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ForeceiptReceipt Tracker - simply take a photo of your receipt and relax – let Foreceipt be your personal bookkeeper. The Free Plan will be available to you forever.
KEY FEATURES
Track your expenses on the go:
- Snap and scan receipts on the phone
- Add digital receipts from email
- Add receipts from the Web Portal
- Bulk import bank transactions
- Set up recurring receipts
- Track incomes
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Mint is one of the most popular budgeting apps and is also amongst the oldest on the market. It allows users to link their financial accounts (bank, credit card, and investment accounts) and the app will categorize expenses as they are incurred.
The app is free to use and will label your spending into categories such as “Food” or “Shopping”. Taking your income and spending habits into account, the app will suggest a personalized budget for each of the spending categories. There are also several different notifications you can enable to notify you of upcoming payments or if your account balance falls below a certain point.
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PocketGuard is an app that is designed to simply show how much you are spending. Users can sync their bank account in order for the app to calculate how much discretionary income will be left over after paying monthly bills. You can categorize expenses into multiple categories such as rent, groceries, and entertainment.
This app is free for users and includes all the standard features that you would expect a budgeting app to have. A cool tool is the “Lower Your Bills” feature which analyzes your bill payments and makes recommendations to alternatives where you could potentially be paying less.
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Functional Apps
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Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the blind and low vision community, this ongoing research project harnesses the power of AI to open up the visual world and describe nearby people, text and objects.
Optimized for use with VoiceOver, the app enables you to recognize:
• Short Text - Speaks text as soon as it appears in front of the camera.
• Documents - Provides audio guidance to capture a printed page, and recognizes the text, along with its original formatting.
• Products - Scans barcodes, using audio beeps to guide you; hear the name, and package information when available. (works with iPhone 6 and later)
• People - Saves people’s faces so you can recognize them, and get an estimate of their age, gender, and emotions.
• Scenes (early preview) - Hear an overall description of the scene captured.
• Currency - Recognizes currency notes. (Requires iOS 11)
• Color - Identifies color.
• Handwriting - Reads handwritten text like in greeting cards
• Light - Generates an audible tone corresponding to the brightness in the surroundings.
• Images in other apps - Just tap “Share” and “Recognize with Seeing AI” to describe images from Mail, Photos, Twitter, and more.
• Photo browsing experience - Describes photos on your phone
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Sullivan + (blind, visually impaired, low vision) is a visual-aid app provided by TUAT Inc. to enhance the accessibility of the visually impaired and low vision users and informs users who need visual aids about information perceived via the smartphone camera.
Main functions
1. AI mode
2. Text recognition
3. Face recognition
4. Image description
5. Color recognition
6. Light brightness
7. Magnifier
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Easy Reader (dolphin)
EasyReader is a FREE accessible reading app for readers with dyslexia, low vision or blindness. Browse & download from the World's largest collection of talking book and newspaper libraries. Open your own DAISY, Epub or text books. Or copy text from anywhere on your phone & hear EasyReader read it back to you. Experience perfectly synchronized text & audio. Or for text only titles, EasyReader can add a human sounding voice of your choice. Boost comfort or contrast - choose colours, text size and highlights to suit your visual needs.
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Safety Apps
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myPlan Canadais a free app to help you with your safety and well-being if you have experienced abuse from a current or past spouse, partner, boy/girlfriend. It’s private, secure, personalized, & backed by research.
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First Aid App
The official Canadian Red Cross First Aid app puts lifesaving advice in your hands. Available for Apple and Android mobile devices, the app helps you maintain your first aid skills and respond to everyday emergencies. By downloading the app on your smartphone or tablet, you get instant access to videos, interactive quizzes and simple step-by-step advice to help you maintain your life-saving skills and respond when needed. Download the app to keep lifesaving help in your hands.
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iSharing by iSharingSoft is an app that provides a real-time locator service allowing family members and close friends to privately share their location information and communicate with each other.
We help parents and caregivers reduce anxiety around the whereabouts of their loved ones with easy tracking and alerting mess
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Mental Health and Wellness Apps
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The LifeLine App is the National free Suicide Prevention and Awareness App that offers access and guidance to support for those suffering in crisis and those who have suffered the devastating loss of a loved one from suicide. The LifeLine App also provides awareness education and prevention strategies to guide people in crisis all across the Globe.
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Happify -How you feel matters! Whether you're feeling sad, anxious, or stressed, Happify brings you effective tools and programs to help you take control of your feelings and thoughts.Our proven techniques are developed by leading scientists and experts who've been studying evidence-based interventions in the fields of positive psychology, mindfulness, and cognitive behavioral therapy for decades.
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Moodpath -If you are struggling with emotional problems or simply want to be more aware of your mood and wellbeing, Moodpath accompanies you with daily questions.
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MindShift™ CBT-user-friendly self-help tool based on proven scientific strategies, MindShift™ CBT teaches about anxiety, helping users to engage in healthy thinking and to take action. Users check in each day to track their anxiety and work with tools in the app. It was developed in collaboration with Freshworks Studio, an award winning app developer headquartered in BC, with support from the BC Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions and the BC Ministry of Health.
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Life as a student can be stressful - assignments, part-time jobs, sports, clubs, relationships, family responsibilities. In fact, during your years as a student, you will face some of the most intense pressures of any point in your life. Stress can take a toll on your mind, weighing you down and even making you ill, so it’s important to take action to stay healthy. That’s what HealthyMinds is all about.
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