bide.

Watching

The app that waits
with you.

Bide keeps a quiet gallery of the things you want, and watches what they cost — at the store you found them, and across the other Australian stores that sell the same thing. It says nothing — until one genuinely drops.

The Bide gallery — a quiet, dark grid of saved things: a wool coat, a chronograph watch whose price has genuinely dropped (glowing amber), over-ear headphones, a leather bag.

Coming to the App Store

or read how it watches

What we left out

Everything this category
usually does, we didn't build.

  • No streaks. Nothing dies if you skip a day. Bide isn't a habit to maintain.
  • No countdowns. A price isn't more true because a clock is ticking underneath it.
  • No confetti. No mascots, no "Don't wait — download now." When something drops, we say so once, and stop talking.
  • No pop-ups. A price surfaces when it means something — never mid-checkout, never because it's convenient for us.
  • No fake sales. "Was $199, now $149" isn't a drop if it was never really $199. Bide only counts prices it has actually seen. A store's own "usually" price is shown as context — it can never trigger an alert.

What's left is a gallery, and a light that only comes on when it's real.

See it work

The whole app is this quiet.

Real screens, nothing staged. An item keeps a plain record, a photo becomes a watch, and the light only comes on when a price is genuinely low.

A wool coat's detail screen: its price history drawn as a thin densitometer strip with one amber point, its usual price of $699, and the same coat found for $519 at another store.
Its record — price history as a quiet strip, the store's usual price for context, and the same thing found cheaper elsewhere. Named honestly, matched carefully.
A photographed pair of over-ear headphones filling the detail screen, now being watched.
Photograph the thing itself. Bide identifies it and starts watching the real listing. Point, shoot, watched.
The drop moment: a leather bag glowing in an amber frame, dropped to $599 — saving $241 after 12 days of waiting.
Then a price genuinely drops, and the print comes up — once, in amber. If you see amber, it's real money.

The moment

The print comes up.

New items arrive underexposed — a quiet, low-contrast trace of the thing you want. Bide watches its price in the dark. Nothing happens, for as long as nothing should.

One soft notification. Then silence again.

Amber has one meaning in Bide. It appears only for a verified drop on the exact product you're watching — and the price is checked once more, the moment before you're told. If you see amber, it's real money.

How Bide watches

What happens after you add something.

You addPaste a link, share from Safari, or photograph the thing itself. From a photo, Bide identifies the product and suggests real listings it can watch — you confirm the right one. It never guesses on your behalf.
It watchesBide reads the retailer's own product page on a schedule — hourly on Premium, daily on Free — and keeps what it finds as a plain record. No third-party price feed, no estimates.
It matchesIt also looks for the same item at other Australian stores. Exact product only: model codes, pack sizes, and variant wording all have to agree — and the details you've confirmed, like colour or model, are treated as facts. Unsure is shown as a quiet possible match for you to confirm; unsure never alerts.
It speaksOne notification when something real happens: a genuine low, your target price met, or the same item verified cheaper at another store. Checked once more before it's sent. Then silence again.

Across the stores Australians actually shop.

Woolworths  ·  Coles  ·  Chemist Warehouse  ·  Bunnings  ·  BIG W  ·  Myer  ·  David Jones  ·  JB Hi‑Fi  ·  The Good Guys  ·  Amazon AU  ·  The Iconic  ·  Kogan

…and most stores with a product page, including the small ones. When a store makes itself hard to read, Bide says so on the item — "Having trouble reading this store — still trying." — instead of showing you a stale price with confidence.

Widgets

A contact print for your Home Screen — your gallery, small and silent. Lock Screen too.

Siri & Shortcuts

"Add this to Bide." Add, open, and check your watches without opening the app.

The week, counted

Each Sunday, a quiet card in your gallery: what waiting saved you this week. Realised savings only — never projections.

Some retailer links Bide shows you are affiliate links, and we may earn a small commission if you buy through one. It never changes what we show you, or when we tell you a price dropped.

Pricing

One price, stated once.

FeatureFreePremium
Watches5Unlimited
Price checksDailyHourly
Other-store matchingIncludedIncluded
AlertsGenuine drops onlyGenuine drops only
PriceFreeA$6.99/mo or A$59/yr

A$59 a year is about A$4.92 a month. No trial countdown, no bigger price crossed out to make this one look generous — this is what it costs.

Before you ask

Questions, answered plainly.

How often does Bide actually check a price?

Once a day on the free plan, once an hour on Premium. Bide reads the retailer's own product page — the same page you'd see — and records what it finds. No third-party pricing feed, no estimate. Once a day it also looks across other Australian stores for the same item.

What counts as a "genuine" drop?

The current price has to be the lowest Bide has actually observed for that item in the last 90 days — a real market low, not a manufactured "was $199, now $149." If you've set your own target price and it's been met, we say that too, and we're plain about which of the two it is. A store's own "was" price appears as quiet context — "usually $699" — and can never trigger an alert by itself.

How does Bide know it's the same product at another store?

A match has to earn its way in. Model codes, pack counts, and variant wording all have to agree, the link has to actually work, and anything you've confirmed about your item — colour, model, size — is treated as fact. When Bide is confident, the other listing simply appears under your item. When it isn't sure, you see a quiet possible match to confirm or dismiss — and an unsure match can never send an alert.

What happens when I add something from a photo?

The photo is used once: it's sent to Anthropic, the AI provider we use to recognise the product, then it isn't stored by Bide and isn't used to train anything. Nothing else in your photo library is touched. You'll see this in a plain consent screen the first time you use it — never a buried toggle. Bide then suggests real listings it can watch, and you confirm the right one.

What if a store can't be read?

Some stores make themselves hard for software to read. Bide keeps trying on its schedule and tells you plainly on the item — "Having trouble reading this store — still trying." — rather than showing a stale price with confidence. Honest silence over confident guessing, everywhere in the app.

What's the difference between Free and Premium?

Free watches 5 items, checks once a day, and alerts on genuine drops only. Premium watches as many as you like and checks every hour, for A$6.99/mo or A$59/yr. Nothing about how honest an alert is changes between the two.

Are the retailer links honest?

Some are affiliate links, and we may earn a small commission if you buy through one. It never changes what we show you or when we tell you a price dropped — the part of Bide that decides "is this a genuine drop" has no way of knowing whether a link pays us.

What do you do with my data?

Only what it takes to watch the items you've saved. No ads, no selling your data, no advertising profile built on you. The full detail is in the Privacy Policy.

Worth waiting for.

Bide is coming to iPhone.

Coming to the App Store