Shopping applications give turn-by-turn directions to the nearest supermarkets, hotels, gas stations, restaurants, gyms, ATMs, banks and movie theaters, and also help consumers find great deals.

Whether you need an app to help you find a store offering the best price on an item you are looking for, or you need help finding a good gift idea, these Android shopping apps can help. We list the best Android coupon app, the best Android shopping app, and the best Android gift suggestion app we could find.

The Coupons App

Enjoy awesome savings at your favorite department stores, restaurants and gas stations with one of the most popular coupon apps for the Android platform. It is not uncommon to find discounts and offers of more than 30-50% off; you can also use the app to get free samples and magazines. Some other popular features include:

• Barcode scanning to find matching prices
• The ability to share coupons by email, Twitter and Facebook
• The ability to do a voice search of available coupons
• Save coupons to your calendar or a map.

Best of all you can simply display coupons from the phone to redeem it. You can download this free Android coupon app from this link.

Giftmeister

Deciding on the right gift for someone, in this day and age, can be much harder than actually finding somewhere that sells the product at a good price. GiftMeister gives gift suggestions by allowing you to search for gift ideas according to age, gender, price range and lifestyle (music lover, techno geek etc). It will then present to you a list of suggestions that you can select a present from. Unfortunately, the categories are too large and the interface needs some refinement. Thankfully the app is free; you can download it from this link.

Grocery iQ

Use this app to quickly build your grocery lists by simply: saying the name, scanning the barcode, or using the predictive search feature. As it relate to lists, you can create several shopping lists so you can have one for the garden-store, supermarket or make a list of ingredients to bake your next pound cake. The app allows you to search for coupons by category, and if you like, you can send a coupon to a friend or print it out if you prefer to have a physical copy to go shopping with.  You can download the app from this link.

Better Christmas list

Lists everyone you need to shop for and divide them into categories so you can track spending and remember what you got someone so you don’t have to bust your brain trying to figure out what the get them next year.

Features of this Christmas shopping list app includes:

• Gift Tracking by Person
• Gift Cost Tracking
• Cost Summary
• Password protection

You can download a copy of this shopping list app from this link; by the way, you will need to budget a grand total of $1.99 to have this one.

Image credits: Each image is the property of the respective app developer

Android Shopping App – Better Christmas list

Grocery iQ – Grocery list shopping app

Giftmeister – Android Gift Suggestion App

Shop Around – Android Store Locator App

The Coupons App – Android Coupon App

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