I bought a laptop stand in October for Rs. 1899. The same stand was Rs. 999 during the Great Indian Festival the following week. I did not know a sale was coming, I did not check the price history, I just saw it, thought it seemed reasonable, and bought it. That Rs. 900 mistake is what finally made me set up proper price tracking. I had heard of Keepa before but never bothered. I assumed price tracking was something that required too much setup for the amount of money it saved. I was wrong about both of those things. Here is what I have been using since then and what each tool actually shows you.
Why Price History Matters More Than the Sale Badge
Before getting into specific tools, one thing is worth understanding: Amazon and Flipkart both routinely inflate the MRP or the original price shown next to a discount, making the strike-through price look like a bigger deal than it is. That 40% off badge might be a three-day discount on an item whose price was artificially inflated for the previous three months to make the discount look more dramatic. The only way to know whether the current price is genuinely a good deal is to see what the product has historically sold for. That is exactly what price history tools show you, and it is the difference between actually saving money and just feeling like you are
Keepa is an Amazon price tracker that currently covers over 6 billion products across 11 country marketplaces including India, and the core feature is the price history graph that embeds directly on any Amazon product page. Here is what that graph actually shows you. Once you install the Chrome or Firefox extension, every Amazon product page you open shows a graph below the product images. The graph has multiple lines: the Amazon price over time, the third-party new price over time, the used price if applicable, and the sales rank. You can zoom into the last 30 days, 90 days, or go back years.
The practical use of this is immediate. Before buying anything, you look at the graph and answer one question: is the price right now higher or lower than usual? If it has been at Rs. 1,500 for six months and is currently at Rs. 1,200, that is a genuine deal. If it has been at Rs. 1,200 for six months and someone stuck a “was Rs. 2,000” label on it, the graph tells you that story in two seconds.
You can also set up price alerts. Add a product to Keepa’s tracking at whatever target price you want and it sends an email when the price drops to that point. This is useful for things you want but are not in a hurry for. I have three products sitting in Keepa alerts right now that I am waiting on. Two of them have already dropped once and I missed it because I was not checking. The alert fixed that. The mobile app has the same price history graphs as the desktop extension, with a barcode scanner so you can check Amazon price history in a physical store before deciding whether to buy there or order online. I have used this in Croma exactly twice and it is a genuinely useful thing to have available.
The limitation is that Keepa is Amazon-only. It does not touch Flipkart, Myntra, or anything else. For Amazon shopping specifically, it is the most complete and most trusted tool available. The premium plan exists for sellers and researchers. For regular buyers tracking purchases, the free version handles everything you need.
Flipshope is the most capable Flipkart price tracker available, showing price graphs directly on product pages and covering Flipkart, Myntra, Snapdeal, Paytm Mall, TataCliq, Ajio, and Nykaa. The honest limitation is that it does not cover Amazon products.
The extension adds a price graph to Flipkart product pages in the same way Keepa does for Amazon. You see the price history over the last few months as a line graph, and you can read what the price was at any point by hovering over the graph. This is especially useful in the weeks before a Big Billion Days sale, because you can see whether Flipkart has been slowly bumping up prices in the run-up to the event to make the eventual discount look bigger.
Flipshope also has an auto-buy feature for flash sales, where you can set it to attempt to add a product to cart and purchase at a specific time when a flash sale starts. I have not used this personally because the ethics of auto-buying limited stock items in competitive sales feel a little off to me, but the feature exists and people use it. Flipshope also has an Android app for mobile price tracking, which matters because a large percentage of Flipkart shopping in India happens on mobile rather than desktop. The combination of Keepa for Amazon and Flipshope for Flipkart covers the two platforms that account for the majority of online shopping in India, and both extensions are free and do not require creating an account to see price history.
This is the one I recommend to anyone who does not want to install two separate extensions. PriceHistory.app is a website, not a browser extension, but it tracks both Amazon India and Flipkart from one place. You paste a product URL from Amazon or Flipkart directly into the search bar and it shows you the full price history chart for that product. You can also set price drop alerts by entering your target price and email address, and it sends a notification when the price crosses that threshold. The tracker also covers all variants of a product, so if you are tracking a phone in multiple storage configurations, each variant is tracked separately.
The advantage over extensions is that it works on any device including your phone browser without needing to install anything. If someone sends you an Amazon link on WhatsApp and you want to quickly check whether the price is genuinely good, you paste it into PriceHistory.app and get the answer in about five seconds. The disadvantage is that it requires an extra step compared to extensions that embed the graph directly on the product page. When you are browsing Amazon and considering twenty different products, opening a separate tab for each one becomes tedious. For specific products you have already decided to watch, the web tool is cleaner. For general browsing with price context always visible, the extensions are better.
Price History Chrome Extension:
This is a newer extension that has been gaining users specifically because it tries to solve the two-extension problem. The Price History extension works on both Amazon and Flipkart, shows price history graphs directly on product pages, shows the lowest recorded price for the last one, two, and three months right in the extension panel, and sends Telegram bot notifications for price drops on items you are watching.
The Telegram alert system is actually smarter than email for this purpose. Telegram notifications land on your phone immediately and are easier to action than checking an email inbox. If you use Telegram already, the bot integration makes the alerts genuinely useful rather than something you see three days later buried in your inbox.
It also auto-finds lower prices from other sellers on the same Amazon product page, which saves the step of scrolling down to check the other sellers section manually. The one caveat I have is that it is newer than Keepa and Flipshope and has a smaller data history for some products as a result. For products listed recently or niche items, the graph might only go back a few months rather than years. For mainstream products that have been listed for a while, the coverage is good.
How I Actually Use These Together
My setup is Keepa installed permanently for Amazon, Flipshope installed permanently for Flipkart, and PriceHistory.app bookmarked for quick checks on mobile or when someone shares a link. Before buying anything above Rs. 500, I check the price history. Not obsessively, just a ten-second glance at the graph to see whether the current price is genuinely a low point or something ordinary dressed up as a deal.
For things I want but can wait on, I set a Keepa alert at a price that represents a genuine low based on the historical data, not just any price drop. A product that normally sells at Rs. 2,000 and drops to Rs. 1,800 is not necessarily worth buying. A product that normally sells at Rs. 2,000 and hits Rs. 1,200 once every six months during a big sale is worth waiting for if you can. The Amazon Great Indian Festival and Flipkart Big Billion Days look much more useful when you are going in with a list of pre-researched products at price targets you have already set, rather than browsing thousands of sale badges trying to figure out what is actually discounted.
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