The simple action to see and compare supermarket prices on your mobile before doing your shopping

When making a purchase, whether it is mid-range mobile phones, headphones or going to the supermarket, most people look for make the most of the money you have spend to make the best possible purchase. And that’s normal, because resources are limited and you have to use them in the best possible way.

In Europe, some supermarkets like Dia, Carrefour or Lidl have their own application, many of which we have already tested in EL ESPAÑOL – El Androide Libre. These include both the prices of many of their products and the exclusive offers and benefits of their respective membership plans. Alongside them, there is also some alternative apps and websites through which it is possible to know the price information of other stores in the same location.

Knowing the price differences between food products, cleaning products and other products sold in supermarkets, it will be possible to know in which places it is worth buying each member of the basket. So saving can be a little easier.

Sojasuper

The important thing is on the inside, and this application is good proof of that. It has an outdated design to say the least, but it fulfills its function perfectly, since it is capable of display prices of thousands of supermarket products. It divides them into different categories, but it also has a built-in barcode reader.

It will be necessary to log in to be able to use it correctly, and it is possible to enter the postal code so that the application displays the prices in the postal code in which we are located. You will need to choose a main supermarket to explore from the nine available.

Within the application, what is interesting is to explore the different products that you are considering purchasing, and if these are sold in several chains, you can see the price they have on each. It must be taken into account that the own brands of each supermarket will only be available in these, therefore only one price will be visible on their sheet.

When you have finished adding the products to the list, you will see how much it costs in each of the stores. If there are own brands, they will be replaced by similar products, which can help you see where it is cheaper to buy. Although you can always combine several. It can be downloaded to mobile and tablet from Google Play.

FindItApp

In this case, it is possible to see the prices of the shopping list, but also of nearby gas stations. HAS eight integrated supermarketsand, in a fairly visual way, it is able to show the price differences between them, leaving it to the user to select the ones they prefer.

By entering its offers section you can see some products temporarily reduced in certain supermarkets marked as favorites. If you want to keep tabs on a specific product, you can mark it with a like to quickly access it every time you open the app.

The nutritional values, white label alternatives and price comparisons appear in the sheet for each element. In fact, one of the best features of the app is that allows you to compare two similar products to see information such as the price per quantity, the supermarkets available or even its Nutri-Score rating.

In terms of design, it is the most worked application, and the good news is that it has some of the main supermarkets in Europe, although there are absences in the list, such as Lidl. Still, it’s a great alternative for making direct price comparisons, and it’s available for free on Google Play.

Alternative to OCU

There are other apps available for Android through which you can also see a price comparison, although they do not work as well as the previous two. One of them is OCU Market, created by the Consumers’ Organization and in which you can see a wide variety of elements, but not as much as in the previous alternatives.

Allow search by barcode or name, but it is true that a large number of brands are missed when searching for almost any item. Additionally, in some cases there is only one price in a supermarket and no nutritional information is available. It’s interesting to try it, but it’s not essential, far from it.

On the other hand, there are several supermarkets in Europe that have their own application, and Club Dia and Mi Carrefour are among the best, since there you will find the current catalog and the next one that will be available, product prices, discounts and even recipes cook with ingredients sold in the chain.

There are also applications like Ofertia which, instead of comparing prices, serve as a unified access point to the current catalogs of some of these applications in PDF format. It’s not the most comfortable, but This can be very useful if you are not a member free supermarket subscriptions.