Comparison

Grocer vs GateShare

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Compare prices across multiple stores
  • View price history
  • Manage shopping lists
  • Cross-device list synchronization
  • Select preferred stores
Features
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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/

About

GateShare

Features
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Fresh from the gate, straight to your kitchen. GateShare puts New Zealand's roadside stalls, honesty boxes and home producers on one map, from Northland to Southland. Find eggs, veges, fruit, honey, home baking, flowers, plants, firewood and more from the people down the road, in the country or in town. Find it near you. Search eggs, honey or veg and see who has it on the map. Every stall shows its rough area, so you know what is close. Reserve or ask. Message the seller with a question, then pay for your goods by card in the app, or arrange cash for when you collect. Collect from their place. The gate might be a roadside stall, an honesty box or simply the seller's front door. You get the exact pickup address and directions once your purchase is agreed. Collect, confirm, and leave each other a review. Pay for your goods by card and the money is held safely, then released to the seller once you confirm you have collected. Cash sales are always free, for both of you. Selling? Turn your gate into a shopfront in minutes. Too many eggs, a glut of feijoas, handmade wraps piling up? List them with a photo, a price and a note, choose card payments, cash on pickup, or both, and let the neighbourhood come to you. Privacy is built in. A stall shows only its rough area on the map. The exact address is shared only after a purchase, and buyers are never asked for a home address at all.

Screenshots

Grocer4 screens
GateShare4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GateShare at none against Grocer's 1. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Grocer sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.00 per month. GateShare asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Grocer versus GateShare: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrocerGateShare
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews43.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB3 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperRoc WongGateShare Limited

Bugs and requests

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

GateShare

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Grocer

Subscriptions1
  • Grocer Pro1 Month trial$3.001 Month
None

GateShare

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grocer free?
Grocer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GateShare free?
GateShare is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Grocer or GateShare have ads?
Neither Grocer nor GateShare shows ads.

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