Stop overpaying. PriceBuddy watches the price of anything you want to buy and tells you the moment it drops.

PriceBuddy is a free, open source, self-hostable price tracker. Add a product from almost any online store, and PriceBuddy will check the price for you every day, chart its history, and notify you when it hits the price you've been waiting for — all running on your own server, with your data staying yours.

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No waiting for someone to add support for your favourite retailer. If a store has a product page, PriceBuddy can almost certainly track it — out of the box or with a few clicks. Many popular stores work the moment you paste a link.

Bring your own AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or a local Ollama model) and let PriceBuddy lend a hand when a normal scrape struggles — it can recover a missing price straight from the page, and even repair or bootstrap a store's scraping rules for you. Entirely optional and off by default; PriceBuddy works great without it.

Track the same product across multiple retailers (or multiple listings on the same site, like eBay) and instantly see where it's cheapest right now.

Every price is recorded over time and charted, so you can see the lows, the highs, and the trend at a glance — and avoid a "sale" that isn't really a sale.

Set a target price or a price-drop threshold and let PriceBuddy do the watching. Alerts can reach you in the app, by email, or through Pushover, Gotify, Apprise, Telegram, Discord and ntfy — pick the ones you already use.

See whether the cheapest option is actually buyable. PriceBuddy detects in stock, pre-order, back order, special order, out of stock and discontinued so a tempting price on an unavailable item doesn't fool you.

Comparing a 3-pack against a 10-pack? PriceBuddy can show the price per unit, so a bigger box that's secretly worse value can't hide.

Connect your own SearXNG instance to search for products and add them to PriceBuddy without leaving the app.

Tag your products, filter your dashboard, and keep everything tidy — handy when you're tracking a lot of things at once.

Multi-user support means everyone in the household gets their own products, tags, settings and notification preferences.

A clean interface with light and dark mode that works great on your phone.

Open source and fully self-hostable. Run it on your own hardware and keep complete control of your data.

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All you need is Docker.

The easiest way is with docker-compose. Grab a copy of docker-compose.yml, tweak it to your liking, then run:

touch .env && docker compose up -d

With the defaults, the app is available at http://localhost:8080 — log in with admin@example.com / admin (change this straight away!).

See the installation guide for the full walkthrough and configuration options.

Other installation methods aren't recommended given the app's dependencies, but if you'd rather not use Docker, look through docker/php.dockerfile and docker-compose.yml to see what's required.

The Docker image has a cron job baked in that handles the background work — fetching prices on your schedule and sending notifications. Nothing extra to set up.

The most common settings live on the in-app settings page. A handful of advanced options can be set via the .env file. See the settings docs for details.

By default, affiliate codes are added to a couple of stores to support development of the project. Prefer not to? Set AFFILIATE_ENABLED=false in your .env or docker-compose file. If you do, please consider supporting the project in other ways.

PriceBuddy was largely inspired by Discount Bandit, a similar app that lacked the flexibility to use any store without code changes.

Contributions are welcome — please open an issue or a pull request.

PriceBuddy is built with Laravel and Filament, with a Lando-based dev environment (lando start). Coding standards (Pint), static analysis (PHPStan) and tests (Pest/PHPUnit) are enforced. See the development docs for the full setup.

Have a look here for ways to support the project.

See LICENSE.md for more information.

• Jeremy Graham