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About Australian Product Guide

What Australian Product Guide is, how it helps Australian shoppers and the principles behind its independent product research.

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Reviewed 23 August 2026Current operating state

Australian Product Guide (APG) is an Australian product-research and shopping-discovery service built around one practical question: What should I actually buy for my situation, and why?

What Australian Product Guide is here to do

Australian Product Guide helps Australian consumers move from a need, budget and set of priorities to a smaller, explainable shortlist. It combines maintained product information with search, comparison, buying guides, Decision Lab and Scout so the reasoning behind a recommendation stays visible.

Current maintained coverage

Australian Product Guide currently maintains 482 products across 90 populated categories, representing 178 brands. Those figures are generated from the same structured catalogue that powers the public website rather than being separately typed marketing claims.

Australian Product Guide is not a whole-of-market catalogue. It does not claim to include every product, brand or retailer available in Australia. Coverage is deliberately curated so Australian Product Guide can favour evidence quality and decision usefulness over superficial scale.

How the research is produced

Unless a page explicitly says otherwise, Australian Product Guide guidance is desk-researched rather than based on hands-on laboratory or long-term product testing. Australian Product Guide prefers manufacturer information, manuals and support material for product facts, exact Australian retailer information for offer context, and credible independent sources where they add useful evidence or perspective.

Independence and commercial relationships

Affiliate relationships, retailer participation, commission opportunity and the availability of a retailer link contribute zero points to product suitability, ranking or recommendation scoring. A product is not ranked more highly because Australian Product Guide may earn a commission from a purchase.

Accounts are optional

Core browsing, search, comparison and recommendation tools do not require an account. My Australian Product Guide can be used locally while signed out, or a shopper can choose to create an account and sync selected research across devices. Account status does not change product recommendations or retailer ranking.

Contact Australian Product Guide

General enquiries, corrections, privacy enquiries and feedback can be sent to contact@australianproductguide.au. Retailer order, delivery, return and warranty matters should be taken to the retailer or manufacturer that handled the transaction.

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