Kijiji alerts on your phone within minutes
Kijiji's own search alert emails once a day: that is the only frequency the Kijiji website offers, and the app adds weekly. Pouncify watches your Kijiji search from your own computer, needs no Kijiji account, and sends each new ad to your phone within minutes. Kijiji is available to users in Canada.
How do I get Kijiji alerts?
On the Kijiji website, run your search and click Notify me when new ads are posted. Signed in, the alert is saved to your account; signed out, Kijiji asks for an email address. In the Kijiji app, tap the ribbon (alert) icon at the top of the results, choose Daily or Weekly, and tap Save. Both are described on Kijiji's own help page on search alerts, which also recommends specific keywords and always including a category and location.
How often does Kijiji send search alerts?
Once a day from the website, and daily or weekly from the app; those are the only frequencies Kijiji's help page lists. It says that after you click Notify me on kijiji.ca “you will then receive new matching listings once per day”, and that the app asks you to “choose how often you want notifications: Daily, Weekly” (How to Create Search Alerts). Observed: one digest every morning, so ads are up to a day old, some of them months-old ads renewed.
How do I turn off Kijiji alerts?
For email alerts, open any Kijiji alert email and click the Unsubscribe link at the bottom. To delete the saved search on the website, click the heart icon in the top-right corner of Kijiji, open Saved Searches and click Delete. Both come from the same Kijiji help page. If app push notifications keep coming, check the Kijiji app's own notification settings, then your phone's notification settings for the Kijiji app; the phone steps are on Kijiji alerts not working.
Why did my Kijiji alerts stop?
Usually the alert is still there and the delivery broke: the email lands in spam, you unsubscribed from Kijiji emails, or your phone muted the Kijiji app. Kijiji alerts not working walks through each check, with the iPhone and Android steps.
Why do Kijiji's alerts arrive too late?
Because the fastest Kijiji offers is a daily digest. An ad posted just after your email went out waits for tomorrow's, the app's weekly option waits a week, and a batch of ads at a fixed hour tells you nothing about which one went up just now.
Kijiji alerts within minutes, with Pouncify
Pouncify is a free Windows and macOS app that watches Kijiji from your own computer and sends each new ad that matches your search to your phone within minutes of it going live, with the photo, the price and how far away it is — on the free Pouncify app for iPhone and Android, or Telegram, email or Discord.
Every Kijiji ad carries the time it went live and, for most ads, exact map coordinates. Pouncify uses both: it alerts only on genuinely new ads, and it measures the distance to the ad itself, in kilometers, so a 25 km radius around your postal code is a real circle.
- No Kijiji account. Ads are public, so Pouncify reads them without a login.
- Price history and reposts. Every ad's price is tracked, a drop on something you are watching pings you, and a deleted-and-reposted ad is recognized, so you are not alerted twice.
- One search, three marketplaces in Canada. The same search also watches Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist, with the same alert channels.
- Free to start. The free plan watches one search per marketplace, with no account and no card.
Does Pouncify work the Canadian way: kilometres, postal codes, French ads?
Yes. Distances are in kilometres, the location is a Canadian city or area from Kijiji's own list or a postal code, and a French-language ad is matched by the words you give. Your search words are matched against the ad's title, so for French ads add the French word too: “vélo” as well as “bike”, “poussette” as well as “stroller”. Accented and unaccented spellings count as the same, so “velo” still matches a title that says “Vélo”.
How do I set up Kijiji alerts in Pouncify?
- Install Pouncify on Windows or macOS from the download page.
- Add a search: the words a seller would write (“couch” as well as “sofa”), a price range, and your Canadian location, as a city or area from Kijiji's list or a postal code.
- Set the radius in kilometers, the unit Kijiji works in and the unit every alert shows.
- Pick where alerts go: the Pouncify phone app (pair it by scanning a QR code), Telegram, email or Discord. Choose how often to check and during which hours, then turn the schedule on.
Questions about Kijiji alerts
How often does Kijiji send search alert emails?
Once a day for an alert created on the Kijiji website; in the Kijiji app you can choose daily or weekly. Either way, an ad posted in the morning reaches you with the rest of the day's ads.
Do I need a Kijiji account to use Pouncify?
No. Kijiji ads are public, so Pouncify reads them without an account. Kijiji's own email alert needs only an email address, but it still arrives once a day.
Does Pouncify's Kijiji search work outside Canada?
No. Kijiji serves Canada, so Pouncify offers Kijiji to users with a Canadian location. Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist are watched everywhere; in the United States the same search watches OfferUp in Kijiji's place.
Are Kijiji distances in kilometers?
Yes. You set the radius in kilometers and every alert shows the distance in kilometers. Most Kijiji ads carry map coordinates, so the distance is measured to the ad itself, not to the nearest city.
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