AwardWalletReviews of awardwallet.com

Very useful app, but I wish the interface was more modern. Functionality is excellent though.

I purchased the "Plus" version after the recent price increase. I'm surprised they didn't charge this much before: This site, when used properly, offers unique functionality not found elsewhere in the travel/credit card point space. Of particular value, is it's ability to aggregate actual data on how merchants code and points awarded, and then do that for your own transactions. This allows you to know what *should* provide optimal reward, what *did* provide optimal award for others, and whether or not *you* earned the optimal reward by using the right card for a given transaction. I've not seen this in any other product: others might tell you what a merchant 'should' code as. AwardWallet does that and then tells you what it *does* code as. These are the "Merchant Lookup Tool" and "Transaction Analyzer", respectively. AwardWallet does more, including tracking not only your points balances across MANY award programs, not just credit cards and travel. Most of this is automated, although certain airlines have blocked AwardWallet's direct access. There are workarounds for this. It includes another complete feature in trip itinerary timelines. I use TripIt Pro for this, so I haven't had a chance to compare, but if you're not using that, than this looks like it works great. Their blog is regularly updated with relevant travel/point articles. It is the *ONLY* site I permit to send me notifications in my browser, as I'm keenly interested in points news as it happens. Customer service response has been top notch (and patient). When I submit an issue, I get a personal response within hours. Certain issues have been user error, but when it's not they've fixed things within a day. Like all other tools in this space, it's not the end-all be all, and sometimes it just doesn't work right. The data sources are changing constantly, so I'm not surprised. Also, there is room for improvement: Transaction analysis is only happening for primary transferrable points cards. So, for example, I might accidentally use my amex card to buy gas, when I have a Wyndham Earner Business Card just for that (8x). While AW does track my Wyndham points, it doesn't know about my Wyndham Barclays card, so it will suggest something yet another card for me to use instead. In cases like these, for now, you just have to think for yourself. Overall one of the best travel and points earning tools in my arsenal.