Facebook Marketplace alerts, minutes after a listing goes up
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 keeps everything about your searches on your machine.
What Facebook's own notifications do
Facebook Marketplace lets you save a search and turn on notifications for it. They arrive inside the Facebook app, for one search at a time, on Facebook's schedule. Many people report them arriving hours after a listing was posted, or not for every listing — by the time you open the app, the good sofa or the underpriced GPU is already spoken for. Pouncify does not replace those notifications; it gives you a second watcher that you control.
How Pouncify watches Facebook Marketplace
Pouncify runs on your computer and opens Facebook Marketplace the way you would, on your own home connection. Out of the box it reads the public view of Marketplace — the one anyone sees without signing in — so you can start watching without a Facebook login at all.
Signing in is optional and gives you more reach on every check. You do it once, inside the app's own browser window, and that session stays in a local browser profile on your machine — it is never sent anywhere. Pouncify keeps using the public view for most of the work and touches your account sparingly, never more than once every five minutes.
Either way, each check looks for listings that match your saved search, reads Facebook's own posting time for every listing, and alerts you only when a listing is genuinely new — not a stale repost that surfaced late. You set the schedule, the gaps between checks and the daily budget yourself.
What you get
- 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 — alerts are gated on the listing's real posting time, not on when Pouncify first saw it, so you are not racing to something that sold last week.
- Price history and reposts — every listing's price is tracked; a drop on something you are watching pings you, and a delete-and-repost is recognised as the same item.
- One search, every marketplace — the same saved search also watches the other marketplaces Pouncify supports in your region.
- Any category — furniture, tools, bikes, cameras, baby gear, PC parts, appliances; if it is sold for local pickup it can be watched. Vehicles go deepest, with make, model, year and price history.
Setting it up
- Install Pouncify on Windows or macOS from the download page. There is no account to create.
- 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 if you want more reach. Facebook Marketplace is offered everywhere Facebook operates.
- Pick where alerts should go — Telegram, email, Discord or the phone app — review the pacing limits, and turn the schedule on. Your computer does the watching from then on.
Limits, plainly
Your computer has to be on for the watching to happen; the phone app pairs with it rather than replacing it. Alerts arrive within minutes, not seconds, because Pouncify paces its checks to keep your accounts and your connection safe. Pouncify is read-only: it never messages sellers, posts, bids or buys — the reply is your move.
Questions
Do I need to log in to Facebook?
No. Pouncify watches the public view of Facebook Marketplace out of the box. Logging in is optional and gives you more reach on every check. 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, and the session lives in a local browser profile on your machine, never sent to us or anyone else.
Is watching Facebook Marketplace this way allowed?
Facebook's terms do not formally permit automated access, so Pouncify is built to behave like a careful person browsing: it reads listings only, never posts or messages anyone, runs on your own computer and connection with your own login if you choose to sign in, and paces itself with randomized gaps, daily budgets and active hours that you control. The choice to use it, and any account risk, stays with you; the app's license agreement says this plainly.
How fast are Facebook Marketplace alerts with Pouncify?
Typically within minutes of a listing appearing. The public view can be checked every few minutes; if you sign in, your own account is used at most once every five minutes. You choose the pace, and alerts arrive as fast as the limits you set allow.
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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Other guides: Craigslist alerts · OfferUp alerts · Kijiji alerts · All guides. Last reviewed: September 10, 2026.