Pageonce: Not really a shopping app, but before you shop you need to know how much money you have! PageOnce is a financial aggregator app. You input the account information for your banking, investment, credit accounts and bills. It downloads the data from the online sources and puts it all into one place and gives you notifications on when bills are due and when large transactions are made. Some simple reporting is also available.
Deliveries: Once your stuff is on order, you need to track its delivery. Deliveries can track deliveries from Amazon, Apple, UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL, and just about every other delivery service in the world. You get notifications when a package is scanned (requires a computer to be running). You can see your packages on a map. You can go directly to the carrier's web page. It integrates with Amazon and Apple stores to track deliveries even before they have shipped. If you have a tracking number in the clipboard, Deliveries will automatically detect it and the carrier that it is from and offer to automatically create a new record for you. Too cool!
AppShopper: This is a great tool for finding new apps and getting them at great prices. First of all it allows for a much better store-browsing interface. You can search for new or popular apps. You can filter by price/free, new/update/price change, and by application category. You can do similar filtering with Apple's App Store app, but AppShopper is faster and shows more records at once, and doesn't seem to lose its place while advancing pages. But the greatest part about AppShopper is once you find an app you want, you can add it to your Wish List. once an app is on your Wish List, you will get a notification if the app is updated or its price changes. This is a great way to get a $15 app for $5. You basically get notified when something you specifically want goes on sale.
Amazon: A great app for shopping Amazon. Access to your Wish Lists, etc.
Amazon Windowshop: Another Amazon app, but it's power is best suited for browsing. It fills the entire iPad screen in a grid of products. You can filter by category, or enter a search term. You can really see a lot of products at once this way. I find the Amazon app is best when you know what you want, and the Windowshop app is best for when you aren't exactly sure what you are looking for.
eBay: pretty obvious
LifeLike Craig HD: CraigsList app - this is an amazing app for shopping CraigList - It creates a great interface that mimics a classified apps. Manage locations, save favorites, etc. You can also manage you own sales.
Gifts HD: With this app, you create a list of families and friends. For each person you create a wish list of shopping ideas for gifts. From that you can create a shopping list. The built in browser will automatically aggregate online prices for the items you have entered, offering the best prices. You can enter the gift prices and tracking information for each gift. You can keep track if you have purchased, shipped and wrapped each gift. You can create an overall budget, as well as a spending limit for each person. A master To-Do list indicates each person/gift you have to find, buy, wrap, and ship. Built in calculator and date countdown.
Target for iPad: This is a really nice done app. It includes the weekly sale flyer, which you can read like a magazine and lets you view products up close and drag them to a shopping list. Daily Deals spotlights.
Point Inside for iPad: This app has floor plans of malls and airports. You can search the locations for stores and services.
iDealyzer Pro: This app aggregates numerous online bargains and presents the items in a large grid. You can notifications for your favorite sites.
Zappos: shop the Zappos site
Gilt: Nice stuff on sale. Sort of.
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