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USEFUL APPS FOR EXPAT IN JAKARTA (UPDATED)

Begin your hassle-free lifestyle in Jakarta by using these amazing apps. From dining, health, exercise, to entertainment, and the latest one is Transfez to assist you in transferring money to overseas!

We list them down for you in here.

What’s New Indonesia

What's New Indonesia Application

What's New Indonesia application is a great resource for travelers and locals alike who want to stay up-to-date on the latest lifestyle news, deals, promotions, and events in Indonesia's big cities. The app's user-friendly interface makes it easy to explore different categories like Events, Features, Deals, Ultimate Guides, Galleries, and Directories.

Whether you're looking for recommendations on where to eat, stay, play, or party, the What's New Indonesia app can help you find fun things to do and places to go. You can also get information on restaurants, hotels, spas, salons, attractions, parks, and other exciting activities.

With this app, you can stay informed about the latest happenings in the city and discover new places to explore. It's a handy tool for anyone who wants to make the most of their time in Indonesia.

Download on App Store
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2. Sayurbox

Sayurbox delivers fresh fruits, veggies, and healthy products sourced directly from local farmers and producers in Indonesia, right to the convenience of your doorstep. The farm-to-table concept does not only mean reducing the layers of distribution between the farmers and producers to you but also reducing unnecessary waste of produce. With its 2-day pre-order, Sayurbox farmers and producers receive actual orders in advance, meaning your fruits and veggies are only harvested once bought. No waste, no fuss, only fresh and healthy product.

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3. GuavaPass – One Pass Fitness  

GuavaPass is a healthy-living app with an all-day schedule of exciting and unique group exercise classes at premium boutique fitness studios and access to expert partners in the health and wellness space across Asia and the Middle East. Search, discover and book a class based on preferred time, location, and activity such as boxing, yoga, high-intensity training, cardio, boot camp, barre, Pilates, CrossFit, dance, Muay Thai, and many more. Perfect for those on-the-go, thousands of classes are available across hundreds of studios weekly. Members can take an unlimited number of fitness classes each month with the studios on the GuavaPass platform as well as access to exclusive GuavaPerks across a range of wellness brands.

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4. Style Theory: Rent, Wear, Swap

Now you have the freedom to wear unlimited designer styles without the commitment of owning them. Discover new favorites and surprise yourself as easy as rent, wear, swap. This app is where all the magic begins.
– Rent 3 styles at a time.
– They’ll arrive dry-cleaned, pressed and ready to wear.
– Schedule a pick-up when you’re ready for the next 3 styles.

At a monthly subscription, access:
– Unlimited swaps every month
– 20,000+ designer outfits in XS to L
– 200+ designer brands from Paris, New York, London and more
– Dresses, bags, and accessories for work, weekend, party or evening
– Free dry-cleaning, delivery, and pick-up
– Personalized size recommendations
– The flexibility to pause or cancel anytime

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5. Strava: Run, Ride, or Swim

Strava tracks your fitness activity, records your run, maps your cycling route and analyzes your training with all the stats. All for free! Whether you’re training for a marathon or simply love taking your bike out for a ride, turn your smartphone of GPS watch into a sophisticated tracker with this app. You can also join millions of athletes and active people and reach your fitness goals.

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6. OVO

OVO is a mobile app payment system with a twist of magic. Aside from making sure your financial transactions become as simple, instant, and secure as it can be, every time you pay with OVO you’ll get plenty of happiness back. With thousands of OVO merchants all across Indonesia in various categories from F&B, fashion, beauty, entertainment, transportation, travel, and many more, plus exclusive partnership merchants and top-up points.

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7. Halodoc: Doctors & Medicines

Halodoc allows you to chat with general practitioners and specialists, buy medicine, and lab tests in one application. You can also consult with its doctors via chat, voice/video call. Specialists, who are registered in IDI will answer all of your questions as well. For medicine, Halodoc guarantees the authenticity of the medicine sent to you, where the package will be sealed, and delivered safely within 1 hour. Use other features such as lab service where you can pick your own place and date, and the lab officer will come to you. The result will be available on the Halodoc app.

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8. TIX ID

TIXid is the leading movie ticket buying application in Indonesia. With TIXid, you can book movie tickets at your favorite Cinema 21 movie theaters at ease, quick and secure without any hassle. TIXid features includes:
1. Get movie tickets from the leading cinema network in Indonesia, CINEMA 21 without queuing up.
2. Check the latest movie showtimes, watch the latest movie trailers and instantly select your favorite best seat in real-time.
3. FAST and SAFE payments using your DANA balance.
4. Track your cinema ticket purchase history.
5. A variety of exciting promotions that are given exclusively for you.

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9. CHOPE

Chope is a real-time restaurant-reservation booking platform that connects diners with its partner restaurants. The name “Chope” was inspired by the term chope spoken colloquially in Singapore. The Chope app and website feature various guides and over 4,000 restaurants to help users discover places to eat, book restaurants and deliveries instantly and enjoy savings through specials and dining vouchers. Founded in 2011 and currently, in eight cities (Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Phuket, Shanghai, Beijing, Bali, and Jakarta), Chope seated 24 million diners in 2019 alone.

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10. Gojek

Gojek app offers more than just ride-hailing, but also 20 other services to solve your every day needs. After revamping its logo, Gojek transforms into the largest Super App with three platforms: consumer, driver, and merchant applications, with a variety of smart ways to eliminate hassles.

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11. Grab

Another giant multi-service app in Jakarta with more than just ride-hailing service. From fast packages to faster payments, streetside pick-ups to street food deliveries, morning commutes to midnight food cravings, and more.

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12. Tokopedia

Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company specializing in e-commerce. It was founded in 2009 by William Tanuwijaya and Leontinus Alpha Edison. It is an Indonesian unicorn along with ride-hailing company Gojek, travel service firm Traveloka, e-commerce Bukalapak, and fintech company OVO. Tokopedia Marketplace provides the most diverse selection of products in Indonesia. Collaborating with more than 6.8 million sellers, various official stores and logistical partners as well as payment to provide the best experience for our customers.

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13. Traveloka

Traveloka is a leading Southeast Asia online travel company that provides a wide range of travel needs in one platform, enabling customers to create moments together with their loved ones. Traveloka offers flights, hotels, trains, flight + hotel packages, attractions & activities, connectivity products, airport transports*, and buses. The Traveloka mobile app has been downloaded more than 30 million times, making it the most popular travel booking app in the region.

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14. NAFAS

NAFAS Indonesia is a useful app to know and more aware of the air we breathe, and the impact that the quality of air has on their health and our lives. This app created Jakarta’s largest network of air quality sensors, so you can have the most accurate air quality data for your everyday life. Its recommendations are written in accordance with World Health Organization standards and are designed to help you make lifestyle choices for your family.

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Special Mention:

Transfez

The easiest and most convenient way to send money overseas. Worry less, with this application now you can transfer funds to overseas securely and real time or online. Licensed legally and supervised by Bank Indonesia, Transfez has been trusted to send more than IDR 220 billion overseas. Additionally, they are offering the lowest transfer fee!

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