Questions about Priceglot

Priceglot is a price tag converter for your phone. Point the camera at a shelf and every price in view gets a chip above it in your home currency, live, with no tapping. Tap a chip to see what it really costs: the price on your card with your card's fee, an estimate of any tourist tax refund, and, if you want, what the same item sells for at home. It's also an everyday currency converter that works offline.

Priceglot is coming soon to the App Store and Google Play. This site will link to both stores the day it launches.

Yes, and the free version is the full converter. Live scan, the price sheet with card fees and tax refund estimates, the calculator converter, one trip and one card profile are free, with no ads. A Trip Pass (US$4.99, 14 days) or Lifetime (US$14.99, one payment) adds unlimited home-price compares, unlimited trips with CSV export, receipt scanning and more card profiles. There's no subscription.

Live Text can convert one price after you tap it. Priceglot converts every price tag in view at once, continuously, without a tap, and keeps working offline. It also shows what the price costs on your card, what the tax refund could give back and what the item sells for at home, which a plain conversion can't.

Yes. Reading price tags happens on your phone, so live scan works with no signal. Exchange rates are downloaded once a day and kept on your phone, and the app ships with a starter set so it works on first launch. The rate date is always shown, and you'll see a warning if your rates are more than 3 days old. Home-price compare and receipt scanning need a connection.

Priceglot knows about 150 currencies and reads tags printed in Latin, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Devanagari scripts. It handles decimal commas, spaces and apostrophes as thousand separators, Indian lakh grouping, currencies with no decimals such as yen and won, and tags that show prices with and without tax, like Japan's 税込 and 税抜. It ignores dates, phone numbers, weights and sizes, and keeps per-kilo prices marked as per kilo.

Tap a chip and ask Priceglot what the item costs at home. It works out the product from the tag (and a crop of your photo, if you add one), looks up its price at retailers in your home country with links, and tells you whether it's cheaper or dearer here after your card fee and any tax refund. It uses AI, so check the match before you buy. You get 3 free tries, then it's part of a Trip Pass or Lifetime.

In the app, live rates come from ExchangeRate-API's open access service, updated daily. The starter rates bundled with the app, and the rates on this website, are the European Central Bank's reference rates. These are mid-market rates. Your card's rate and fee are added on top in the price sheet.

No, it's an estimate. Priceglot works out the tax inside the price from the country's standard rate and shows what a refund could be, using the share refund operators typically pay where an official source gives one. Operators deduct fees, some goods are taxed at reduced rates, and you only get a refund if customs approves your claim. Each country guide on this site shows the rules, the sources and the date we last checked them.

Always the local currency. When a card machine or ATM offers to charge you in your home currency, its provider sets the exchange rate, and consumer group BEUC measured those rates at roughly 2.6% to 12% worse than the reference rate. Our guide to dynamic currency conversion explains how to spot it.

It converts the tag at the mid-market rate, then adds your card's foreign transaction fee. You set the fee once, from presets (0% for a no-fee travel card, about 1%, or a typical 3%) or your card's own figure. See foreign transaction fees.

Our data covers 34 countries, including Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, the United Arab Emirates and 11 EU countries. Where a country has no tourist refund, or we couldn't confirm one from an official source, Priceglot shows no estimate rather than a guess. Browse them all in our tax-free shopping guides.

No. Live scan reads price tags on your phone, with Apple's Vision framework on iPhone and Google's ML Kit on Android, and the camera feed never leaves the device. Only two features you start yourself send anything to our server: home-price compare (the tag text and, if you add it, a crop of the photo) and receipt scanning (the receipt photo). The details are in our privacy policy.

No. Priceglot creates an anonymous ID in the background so purchases and free compare tries work. Signing in with Apple or Google is optional, and lets you restore your Trip Pass or Lifetime on another phone.

In the app, go to Settings, then Delete account at the bottom of the page. You can also email us. The support page lists what's deleted and what's kept.

No. priceglot.com sets no cookies and runs no analytics, ads or third-party scripts. Fonts and exchange rates are served from our own site. Our host keeps standard server logs to run and secure it.

Priceglot is made by Inventum Technologies Pty Ltd, an Australian company based in Melbourne, which also makes the menu translator Foodglot. You can reach us at support@inventum.com.au. More on the about page.