Apps for reward cards and weight loss

LAKE MARY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - If you own a smart phone, then you probably know there are some “apps” you just can’t live without.

Trim your waste line with a food diary

To lose weight with a food diary, the first - and by far the most important thing - is to make it extremely easy and fast to enter your daily foods, so that you don't get overwhelmed and give up. Every tap and keystroke counts.

MyNetDiary provides exceptionally easy and fast food logging, both on the Web and on iPhone and BlackBerry.

Clear up clutter and maximize reward cards

They come in all shapes and sizes and they take a lot of space. Reward cards might be on your key chain, in your wallet or even just lying around your home. They can save you cash, if you can stand the clutter.

But now, there's an “app” for smart phones that can actually consolidate all of those reward cards. It's called CardStar .

The CardStar App lets you easily store, manage and quickly retrieve your reward, club, and loyalty cards on your smart phone, where they can be scanned directly from your screen at most merchants.

So, whether it's grocery shopping, picking up a prescription or buying an airline ticket, you’re ready to go, without all the clutter.

Just pull it up when you're in the check out line for scanning. Before you get rid of all your reward cards, know this: there can be problems.

In our research online, consumers reported that bar codes are sometimes hard for store scanners to pick-up and some had actually revert back to their old cards. And not every reward card works with these apps.

But for 99 cents, or free in some cases, it might be just the thing to lighten your load and save cash all at the same time.

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On the web:

MyNetDiary.com

MyCardStar.com