Ask your smartphone: 6 useful shopping services

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Time is our precious resource, and if technology saves it, both the user and the developer wins. We have collected several convenient mobile services that advise, visualize and help you buy must-have things.

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Augmented reality from IKEA

The augmented reality shopping tool was introduced by IKEA. Using the app "Catalog" the store allows you to "try on" items in your interior. The main advantage of the development is convenience, since the product in any category can be enlarged, reduced or rotated in a three-dimensional projection.

When installed on Android or iOS, the application will offer a rendering option - with or without a catalog. The first option has its advantages: all the items presented can be calculated and virtually placed in the desired corner, and then ordered. They say that many of the store's buyers do not think about the dimensions of the furniture at all, which means they are forced to change them. The application is designed to solve this problem.

Search for things by picture

A new feature of "Yandex" is the search for the desired item by photo. Now, in addition to voice search and QR-code search, you can find any thing by a given picture.

For example, if you need a watch, like a friend's, but she does not give out a secret place of purchase, then you can go to the Yandex search using pictures, click on the search bar and hold it for a few seconds. Then select the button "ask with a picture", take a picture - and the search will return all similar images with links, which can be used to find a thing on the Web.

Epytom Bot stylist

A personal stylist bot for Facebook Messenger or Telegram complements Siri, giving you tips on how to look. Epytom creates a wardrobe for every day. He can tell you how to make a bow in accordance with your wardrobe and weather (all clothing items are loaded into the database, the program determines the weather by geolocation). Alerts come to the messenger.

The bot is distinguished by poetic descriptions of things (“sometimes I dream that I am basking on a cloud of the most delicate alpaca”), and things can be bought in online stores.

The developers suggest turning on regular alerts - for example, every day at 8 am an artificial consultant will offer several options for the image. True, in Telegram, the bot sometimes behaves rather strangely.

Virtual makeover

Quite a popular move among cosmetic brands is an application that gives out endless make-up options. Creators Make-up genius App introduced a catalog of products in all categories into the program - blush, eyeliner, lipstick, mascara. In the application, you can see your transformation (function "before" and "after") and try on the image of a star from the carpet before buying another wild shade of shadows.

Visual search engine

Developers Donde Fashion App made it as easy as possible to find the right thing for iOS owners. The application is useful if, for example, you saw a dress in a store, but do not remember which one. The search is carried out not by text descriptions, but by icons. At each next stage, the application generates new categories. For example, you can select an off-shoulder dress, its color, length, material, pattern, and then filter by price, size and brand.

The application is focused primarily on the American market, but some stores send selected goods to Russia (ASOS, Farfetch, Gap). The range of brands is impressive - from the mass market to little-known niche brands. The application allows you to order the item you like, and if it is not supplied to Russia, you can simply save the picture to Pinterest and return to the search with other parameters.

Sizer

The Sizer app for the iOS platform offers a size converter. The user enters data for different categories of wardrobe (hats, rings, jeans, dresses) and translates them into international ones. Some of the wardrobe items for conversion are available only for a fee.

The application is convenient to use when shopping abroad, when there is no dimensional grid at hand, or when looking for a gift. Another plus of the application is that Sizer remembers the data of several users, so that the whole family can make purchases “fit to the figure”.