I have found amazing deals on Instagram in the past. However, when I continued to watch an advertisement of Buyhatke on my feed that said it can also follow prices at over 100 stores, I became interested. The assurance was that it is a one-stop price comparator of Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, and so on.

This is what I found out after two weeks of using Buyhatke to shop online: it was installed, tested, and compared prices by hand.

What Is Buyhatke?…

Buyhatke is, in a nutshell, your virtual shopping companion and retails in three services and three things:

Price tracking It displays a 90-day price record chart of products on Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, Ajio, and over 100 other retailers. You can place a product link, and you will be able to find out whether a deal with the 50% offer is genuine or a marketing gimmick.
Price drop notifications—You can choose a price, and Buyhatke will alert you when the price decreases. I created notifications on two pairs of headphones and a laptop, and it actually worked since I got a notification in a few hours and during a flash sale.
Spend tracking—Spend Lens functionality lets you know the precise amount that you have spent on Amazon, Flipkart, Zomato, and others. It is very revealing, somewhat frightening.

My iPhone 16 Price Hunt: Where Buyhatke Proved Its Worth

Things actually commenced when I determined to consider the price of iPhone 16 (128GB). I was already monitoring it hence started checking sites on various prices. I would have opened five tabs and compared them myself had I not had Buyhatke. However, on Buyhatke I simply copied the product link and added it under the extension.

What I found:
Amazon listed it at ₹79,900
Flipkart had it at ₹79,499 (₹401 cheaper)
A smaller retailer monitored by Buyhatke reflected ₹78,799 having bank offers.

Making the setback worse Buyhatke even had a 90-day price history that indicated that Amazon had sold Buyhatke just three weeks earlier, at a sale on a weekend, for ₹76,900. The Amazon best price sign ceased to appear that good.

I set a price alert for ₹77,000. I received a notification two days after, at 2 am. (I put my phone on silent at night hence I saw it in the morning.) Flipkart had lowered the cost to ₹76,990 and provided an exchange proposal. This spared me on paying on the high price.

This single search cost me almost ₹3,000. I was sold.

The ordeals of Buyhatke Tracks Prices

This is how it works. Buyhatke does not wait to have stores update prices. It has central crawlers that access product pages on well-known sites numerous times per day to extract price, seller, and offer purchases.

What is smart is that when you put in the Chrome extension, your browser will join their search engine web crawling traffic. Whenever you visit Amazon or Flipkart, the extension sends anonymous price snapshots to the servers of Buyhatke. This allows them to refresh popular products more frequently as compared to using server-side crawling exclusively.

This weakness is that highly popular items are being updated numerous times a day, whereas niche items can be updated a few times a day. I can remember this with a low-need smartwatch—its price curve was approximately two days lower than the actual store price.

Installation of the Buyhatke Chrome Extension (Takes 2 Minutes)

Dead simple. Here’s what I did:

Save to the Chrome Web Store and search Buyhatke.
Click on Really add it to Chrome”—“Add “extension.”
Pin it with the puzzle icon in order to keep it visible.

No mandatory login. Guest mode is good to use in terms of price history and comparisons. I have only gone on later to set my devices on price alerts.

Upon being installed, the extension illuminates on websites that are supported, such as Amazon, Flipkart, or Myntra. By clicking it, you can either have price charts, alerts, or enable auto-coupons at checkout.

Spend Lens: Your Double-Dealing Shopping Reality Check.

Spend Lens is one of the features with which I was not familiar. I have signed in to Amazon and Flipkart and then left the click on the Spend Lens button. It has searched the history of my orders and presented me with:

Average expenditure on one site in my lifetime.
Spending per category on a monthly basis.
The most frequent merchants I have ordered from.

I found out that I spent approximately 34,000 rupees on Amazon last year. Ouch.

Security: The extension only retrieves the information in your order history pages after you have been authenticated on the merchant site. It will not store your passwords; it just reads through transaction information (amounts, dates, and categories) and counts them. Your account information remains with the merchant site and not with Buyhatke.

The Android application claims to gather no data and to not share any data with other people, which corresponds to its privacy statement.

Do Price Drop Notifications Work? My Results

I had five product alerts. Results:

Three alerts proved to be fine; I received a notification within 2-6 hours of the decline in price.

One warning took time; the price was down on Sunday morning, and I received the warning on Monday afternoon.
One of the alert systems made a mistake by letting me think that the L size was available, which was cheaper, but only the S was in stock.
One of the users of Reddit, who followed 50 orders, asserted Buyhatke order alerts to be true in 95 percent of cases. My little testuary corresponds to that.

There are also cases when alerts fail to appear due to scraping issues, size or variant issues, or flash deals that beat Buyhatke in speed. To buy a purchase that is costly, I am always visiting the product page, even though Buyhatke indicates that this is a good time to buy.

Frequency of Buyhatke Updating of Prices?

The frequency of updating will depend on the popularity of the product:

Trending products (such as iPhones or hot fashion) Updated a few times each day, sometimes hourly.
Trending products—Refreshed after every couple of hours.
Niche posts—updated either daily or on 2-3 days.

I evaluated the graph of Buyhatke against that of Price History of an Amazon product. They were generally the same, but Buyhatke was lagging a few hours on a lightning deal, however.

What data sources are used at Buyhatke?

Buyhatke draws information from over 100 stores:

Multinational retailers: Walmart, Target, eBay.
Tourism and food apps: Booking, Airbnb, Zomato, Uber Eats.

They also make use of affiliate links and deep links in order to make money. You purchase something from them using Buyhatke, and they probably receive a small payout. It is by so doing that they retain the service free.

My Honest Take After 2 Weeks

What I liked:

Price graphs have avoided bogus discounts.
Flash sales were well served by alerts.
Painful reality was spending less.
Basic functions do not require any kind of login.

What bothered me:

In some cases, information about less popular products was not up-to-date.
There was one alarm stating that a size was in stock appropriately.
The extension must be allowed to access information on eCommerce websites (it is required; however, it is good to know).

Should You Use Buyhatke?

Yes, when you do internet shopping regularly in India. It is free, it encompasses over 100 stores, and the price tracking is a fact. Never fully trust it—go and verify the cost and quantity of the store page, then get it.

Amazon exclusive customers can use Buyhatke with Keepa to get greater history, though on Indian multi-store shopping, Buyhatke is a good option.

Yes, download it, and set some alerts and then see whether those prices of the so-called mega sale are huge. You might be surprised.