Rewards and point system cards are everywhere. Airline frequent flier cards, gas station rewards cards, grocery store rewards cards, library cards, etc. The number of cards one could potentially carry is limitless. Unless you have a wallet like George Castanza from Seinfeld or a deep purse, no one can carry around all their cards everywhere they go.
But, the savings and points you could be accumulating if you had all the cards at your disposal is limitless.
Now that you are attached to your iPhone or iPod Touch and never let it leave your side for a minute, there is an app for that!
Key Ring Rewards Cards is a free iPhone app that lets you carry around all your cards and their info in your iPhone. It saves time and money!
The app has a Barcode scanner that can read EAN, UPCA, CODE39 & CODE128 codes. Even if your card doesn’t have a barcode, you can manually enter your card number and details and store it. They already have a limited number of retailers built into their system.
I just dumped my wallet out and entered all the cards I had in there into this app. When I am a store I just whip out my iPhone and let the bar code scanner read the code from my iPhone. If the store doesn’t have that facility, I’ll just have to ask the cashier to enter the card number. It might draw a frown but it beats carrying the card around or feeling sorry for leaving it at home and missing a sale.
Once I register with Key Ring’s online service, all my cards are backed up and restored to any new device I may install my app on.
I can even add custom images to the apps as well as print cards should I need them sometime. The scanner didn’t quite work too well for me in a couple of instances but had luck with most. I’d love to see the functionality of an app that knows your location and alerts you have a card stored for the store you are in and also show all the current sale and coupons for that store right in this app.
If you know of an app that already does this (I think there is one by the guy who starred in Heroes as a detective), let us know in the comments.
For the price of $0, Key Ring is a great app to have in your iPhone.
Lighten up your hefty wallet right now and carry the stuff that matters. You will save your butt, literally.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Availability: App Store
Price: FREE
Version reviewed at: 2.2
