Buycott
For ethically-minded consumers and B2B developers seeking product metadata and corporate hierarchy data.
Snapshot
Who is Buycott?
Empowering consumers to align spending with personal values through corporate transparency and barcode scanning.
Target audience
Portfolio
Last updated
Buycott - Barcode Scanner & QR Bar Code Scanner
v3.1.5
8.9y ago
Publisher DNA
What defines Buycott?
Publisher DNA
Primary focus
Shopping advocacy and barcode data services
Scale
indie
Target audience
Ethically-minded consumers and B2B developers seeking product metadata and corporate hierarchy data.
Signature Patterns
- •Focus on corporate transparency and ethical consumerism
- •Monetization via upfront app purchase and B2B API licensing
- •Utilization of a massive proprietary UPC database with 642M+ records
- •Long-term cessation of mobile app development and maintenance
Portfolio momentum
The publisher has released 0 updates across its portfolio in the last 6 months, with its sole app last updated in February 2018.
Portfolio
What does Buycott ship?
Apps
1 app analysed
- The core concept of tracking corporate ownership and boycott campaigns remains highly relevant for conscious consumers
- Persistent application crashes and failure to load the barcode scanner render the software entirely non-functional
Distributed across 11 markets, strongest in Europe.
Based on 1 of 1 app with localized market data · last scanned .
Americas (3)
- Brazil1 / 1
- Mexico1 / 1
- United States1 / 1
Europe (6)
- France1 / 1
- Germany1 / 1
- Italy1 / 1
- Netherlands1 / 1
- Portugal1 / 1
›+1 more europe market
- Spain1 / 1
Asia-Pacific (2)
- Japan1 / 1
- South Korea1 / 1
Core markets (1/1 apps)
User Sentiment
How do users feel about their apps?
0
Positive apps
0
Neutral / mixed
1
Negative apps
15/100
Avg sentiment score
Rivals
Who does Buycott compete with?
The rivals identified
Same space(20)
Offers an economic resistance tool that ranks companies by complicity, serving the same value-aligned shopping demographic.
Targets the same ethical shopping audience by organizing global issues into structured campaign frameworks for informed decision-making.
Acts as a multi-purpose ethical shopping guide that combines barcode scanning with business lookups and lifestyle resources.
Provides a sustainability-focused scanner specifically for palm oil sourcing, serving a niche segment of the conscious consumer market.
Serves as a functional substitute for ethical brand research by offering both barcode scanning and manual search capabilities.
Targets the same ethical research audience but replaces barcode scanning with a visual-first workflow to identify products.
Focuses on price discovery across major retailers, serving the shopping utility aspect of Buycott without the ethical focus.
Provides ethical brand impact assessments as an alternative research tool for conscious consumers who find Buycott's barcode functionality non-functional.
Operates as an independent, ad-free ethical auditing tool for UK consumers, providing a neutral alternative to commercial scanners.
Provides a specialized inventory-focused scanning utility that emphasizes CSV export and stocktaking for professional users.
Provides a high-performance scanning engine that serves as a technical alternative for users who prioritize speed over ethical metadata.
Provides a multi-language ethical shopping guide that functions as a direct alternative for barcode-based boycott tracking.
Focuses on a specific subset of ethical shopping, animal testing, providing a specialized scanner for conscious consumers.
Targets conscious shoppers by identifying product origins to help users create personalized boycott lists.
Provides a research-focused ethical scanner that links barcodes to catalog information and original evidence sources.
Combines barcode scanning with inventory management, providing a broader utility set than the ethical-focused Buycott app.
Provides a general-purpose barcode lookup tool that offers price comparisons, acting as a technical alternative to Buycott's broken scanner.
Expands the utility of barcode scanning into household grocery management, serving a broader shopping audience than ethical-only apps.
Maintains a high-frequency update cycle to provide ethical research, directly addressing the technical abandonment seen in Buycott.
Leverages native Apple scanning technology to provide a high-speed, reliable alternative to Buycott's legacy scanning system.
New entrants(1)
Uses AI-based product scanning to identify brands against boycott lists, serving the same ethical consumerism market as Buycott.
The Analyst's Read
The bottom line on Buycott
Bottom line
Buycott Inc. has pivoted from a consumer-facing app developer to a data provider, leveraging its extensive barcode database for API-led revenue while allowing its mobile presence to stagnate. Their value now lies in their data assets rather than their software UX.
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What fed this analysis
- Apps analyzed:
- 1
- With full intel:
- 1
- With overview:
- 1
- Website scraped:
- yes
- Social presence:
- yes