Deal Scanner vs Flipify: three for $3.99 vs $5 for one

Both apps watch marketplaces for a search you set and buzz your phone when a listing is posted. Flipify is built for resellers: eight marketplaces including eBay, Mercari and Vinted, billed $5 or $10 a month per search, with a card required for the trial. Deal Scanner is ours, and it is built for everyone who checks Marketplace every day, whether flipping is your side thing, your whole job, or not the point at all: Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp and Craigslist, a Deal Score on each find, $3.99 a month for three searches, cancel anytime. Everything below is from each company's own site on October 26, 2026.

Side by side

Where the money goes

Three searches are $3.99 a month on Deal Scanner and $15 to $30 a month on Flipify. Twelve searches are $19.99 on Deal Scanner and $60 to $120 on Flipify. What Flipify's price buys above that is five more marketplaces, eBay, Mercari, Vinted, Kijiji and Gumtree, and a one-minute check you can buy per item. If you sell on those marketplaces, that is what you are paying for. If you are waiting for a truck or a tool kit on the three big US marketplaces, it is not.

What you get with Deal Scanner

Set the item, your town, how far you would drive, and a low and high price. Deal Scanner watches Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp and Craigslist on our servers around the clock, drops most lookalikes, and buzzes your phone when a listing is posted, with the time we found it on every alert and a Deal Score when it is a clear bargain, measured from what your own search has seen near you. Quiet hours and a daily digest. No Facebook login, no account, no commitment. Cancel anytime. It works the same for the person who wants one dirt bike and the person who flips ten a season. Only after one thing? Pay for the month you're looking and cancel when you've got it.

What you get with Flipify

Eight marketplaces, a 10-minute or 1-minute check depending on what you pay per search, push alerts on iPhone and Android and a web app, car-alert pages for a dozen cities, a reseller guide library, an API and an affiliate program. Plan-by-plan cost on Flipify pricing, the longer write-up on our Flipify review.

FAQ

Is Deal Scanner better than Flipify?

For everyone who checks Marketplace every day and wants to be buzzed when their item is listed on Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp or Craigslist, Deal Scanner does that for $3.99 a month with a Deal Score on each find. Flipify is built and priced for resellers working many marketplaces.

Does Flipify do anything Deal Scanner doesn't?

Yes: eBay, Mercari, Vinted, Kijiji and Gumtree, and a per-item one-minute check at $10 a search.

Which is cheaper?

Deal Scanner: three searches for $3.99 against $15 to $30 on Flipify, and twelve for $19.99 against $60 to $120.

Does either need my Facebook password?

Deal Scanner never asks for one. Flipify's core alerts do not need one; its optional auto-messaging does.

Can I try both?

Deal Scanner has no free trial: $3.99 a month, cancel anytime. Flipify's seven days need a payment method.

Sources checked

flipifyapp.com; the Flipify and Deal Scanner store listings. All read October 26, 2026.