Marketplace alerts that reach your pocket
Sourcing does not happen at a desk. The listing you want appears while you are in a queue, at work, or halfway through dinner, and the person who gets it is whoever saw it first — which means the notification has to reach your phone, not your laptop.
FlipDar has a native iPhone app that delivers matches as push notifications, with the full alert card ready to judge without opening anything else.
The app is included on every plan, free included. Android is not on Google Play yet.
Setting it up
About five minutes, most of which is deciding what to watch rather than configuring anything.
- 1. Create the account on whichever device suits you. Web and app share one account, so it does not matter where you start.
- 2. Set up a watchlist. Keywords, exclusion words, price band, radius. The free builder will draft one for your category if you would rather not start from blank.
- 3. Install the app and allow notifications. iOS asks once. If you decline it, re-enabling later is in Settings → Notifications → FlipDar rather than in the app.
- 4. Clear the deck rather than reading a list. Alerts stack as cards: swipe right to save, left to hide, up for maybe, with undo and haptics. It is designed to be worked through in a couple of minutes standing up.
When notifications go quiet
Almost always one of these four, and almost always at the operating system level rather than in the app. Check them in order.
Notification permission was never granted
A Focus mode is filtering the app
Low Power Mode
Alerts turned off for that watchlist
What is on the card
The reason the phone app matters is not that a notification arrives. It is that you can act on it without opening three tabs on a phone screen.
The photos
Price and distance
The seller's own words
Questions people ask
Is there a FlipDar app for iPhone?
Yes. FlipDar is on the App Store and delivers alerts as native push notifications, so matches reach you the same way any other app's notifications do. Your account and watchlists are the same ones you use on the web — signing in on the phone does not create anything separate.
Is there an Android app?
Not on Google Play yet. FlipDar runs in a mobile browser on Android and the alerts feed works there, but there is no published Android app to install today, and we would rather say that than list a store link that goes nowhere.
Why did my Marketplace alerts stop arriving on my phone?
Work through it in this order: iOS Settings → Notifications → FlipDar, and check notifications are allowed and not set to deliver quietly; check Focus or Do Not Disturb is not filtering the app; check Low Power Mode, which can delay delivery; then check in FlipDar's own notification preferences that alerts are enabled for the watchlist. In most cases the cause is at the OS level rather than in the app.
Do alerts arrive faster on the app than by email?
Push generally arrives sooner than email, but both are downstream of the same scan. If your watchlist scans every 30 minutes, no delivery channel makes a listing reach you faster than the next scan — the channel affects seconds, the cadence affects minutes.
Can I act on an alert from the phone?
Yes, that is the point of it. The alert card carries the photos, price, distance and the seller's description, so you can judge the listing and then open it in Facebook to message the seller. FlipDar does not message on your behalf.
Does the phone app cost extra?
No. The app is included with every plan, including the free one. Subscriptions purchased through the App Store are managed in your Apple account settings rather than in FlipDar.
Put the alerts in your pocket
Keep reading
- How Marketplace alerts workWhat is happening between a listing going live and your phone buzzing.
- Scan cadence explainedWhy the interval matters more than the delivery channel.
- Building the watchlistThe five fields that decide whether the notifications are worth reading.
- FlipDar FAQAccounts, billing, plans and the rest of it.
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.