About Kete

How pricing works

In practice, a product's price is usually the same across stores of the same supermarket on the same island, so Kete records one price per product per supermarket per island.

When you see a price labelled like "Priced at New World Albany · North Island", it's the North Island price, shown alongside a store as a reference for where you'd shop. Woolworths prices are based on their delivery suburbs, so the store label reflects the suburb the price came from.

What you can do

• Compare prices — search any product and see what each supermarket charges today.
• Track history — every product has a price history chart, so you can see when prices rise, fall, and cycle around specials.
• Find the movers — see the biggest price drops, rises and deepest specials of the week.
• Check the Kete Index — we track the same 16-item basket Consumer NZ uses to compare supermarkets, every single day.
• Scan barcodes — point your camera at a product's barcode to look it up instantly.

Where the data comes from

Prices are collected daily from publicly available information on supermarket websites. Kete has no affiliation with any supermarket. Prices are shown for informational purposes only — always check the shelf (or the app) before you buy.

Free, private, no ads

Kete is free to use and has no advertising. You don't need an account to search, compare or track prices — an account is optional and only adds a personal dashboard and settings. If you sign up, we store only what your account needs: your name, email address and a securely hashed password (or your Google ID if you log in with Google). You can delete your account at any time from Settings. We collect minimal anonymous analytics to understand how the site is used — see our privacy policy for the details.