Description
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PaperKarma is the easy way to take control of your paper junk mail, cut your paper waste, and help save the Earth — by taking photos! Simply pull out your phone and snap photos of the offending mail. PaperKarma will figure out what it is and how to stop it.
PaperKarma can stop:
- Magazines
- Catalogs
- Coupon Books
- Fliers
- Credit Card Offers
- White and Yellow Pages
- If you can take a picture of it, PaperKarma will try to stop it!
Features:
- If a company is sending you junk mail, we'll find them and remove your name/address from their mailing list.
- It's dead simple to use — just take a photo, tap "Unsubscribe," and you're set!
- Track the mail you've submitted, and watch as PaperKarma identifies and eliminates it.
- Learn what information PaperKarma finds about the senders.
- Watch as your paper waste goes down month by month.
- Share your environmental good deeds via Facebook and Twitter.
How does it work?
Our system is simple. We've built a massive database of company information. When we identify your photo, we use this information to instantly submit a request on your behalf. If we don't know about the company already, our database discovers what we need to know automatically.
For more information — and to see proof of our success — read our blog post:
https://www.paperkarma.com/blog/2012/02/one-week-later/
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Customer Reviews
I Am Suspicious
Two things make me wonder about the effectiveness and true nature of this product:
(1) All of the rave reviews below came out within TWO WEEKS of this app being released, including EIGHT of them within ONE WEEK, and FOUR of them on the VERY DAY it came out. How could anyone know if the app is effective in stopping junk mail when a specific company's advert mail doesn't come out nearly that frequently. More likely, all those rave reviews came from insiders like the two guys from Readabl and their friends. Possibly they had been beta testing it, but I doubt it was a random test sample.
(2) It's well & good if they do indeed have contact info for all the various junk mail purveyors & will send them an "unsubscribe" on your behalf, but here's an important question: Are the junk mailers actually required to honor an unsubscribe request made by a proxy on your behalf? The "one-week-later" blog entry shows examples from highly visible & reputable companies that would respond to such requests in the interest of their reputations, but what about the majority of junk mailers you've never heard of? Legally speaking, can't they just ignore an unsubscribe demand that doesn't come directly from you?
I hope I am offbase and that this app really does do all it claims, but it'll take some time & real public testimony before I really feel good about it.
Seems to work
It recognized 4/4 things I threw at it. One picture was tiny and blurry but it knew exactly what it was.
Read the FAQ, it says if multiple people live at a address add "John and Jane Smith" to the name field.
Time will tell if I will finally stop receiving chase credit cards every week...
Awesome!
Easy to use. Am waiting to see if the junk mail stops coming. But impressed with the simplicity and will be happy if I receive less junk mail.
- Free
- Category: Lifestyle
- Released: Jan 21, 2012
- Version: 1.0.0
- Size: 4.4 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Readabl Inc
- © 2012 Readabl, Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
