Writing about Aukilo, with sources to back it.

Aukilo is a French mobile app that brings every price back to a single unit, to make comparable products that packaging deliberately makes incomparable. Prices come from readings taken in store, shown as such: those of Aukilo users, backed by a photo of the label and then checked by others, and those published in open databases by their contributors. Every price carries its store, its date and its origin. The app is free for everything that tells you whether a price is expensive; an optional subscription (a fee of your choice: €10, €15 or €20 a year) splits the shopping list across retailers automatically — or builds it from a single sentence, with the shopping assistant.

The price on the shelf does not tell you the real price. Between a pack of three, a refill and a large format, the only comparable figure is the price per kilo — and it is the one we read the least.

Aukilo brings everything back to that unit. The app groups the formats of one product, shows their price per kilo, and flags the cases where buying more costs more. The pack-size history documents quantity cuts at an unchanged price — shrinkflation: when a pack gets smaller and the label does not move, the trace stays.

Prices come from readings taken in store: those of the community — label photographed, dated, located, checked by other members — and those published in open databases by their contributors, identified as such. No source buys its place: there is no sponsored ranking, no paid placement, and no agreement to leave a price unpublished.

The model: free to know whether a price is expensive, paid to organise your shopping accordingly. Aukilo is independent of retailers, ad-free, and sells no individual data.