Barcode Scanner app for iPhone and iPad


4.7 ( 6947 ratings )
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Developer: BahnTech
0.99 USD
Current version: 4.3, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 14 Dec 2009
App size: 1.91 Mb

Barcode Scanner ~ Always find the lowest price ~ Top rated app!

"...I saved $10 on my very first purchase! This app will surely pay for itself many times!"
Yahoo Answers rated Barcode Scanner as one of the best paid iPhone apps.

Scan Barcodes and get product pricing and information from the internet in seconds!

You will find Barcode Scanner useful for two major tasks:
1. Price Shopping: Just scan the product you are thinking of purchasing, and in seconds you get links and pricing from thousands of online retailers.
2. Replacing household or business items and/or consumables: When you run out of a product just scan it and in two or three clicks the least expensive replacement product is in route to you.

Shopping Lists will save you time and money:
Create Multiple Shopping Lists: From the scan screen you can select the shopping list where you want your scanned product saved. Create as many as you would like! You can even email the list or individual products to your friends.

Now with 2 UPC Entry Modes:
1. Full-Auto Scan (just hover the camera in front of the barcode, no push button needed)
2. Manual UPC entry using on-screen keypad. Good for iPad, iPod and small or otherwise un-scannable barcodes.

Features:
-Facebook product sharing. If you find a product you want to share with you friends you can upload the description and image directly to Facebook! (you will have to "approve" the photo in Facebook the first time)
-History of scanned barcodes (just like your browsers History)
-Create Shopping Lists (Create an unlimited number of shopping lists to stay organized)
-Email products to friends with all of the product details. You can email single, multiple, or the entire shopping list.
-View "Buy Now" screen for product in-app
-Fully featured integrated Web Browser with all expected browser features including Bookmarks [thus the 17 age rating]
-Supports multiple countries (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Japan)
-Supports specific currencies including (USD, EUR, GBP, JPY)
-On screen keyboard for direct barcode entry (useful if the barcode is too small or damaged)
-Supports iPhone Illumination (for devices with camera illumination, aka Flash)
-On successful scan you can set your device to Vibrate and/or Beep to let you know scan was successful
-Multi-Vendor Searching:
>Walmart
>Amazon
>BestBuy
>Google Product Search
>eBay
>Newegg.com
>Buy.com
>J&R Computer / Photo World
>B&H Photo
>Buy.com
>Andorma.com
>Compusa
>FractionPrice.com

Scans: UPC, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN 6, and EAN8 (all commercial barcodes)

Supports:
UPC-A
UPC-E
EAN-8
EAN-13
UPC 6 12
EAN 8 13

Device Support Notes:
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-iPhone 4 : Works perfectly!
-iPod Touch 4th Generation (camera model) : Works ok for standard sized barcodes, smaller barcodes might need to be manually entered. The scan engine for the iPod Touch 4th gen is being improved and will meet or exceed the older barcode scanner ver 2.6 performance within weeks.
-iPhone 3Gs : Works Perfectly!
-iPhone 3G : Works on a limited number of large barcodes with no accessories or almost any barcodes with the optional third party accessory "macro lens case" available from several vendors including Griffin in the ~$20 range and is not included with your app purchase or provided by BahnTech or Apple. You also have the option of manually typing in the UPC code and utilizing the rest of the program features with no accessories or limitations.
-iPod Touch 2nd + 3rd Gen and iPads will have to manually enter barcode numbers because they do not have a camera

YouTube: Go to our web site to watch YouTube Demo!

*Scanning requires a camera on the device. You can manually enter barcodes using the keypad on any device including iPad and iPod Touch

BahnTech Corporations privacy policy can be found at http://bahntech.com/documents/privacypolicy.htm

Barcode Scannerᵀᴹ is a BahnTech Trademarked Product

Pros and cons of Barcode Scanner app for iPhone and iPad

Barcode Scanner app good for

It comes in handy since Im a college student who always needs to find books to buy fast. Its really useful and helps me find cheaper than the campus bookstore. This app has saved me quite a bit of money. I really like it especially cause it saves the history of scans and its really accurate and fast.
this is a app that lets you scan barcodes. and see products and prices
Apps like this are so amazing. Turning your iPhone into a scanner is one of the best shopping tools you can have. At the beginning of my freshman year of college I went to Best Buy to buy some wireless television headphones. They cost $120!! I used this app to scan the barcode and saw that online I could buy the same exact headphones for $65! This app saved me over fifty bucks. Well worth the .99 app cost!
amazing setup, works very well. good quality app that does exactly what it was made to do and maybe a little more
The price checking function is great. Helps me save a lot of money. Loves it.
Good way to make sure you are getting the best price you can!

Some bad moments

Just bought it and it doesnt work on my phone!!!! So I deleted it, granted only 99 cents but still
Does not show scanned product available in near by stores, shows google results. When you click Web button it opens a empty search engine.Much better free apps available for the same job.
For this review, I am going to do something very simple: scan a few items around me with different apps and see if Barcode Scanner is the best. The first item I scanned was a bottle of FIJI water, and sadly the app could not recognize is. Other free apps were able to give me prices for FIJI water. Next I scanned No Country for Old Men on Blue-ray. Barcode Scanner shows 7 online results from $15.60 and 0 results locally. Another free app shows 21 results from $5.94 and 1 local result. Lastly, I scanned a Pokedex / guide for B&W. Barcode Scanner shows 13 online results from $13.84 and 0 locally. Another free app shows 14 prices from $11.35. Sadly, it looks like this app does not show the cheapest price for any item that I’ve scanned so far. Some nice features of the app are the ability to make a “shopping list” and it also includes a full browser. There is also a surprising amount of options, including various security features. However, there is nothing that stands out enough with this app to justify the 0.99 price
Doesnt work like it says it does. I have tried to scan many different items. 2/10 times it scanned the items the other 8 didnt even scan the item. Dont waste your time or your money on this app. I even tried to contact them about this problem well as the they dont work either.
Its not that great sorry. Can not get up dates to work , needs more work.
This app is the worst everything I scan it comes back with no matching results.. The fact they want you to spend money on this app is by far the biggest joke.... I wouldnt have even given if one star but I hit it by accident stay far far away from this app