Once upon a time there was a quiz on TV where competitors had to guess the price of products based on experience and intuition, but today it is possible to know the price of practically everything for sale with extreme precision, thanks to the internet and one smartphone. These services allow you to know not only the price of a product, but also to compare that of the various stores to find out if you can save money and where that product can be bought at the lowest price .
This is useful not only for online shopping but also in the real one at the store or mall.
For example, let's say you go to Mediaworld or Trony or UniEuro to find a printer, router or camera.
Turning around the shelves you will find various models with the relative price on the tag.
To find out if that price is the lowest, take a picture of the product using your mobile phone (or rather the product barcode ) and an application can immediately tell us the price of that identical item in other stores.
If there is a good difference, you can buy that same item online from the smartphone itself or, if you prefer, from home on the computer or, if close, to the shop where it costs less.
I can assure you that, at least in the electronics and information technology sector, there are such different offers and prices online that it is almost never convenient to buy at the mall.
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In this article we see the best applications, for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone, to compare product prices and save on purchases of everything .
1) Amazon App
Since Amazon is the largest, best stocked, most reliable and most convenient (because it almost never has shipping costs), before buying something expensive, it is very convenient to compare its price at the store with that offered by Amazon.
The application for Android, iPhone and Windows Phone has, in the search bar, the button with the barcode icon that allows you to take a photo of a product code and find it immediately on Amazon.
If you are unable to photograph the code, you can search by name by indicating the model and finding it on the online store.
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2) ShopSavy, for Android, Windows Phone and iPhone, is similar to RedLaser, faster and easier to use, not yet fully localized in Italy, but still excellent for knowing the price of a product in foreign online stores, from which, shipping costs permitting, you can buy without problems.
3) Google Shopping is not an application, but a smartphone website where you can search for products and compare prices from online stores in order to find the lowest.
A similar site is Trovaprezzi.it, Italian, very complete and reliable.
4) ScanLife is another app, for Android, Windows Phone and iPhone, similar to RedLaser, to scan barcodes and find, for each product, if there are offers and sales on online shopping websites.
5) Trovaprezzi, for Android and iPhone, is an Italian application specialized in comparing the prices of supermarkets and shopping centers for food and technology products.
The app allows you to scan bar codes and product names also giving an indication on the nearby supermarket where to find the same product at the lowest price.
6) Idealo, for iPhone and Android is an application that compares the prices of products of all kinds, checking in the main online stores including Amazon, eBay, Media World, Fnac and Zalando.
Also in this app there is a barcode scanner to immediately locate a product, search for it online, read description and reviews and compare prices.
Perhaps, for the Italian market, this is the best app for saving money.
7) Doveconegue is the main site to see the flyers of offers from supermarkets in Italy.
The application of DoveConveni, available for iPhone, Android and Windows, therefore does not make a price comparison, but allows you to find the stores in which to save.
The app is well updated and very easy to use, so much so that it is among the most appreciated in Italy.
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