Its latest mobile deals are decidedly Android-centric, but Woolworths has stuck to the familiar iOS path for its first official mobile app. The newly-released app covers pretty much what you’d expect in a supermarket assistant: a GPS-based store finder, a shopping list creator which includes barcode support, a weekly catalogue update and a recipe database.
We asked a Woolworths spokesperson if an Android app was also on the cards, and were told development had started and something should appear “in the next couple of months”. In the meantime, the iOS app is a free download. I’m not equipped with an iOS device right now, so if you give it a try, tell us what you like (and what you don’t) in the comments.
Woolworths [iTunes App Store]
Phillip Molly Malone
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 5:15 PMYou buried the lead! The gun feature of the App is the the Shopping lists are ordered to match the ailse structure at your local store! I suggested this too them last year in June and they have done it!
Woolies FTW!
Molly
Ben
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 5:58 PMTechnically it’s not their first iOS app. Woolworths already had the Everyday Rewards app, which it seems that this new app superseeds.
HOmer
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 7:01 PMOh come on Woolies, Andriod devices account for 1 in 2 mobile sales these days and we are still be treated 2nd rate? Why on earth couldn’t u develop both simultaneously?
Spinna
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 7:03 PMThey bring it out on the iPhone platform first to iron out the bugs. They are able to disguise the bugs with Apple users because Apple users are never sure if the problem is with the app or their phone. Bahahaha
Tim
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 7:20 PMIt seems their servers are straining, I saw it on aca (yeah I know, my mum watches it) but can’t get list of stores.
Ninetta
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 8:04 PMMe too Tim cant get store has anyone any suggestions or is it overloaded.
Mathew
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 10:28 PMYeah, it asks for your location and then nothing but white. I actually put this down to an iOS 5 beta issue, but I take it you guys are on iOS 4?
David
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 7:22 PMYeah come on Woolies why wasn’t an Android app done at the same time. 1 in 2 phones are Android apped not just Iphone which is no where as good as and Android phone
mark
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 9:30 PMoh well – at least android users can get directions to their closest wooliss without ever needing to touch their phone. Try doing that on a crappy iphone!
Tim
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 7:48 PMiOS was first of the 2 OSs therefore we should get the App first.
jg
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 7:52 PM“1 in 2 phones are Android apped not just Iphone which is no where as good as and Android phone”
OK, I’ll bite. Woolies probably developed for iOS first because that’s what people use. Whether or not “1 in 2 phones are Android apped(?)”, look around you when you’re on the train, in the supermarket, or walking down the street. Which phone do you see people using?
Ninetta
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 8:05 PMAlso as per another comment it would be good if woolies had wifi to use in store.
James
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 9:04 PMThis app doesnt work – totally useless since you can’t pick your store.
FLOP, FAIL
Im off to COLES
Not James
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 7:51 AMJames, you work for Coles – of course you’re gunna say that.
Tim
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 10:03 AMMakes me glad ill probably never have to deal with you in life, as i mentioned earlier, they got a huge influx of users from the ACA advertisement, they had some teething problems.
Get over yourself.
TypicalMaleShopper
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 9:32 PMGlad to see it’s not just me that can’t get a list of stores. I spent 20 minutes trying to find bloody almondmeal at woolies today and could really have used this app then.
James
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 9:44 PMI always thought woolies changed there store layout every few months to make us spend more time in their stores n buy more stuff, looks like this app if it ever works might buck that trend.
just when i get to know where stuff is, the freakin change it again!!!!
Tim
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 11:53 PMWithout promoting our app….try Scan2List. Got Woolies, Coles, Aldi IGA covered.
Greg
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 2:24 PMI can not find scan2list….
James
Monday, August 29, 2011 at 8:50 PMTim, Android users would love to use Scan2List – if the development ever got there. 7 months later and Android users are still waiting for something to appear. I understand that developing for Android can be a bit harder than iOS because of all the different handsets, but 7 months???? Considering the sheer number of Android phones out there, I’m staggered that developers lag so far behind the iOS development! There is a race to see who gets there first. I’ll pay for your app, as long as you get there first!
astrogirl
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 12:55 AMThis DOES need internet connectivity to work. I tested it on my ipod touch, and the app worked on my home wifi but did not without it. (I’ll probably just use my driod phone as a wireless hub for it.)
The store finder is working for me, however the distances for the stores are completely inaccurate. Its telling me a store an hour away is just 10km from me!
I tried scanning a product in though, and that seemed to work. Even in low light with my ipod touch camera. Even though the app’s FAQ says that scanning only works on an iphone.
In order to see the “my specials” or “fuel voucher” tab you need to login to “everyday rewards” which I guess is fair.
There don’t seem to be any prices though. Aside from the weekly catalogue prices. The item I scanned came up with a picture and I could add it to a list, but a neat function would have been to include the price and a running sub total so I knew how much I was up for, before I got to the checkout. Even if I had to add the price in manually as I shopped (as other apps do), it would have been helpful.
Otherwise, it seems like a pretty good app. It told me the location of items, if they weren’t stocked at my store and I can create multiple lists. Lots of recipes. All good. I like it better than the Coles app (which I admit I havent used in a while.)
Jo
Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 7:30 PMHello how did you get the scanner to work on your iPod?
Kemala
Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 11:57 AMWould love it if it gave u the prices of products as well when u added them to the shopping list – would be an awesome help with budget for the weekly shop
Love the scan option – I scan packets etc as soon as there empty and then I wont forget them in the next weeks shop
Also love the aisles feature
Jayz
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 11:42 AMPrices for scanned items WERE there when the App was first released but it seems Woolies pulled them now. I suspect they don’t want people comparing prices while standing in the Coles aisle!
Pretty poor they want to keep the “wool” over our eyes on item pricing
Trevo
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 3:34 PMAbout time you got with the times. Android are overtaking iphone. Hurry with our app or lose customers.
Kazza
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 8:37 PMAgree totally!
Hetho
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 9:29 PMWoolies should have done both phones I and android at the same time, not all of us have IPhones
Graham
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 8:01 PMcant wait for the android app. Funny thing Woolies sell the android phone and now app yet. go figure that one
bev
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 5:17 PMWhen is android vetsion due more android fonrs than iphone out there
Big J
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 8:24 PMMy wife is trying the app out as I type. Seems to work fine, local store came up, scanner seems to work fine so far. Using a 3gs.
Maxine
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 6:51 AMc,monn woolies get android up
mr r
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 10:35 AMI and many of my friends have droids , I would use this if it were available to me , there sales loss i guess.
Jen
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 8:54 PMSaw this on a friend’s iphone today. It’s awesome! Can’t wait for droid version.
Michelle
Monday, August 29, 2011 at 9:07 AMI’m looking forward to the android version as well. The reason why companies develop the apps for iStuff first is that it’s all the same hardware, so compatibility isn’t an issue.
There are lots more different android devices, so developers generally find it harder to get it working on those.
(It’s still buggy, but that’s why it took the developers of “Words with friends” so much longer to get it working on android)
Just my 2 cents..
Sam
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 4:32 PMWoolies Android app out in wild. Available in android market. But says not compatible with my Honeycomb device ( Tablet ). Anyway i will try and see.