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ReciclApp

This Chilean recycling app was called “the Uber of recycling” by Vice, and is a crucial addition to a country that has no curbside recycling program. Users collect recyclable materials, declare the amount they have, and the app schedules a pick-up by one of their crowdsourced drivers.

rove

The self-proclaimed “Uber of tourism,” pays local church members to be tour guides—in Venice, Tenerife, Spain, and Washington, DC—providing travelers with authentic cultural experiences, an escape from “over-commercialized mass tourism.”

filld

Get competitively priced gas delivered to your home or office, provided you live in the Bay area, which, coincidentally, has the highest concentration of electric cars in the nation.

zip car

$7 a month gives you access to one of many Zip Cars, which are located at airports, local parking garages, and college campuses in hundreds of cities around the country. Gas and insurance included.

Washe

There are a surprising number of mobile car wash companies, but Washé seems to have the largest reach. Open the app, summon a crew to your crib, have a clean car.

urgent.ly

This app (which received a $10 million investment last fall) offers roadside assistance across the nation without any membership fees. We’re looking at you, AAA.

photosesh

Left your selfie stick on the plane? Use this app and find a photographer on demand.

hellotech

Avoiding a visit home because your mom will make you set up her new iPhone X? Hit up HelloTech, and send the geek team to your casa. Let them deal with their 22-digit default WIFI password.

wag

You just rescued a doe-eyed mutt at the the animal shelter (or dropped $6000 for a bulldog with a bloodline that traces back to Queen Victoria’s pooch) but don’t have time to walk your furbaby. There’s an app for that!

surf air

Often described as the Uber of private air travel, it’s actually more of a Spotify model. Pay a grand to join and $1950 per month and you can fly to more than six destinations on the West Coast as often as you’d like.

ztailor

Started by Men’s Wearhouse founder George Zimmer and dubbed “the Uber of tailoring”, zTailor paired users with an at-home visit from a tailor. The link for the site now brings you to Generation Tux, a Zimmer-owned tuxedo rental company, so apparently it’s now the Uber of tuxedo rentals.

soothe

You need to relax, and why should you have to leave your home to do it? This service brings the massage to you, with an app that guarantees a certified therapist will arrive at your location in under an hour. Your heart rate is already decreasing.

taskrabbit

That closet isn’t going to organize itself, but Taskrabbit peeps will do it for you.

Rubicon Global

When we say “Uber for trash” we don’t mean an app that helps you deal with your ex. This app deals with literal trash, connecting users (mainly small businesses) with companies that offer cheap waste hauling rates. Sorry to disappoint.

Food Rescue Hero

Pennsylvania-based 412 Food Rescue connects volunteer delivery drivers with locations that have requested a food donation. No snarky retort here, this is just cool.

Canary Delivers

This may be the official Uber for weed delivery, but let’s not forget that doorstep bud has always been at the forefront of quick, easy, and inconspicuous delivery methods (nothing beats your local bro on a bike).

saucey

Keep the party going with this alcohol delivery app. Your house party will never be unprepared for your younger brother and his fraternity again.

pager

An app for the hypochondriac, Pager allows users to instantly connect to a nurse or doctor and have prescriptions sent to a local pharmacy based on their symptoms. Users can also schedule appointments at physical offices in their area, which seems… counterintuitive.

G.I.T. Fit Mobile

In 2015, fitness trainer Matt Rolph started a company that allowed users to summon a mobile gym to their residence. In 2016, Vice called it the “uber for gyms.” Last year the website disappeared.

shovler

The days of luring a neighborhood teen to your snowy driveway with a crisp $5 bill and a cup of cocoa are long gone. This app connects you with people willing to throw your trouble snow… elsewhere.

EasyPose

The app lets you request an on-demand certified yoga instructor, so you can struggle to maintain Vrksasana far from the judgemental gaze of more-seasoned yogis. Available in California and the Tri-State area.

hello Sitter

When your neighbor’s 14-year-old just isn’t cutting it anymore, Hello Sitter matches you with reputable babysitters in New York City, Brooklyn, and the Hamptons. You can request same-day sitting, pay in the app, and actually enjoy your night—of course there’s a background check.

deliv

In 2014 this delivery service was named a “disruptor in the retail world” and, you guessed it, compared to Uber and Lyft. It offers delivery options for small and large business retailers, using crowdsourced drivers to cart around anything from pairs of Adidas to local handmade soy candles.

Squire + Shortcut

Neither of the apps bring a barber to your home — do you wanna clean up all that beard hair?— but they do allow you to find, book, and pay for a cut at a local barber.

ruuby

If you live in London but don’t want to step outside to confirm that, this app lets you bring the beauty parlor to your flat the next time you need your eyebrows threaded.

lawnguru

Take a bird’s eye snapshot of your property, highlight the areas that need grooming, and request a lawn care provider. After your lawn’s haircut, they’ll send you a pic of it’s new ‘do and a bill. Is anything difficult anymore?

WashClub

While a few other Uber for laundry apps have failed, WashClub lathers on, offering pick-up and drop-off laundry services in the NYC area.

cleanify

You’re so lazy you can’t clean your own place. But are you the kind of lazy that summons a cleaner to your house with your iPhone? If so, Cleanify is for you.

Convoy

Convoy may have been called the Uber of trucking (and raised $62 million on that promise), but we think it’s more like Tinder—the app pairs lonely truckers with marooned cargo. How sweet.

wangle space

It’s only in beta in Phoenix, Arizona, but this app finds empty office spaces for those in immediate need.

clowder coffee

You can’t bear to walk to your local shop to get your grande double shot no whip soy latte—well Clowder Coffee is here to save the day, delivering one of 16 brews to you at your desk in NYC. We think they went out of business in 2016—their site is now Clowder Labs, a design consultancy.

seed legal

Despite the name, this is not an app for weed delivery (see Canary Delivers for that). It’s something a bit more lame–an app to help startups close their next round of funding.

foodbyus

An app that delivers home-cooked meals to your door, allowing users to choose from entire meals, baked goods, or food based on strict dietary restrictions. Only available for those that live down under. Apologies.

get my boat

Need a 44-foot catamaran to cruise around Cartagena or a jetski to blast around Biscayne Bay? The 5-year old boat-sharing business connects aqua men and women with one of their 90,000 boats in over 171 countries.

Blade

Sitting in traffic—or worse suffering on public transportation—is for chumps, particularly when you can use your Blade app to summon a helicopter to Nantucket or a lift from Manhattan to one of New York’s major airports. You fancy, huh?

ofo

With already thousands of dockless bikes and hundreds of thousands of users in China, the bike-sharing company is starting to make inroads in the UK, where riders can pick up and drop off bikes anywhere, unlocking and locking them with the app.

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uBERVILLE

In 2008, after a snowy night in Paris in which hailing a cab proved especially difficult, two friends (Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp), wondered how to simplify the car-hailing process. Soon Uber was born, immediately providing a blueprint for thousands of app-based startups each declaring itself the Uber of…tourism...trash…even mobile gyms. A decade later, the sharing economy is alive and still booming, and yes, there’s an app for that. Welcome to Uberville, where a touch of the thumb means you don’t have to lift a finger.

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