Jyve! vs ShelfWatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jyve!
Earn money on your own schedule by completing tasks in retail stores. This app connects you with flexible work opportunities like stocking shelves, fulfilling online grocery orders, and assembling products. Get paid weekly for the jobs you choose.
- Flexible work opportunities
- Complete in-store tasks
- Fulfill online grocery orders
- Assemble products
- Choose your own work
- Weekly payments
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Flexibility. Freedom. Income. Jyvers get work done in stores and earn money on their terms. Jyvers complete work in stores like stocking, shopping online grocery orders and assembling products like bikes and grills. Use Jyve’s app to find and choose the work that fits your life. Work only when and where you want. Get paid weekly.
ShelfWatch
This app uses advanced image recognition to analyze retail shelves. Merchandisers can capture shelf photos to receive reports on stock levels, compliance, and product placement for immediate store improvements.
- Image recognition for product identification
- Share of Shelf analysis
- Out of Stock detection
- Planogram compliance checks
- Point of Sales material monitoring
- Offline photo processing
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ParallelDots' state-of-the-art mobile application, ShelfWatch is built on leading-edge image recognition algorithms to identify products on the retail shelf. ShelfWatch allows merchandisers and sales reps to take a photo of the retail shelf, upload it to ParallelDots cloud and quickly get an actionable report on immediate corrective actions to be taken in the store ShelfWatch delivers the following KPIs in the mobile report: 1. Share of Shelf 2. Out of Stock 3. Planogram Compliance 4. Point of Sales Materials presence and compliance Key features of ShelfWatch are: - Integration with route plans - Questionnaires and surveys - Offline blur and angle detection in photos - Image stitching - Historical store data Note: To use the ParallelDots ShelfWatch mobile app with your business data, you must have an annual subscription of ParallelDots ShelfWatch, with mobile services enabled by our customer success team.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Jyve! at 3.2 against ShelfWatch's 1.4. Jyve! also leads on monetization model (free vs subscription) and review sentiment (25% vs 0%). ShelfWatch's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Jyve! holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 1.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Jyve! has 190 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Jyve!'s written reviews are positive against 0% of ShelfWatch's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jyve! | ShelfWatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (190 ratings) — better | 1.4 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 24.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 190 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jyve Placeholder | ParallelDots, Inc. |
Customer experience
Jyve!
ShelfWatch
In-app purchases
Jyve!
No in-app purchases
ShelfWatch
No in-app purchases
