Best free apps for Black Friday shopping

HOUSTON, Texas -- It's time to begin planning your post-Thanksgiving shopping strategy.[br /][br /]While you're busy arming yourself with coupons and store ads, don't forget to load up your smartphone as well.[br /][Ads /][br /][br /][br /][b][url HREF="http://abc13.com/shopping/what-stores-are-open-closed-on-thanksgiving/2492982/" TARGET="" REL=""]RELATED: What stores are open, closed on Thanksgiving[br /][/url][/b][br /][br /]NerdWallet has recommendations for the best free apps for Black Friday shopping:[br /][Ads /][br /][ul][li]ShopSavvy gives you the latest deals at popular stores. You must use your phone as a barcode scanner. You will also get a price drop alert.[br /][/li][li]Shopular sends you coupons. Members of the community can also swap savings tips.[/li][li]FLIPP gives you digital circulars and helps you combine coupons and stack savings.[/li][li][url HREF="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.brainservice.pricecruncher.free&hl=en" TARGET="" REL=""]Price Cruncher[/url] helps customers crunch the numbers to see if it's worth the deal. It's great for bulk buying, because you can calculate price per product.[/li][li]The Coupons App gives users deals and coupons with online promo codes from more than 100,000 retailers. It also tells you when coupons are about to expire.[br /][/li][li]Santa's Bag allows you to set up and manage your Christmas gift list budget and gift list.[/li][/ul][br /][br /][i]ABC11 has decided to slowly reduce the number of stories on the website that have a comments section.[br /]We believe very strongly that our audience should have an opportunity to discuss and debate events in our world, however, we have not been able to moderate the comments as well as we would like. Instead of hosting a platform that could allow a few loud and ugly voices to dominate a conversation, we want to encourage everyone to join us on our social media platforms and speak out there.[br /]Facebook: [url HREF="https://www.facebook.com/ABC11" TARGET="" REL=""]facebook.com/ABC11[/url][br /]Twitter: [url HREF="https://twitter.com/ABC11_WTVD" TARGET="" REL=""]twitter.com/ABC11_WTVD[/url][/i][/i]