Have a greener lifestyle: 9 free apps to help you

Headache, complexity, loneliness and total vagueness , this is often what we imagine when we think of adopting a more ecological lifestyle . In reality, it's not that complicated . You just need to apply simple actions on a daily basis or use applications specialized in ecological transition.

Between manufacturing your household products, eating healthily, sorting your waste, avoiding plastic... Discover fun and easy-to-use tools to help you move towards a more eco-friendly lifestyle.

Trashback : collecting litter for a cleaner planet

Like the Meanwhile Boutique team, take part in a zero waste walk . The experience will be even more fun with a fun application to accompany you.

The Trashback mobile application allows you to win gifts made in France by picking up waste in the street. 

The principle is simple: when you find waste in nature, take a photo of it via the application before throwing it into a suitable bin. Each find is worth points and allows you to win gifts, vouchers and discounts from Trashback's French partners. 

What we like about Trashback:

• His commitment to a cleaner planet 
• Its ease of use 
• Promoting eco-responsible and committed French partner brands.

Geev : donate your objects instead of throwing them away

Are you unable to sell your old items or don't have the time? Do you want to make space in your cupboards without throwing away?

That's good, throwing away less is one of the objectives of a more ecological lifestyle.

To fight against waste , Geev suggests giving them to people around you so that they can find a second life.

The app allows you to create an ad with a location point near you. Once the item has been reserved, the interested person simply needs to come and pick it up.

How can we make it simpler to fight against waste?

What we like about Geev:

• the possibility of also donating food
• the ease of use of the app
• no ambiguity: here, we give our objects

Yuka and BuyOrNot : consume better from the moment of purchase

Whether for food or cosmetics, adopting a more ecological lifestyle requires purchasing healthier products . But faced with the complexity of labels and the opacity of product manufacturing , tools help you see more clearly.

Yuka

Perhaps you already know it: this app tells you about the composition of what you buy by scanning the barcode of your product.

With Yuka , each scanned product gets a rating. If it is bad, the app offers you similar products that are better for your health.

The product sheets are detailed to provide you with all the explanations necessary for its evaluation, with very clear symbols and color codes for example.

Not bad, for consuming products that are better for your health and the planet, right?

What we like about Yuka:

• clarity of information: symbols, color codes
• a large number of references available
• the positive and negative points as well as the impact on the environment

Buy Or Not

BuyOrNot works on the same principle but adds an ethical and social angle behind each scanned item.

With each scan, the app allows you to check if the product is the subject of boycott campaigns or controversies.

The association behind the project links the application with I-boycott , its benevolent boycott platform, to push brands and manufacturers to act.

BuyOrNot therefore allows you to have access to it and participate in it in order to act collectively, beyond the app.

What we like:

• no need to create an account to use it
• ability to see if the product or company is controversial or boycotted
• you can create lists of favorite products or products to avoid

90 days and WAG : changing your habits sustainably, a fun challenge

Do you think having an eco-friendly lifestyle is too complicated ? You do not know where to start ? Would you like to act as a group and not alone?

These two apps are made for you:

90 days

With 90 days , you receive 20 challenges to implement in your daily life for 90 days.

The challenges keep coming and push you to act on all aspects of your daily life . Don't panic, you can also postpone them or even stop them if you think it's insurmountable.

No pressure, the goal is to change gently, without hassle, thanks to the information that is given at each stage, to help you move forward.

As you progress, you have access to the savings made thanks to your commitments in your profile.

A good way to progress in a fun way while understanding the challenges of each of our actions.

90 Days is only available on Android .

What we like about 90 days:

• the format: 1 challenge per day which allows you to start changing your habits
• information on savings made after each challenge, to better understand the challenges of change
• the possibility of postponing until later, to avoid headaches

We Act For Good

We Act For Good was created by the WWF association .

Its goal: to support you with challenges and quizzes, towards a more ecological lifestyle.

The difference with 90 days is that there is no time limit and that the application offers a personalized space according to each person's objectives.

WAG (for close friends), informs you through numerous articles on 9 ecological themes , in order to support your actions.

A map is also available to see all the eco-responsible places and services around you.

There is also an events calendar and the possibility of accessing content on specialized themes.

What we like about WAG:

• a lot of information
• varied challenges on all themes of daily life
• a desire to involve users beyond the app with sharing of events

Kuri and Etiquettable : cooking seasonally and favoring local products

Food is a key point of a more ecological lifestyle . Between re-appropriating seasonal fruits and vegetables, reducing, or even stopping, our consumption of animal products, consuming locally... many can feel lost in the face of all this information. Here are 2 apps to help you, always in a simple and fun way .

Kuri

Changing your diet while avoiding waste and favoring seasonal products is the objective of the Kuri application.

Available on iPhone only, this app is the ideal tool for eating better.

On the one hand, it offers you recipes adapted to your diet and your intolerances. On the other hand, it allows you to avoid waste by offering you recipes based on what is in your fridge.

Finally, if a recipe interests you, you can add the ingredients in the shopping list tab, so you don't lose anything.

Not bad is not it ?

What we like about Kuri:

• a refined app, with clear and delicious visuals
• numerous recipe ideas adapted to all diets (vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, pescitarian, flexitarian): enough to appeal to the less inspired
• recipes adapted to your cooking level and habits
• the fridge tab which has undoubtedly saved many foods from waste

Labelable

The Etiquettable app , which you find on iPhone and Android, also revolves around food, with a slightly different angle.

It is a wealth of useful information such as: the list of seasonal fruits and vegetables, endangered fish by geographical area, recipes according to your diet, a list of committed restaurants and businesses and articles to keep you informed.

What more could you ask for to change your diet peacefully?

What we like about Etiquettable:

• simple design and colorful illustrations
• a high density of information
• integrated maps to go beyond the app

Clear Fashion : choose your clothes better

As you may know, the fashion industry is one of the most polluting in the world. When you adopt a more ecological lifestyle , the question of clothing also takes up a lot of space.

How to choose the right clothes when faced with such an offer? How to fight greenwashing?

Clear Fashion is the tool you need.

This app works on the principle of barcode scanning. It brings together more than 410 clothing brands and offers to analyze them according to 4 main themes : the environment, humans, health and animals.

With more than 150 criteria taken into account , you can now know if the clothing you want to buy fits into your ecological values ​​thanks to the rating given to it.

The app then offers to compare the different products so that you can see which one best suits your ecological commitments.

The goal is also to push brands to be more transparent and take concrete actions to improve the environmental and social impact of their production.

What we like about Clear Fashion:

• you can scan a piece of clothing as well as a brand
• you can scan the composition label or the barcode to better understand what the garment is made of
• the information is very detailed
• notes are clearly displayed

And you, what is your favorite application? Don’t hesitate to share yours and your tools for a more responsible lifestyle with us in the comments.

Opting for an ecological lifestyle also means “consuming less and better” . This includes purchasing eco-responsible, sustainable and environmentally friendly products .