Comparison

IGA Australia vs IKEA

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

Head to head

Inspired shopping

★ 4.8150K ratingsView app →

About

IGA Australia

Create and share shopping lists, find local stores, and view weekly specials. This app helps you plan your grocery trips and stay updated on deals from IGA, SUPA IGA, and IGA X-press locations.

Highlights

Shopping list builder
Share lists and specials
Store locator
Store information and hours
Weekly catalogues and specials

Features

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IGA Supermarkets (Independent Grocers Australia) official app This app features: • Shopping list builder • Share shopping list and specials with family and friends • IGA, SUPA IGA and IGA X-press store locator • Directions, store contact information, opening hours and specials for your local store • Weekly updated store catalogues and specials

About

IKEA

Discover and shop for home furnishings and decor. Browse thousands of products and ideas to personalize your space. Use in-store features like Shop & Go to skip checkout lines and track home deliveries.

Highlights

Browse products and ideas
Shop online or in-store
Scan products with Shop & Go
Save favorites to lists
Order home delivery
Track orders
Access IKEA Family benefits

Features

Currently charting

#64Top Free · Shopping

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Get inspired and make the most of your home. Discover new products, visualize your dream space and enjoy easier shopping — from anywhere. Find more than you'd imagine in the IKEA app: • Discover offers, new product launches and personalized recommendations • Save your favorite items to lists, so you can find everything in one place • Find your way through the store with easy-to-follow navigation • Collect points to unlock and enjoy rewards • Scan as you shop in-store and enjoy a faster checkout • Design your dream kitchen with interactive planners • Scan your room and add products to visualise them in your space • Enjoy speedy and secure payments when you shop in the app • Track and manage your order from anywhere • Check availability and get notified when an item is back in stock • Find digital receipts and purchase history in one place • Check busy store times and prepare for your next visit • Watch IKEA Live and get tips from our interior design experts Some features may not be available in every country, but they are planned for release. We recommend keeping the IKEA app updated so you can experience new features when they're available. We value your data privacy and believe in ethical use of customer data. That's why you're in control of your data at all times.

Screenshots

IGA Australia4 screens

IKEA4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: IKEA at 53% against IGA Australia's 18%. IKEA also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and chart position (#64 vs unranked). IGA Australia's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

IGA Australia ships an update every 4 months, IKEA fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level

IGA Australia versus IKEA: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter	IGA Australia	IKEA
Price	Free	Free
Rating	—	4.8 (150K ratings) — better
Positive reviews	17.6% of reviews	53.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings	—	150K — better
Update frequency	Every 4 months	Fortnightly — better
Ads	No — better	Yes
In-app purchases	No	No
Monetization	Free — better	Free with in-app purchases
Best chart rank	—	#64 — better
Devices	iPhone, iPad, iPod — better	iPhone, iPad
Requires iOS	10.0 — better	16.0
Further details — not scored
Size	10 MB	233 MB
Age rating	4+	4+
Developer	Metcash Food & Grocery PTY LTD	Inter IKEA Systems B.V.

Customer experience

IGA Australia

Written reviews68 reviews

Positive17.6%

Neutral16.2%

Negative66.2%

IKEA

All ratings150,058 ratings

Positive95.4%

Neutral1.7%

Negative2.9%

Written reviews1,521 reviews

Positive53.2%

Neutral8.9%

Negative37.9%

User reviews

IGA Australia

From App Store reviews

What we love

👍 Basic shopping list functionality
👍 App is free
👍 Good start for a grocery app

Room to improve

👎 Search only for specials
👎 App is outdated
👎 Not intuitive
👎 Freezes often
👎 Icons disappear

IKEA

From 150K App Store ratings

What we love

🚀 Smooth shopping experience
🎨 Visually appealing design
💡 Helpful AR and planning features
👍 Convenient in-app purchasing
🛒 Integrated shopping lists and wishlists

Room to improve

🐛 Inaccurate inventory tracking
🔍 Frustrating search and navigation
🚫 Inability to select preferred store
💰 Excessive delivery fees
🔇 Unwanted audio playback

Bugs and requests

IGA Australia

Reported bugs

291 issues

App won't let you put some items
No aisle for shopping
Product search only searches weekly specials
App hasn't updated in 4 years
Some features are dodgy

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Screenshots are not updated
Not much selection of dark chocolates
App is garbage
Product search is inaccurate
App is incomplete
App doesn't function as expected
Cannot log in
Cannot add to cart
Only specials can be viewed
App doesn't work
Search says product not found
App says voda nz but is Australian
Cannot see all specials
Cannot refresh page
Some categories are empty
Freezes a lot
Icons randomly disappearing
Does not let you see all products
Cannot productively shop this way
Outdated
Slow
Not intuitive
Search doesn't work
Deleted within 30 minutes
Easy to write list by hand
Not functional
Immediately deleted
Doesn't function as expected
Cannot log into
Add to cart not working
Only specials can be viewed
Re-download once it has a purpose
Use as shopping list with up to date prices and availability
Doesn't work
Almost as useless as Service NSW
Do not bother
Useless app
Every time I search for a product it says it's not found
Not even worth 1 star
Weird how it says voda nz
Terrible
Clearly made lazily
Cannot see all specials
Cannot refresh page
Some categories are empty
Freezes a lot
Icons randomly disappearing
Promoted as an app to create a shopping list, doesn’t even let you see all products
Cannot productively shop this way
See you at Coles instead
Waste of time
IGA could learn how to build an App from the majors
Useful but requires improvements and fixes
Not all products are listed
Website is more accurate
App doesn't seem to be fully optimised
Doesn't use all the screen
Tapping on products gives more than just the price
Doesn't mention dietary label and ingredients
Dark Mode would be nice
White light from background can be eye straining
Dark mode allows saving battery
Obvious optimisation for phones with taller displays
Apps picture show offs show it’s possible but when I open the app, it’s completely different
Rotten app
Developer does not collect data
IGA won’t either as it is of no use
Can’t check price unless it is on special and in their catalogue
If there is a way I will have dumped it by the time I get told
Willing to spend this much time to review it, spent longer trying to get it going
Can’t put less than one star
Deserves less
Waste of time
Next to useless
Can only search for specials
Need an app like Woolies and Coles where you can build a shopping list to use in store
How hard can it be!
Terrible application
Worst one I have ever used to order online
Items chosen keep disappearing on shopping list
Spent an hour but cannot complete my shopping
Rubbish, zero stars
Does not include local store
Product search doesn’t work
Catalogue don’t exist
If it isn’t working or maintained delete from App store otherwise waste people’s time damages own reputation
New update disappointment
New update replaced my current shopping list with what I assume is an old one
Useless: Cannot search products not on sale
Only allow you to search for products that are in their weekly sale catalogue
Total fail
Defeats the entire purpose of having the app
Falls well short of competitors
Competitor apps allow building a shopping list with non-sale items
Needs to fire the guy who paid good money for a lame duck app
Great app
Serves needs perfectly
Doesn't conceal the specials
Tells about prices always 100% correctly
What else do you ever need from an Aussie grocery shop app?
Product Search is only a Specials Search
Use supermarket apps to locate which stores have the items I’m shopping for
Product Search within this app only searches the specials advertised in the latest catalogue
Not very useful
Would like to support my local IGA store
Able to plan my shopping around their product availability
More convenient to go to the bigger supermarkets knowing what products they have on their shelves
Setting Up
Picked my local IGA store, but app changed it to a store over 30 kilometres away
Uninstalled and tried again, then gave me another store about 10 kilometres away
There is, or I couldn’t find it, where you can change the Store location you require
Same goes for website
Frustrating
Ok shopping app
Run of the mill supermarket app
Needs work
App seems incomplete
Products are not all there
Keeps freezing
CHANGES NEEDED!!!
Good app if you only buy things on special that are listed in the catalogue
Can only search for products & add them to your shopping list if they are in the current catalogue
Rotten aApp
Iga app
Loved the old app
New one is a shocker
Have had to reload it as it didn't work
Still doesn't work
No point having it
Bring back the old one
Upside down
Whenever I open the app. the screen is upside down
Where is the scanner?
This app appealed to me because of the scanner
No point having the app anymore as I already see special catalogs
Bring back the scanner!!!!
No shopping list
Will delete app
Cannot edit or use shopping list
Over-engineered and ruined
IGA have taken what was a simple, easy to use and very handy shopping list app and have completely buggered it up to the point of it being useless
Back to a paper shopping list
Nice one dummies!
Updated app
NOT HAPPY, where is my shopping list ?
All I have is a blank page which only allows me to add items that are on special, not good enough
Why change something that was working
Had all my regular items listed in the different categories ready to tick the item I needed and the quantity
I can not purchase
Because not is near me the stores supermarket
Who sin....
So bad app
This app contain nothing inside
It doesn't worthy anything
Not bad, could be better
Please make the font on the shopping list darker
If it could save items by isle as per the store you are shopping in
I shop at IGA all the time and this would be a great help
Really Terrible
You can't search for a product?? Really?!
I'd like to try this app out a bit more but I can hardly take it shopping if I can't search for a product
I'm not going to browse through the categories trying to guess which one is right
Then scroll endlessly trying to find the product EVERY TIME I WANT TO ADD A SINGLE ITEM TO THE LIST
The only other feature I was able to try was the store locator
It told me that the nearest store was 3km away even though I was right outside IGA North Tamborine
Poor
Scan in shopping list doesn't work at all
Dose not have any of the super IGA stores in my area
As others have said this is the worst of the supermarket apps
Store Finder hopeless
Stayed in Stanthorpe Qld, wanted to find the local IGA and it's opening hours
Tried the 'Nearest Store' option and told me it was Warwick (50kms away)
Looked up the store manually and gave me the address - used the map function and it put the store in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean!
Didn't have the opening hours on the listing and had to go to the website (which was wrong anyway!)
Needs much improvement
Need improvement
It needs to add weekly special
Couldn't find it yet!
Should add as they advertised!
The app is a joke?
One of the worst made apps in the App Store
It doesn't even list my 3 nearest IGAs!
Sarinatimes
No business hours reflect for Sarina branch!
Why no catalogue included?
Strange that no catalogue is included
Without it this app is useless
Not worth the disc space
Bad layout with hidden buttons
Doesn't show my local store
Nothing to keep me coming back
IGA Locator
Very disappointed that this app hasn't been updated for at least 4 or more months
There is an IGA in Mortdale plus all the other former Franklin store
No catalogue :(
Where is the weekly catalogue with the specials?
This is the least easy to read of all the supermarket aps
Don't bother - without the specials it's not worth it
Suggestion
I would like to see a 'garden' category on the app
If you look for Riverton (mike and sue's) IGA store on the map it is in between the North Atlantic Ocean and the South Atlantic Ocean
I don't think I would easily find it with those directions
Other than that I find it a very helpful shopping list app
Love it!
I love that I can scan all the IGA products in the house
Would be awesome if it could also give a basic price of each depending on your location or even state
Even so, I love being able to do up my shopping list a head of time!
Not a bad app 👍
Although very basic, it does all it promises to do
I would like to see the shopping list with an option to just enter products without having categorize them
For the store locator, why not have the 3-5 nearest stores listed?
More recipes would be good 🍝
Thanks
Aisle numbers please
This is a good basic app
I like the checklist feature
A helpful improvement would be to include aisle numbers
Need product search
They should dedicate someone to make this app fully useable and more productive
Being able to do product search on all IGA would be nice
Sometimes you just want to make sure that a particular branch stock certain brands of product before driving there
No 'find nearest store'
Give us a 'find your closest store' search, either by postcode or by GPS
Alphabetical search is useless
Location feature not active
Tis could be a great app so I could find my closed IGA store but as it does not work what is the point of having stores by suburb if you know where you are
Even them you may look and not find yr closet suburb
Can you get locations working!
So this could be used to support Australian owned shops
Needs opening and closing hours
Please add open and close hours in next version
Would like to see more features
Great start so far with a simple to use shopping list app
Would love to see scanning of barcodes to add products to your list of item / isle locator once instore, specials per store and lists by isle or department in future updates
Also a great location to promote instore competitions and maybe even take entries via the app
Biggest problem we had was on first use we accidently hit the finished / clear list button during a grocery shop outing and lost our entire shopping list. :-(
There should be a warning prompt, ie: 'are you sure you want to delete your list'
Maybe an option to archive your list for future usage too
Super IGA
Love it!
Only need to change the white writing on the grey background so that it is easier to read
Maybe let newly scanned items go into their respective place in the check list
If all stores are the same maybe isle numbers would help, but no need to get tooo specific like a couple of the bigger stores have
Upgraded app
Love the scanning app no problems yet
Would love to see a SPECIALS tab to know the extras I might want
Ok until latest update
This app was ok until the latest update
It showed me where my closest iga was
I was excited to see barcode scanning added but the app just crashes on opening now :(
Good basic shopping list, but oh dear the spelling
Well, it works - simple concept - check off the items on the checklist and they appear in your shopping list as 'to buy' items - which you then tick off as you buy them and clear your list at the end
You will need to add lots of new items as the lists aren't comprehensive by any means, but at least you can do that
Have to laugh at the hilariously bad spelling - "glass wear", "steal wool" etc
I guess the spellchecker didn't check for logic
Oh well
For a free app you can't really complain and it's IGA, so I'll always give them a go
K.I.S.S.
Keep It Simple Stupid - I really like this app
It is so simple to use
Great that you don't have to go thru multiple menus just to add items
The font on the list screen could be dark though
Basic but good for starters
Obviously IGA don't have budget of Woolies or Coles but is a good start and sure more features will be added as time goes on
Be good to be able to enter quantities for each item and have an isle locator for the individual stores
Weekly specials would also be good
Good, but could be improved
Would love to see opening hours and specials from local store
Great app, more features would be cool
Great app but it would be awesome if you could save your shopping lists, add your own recipes, use the geo locator to tell you the most efficient route to all the items on your list and let you know if they are out of stock
Would be cool to have a dropdown selection of brand once you've chosen your product - give you a rough idea of total cost of basket
Great!
Great app so easy to use!
But please please make the personal shopping list font a darker colour it's to hard to read in white
I Love it!
This is a very handy app, and it's free
I love how it creates a shopping list from the recipes
An idea to improve, could be opening hours for each store
Not bad
But location need to have opening hours - that is what you want to know when out and about
Not that great!
This app is simple and just that!
The store locator finds stores but does not provide opening times
As most of us know where our local IGA is, what's more important is knowing when they are open so we don't waste time driving to a closed store!
The shopping list is quite simple but not that great for me to discard another free app I use for shopping lists
I really think this app needs more work for it to be truly useful, at the moment it looks like an app made just because other shops have one as well

Requested features

51 requests

Full product search
Fix app features
Add dark chocolate selection
Update app screenshots
Search feature improvement

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Dark Mode
Optimisation for taller displays
Add rewards card
Link to Apple Wallet
Bring back barcode scanner
Search for all products
Add aisle numbers
Add garden category
Save shopping lists
Add own recipes
Geo locator for efficient route
Out of stock notifications
Dropdown selection of brands
Specials tab
Save recipes
Opening hours for stores
More recipes
List nearest stores
Categorize items in background
Include aisle numbers
Add quantities for items
Weekly specials
Add local store
Product search works
Catalogue exists
New update for shopping list
Search for products not on sale
Build shopping list with non-sale items
Add items without categorizing
Store locator with nearest stores
Add recipes
Scanning of barcodes
Item/aisle locator
Specials per store
Lists by aisle or department
Promote instore competitions
Archive shopping lists
Warning prompt for clearing list
Change white writing to darker
Newly scanned items in respective place
Isle numbers
Product search for all IGA
Find nearest store by postcode or GPS
Location feature active
Add open and close hours
More features

IKEA

Reported bugs

4 issues

Frequent crashes and errors
Items disappearing from cart
Incorrect pickup location information
Unresponsive or laggy performance

Requested features

5 requests

Ability to filter by in-stock items
Option to save and retrieve shopping lists
Landscape mode support for tablets
Improved search with category browsing
Integration with digital wallets

In-app purchases

None

IGA Australia

No in-app purchases

None

IKEA

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is IGA Australia free?

IGA Australia is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

Is IKEA free?

IKEA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

Do IGA Australia or IKEA have ads?

IKEA shows ads; IGA Australia does not.

Which is updated more often, IGA Australia or IKEA?

IGA Australia ships an update every 4 months, and IKEA fortnightly. Most recently, IGA Australia was updated on October 15, 2026 and IKEA on October 27, 2026.