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See any product's real price history, spot fake discounts, and get notified the moment the price drops. Every "70% OFF" deserves a second look. Price History shows you what a product actually cost last week, last month and last year — right on the page you're already shopping on — so you can tell a real discount from a marked-up sticker. Open a product page on any supported store and a slim tab appears at the edge of the page. Click it and you get the whole story: the real price chart, a score out of 100 for today's price, an honest answer to "should I buy now or wait", and a one-click alert for the price you're actually willing to pay. Free. No ads. No affiliate links rewriting your cart. ───────────────────────────────────────────── THE PROBLEM WITH SALE PRICES ───────────────────────────────────────────── You've seen it. A product sits at ₹2,499 for weeks. A sale starts, the "MRP" jumps to ₹4,999, and the shiny new sale price is... ₹2,399. Struck-through numbers, a countdown timer, a red badge, and a discount that is worth exactly ₹100. The reverse happens too, and it's the more expensive mistake: a genuinely good price shows up on an ordinary Tuesday with no banner and no timer, you hesitate, and three days later it's back up ₹4,000. Neither of these is visible from the product page. The page only ever shows you today. Price History gives you the other axis — time — and once you can see it, most "deals" stop being convincing and a few quiet ones start looking urgent. ───────────────────────────────────────────── HOW IT WORKS ───────────────────────────────────────────── 1. Install it. There is no setup, no account and no configuration. 2. Shop the way you already do. On a supported store's product page, a slim tab appears at the right edge. It stays collapsed and silent until you want it. 3. Click it. The panel slides out with the full price history, the scores and the alert controls for that exact product. That's the whole interaction. If you never click the tab, the extension never puts anything in front of you. ───────────────────────────────────────────── WHAT YOU GET ───────────────────────────────────────────── THE REAL PRICE CHART An actual line chart of what this product has sold for, not a vague claim about savings. Switch between 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, or the product's entire tracked history with one tap. Below the chart, three numbers that answer most questions instantly: • Lowest price — the best it has ever been. This is your realistic target. • Average price — what it normally goes for. Anything near this is an ordinary day, whatever the banner says. • Highest price — the peak, and often the number a "discount" is being calculated against. Read those three against today's price and you already know more than the product page will ever tell you. DEAL SCORE, OUT OF 100 A single number for "is this actually a good price?", scored against everything this product has sold for, not against a sticker price the seller chose this morning. The score comes with a plain-English verdict — Great, Good, Fair or Weak — and a short line explaining what the number means for this particular product. A 78 on something that swings wildly means something different from a 78 on something that barely moves, and the verdict says so. GOOD TIME TO BUY? The question the chart doesn't quite answer. A gauge that swings between Wait and Buy, based on how this product's price has behaved historically. Then it goes one step further and projects: what does buying look like right now, in 15 days, and in 30 days? Switch between the three horizons and see whether waiting is likely to be rewarded or whether you're about to watch it climb. On products with a strong seasonal or sale-cycle pattern, this is the difference between paying the festival price and paying the pre-festival price. PRICE DROP ALERTS Set the price you're willing to pay and get a desktop notification the moment it's reached. Click the notification and it opens the product, ready to buy. The target box comes pre-filled with the lowest price ever recorded for that product — a small thing that changes how people use alerts. Instead of guessing a number, you can see what this item has genuinely gone for and set a target that will actually trigger, rather than one that sits there for eight months. Alerts survive browser restarts. Set it, forget it completely, and get told when it matters. BACK-IN-STOCK ALERTS For the one that sold out while you were reading reviews. One click on an out-of-stock product and you'll get a notification when it's buyable again — usually well before it turns up in any newsletter. IS IT CHEAPER SOMEWHERE ELSE? When the same product can be matched across stores, you get a card listing who else sells it and for how much, sorted cheapest first, with the best price called out. It's the comparison you'd otherwise do by opening five tabs and squinting at model numbers to check they're the same variant. This appears where a confident cross-store match exists — most often on electronics, phones, laptops and appliances, where model numbers make matching reliable. On clothing or unbranded goods it stays hidden rather than showing you a guess. YOUR ALERTS AND HISTORY, ONE CLICK AWAY The toolbar popup keeps everything in reach: every active alert with its target and current status, the products you've recently looked at so you can jump back to that thing you were comparing, and the full list of supported stores. ───────────────────────────────────────────── HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT DOESN'T KNOW ───────────────────────────────────────────── The Deal Score and the buy-timing gauge stay hidden until there are at least 45 days of genuine price history for a product. Not greyed out, not shown with a disclaimer — hidden. A confident-looking 92/100 built on four days of data is worse than showing nothing, because it's a real number that means nothing, and you'd have no way to tell. If you open something we've only just started tracking, the panel says exactly that: we just started tracking this product, the chart shows an estimated baseline, and history will build as it goes. Come back in a few weeks and it'll have filled in. We'd rather tell you we don't know yet than dress up a guess as an insight. ───────────────────────────────────────────── BUILT TO STAY OUT OF THE WAY ───────────────────────────────────────────── Most shopping extensions behave like they're the reason you opened the browser. This one doesn't. • The panel is collapsed until you click it. No pop-ups over the page, no auto-expanding sidebar, no coupon overlay covering the checkout button. • Drag the tab anywhere along the edge if it's sitting where you need to click. • Choose the panel width that suits your screen. • Light theme, dark theme, or follow your system automatically — including a properly dark dark mode, not a white panel with the brightness turned down. • Nothing is injected into the page's own layout. Your store looks exactly as it did. ───────────────────────────────────────────── WHERE IT WORKS ───────────────────────────────────────────── The extension runs on a fixed list of retail websites in India, the United States and Canada — large general marketplaces plus specialist stores for fashion and beauty, electronics and computing, furniture, kids' products, sport and books. You can see the exact list two ways, and both are more reliable than a list printed here: • The install prompt. Chrome shows you every website this extension can read before you accept it. There is no all-sites permission to hide behind. • The toolbar popup. It lists every currently supported store, and it updates as stores are added. How far back the history goes varies by store and by product — popular items on the big marketplaces have the deepest records. If a product isn't tracked yet, opening it starts tracking. Want a store added, or want to check whether yours is covered before installing? Ask at pricehistoryapp.com. Requests genuinely drive the list. ───────────────────────────────────────────── ESPECIALLY USEFUL DURING SALE SEASON ───────────────────────────────────────────── The big festival sales, the mid-year events, the end-of-season clearances. Sale events are exactly when price history matters most, because they're when the most aggressive framing comes out and when you're most likely to be deciding fast. Two things worth checking during a sale, both of which take about five seconds with the panel open: • Is today's price actually below the average, or is it just a big red number next to an inflated MRP? • Did this same item sell for less during the last sale? If it did, the Deal Score will say so — and the buy-timing gauge will tell you whether it's likely to go lower before the event ends. It's also the season for the reverse move: setting a price drop alert a week before a sale starts, at the price you'd genuinely pay, and letting the notification tell you when the sale actually reaches it. ───────────────────────────────────────────── AN ACCOUNT IS OPTIONAL ───────────────────────────────────────────── Everything above works without signing in. Charts, scores, comparisons, alerts — all free, no account. Sign in only if you want: • Your alerts to follow you to your other computers • The same alerts in the Price History mobile app on Android and iOS • Your list to survive a browser reinstall Signing in takes a few seconds with Google, or with an email address and a 4-digit code we send you. ───────────────────────────────────────────── WHAT THIS EXTENSION DOES NOT DO ───────────────────────────────────────────── Worth stating plainly, because plenty of shopping extensions do all of these: • It does not rewrite your links with affiliate tags or quietly claim credit for purchases you'd have made anyway. • It does not inject ads, banners, sponsored products or "recommended for you" tiles into the pages you're browsing. • It does not sell your browsing history. • It does not read pages on sites outside the supported store list. There is no all-sites permission — check the install prompt and you'll see exactly which retailers it can access. • It does not download or run remote code. Everything that executes is in the package Chrome verified. ───────────────────────────────────────────── PRIVACY, IN PLAIN ENGLISH ───────────────────────────────────────────── To show you the history of a product, the extension has to know which product you're looking at. So on a supported store page it reads the product's identifier, name, price and stock status, and asks our servers for the history of that item. That's the mechanism, and there isn't a way to offer this feature without it. What that means in practice: • On non-supported sites the extension does nothing at all — it isn't loaded there. • Your alerts, recently-viewed list and theme preference are stored in your browser. • If you create an account, we hold your email address so we can deliver alert notifications and sync across your devices. • We don't sell data to third parties or use it for anything unrelated to showing prices and delivering your alerts. The full policy lives at pricehistoryapp.com. ───────────────────────────────────────────── ALSO AVAILABLE ───────────────────────────────────────────── • Price History for Android and iOS — the same alerts on your phone, so the notification reaches you when you're not at your desk. • A Telegram channel of hand-picked deals and coupons, if you like your discounts delivered rather than hunted. Both are linked from the extension's popup. ───────────────────────────────────────────── FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ───────────────────────────────────────────── Is it free? Yes. Charts, scores, cross-store comparison and unlimited alerts are all free. Do I have to create an account? No. Everything works signed out. An account only adds cross-device sync and mobile app access. Where does the price data come from? From our own tracking of supported stores over time, held on our servers. That's why history can go back much further than the day you installed the extension. Why does one product have two years of history and another have none? Because tracking started at different times for different products. Popular items on major marketplaces have the deepest records. A product nobody has ever opened starts its history the day someone does. Why can't I see the Deal Score on this product? Because there isn't enough real history for it yet — the threshold is 45 days. It'll appear once there's enough data to make the number mean something. How accurate is the "good time to buy" projection? It's a projection from past behaviour, not a promise. Products with a clear pattern — regular sale cycles, steady seasonal moves — are the ones it reads best. Treat it as informed guidance, alongside the chart. Will my alert still work if I close the browser? Yes. Alerts live on our servers, not in your tab. Close everything; the notification still arrives when it triggers. How quickly do alerts fire? As soon as we see the drop in our tracking. It isn't a live per-second feed of every store, so treat it as prompt rather than instantaneous. Can I set an alert above the current price? You can set any target you like, but the point of the pre-filled lowest-ever price is to help you pick a number that will realistically trigger. Does it work on mobile Chrome? Chrome on Android doesn't support extensions. Use the Price History mobile app instead — and sign in so your alerts are already there. Does it slow down the pages I'm browsing? No. The panel loads after the page has finished, stays collapsed, and doesn't fetch anything until you open it. Does it work on a store that isn't in the supported list? Not yet. The panel only appears on the stores shown in the install prompt and the toolbar popup. Tell us which store you want and it goes on the list. Why does it need permission to read those retail sites? To identify the product you're viewing. Without reading the page there's no way to know which item's history to show. The permission is limited to the listed retailers. I found a wrong price on the chart. What now? Tell us at pricehistoryapp.com with the product link. Bad data points get investigated and corrected. Is my browsing history being sold? No. See the privacy section above. Something's broken — where do I report it? pricehistoryapp.com. Bug reports, missing stores and feature requests all land in the same place and all get read. ───────────────────────────────────────────── GETTING THE MOST OUT OF IT ───────────────────────────────────────────── • Check the Lowest price before you check the discount badge. It reframes everything else on the page. • Set alerts early and generously. There's no limit, they cost nothing to leave running, and the good ones fire months later when you've forgotten about them. • On expensive items, look at the 1-year chart, not the 1-month. A month of data hides the annual sale cycle that decides how much you actually pay. • Before a big sale, set your target at the last sale's low. If the new sale can't beat it, you'll know to skip it. • On electronics, always open the other-stores card. Identical model numbers routinely sit ₹3,000–₹8,000 apart on the same day. ───────────────────────────────────────────── Know the real price. Install Price History and stop taking the discount badge's word for it. pricehistoryapp.com