Thrift User Reviews

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Not finding it very helpful

I can’t get it to scan a bookshelf like it says then when I try to scan the books it’s with the UPC. It just keeps saying loading results won’t actually ever load them. I have a lamp that use Google lens and search for it. Took it to a couple of different dealers and it’s valued somewhere between $1800-4800. This thing shows its value between four and 500.
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App just doesn’t work

Man I have tried everything possible to make this work and it won’t read anything

Great for resellers

Great app, bit pricey wish I could afford it because it’s super helpful to resellers like myself.

Don’t waste your money!

I’ve spent less than 10 seconds on this app and it’s already asking for a rating. Zero stars for you. Earn my stars AFTER I get to try out your app first!

Edit: after trying the app it turns out that even though they offer a 7-day free trial you have to pay for the subscription upfront. But even with the subscription the app doesn’t work. It says it can read barcodes. I tried 5 different barcodes on 5 different books and it wouldn’t read them. I tried the bookshelf option and it could only read 1 book from the entire shelf. It’s not even worth the free trial!
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Used bookstore

Can I use this to scan their inventory for $

Paywall - don’t waste your time

Everything that makes this app seem attractive is locked behind subscriptions.

I understand that developers need to make money. But don’t make the the entire app useless unless you pay for it.

Doesn’t give you the correct book

I was so frustrated using this app. Totally excited to scan my bookshelf and get info on each book. It gave me names of other books. Nothing in the pictures I took. And I took so many pictures from all different angles and alone and with one another. Just kept giving me random books not even in my collection and nothing and I mean NOT ONE BOOK in the photos. So disappointed because I was so pumped. Deleting after only one day
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FOR BOOKS ONLY!!

BEWARE This app will only let you look up value on books.
The house button DOES NOTHING.
Don’t waste your time

Brilliant concept but app doesn’t do what it says it will

Brilliant concept but doesn’t function properly. Misses more than half of the books photographed despite limiting number of books to around 20 at a time, books being well lit, aligned perfectly and in focus. And if I look up those titles manually the app missed, the books are indeed for sale on Amazon and eBay. Also screens don’t look like what the app page depicts - there’s no detailed information about sales history, ranking etc - there’s a list of prices under the book title but you can’t drill down further. It averages the prices for you but there are almost
always weird outliers of high prices on listings that the book has never sold for, so the average value listed is inaccurate. If you could get this to actually work it would be the best reseller tool ever - so hope you figure out how to improve it. Good luck!
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Not suitable

Identified two books out of 15. Plus one wrong.

Gallery share bug - stuck

Cool idea, but it doesn’t seem to remember anything I scan. Clicked no on sharing my photo library because I just wanted to use the camera, made the app unusable. Tried restarting, granting photo access, still stuck on the “gallery access denied”. Glad I didn’t pay the $90 before finding that bug.

Trial cancelled
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Useful

Very useful and easy to use.

Doesn’t Work

I downloaded this app and gave it the old college try. Unfortunately, it produced results for the first ten or so items and then showed no results for any subsequent scans. Re-scan of earlier items did not produce results any longer. Not reliable whatsoever. Also, the free trial didn’t work. Got charged immediately.
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Only works sometimes, wildly inaccurate.

It’s a great idea, poorly executed by a developer that just doesn’t care about his product. It’s currently not working at all. Will they fix it? Probably, but who knows when. ZERO customer service, don’t even bother trying. When it does work it’s wrong about 90% of the time on values.

Can’t afford it

Would love to try out your app but I cant afford it. Maybe offer a reasonable monthly. Or even three month plan to give people a chance to actually try it out. First month half price or something. Idk but I can’t pay that kind of money especially with only one week to test it out.

Doesn’t work no support

Another app that promises the world yet doesn’t work. Support an inactive Facebook page.

ChatGPT is free and more accurate

Using this I thought this would be fantastic way to work out the value of books, but while using it for the past hour for every hundred books I’ve scanned I reckon at least 30 we’re not just incorrect. They were non-existent.

At one point it seemed to scan a nail on the wall above the bookcase and gave me a book title.

Later on I kept getting the same book title whenever it scanned vacant spaces.

For the price it’s highly inaccurate.

It does have a great feature where you can tap the book where it tells you the value and it will show on the image where that book is located on the bookcase, although quite often it’ll just select a random nail on the wall, it’ll select completely wrong book because it miss scanned or it’ll select a vacant gap and say it’s a book that doesn’t exist.

It has potential but in this day and age with the advanced AI systems out there this is not really helpful for the price.

I tried doing small groups of books with bundles of five. I’ve tried doing an entire bookshelf and accuracy either way is not very accurate.
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No instructions.

Scanner doesn’t seem to work. No instructions how to use it.

Great

Great

Fantastic

Fantastic