reviewed above). Scan any barcode which app will find multiple sources for your product. This is probably the best way to get the best price on anything.