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this binder was one stuffed full of grocery coupons that alvera Gomez painstakingly clipped on a weekly basis I was spending way too much time organizing my coupons and purging expired coupons and then I just kind of gave up because her busy family of five could use the savings gomez put down her scissors and picked up her smartphone to try ibotta a new app that earns users cash for buying everyday products if it's something is fun interactive and easy I can and it's valuable to my shopping experience then I will try it you can add credit to your account by watching videos taking polls and so forth and then you go purchase the products in the store you take a picture of your receipt actually using your phone and based on the information on the receipt we immediately send you cash to your account there are several dozen coupon apps already on the market snip snap RetailMeNot and coupon cabin to name a few but unlike the others ibotta rewards users with real money and not points or credit and as adding a gamification feature in the coming weeks based on exactly which products you buy and where you shop you unlock certain games or bonuses and these are like challenges once you complete them you earn more cash in three months gomez has earned fifty three bucks and says I bada is here to stay for its convenience because I can forget my coupons but I'll never forget my cell phone since I bought as launched six months ago they've credited users with more than 1 million dollars in earnings that money can go into a PayPal account or directly donated to one of a hundred and thirty thousand schools or to the United Way in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News