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title: "Sainsbury's SmartShop - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United Kingdom | Apple App Store"
description: "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 rea"
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# Sainsbury's SmartShop — United Kingdom
> Scan & Bag as You Go

![Sainsbury's SmartShop App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/50/6d/d3/506dd3c3-dcff-ceed-da1c-1985ea2940d5/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-6-0-85-220.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Sainsbury's](https://apptail.io/developer/sainsburys-DcK) (United Kingdom)
**Category:** Shopping
**Rating:** 4.8/5 (204,571 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** com.sainsburys.ssa
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United Kingdom
**Version:** 3.43.0 (released 2026-09-17)
**Original Release:** 2015-09-21
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/app/id976551005)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/sainsburys-smartshop-TCg/united-kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/sainsburys-smartshop-TCg/united-kingdom)

## Sainsbury's SmartShop Description
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  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.

## Sainsbury's SmartShop Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple126/v4/bb/bb/93/bbbb936c-a161-3d94-e28e-af882850a2a0/mzl.gbfqocea.png/1125x2436.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple116/v4/9f/d4/e4/9fd4e4c6-6d05-7f5f-6d0c-fe3b2148c8af/mzl.vgjlbfle.png/1125x2436.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple126/v4/7a/5e/75/7a5e7514-f9ac-9257-9086-546512dde3d9/mzl.wsalujml.png/1125x2436.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple116/v4/a5/8f/7a/a58f7ae5-112f-42f4-b0eb-74707406bd2a/mzl.rljsppwd.png/1125x2436.png)

## Sainsbury's SmartShop Rating Breakdown in United Kingdom
- 5 stars: 176,184 (86%)
- 4 stars: 16,661 (8%)
- 3 stars: 5,140 (3%)
- 2 stars: 1,850 (1%)
- 1 stars: 4,736 (2%)

## Sainsbury's SmartShop Reviews in United Kingdom

### *---- "Mrs McG"
Absolutely awful experience will never do again
-- toosngry, 2025-01-04

### *---- "Doesn’t Work!"
Just keeps telling me their ‘server’ is down for the last 24 hours - waste of time!
-- martin808518, 2025-01-03

### *---- "App won’t work"
Keep trying to register but keep getting the message that there is a server issue. Have been trying for two weeks but it still will not work
-- Trying12!, 2024-12-31

### *---- "Great at first, no longer works"
Noticed about a week ago that the app had completely stopped working. It launches fine and all my data appears, but when I tap on the “start a shop” screen command the app thinks for a sec as though loading my nearest Sainsbury’s smart shop location (as it usually does), but then does nothing after that. No amount of tries makes a diff. I’ve resorted to using the store’s own hand held scanners which are a bit fiddly, not to mention the irritating beep that sounds after every product is scanned. 

Devs, PLEASE FIX THIS APP asap. In the meantime how about you let users know what the heck is going on and, more importantly, what’s being done as a proper fix? Cheers.
-- taptaptaptsp, 2024-12-28

### *---- "Stopped working."
Used to work fine but now it doesn’t work at all.
-- Jowwns, 2024-12-23

### *---- "👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻"
Is the person who wrote this app clueless? It can't even automatically recognize my Nectar app card! How am I supposed to scan a virtual card? And when I try to manually enter the card number, it keeps showing an error. It's so frustrating!
-- iicchhtt, 2024-12-22

### *---- "App does not work"
Tried repeatedly to register my nectar card on the App. Keeps saying server issue. This has gone in for days. Sainsbury’s are no help at all. Waste of time. This sums the inefficiency and incompetence that defines Sainsbury’s.
-- James the Teamy, 2024-12-22

### *---- "No longer works"
Was working fine and then suddenly decided that I needed to rescan my Nectar card which it claims is registered to someone else. Bit of a shame as it was handy for the quick shop.
-- sapsfm, 2024-12-21

### *---- "Machine"
Time to go back to humans in supermarkets
-- Cross shopper 1970, 2024-12-20

### ***** "Great App"
Love the app been using for a long time now makes shopping so much easier and quicker. One suggestion would to be able to create more than 1 shopping list like some of the other shopping apps
-- Hullsue, 2024-12-18

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## Sainsbury's SmartShop Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Free | United Kingdom | Shopping | #240 |

## Sainsbury's SmartShop Discovered Keywords
- nectar card
- nectar points
- nectar
- nectar card app
- scan and bag
- scan and go sainsburys
- sainsbury's smartshop
- nectar app
- sainsburys stock app
- scan and shop

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## Sainsbury's SmartShop Available In
- [United Kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/sainsburys-smartshop-TCg/united-kingdom)
- [United States](https://apptail.io/app/sainsburys-smartshop-TCg/united-states)
- [Hong Kong SAR China](https://apptail.io/app/sainsburys-smartshop-TCg/hong-kong)
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- [France](https://apptail.io/app/sainsburys-smartshop-TCg/france)
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