Eco friendly apps are a great place to start making better choices for the planet, and these five choices are also, free, fun and easy to use.
The smartphone in your pocket can be a powerful tool for learning about how to recycle efficiently, as well as how to make small lifestyle changes to improve how you consume products. It’s a great tool to learn about the natural world (see our PlantSnap app review), and also a great tool to protect it.
Free Eco Friendly Apps
We’ve rounded up free apps that will help you work on improving the world, one step at a time.
Oroeco
This is one of our favorite environmental apps. Do you know how big your carbon footprint is? With Oroeco, you don’t have to guess – you know exactly how much your lifestyle impacts the environment. Oroeco automatically tracks every activity you perform each day and shows you how much carbon it generates.
This app covers everything – from the food you eat, to the clothes you buy and the means of transport you use to get to work. Based on this information, you can make changes in your life and Oroeco shows you how much money and carbon you save with these choices. Oroeco is free for Android and iOS.
Many people would like to change their lives and be more eco-friendly, but they do not know where to get started. #climate app helps you with useful advice and personalized actions for your lifestyle.
Get it on the Apple store here, and Google Play.
Green Globe
Do you want to reduce your carbon footprint while traveling for business or vacation? This eco app can help.
Then look for hotels and resorts on Green Globe. This app displays only properties and businesses that are committed to reducing waste and pollution. The app checks various aspects, such as the recycling policy and the commitment to support local environmental efforts.
Green Globe is available for free for iOS devices only.
Good On You
The fashion industry is one of the greatest generators of pollution and unethical sourcing.
If you want to make sure that the shirt or dress you want to buy was made by fairly paid workers and in compliance with environmental and animal rights policies, check it on Good On You.
This eco friendly app is enough to type in the brand name or type of product in the app and you will get an accurate rating for it according to the above mentioned principles.
Good on You is free on Google Play and iOS devices.
Olio
Food waste is a major problem for our planet. And Olio is trying to help people address it. Imagine this scenario: you are about to leave for the holidays and you still have food in your fridge and pantry that will go bad by the time you return. Post what you have on Olio and someone will come to pick it up and use it responsibly.
It takes just a few taps to be a responsible citizen of Earth. Get the app for free on Google Play or the Apple App Store.
#climate
Once you decide to take an action, you will learn what you have to do to make it happen. To increase your impact, you can share your actions across all your social media accounts. At the present, #climate supports Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr (Google+ is about to be phased out so it does not really count anymore).
You can get the #climate app for free from the App Store for iOS devices.
Looking for a fun app? Check out our GoHappy app review, and our Mini Monet review.
Do you have an eco friendly app that you love?