The Best Grocery Price Comparison App in Quebec (2026)

We're not neutral. Prix Futé is a grocery price comparison app, and this article compares grocery price comparison apps. Better you hear it now than figure it out three paragraphs in.

Here's how we handle that: we tell you what the others do better than us, and we tell you first. If you end up choosing Flipp, good. You'll have paid less for groceries, which is the whole point.

The mix-up worth clearing up first

Most guides lump all these apps together. That's the mistake that wastes your time.

There are really two different jobs here, and they answer different questions.

Flyer apps tell you what's advertised this week. They digitize the weekly circulars and make them readable on your phone. Flipp and reebee do this, and they do it well.

Price apps tell you what a product actually costs, advertised or not. That's different work: you have to go and collect prices one by one, not receive them ready-made.

The gap matters more than it sounds. A flyer runs about 200 products per week per banner. A grocery store carries thousands. Everything outside the flyer is a blind spot, and that's where most of your bill lives.

What nobody tells you about Flipp and reebee

Comparisons pit them against each other as rivals. They have the same owner.

Flipp acquired reebee in June 2022. reebee had two million monthly Canadian users at the time, and the company chose to keep both brands alive; reebee still operates as a Flipp subsidiary.

That doesn't make either app bad. But when an article offers to help you "choose between Flipp and reebee," it's offering a choice between two products from the same house. Worth knowing before you take it for a real comparison.

The apps, one by one

Flipp

What it does: gathers flyers from nearly every Canadian retailer: groceries, pharmacies, hardware, big box. Built-in shopping list, product search, alerts.

What it does better than us, and this isn't up for debate:

• Coverage. Flipp covers all of Canada and far beyond groceries. We cover Quebec and food. If you want the Canadian Tire flyer, we're useless to you.
• Recognition. It's the app your sister-in-law already has installed. That's worth something real.
• Reading flyers. It's been their craft for over a decade, and it shows.

Its limit: it shows you what's advertised. It can't tell you whether the advertised price is any good, because it doesn't know the product's usual price. A "2 for $7" in big letters stays a "2 for $7", even if the product sells for $3.25 each the rest of the year.

reebee

What it does: the same thing as Flipp, with an interface many find cleaner. Flyers, lists, search.

What it does better than us: the same things as Flipp, for the same reasons.

Its limit: the same as Flipp, plus slightly narrower banner coverage. And the fact, worth repeating, that Flipp owns it.

Save.ca

What it does: coupons, free samples, mail-in rebates.

What it does better than us: everything, on coupons. We don't do them. If you're the type to stack discounts, Save.ca earns its spot on your phone and we won't replace it.

Its limit: it isn't a price comparison tool. It will never tell you where your full cart lands.

FoodHero

What it does: products approaching their expiry date, marked down in store. Born in Quebec, it reports over 600,000 monthly active users across Canada.

What it does better than us: not even comparable, it's a different lane. We don't track surplus stock, and cutting food waste is a good reason to install an app.

Its limit: inventory depends on what's left. You don't plan a full grocery run with it.

eezly

What it does: it's a grocery price comparison app like ours, but Canada-wide. It advertises 40 million prices recorded across 2,700 stores and 28 banners, and lets you plan meals around the week's prices.

What it does better than us: coverage, first of all. All of Canada where we only cover Quebec, 2,700 stores against a little over 1,100. And it is ahead of us on meals, with recipes costed at current prices.

Its limit, and this is the real difference between us: for a given product, it shows you the best price near you. Not the gap between banners. Its public city pages confirm it: the Trois-Rivières one shows a single total and states itself that it does not break that total down by banner. In other words, it optimises product by product; we measure what the same full basket costs at each banner. Both answers are legitimate, they simply do not serve the same moment: theirs when you are looking for one item, ours when you are choosing where to do your shopping.

Prix Futé

What we do: we collect prices, product by product and store by store, and we keep them. 13.5 million prices, 1,107 grocery stores, 423 cities, and a twelve-month history per product.

What that makes possible, and a flyer can't:

• The daily rating: the real gap between banners on the same products, today.
• The scanner: scan a barcode in store, know in two seconds whether you're overpaying.
• The optimized cart: enter your list, we tell you where it costs least.
• The history: a "special" gets compared to its own price over twelve months, not to the crossed-out number on the sign.

What we don't do, and you should know: Quebec only, food only, no coupons, no surplus stock. And we're younger than Flipp, with fewer users, fewer reviews, less of everything.

The table

	type	coverage	knows the usual price?	history	cost
Flipp	flyers	Canada, all sectors	no	no	free
reebee	flyers	Canada, all sectors	no	no	free
Save.ca	coupons	Canada	n/a	n/a	free
FoodHero	surplus stock	Canada, partner stores	n/a	n/a	free
eezly	comparison + menus	Canada	yes (freshness and method vary)	no	free and subscription
Prix Futé	collected prices	Quebec, 1,107 stores	yes	12 months	free, Futé+ at $7.99/month

What a flyer can't tell you

Here's the demonstration, with today's numbers.

In three cities we compared the common basket: only products carried by every banner in the comparison. It's the only method that lets anyone say "X costs less than Y"; comparing different assortments means nothing.

Sherbrooke, across 2,397 common products:

First to last: $2,613 apart, or 18%.

Longueuil, across 2,541 common products: from $15,506 at Super C to $18,195 at Provigo. 17% apart.

Gatineau, across 2,907 common products: from $18,647 at Maxi to $21,225 at IGA. 14% apart.

Three cities, the same two banners on top every time. Super C and Maxi run so close that they trade places from one city to the next: tonight fifteen dollars separate them in Gatineau, on a basket of more than $18,000. The gap that matters isn't between those two, it's with everyone else.

And that gap is one no flyer can show you, because it isn't about advertised products, it's about everything that isn't.

Against a $700 monthly grocery budget, a 15% gap works out to roughly $1,250 a year. That's the order of magnitude, not a promise: your basket isn't the common basket, and not every banner sits near your home.

How we measured

Because a number without a method is worth nothing, and we'd rather you be able to argue with us.

• Common basket only. We keep only the products carried by every banner compared in that city. Comparing the median of two different assortments produces a false number.
• Prices from our own collection, product by product and store by store, and not only the ones featured in the weekly flyers.
• Measured on August 22, 2026. Prices move weekly. This ranking is dated, deliberately: an undated grocery comparison is a worthless one.
• No banner is being accused of anything. A price gap is a price gap. Each chain has its own strategy, assortment and service.

So which one should you install

No fake suspense. It depends what you do.

You shop flyers and live outside Quebec → Flipp. No hesitation.

You want coupons → Save.ca, alongside something else.

You hate food waste → FoodHero.

You plan menus → eezly, for now.

You shop for groceries in Quebec and want to know if you're overpaying → us. That's the question we answer, and the only one we claim to be best at.

And the real answer, the one nobody gives because it sells nothing: two apps beat one. Flipp for what's advertised, Prix Futé for what isn't. They aren't the same job and they don't replace each other.

Frequently asked questions

What's the best app for comparing grocery prices in Quebec? Depends what you're after. For reading flyers, Flipp has the best coverage. To know what a product actually costs and whether a "special" really is one, you need an app that collects the price of every product (not just the ones on promotion) and keeps a history of it.

Are Flipp and reebee the same thing? Almost. Flipp acquired reebee in June 2022 and kept both brands. The interfaces differ; the owner is the same.

Are these apps free? Flipp, reebee, Save.ca and FoodHero are free. Prix Futé is free, with a Futé+ subscription at $7.99 a month or $69.99 a year for unlimited alerts, multi-store cart optimization and full history.

How much can you actually save? Our August 22, 2026 measurements show a 14 to 18% gap between the cheapest and most expensive banner, across a common basket of more than 2,300 products, in three cities. On a $700 monthly budget that's roughly $1,250 a year. Your real gap depends on your basket and the stores near you.

Why trust a comparison written by Prix Futé? You don't have to. That's why we put our method in writing, dated our numbers, and said what the others do better before saying anything about ourselves. Go check.

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