WindowShopping vs Honey

How they compare

People often line these two up, but they solve different problems. Honey is best known as a coupon tool that hunts for discount codes when you check out. WindowShopping is a wishlist that saves products across stores and watches their prices over time. Here's the honest breakdown, including why plenty of shoppers keep both.

What each one is for

Honey: discounts at checkout

Honey is a browser extension (owned by PayPal) built around the moment you buy. When you reach a store's checkout, it tries available coupon codes and can surface cashback offers. Its strength is trimming a bit off a purchase you're about to make anyway.

WindowShopping: a wishlist that watches prices

WindowShopping is built around the moment you find something and aren't ready to buy. You save the product, from a browser or from your iPhone's share sheet, into an organized list, and it watches the price and stock for you, alerting you when the price drops or a sold-out item returns. Its strength is everything that happens before checkout.

Side by side

Features change over time; check each product's current details before deciding.

Which should you use?

• Choose Honey if your main goal is finding a coupon code the second before you pay.
• Choose WindowShopping if you want to keep the things you're eyeing in one place and be told when they drop in price or come back in stock.
• Use both and you've covered the whole journey: WindowShopping tells you when to buy; Honey looks for a code as you buy. They don't overlap, so they don't conflict.

More: best price-drop trackers in 2026 and how to track price drops on any store.