10 Recommended Apps to Make Your Life Easier – If you have recently arrived in Indonesia and have activated your handheld phone device, make sure you download some of these hugely popular applications.
These are the most recommended apps to optimize your daily life in Indonesia!
Go-Jek
Hungry? Lazy to go out because of traffic jams? Take it easy, Go-Jek will cover you up! Go-Jek is a multi-service application that caters to all the needs of a person from ordering food, ordering online taxis, and paying bills to sending goods efficiently. Go-Jek started as an Ojek (scooter) taxi service application but has now become a one-stop-service app. Go-Jek also has a fintech namely Go-Pay which helps you to pay your transaction in selected merchants or stores.
Grab
Grab is one of the most popular drive-hailing apps in Indonesia. The app can be used for multiple things, such as car & bike rides, food deliveries, and making payments using their payment gateway system, OVO. Grab is not only cheap for their transportation, but also tends to have a lot of food discounts, you could save a fortune, thanks to their daily promotions! One cool feature of Grab is that you can hire a car for hours, not just for 1 trip, which makes it great when you need to do multiple drops or need help moving things.
TiJe
As you may know that Jakarta is suffering from severe congestion, importantly we suggest you download TiJe. Tije is a modern digital transportation platform that comes with various advanced and simple features. It provides complete TransJakarta routes and schedules to make it easier for you to plan a trip with Transjakarta.
Traveloka
Want to travel around Indonesia or just staycation at one of the famous hotels in Jakarta? Go give Traveloka a try! It’s an app with the solution for your traveling needs from flight, hotel, train, bus, activity, and tour. Moreover, this app gives you some offers in lifestyle, beauty, healthcare, food & delivery, finances, and more! Worry not, Traveloka is completed with smart and secure technology to make your transaction more convenient.
Tokopedia
Do you suddenly need a screwdriver or pliers to fix your cabinet? Tokopedia may be one solution for you. It’s an Indonesia-based marketplace where everyone can start and discover anything with ease as their vision. You can find any goods with the best deals especially when you need to buy some home appliances. Beside their delivery is faster since it cooperates with Go-Jek for the delivery service.
Shopee
Shopee is available to users in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam), India, Taiwan, Europe (Poland, Spain), and Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina). Shopee offers a seamless, fun, and reliable shopping experience to millions of users worldwide. You can find a lot of kinds of stuff from daily needs, electronics, and some random stuff.
M.Tix
Love watching the latest movies? But all the seats are sold out? You can try downloading M-Tix. This XXI’s app helps you book tickets online and find out the number of seats available. So, you can order, pay and print the tickets at the cinema!
DANA
In this digitalization era, most people start to change their habits of carrying cash to e-wallets. DANA is one of the most popular fin-tech applications in Indonesia with various promos at several outlets and merchants.
OVO
Just like DANA, OVO is also one of the popular fin-techs in Indonesia. OVO also provides promos at several outlets and merchants. This app can be used to pay parking fees in some places and shopping malls too.
PeduliLindungi
Due to the Covid-19 case and the government’s efforts to suppress the spread of this virus, you must download Peduli Lindungi. It’s used to facilitate your access to public places such as shopping malls, MRT stations, hotels, restaurants, and several other public places.
Thank us later for these apps’ introduction. We’ll update some new apps later when we find more useful and cool ways that make your life easier!
