60
BU Score
Solid
Sainsbury's SmartShop
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Sainsbury's SmartShop is an iOS app from Sainsbury's in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.8★ across 377 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews — supporters praise core features while critics cite stability/value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 60 — Solid (established niche player). For a Shopping app, that means established niche player.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (377 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 47 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v3.39.0🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 EN📂 Shopping💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (10y old)
📝 About this app
The easier, speedier way to shop - simply scan & bag as you go, all whilst tracking your running total!
Here's how:
• Download the SmartShop app to register – you’ll need to have your nectar card ready
• Save offers and earn Nectar points*
• Scan items you want as you walk around the store
• Pack your items as you shop
• Pay in a flash and feel like a VIP at one of our SmartShop checkouts** Or pay with Apple Pay!
You can use SmartShop on your mobile data or our free in-store WiFi, where available.
To see if SmartShop is available in your store, just tap the ‘Find a SmartShop store’ button in the app, or visit http://stores.sainsburys.co.uk and apply the ‘SmartShop’ filter within ‘Customer facilities’.
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS ARE SAYING
• "Flawless! Quick, easy, simple to use"
• “SmartShop has revolutionised my weekly shop”
• “SmartShop was really convenient”
WHAT THE MEDIA HAVE SAID
“We were genuinely impressed at the ease and accessibility of the till-free shopping experience.”
– The Independent
“It was an incredibly easy process - and something that I, a tech savvy early adopter, would happily do again.”
– Gizmodo UK
“[…] the future works remarkably well.”
– The Telegraph
KEEP IN TOUCH
If you have any feedback about the app or your SmartShop experience, please call us on 0800 234 6434.
* Please note that you'll need to be a Digital Nectar customer and have opted in to the offers on the Nectar app to view them in SmartShop. You will need to sign back in if you have not been active for 14 days or longer.
**SmartShop checkouts are not available in our mobile pay stores, as these are Apple Pay in-app payments only.
Here's how:
• Download the SmartShop app to register – you’ll need to have your nectar card ready
• Save offers and earn Nectar points*
• Scan items you want as you walk around the store
• Pack your items as you shop
• Pay in a flash and feel like a VIP at one of our SmartShop checkouts** Or pay with Apple Pay!
You can use SmartShop on your mobile data or our free in-store WiFi, where available.
To see if SmartShop is available in your store, just tap the ‘Find a SmartShop store’ button in the app, or visit http://stores.sainsburys.co.uk and apply the ‘SmartShop’ filter within ‘Customer facilities’.
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS ARE SAYING
• "Flawless! Quick, easy, simple to use"
• “SmartShop has revolutionised my weekly shop”
• “SmartShop was really convenient”
WHAT THE MEDIA HAVE SAID
“We were genuinely impressed at the ease and accessibility of the till-free shopping experience.”
– The Independent
“It was an incredibly easy process - and something that I, a tech savvy early adopter, would happily do again.”
– Gizmodo UK
“[…] the future works remarkably well.”
– The Telegraph
KEEP IN TOUCH
If you have any feedback about the app or your SmartShop experience, please call us on 0800 234 6434.
* Please note that you'll need to be a Digital Nectar customer and have opted in to the offers on the Nectar app to view them in SmartShop. You will need to sign back in if you have not been active for 14 days or longer.
**SmartShop checkouts are not available in our mobile pay stores, as these are Apple Pay in-app payments only.
🆕 What's New · v3.39.0
Performance improvements and some changes to enhance your experience in the app.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Sainsbury's SmartShop
- Developer
- Sainsbury's
- Bundle ID
- com.sainsburys.ssa
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $144/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Shopping
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- Not found
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/letterloop-group-newsletters/id6468623700
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/story/id1876455371
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: HIGH
The Sainsbury's SmartShop app is a retail enablement tool designed to enhance the in-store shopping experience, improve efficiency, and drive customer engagement with the Nectar loyalty program, rather than generating direct revenue through in-app purchases or subscriptions. Publicly available sources, including financial reports from Sainsbury's, app analytics platforms like Sensor Tower and Adapty, and discussions on Reddit, do not provide specific revenue figures for the app itself. Its value is indirect, contributing to overall retail sales and operational efficiency for Sainsbury's.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Statista, Adapty, Reddit, J Sainsbury plc
⭐Recent App Store Reviews3 latest · avg 2.33★ · 0% 5★ · 33.3% 1★
5★0 (0%)
4★0 (0%)
3★2 (67%)
2★0 (0%)
1★1 (33%)
+3,535 ratings/week
Praise: great ×2Complaints: crash ×1
Top positive
★☆☆☆☆ Doesn’t work
App crashes instantly upon starting shop…
★★★☆☆ Issue about Apple Pay
The app was great. Until now I can’t no longer use apple pay to do the checkout, as the button is gone after I switched between another Apple ID.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Doesn’t work
App crashes instantly upon starting shop…
★★★☆☆ Issue about Apple Pay
The app was great. Until now I can’t no longer use apple pay to do the checkout, as the button is gone after I switched between another Apple ID.…
📈Ratings growth377 ratings+37600% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (6 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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