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

by sobe3249

43 comments

  1. Fair play. Just goes to show it really does pay to shop around.

  3. That is unbelievably handy, I’ll be giving it a try. I think a barcode scanner should be the priority feature to work on.

  4. > getting barcode data is surprisingly difficult, there’s no good public database for it.

    Would crowd sourced data help? When I search “Mutti” I can see the 3-pack as two different item so I could scan the product and they would merge together. 

  8. This is genius 👏👏👏

    With the constant prices hikes everywhere people need something like this to help save whatever they can.

    I have to wait until you do it for Apple though, hopefully you do do it.

  10. This is class if you could add a sort function to sort price from low to high within the categories that would be class. Would love to know the cheapest sparkling wine in the shops for example and have to scroll through at the moment. Brilliant app! You should send it to shopping and price influencer people on Instagram I’d say they would love it. There’s one called IrishBudgeting I think, probably loads more. 

  11. Do you get the data from their websites? That’s really handy, but it’s only as good as the data in it.

  13. Maybe open a barcode GH tracker for open contributions? But really appreciate the app and work put into this

  18. Great work, but i don’t think too many people will be motivated to shop around for individual items. Im not hopping back in the car to save 20c on butter down the road 

    Could you allow someone to input their full shopping list to build a virtual basket so the app then aggregates for you?

  20. Doing the lords work, fair play buddy! Would love to see it on IOS .

  22. Really great app. Very intuitive and helps solve a very real problem. 

    How are the products added? I’ve noticed some of the same products appearing separately (like a different product). Check Chicago Town Pizza and you’ll see what I mean. Looks like if the stores list them with a slightly different name/description they appear separately.

  25. Can this be used in the North? Or just the Republic? If not is there any plans for the North to be implemented as it would be a great help for us Irish on the other side of the Border.

  30. Great job, with all tap and pay I really never see what I’m spending, thanks

  31. Unit pricing like €XX.XX per g or per litre could be a good addition

  33. Brilliant work

    Ireland more than ever need price comparison sites/ apps for everything.

    Too much snaky stuff going on with all shops and companies.

    Im also on IOS but for now i will use

    https://www.quidu.ie/

  35. There’s definitely some stuff missing. For example it doesn’t have milk listed from Lidl or Aldi. But the idea is there and I’ll definitely be using it going forward.

    What’s the plan for revenue? Ads? Subscription for advanced features like barcode scanner?

  36. Once off purchase fee potentially?
    Like I appreciate the work that’s put into this?

  37. What coding language do you use to create something like this? I’m unemployed at the moment, would be useful to pick up a language I could use for apps. Tried learning python but I’ve only really scratched the surface.

  38. I love you

    Thanks – my (not anymore but still appears to be) student wallet

    Also could you make this a website format? Only have IOS but would be handy to even have it on windows // linux at home

  39. Is there a way to highlight products with shrinkflation?

  41. Great work 👏👏 Looks fantastic.

    What tech stack are you using?

  42. Oh I would love this on my iPhone! In the meantime my wife will use it on her Samsung.

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