Comparison

Inflation + vs GroceryLens

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

Head to head
About

Inflation +

Features
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Inflation + helps you track and analyze product prices across different stores to make informed purchasing decisions and monitor inflation's impact on your shopping basket. Key Features: โ€ข Track product prices with detailed history including location, date, quantity, and unit measurements โ€ข Analyze price trends with interactive charts showing evolution over time โ€ข Create shopping baskets to monitor overall price changes across multiple products over different periods โ€ข Support for 30+ currencies with configurable positioning and decimal separators Inflation + provides a practical solution for budget-conscious consumers who want to understand price patterns and make data-driven shopping decisions.

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GroceryLens

Features
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Your grocery bill went up. GroceryLens tells you why. Scan a grocery receipt and GroceryLens reads every item, price and total, then shows what actually changed since last month: which prices rose, what you bought more of, and where the money really went. WHAT IT DOES Receipt scanner. One photo. It reads the items, prices, quantities and totals. It checks the maths. If the items do not add up to the printed total, GroceryLens flags the gap instead of quietly showing a wrong number. Your own price history. See what you paid last time for the things you buy every week, and when you paid less. Budget tracker. Spending by category, month over month, against a budget you set. Bill change explained. How much was price rises, how much was buying more, how much was switching products. Shopping list built from what you actually buy. Every line editable. Correct anything it misreads, and your correction sticks. WHY THIS AND NOT A SPREADSHEET Because the interesting question is not what you spent. It is why it changed. GroceryLens separates a price rise from a bigger shop, so "groceries cost more" becomes something you can act on. BUILT TO ASK FOR ALMOST NOTHING An email address. That is the whole list. No name. No phone number. No home address. No card details. It never asks for your location. Photos are resized and stripped of location and camera metadata on your iPhone, before anything is sent. You see every receipt and confirm it before it is saved. Your receipts are yours: read them, correct them, export them, delete one, or delete your entire account from inside the app. On any plan. At any time. No adverts. No tracking across other apps. Nothing sold to anybody. HONEST ABOUT NUMBERS Every figure is arithmetic on receipts you saved. GroceryLens shows the lowest price you have recorded yourself, never a claim about what a shop near you charges today, because it does not have that information and does not collect it. FREE AND PLUS Free: 10 receipt scans a month, 90 days of grocery spending history, category budgets, and a monthly explanation of what changed. GroceryLens Plus: unlimited receipt scans, your full grocery price history, detailed bill-change explanations, weekly shopping plans, and unit-price and shrinkflation insights. Prices are shown by the App Store in your local currency. A subscription renews until cancelled, and you can cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Questions: hello@nikhilailabs.com

Screenshots

Inflation +3 screens
GroceryLens4 screens

Verdict

The call

Inflation + and GroceryLens are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Inflation + versus GroceryLens: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInflation +GroceryLens
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size4 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKeoGlobalNikhil Pal

In-app purchases

None

Inflation +

No in-app purchases

None

GroceryLens

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Inflation + free?
Inflation + is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GroceryLens free?
GroceryLens is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Inflation + or GroceryLens have ads?
Neither Inflation + nor GroceryLens shows ads.

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