Comparison

pon vs Broccoly

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

Head to head
About

pon

This smart shopping list app learns your habits to simplify grocery runs. It automatically sorts items, reminds you of expiring food, and allows collaborative list management. All data is processed on your device for enhanced privacy.

Highlights
  • Learns products, sizes, stores, and prices
  • Automatic smart sorting by store layout
  • Geofence reminders for nearby stores
  • On-device speech recognition for dictation
  • Pantry overview and expiration reminders
  • Shared lists and member notifications
  • Offline functionality
Features
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pon is the smart shopping list that learns as you shop and makes everyday grocery runs easy — entirely on your device. What pon offers at a glance: - pon remembers products, package sizes, stores and prices — and fills everything in for you - Automatic smart sorting: your items in the order of your supermarket - Push reminder when you approach a store with open items on your list (geofence) - Dictate instead of typing: just say what you need — speech recognition runs entirely on device - Automatic pantry overview: pon learns what you have at home and when it's running low - Reminders before fresh food expires — use it up instead of throwing it away - Hints when a purchase is due again — learned from your buying rhythm - Manage and edit shopping lists together - Automatic notification to list members when you go shopping - Sync across as many devices as you like — iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch - Loyalty cards always at hand — pon reminds you at checkout - Barcode scanner, prices & offers, custom items with photos - Widget and Live Activity for the current shopping trip - Extensive product database in 12 languages - Works offline - No external tracking, no ads, no subscription — completely free Imagine you're on your way home and get a push notification the very moment you pass your supermarket: you're out of milk. Your partner put it on your shared list — pon reminds you automatically at just the right time. pon learns with every purchase: which products you buy, in which package size, at which store and at what price. Next time, everything is already filled in. From your buying rhythm, pon even recognizes when something is due again, what's running low and what you should use up soon — and suggests it at the right time. All of this happens exclusively on your device. Fill your list without typing: just dictate — "2 packs of milk, 10 eggs and coffee" — and pon recognizes products, amounts and attributes. Works with Siri too. Nothing leaves your iPhone. Your lists sort themselves in the order you checked things off during your last trips — after a short while everything is pre-sorted just like the aisles in your supermarket. Maintaining categories is a thing of the past! Share your shopping list with family, friends or colleagues and keep track together. Whoever goes shopping can notify the others automatically — no more "honey, do we need anything?" calls. Pick your products from an extensive database or create your own — with attributes like "organic" or "lactose-free", photos, prices and offer prices. The built-in barcode scanner saves you from creating new products by hand: scan, pick the amount, done. With the Apple Watch app your shopping list is always on your wrist, leaving a hand free while you shop — right on your watch face if you like. We don't use external tracking or analytics tools. Everything pon learns about your shopping stays on your device and is none of our business — promise. Got ideas, suggestions or wishes to make pon even better? Let us know — we love feedback. pon is smart, learns with you and best of all: completely free.

About

Broccoly

Features
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What is the best way to track your grocery shopping? Your receipts. Broccoly helps you keep track of what you buy, what it costs you and the planet, and how this changes over time, so you can make more informed decisions, whether your goal is a lighter bill, healthier eating or a greener basket. Take a photo of your receipt after a shop. Broccoly reads every line with its name, price and quantity, then matches each item against a database of more than 4 million food products. A line that reads "GRIECH JOGH 1,29" comes back with a brand, a category, a Nutri-Score, a processing level and a country of origin. Do that for a few weeks and you can answer questions that are normally guesswork. Which categories actually eat your budget. Whether your bill went up because prices rose or because your habits changed. How much of what you buy is ultra-processed. FEATURES Receipt scanning. Photograph a receipt and get a clean itemized list in seconds. The reading happens on your phone. 4 million products. Every item is matched against one of the largest food databases on Earth, with ranked alternatives so a wrong match takes one tap to fix. Spend analytics. Where your money goes, by food category, over time. Tap any chart for the detail behind it. Personal inflation. Price changes in your own basket, month over month and year over year, with a per-category breakdown so you know what became more expensive or cheaper. Processing levels. The NOVA breakdown of your basket, from minimally processed to ultra-processed, and how the mix shifts each month. Nutri-Score. A quick read on the nutritional quality of everything you put in your trolley. Eco-Score. The estimated environmental cost of your shopping, broken down by category. Food origin. A map of where your food travelled from, weighted by how much of each you really buy. Searchable history. Every receipt you have scanned, with its full enriched detail, ready to look back at. Broccoly is free and works without an account.

Screenshots

pon4 screens
Broccoly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Broccoly at none against pon's 4. Broccoly also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. pon sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Broccoly asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

pon ships an update every 2 weeks, Broccoly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
pon versus Broccoly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterponBroccoly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (81 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings81 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size246 MB87 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAdrian KuehlewindGianmarco Guarnier

In-app purchases

4 purchases

pon

One-time4
  • Supporter Starter$2.99
  • Supporter Pro$4.99
  • Supporter Fan$9.99
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  • Supporter Ultimate$14.99
None

Broccoly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is pon free?
pon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Broccoly free?
Broccoly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do pon or Broccoly have ads?
Neither pon nor Broccoly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, pon or Broccoly?
pon ships an update every 2 weeks, and Broccoly weekly. Most recently, pon was updated on November 9, 2026 and Broccoly on October 31, 2026.

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