About HomeGadgets.ca
A made-in-Canada price comparison platform for home electronics such as TVs, kitchen and laundry appliances, laptops, mirrorless cameras, vacuums and more.
We track prices across Canada’s major retailers — Best Buy, Visions, Leon’s, The Brick, RONA, Newegg, Canada Computers, and more — so you can find the best price before you buy.
What is covered?
TVs, soundbars, laptops, monitors, home and laundry appliances including fridges, freezers, cooktops, wall ovens, ranges, dishwashers, microwaves, range hoods, washers, dryers, vacuum cleaners, unlocked phones, headphones/earbuds, cameras (mirrorless, DSLR, compact, action / 360), as well as lenses. More categories may come soon. There are well over 10,000 unique SKUs we track from more than 100 brands across 60+ retailers - and growing!
Why I Built It?
The state of price comparison in Canada is nothing short of a horror show. Traditional parties who did it have stopped updating their sites for up to 10 years, leaving search engines to do the work. The problem with that is that when you search for a product on shopping sections of search engines, you get presented first with the one that paid to be shown to you, not necessarily the one that has the cheapest price. So, the intent was to create an up to date transparent and unbiased methodology to compare prices on big ticket items you are clearly shopping for, without favouring those who pay most to be on your face. It currently does not run ads and placement is organized by price in ascending order – and when equal, in alphabetical order.
After running this site for a few months, I noticed hundreds of examples when the very same item can have price discrepancies of hundreds if not thousands of dollars, so shopping around is made easier.
What works best today, what still needs serious amount of work (as of June 2026)
Home Appliances, TVs, cameras, lenses, etc. have solid cross retailer coverage and most important, are categories that are “easier” to normalize and compare 1:1 with over 95% certainty. Other categories such as laptops are harder to match since there are countless retailer specific SKUs that may differ on minor configuration differences (RAM, storage, screen resolution/type, battery capacity, processor and so on). The plan is to have as many these kinks worked out later this year (remember, I am doing this in my free time).
How this started?
The genesis of this was a research program to understand web data extraction at scale while developing machine intelligence to uniquely match SKUs based on all available information that is not always complete and/or fully accurate. You will think that matching SKUs should be as simple as using the Manufacturer’s Part/Product Number (MPN) or a UPC code, but you will be surprised how hidden or unavailable that information is.
Most prices on this site are updated multiple times a week. The target is to do it at least daily by year end while all the catalog formation algorithms are properly cemented.
Privacy by design
HomeGadgets will never ask you for your email or know anything about you (other than which city you are coming from assuming you agree to be tracked by Google’s GA4 cookies when you first visit the site). This is a deliberate choice. Unless of course you want me to contact you, in which case you will fill out a contact form.
What is the roadmap
Catalog normalization. This has been the hardest cookie to chew so far, so the plan is to have the methodologies in place so we can capture the next major release of OEM products early next year (they are usually announced during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January every year).
Over the summer months the plan is to release privacy friendly tools to help you snipe and/or track set or best prices on items of interest to you. Stay tuned!
Built in Canada. Built for Canadians!
HomeGadgets.ca is independently built and operated by me, Rodrigo Madriz, from Toronto, Ontario. I do this in my free time.
Questions? Visit homegadgets.ca/contact