Money Saving Apps: Ibotta

There are a few apps that I use that help me save additional money on top of my coupons that I want to share with you over the coming weeks. The first one is called Ibotta. It is a free rewards app where you can earn cash back for purchasing certain products...kind of like a rebate.

Steps to Use Ibotta:
1. Create an account here.
2. Download the app to your device. It is available for Apple and Android products...even iPod touch and iPad (if you don't have a smartphone).

3. Choose an offer (product) and complete tasks to unlock earnings. Tasks include taking a poll, answering trivia, sharing the offer on Facebook or Twitter (you can always delete the post later), learning a fact, and watching a video to name a few. Each task is worth a different amount of money.

4. Go buy the product (use coupons for even more savings!).
5. Come home, open the app, select "Redeem" and select the store you shopped at (the list pictured is not all of the stores where you can use Ibotta).

6. Take a picture of your receipt and select Submit (if you have a long receipt, choose "add section"). Select the product you purchased. Scan the UPC barcode and select Submit Receipt!

7. Within 24 hours, your account will be credited. In my experience, my account is usually credited within 15 minutes.
8. After you have accumulated at least $5, you can withdraw cash using PayPal. Or you can donate your earnings.

Why I Love this App:
- I have been using this app for a few months and I have earned over $50.
- You can use manufacturer and store coupons in addition to the Ibotta offers.
- There have been offers for basic items like 1 gallon of any brand of milk. Everybody buys milk!
- There are bonuses available. For example, after you sign up, if you redeem 10 offers in two weeks, you earn a $10 Welcome Bonus! Also, sometimes if you complete a bonus, it unlocks another bonus.

- In addition to the regular offers, there are Store Extras...offers that can only be redeemed at the specified store. Currently, those stores are Smashburger, Whole Foods, Target, Sam's Club, Walmart, and Costco.

Currently Ibotta works at the following chains, but they are always working on adding more:

7-Eleven
Acme
Fresh Market
Bi-Lo
Boyer's
Buehler's
City Market
Costco
Country Mart
CVS Pharmacy
Dillons
Dollar General
Dominick's
Duane Reade
Family Dollar

Food Lion
Food4Less
Fred Meyer
Fry's
Giant Eagle
H-E-B
Harris Teeter
Homeland
Hy-Vee
Ingles
King Soopers
Kroger
Martin's
Meijer
Military Commissary

Pathmark
Pavilions
Pick 'N Save
Piggly Wiggly Midwest
Publix
QFC
Ralphs
Randalls
Reasor's
Redner's Markets
Remke's
Ridley's
Rio Ranch
Rite Aid
Safeway

Sam's Club
ShopRite
Smashburger
Smith's
Stop & Shop
Target
Tom Thumb
Vons
Walgreens
Walmart
Wegmans
Whole Foods
WinCo Foods
Winn-Dixie

Anybody else love this app?