Flipp vs Deal Dish: browsing the flyer vs cooking from it

Flipp and Deal Dish both start from Canadian flyer prices, but they do different jobs. Flipp gathers flyers from every kind of store. Deal Dish is a grocery app that turns the deals into recipes and a shopping list.

Stores covered: 3,500+Stores covered
Grocery banners: 35Grocery banners
New recipes a week: 500+New recipes a week
To download: FreeTo download

Deal Dish is free to download, and its core features stay free with weekly limits. Check that your store is covered.

Get this week’s deals free Get it on Google PlayFree on iPhone, iPad & Android

Short answer

Use 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.

Checked in October 2026 against each app’s Canadian App Store listing.

Breadth versus depth

Flipp covers more ground. It carries flyers well beyond grocery, and one search runs across all of them. Deal Dish is grocery-only, with 35 banners and 3,500+ stores.

In return, Deal Dish goes deeper on grocery: prices for your exact store, the regular price beside the sale price, and each item’s price at nearby stores, cheapest first.

The step after the flyer

In Flipp you build the list by clipping deals. Deal Dish suggests recipes made from this week’s deals, shows what each costs, and adds a recipe’s ingredients to a list split by store with an aisle view.

You can plan those recipes into a daily meal plan, then log what you paid to track your savings.

Deal Dish vs Flipp, feature by feature

Feature comparison between Deal Dish and Flipp
Feature	Deal Dish	Flipp
Primary job	Recipes and lists from this week’s grocery deals	Find and search every local flyer
Categories covered	Grocery only	Grocery, pharmacy, hardware, electronics and moreTheir win
Search across flyers	Within 35 grocery banners	Across all its retailersTheir win
Compare one item at nearby stores	Search any item, cheapest nearby store first	Search results across flyers
Recipes from sales	Yes	No
Meal planning	Daily plan	No
Shopping list	Built from recipes and deals, split by store, with an aisle view	Clip flyer deals to a list
Watch list / sale alerts	Yes	Yes
Barcode scanner	Scan an item to see if it is on sale, and its price nearby	Not listed
Nutrition tracking	Yes	No
Loyalty card wallet	No	YesTheir win
Price matching	Shows the competing flyer ad	Participating stores, across more retailersTheir win
Platforms	iPhone, iPad and Android	iOS and Android
Cost	Free; Pro $3.99/month or $34.99/year CAD	Free, with ads

Flipp features come from its Canadian App Store listing and website, checked October 2026. “Not listed” means the feature is not in that listing.

Where Flipp is the better choice

Flyers outside the grocery category
One search box across every retailer at once
A loyalty card wallet for PC Optimum, Air Miles and Triangle
Price matching across far more retailers

Questions about Deal Dish and Flipp

Is Deal Dish better than Flipp?

For turning grocery deals into meals, yes: that is what Deal Dish is built for, and Flipp does not offer recipes or meal planning. For browsing flyers from every kind of store, no. Flipp is broader and has been around far longer.

Does Deal Dish show the actual flyer images like Flipp?

Not full flyer pages. Deal Dish lists the discounted items, from the biggest price drops down to aisle by aisle, with the regular price beside the sale price. When you want a price match, it shows the flyer ad for that item. If you want to flip through the flyer as printed, Flipp does that better.

Which app saves more money?

It depends on what you do with it. Flipp saves money when you act on the deals you find. Deal Dish shows the deals too, then turns them into recipes and a list and shows which nearby store has each item cheapest.