Facebook Marketplace tracker: track listings, prices and what you bought

There's no tracker built into Facebook Marketplace beyond saving listings and searches. What each kind of tracker does (new listings, price changes, your own buys), the free ways to do it by hand, and how to have it done from your phone.

Facebook Marketplace doesn't have a real tracker. You can save a listing (Facebook may tell you if its price drops) and save a search (Facebook may tell you about new matches), and that's it. Both notifications are hours to days late in our use, loosely filtered, and they turn themselves off. A proper Marketplace tracker does three jobs: it tracks new listings for what you want, it tracks prices on those listings, and it tracks what you bought and what you saved. Below is how to do each one free by hand, where the free way breaks, and how Deal Scanner does all three from one search on your phone, across Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp and Craigslist.

The three things people mean by "tracker"

You want to track	What Facebook gives you	Where it breaks
New listings for an item	Saved search notifications	Hours to days late, loose matches, no low price limit, turns itself off
Price changes on a listing	Save the listing, maybe get a notification	Only listings you already saved; often late or never
What you bought and paid	Nothing	A notes app or a spreadsheet, if you remember

Most people typing "Facebook Marketplace tracker" want the first one: a PS5, a John Deere riding mower or a 2015 F-150 near them, at a price they'd pay, and to hear about it before ten other people do.

Track new listings, free

Search the exact item. "Milwaukee M18 drill," not "drill." "Pelican kayak," not "kayak."
Set Location to your town and a radius you'd really drive. 10 to 25 miles for everyday stuff, more for a truck or a boat.
Set a price range. Facebook only lets you filter on the search screen; there's no low limit on the alert itself, so a $40 battery shows up on your $150 drill search.
Sort by Date listed: newest first. How to force it is on how to see the newest listings on Facebook Marketplace.
Tap Save search (or the bell) and turn on Marketplace notifications in Facebook's settings and your phone's. Every switch is on how to set up Facebook Marketplace alerts.
Check the search by hand anyway, morning and evening. The notification is late, and some days it doesn't come.

That's the free tracker. It works if you have time to check. You can't sit there refreshing Marketplace every five minutes, and the good ones go the same day.

Track a listing's price, free

Save the listing with the bookmark or Save button. It lands in Marketplace → your profile → Saved items, which shows the current price on each one. Facebook may notify you when a seller lowers the price. "May" is the word. A seller who deletes and relists has made a new listing your save doesn't follow. Check Saved items every day or two.

The bigger miss: the truck posted at $9,500 when your limit is $8,000 never made your search, so you never saved it, so nothing tells you when it drops to $7,900. Everything about price drops is on Facebook Marketplace price drop alerts.

Track what you bought

Facebook keeps nothing on the buyer side. If you want to know what you spent this year and what you saved against the going price, it's a note or a spreadsheet: item, date, what you paid, what it usually goes for near you. The typical asking prices for common items by area are on our price pages, from a live data refresh.

Browser extensions and desktop trackers

There are Chrome extensions that track listings you've opened or saved, and desktop programs that re-run searches on a computer. They stop the moment the laptop sleeps or you close the browser, and they tell your computer, not your pocket. The phone is the point. You're at work, at your kid's game or in the truck when the listing goes up.

Why I wanted a tracker

I was looking for a cheap car to save on gas and keep miles off my truck. Every time I found one and messaged the seller: sorry, already sold, or there's ten guys ahead of you. And the listing was posted yesterday, or two days ago. I had work all day. You can't sit there refreshing Marketplace every five minutes. It took me almost two months to find a car, and honestly I just got lucky.

A tracker that does all three

Deal Scanner is the tracker Facebook didn't build. You set one search: the item, your town, how far you'd drive, and a low and high price. Then it keeps track for you, from its own servers, with the app closed.

New listings. It watches Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp and Craigslist from that one search and buzzes you when a matching listing is posted. It drops most accessories and lookalikes, and the low price limit keeps the $40 batteries out. Every alert shows when it found the listing.
Prices. Every find gets a Deal Score showing how far under the typical price near you it sits ("46% below typical"). Price drops are built into every search, nothing to turn on: when a listing you were alerted about gets at least 5% cheaper, or one that was over your high limit drops into your range, your phone buzzes with "was $X, now $Y."
Your buys. My Buys logs what you bought and what you saved. Stats counts the price drops you've caught.

The Deal Scanner My Buys screen: total saved and spent, then each buy, like a 2012 Chevrolet Silverado and a Pelican kayak, with what was paid and what was saved — My Buys: what you paid and what you saved, kept for you.

It never asks for your Facebook login. Three searches are $3.99 a month, cancel anytime in your phone's subscription settings. Pay for the month you're looking. Cancel when you've got it. Need more? Hunter is $9.99 for 6 searches and Pro is $19.99 for 12, and every plan watches all three marketplaces at the same speed.

More on each marketplace: Facebook Marketplace alerts, OfferUp alerts, Craigslist alerts. The other apps that track Marketplace, with each one's price checked on its own site, are on best Facebook Marketplace alert apps. Most are priced like business software, not like an app.

FAQ

Is there a Facebook Marketplace tracker?

Not a real one built in. Facebook lets you save listings and save searches, and may notify you about price drops and new matches, but those notifications are hours to days late in our use and turn themselves off. Deal Scanner tracks new listings, price drops and your buys from one search on your phone.

Can I track a seller's price on Facebook Marketplace?

Save the listing and check Saved items, which shows the current price. Facebook may notify you of a drop, but not reliably. Deal Scanner tracks prices on every listing your search matches, including ones that were over your budget, and buzzes you when one drops.

How do I track new listings on Facebook Marketplace?

Search the exact item, set your location, radius and price, sort by newest, and save the search with notifications on. Then check by hand, because the notification is late. Or let an app watch it: Deal Scanner buzzes your phone when a matching listing is posted.

Can I track Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp and Craigslist together?

Not with the marketplaces' own tools; each one only tracks itself. Deal Scanner watches all three from one search on every plan.

Does a Marketplace tracker need my Facebook account?

Deal Scanner never asks for your Facebook, OfferUp or Craigslist login. Browser extensions that run inside your logged-in Facebook do use your account.

How much does a Facebook Marketplace tracker cost?

Facebook's saved searches are free. Deal Scanner is $3.99 a month for three searches, cancel anytime. The competitors' checked prices are on best Facebook Marketplace alert apps.

Sources checked

The Facebook Marketplace saved-search and saved-listing steps from our setup guide and price drop page; the current top Google results for "facebook marketplace tracker" (CarSnipe's monitoring-tools guide, Swoopa's monitor guide, and the Chrome Web Store tracker extensions) for what they cover; Deal Scanner's price pages. Checked November 2, 2026.

A Facebook Marketplace tracker that actually keeps track