It is hard to imagine a modern mobile gadget without a lot of applications that are constantly being improved and updated. But nothing is taken from nowhere, and therefore the user must upload each application to his smartphone or tablet. For owners of Apple technology, as you know, the source of content is the App Store.
How to buy whatever your heart desires in the App Store
If you are already at least minimally familiar with the App Store (if not, get acquainted right now), then it's time to shop here. By the way, this does not necessarily entail spending - a lot of applications are available for free download.
This article is designed to teach you all this. Go.
In order to purchase/download something from the App Store, you first need to have an Apple ID, which you get when you first register in the App Store. And only after successful registration, you can make purchases in the App Store (you can see the structure of the app store).
Free App Store Purchase
- We go to the App Store. Open Top Charts. Please note that on the right there are buttons “free”, “open”, “paid” - which means “free”, “installed”, “paid application”, respectively.
- We click on the application of interest to us. If you tap on the icon itself, you will see a brief description of the application, and if you immediately click on the “free” button, then the installation process will begin. To complete the installation, click "install".
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Not every AppStore purchase requires payment. Hello free downloads!
How to download paid apps from the App Store
To download a paid application, all actions are similar to downloading a free one, only at the end you will need to select a payment method if you did not specify a credit card in the "payment methods" section during registration.
If a credit card was initially selected, then when buying, money will be automatically debited from it. But it is not always possible to use the map, especially in the App Store. For example, changing the country of an account (without being physically located in it) requires the use of a bank card from your "new" country, which, of course, is impossible. But there are options - and about them below.
How to pay for the App Store
Credit or debit cards
At first glance, the easiest and most logical payment method is credit or debit cards, the numbers of which you register when registering an Apple ID. But very often there is no way to “friend” the card with the App Store - it gives an error or the payment simply does not go through, so you are left without an application. And even if you managed to register a card, then making purchases on the Internet should be as careful as possible. And in general, the user may be a minor, and such cards are not supposed to. So, paying by card is a good way, but not entirely reliable.
iTunes, App Store, Apple Music promo codes or gift cards
Promotional codes, as you understand, allow you to get discounts in the App Store when buying paid applications, and gift cards allow you to pay (in whole or in part) for purchases.
Promo codes for the App Store are often given away for free on discount sites, and gift cards can be bought at terminals or mobile phone stores. An App Store gift card allows you to credit the user's account with an amount equal to its face value. The money is credited to the user's Apple ID account, and can be used in the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store. The main condition is that the entry must be made with the same Apple ID to which the funds were credited.
Please note that the money from the Apple Music Gift Card applies only to a subscription to this service and can only be spent on an individual subscription (we'll talk about subscriptions a little later).
To activate the promo code you need:
- go to the App Store and scroll the screen to the very bottom, where select the item "enter code";
- in the pop-up window, enter the promo code, click "done".
Enter App Store discount codes here
We work similarly with iTunes, App Store, Apple Music cards
Payment systems
There are many of them: PayPal, IPay.ua, Apple Pay, Webmoney Transfer, YandexMoney, Alipay, Portmone.com, Privat 24.
Please note that some of these systems do not have official confirmation of activity in Ukraine. But this fact does not prevent them from making payments ☺.
PayPal is one of the largest debit payment systems operating in over 190 countries. Its service allows you to make purchases in almost all areas. This system is also presented in Ukraine, but it is not possible to freely withdraw and transfer money from it. However, this does not scare our users. After performing some manipulations and changing the geolocation in the App Store (what is geolocation and why is it needed, read), you can use this system in the App Store application without restrictions. Quite often, PayPal is registered in the Baltic countries, Poland, Russia and other countries. Registration on the site is clear, you only need to carefully read and fill in the items.
But, of course, it is better to use official services, for example, Portmone, YandexMoney, Privat 24, etc. The activity of their use is now quite high, which gives confidence in their reliability. Registering is quite simple on the site, following the prompts.
How to cancel an App Store purchase
Don't worry, you can get your money back if you don't like the app you downloaded.
You can do this in the following way:
- go to iTunes, click on the "Account" item;
- then open the item "Purchase history", click "Report a problem"
How to remove purchases from the App Store and get your hard-earned money back
- then in the drop-down list, select the item that suits us, for example, "The purchase was made by mistake." After a while, a letter will come to the mail with a lot of text about the rules for buying in the App Store. Estimated money will be returned within 10 days. We advise you not to joke with this method and not to use it often, as soon you will simply be denied a refund.
It is, of course, some craftsmen manage to use this application after the return of money (if you have not deleted it, otherwise re-installation will be paid). But we didn't teach you that!
What are in-app purchases in the App Store
A naive user believes that there are only two types of purchases in the app store: paid and free. But no! There is also such a subtle marketing ploy as built-in purchases. This is, for example, when the creator of the game releases its free version, and already inside the game, the addicted user is invited to purchase an extended version of the application. This offer to buy in addition - and there is a built-in purchase - of course, paid. You can carry it out in the same way as a regular paid purchase.
The fact that the application contains in-app purchases is warned by the phrase under the very name of the program in its description. If you scroll down the description below, you will see a list of in-app purchases with prices.
If you don't want to fall for in-app purchases, you can disable them.
How to disable in-app purchases in the App Store
Make it easy. Go to "Settings" - "General" - "Restrictions" - "Enable restrictions". The system will require you to enter a password for entering and removing restrictions. This password must not be the same as the device password.
How to remove in-app purchases from the App Store
App Store Subscriptions
You probably think that the buying process always looks like this: come, see, pay (one-time) - and that's it. An no. The App Store still has such a thing as a subscription. The logic is as follows: regardless of the purchases, the user pays a certain amount once a period, and then downloads the content using the all-inclusive system. There are subscriptions to Apple Music (first 3 months free), iCloud Music Library (more than 5 GB free) and iTunes Match service, various newspapers, magazines, online services or built-in services in any applications.
You create any subscription yourself - while studying the terms of the subscription, of course. It can be one-time (for example, subscribed for six months, paid, six months later, if desired, manually subscribed again) or automatically updated (paid for a certain period when subscribing, and after this period the system will automatically withdraw money from your account).
To do this, go to "Settings" - "iTunes Store and App Store". Tap on your Apple ID, enter your password, then select "Subscriptions" - "Manage".
How to cancel a subscription in the App Store
Select the desired subscription and change it (for example, expiration date) or remove the renewal - and then after the current expiration date it will no longer be renewed, and you will not have to pay more.
iCloud and iTunes Match subscriptions are not managed according to a pattern. Open accordingly:
- "Settings" - "iCloud" - "Storage" - "Change storage plan" or
- "Settings" - "Music" - "Subscribe to iTunes Match"
In general, the information obtained from this article should be enough for you to have a successful shopping experience in the App Store. And if you have any questions - you are welcome in the comments, gg not without good people.
Housekeeping is easier now than it was even 20 years ago, but it still takes up a lot of time that could be spent doing more enjoyable things. According to a survey by the National School of Economics Research Center, men spend 3 hours a day on housework, and women 5. These 6 apps will help reduce this number and simplify everyday activities: washing dishes, cooking, shopping for groceries and organizing the family budget.
Family planning
The application is in English, but the developers promise to add a Russian version soon. There are no analogues of OurHome in Russian. The application is a to-do planner for the whole family. It has the ability to create an account for each family member and allow everyone to edit tasks and mark the completion of cases. For each case, you can designate the deadline for completion and the person responsible for the task. This app helps you turn cleaning and other daily chores into a competition with points and rewards. The user can set any prize for the accumulated points, for example, dinner in a cafe or exemption from cleaning.
culinary assistant
Povarenok.ru is one of the three largest culinary sites in the CIS. Its application gives access to an account created on a PC or other device. It also allows you to read or save one of the tens of thousands of recipes from the site. Of course, there are dozens of other recipe apps out there, some of them nicer or more versatile. But this application is definitely the absolute champion in the number of recipes and the speed of adding new ones. The application has the ability to search by categories or ingredients. Anyone who likes recipes from Povarenka's chefs can download one of the many collection apps, such as lean, meat, vegetarian and other dishes.
Budget planning
You won’t surprise anyone with applications for making expenses and incomes, but CoinKeeper have gone further. The application is convenient, bright and visual. Any expense item can be written under a separate icon and the desired amount of spending can be planned. During the shopping process, the icon will “fill in”. If you have spent more than planned, you will be notified by a notification and a red icon.
There are daily, weekly and monthly statistics of expenses and account replenishment with graphs and comparison of expectations and reality. In addition, you can keep a budget from several devices: from a smartphone or tablet, and in the future from a PC. The app also suggests where you can and should tighten your belts to reach your savings goal. The application has a built-in calculator. A very convenient feature is the recognition of messages from banks. If the user pays with a credit card, the charges do not have to be entered manually. As soon as the bank informs about changes in the amount on the account, the application will automatically read and add this information.
You can enter information about loans into the application, and notifications will remind you of the monthly payment in time.
The app is free but has a paid premium version with additional features. It is possible to buy a perpetual tariff.
Cost accounting
Zen Money is the main competitor of CoinKeeper in Russia and CIS countries. The set of functions in the application is similar, but the design and some details are different. Firstly, in Zen-mani it is possible to create a separate profile for each of the family members. Anyone who has access to the profile can calculate their personal budget and add expenses or income to the family budget. Also, the developers have added the function of reading a QR code from checks. Entering a long list of purchases is a boring and exhausting procedure, and recognizing a receipt's QR code solves this problem. In addition, the application has its own website, with which you can control the budget from a personal computer.
first aid kit
A first aid kit is an indispensable application for a responsible housewife. It contains about 8,000 instructions for the use of medicines. Now there is no need to keep drug leaflets - they are always with you in your smartphone. The application menu is very simple: just enter the name of the drug in the search and you will receive full information about the drug. The main advantage of the application is work without the Internet, and in the additional settings you will find the full composition of the drug.
Smart shopping list
Listonic shopping list is the most popular and convenient application among others. It remembers frequently used products and suggests them when creating new lists. Also, any list can be dictated into a voice recorder, Listonic will calmly parse a long record with many names. The application helps to avoid unpleasant surprises at the checkout. You can specify a price for each product and the built-in calculator will calculate the final check. Listonic is convenient for the whole family to use. Several people can connect to one account at once, which makes conversations with the questions “What to buy?” and the fear of forgetting an important ingredient for a festive dinner.
calorie calculator
One of the most accessible and feature rich calorie counting apps is MyfitnessPal. This program collects information about 5 million products, and the application database is updated daily. The application has useful features such as statistics and a report on the dynamics of weight, a barcode scanner, create your own dishes, a report on the amount of nutrients consumed, including proteins, fats and carbohydrates.
Among other things, this program contains a huge amount of training and physical exercises. This allows you to enter into the statistics the types of physical activity, as well as the number of approaches. This feature requires Internet access. In addition, another positive quality of the application is the synchronization of the account with the site: you can create a report both from the application and from a computer. The app itself is free, but some features are only available with the purchase of a paid version.
The most useful tips - a simple and convenient guide for a person leading a household. Even before life hacks were invented, housewives looked into thick volumes with titles like "How to Clean the Kitchen" or "100 Ways to Cook Dinner." Books are becoming a thing of the past, but this app will replace them. The design is minimalistic, there are no paid features. The user can view the latest advice from doctors, educators, electricians, plumbers and other professionals. Topics are the most topical, starting with the registration of the bill of sale for an apartment and ending with a quick cleaning of a new carpet.
In the age of high technology, you want to use electronic media to the maximum, and now developers offer our attention a variety of applications that should make everyday life easier for an ordinary person. Surely each of us goes to the store and, in order not to forget anything, writes down all the products on paper before leaving the house, but this is the last century, now there are mobile devices, thanks to which you can easily make the right list, indicate the price and not worry about that you will lose it or doubt it.
So, the most popular applications among users that can be found on Android devices: Shopping, Let It Shop, Mighty Grocery, Out of Milk Shopping List, DrShopper, and, of course, Buy a Baton!.
Go shopping
- Category: Purchases
- Developer: IQT Ltd
- Version: 4.3.1
- Price: Free for 15 days, then - $1.5 - Google Play
« Go shopping”is an application that has become popular not only among Android users, but also iOS, with which you can easily create the shopping list you need. This application has existed on Google Play for about two years, and during this time the developers have updated it more than once and added new interesting features. But, as a rule, you have to pay extra for new features.
The functionality of the application allows you to quickly and easily create another shopping list using the built-in catalog, which contains not only products, but also household appliances, as well as clothes and other useful goods. There is a very convenient auto-suggestion function, thanks to which each user will be able to make exactly the shopping list that he needs.
The application will automatically "scatter" all the products in your list into pre-prepared categories, which will look visual in the future and will not make it difficult to find the right product from the list.
In addition, the application has a two-way list synchronization between the website and the application on the mobile device. But, as mentioned earlier, new features are paid, and this one was no exception, developers are asking for only $ 1 for it. It is noteworthy that the application can easily "pull out" the list from the SMS message or email sent to you. If you like widgets, then it is here, although it takes up the entire desktop and its presence will also cost you $ 1.
Application " Go shopping"can be downloaded on Google Play absolutely free, but it will work for the first 15 days, and in the future you can purchase it for just 1.5 dollars.
Mighty Grocery
Mighty Grocery- convenient and no less functional shopping list, which has a clear and simple interface.
The development of this miracle is the Mighty Pocket studio, which has been promoting and adding new features to its application for several years. Since the first appearance on Google Play, the developers have completely redesigned the program interface and added new features.
During testing, the program did an excellent job with its main responsibilities. But the most important thing is that creating a list is very easy and fast with just a few taps. As in the previous program, there is an opportunity to choose goods from a wide variety of categories, be it products, household appliances, or more narrowly focused goods. The goods included in the shopping list will be divided into categories, which, if desired, can be transferred from one to another independently.
It is noteworthy that in Mighty Grocery there is a convenient function of "Favorites" products, where the most entered products in the shopping lists will be located. With this feature, users will spend less time creating similar shopping lists. All purchased goods and spent money can be viewed in the "Stories" section.
The full version of the application differs from the free one in that it has the ability to save the created shopping lists to cloud storage.
Let It Shop
Let It Shop- Another application with which you can easily create a complete shopping list. Despite the fact that this application, unlike the previous two, appeared on Google Play, not so long ago managed to recruit a lot of users who successfully use it and are not ready to change it.
The functionality of the application is also similar to the listed programs and without a tour allows the user to create a convenient shopping list. Creating a list is very easy, all you need to do is enter the name of the product in the top line, specify the quantity, price and click the add button. The list will be automatically updated. To add a new list, you need to swipe to the right side and create a new list in the usual way.
A clear advantage of the application is the huge library of products that the developers have added to the application. There are no household appliances here, but there are the most popular medicines and essential foodstuffs.
Unfortunately, there is no division of goods into categories in the application, and it is not yet clear when this division will appear here. If we compare this application with those already listed, then this program is inferior in functionality to almost all eminent programs from this category.
DrShopper
DrShopper- probably one of the oldest and most famous application among users for quickly creating a shopping list. Yes, the application did not have a huge list of products at its disposal, but still the application interface can be called convenient to use.
This application also has the ability to create a shopping list with available categories, indicating the price and quantity of goods. If you wish, you can create a list on the site, and then send it to your phone and go to the store with peace of mind. Creating a shopping list is quite simple, you need to specify the name, then enter the product, indicate the desired category, quantity and its price.
Out of Milk Shopping List
Out of Milk Shopping List- judging by the number of downloads on Google Play (more than 10,000,000), this application can be called the most popular. In addition to the main function of creating shopping lists, this application allows the user to plan their further actions during the day.
In the main menu of the application, you can find three main tabs: shopping list, to-do list and pantry. By the name of the first two tabs, you can guess about their functionality. The third tab is used to record those products that the user has at home and can be stored for a long time. It is with the help of such simple functions that developers offer the user to monitor the availability of products that are in the house, write down a shopping list and things to do.
Saving is nice. Even a couple of dozen saved rubles warm the soul. But saving is not an easy task, you need to know the prices in stores, follow the promotions. Fortunately, today for this it is not necessary to bypass all department stores within a radius of ten kilometers: convenient mobile applications will find everything, calculate, compare and prompt. Well, we will advise you.
You can get part of the money spent in online stores back, in the form of a cashback - buy in the usual places, but through the MTS Cashback application. Up to 25% of the cost of purchases will be returned to a special account in the program.
"Edadil": save on food
We spend a significant part of our income on food, and therefore saving is especially important here. The Edadil application allows you to track discounts in all supermarkets in your city, indicates the nearest stores and, most importantly, allows you to buy cheaper.
The program itself will determine the city in which you are located, and if something goes wrong, you will have the opportunity to correct the error. Let's go through the menu located at the bottom of the screen. The first tab, marked with a yellow coupon and a "%" sign, is discounts. Here you can find out about all the great deals for today.
The second tab, marked with a red heart, is favorites. Here you can add a list of your favorite stores to always be able to check what discounts and promotions they have today.
The pointer icon is a map. Here you can see which stores are nearby. The number in the green circle means the number of shares in each of them.
Green basket - shopping. Make a list of what you need, and the application will tell you where to buy it cheaper.
And finally, the "Cashback" section stores data about goods, for the purchase of which you can get back part of the money spent. Just collect checks, scan them with your smartphone and get from 5 to 20% of the amount spent on your card.
Pay attention to the blue strip "I'm in the store." By clicking on it and marking the store you are currently in, you will receive a complete "local" list of discounts and promotions.
We hope that now trips to the store will become less ruinous.
Download Edadil
- Google Play
- AppStore
Yandex.Market: saving on household appliances and other large purchases
A person, as you know, does not live on bread alone, even with butter and a cutlet. Sometimes you have to buy something that you can’t eat, and at the same time spend big: household appliances, for example. And here the economy is absolutely necessary. The Yandex.Market application allows you to view all stores and choose the right item at the best price.
In the application, you can navigate by icons with goods, or you can drive the desired one into the search column.
For example, let's find a good and inexpensive laptop. We go to the desired section and see all the offers with ratings of users who have already bought such equipment.
There is also a "Filters" button, by clicking on which, we get into the search settings. Here you can choose the desired price of our laptop, its manufacturer, specifications and much more.
After entering all the parameters, the application will select suitable offers. Now you need to click on the gray line at the bottom of the screen and go to the list of equipment.
Having chosen a laptop, you can immediately order it by going to the store page.
Download "Yandex.Market"
- Google Play
- AppStore
Money Manager: keep track of where the money goes
Saving is not only not overpaying, but also knowing exactly what, how much and when spent. Money Manager will allow you to keep track of money coming in and going out and to consider whether it is worth giving up daily coffee on the way to work in favor of a possible trip abroad in six months.
The application is extremely easy to use. Open and press the plus button.
Enter the expense amount.
Similarly, you can enter income: salary, interest in the bank, gifts in an envelope from colleagues on their birthday. All expenses and incomes are displayed on the main page and summed up at the end of the day and month.
Now you can budget more effectively.
Download Money Manager
- Google Play
- AppStore
Kaspersky Who Calls: we don't let ourselves be swindled for money
No calculations will help if you become a victim of a scammer. A favorite technique of crooks is to call the phone and, pretending to be bank agents, ask for a password from your card, a code from an SMS from the bank, and so on. Very often swindlers are masters of their bad deeds, and many come across, behaving recklessly. Kaspersky Who Calls offers reliable protection against intruder calls.
After installing the application, give it access to your phone book and calls.
Now every unknown phone will be checked by the program. Look, this room is clean.
This one is clearly suspicious. Click the "Spam" button, and they will not be able to call you from it again.
And, of course, the program contains the phone numbers of the country's main banks, so if a person appears to be a bank employee, and the number is not defined, this is most likely a scammer. In general, do not lose vigilance!
