Facebook Marketplace alerts within minutes
Pouncify is a free Windows and macOS app that watches Facebook Marketplace for the things you are hunting and alerts you within minutes of a fresh listing — on your phone, Telegram, email or Discord. It runs on your own computer, works without a Facebook login, and your logins, listings and location stay on your machine.
Does Facebook Marketplace have alerts of its own?
Yes. Run a search in Marketplace and choose Notify me. Facebook opens a dialog with the search term, a price range, and a location with a radius; Create alert saves it. Whether those alerts also reach your email is a separate switch under Settings & privacy → Settings → Notifications → Marketplace.
Facebook does not publish how often it checks a saved search or how soon after a listing appears the alert goes out. Reports online range from minutes to several hours after a listing goes up, and some alerts never arrive at all. The walkthrough, and why those notifications stop, is on Facebook Marketplace saved search notifications.
How Pouncify watches Facebook Marketplace
Pouncify watches Facebook Marketplace from your own computer, and you can start without a Facebook login at all.
Signing in is optional and finds more, fresher listings over a bigger radius. You do it once, inside the app's own browser window, and the session stays in a local browser profile on your machine.
You choose how often it checks and during which hours.
What a Facebook Marketplace alert from Pouncify includes
- Alerts where you already are — Telegram, email, Discord, or a push to the free iPhone and Android app, each with the photo, price, location and a link straight to the listing.
- Fresh means fresh — Pouncify alerts on genuinely new listings, not on stale reposts.
- Price history and reposts — every listing's price is tracked; a drop on something you are watching pings you, and a recognised repost is not a second alert.
- One search, every marketplace — the same saved search also watches Craigslist, OfferUp in the United States and Kijiji in Canada.
- Any category — furniture, tools, bikes, cameras, baby gear, PC parts, appliances; anything sold for local pickup. Vehicles go deepest, with make, model, year and price history.
How to set up Facebook Marketplace alerts in Pouncify
- Install Pouncify on Windows or macOS from the download page.
- Add a search: what you are looking for, where, and how far you will travel. No Facebook login is needed; sign in once inside the app for more, fresher listings over a bigger radius.
- Pick where alerts should go — Telegram, email, Discord or the phone app — choose how often it checks, and turn the schedule on.
Questions about Facebook Marketplace alerts
Do I need to log in to Facebook?
No. Logging in is optional and finds more, fresher listings over a bigger radius. If you do sign in, you do it yourself in a browser window Pouncify opens on your computer; the app never sees or stores your password.
How fast are Facebook Marketplace alerts with Pouncify?
Within minutes of a listing going live on Marketplace, on the schedule you set. Each alert arrives with the photo, price, location and a link to the listing.
Can I watch Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist with one search?
Yes. One saved search in Pouncify covers Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, OfferUp in the United States and Kijiji in Canada, with the same alert channels for all of them.
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