This article brings together two updates: 1.6.1, released at the start of November, and 1.6.2. A new design, a thank-you for those who record prices, a bell to follow your products, a redesigned shop page and L'Éclaireur as a conversation. Here is what's new.
A new design
- A warm background and clearer cards: Home, lists, Community, your profile and most screens now share the same look.
- Every price carries its badges: origin, organic, labels, Nutri-Score, NOVA. Tap them and “What the badges mean” explains them.
- The search tab becomes “Aisles”, and its results switch to compact rows that are easier to compare.
Say thanks
- Under a price recorded by someone else, “Thanks” tells them with a heart that their price helped you.
- The thanks you receive float up from the Community tab. Find them in “My contributions”, which gains filters and sorting.
- Your prices carry your username: the app asks you for it before your first price.
The bell for your products
- On a product page, the bell keeps you informed of its prices. The star is now only for shops.
- “Price alerts” shows each product you follow with its latest price. On Home, the products you follow come first in “Latest prices”.
L'Éclaireur becomes a conversation
- A real chat page: type your question, or dictate it if your phone allows. Dictation happens on the phone, and your voice is never sent.
- Its answers arrive as animated cards: fuel, open shops, good deals.
- Three questions a day are free without Aukilo+.
A redesigned shop page
- All the shop's prices in “Latest prices”, with a search, the aisle filters, and the choice between “Recorded here” and indicative prices.
- The “Offers” tab brings together the real promotions recorded in this shop, on top of its catalogues.
- The information shows whether it is open, and compares its fuel prices with nearby stations.
More prices, better explained
- “Indicative price”: for the own brands of Leclerc, Intermarché and Auchan, a price recorded in another shop of the chain gives you a rough idea, until someone records it in yours. A real price always comes first.
- No price recorded near you? The product page offers to widen the area when a shop a little further away has one.
- “Flag this price”: a wrong price can be flagged with a photo of the label, and the report is checked before it is published.
Wine and loose products
- For a wine, the vintage is recorded with the price. The “The wine” section of the product page gives the appellation, grape varieties, labels and food pairings.
- For loose products, “Which variety?” is asked after the photo of the label, with the common varieties first.
Community and shops
- A national ranking joins your city's, for the month or all time.
- On the map of “The great price hunt”, each contribution appears on its shop, and the contributions counter moves live.
- The shops screen can be searched and filtered: type of shop (farms and organic shops included), chain, “Open”, from nearest to furthest, with no limit.
The receipt
- No more button to finish: the receipt finishes on its own once every line is scanned or skipped.
- Discounts already taken off on the receipt, markdowns or anti-waste, count towards the price paid, with their reason alongside.
- “My receipts” shows each chain's logo.
Welcome to newcomers
- An introduction in five illustrated screens, and “Try it with a product from home”: a scan before you even create an account.
- Sign-up in three steps, simpler on a small screen. Emails are never ticked in advance.
- The app speaks your phone's language, and only asks for your location after explaining why.
And also
- A “Notifications” entry in the profile menu, now arranged in three groups.
- Offers such as “12 + 6 free” can be recorded from the label.
- A card invites you to update the app when a new version comes out.
- Nothing is hidden by the bottom bar any more, whatever your phone. Various fixes and improvements.