One more iPhone app is fresh out of the oven here at Mobiversal, this time for Shelfster. Shelfster is a free solution that allows you to capture information from everywhere and easily create online documents with all the gathered information at your fingertips. You don’t have to worry anymore that your ideas, collected data and sources of inspiration are lost or scattered in different places.
You can login in your online account and access them at any time, keep them organized or use them to create documents. Shelfster makes it easy to create a document by presenting you on the same page the items you’ve collected alongside the document you’re working on. You can also drag and drop images and text from your notes into the document. After you’ve created a document, you can print it, download it, export it to Google Docs, or share it with your peers and get feedback.
Shelfster has several free capturing tools for your desktop (Windows, Mac), browser (Chrome, Firefox, Bookmarklet) and smartphone (iPhone, Android, iPad).
The iPhone app we’ve just finished allows you to quickly capture notes, images(take pictures or choose from Camera roll), audio recordings, and save&send them in your Shelfster online account. The app is optimized for quick capturing, after choosing what you wanna capture you can save it directly, or choose a specific project and enter tags to better organize your stuff.
Shelfster mobile app also lets you access all your notes, wherever you have an internet connection.
You can use Shelfster on your mobile to gather information for a specific research project, for documenting a roadtrip, to record and save interviews, to quickly jot down notes, the possibilities are endless.
Let us know how you feel about it in comments.
About the Author: Flavius Saracut is the Marketing Manager of Mobiversal, mobile app development agency serving companies from small to large. Mobiversal has successfully built from business apps, utilities to games, some of them being featured on media outlets like BBC, CNN, NBC and FOX News.
Mobile apps are a perfect match for the real estate industry, helping both consumers easily find a home and real estate agents better serve their clients. Let’s take a look at a few leading mobile apps and the key aspects where they are helping:
House searching
One of the most popular real estate app comes from Realtor.com. Immediately after starting the app, it asks for your location and then greets you with a quick menu where you may choose to view recently sold properties, foreclosures, price reduced or open house info. The app shows you homes for sale, for rent, or recently sold in any city or in your current location on a map instantly. If you create a free account, you’ll also be able so save searches and homes you liked, or share them with friends or real estate agent. Realtor app also lets highlight on the map with your finger a specific area you are interested in, so you define exactly the neighborhood. (Realtor for iPhone, Android)
Zillow also offers a really nice app. You can search for homes or after getting your GPS position it can show you what’s nearby. I really like that I can also see on the map sold houses, so you can make a good idea if a house for sale has an attractive price or not. Red icons will show you houses for sale, purple ones are for houses for rent, yellow ones for sold houses, and blue ones are for “Make me move” listings. These are listings from sellers who are not 100% decided to sell, but they are setting a price for which they’d be willing to move, kind of like a “dream price”.
Zillow is aggregating information from the market and they are able to show you “Zestimate” values of any home in the U.S. and Rent Zestimates (estimated monthly rental price), on most homes . I also like the ability to filter searches by price, beds, baths, keywords, monthly mortgage payment, and more . As Realtor.com it also allows you to draw your own search area(s) with your finger.
Besides looking at houses you can also get real-time mortgage rates and personalized loan quotes. For more details checkout the Zillow iPhone app or the Android app.
Other apps worth checking are Trulia, Hotpads, Redfin, Century 21, or House Hunter which features a scoring which helps identify houses that best match your requirements and even compare an unlimited number of homes.
Search for foreclosures
There are apps specialized on foreclosures. For example Foreclosure Radar is such an app that helps investors, realtors, government agencies and other professionals check the freshest foreclosure information – including exclusive daily auction updates. You can monitor current foreclosure auction activity instantly and review details on each foreclosure including ownership, foreclosure details, value, equity or transaction history. Checkout the iPhone app.
A similar app is Foreclosure Search by USHUD.com, using it you can take a look at a list of foreclosed properties owned by the government and all major banks. Download the iPhone app or the Android app.
Search for schools nearby
If you have kids, it’s useful to see how good are the schools in a certain area. One app to help you with this task is GreatSchools Finder. The app lets you search the latest school information for more than 125,000 K-12 schools in the U.S., including public, public charter, and private schools. You’ll be able to view and compare schools for any city, based on your current location. Checkout the iPhone app.
Mortgage calculator
Zillow app included a mortgage calculator but there are also apps specialized on this task. One example is RECalc – Real Estate Mortgage Loan Calculator, which allows to calculate the Monthly Payment, Term, Interest Rate or Loan Amount for a loan, as well as standard mathematical calculations as you would in any other calculator. RECalc supports semi-annual compounding (Canadian Amortization) in addition to normal monthly compounding. With a click, you can display the complete Loan Summary and Amortization Table for your calculation. Checkout the iPhone app.
Are you a flipper?
If you’re a dolphin please go back in the water, but if you’re in the business of flipping houses then you’ll want to check Property Fixer. After entering some information about the property, you can view a flip analysis that shows your profit and return on investment for the flip. The app costs $1.99 and there are also a premium at $9,99 and a pro version at $29.99. The premium versions allow you to save multiple properties or what-if scenarios, email the flip analysis to your clients, lenders, or investment partners as a PDF file and many more. Download the iPhone app.
Design ideas
OK, so now that you bought your house maybe you’d like to find inspiration and check some design ideas. Houzz app offers just that, with over 400,000 high resolution photos. You can browse photos by style, room and location and save them to your virtual idea book — it’s the equivalent of clipping design magazines to a scrapbook — making ideas easier to search, save, and share. Get the iPhone app.
Safety apps for real estate agents
Real estate agents are facing risks so mobile apps can help them when in a hazardous situation. One such app is Guardly, it offers a fast way to contact family, friends & 911 when you’re in danger, and help them to reach and locate you. It can reach 15+ people in one-tap by sending them phone call, email & SMS alerts. Checkout the iPhone app.
If you got any other useful real estate app that I might have missed, please let me know in comments.
About the Author: Flavius Saracut is the Marketing Manager of Mobiversal, mobile app development agency serving companies from small to large. Mobiversal has successfully built from business apps, utilities to games, some of them being featured on media outlets like BBC, CNN, NBC and FOX News.
It’s a good day today folks, the apps we’ve built for Excite-ed are now available in both the App Store and Google Play.
Simple Salah is an Islamic prayer app for children. Easy to follow instructions guide boys or girls to learn the different prayer positions, accompanied by Arabic children’s voice overs. There are colourful and attractive pictures with easy to understand instructions, in both English and Arabic ending with a fun quiz. Simple Salah has been made with Al Amanah School children in the UK and is a useful tool for children, parents and teachers.
Mobile apps help entertain us, they help businesses from hotels to car makers, and they’re also improving the way we educate ourselves and our children.
If yes, using the iPhone app we’ve built for InstantSurvey.me now it’s easier than ever to organize surveys and get valuable from the event attendees. Instant Survey iPhone app works together with a webapp where you’re able to create questions (8 types), view statistics with the results in REAL TIME and even show them to the audience as a Slideshow. Alternatively you’ll be able to export the results as pdf or excel.
Instant Survey is a tool well suited for business conferences, company retreats, voting polls, sports events or market research. And one more thing, did I mention it’s free?
After couple of months of coding we’re really happy to announce that we’ve finished the development of Find a Way, José! for Artlab Interactive. Forget Angry Birds and start flexing your mind with your new friend José.
Find a Way, José! is a new sliding-block puzzle game to re-unite a drunkard Mexican with his long-lost Tequila. Slide away irregularly shaped blocks in all-4 directions to pave the way for José to his Tequila. Some obstacles are non-movable, and many levels have strange and surprising boundaries which make this game a unique experience.
You’ll enjoy 6 originally crafted worlds with richly-detailed graphics: The Mexican Desert, The Outer Space, The Farm, The Arabian Nights, The Circus and The Graveyard. The game also features originally composed soundtracks for each world.
As you play along you can accumulate J-Coins to unlock frustratingly hard levels. The game sports in the Free version 15 levels and 2 worlds and in the Pro version you’ll enjoy extra levels, new worlds, themes updates and you can also create your own levels with a provided Level Builder.
Help José solve all 60 puzzles on his way to the Tequila, and get 300 Achievement Stars to reveal the mysterious game ending! The game is available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
About the Author: Flavius Saracut is the Marketing Manager of Mobiversal, mobile app development agency serving companies from small to large. Mobiversal has successfully built from business apps, utilities to games, some of them being featured on media outlets like BBC, CNN, NBC and FOX News.
One more iPhone app is fresh out of the oven here at Mobiversal, this time for Shelfster. Shelfster is a free solution that allows you to capture information from everywhere and easily create online documents with all the gathered information at your fingertips. You don’t have to worry anymore that your ideas, collected data and sources of inspiration are lost or scattered in different places.
