A Marketplace alert app that costs less than the flips it finds
If you are hunting deals on Facebook Marketplace, the job is boring and constant: run the same searches over and over, all day, and hope you are looking when something good gets posted. FlipDar does that part for you — and it is built so the cost of starting is zero and the cost of getting serious is a few dollars a month.
Works anywhere Facebook Marketplace does — the US, Canada, Australia, the UK and beyond. No waitlist, no country list.
Low cost of entry, on purpose
Sourcing tools should not cost more than the margin on a flip. FlipDar prices per account, not per search — so going from one saved search to five does not multiply your bill. And the free tier is a real plan rather than a countdown: no card, no expiry.
Free
$0
forever
1 watchlist · scans every 24 hours
No card required
Pro
$8
per month
5 watchlists · scans every 5 minutes · paused ones every 4 hours
$80/year if paid annually
Enterprise
$30
per month
60 alerts per cycle · paused watchlists every 30 minutes, not 4 hours
$300/year if paid annually
Upgrade, downgrade, or cancel any time from your account. Changes take effect immediately and there is no contract. Full pricing.
Features that do the work with you, not just alert you
An alert on its own is only the beginning of the job. FlipDar carries you through the rest of it — deciding whether a listing is worth a message, knowing what the item is actually worth, and finding out afterwards whether the flip made money.
An assistant that writes the search for you
Say “I flip gaming PCs under $400 within 30 miles” and the AI assistant turns it into a real watchlist: keywords, the exclusion words that keep parts units out, a price band, and a radius. No form to reverse-engineer.
Filtering that runs before you see anything
Every scan applies your ignore words, common spam and dropshipper terms, price rules, duplicate suppression, and a radius check, then scores what survives for relevance. The point is fewer junk alerts, so you keep opening the ones you get.
Price context on the spot
eBay price context sits alongside the alert — sold comparable sales where eBay makes them available, current asking prices otherwise, labelled either way — so you can sanity-check resale value before committing to a drive across town.
Profit tracking that closes the loop
Log the buy and the sale and FlipDar works out profit, ROI, and fees per item, rolls it up by category so you can see which niches are worth your weekends, and keeps unsold buys in inventory.
A seller workspace for the other end
Draft listings and publish to eBay or Etsy from the same place you sourced the item, instead of retyping everything into two more apps.
It goes where you go
A native iPhone app with real push notifications, so the deck is in your pocket at a garage sale rather than waiting on a laptop at home.
And it is genuinely nice to open
This matters more than it sounds. A sourcing tool you find tedious is one you stop checking, and a tool you stop checking finds you nothing. So FlipDar hands you the deal rather than a link to it.
Swipe, don't sift
New alerts stack up as a card deck. Swipe right to save, left to hide, up for maybe — with undo if you flick too fast, haptics on your phone, and arrow keys on a laptop. Clearing the deck is a two-minute habit, not homework.
Everything on the card
Full photo gallery, price, distance, and the seller's description, right there. You are not opening six tabs to work out whether a listing deserves a message.
Made to look at
Warm paper, hand-drawn edges, real typography. It is a product someone designed, not a dashboard bolted onto a scraper — which is why people check it on the couch instead of only when a notification nags them.
Every swipe teaches it
What you save and what you hide feeds back into scoring, so the matches get closer to what you actually buy the longer you use it.
Getting started takes about five minutes
- 1. Make a free account. No card, and the free plan does not expire.
- 2. Describe what you hunt for. Type it in plain English and let the assistant draft the watchlist, or use the free watchlist builder to get keywords and exclusion words for your category.
- 3. Set your radius and ceiling. How far you will drive, and the most you can pay and still make money — the profit calculator gives you that number.
- 4. Let it run. FlipDar scans on your plan's schedule, filters the junk, and sends what survives to your feed and your phone.
Questions people ask
How much does a Facebook Marketplace alert app cost?
FlipDar starts at $0 and stays there: one watchlist, scanned every 24 hours, no card required. Paid plans are $8/month for five watchlists on 5-minute scans, and $30/month for the same five watchlists with a larger alert budget. Both keep checking paused watchlists in the background — every 4 hours on Pro, every 30 minutes on Enterprise. Pricing is per account, so adding a fourth or fifth saved search does not change what you pay.
Is there a free Facebook Marketplace alert app?
Yes. FlipDar's Free plan does not expire and does not ask for a payment method. It includes one watchlist, the AI assistant, and the core profit dashboard, so you can find out whether alerts are useful in your area and category before spending anything.
How do I get notified when something is listed on Facebook Marketplace?
Save the search once as a FlipDar watchlist — keywords, words to exclude, a price range, and a radius around you — and FlipDar re-runs it on a schedule instead of you refreshing the app. Matches land in your alerts feed and as push notifications on iPhone.
What makes FlipDar easy to use?
Alerts arrive as a deck of cards rather than a list of links. Each card carries the full photo gallery, price, distance, and the seller's description, so you can judge a listing without opening anything else — swipe right to save, left to hide, up for maybe, with undo, haptics on your phone, and arrow keys on a laptop. Clearing a day's alerts takes a couple of minutes.
Can FlipDar help me set up a search?
Yes. Describe what you flip in plain English and the AI assistant drafts the whole watchlist — keywords, exclusion words, a price band, and a radius. The free watchlist builder does the same thing without an account, and the free profit calculator works out the price ceiling to put in it.
Does FlipDar work in my country?
If Facebook Marketplace runs where you live, FlipDar works there. The United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and beyond all behave the same way: pin a location, set a radius in miles or kilometres, and FlipDar scans whatever Marketplace serves for that area. There is no country list to be on and no waitlist. Plans are billed in USD, and the eBay resale price context uses US eBay data.
Which marketplaces does FlipDar scan?
Facebook Marketplace, which is where the large majority of local flips come from. Building for one marketplace is what lets the filtering, photo galleries, and price context work properly rather than being a generic scraper pointed at several sites. eBay data is used for resale price context, not for alerts.
Start on the free plan
One watchlist, scanned every 24 hours, no card. If the alerts turn out to be useful, $8 a month gets you five of them on a 5-minute cadence.
FlipDar is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with Meta, Facebook, or eBay. Trademarks belong to their owners. Informational only, not financial advice; resale outcomes vary by category, condition, geography, fees, and timing.