Becca Alves

Every time you book a hotel through Rove, you earn airline miles. It works with hotels you're already booking. Sign up free and you get 1,500 miles just for joining. That's free miles for doing what you were going to do anyway.

Rakuten gives you cash back (or points) when you shop online at stores you already use. You just click through Rakuten first before buying from places like Amazon, Walmart, or Sephora, and they give you a percentage back. You can choose to get your earnings as Amex Membership Rewards points or Bilt points instead of cash, which makes your everyday shopping earn you travel points.

FoundersCard is a membership that gives you VIP status and discounts at hotels, airlines, and travel companies. Think automatic elite status at hotel chains, discounted business class fares, and perks that normally take years of loyalty to earn. It's made for business owners and frequent travelers who want premium treatment without the premium price tag.

Already booked a flight? Autopilot watches the price for you. If it drops, they automatically get you a refund for the difference. You don't have to do anything. It's free to track your flights, and they just take a small cut of the savings. So if your flight drops $200, you get most of that back without lifting a finger.

If you have more than one credit card, you're probably leaving points on the table. CardPointers tells you exactly which card to pull out for every purchase. At the grocery store? Use this card. Booking a hotel? Use that one. It tracks all the bonus categories across 5,000+ cards so you don't have to remember anything. It also auto-adds Amex and Chase offers to your cards so you never miss a deal. There's a free version and a paid version with extra features.

When you want to use your points to book a flight, you need to find a seat that's actually available to book with points (not all seats are). Normally you'd have to search airline by airline, date by date. Seats.aero does all of that at once. You type where you want to go and it shows you every available points seat across 20+ airlines in seconds. It even lets you set alerts so you get a notification when your dream flight opens up. There's a free version and a Pro version ($9.99/mo) that searches up to a year out.