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One of the drawbacks of mobile apps is that it’s easy to find ourselves with a home screen that’s packed with many different options all offering virtually the same thing. This helps to explain the rising popularity of aggregator apps and others that help us to combine various aspects of our lifestyles.
Open Banking with Bank Card and Account Aggregators
The emergence of open banking has transformed mobile banking, by allowing us to securely share our accounts with other financial institutions. One of the most noticeable effects has been the way that we can now access all our banking details in a single app, with Mint and Money Dashboard among the options for gathering everything in one place.
Curve has taken a different approach by releasing a payment card aggregator. This allows you to use a single card that is linked to all your other cards. You can choose which card to take payment from each time or use the feature that switches between bank cards each time you want to make a payment using your Curve card. Earlier this year, the company launched a new service to compete with the Apple Pay wallet.
Social Media and Email Combined in a Single App
The number of messages and updates we get from different apps can be confusing and distracting. This has led to the launch of apps that combine them in a single place. Hootsuite and Sprout Social are examples of tools that let users manage all their social media accounts in their app, with the option of scheduling posts across various platforms for a coordinated approach if you use them for business or marketing purposes.
Beeper goes a step further by adding email, Slack, Discord, and even SMS texts into the app. This can prove to be a terrific time-saver for anyone who finds themselves swamped by numerous messages across different platforms. Combining them all with an aggregator app also provides a way of keeping the device from getting cluttered with too many apps.
These apps cover different aspects of our lifestyles but they all show how combining them in a single app can make life easier or simply give us access to more options more conveniently.
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