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Head-to-head

Slickdeals vs Capital One Shopping

Slickdeals 4.8★ · Free to download 60
Winner Slickdeals
Capital One Shopping 4.9★ · Free to download 45

Slickdeals is better for users primarily seeking a community-driven platform for finding and sharing a wide variety of deals, despite its significant app performance and UI issues, while Capital One Shopping is better for those who prioritize automatic coupon application and cashback on online purchases, provided they can navigate its confusing reward system and frequent promotional issues.

Full reviews: Slickdeals · Capital One Shopping

Slickdeals offers a vast, community-sourced collection of deals and has saved users significant money, but its app is plagued by persistent bugs, poor UI changes, and intrusive ads. Capital One Shopping provides automatic coupon application and cashback, with many users reporting real savings, but it faces severe criticism for misleading sign-up bonuses, confusing reward redemption, and unreliable tracking.

Head to head

Deal Variety & Effectiveness edge: SlickdealsR2R3R5R15
Slickdeals Slickdeals users consistently praise the app for finding a wide variety of great deals and saving them hundreds of dollars, often on items they wanted to buy R2R5. However, some users note that many deals are Amazon-centric, and some promo codes or clearance deals can be questionable or expired R3R15.
Capital One Shopping Capital One Shopping users appreciate finding discounts and receiving cash back on purchases, with many confirming real savings . However, there are complaints about offers only being for online shopping, not all deals working, and some advertised items not matching the sale .
Ease of Use & User Interface tieR1R4R6R7
Slickdeals Slickdeals suffers from numerous UI complaints, including a recent redesign that removed quick access to categories, made search history difficult to manage, and introduced an ugly, distracting bottom bar R4R6R19. Users also report choppy scrolling, freezing, slow loading, and issues with comments not loading or pages automatically refreshing R1R7R10R12.
Capital One Shopping Capital One Shopping is frequently described as confusing, unintuitive, and difficult to use, with a sign-up process that is challenging . Some users find the app glitchy and wish for more effort in the user interface . However, other users describe it as convenient, easy to use, and super user-friendly .
Reliability & Bugs edge: SlickdealsR1R7R10R12
Slickdeals Slickdeals has significant reliability issues, with users reporting constant errors, choppy scrolling, freezing, crashing, and slow performance R1R7R10R18. Specific bugs include comments not loading, pages automatically refreshing, and deal links being broken R7R12.
Capital One Shopping Capital One Shopping users report glitches, particularly with the rewards portal and tracking of activated deals . There are also issues where rewards are marked ineligible after exchanges or deducted without explanation .
Ads & Monetization edge: Capital One ShoppingR1R18R34R38
Slickdeals Slickdeals users are highly frustrated by intrusive ads that auto-open when scrolling, even without touching them R1R18R34R38. Some believe this is a deliberate tactic to generate revenue and that the developers have ignored these issues for years R1R18R38.
Capital One Shopping Capital One Shopping's primary monetization concern for users revolves around misleading promotions for sign-up bonuses, often $40, $45, or $55, which many users report never receiving despite completing steps R61R64.
Support & Rewards Redemption edge: SlickdealsR31R37R57R67
Slickdeals Slickdeals reviews do not frequently mention direct customer support, focusing more on app functionality and deal quality. There is a community aspect where users discuss deals R31R37R57.
Capital One Shopping Capital One Shopping users report difficulty reaching support for missing rewards . Issues with rewards redemption include only being able to redeem for gift cards, often from unwanted retailers, and not being able to redeem the full cash amount R67. Some users report rewards being taken away or marked as fraudulent .
Pick Slickdeals if

You want a community-driven platform for finding a wide range of deals and are willing to tolerate significant app bugs and intrusive ads for the potential savings R2R5R37R57.

Pick Capital One Shopping if

You primarily shop online and want an app that automatically applies coupons and offers cashback, and you are patient with a potentially confusing reward system and issues with promotional bonuses R80.

Evidence note: Slickdeals' negative reviews heavily focus on app performance, UI, and ads, while Capital One Shopping's negative reviews are dominated by issues with misleading sign-up bonuses and reward redemption problems. Both apps are free, so free-tier friction is less of a differentiating factor.

Frequently asked

Do Slickdeals and Capital One Shopping offer real savings?
Yes, both Slickdeals and Capital One Shopping users report significant real savings; Slickdeals users claim to have saved hundreds of dollars on various items R2R5R35, while Capital One Shopping users confirm receiving cash back and discounts on their purchases R80.
Are there issues with the app's user interface for Slickdeals?
Yes, Slickdeals has received numerous complaints about its user interface, including recent redesigns removing quick access to categories, making search history difficult to manage, and introducing an ugly bottom bar R4R6R19R24.
Does Capital One Shopping deliver on its sign-up bonuses?
Many Capital One Shopping users report not receiving the advertised sign-up bonuses, often $40 or $45, despite completing the required steps, with some calling the promotions misleading or a scam R61R64R81R88.
Are there problems with ads in the Slickdeals app?
Yes, Slickdeals users frequently complain about intrusive ads that auto-open when scrolling, even without direct interaction, which many find very annoying and believe is a deliberate revenue-generating tactic R1R18R34R38.

What reviewers actually said

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  1. [R2] Slickdeals 5/5 · US Like deals?: Well this is the app for you I have save over 300 and that is within less than a couple of months on Amazon !!!
  2. [R3] Slickdeals 3/5 · US Okay: The listings need some moderation. The Amazon links seem to be the most reliable. Lowe’s and other retailer clearance deals are questionable.
  3. [R5] Slickdeals 5/5 · US Deals everywhere!: Slickdeals has already saved me hundreds on items that I’ve been wanting to get but wanted to wait for sales to get them. Love this app!!!!!
  4. [R15] Slickdeals 3/5 · US The information sometimes is not correct: I see that sometimes it shows the wrong price and also not Alert me the items that I save on the list of Alert Items
  5. [R1] Slickdeals 1/5 · US Incompetent developers: Font is too big now and ads still open when you scroll on them. Also says “an error occurred” like all the time now. Good news is the app is almost at a CS senior design project level now. Also has extremely choppy scrolling App is now having an issue where nothing loads. Textbook Slickdeals quality That time of the year. Ads auto open to generate extra revenue. Devs said
  6. [R4] Slickdeals 1/5 · US Newest update makes app lousy: Why in the world would you remove the quick access to categories. People are not going to use the app if it becomes next to impossible to figure out how to see what they want to see. I’m still mind-blown that someone agreed to the current layout as being the best choice. This is wildly off.
  7. [R6] Slickdeals 3/5 · US Redesign not so slick: Monday, January 05, 2026 The redesign no longer allows you to delete previous search terms. If you make a spelling mistake, if you refine your search terms, all those previous searches stay in history. This got past the BAs, Developers, QAs and the executive team. They all saw this and did not one person speak up and say “this is bad”. They all thought giving everyone a
  8. [R7] Slickdeals 1/5 · US Bugs bugs bugs: When you click on a listing only the top half loads but not the comments then you have to go back out then back into the listing again 2 or 3 times before the comments load. This bug has existed for ages
  9. [R10] Slickdeals 1/5 · US Doesnt load: Doesnt load
  10. [R12] Slickdeals 3/5 · US Automatic Refresh: Overall I really like the Slickdeals app. But what I hate is the automatic refresh of the page/tab that you are looking on. For example you are scrolling through the deals on a page and lets say you are half way through or wherever you are on that page of deals and then you switch to a different app and then you switch back to the slickdeals app and now you are back at the top
  11. [R18] Slickdeals 3/5 · US Ads Auto Opening: You scroll through and touch an ad, it automatically opens. Obviously it’s generating more income because it shows that people are clicking on ads when they’re technically not. Happens so often. Additionally, it freezes up when scrolling vertically through the home pages and I have to close the app and reopen it. I’ve tried to delete the app and re-download it but it seems like
  12. [R34] Slickdeals 1/5 · US Ads pop up automatically: ads are forced open while scrolling even if you do not touch it. very annoying.
  13. [R38] Slickdeals 2/5 · US Auto opens ads in Safari: The app will auto open ads in Safari when you simply scroll vertically in a results page if your finger happens to scroll over the ad. This is extremely poor and unexpected user interaction. This issue hasn’t been fixed for years.
  14. [R31] Slickdeals 5/5 · US Scrolling Fixed: Great app to find and discuss deals on the internet. They fixed the scrolling issue I was having on my iPad and all is working well again.
  15. [R37] Slickdeals 5/5 · US Checking deals? Check Slickdeals: Been using it for years. Crowd sourcing is the best thing.
  16. [R57] Slickdeals 5/5 · US Saves me money!: This app helps me find stuff I need at a discount. I am very happy with the quality of the listings and the overall experience with the sd community
  17. [R67] Capital One Shopping 1/5 · US Awful experience, barely worked, deleted: Had this app for a few years. In 12 attempts to use it for a rebate, it worked a whopping 4 times. Then I finally had enough and went to redeem my cash back and a) the experience made me want to throw my phone across the room in frustration and b) you can only redeem for gift cards, mostly from retailers I never shop at anyway, and to top it off c) you can
  18. [R35] Slickdeals 5/5 · US Great App: Slick deals is amazing!! Open buying stuff on here for 10+ years and I can’t even imagine how much money I’ve saved honestly … this is not a robot review. I’m a real deal money saving machine ! lol….you can LITERALLY buy stuff on here for a fraction of the cost of the stores !!!
  19. [R80] Capital One Shopping 5/5 · US Thank you For Being The Real Deal and paying me $$ love getting paid to shop: This is one of the rare occasions where the company maintains their promises to deliver payments to customers for shopping on their site This is so important because time matters and you don’t waste it shopping on Capital One. Saves you lots of money and you get paid to shop wow thank you capital one for your customer s
  20. [R19] Slickdeals 1/5 · US UI change for the worse: I used the app daily to keep an eye on specific deal categories, but now the categories button is replaced with giveaways, which I couldn’t care less about. Please add the option to change back!
  21. [R24] Slickdeals 3/5 · US UI horrible: The new UI for dark mode is atrocious. It is very hard to read the grey text.
  22. [R61] Capital One Shopping 1/5 · US Um, where’s my reward?: Just bought some supplements and got a pop up saying I would get 40$ for signing up. I signed up and did the whole process. There’s 0$ in the app account at the end. While signing up the 40$ amount kept changing at every step. For a credit card company I’ve been with for a long time this feels totally scammy.
  23. [R64] Capital One Shopping 1/5 · US scam: the app is a scam, no u cant get a 45$ bonus from downloading it and making an account u also have to use it to spend money add it to ur computer and a bunch of other scammy time wasting activities
  24. [R81] Capital One Shopping 3/5 · US False advertisement: So I have had capital one for 3 years now. It’s been great and has helped me build my credit. However, the shopping app is complicated and does not get you free bonus like it says. I went through the whole steps and didn’t get a free $45 coupon “on us” and I have an iPhone. Weird… but just to warn others who got that notification and are debating on getting the extension… don’
  25. [R88] Capital One Shopping 1/5 · US Promotions FAKE: Most of the promotions are very fake. Completed a $45 redeem quote and received nothing. Not worth your time and money.

Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store