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ShopSavvy

Mobile application for shopping

Field	Value
name	ShopSavvy
title	ShopSavvy
logo	ShopSavvy Logo.jpg
developer	Rylan Barnes, Jason Hudgins and Alexander Muse, Big in Japan Inc.
released
latest release version	5.0.3 on Android
5.0.0 on iOS
1.10.0.0 on Windows Phone
latest release date
programming language	C
operating system	Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Symbian
size	5.3 MB on Android
12.2 MB on iOS
1 MB on Windows Phone
0.75 MB on Nokia Symbian
language	English
genre	Shopping
license	Free
website

5.0.0 on iOS 1.10.0.0 on Windows Phone 12.2 MB on iOS 1 MB on Windows Phone 0.75 MB on Nokia Symbian

ShopSavvy is a mobile application for shopping that scans products and finds online and local stores providing those products. Additionally, ShopSavvy compares the prices, displays user reviews, and searches for deals and discounts on scanned items. The app was developed by Rylan Barnes, Jason Hudgins and Alexander Muse, who won the "Google's Android Developer Challenge" and subsequently founded ShopSavvy, Inc.

By 2012, the app had approximately 20 million downloads and over 10 million users since its launch. Today ShopSavvy is the world's most popular shopping application with more than 100M downloads of the technology, with over 50 million product scans a month.

ShopSavvy is a cross-platform application. It is currently available for Android, iOS, Symbian, and Windows Phone devices.

History

After Rylan Barnes, Jason Hudgins and Alexander Muse partnered up, the app won Google's Android Developer Challenge in 2008, under the name GoCart.

The company then developed a QR code reader and scanner to be used as a feature in other apps.

Investors

Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin led a $5M funding for the company. Another investor is Brad Martin, former CEO of Saks.

Public reception

Gizmodo: "This is one of the best barcode apps for Android." The app also was at the top of the website's lists in: "Gizmodo's Best Barcode Scanner Apps" and "Gizmodo's Best Android Shopping Apps".

Soon after its release in the Android Market it ranked in the top ten hits in the market. Three months after its release on the iPhone, it ranked as the 154th most popular iPhone app of all time, out of more than 200,000 apps.

Consumers have recently complained about the latest updates flaws, claiming that basic features stopped working. Yet the app maintains a 4.5 stars out of 5 in the App Store and a 4.2 out of 5.0 score on the Android Market.

References

ShopSavvy Barcode Scanner - Apps on Android Market, https://market.android.com/details?id=com.biggu.shopsavvy
App Store - ShopSavvy (Barcode Scanner and QR Code Reader) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shopsavvy-barcode-scanner/id338828953
Webster, Scott. (2011-02-28). "ShopSavvy Spotted on 142 Android Devices, 239 Firmware Versions, and Few BlackBerry Models". AndroidGuys.
Edell, Heather. "ShopSavvy Secures $7 Million Round Led by Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin". InternetRetailer: Mobile Commerce.
Rao, Leena. (3 November 2011). "Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Leads $7M Round In Scanning And Product Search App ShopSavvy". Tech Crunch.
"ShopSavvy Blog". ShopSavvy.com.
Kroll, Luisa. "Facebook Co-founder Eduardo Saverin Invests in ShopSavvy". Forbes.
"ShopSavvy". Windows Market Place.
"Nokia Store: ShopSavvy". Nokia Store.
Muse, Alexander. "ShopSavvy". StartupMuse Blog.

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