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Big News: Consumr is Now PurchX!

Ever since Consumr was acquired by Purch in 2014 (later announced this year), there’s been a lot in the works for the people’s guide to products.

Introducing PurchX (think ‘Purchase’). Be sure to update Consumr in the App Store to get access to the newly revamped app. New name, new bells and whistles, but the same great Consumr app! For those of you keeping count, the app went from Consmr to Consumr to PurchX. The third time’s the charm!

PurchX is the result of taking the mobile leader in crowd sourced product ratings and combining it with the widest network of product review expert destinations. The new app is the next-generation in mobile shopping assistants.

When you’re shopping in the store it’s hard to know how to compare the item in your hand to the rest of the products in that category. Imagine looking at a baby stroller on sale in BuyBuyBaby. A quick scan with PurchX reveals good reviews, but is the stroller good enough for your baby? With a quick tap, now you can compare to the Top 20 strollers instantly, side by side. 

PurchX continues the vision of empowering shoppers before making a purchase. When I founded Consumr, I promised we would end buyer’s remorse. Now PurchX is poised to give buyer’s remorse a run for its money, and save you some money while at.

Every day Consumr adds new reviews from our amazing reviewers as well as from thousands of reviewers around the web. It's helping us take one step closer to becoming the "Yelp for products."

We've had a few questions as to how all this works, so let's take the time to explain.

- Everyday people like you log on to the Consumr Barcode Scanner and contribute personal ratings and reviews. They fill out profiles, connect to their social networks, and share their opinions on everything from beauty to baby toys.

- We also bring in opinions from around the web to ensure that you get an instant answer when looking up reviews on your phone. We use some "special sauce" to highlight comments we think you'll be interested in. Instead of searching multiple sites on your phone, we'll give you an answer from all of them!

For a few of you, Consumr got a lot slower as more people submitted reviews to the app (100,000 new ratings will do that to your database). Update to the latest version of Consumr Barcode Scanner to speed up your experience.  While we were at, we added some pretty cool stuff:

Location Aware Categories: So you're standing inside Trader Joe's. Don't you wish you could instantly see all of the top rated products at TJs? Now you can with location aware categories! We're adding new stores weekly. Try loading up Consumr the next time you're shopping at Trader Joe's!

Books & Appliances: You asked for books and appliances, and now they're officially part of the new update. More reviews will be added over time by users like you and from third party sources, but play around with them now and let us know what you think.

Friends: We like how everyone is so friendly, so now you can see who follows you and who you follow easily by tapping on your friends count on your profile. Go ahead, make a new reviewer friend!

Smarter Quick Rate: We crunched some numbers and improved Quick Rate. Now you'll be able to train our recommendations by quick rating products tailored to you.

New version just went LIVE to the App Store with bug fixes and improved friend find-ability -- check out who is following your every review!

Did you ever wonder how an app gets made? We start with our founder's sketch on the left, bake for a few months, and voila... instant product reviews on your iPhone.