I am no coupon clipper. There is far too much patience and paper for me to ever aspire to that level of money saving. Fortunately, there are a few apps that feel my pain and help me save sans the clippers. The extra nice perk, they are free! No "spend money to save money". So, here are two of my favorite money saving apps!
Publix Ad
This app is free from Publix and has all of the weekly deals along with special offers that may not be displayed in the store. When you open the app, you choose your store from the nearest to your zip code, and look at the weekly deals! It is a pretty easy app to understand and your store can be changed at any time. The app has four main categories: the store selector, offers, brands, and the weekly add. I mainly use it for the weekly add, but the "offers" tab is pretty neat too!
Offers show you all the offers that are available in the different areas of the store i.e. groceries, pet care, pharmacy etc. For a free app, it is nice, although I do wish that there was a way to collect or copy the offers you are interested in. All that is available now is memorizing what I want and adding it to my grocery app... pretty time consuming for something that was made to make my life easier. Overall, I would give it four stars. It is a solid app for the purpose, just wish it had a few more bells and whistles.
Target
Oh, I love Target and this Target app is wonderful for those who love Target and saving money. Not only does it give you all the weekly ads of your nearest Target, but it also tells you about upcoming events. I have actually found myself using this app more than Target.com and for pretty good reason. It shows all products available, featured products, weekly ads, a list option and a way to check up on gift cards and their balances. Pretty neat! What I love most about the list option is you can create as many lists as you want. Oh boy will this be helpful at Christmas!
The Target app is also compatible with Passbook and works pretty well with it. Although I have still not become a firm lover of Passbook with it's funny quirks, I do love using both these apps together! This app definitely gets five stars from me!