Karma | Shopping but better

All I wanted this app for is to get notified on deals. Got a sage bambino plus saved and get notified every so often saying it’s on sale for £200 but it in reality it is on for £399. If you go to the page you can tell it’s getting the wrong price, instead of getting the sale price it gets the cash back amount which is up to £200. It’s really not that difficult to check the price programmatically especially with AI to get it more accurate. I would code something up but I am too lazy.

I’ve been using this app for ages and it was always so good and worked so well, but since January 2024 it’s been notifying me about sales that simply don’t exist. It’ll tell me an item I saved is on sale for a massive (too good to be true) discount, when it’s not. I go to the website to check it out and it’s always still full price or out of stock. It makes it impossible to use the app now, which is such a shame.

Regularly gets the price very wrong or tells me something is on sale/back in stock when it’s not and is actually discontinued. It’s kinda the apps only job so pointless if they can’t get it right.

Initially this app was amazing! Alerts would land the second items went on sale and I got amazing bargains. However this last year it’s gone downhill. Alerts are often days after items have gone on sale (I discovered them myself rather than via the app), the icon often won’t disappear even after I’ve opened the app, and then we have the pointless ‘you may also like these things’ addition. No, I don’t like those things as they are nothing like what I am saving. Please return to the old days when this app was amazing!

Feed full of things I didn’t save which should not be the first thing I see when I open a personal wish list app and lots of dark ux patterns like the new notification icon which will not go away.

Christmas sales happened, and Karma didn’t bother to notify me of ANY price drops for the items on my saved list. Totally useless.

False advertising

If zero stars could be given… This app used to be good sending alerts when items went on sale. It slowly became unusable. Alerts were always sent after items were out of stock and now it has become a waste of time as it has further gone downhill and there are no longer notification alerts. Better off doing a check for your items without this useless app. It is no longer the app it used to be. Will be deleting it.

Coupons for US stores, no detail on the coupon eg just says “10% off at John Lewis” when that is for specific merchandise types only, directs to US stores not UK stores, wild claims of savings that don’t exist. These kinds of scam apps need for better legislation around them.

The app is basically useless. It only collect your data according to your clicks and many other elements and share it with other parties. Basically it does not do anything, it only collects your data. The process of removing your account is also difficult. It has a section and a button to delete your account but the page does not load anything when you press delete account button. Don't share your personal data for no reason.