Delivery Status
Delivery Status is one of those apps you might wonder how you lived without. If like me you receive more deliveries from Amazon than you care to admit, you might have found that you'd prefer to have a central location where you can track those toilet paper orders. Before this app existed, I'd have a zillion UPS/FedEx/USPS windows open in scattered tabs in my browser, and I'd be spending all day refreshing said tabs in the hope that my packages had finally made it out of Aimes, Iowa, or Whereversville, Pennsylvania.
Delivery Status makes this so easy: Fire up the app, type the name of the item you're tracking, paste (or type) the tracking number into the requisite box (the app automatically knows which carrier the tracking number is for!) - and it will give you a delivery date! Even more fun, the app shows you a map with the location of your package. When the item is delivered, you'll get a nice bold check mark next to the item. Perfect. The app will even send you notifications to let you know you can finally use the bathroom because your rolls of TP are finally on your doorstep!
But the fun doesn't stop there. Junecloud offers a completely free synching service, so if you create your free account in the app, you can download the it on your iPhone as well (yes, it's universal!), and all your package tracking will appear on it and any other iOS device, synched each time you open the app. I personally have this app on my iPhone 4 and my iPad, and use it pretty much every day.
Even more niftily, Junecloud offers a free Delivery Status app for your Mac, so you can access the very same information, add new tracking numbers and sync etc, all from your Mac through the Dashboard.
So what's to like?
We love the ease of use, the synching among all devices automagically, the simplicity of reorganizing the tracked items, and being able to see the carrier's website from within the app.
So what's not to like?
We wish there were an option to turn off the little sound effects in the app. Currently the only way to do so is put your iPhone/iPad on silent mode, which isn't ideal. Not the deal breaker, of course, but we like options!
Verdict:
We love this app. It makes an aspect of our lives a lot easier to manage, and that means we approve, and give it the highly coveted Five-Nerds Award!
App Store Link: Delivery Status, $4.99