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CardStar wants you to dump your membership cards

Categories: Applications, iPhone,
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 2:05 AM

CardStar iPhone app

CardStar is a neat mobile service-application combo that wants to gather around loyalty cards, merchants and coupons around their platform. The main idea seems to tackle the membership/loyalty cards market and sell consumers the benefit of not having to take their cards with them when shopping. As a result, you’ll no longer have to carry a number of such cards around in your wallet — or at least that would be the case if CardStar succeeds.

And how they do it? CardStar makes all your cards digital and even includes a scannable barcode, which you should show to a merchant to collect points, miles or whatever. So as a user, it’s your “duty” to input all your cards to the application/service.

As expected in this iAge we live in, initially CardStar released a dedicated iPhone application, which they are offering as a free download. If proves successful, and I don’t see a reason why this couldn’t fly, they’ll most certainly expand to the other mobile platforms in the near future.

A short video demoing CardStar in action follows after the jump…

[Via: mashable]

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Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • Daniel Perez

    When the iPhone first came out, I recall people taking upon themselves to take pictures of their membership cards to the gym, library, and anything else you’d need membership cards for in order to save space in your wallet. This app takes it one step better and allows the developer to automatically have the information ready for you by simply putting your membership information in.

    My keychain thanks you for making this app.

  • Robert Keats

    The Android Market already has a application like this one. Its called Key Ring and it works great. Simple UI and really helpful. Its good that the iphone will soon have one.

  • Janice

    @RobertKeats, CardStar was first released in January of this year, long before Key Ring for Android even existed. In fact, Key Ring looks suspiciously like CardStar IMHO.