While it arrives in App store 6-7 months behind pic2shop and RedLaser, it brings polished interface and much more of the feeling of a finished application than the other two.

This being a free app (like pic2shop), I expect its arrival will be major hit for RedLaser popularity, which currently is in the top 10 grossing apps of the store, http://appshopper.com/bestsellers/grossing

The quality of scanning is not bad with fixed-focus iPhone – it is up to par with pic2shop/RedLaser. I did a good hundred of scans of DVDs, books, food packages and all 3 programs recognize ~80% of the UPCs. Sometimes i had to persevere and scan multiple times with all of the programs.

So in first iteration, the quality of barcode reading is as good as the other two had accomplished in multiple iterations.

One annoyance though: When scanning with ShopSavvy, there is no indication of any kind if the scanner is positioned “nearly correct” and about to be able to recognize the code. The others have helper cues – pic2shop scan-line shows in colors in green segments that it thinks are barcode; RedLaser changes the color of the bounding rectangle arrows to green (btw, i vote it the kludgiest interface of the three apps).