Comments on: SnapTell: One Of The Coolest iPhone Apps Gets Even Better

By: Image Recognition Startup SnapTell Acquired by Amazon Subsidiary A9.com | Cellphone Ultra

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:09:27 +0000

[...] free iPhone app, in specific, was a pretty nifty tool, letting users not only get instant reviews of a product, but additionally providing local and [...]

By: Fighter Planes

Fighter Planes — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:17:43 +0000

Iam still not convinced by the IPHONE guys what do you thinks of the Blackberry Curve 8900???

I know it isnt touch screen but iam not sure if the IPHone has WI-FI

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:45:29 +0000

SnapTell’s awesome! It’s saved me tons of money! I actually just saw a pretty cool demo of it too, check it out! http://tinyurl.com/d32gjw

By: ajr

ajr — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:14:29 +0000

how does it work… I’m amazed

By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:04:51 +0000

Holy crap! the app exhibits AI

It recommends a real book when a customer photographs a bound collection of printed blather.

By: Omar

Omar — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:10:10 +0000

Its also kind of like iTrackmine.com. I like it not only because it has product information and reviews, but since I have my DVD collection on the site, it also tells me if I have it or which ones of my friends have it or have it on their wish list.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:12:35 +0000

So can you have them explain to me why no book I ever search for provides a link to Amazon? B&N, wikipedia, ebay, yes, but never Amazon, which is always what I’m looking for, since I’m usually after the reader reviews (if I’m thinking about buying a book in a store). Does it actually offer Amazon search?

By: AppBeacon

AppBeacon — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:01:29 +0000

LOL. I got a kick out of your comment. I actually new the wife of one of the Cue Cat executives. They both had a show called something like TechTV. It was absolutely awful.

Anyway, how does this app compare to the Amazon app? Does anyone know if the Amazon app does a better job of recognizing items?

By: Duke

Duke — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:19:48 +0000

Like ShopSavy on Android just much, much worse…

By: Sumit

Sumit — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:20:08 +0000

I tried the app with a photo that was blurry and was not even an image of the full book (sides were cut off, including some part of the title). It still recognized the book, and came back with the price results.
The iPhone Amazon app is better right now, because you can take picture of any item (including books), it will try and find the exact item, or the closest match. I took a picture of my pliers type stapler, it came back with plier type one hole punch. I took a picture of my Casio watch, it came back with the exact Casio watch. I tried it with a book, and came back with the exact match. Don’t know how goofy I might look taking pictures in a BN store doing comparison shopping.

By: kaiyzen

kaiyzen — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:56:00 +0000

Everyone should also check out TinEye Music for the iPhone. Its the same concept but just for cd’s.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:30:51 +0000

eh, the hitler book sounds more interesting.

By: streetstylz

streetstylz — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:11:14 +0000

The :CueCat deserves respect, because it paved the way for mobile phone barcode scanning apps like the NeoReader. Unfortunately the :CueCat came way before it’s time.

By: Scott Werner

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:23:46 +0000

I was cleaning out my computer box and it had CueCat in it! I remember the company saying this was the future, what a good laugh.

Question on the iPhone, is it hard to line up the picture when taking it to make it work? I have the bar code scanner on the gPhone and sometimes I struggle to line up the bar code depending on the lighting conditions.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:19:46 +0000

This is way better than lugging my laptop to the store and scanning barcodes with my CueCat.

By: Selling Books On Amazon » Blog Archive » Snaptell one more reason to be careful with pricing

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:23:59 +0000

[...] Snaptell is an Iphone application that allows someone to get a picture of a product, and then search for it on line seeking the lowest price possible. You might just want to work out how you want to approach this significant technological change, as one of the places they will search is Amazon and Ebay. Since launching a month ago, SnapTell has seen over 200,000 downloads and has been as high as #16 on the free apps list (which is frankly lower than it probably should be). And while a large portion of users are probably just trying out the app for the novelty of image recognition, SnapTell says that around 35% of its installs see repeated use, and that it has a 15% click-through rate to online stores. Source: Techcrunch [...]

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:49:06 +0000

This reminds me of the Delicious Library application for the Mac..

By: Graeme Thickins

Graeme Thickins — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:27:36 +0000

if you use apps like this in a Best Buy store, will they kick you out for “spying” (capturing their pricing)?

By: Raju

Raju — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:51:21 +0000

Its free… for now, anyways…

By: iphone lover

iphone lover — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:51:12 +0000

Is it a freeware? If not, what’s the cost like.

By: Zed

Zed — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:22:04 +0000

Sure you’re not thinking of Compare Everywhere or another scanning app? ShopSavvy seems to have almost everything I’ve scanned, including items only carried by a certain chain of stores.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:55:05 +0000

The big problem with ShopSavvy is that their database of prices is so poor. They read the bar code (and my naked eyes can read the digits on the barcode too!), but never tell you what the thing is or where to get a good price on it.

By: fb2208273

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:35:36 +0000

This is great. I wish i had an iPhone!

By: spundot.com

spundot.com — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:28:33 +0000

i’ll take a “boring” barcode scanning app that works 100% of the time over a “spiffy” image recognition app that works 80% of the time any day.

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:29:41 +0000

this app uses image recognition technology they arent even in the same ball park.