See what a product really costs before you buy

The true total

A low sticker price can hide shipping, sales tax and, for stores outside Canada, duties and a currency conversion. PriceWarden adds those up for every offer, using the province you live in, and ranks the offers by the result:

Price + shipping + sales tax + duties, converted to CAD = the true total

Exchange rates come from the Bank of Canada's published daily rates. The figures are estimates built from the data stores and price services publish; the price at the store's checkout is the one that counts.

How it works

• Scan or search

  Point the camera at a barcode. The barcode is read on your phone, and no picture leaves it. You can also type the barcode number or search by name.

• Compare true totals

  Offers are ranked by true total, cheapest first. Whether a store pays us a commission never changes the order.

• Keep watch

  Save an offer to your watchlist. PriceWarden keeps checking the product and can alert you when its true total drops.

• Ask for a price match

  Show a price match card at the counter: the lower offer, where it is, and a summary of the store's price match policy as we last checked it. The store makes the decision.

Plans

The free plan includes unlimited scans, true-total ranking and a small watchlist. Paid plans, bought through the App Store or Google Play, add watchlist slots and more alert options. Plan names and prices will be published here before the app is released.

Privacy, briefly

Your account is an email address: there is no password. The app asks for your province and postal code to work out tax and shipping, and does not ask for location access. There is no analytics or advertising software in the app or on this site. The privacy policy lists everything PriceWarden holds and who else sees it.

How PriceWarden is paid

By paid plans, and by commissions some stores pay when a purchase is made through a link in the app. A commission costs you nothing extra. The affiliate disclosure explains how these links work.

Questions

Write to support@pricewarden.drbyte.org, or see the support page.