How Deal Dish compares to the other Canadian grocery apps
Deal Dish turns this week's grocery deals into priced recipes and one shopping list. Flipp, Reebee, Checkout 51 and RecipeWiz each do other jobs, and every comparison names what they do better.
- Stores covered
- 3,500+Stores covered
- Grocery banners
- 35Grocery banners
- Comparisons
- 6Comparisons
- To download
- FreeTo download
Deal Dish is free to download, and its core features stay free with weekly limits.
Pick the app you are comparing with Deal Dish
- A Flipp alternative that turns grocery deals into recipes and a listPick Deal Dish if you want a cheaper week of groceries: it turns this week’s deals into recipes, a meal plan and a shopping list, which Flipp does not do. Keep Flipp for flyers outside grocery, such as pharmacy and hardware.
- A Reebee alternative that turns flyer deals into recipesReebee shows full flyers from more kinds of stores and keeps your loyalty cards and coupons in one app, which Deal Dish does not. Deal Dish is the better pick if the hard part is deciding what to cook from the deals.
- Deal Dish vs RecipeWiz: two Canadian apps that cook from the flyerRecipeWiz is plan-first: describe your household and it returns five dinners matched to this week’s sales, with a list organized by store and aisle. Deal Dish is deal-first: it shows what is on sale at your stores, compares prices across nearby stores, suggests recipes from the deals, and tracks your savings and nutrition.
- Best grocery saving app in Canada: 8 apps compared by the job they doThese apps stack. A planning or flyer app shapes the shop, a cash-back app pays back part of the receipt, and a clearance app helps when a store near you has stock.
- Flipp vs Deal Dish: browsing the flyer vs cooking from itUse Flipp when the question is “who has this on sale?” Use Deal Dish when the question is “what should I cook this week, and where is each item cheapest?” If you cook most nights and want one grocery app, Deal Dish covers more of that job.
- A Checkout 51 alternative that lowers the grocery bill before checkoutThese apps work at different stages. Checkout 51 pays back part of what you bought, and Deal Dish helps you decide what to buy and where. Running both makes sense: plan with one, claim cash back with the other.
What Deal Dish Free and Pro include, next to other grocery apps
Free covers deals, price comparison, recipes, the list and the scanner. Pro removes the weekly limits.
Flipp finds deals, Samsung Food organizes recipes, AnyList manages lists and Flashfood sells near-expiry food at a discount. Deal Dish takes this week's flyer deals through to recipes, a meal plan, a shopping list and savings tracking. Pro adds deals from any store and recipes priced across several stores.
Pro Monthly
$3.99 /mo
CAD
Pro Annual
$34.99 /yr
≈ $2.92/mo · save $12.89/yr
What each app's paid plan costs, and what it unlocks
Deal Dish Pro
Best value$3.99 CAD / mo
or $34.99 CAD / yr
Unlocks: No weekly limits, deals from any store on your list, recipes priced across several stores, 30 sale alerts
The only app here that turns this week’s Canadian flyer deals into recipes, a shopping list and savings tracking
Samsung Food+
$9.99 CAD / mo
or $79.99 CAD / yr (CA App Store)
Unlocks: AI meal plans, recipe customization, pantry management, nutrition tracking
Costs more than Pro and does not use Canadian flyer prices
AnyList Complete
$9.99 USD / yr
or $14.99 USD / yr household
Unlocks: Recipe importing, meal-planning calendar, item prices, store filters
Costs less than Pro; a list and recipe organizer with no flyer deals
Plan to Eat
$5.95 USD / mo
or $49 USD / yr
Unlocks: Recipe importing, meal-planning calendar, automatic shopping lists
Plans meals from recipes you import; no flyer deals
Paprika
$6.99 CAD
one-time (iPhone & iPad)
Unlocks: Recipe manager, pantry, grocery lists, meal planner
One-time price; a recipe organizer with no flyer prices or savings tracking
Flipp
Free
Unlocks: Flyers, coupons, shopping list, watch list, loyalty cards
Finds deals across many kinds of stores; no recipes or meal plans
reebee
Free
Unlocks: Canadian flyers, deal search, shopping list, watch list, loyalty cards
Flyer app owned by Flipp; no recipes or meal plans
Flashfood
Free
Unlocks: Near-expiry groceries at up to 50% off, picked up at Loblaw stores
Clearance food; no flyer deals or recipes
Checkout 51
Free
Unlocks: Cash-back offers through receipt uploads
Cash back after you buy; no recipes or meal planning
Which features are free, which need Pro, and which other apps have them
Prices and features come from each app's Canadian App Store listing or website, checked October 2026, and can change. Mealime is not included because it shuts down on October 21, 2026.
Plan this week around what is on sale at your store
Deal Dish is free to download, with weekly limits that reset each Thursday. Pro ($3.99/month or $34.99/year) removes them and lets you add deals from any store.
Free on iPhone, iPad & Android
Pro keeps Deal Dish independent.
Deal Dish has no ads and is not connected to any grocery store. Pro subscriptions pay for the servers, the weekly price updates and new store coverage. One Canadian developer builds the app.
3,500+ Canadian stores · 35 retailers · iPhone, iPad & Android
Deal Dish wrote these comparisons. Here is how to read them.
Read these pages knowing we make one of the apps. Each comparison names what the other app does better, and several suggest running two apps side by side.
The short version: Deal Dish is grocery-only, runs on iPhone, iPad and Android, and does not show flyer pages as printed. It takes you from this week’s deals at your stores to recipes, a shopping list and each item’s price at nearby stores. If you mainly want to browse flyers, Flipp or Reebee will suit you better.
