Best Price Tracker for UK Stores in 2026

Most price trackers were built for Amazon. That works fine if you do all your shopping at amazon.co.uk. The reality is most UK shoppers don't. You buy clothes at John Lewis or Next, electronics at Currys or Argos, beauty at Cult Beauty or Boots, homeware at Wayfair or Dunelm. The big-name price trackers — CamelCamelCamel, Keepa, Honey — either ignore those stores entirely or treat them as second-class citizens.

This is a comparison of the four price-tracking tools UK shoppers actually run into in 2026: Market Arc, CamelCamelCamel, Keepa, and Honey. The goal isn't to declare a single winner — each has a use case. The goal is to help you pick the one that matches where you actually shop.

CamelCamelCamel

The original. CamelCamelCamel has been tracking Amazon prices since 2008 and remains the most-recognised name in the category. It's free, supports amazon.co.uk, and shows you historical price charts going back years. If you live on Amazon, it's still excellent.

The catch is in the name — it's Camel, not Camel and Friends. CCC tracks Amazon and only Amazon. If you want to know whether the John Lewis price for a Dyson is better than Currys, CCC has nothing for you. Its browser extension (The Camelizer) only activates on Amazon URLs. The website's "browse" tab only lists Amazon ASINs.

CCC is also showing its age. The interface is functional but dated, the price-drop email alerts are slow to arrive, and the alert logic is rigid — small percentage changes get treated identically to large ones, so a 50p drop on a £400 product will fire the same notification as a £100 drop.

Best for: UK shoppers who buy almost exclusively from Amazon UK and want long-term price history.

Keepa

Keepa is what serious Amazon resellers use. It also covers Amazon only, but its data is deeper than CCC's — granular price history (often hour-by-hour), Buy Box tracking, sales rank graphs, and a paid API for resellers and arbitrage tools. The free browser extension is excellent on Amazon product pages, embedding charts directly into the listing.

For UK consumers (not resellers), Keepa is overkill. The free tier covers price drop tracking on amazon.co.uk well, but the interface assumes you understand Amazon-seller terminology. Phrases like "Buy Box winner", "FBA price", and "Marketplace 3rd party" appear without explanation. If your goal is "tell me when this kettle gets cheaper", Keepa shows you twelve charts and three paid upsells before answering the question.

Like CCC, Keepa stops at amazon.co.uk. Currys, John Lewis, Argos, Next — none are tracked. Even Amazon-adjacent UK retailers like AbeBooks (also owned by Amazon) aren't covered.

Best for: Amazon resellers, arbitrage hunters, and people who want extremely granular Amazon price data.

Honey

Honey is owned by PayPal and is best known as a coupon-code finder. It does have a price-drop watch feature — "Droplist" — but tracking is a side feature, not the main product. Coverage is broader than CCC or Keepa (it works on more UK retailers), but the alert quality is inconsistent.

Two things to know about Honey in 2026. First, it has had public scrutiny over how its browser extension handles affiliate attribution — independent reporting in late 2024 raised concerns about coupon and tracking-cookie behaviour, and PayPal has disputed parts of that reporting. The product still ships, but a chunk of users uninstalled. Second, Honey's price-drop alerts are tuned for US retailers; UK pricing on the same product can lag by hours or days, and currency mismatches occasionally appear in alerts.

Best for: Coupon hunting more than price tracking. Worth installing for the codes; less reliable as a UK price tracker.

Market Arc

Market Arc is the one we built, so treat this section as biased — but the facts are checkable. Market Arc tracks 120+ UK retailers, including all the categories the Amazon-only trackers ignore: department stores (John Lewis, Selfridges), big-box (Currys, Argos, AO), fashion (Next, End Clothing, River Island), beauty (Cult Beauty, Space NK, Lookfantastic), homeware (Wayfair, Dunelm, Made), and a long tail of specialist UK retailers.

The free tier tracks 3 products with no time limit. Pro+ at £9.99/month tracks 25, and a Business tier at £49.99/month adds 100 intelligence slots and competitor tracking for retailers monitoring rivals.

Two features that genuinely don't exist in the alternatives:

1. Target price alerts that actually trigger. You set "alert me when this drops to £49.99" and Market Arc emails you the moment it hits that price. Combined with a 2% minimum drop threshold and a £1 floor, you don't get spammed with 50p fluctuations on an £8 lipstick.
2. Out-of-stock detection. Market Arc detects when a tracked product goes out of stock and stops checking until it's manually reviewed — keeping your alert history clean.

The honest weaknesses: Market Arc doesn't have CCC's 15-year price history archive (we've been live since 2025), and a handful of UK retailers with aggressive bot protection (Boots, Wilko, Adidas UK) are extension-only — the server can't auto-scrape them, so you have to keep the extension installed and visit the page for a refresh.

Best for: UK shoppers who buy from more than just Amazon and want target-price alerts that actually work.

Side-by-side

How to choose

If you only shop on Amazon UK, install CamelCamelCamel for free history charts and Keepa if you want the granular data. There's no need to pay for either as a consumer.

If you shop across UK retailers (John Lewis, Currys, Argos, Next, Wayfair, and the long tail), the Amazon-only trackers don't cover most of what you buy — install Market Arc for the 120+ store coverage, target price alerts, and Slack & webhook alerts. The free tier handles 3 products if you only want to watch a couple of big-ticket items.

If you mostly want coupon codes at checkout, Honey still works for that — just don't rely on it for serious price tracking.

The right answer for most UK shoppers is Market Arc plus CCC: Market Arc for everywhere you actually shop, CCC for deep Amazon history when you're researching a specific item.