App Review – The Points Guy To Go

If you are not familiar with The Points Guy, go ahead and check out the site. It is a great resource for understanding how to maximize your travel rewards.  It is VERY helpful.

I’ll wait. Go check it out. I’ll be here.

Pretty cool site, eh?  I think so too.  If I’m looking for details on one of my memberships, I sometimes find it easy to find the answer to my question there than on the vendor’s site.

I came across the app TPG to Go

It has 5 sections:

1.  Home – Here you get some summary information. A little bit of news, some info on your rotating categories,nearby merchants, and recent transactions.
2.  TPG Now –  some headlines from thepointsguy.com
3.  Pay – This section takes your credit cards (that you’ve set up in TPG to Go) and let’s you know by category which card to use for what category, based on rewards.
4.  Rewards – This section takes the transactions from your registered cards, shows you how much value you earned in rewards, and let’s you know if you it thinks you should have used a different card to earn more value. (Missed rewards)
5.  Wallet – Here is where you set up the cards you have.  Enter your login for you cards’ websites and it’ll pull the necessary data in.

Overall, it’s a neat app.  I found some of the recommendations didn’t really add up in my opinion.  It seems the app really like my Capital One Venture card (2% cash back towards travel).  Where as I would prefer my Hilton Aspire (7PPD at $.005 per point value or $.035).  Not to mention that my priority is my Delta Reserve card to get my MQMs for status.

While I would not take the recommendations as gospel, this app certainly provides some keen insight on a day by day basis on how you can maximize your rewards.

Update December 19th, 2018:

Since this post was first published.  TPG has pulled both the iOS and the Android version of this app.  They are working on a new version and will publish that when it is ready.

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