You can browse store flyers on your smartphone using the free Flipp app!
If you’re a savvy shopper, you probably look through the sales flyers from your local stores on almost a weekly basis. I know that often times when we get the Sunday paper in our house the flyers are often more likely to be looked at than the actual news. While flyers from the newspaper are awesome, there are some serious drawbacks.
First, they can be a big mess!! Depending on the week and if there are any big sales days like President’s Day or Black Friday there can be a lot of flyers. It’s fun looking through them, but actually comparing one to another and deciding what to buy where isn’t always easy. And once you’re done you have a huge messy stack often with page corners turned down, items circled, or “to buy” items cut out. They just aren’t easy to organize!
I was recently introduced to Flipp – an app that can eliminate these complaints, plus offer more great features.
What is Flipp? Basically its an app that gathers all the flyers for stores in your area and crams them into your little tiny SmartPhone. Well, the flyers themselves aren’t actually in there, but everything you want to see from them IS and they have thrown in lots of handy tools to make them easier to read and organize.
To start out, you can just browse through ALL the flyers in your area, or browse by type of store. (For example, above I looked for grocery stores and then for electronics.)
What is extra cool is that you can do more than just browse through the flyers with Flipp. You can actually search for a specific item. For example, we are big Diet Coke drinkers (I know – bad habit, trying to cut down, don’t judge!), but I only like to buy it when and where it is on sale. That was always a pain to track down.
With Flipp it is so EASY because I can just search on the word Coke and it will tell me all the stores in my area that have it on sale and the prices so I can choose the best deal. The same thing works for electronics or other items. For example, above on the right I searched for “printer” and it gave me a bunch of results.
But there is another Flipp feature that is even MORE cool. As you are browsing and searching through the flyers, you can just tap on the items you want to circle them on the screen. That circle does another awesome thing – – It actually adds them to your Clippings.
To give you a little visual on that, if you look in the picture above where I circled cheese and cantaloupe in the flyer on the left, it automatically added those items to my Clippings (see the right). Your clippings keep track of everything you want at each store so once you get there you have a handy dandy shopping list right in your SmartPhone.
So what do you think? Awesome right? I forgot to tell you the other awesome thing, Flipp is FREE! It’s available for both iOS and Android, so head on over to Flipp to download it today!
What items are you most often looking for in store flyers?
Christina S says
This is definitely a handy app! It’ll come into play often with price matching.
Amy @ Marvelous Mommy says
Very cool app! I’m always looking for diaper coupons!
Crystal says
OH what a cool app! I’ve never heard of it but I would love to get more organized and have these ads in one spot!
Kecia says
I like the ability to search for a specific item. Would make saving money on groceries much easier!
brett says
I look for healthy food options in fliers- produce sales, natural meats, etc. and always coupons for things we buy!
Krystal says
I saw an ad for Flipp but I didn’t download it yet. This looks like a great way for me to organize my shopping!
Rosey says
Oh, I like the tap and circle feature. That is easy, and helpful!
Jenni E. says
I love things like that! They make living a frugal life so much easier since I’m always on my phone or tablet!
Brandy says
I see this app is free in the app store so I am going to download it to my iPhone and check it out. Thanks for sharing!
Tammy says
What a fantastic app, I’m definitely going to download it. I am always looking for sales on K-Cups!
Amanda Her says
This looks like such a helpful app! I hate rifling through all the sales ads, this will be such a time-saver. Thanks!
Jaime says
I’m always looking at baby items in the store fliers! I’m downloading this app tonight!
Mandy@ TheHouseholdHero.com says
Love this! I actually get a Sunday paper just to get the ads and coupons out and immediately put the rest of the part in the recycle bin!!!
Lisa Joy Thompson says
What a cool app! I’m always looking for great deals on eggs and produce…especially organic produce. We got through 5lbs or organic spinach, 20 pounds of oranges, 9 pounds of bananas, 6 dozen eggs and oh-so-much more!
Masshole Mommy says
Now that is a cool and very useful app! I totally need to download it STAT!!!