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Useful Apps and Sites

Weather​

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Based on my experience, Buienradar is the most accurate weather app for the Netherlands and it's more reliable than the common weather apps.

Public Transportation​

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Personally I find route planning with dutch apps to be very similar to each other. So I usually combine the results of Google maps and NS app.

Car and Ride Sharing​

Moped and Scooter Sharing​

Shopping​

Groceries​

  • Albert Heijn: Delivers groceries for orders higher than €50, and delivery cost depends on your neighborhood's delivery times. Depending on your order, they use crates instead of plastic or paper bags for non refrigerated groceries and you pay for the crates, but you can return the crate on the next delivery and get your money back. Also accepts cans and plastic containers and its own plastic bags and deducts statiegeld (recycling deposit) from your order.
  • Flink
  • Picnic: Online supermarket. Also accepts cans and plastic containers and its own plastic bags and deducts statiegeld (recycling deposit) from your order.
  • Too Good To Go: Buy food that would otherwise be thrown away
  • Crisp: Online supermarket
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Picnic doesn't have English support yet, so you need to screenshot and translate the app to use it.

Goods and Electronics​

Banking​

Budgeting and Spending Tracker​

Investing​

Neighborhoods Information​

Amsterdam​