Where we stand. We make reward apps that compete with Fetch directly — so read everything below knowing that. We also publish a review of Fetch and an apps like Fetch page, and ours is not first on either. There is no affiliate link here and we take no referral fee from Fetch. Where Fetch beats us is spelled out further down, and nothing here ends by pointing you at ours.
Nothing. Fetch costs no money, and it is the rare subject here with no price to go looking for — no subscription, no tier, no trial converting into a charge. Fetch charges something else, though, and puts it in writing, which most apps that do the same thing never manage.
What Fetch charges in money
All of these were read on 18 September 2026, in the US, signed out and without the app installed.
| Surface | What it says about price |
|---|---|
| App Store listing | “Free”, with no In-App Purchases line at all. Publisher Fetch Rewards, LLC; 238.7 MB; rated 13+. |
| Terms of Service | No price. Describes rewards as available on a “no purchase necessary” basis. |
| fetch.com | No price, and no rate either. |
That settles the money question, and a free app with no in-app purchases is the good case.
The price Fetch does publish
It is in the Terms of Service, and it is one sentence:
“By using our App, website, and/or participating in our Program, you are directing Fetch Rewards to share your personal information you provide us by registering and earning rewards with all our participating brands.”
That sentence is the price. Brands who want to know what people buy fund Fetch, and the receipts are the product. The terms are unusually direct about this. The same document is as direct about what you get back. “Points have no cash, monetary, or other value, and cannot be redeemed in whole or in part for cash”, and users have “no property rights in Points”.
Put Fetch’s two statements side by side and you have the exchange: what you hand over is described by field, and what you receive is described as having no value. Nearly every points program on earth is drafted that way, for contract-law reasons, so this is no accusation. Nobody else in this category states the trade as clearly.
What the two stores itemize
Apple’s App Privacy panel declares ten categories as Data Linked to You: Health & Fitness, Purchases, Location, Contact Info, Contacts, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, Sensitive Info and Diagnostics. Identifiers are additionally declared as Data Used to Track You.
Google Play’s data safety page goes further and splits collected from shared. Declared as shared with third parties: name, email address, user IDs, address, phone number, purchase history, emails, photos, approximate location, precise location, fitness info, app interactions, in-app search history, installed apps and crash diagnostics.
Several of those are marked optional on Play. Optional means the app works without them, so you can decline the location and the email connection and still scan receipts. Itemizing collection this finely also tells you which parts you can refuse, and that is most of what a data declaration is good for.
The cost nobody counts
238.7 MB, per Apple’s listing on 18 September 2026. Storage gets left out of every “is it worth it” calculation. On a nearly full phone or a metered connection, a download that size costs you something, and Apple prints the number.
What Fetch does better than us
Two things, and Fetch wins the first easily.
Fetch pays more per action than our bonus ads do. At Fetch’s own figures — at least 25 points a scan, roughly 1,000 points to the dollar — a receipt is worth somewhere around two and a half cents. A bonus ad in one of our apps pays 3 to 9 coins, and ten coins is a penny. So ours is worth between three tenths and nine tenths of a cent. Scanning a receipt you already have beats watching one of our videos, on Fetch’s published numbers against ours.
Fetch publishes a rate at all. It is approximate and Fetch says so, but “1,000 Fetch Points are approximately worth $1” is a denominator, and most of this category never prints one. The full working is on our page about what Fetch pays, which also covers where Fetch has priced a point exactly.
The difference on our side is smaller than either side’s marketing suggests. Our apps do not read your receipts or your purchase history, and our coins sit on your device, not in an account. That is about what is collected. On value, the paragraph above stands.
So what does it cost
No money, 238.7 MB of storage, and your shopping data shared with participating brands. Fetch, or a store Fetch publishes through, states each of those. We didn’t infer any of them.
- App Store — Fetch: Earn Rewards Every Day, the price line, the In-App Purchases line, the size and the App Privacy panel
- Google Play — the Fetch data safety page, what is collected and what is shared
- Fetch Terms of Service — no property rights in Points, no cash value, and the direction to share your information with participating brands
- Fetch blog — “1,000 Fetch Points are approximately worth $1”, and the sentence saying that is an approximation
- Fetch blog — at least 25 points for every scan
- Fetch — the marketing home page, which names no rate