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"  A recent survey by Asurion predicted that almost half of Black Friday shopping would be mobile this year. And, even beyond Black Friday, many of you are planning to use targeted apps that will make holiday purchasing simpler and more affordable. Here are a handful of apps that will hopefully do both! Price Checker - Hukkster (Free, iOS): This app tracks products you flag (called &amp;quot;hukking&amp;quot; in the app) and alerts you when they go on sale. If it requires a discount code to redeem, it will provide you with it. It also offers a browser add-on, so if you&amp;#039;re searching on your desktop or laptop you can still reap the benefits. Since the app is new, the selection is limited, but I do like that you can search by price points - so you can see all items under $100 for instance. And when you &amp;quot;hukk&amp;quot; something and add it to your items to track, you can set whether you just want to know when it&amp;#039;s on sale, or when it reaches a specific benchmark, say 25% off.  Customized Deals - Shopular (free, iOS and Android): Deal overload? I know how you feel! I love a good bargain as much as the next person, but weeding through my emails about every sale known to man is taxing, not helpful. I&amp;#039;d love to just receive the best of the best, and let the rest go to my trash mail. That&amp;#039;s what Shopular does for you. It provides curated coupons based upon your store preferences. And it is geo-coded, so when you head in to a mall or store, it recognizes it and send you relevant coupons for stores you frequent. Alternatively, BuyVia (Free, iOS and Android) provides curated deals based upon items and stores you&amp;#039;re interested in, but it doesn&amp;#039;t have as robust of a store catalog. It does however allow you to scan by barcode or QR code, or perform a general search within all stores available for deals.  Friendly Recs - Sift (Free, iOS): This app sifts through your emails and finds brands and stores you&amp;#039;ve connected with. It then curates all of the products and promotions currently underway at compatible sites, and provides the info within one unified app. Not all sites are compatible yet, but many of the deal of a day sites I currently use are included - so I was able to switch between Rue La La, Jetsetter, and Gilt within the same app! I&amp;#039;m also loving Shop It To Me (Free, iOS), which lets you choose which brands you love (over 900 supported), your sizes, and the types of clothes you like, and set the frequency of emails you want (daily, twice a week, on a set day). It&amp;#039;s a stream of the items and brands I love, without the extraneous picks.  Circular Support - Pounce (Free, iOS): This app allows you to buy products found in print ads quickly through your phone. You simply scan a photo in a weekly ad or catalogue that&amp;#039;s supported, and the app takes care of the rest. To start, you set up your billing information, and it&amp;#039;s stored in your phone. You then snap a photo of an item you want and with a simple tap-to-buy directive, your order is placed on the merchant&amp;#039;s website. Merchants currently supported include Ace, Target, Best Buy, Macy&amp;#039;s and Toys R Us, and more to come. Another fave for circulars is Flipp (Free, iOS), an app for digitally clipping circulars. You can read more about it on my recent post.  For more tips, see my post from last year on other great tech tools for holiday shopping. And let me know in the comments below which apps do you find indispensable for nabbing the best deals! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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