Appy Days: winning with your smartphone

I told you all about the BlippAR Heinz competition last week – this is running daily until 19th January and you need to have an iPhone to use the App. Since I won my Secret Ingredient cookery set last week I’ve heard that four of you have also won, so it’s definitely worth a go – read more here.

Then I heard about a new Android App called Shopitize – to use this, you take photos of your grocery receipts and upload them to the App. In return you’ll get offers and discounts tailored to your shopping habits. They’re running a great promotion where you can win £500, and also a weekly prize of £25. To enter, you can either upload your recipes via the App – or if you don’t have an Android phone, you can email photos, or a list of your purchases, to snapprize@shopitize.com. The weekly draws close at 12 noon every Friday and the £500 draw is on 16th December – every receipt you send over gets you an entry into the grand prize draw, and you can upload or send a maximum of 10 a week. You can read the T&Cs here and Like the Shopitize Facebook page for more details – it sounds awfully complicated, but by now you know that these are the type of comps with the least entries so why not give it a go?

I was excited to read on MummyTips at the weekend about Simply Tap (there are also 10 boxes of Thorntons chocs to be won on Sian’s blog post). It’s an instant mobile checkout App for your iPhone or Android – you register your card details and when you see something you want to buy in store or in a magazine you just enter the ‘Tap Code’. But don’t register yet! Because for the next five days (until 14th November) they’re giving away £100 Selfridges vouchers on Facebook for the people who register fastest with the App each day. I was lucky enough to win yesterday’s prize! To enter, first download the App here – and then keep an eye on facebook.com/simplytap and twitter.com/simplytap for their competition announcement. Then register your details (be warned – this takes a while as it’s your name, address and card details!) and see if you were the fastest…

In Compers News this month I read about the Richer Sounds iPhone App – you receive a virtual scratch card every fortnight and can win a prize. The main prize differs each time – the current one (valid until 21st November) is a Logitech Universal Remote. I scratched last week’s card and won a Sonos pen, and this week I won a pair of Maxell headphones – to claim, you need to show your phone/winning scratchcard in store!

I’ve been using Appysnap for a few weeks and it’s great fun – you download the App for your Android or iPhone, and they send you photo missions to complete in a certain amount of time (could be an hour, could be a week). Missions get you points – and uploading a photo for certain challenges could win win you spot prizes like Amazon vouchers. Last month a random user won a MacBook Air! Read their blog at appysnap.posterous.com  or Like them at www.facebook.com/AppySnap

Finally, I stumbled across this video on YouTube promoting a Bad Teacher competition on an iPhone App called GoldRun.

The prize is a Sony Cybershot Camera – to enter, download the App, click on Bad Teacher, take a photo featuring the Bad Teacher text and logo, and then upload to Twitter with the hashtag #BTGold. I can’t find any details of the closing date or geographical restrictions – and perhaps not surprisingly, I’m the only entrant so far! I couldn’t get the App to Tweet for me (it said my Tweet was too long but I was unable to see it to edit it!) – so I emailed my photo to myself and then uploaded to Twitter.

Let me know if you get lucky with any of these!