Where we stand, before anything else. We make reward apps that compete with Fetch directly — this is the sharpest conflict of interest on this site, and it belongs in the first paragraph rather than a footnote. 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. The comparison that does not flatter us is made further down, and this page does not conclude that you should install ours.
Nothing. Fetch costs no money, and this is the rare page in this format with no price to go looking for — no subscription, no tier, no trial converting into a charge. What makes it worth a page anyway is that Fetch charges something else and puts it in writing, which is more than most apps that do the same thing 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 is the whole of the money question, and it is worth saying plainly that a free app with no in-app purchases is the good case. Nine of the ten pages in this format exist because a price was hard to find. This one does not.
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.”
Read that as the price rather than as a warning, because that is what it is. Fetch is not funded by you; it is funded by brands who want to know what people buy, and the receipts are the product. The terms are unusually direct about this, and the same document is equally 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”.
Both halves are Fetch’s own words, and holding them together is the honest summary of the exchange: what you hand over is described by field, and what you receive is described as having no value. That is not an accusation — it is close to how every points program on earth is drafted, for reasons that are about contract law rather than generosity. It is simply the clearest statement of the trade anyone in this category publishes.
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, and that word is doing real work. Optional means the app functions without them, which means a reader who cares can decline the location and the email connection and still scan receipts. An app that itemizes its collection this finely has also, unavoidably, told you which parts you can refuse — which is the practical use of a data declaration and almost the only one.
The cost nobody counts
238.7 MB, per Apple’s listing on 18 September 2026. Storage is the forgotten line in every “is it worth it” calculation, and on a phone that is nearly full, or on a metered connection, a download that size is a genuine cost with a number attached. We mention it because it is published and checkable, which is the only kind of number this site prints.
What Fetch does better than us
Two things, and the first one is not close.
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.
Where ours differ is narrower than the marketing on either side would suggest: our apps do not read your receipts or your purchase history, and our coins sit on your device rather than in an account. That is a difference in what is collected, not a claim to be better value, and on value the paragraph above stands.
So what does it actually cost
No money, 238.7 MB of storage, and your shopping data shared with participating brands — each of those three stated by Fetch or by a store Fetch publishes through, none of them inferred by us. Whether that is a good trade is a question about how you feel about the third item, and it is one you can now answer with the numbers in front of you, which is the only thing this page set out to do.
- App Store — Fetch: Receipts for Gift Cards, 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