There’s no overstating how essential our phones are to making life that little bit easier. But are you taking full advantage of what you can access at the touch of a button?
With recommendations for everything from parking and pets to plants and podcasts, here are Checklist’s top app recommendations this month.
Take charge of your fitness
Looking to get in shape? Founded by Grace Beverley, the award winning, the top rated SHREDDY app has helped over half a million women reach their health and fitness goals since launching in 2016.
With a newly updated look, the fitness app features trending workouts and guides that are easy to navigate between. Simply choose from one of their hundreds of workout plans and break a sweat during one of their carefully curated sessions.
Made to adapt with how you like to work out, you can switch it up between home and gym sessions, swap out exercises you don’t like and add additional workouts to your schedule. You’ll also gain access to hundreds of delicious recipes, with new recipes being added all the time.
Until 16th June, users can get up to 45% off the SHREDDY app*, making membership as little as £4.08 a month. Plus get free protein bars when you sign up for a year!
The info: Click here to begin your fitness journey.
*Terms and conditions apply.
A must-have app for any dog owner!
We all love taking care of our fluffy friends, but there’s often a lot to stay on top of. Stay motivated with an app that rewards you for walking and looking after of your pup.
The Biscuit Pet Care app is a rewards app designed to keep your dog active, happy and healthy. Get rewarded with Biscuits, their points system, for taking care of your dog through daily walks, hitting weekly goals and completing routine pet care.
Biscuits can be exchanged for gift vouchers for your favourite shops and restaurants! Shop with M&S and Amazon, enjoy The Dining Out Card, a takeaway from Deliveroo, or feed the family from Tesco… plus many, many more!
Improve you and your dog’s health and fitness by keeping your streaks going, and join thousands of other dog owners walking towards helpful savings.
The info: Click here to download from the App Store or on Google Play.
Affordable long-distance coach travel
Looking to travel but put off by the spiralling cost of train tickets? Your next adventure doesn’t need to drain your bank balance – simply book a trip on the UK’s fastest-growing coach network.
With over 60 UK destinations in their network – plus international routes to continental Europe – Flixbus provides affordable, reliable travel. Tickets start from as little as £4.49 and, if you live in Scotland, they’re free for Young Scot and all National Entitlement Card holders.
On board, you’ll find comfortable seats, free unlimited wi-fi, handy USB charging to keep you connected during your journey, and you'll feel good knowing that going by bus is a much more eco-friendly way to travel compared to car or plane.
Easy, convenient online and app booking mean your next shopping spree, girls trip or romantic break is just a few clicks and a FlixBus away.
The info: Click here to book now or download the app.
Order a car wash to your doorstep
A weekly task that many of us put off is washing our wheels. While there’s no better feeling that driving a sparkling car, the faff of a deep clean is more than most of us can muster.
Clean Me is a marketplace of over 200 expert mobile car cleaners who can offer simple car washes, full valets and even detailing across more than 1,200 locations across the UK.
Say goodbye to queues and long waits at your local garage. With a few clicks and straightforward booking, you can have an expert cleaner turn up on your driveway. Available from the App Store and Play Store, the Clean Me app makes ordering a car wash as easy as ordering a pizza by bringing the car wash to you.
The info: Click here to find out more.
Find your next used car!
If a car upgrade is something you’ve been mulling over, you’ll be glad to know that there’s an app for that! CarGurus takes the guesswork out of car shopping by providing unbiased insights into car pricing, dealer reputation, and vehicle history, and serving everything up in an easy-to-understand format.
Shoppers can see whether a car is priced fairly, and gain access to all the key negotiation information right there on the app. And if you want to sell your car, CarGurus can help with that too.
The proprietary algorithm digs deeper, analysing millions of data points like price, accident history, dealer reviews, and dealer location to give cars a deal rating from great to overpriced.
CarGurus will even let you know any time there’s a price drop on a car you’ve saved. You’ll also receive new deals and car recommendations based on your search. Getting a good deal on your next car has never been easier.
The info: Clickhere to shop now on the app.
Take better care of your plants
Not sure how to properly look after your plants at home? PlantIn is an app for identifying, caring, and curing plants. It is ranked third in the Education category on the App Store and supports 23 million users worldwide.
PlantIn satisfies the need for an AI plant scanner, water, light and pot meter, disease identifier, and detailed indoor and outdoor plant guides! It will also give a helping hand to passionate gardeners as it provides full guides on harvesting.
The app features a database of 18,000 plants with an identification accuracy of 95.8%. The users get notifications when watering, misting, and fertilising are needed, though a custom care schedule is also available.
If the plant feels blue, the user is welcome to identify the cause and learn more about the problem, discovering how to treat and prevent similar troubles. In addition, PlantIn has various collaborations with online plant stores and participates in plant care events.
The info: Clickhere to download the app on iOS and Android.
Investing made simple
Looking to dip your toes in the world of investing? eToro are a multi-asset investment platform that offers 5,000 instruments including stocks, indices, ETFs, currencies, commodities and cryptoassets.
Not just a place to invest online, eToro is also the ideal platform to engage, connect, and share strategies with other investors. Their award-winning CopyTrader technology enables you to replicate top-performing traders’ portfolios automatically.
Their innovative smart portfolios are ready-made, fully allocated portfolios utilising cutting-edge technology to pick the best-performing assets.
Users can also easily view valuable market research, technical analysis, and ProCharts at a glance, create and customise Watchlists and set volatility alerts, to be the first to catch breaking trends. And if you’re not in-the-know when it comes to investing, the eToro Academy is your one-stop resource to empower yourself with the knowledge.
The info: Clickhere to download the app and start investing.
Don’t invest unless you’re prepared to lose all the money you invest. eToro (UK) Ltd. is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority, FCA Register number 583263.
Get status in sportswear
Are you into your activewear? Someone who’s always keen to look their best at the gym? You can now earn points when shopping at JD Sports, courtesy of their JD STATUS app.
Rewarding customers every time they shop in-store and online, JD STATUS allows members to earn 10% cashback on their first in-store or online purchase, which they can then use to save the next time they shop in-store.
Even though the app only launched last October, over one million JD customers are already reaping its benefits. Members also gain access to various other rewards and perks like the one millionth customer to sign up who won £1,000 JD Cash.
Also in celebration of reaching the milestone, one customer from each store received £50. Even more impressively, four JD STATUS members also won tickets to the recent UEFA Champions League Final at Wembley as part of a competition offered in association with Mastercard.
The info: Click here to download the app.
Get more knowledge in less time
Looking to soak up more knowledge but don’t have time to pour over an entire book? Blinkist is the perfect app for curious people who love to learn but are too busy to read.
They provide straightforward, simple 15-minute breakdowns of popular books and podcasts. This allows you to get the key ideas from non-fiction bestsellers in minutes, not hours. They’ll also provide you with lists curated by experts and recommendations personalised to you.
To bring you key insights from the biggest educational podcasts, they’ve teamed up with the creators behind them to bring you all the must-know info.
Each subscription is a small investment leading to incredible opportunities for growth. Simply sign up and gain access to powerful ideas from more than 6,500 books and podcasts.
The info: Click here to get 50% off a yearly subscription with offer code 'keeplearning_checklist50’.*
*Terms and conditions apply.
Find a secure space to park up
Any driver knows that one of the biggest headaches when visiting somewhere new is finding somewhere to park. That’s where JustPark can help: a dedicated app designed to help you find the perfect spot, even in congested areas like Central London.
As one of the UK’s most trusted parking apps*, you can rely on JustPark to find you exclusive spaces on private driveways or in busy car parks in order to get you the best deals. You can pre-book hourly, daily and even monthly parking that’s cheaper and closer to wherever it is you need to be.
With over 100,000 spaces to choose from across the UK, you can be sure that a convenient space is always nearby – whether you’re heading to the airport, going to a concert, or even just doing your daily commute.
Start using the smarter way to find parking.
The info: Click here to download the app.
*Rated excellent on Trustpilot - based on 117,390 reviews.
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