Today, Powertime has made a selection of the most useful mobile apps in South Africa ! They are simple, convenient and should make your life easier.
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Loadshedding
Loadshedding is an app to keep you updated with the loadshedding schedules. The app updates its contents by receiving Eskom’s information and send you push notification when load shedding takes place in your area.
Available on iOS and Android.
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Find iPhone
For Apple users
If you misplace your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac, the Find My iPhone app will let you use any iOS device to find it and protect your data. This app also enables you to:
- Locate your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac on a map
- Play a sound for two minutes at full volume (even if your device is set to silent)
- Remotely lock your device with a passcode
- Display a custom message on the Lock Screen
- View recent location history of your device while in Lost Mode (iOS devices)
- Get driving directions to device location
- Remotely erase all content and settings on your device
- Battery charge indicator
For android products: Find My Android Phone
This app locates lost or stolen phones by keeping tabs on a lost or missing device with real-time location updates. When the missing or stolen phone is moved, its location is updated instantly on the app’s map and the Find My Android Phone website. Find My Android Phone has another benefit though: it allows you to locate the phones owned by anyone in your family anytime, anywhere.
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Powertime
Buy Prepaid Electricity tokens 24/7, anywhere in South Africa and control your consumption with monthly reporting and low credit alerts.
Powertime Apps enables you to:
Buy Prepaid Electricity Tokens and airtime via Credit/Debit cards, EFT and PayGenius wallet- Pay any of your bill online with an Easy Pay number
- Access Token History and consumption statistics
- Access energy saving tips
- Manage multiple meters
- Control your electricity consumption with a virtual meter and low electricity level notifications.
Available on iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Nokia and Windows.
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Go Metro
Go Metro app that helps you keep updated on your public transports! The app is available for the Western Cape, Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Kwazulu Natal. This app gives you public transport schedules and maps, the next trains times, itineraries… but also many other advantages. The app partly relies on the user community (like Waze for cars) who can signal a problem in real time.
The app even offers services for users who are stuck in public transport, such as games to kill time, and even an “Email your boss” button to directly warn your office about your delay.
Available on iOS, Android, Nokia and BlackBerry.
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Snapscan
Pay with your phone anywhere. No need to carry cash anymore. Snapscan covers 18000 merchants in South Africa already, including the municipal parking attendant in Cape Town.
This app is easy-to-use and very convenient. You simply save your card information in the app. To pay at a merchant, you scan their Snapscan QR code with your phone and confirm the payment with your own PIN.
Available on iOS, Android and BlackBerry.