The Top 5 Price Comparison Mobile Apps That Help You Shop Better!

Gone are the days when shopping was an elaborate, time-consuming, and incommodious ordeal. Shopping is now as much an online experience as it used to be an offline one. E-commerce has taken the shopping experience online and made it far too convenient to browse through thousands of categories of products. Consumers have everything they want at their fingertips – quite literally.

But as the online shopping eco-system evolves innovative startups have found new ways to influence the buying behavior of consumers. We now have online tools available to us that allow us to rate, review, and recommend products to our friends. And in the last couple of years we have seen a rise in the number of mobile apps that add a lot more value to consumer-buying behavior. Today we list down 5 of the very best apps that help you shop better using the price comparison metric.

There is no denying that when it comes to influencing the buying behavior of a consumer price is a massive factor. Price is what eventually translates into sales for brands and economic value for consumers. This is where these price comparison tools come into picture and fill the potential gaps in a shopping experience by providing insights around products, services, brands, and various price metrics.

ShopSavvy

ShopSavvy is one of the most prominent names amongst price comparison apps. ShopSavvy allows its users to scan products from both online and offline marketplaces and shows comparative prices for the same products. ShopSavvy also displays user reviews which provide buyers an insight into the quality and durability of products they are looking to buy. Another great feature of this app is that it searches for appropriate discounts and deals related to the searched item.

ShopSavvy is a free app and is currently available on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Symbian app stores.

BuyVia

BuyVia has a unique proposition for its users. It allows users to set up alerts for products. So when your desired product is available for a cheaper price or a much awaited product finally hits the market you are notified about it. Considering the fact that apart from comparing prices it also acts as an efficient alert tool it surely scores above some of its competitors.

BuyVia also displays reviews under product description and searches stores for best deals for items consumers are interested in buying. This app is available on iOS and Android.

PriceGrabber

PriceGrabber is arguably the most detailed price comparison mobile app available today. It uses a bar code scanner to search online stores and shows you detailed price comparisons. PriceGrabber uses a number of filters that let you zero in on the exact product thereby enhancing the search experience.

PriceGrabber is available on iOS and Android.

Consumr

Consumr brings people power to the shopping experience. There is nothing like a previous buyer telling a potential buyer about a product’s pros and cons. Online reviews have been nothing short of a cultural phenomenon and Consumr decided to cash in on this phenomenon by channeling it to the right market using an interesting new interface.

Consumr allows buyers to write reviews and when you go shopping the next time it shows you a previous review for a product you searched by a buyer who has already experienced the product. Though it started out as a Yelp for consumer products, the app has now grown into a comprehensive price comparison tool.

Consumr has been ranked as the numero uno app for product reviews on the iPhone and is currently available on the iTunes store.

ShopAdvisor

ShopAdvisor aims to solve the when-to-buy and what-to-buy problems for its users. While it has a very efficient price comparison functionality in place ShopAdvisor also offers a unique alert mechanism. User can select a price they are willing to pay for a product and set an alert. When the product’s price eventually reaches the price that the user is willing to pay ShopAdvisor alerts the user.

Another interesting feature is that apart from scanning items from stores ShopAdvisor also allows users to scan items from magazines. ShopAdvisor is currently available for Android and iOS.