Top 20 Of South Africa’s Coolest Applications
We all use our phones every single day some for more important business than others. South African internet geeks have designed great applications that keep you moving and busy with your day getting a lot of things done in one spot. I mean you can move from reading the news, looking for a job to paying your bills on your phone all in one go through all these applications. Here’s a list of 20 of South Africa’s coolest applications to download today!
News 24
For news on the go. Breaking news, old news and celebrity news. News24 gives you news on the go at your fingertips. Get breaking news, sport and lifestyle information from News24, South Africa’s leading digital news brand.
View the latest top stories, check out your 5 day weather forecast, view stunning multi-media galleries and stay connected on your Android Tablet or Phone.
OLX
Selling is easy: Take a picture with your mobile, describe your product and sell in one click.
• If you are looking for a specific item to buy, OLX is the best app for you! Thanks to the advanced categories and your geo localisation.
• With OLX there is no intermediary, get in touch directly with the seller through SMS, mail or a phone call!
• Manage your posts or favorites directly with “My OLX”
• Share your posts or favorite posts in your favorite social medias.
FNB
The FNB Banking App provides you with the freedom to bank when and where you choose. The FNB App is tailor-made to your device capabilities, providing a user experience unique to your smartphone.
You can perform all your traditional banking transactions:
– Make payments and add recipients
– Do transfers between your accounts
– View account balances and transaction history
– Open accounts
– Manage your accounts and cards
Use convenient value adds to make your life easier:
– Buy and sell shares and Krugerrands
– View and manage your eBucks rewards
– Full eWallet functionality, so even non-FNB customers can use the FNB App
– ATM and branch locator
– View Forex rates
– Receive all your inContact messages in one place
SuperSport
Your SuperSport second-screen experience takes your game-day experience to a whole new level! With live video for Rugby, Football, Cricket and more, SuperSport with its revamped interface will take care of all your sporting needs, wherever you are. Enjoy video highlights, real-time updates, live commentary, match chat and much, much more.
NEW: LIVE VIDEO*
VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS
REAL-TIME UPDATES & NOTIFICATIONS
INTERACTIVE TV POLLS
ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE SUPPORT
Gumtree
Gumtree South Africa is South Africa’s leading free, local classifieds website. Gumtree South Africa offers a convenient, fun, and easy way for people to buy and sell goods and cars, find jobs, housing, pets, and more. Gumtree is now available in the Android market as Gumtree South Africa!
The Gumtree South Africa application for Android is specially designed to run on the Android operating system. Gumtree users in South Africa can now search local classifieds ads, reply to listings, and post ads with just a few simple taps while on the go. And, it’s completely free.
FEATURES:
– Find ads near you
– Edit and manage your ads
– View full ad descriptions with high-resolution photos
– Contact posters from within the app
– Refine search in search result
– Post an ad with pictures from your smartphone or take new pictures
– Track ads on your watch list
– Share ads via SMS (as well as Facebook, Twitter, and Email)
DSTV
Your ultimate guide to DStv which features new self-service and payment functionality. With all the latest highlights, news and a full 10 day schedule. Select your favourite channels, set reminders for shows and share what you watch on social networks. View your account balance, make a payment or update your customer details with self-service. Planning your viewing and managing your account couldn’t get simpler.
Ster-kinekor
Experience the poster-rich fan-centric Ster-Kinekor mobile app. This feature rich movie app with interactive seating plans, toggling between Ster-Kinekor and Nouveau cinemas has been created for the movie fans, by a team of movie fans who just love movies anytime, anywhere!
Swipe through movie lists of what’s currently on circuit and coming soon:
– Find out what’s “Now Showing” and “Coming Soon” – use our search function, browse movies by poster and filter movies by
– Genre
– Cinema
– Date
– View high-quality trailers that plays seamlessly on the app.
– Read detailed movie information that includes synopses, parental ratings, run times, director, producer and casts lists and enriched Movie News from Africa’s number 1 Entertainment Content provider.
– View accurate performance times
Purchase Tickets:
– Buy tickets seamlessly without leaving the app.
– Get the seats you want by interacting with the cinema seating plan and choose the exact location of where you would like to sit in the cinema (for cinemas that allow reserved seating).
– Sign into your Ster-Kinekor profile account to update your profile information so that relevant movie news gets delivered to you
Property24
Download the Property24.com app and find your perfect home. Get all of South Africa’s leading Estate Agent properties for sale and to rent on your phone or tablet. The intuitive interface makes searching for property quick, easy and fun with full-screen photographs and location-based searching to find property near your current location.
KEY FEATURES:
★ Search for houses for sale and to rent in South Africa
★ Instant access to the most accurate and up-to-date real estate listings in South Africa
★ Find property using a map search
★ Manage your favourite properties
★ Comprehensive photo galleries – view full screen, high resolution photographs
★ Save your property search criteria
★ Search by web reference
★ Save contacts directly to your address book and contact the agent on the go
★ View your recently searched areas
South Africa Radio
Enjoy unlimited accesses to the radio broadcasts and internet music. It covers most of stations in South Africa.
When first loaded, the software may have to wait a moment,for it needs to dowanload some icon form the server.
Part of the station list:
– Bosweld Stereo 107.5 FM
– Fine Music Radio 101.3 FM
– Highveld Stereo 94.7 FM
– Impala Internet Radio
– Munghana Lonene FM 89.4
– Radio Kragbron 93.1 FM
– Radio Namakwaland 93.4 FM
Autotrader
It offers the same rich browsing experience of all stock listed on AutoTrader.co.za and the convenience of narrowing down your search within kilometres of your location.Looking for local dealers near you?Our fantastic Android App allows you to browse ads with ease from your smartphone or compatible device. You can call, email or visit the seller’s website right from your mobile device. Making it ideal for finding dealers near your home, office or any other location.
Gautrain
Gautrain – for people on the move
The official Gautrain app – everything you need to know about the Gautrain.
Find your nearest Gautrain station and bus stops. View peak & off peak timetables to plan your day and calculate estimated trip-, parking- & bus fares.
The Gautrain system provides you with a safe, comfortable and reliable train service, a dedicated bus system, as well as drop-off and parking facilities at all stations (except at OR Tambo International Airport). These services are fully integrated and may be used separately or jointly by transferring from one to another. The services are all accessed by means of your Gold Card. Additional services include car rental facilities at Johannesburg Park Station, Sandton- and Pretoria Stations.
TomTom
MXit
Even though most of us have moved on from the MXit stage, believe it or not it’s a South African designed application
Mxit is a FREE mobile social network. Get the latest version for your Android phone and enjoy the richest chat and networking experience possible. Improved battery and data usage, along with innovative new features such as Chat Cards and Newsfeed make chat more fun, exciting and meaningful.
Key features:
Chat Cards: Bring the magic of the web into your chat! Our unique Chat Cards allows you to grab web content, drop in videos, share music tracks or mix up your chat with jokes and pickup lines to instantly spark new conversations.
Newsfeed: Update your status and keep track of your friends’ activities.
Group chat functionality: Easily create groups, chat with up to 50 friends at a time and share photos and sound clips while you do it.
The Backdrop feature: Change the shared background in a group chat using photos from your Photo Stream.
Quick sign-up: Signing up is easier than ever with a quick and simple registration.
Customisable profiles and cover images: Personalise your profile with a large cover photo next to your profile picture.
Switch between accounts: You can create multiple profiles and switch between them easily.
SARS eFiling
The SARS eFiling App is an innovation from the South African Revenue Service (SARS) that will appeal to the new generation of mobile taxpayers. With the new eFiling App, taxpayers are able to complete and submit their annual Income Tax Returns quickly and easily on their smartphones, tablets or iPads and receive their assessment. The SARS eFiling App brings simple convenient, easy and secure eFiling to the palm of your hand, anytime, anywhere.
As a registered eFiler you can use the SARS eFiling App to:
• View, complete and submit your annual basic Income Tax Return (ITR12)
• Save and edit your ITR12 locally on your device
• Use the tax calculator to get an indication of your assessment outcome
• View the status of your return once submitted
• View a summary of your Notice of Assessment (ITA34)
View a summary your Statement of Account (ITSA).
Zamob
Zamob is the most trusted and popular place for free mobile downloads and content for South Africa.
The Zamob app is super-fast and easy to browse, preview, and download high quality music songs, videos, movie clips, ringtones, wallpapers, themes and more.
Download unlimited mobile content to your phone from Zamob for FREE!
Kalahari.com
Shop SA’s #1 online store using our awesome app. You’re spoiled for choice; with the coolest books, gadgets, homeware, appliances, toys, music and more in one app. Scroll through our promo deals and get killer stuff at great prices. Searching is easy: find the world’s biggest brands with detailed product descriptions and reviews by real people. You can also compare prices by scanning barcodes to see if kalahari.com has something cheaper. Buying killer stuff has never been this easy. Register now to sign in securely, add to basket, and checkout using your choice of secure payment method like credit card, EFT or kalahari.com vouchers. Your things are delivered fast and orders over R250 deliver for FREE. Keep up with the times; we have! Window shopping is old school, so start shopping the smart way.
BidorBuy
BidorBuy, Bid or buy. Bid or buy yeah!
The bidorbuy app for Android provides an interactive and convenient mobile shopping experience for users with Android devices. With an attractive interface and intuitive navigation, the bidorbuy app for Android makes it easy to browse, bid or buy, shop and manage your bidorbuy activity from your mobile device.
The bidorbuy app for Android is available for both the South African and Kenyan bidorbuy marketplaces.
Buying Features:
✓ Browse through products by category
✓ Search for products by keyword
✓ Refine your search using easy-to-use filters
✓ Create and view saved searches
✓ Receive email notifications for matches to your saved searches
PriceCheck
PriceCheck is South Africa’s leading price comparison app. Compare millions of products, across thousands of categories, from hundreds of stores. Discover cellphones, tablets, electronics, jewellery & fashion, flights, insurance… pretty much anything you need!
Found a product you like in store and want to know where you can find it cheaper? Use the in-app barcode scanner and snap away – prices, expert reviews, store and location information, right at your fingertips.
Why pay more? Download the PriceCheck app today.
Careers24
Known as South Africa’s leading job portal, Careers24 brings you a free, easy-to-use job search app that contains all the essentials you need for a successful job hunt.
Our convenient app gives you access to 1000s of job vacancies anywhere, anytime. You can also shortlist your favourite jobs and sign up for Job Alerts to get vacancies sent straight to your inbox.
With all these tools at your disposal, finding your dream job will be easier than you thought – download the FREE Careers24 app now.
Mobbleton
Mobbleton needs power, and you got the job!
You are the Chief Energy Gatherer at the Mobbleton Water and Power Department, and you are good at your job. Pop chains of gem-like marbles to generate energy for the town, and enjoy the incredibly addictive process while you’re at it!
It’s unlike anything you’ve played before!
Mobbleton combines the element of luck with real problem-solving and a ton of fun. Every level is randomly generated, so there’s always more to get done. With increasing difficulty, you’ll find that you just can’t put it down!