Consumer Apps Page

Smart Disclosure Apps

This page highlights apps and websites that use Smart Disclosure-style data to empower consumers to make better informed choices. The purpose is to illustrate the kinds of innovative apps—web- and mobile-based—that Smart Disclosure can fuel. The galleries below include both government-produced apps and apps created by innovators outside government that have won Federal challenges.

This page highlights only a fraction of the kinds of applications that Smart Disclosure can make possible. Have an app or website you think should be highlighted as an example of Smart Disclosure? Let us know in our Forums.

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Education Apps

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College Affordability and Transparency Center The College Affordability and Transparency Center includes information for students, parents, and policymakers about college costs at America’s colleges and universities.	Search for Public School Districts Use the Search For Public School Districts locator to retrieve information on all U.S. public school districts.
Search for Public Schools Use the Search For Public Schools locator to retrieve information on all U.S. public schools.

Energy & Environment Apps

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Alternative Fuel Locator Find fueling stations for your alternative fuel vehicle on-the-go with the U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fueling Station Locator.	Energy Apps Gallery An energy apps gallery sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
ENERGY STAR ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, helping us all save money and protect the environment through energy-efficient products and practices.	Fuel Economy.gov Calculate gas mileage (MPG), annual fuel costs, annual petroleum use, and the carbon footprint information for your car or truck.

Finance Apps

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Credit Card Agreement Database The CFPB maintains a database of credit card agreements from more than 300 card issuers.	SEC Investment Adviser Search You can search for an investment adviser firm on this website and view the registration form ('Form ADV') that the adviser filed.
SEC's Public Company Interactive Data Viewer Investors can search the SEC's next generation EDGAR system for interactive data on public company financials.	Social Security Benefits Planner Use SSA's planner to help you better understand your Social Security protection as you plan for your financial future. Then choose a benefit calculator to find out your monthly benefit amounts.

Food & Nutrition Apps

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Food Environment Atlas Get a spatial overview of a community's ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so.	Food-a-pedia Food-A-pedia is a mobile tool to provide consumers quick access to nutrition information for over 1,000 foods. Food-a-pedia includes: calorie amounts, contribution of a food to the five food groups, and number of “extra” calories in a food from solid fats, added sugars, and alcohol.
Fooducate Fooducate is a free mobile app (Android, iPhone) that empowers supermarket shoppers to make healthy choices effortlessly, enabling consumers to automatically scan the barcodes of food products, and instantly see how nutritious they really are.	GoodGuide The GoodGuide app can be used while shopping to instantly reveal whether a food product is healthy and produced by green or socially responsible companies.

Health Apps

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Dory 2.0 Connect with cancer (or other medical condition) clinical trial researchers near you.	Eat, Shop, Sleep Looking for a popular restaurant nearby? A hotel without code violations to stay at? Eat Sleep Shop for your iPhone/iPad is here to help. Search for places to eat, shop & sleep and then read customer reviews as well as health, safety & labor highlights as a consumer in the know.
Find a Health Center Federally funded health centers care for you, even if you have no health insurance. You pay what you can afford, based on your income. Type in a ZIP code and click the "Find Centers" button to find health centers near you.	Health Insurance Plan Finder This tool will help you find the health insurance best suited to your needs, whether it's private insurance for individuals, families, and small businesses, or public programs that may work for you.

Safety Apps

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Product Recalls When you’re buying and using products, safety comes first. And now, with this product recalls application, you have vital safety information available whenever and wherever you need it — right on your mobile phone.	SaferBus Planning a bus trip? Look before you book. First, use the SaferBus app to check the safety record of the carrier you are choosing.
SaferCar The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is the nation's authority on vehicle-related safety. NHTSA 's SaferCar app provides important information and functions that will help you make informed safety decisions involving your vehicle.	SaferProducts.gov The publicly-available consumer product safety information database website of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

Telecommunication Apps

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FCC Mobile Broadband Test

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Broadband Test application provides consumers with information about the quality and speed of their mobile data connection.

National Broadband Map

The National Broadband Map is a tool to search, analyze and map broadband availability across the United States.

Transportation Apps

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Hootroot Hootroot helps you navigate efficiently from point A to point B. Powered by web services from Brighter Planet, Google Maps, and HopStop, the app provides directions and carbon footprints for driving, transit, flight, and human-powered transportation options on any route.	SaferBus Planning a bus trip? Look before you book. First, use the SaferBus app to check the safety record of the carrier you are choosing.
SaferCar.gov Safety information for vehicle shoppers and owners.	Smart Traveler Smart Traveler, the official State Department app for U.S. travelers, invites you to see the world with easy access to frequently updated official country information, travel alerts, travel warnings, maps, U.S. embassy locations, and more.