TechHive: Ditch your Costanza wallet with these card-keeping apps

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thumbnail Ditch your Costanza wallet with these card-keeping apps
Oct 7th 2013, 10:30, by Damon Brown

It happens every time.

You're standing in the checkout line, innocently loading your items on to the conveyer belt when the cashier ambushes you: "Do you have a membership card with us?" You reach for your wallet, fumbling to locate the—blue? red? orange?—card among all the others, flipping through rewards cards for BevMo, Walgreens, Safeway, a random library card... The cashier waits with a frozen smile while the line behind you grows longer, everyone shifting restlessly from foot to foot as you panic and dump your entire wallet onto the counter, only to realize the card is clipped to your keychain.

But what if it could be different? What if you could nonchalantly pull out your phone and display a screen that holds all of your membership information for the cashier to easily scan? Hey, guess what kind of apps we have for you below?

CardStar

The oldest and best of the bunch, CardStar (free; iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8) collects and organizes all the loyalty cards you already have, instead of creating yet another new loyalty point system for you to follow. When a store gives you a credit card-size loyalty pass along with two keychain-size ones, CardStar lets you scan in the barcode on the spot and chuck the plastic trinkets.

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