Grofer and Trolley.co.uk, side by side
Trolley.co.uk compares the price of individual products across many UK shops. Grofer plans a week of meals to a budget and prices that whole shop at each supermarket it covers. They answer different questions, and plenty of people would use both.
Grofer wrote this page, so weigh it with that in mind. It says where the other app is the better pick and what Grofer doesn’t do yet, and every claim about the other app links to the page it came from.
Pick Trolley.co.uk if
- You want the cheapest price on particular products, including at Aldi, Co-op, B&M and other shops Grofer doesn’t cover.
- You wait for deals: it shows price history and sends price alerts on any product.
- You want Clubcard and Nectar prices shown next to the normal price.
- You want it all free, on the web or an iPhone as well as Android.
- You’d like a widely used app: 4.8 from about 17,000 ratings on the UK App Store when we checked.
Pick Grofer if
- You want meals planned for you, rather than searching products one by one.
- You want a whole week’s shop priced as one total at each supermarket.
- You want your online basket filled for you.
- You want to set a weekly budget and see when you go over.
| Feature | Grofer | Trolley.co.uk |
|---|---|---|
| Recipes | Published recipes from real publishers, each credited and linked to the original. Grofer doesn’t write recipes. | It compares products, not recipes. We didn’t find meal plans on its pages.trolley.co.uk/about |
| Weekly budget | You set a weekly budget, see the total before you shop, and Grofer tells you when the plan goes over. | We didn’t find a weekly budget on its pages.trolley.co.uk/about |
| Comparing supermarkets | Prices the same plan at each supermarket it covers, with the date the prices were checked. A store with estimated items is never called cheapest. | Compares prices product by product across 14 shops, including Aldi, Asda, Co-op, Iceland, Morrisons, Ocado, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose, with price history and Clubcard and Nectar prices.trolley.co.uk/help-guide/how-do-i-compare-prices-at-stores-near-me/3665, trolley.co.uk/help-guide/how-do-i-see-price-history/3674, trolley.co.uk/product/anchor-butter/RHP787 |
| Fills an online basket at | Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Ocado, Morrisons, Waitrose and Iceland. It only adds to your basket and never clears it. | It doesn’t fill a basket. Each product links to the shop’s own website.trolley.co.uk/product/anchor-butter/RHP787 |
| Shopping in store | A priced list to tick off round the shop, free. Asda is priced for shopping in store only. | A shopping list it groups by the cheapest shop for each item, plus barcode scanning to check a price in the aisle.trolley.co.uk/app, trolley.co.uk/blogs/thats-right-theres-finally-a-replacement-for-mysupermarket/10 |
| Diets and allergies | Allergies and diets are hard filters, applied before you see a meal. Meals that suit the appliances you have come first. | We didn’t find diet or allergy filters on its pages.trolley.co.uk/deals |
| What it plans | 3 to 14 meals a week, for 1 to 10 people. Pack sizes are worked out across the whole week. | Products, not meals: more than 130,000 of them from over 7,000 brands.apps.apple.com/gb/app/trolley-co-uk/id1573111597 |
| What’s free | Planning, prices and the in-store list are free. Filling your online basket is a subscription. | Everything. It says it is paid for by sponsors and will always be free to use.trolley.co.uk/about, trolley.co.uk/app |
| Where it runs | Android. The iPhone app isn’t out yet. | The web, iPhone and Android.trolley.co.uk/app |
Trolley.co.uk’s column is from its own website and app store pages, read on 4 November 2026. Grofer’s column is the app as it is today.
What Grofer doesn’t do yet
- No iPhone app yet, and no web app. Grofer is on Android today.
- It doesn’t fill an Asda basket. Asda is priced for shopping in store only.
- Aldi, Lidl and Co-op aren’t priced yet.
- You can’t add your own recipes.
Is anything here wrong or out of date, about Trolley.co.uk or about Grofer? Email hi@efosaso.com and we’ll check it and correct the page.
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