New World NZ vs Grocer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
New World NZ
Shop for groceries online, access meal inspiration, and always have your loyalty card ready. Easily build shopping lists, find store locations, and manage your account details for a convenient shopping experience.
- Online grocery shopping
- Loyalty card access
- Shop specials and low prices
- Create and share shopping lists
- Scan product barcodes
- Store locator
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Get the most out of your grocery shopping - and from Club+ - with the New World app. Make shopping a breeze: - Shop online fast with Delivery, Click & Collect or Express Delivery - Browse and shop our latest specials and Everyday Low Price ranges - View and shop from your past online and in-store orders - Create, save, shop from and share multiple shopping lists - Scan products and add them to your online cart - Get directions to over 140 New World stores across the country to find your nearest store. Access your Club+ essentials, and more: -Check your Club+ Dollars balance anytime - Keep your Club+ barcode handy for easy scanning at checkout. - Score bonus Club+ Dollars with ’My offers’ - See how much you’ve saved with Club+ Deals Plus, you can easily keep your personal details, delivery addresses, payment cards, Club+ PIN and communication preferences up to date. Visit NewWorld.co.nz to learn more.
Grocer
Easily compare grocery prices from major New Zealand supermarkets. Track price history over time and manage your shopping lists across multiple devices. Customize your experience by selecting preferred stores for tailored comparisons.
- Compare prices across multiple stores
- View price history
- Manage shopping lists
- Cross-device list synchronization
- Select preferred stores
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Grocer helps you compare grocery prices across major supermarkets in New Zealand. With Grocer, you may: - Compare prices across multiple stores. - View price history over time. - Manage shopping lists across devices. - Select your preferred stores. End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Grocer at 5.0 against New World NZ's 2.3. Grocer also leads on review sentiment (44% vs 10%). New World NZ's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Grocer sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.00 per month. New World NZ asks for nothing beyond the download.
Grocer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of New World NZ's written reviews are positive against 44% of Grocer's.
New World NZ ships an update every 3 weeks, Grocer every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | New World NZ | Grocer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 9.7% of reviews | 43.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 98 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | FOODSTUFFS (N.Z.) LIMITED | Roc Wong |
Customer experience
New World NZ
Grocer
User reviews
New World NZ
From 6 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Convenient digital club card
- 👍 Easy to use app
- 🛒 Useful for online shopping
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and errors
- 🔒 Account lockouts and login issues
- ⚠️ Unreliable app functionality
- 🤔 Confusing and unintuitive UI
Grocer
From 2 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for price comparisons
- 💡 Revolutionary price history feature
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 💡 Helps save money
- 👍 Useful for planning weekly shops
Room to improve
- 🐛 App constantly freezes/loads
- 🐛 New version is buggy
- 🐛 Search function is inaccurate/broad
- 🐛 Limits number of stores without subscription
- 🐛 Subscription price too high
Bugs and requests
New World NZ
Reported bugs
3 issues- App not opening or loading properly
- Inability to scan digital club card
- Inconsistent behavior across devices
Requested features
3 requests- Add club card to Apple Wallet
- Improve app stability and performance
- Provide better customer support
Grocer
Reported bugs
46 issues- App does nothing, just a loading symbol
- Constant upload required and freezes
- Constantly prompts for update
- Stops selecting more than two supermarkets
- App won't load under iOS 18.1
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- Page won't load since update
- Search engine out of whack
- No longer loads on iPhone 7+
- Update won't load
- Previous version loads but doesn't function
- Unusable after update
- Camera doesn't load correctly
- Nothing loads after update
- Page keeps loading
- Search function only works once
- Lost functionality after update
- Search engine worse
- List view not compact
- Cannot pick to only go to two stores
- Annoying to delete and re-add stores
- New version has multiple software bugs
- App goes straight to store selection on launch
- User design experience is terrible
- Free text search functionality is awful and inaccurate
- Loading circle of death
- Deleted all saved lists after update
- Stopped working on old iPhones
- Keeps spinning the loading icon
- Group by store mode shows price for only one item
- New update makes the app useless
- New version is not better
- Search function on new version is not good
- App just keeps loading
- Doesn't work on iPhone 14 Pro Max
- App regularly does not reflect in-store prices
- Items keep disappearing from list
- Lost all items on iPhone
- Cannot rearrange list
- Cannot make more than one list
- Some items in list will drop off for no reason
- Cannot share lists
- Cannot amend list into sections
- Cannot add more than one list
- Print button doesn't work
- Scrolling through long lists is impractical
- Doesn't cross over to phone from iPad
Requested features
15 requests- Add more Pak N Save stores
- Allow location-based store selection
- Create multiple lists
- Save items for easier finding
- Group similar items by category
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- Share lists with others
- Add Mitre 10 stores
- Option to group by store for lists
- Low to high search option
- Select specific supermarket for items in list
- Improve search refinement and filtering
- Allow users to roll back to previous version
- Add price history feature
- Improve list management (categories, reordering)
- Sync across multiple devices
In-app purchases
New World NZ
No in-app purchases
Grocer
- Grocer Pro1 Month trial$3.001 Month
