PriceCheck vs Item Compare
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PriceCheck
This app allows users to compare prices for millions of products across numerous stores and categories. Discover deals on electronics, fashion, flights, insurance, and more.
- Price comparison
- Product discovery
- Thousands of categories
- Hundreds of stores
- Deals on electronics, fashion, flights, insurance
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PriceCheck is South Africa’s leading price comparison app. Compare millions of products, across thousands of categories, from hundreds of stores. Discover cellphones, tablets, electronics, jewellery & fashion, flights, insurance… pretty much anything you need!
Item Compare
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Do you know whether to buy the product that is £4.00 or £1.50? If you knew the weights could you figure it out? 850g for £4.00 300g for £1.50 Could you do the maths to work out which was the cheapest per gram? With this app you can easily compare multiple products.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PriceCheck at 5.0 against Item Compare's 4.0. PriceCheck also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Item Compare's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PriceCheck holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | PriceCheck | Item Compare |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PriceCheck (Pty) Ltd | Daniel Platt |
In-app purchases
PriceCheck
No in-app purchases
Item Compare
No in-app purchases
