Built an app to make comparing Irish supermarket prices easy


So a while back I was out shopping with my wife and grabbed a Pepsi Max for €3. Went to next shop and they had 3 for €5. I know it's petty, but it annoyed me so much that I started building this app

Originally I wanted to make a barcode scanner that just tells you the price at other stores, but getting barcode data is surprisingly difficult, there's no good public database for it.

So instead I built a shopping list with price comparison. You can search for a product and see the prices from Tesco, Dunnes, Lidl, Aldi, SuperValu and Centra. Lidl, Centra is current deals only.

You can:

  • Compares prices
  • Check current deals and multibuy offers
  • Have shopping lists with running total
  • Share shopping lists with QR code
  • Check leaflets, save clubcards, coupons

Android only for now. I can build it for iOS, but I didn't want to pay the €100 Apple developer fee until I know people actually care about the app.

Play Store link, or search for "Cisean – Shopping List Ireland". It's free, no ads.

I know there are some bugs and I want to add features like: barcode scanner, price history charts, organize shopping list by aisles (my wife do this for me sometimes and I spend half as much time in the store)

Would love to hear any feedback or suggestions

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