About HomeGadgets.ca

20,000+ Products Tracked|140+ Retailers|130+ Top Brands

A made-in-Canada price-comparison platform for home electronics such as TVs, kitchen and laundry appliances, laptops, monitors, mirrorless/DSLR/compact/action-360 cameras, lenses, vacuums, unlocked smartphones, headphones/earbuds, and more coming soon. We track prices across a growing list of Canada's major retailers so you can find the best price before you buy. We rank offers by price (and alphabetically in case of ties), never by who pays to be in your face.

Which retailers are covered?

At this point, the list is updated weekly. It currently includes Best Buy, Walmart, Costco, Canadian Tire, Visions, Leon's, The Brick, RONA, Newegg, Canada Computers, Memory Express, and many more regional retailers. Right now it tracks prices from 141 retailers and brand stores with a price observed in the last 30 days, across 130+ brands such as Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense, Apple, HP, Lenovo, Whirlpool, Electrolux, Dyson, MSI, Bosch, TCL, Asus, Acer, Bose and JVC. Tracked unique SKUs are now over 20,000, of which 12,000+ have a live offer and can be opened today. Every one of those figures comes from one place, see the methodology page for exactly how each one is counted. HomeGadgets already covers anywhere between 60% and 95% of retail volume depending on the category, making it an authoritative source for the best prices on items where Canadians spend over $20B a year.

Amazon is not one of them. We do not collect or compare Amazon prices, and no price you see on HomeGadgets comes from Amazon. What we show on some products is a plain search link to Amazon.ca so you can check it yourself, it is an affiliate link, it carries no price from us, and it never affects how offers are ranked.

Why I built it?

The initial question was: is there a website, app or tool I can use to find the best prices for consumer electronics in Canada? The short answer was no. Nothing like what HomeGadgets is today. Many price-comparison sites have come and gone. Shopbot, PriceGrabber, etc. were ok-ish for their time, but they have not been updated in ages. One-off "deal" sites are great if what you are looking for is exactly that deal.

If you think search engines are the answer, think again. They show you either who paid them to be shown to you, or who has the best search-engine optimization. Not necessarily the cheapest. And then AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and others happen to also rely on SEO rankings to source information they consider "true". That may be great if only a handful of shops sell that very thing you are after, but if it is available from dozens of them, things break apart quickly.

After running the site for a few months, I've seen hundreds of cases where the exact same item differs by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars between retailers. So, shopping around pays.

Where it's heading

Two things. First, catalog normalization across the retail universe (the hardest part so far), solid enough to capture large seasonal waves of OEM launches (post-CES Las Vegas, IFA Berlin, Computex Taipei, etc.). Second, and the part I'm most excited about: moving from "prices last seen on…" toward verified best-price-now, fetched the moment you ask (already in beta testing). Additionally, there is an MCP server connector you can add to your favourite AI tools, and an API for enterprises seeking market intelligence or other services.

If you are here for the business side of that, the API, the MCP server, pricing intelligence and bulk data are all described on the enterprise page.

Over the coming months I'll also release privacy-friendly tools to help you snipe and track target or best prices on the items you care about.

The goal is Canadian retail data clean and current so that software, an agent shopping on your behalf, can actually act on it. Stay tuned.

Most prices are refreshed several times a week today, moving to at least daily by year-end as the catalog algorithms settle.

New, open-box, refurbished and marketplace offers

The main price table shows new items sold by the retailer itself. That is the comparison, and it is the only thing that sets the best price we show.

Where a retailer also lists an open-box or refurbished unit, or where a third-party marketplace seller lists an item through a retailer we track, we show those separately, in their own table below the main one, each labelled with what it is. They are never mixed into the main comparison and never counted as the best price, because they are not the same purchase. Condition, warranty, returns and delivery terms differ, and you should confirm them with the seller before buying. Marketplace offers are off by default. You choose to see them.

Privacy by design

HomeGadgets will never ask for your email or track who you are beyond which city you're in, and only if you accept Google's GA4 cookies on your first visit. That's deliberate. The only exception is if you choose to contact me, in which case you fill out a form.

Built in Canada, for Canadians

HomeGadgets.ca is independently built and operated by me, Rodrigo Madriz, from Toronto, Ontario, in my free time. Questions? Visit homegadgets.ca/contact.