Cardpointers is good on mobile now

When Apple added support for browser plugins to Safari on iOS I immediately thought of Honey as a prime candidate to take advantage of the feature. Offering coupons and discounts and comparison shopping across a variety of sites has made Honey a very successful (and useful) tool.

I wasn't quite thinking about points maxing, though I guess I should have been. So I'm glad Cardpointers jumped on it and shipped a really well done experience in their native app that adds the extension I've always wanted for iOS.

For the uninitiated, Cardpointers does one thing: it tells you what credit card to use on any website you visit in order to maximize your offers in cash or points.

I am a card-carrying member of the card points maxis. I love feeling like I'm always nailing down the prime sweet spot of benefits for whatever cards I'm using now. I have a variety of little tools like Awardwallet, a personal spreadsheet and the All the Hacks Card Optimizer Spreadsheet.

But there's nothing that replaces being able to see at a glance the right card to use at the right time at any particular merchant as you browse. Cardpointers does that easily on the desktop with Chrome and Safari. But with the new extension on iOS you get this neat little pop over from the bottom on any page that has an extraordinary benefit for using one of your cards to purchase.

Things like getting an extra 3% cash back on a particular card, double points or even just a longer return period can be really really hard to remember when you're going to make a purchase on mobile if you have one card and much less if you've got a half dozen or more.

It's a really cleverly done implementation on mobile of an already great product. Highly recommend for you points people out there.

It's a nice bonus, as well, that the app has a pretty well done built-in card benefits manager and organizer for power users. But the 'on the fly' maximization of points opportunities is the real killer feature here.