Jill Cataldo

That is great information! Thank you so much! I will definitely do the free trial for each one to see which one I like better.

Both of them provide similar services, which I think are invaluable when you're first starting out as a coupon shopper. They track the pricing cycles at your stores of choice, matching the coupons you need to cut those prices even more. If it's in an insert, they tell you which insert it's in, so you only cut what you need - ditto the printables & ecoupons - they'll show you which ones you need to print or load to correspond to each week's sales.

Planning a shopping trip with the help of a matchup site like these really reduces the amount of TIME spent couponing. They're going to break down not only the "hottest" deals of the week but -all- of them. If you need detergent this week, even if it's not a super-hot deal, you'll find the percentage of savings shown there and any coupon matchups.

I can click through a list in about ten minutes - print it, go cut the corresponding coupons and head to the store. Again - fastest, easiest way to do this in under an hour a week.

Both are "premium" list services in that they do charge a small weekly fee for access to their lists. Grocery Game charges $1.25 per week, per store, for the list. Savings Angel charges $5 per week for all of their stores' lists, nationwide.

Strengths and weaknesses:

Grocery Game Strengths: They have a paid team of listmakers scouring the stores for unadvertised and clearance sales in addition to doing matchups on what's in the ad. It's rare that you don't know about something that's unadvertised. Their listmakers are also very good about posting when coupons in the store line up to sales (blinkies, tearpads, etc.) They have lots of online tools for tracking your total savings over the course of a year if you like to keep track of that kind of info. They have lists for Canada, and you can also translate their site into Spanish.

Grocery Game Weaknesses: They are only matching the insert coupons, plus Coupons.com, SmartSource and Redplum printables. They do not do matchups for All You Magazine, nor do they typically post links to say, a printable coupon on Lysol's website that lines up to a sale. They also redesigned their lists awhile back and the interface is kind of clunky. I used to be a big GG fan until the lists changed to black pages with white text. Now you have to click an item to see where the coupon for it is located, which takes longer -- the old design had the coupons' locations shown on the same screen as the name and price of the item. As far as which lists are available to you, you don't have the opportunity to subscribe to a store's list if it's not within a certain radius of your zip code -- I've heard from shoppers who live in Wisconsin but shop in Illinois, and they could not get access to the Illinois stores' lists because their zip code was "too far" from those stores.

Savings Angel Strengths: When you sign up, you get an "Angel" - a live person that you can talk to on the phone to help you understand how to use the lists and answer any questions that you have. You can also live-chat with an Angel. They are very good about finding every single printable coupon known that might match up to a current deal -- they match Coupons.com, SmartSource, RedPlum, Catalina's CouponNetwork, All You Magazine and again, printables from all the manufacturers' individual sites too. Their spreadsheets are very clean and easy to read - everything is on one page. People who travel a lot like that they have access to stores' lists around the country - if you want to see what's on sale at Publix this week in Florida, you can. They have meal-planning suggestions on their lists too if you meal-plan around what's on sale this week.

Savings Angel Weaknesses: Not quite as strong as GG on the unadvertised and in-store specials, though they still do a much better job than just matching on flyers alone. Grocery Game covers more stores nationally than Savings Angel does. Costs a little more if you only intend to shop in one store ($5/week vs. $1.25/week for one store's list at GG.)

Give either a try (or both?) and see which you like better!

Grocery Game | Savings Angel