PubWorks vs Shopwiser
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PubWorks
Empower your public works department with a mobile workforce solution. Record work in real-time, respond to service requests instantly, and manage inspections and assets efficiently. Seamlessly integrates with your main database for instant updates.
- Real-time work recording
- Mobile work orders
- Service request management
- Inspections
- Asset inventory
- Seamless database integration
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This app is for PubWorks customers only. Equipping your crew with tablets will create your new mobile workforce – allowing them to record work as they go, and quickly respond to new work orders and service requests. This divide-and-conquer field-recording capability will increase your department’s efficiency and productivity. With mobile mapping, work orders, service requests, inspections and asset inventory, you’ll be better equipped to deal with sudden change of crew needs. This mobile public works tool designed to seamlessly interact, securely and in real-time, with the main PubWorks database which can be hosted on-site or in the cloud. This allows in-office updates to reach field crews automatically and instantly. Field crews will be able to act on the latest information and record their work allowing office staff to see their accomplishments, notes and photos in seconds.
Shopwiser
This app helps you make informed purchasing decisions across various categories like groceries, electronics, and clothing. It offers real-time collaboration on shopping lists and a user-friendly interface. Enjoy smart shopping without confusion or buyer's remorse.
- Informed purchasing decisions
- Real-time collaboration on shopping lists
- User-friendly interface
- Free to use
- Privacy-focused
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Make a list. Shop a little wiser. Shopwiser is a shopping list app for your weekly groceries, household essentials, and everything in between. Organize items into sections, share lists with the people you shop for, and keep shopping offline. After the shop, scan your receipt to keep what you paid. Price history and spending insights give your next shopping list a little more context. HOW IT WORKS 1. Make a list for your next shop and organize it into sections. 2. Shop together, tick off items, and keep going without a connection. 3. Scan a receipt when you want to save the trip and remember your prices. WHAT YOU GET - Organized lists: group groceries into sections, tick them off, and find completed items in Got it. - Scan to add: scan a product barcode to add recognized products to your list. - Shared lists: plan with the people you shop for. - Lists for your routine: icons, colors, pinning, and hiding. - Offline lists: keep shopping without a connection and sync when you reconnect. - Receipt scanning: save items, prices, and totals without entering each line. - Price history: see what you paid for an item, where, and when. - Spending insights: explore your spending by date, store, and aisle. - Nutrition labels: compare available facts for foods in your purchase history. - Receipt history: revisit past trips organized by month. FREE TO USE Receipt scanning, spending insights, and sync require an account and a connection. Receipt scans have a free allowance, shown in the app. Sharing your receipt prices with other Shopwiser shoppers is on by default and gives you a higher allowance. You can turn sharing off in Privacy & Permissions; this stops future contributions. Prices already shared remain in the shared data. YOUR CHOICES Usage analytics are optional and exclude list content, item names, prices, barcodes, and location. Price sharing is a separate setting. Publishing prices and receipt photos to the public Open Prices database is another separate choice, off unless you enable it, and does not affect your scan allowance. Auto-Pick Store compares your location with your saved stores on your phone. Your GPS coordinates stay on the device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Shopwiser at 5.0 against PubWorks's 2.0. PubWorks's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 3) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.1). 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.
Shopwiser holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 3 respectively.
PubWorks ships an update monthly, Shopwiser every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PubWorks | Shopwiser |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | gWorks | Carlos Harry |
Customer experience
PubWorks
Shopwiser
In-app purchases
PubWorks
No in-app purchases
Shopwiser
No in-app purchases









