Stack's Bowers Galleries vs L5
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stack's Bowers Galleries
Participate in live and online auctions for rare coins, paper money, and ancient coins. Browse upcoming lots, view past results, track items, and bid in real-time. Submit photos for appraisal or consignment.
- Live and Internet auctions
- Browse upcoming auction lots
- View past sales results
- Submit items for appraisal/consignment
- Track items with watchlist
- Place presale and proxy bids
- Real-time bidding with live streaming
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Stack’s Bowers Galleries conducts live, Internet, and specialized auctions for U.S. and world rare coins, paper money, ancient coins, precious metals, and bullion. For more than eight-decades we have achieved dynamic results and realized record-breaking prices. This history guides our unwavering commitment to serve novice and expert collectors and enthusiasts, as well as industry professionals across the world. As America's oldest coin auction house, Stack's Bowers Galleries has auctioned many of the rarest coins and most valuable collections ever assembled. Our knowledgeable staff offers unsurpassed expertise in all areas of numismatics, as well as a commitment to excellent personal service. Now more than ever, collectors are bidding online, and Stack’s Bowers Galleries has invested in creating an online experience as compelling and attractive to bidders as attending our in-person auctions. The Stack’s Bowers Galleries app features our iBid Live technology and makes participating in our sales as easy as ever. Our app allows users to browse our upcoming auctions lots, view past sales results, send us pictures of items to be appraised or consigned to a future sale, track items with our watchlist, leave presale and proxy bids, and bid in real time in our virtual auction gallery that live streams video from our auction studio.
L5
A social marketplace for buying and selling ancient coins and collectibles. Connect with other enthusiasts and discover unique items.
- Social marketplace
- Ancient coin listings
- Collectible trading
- Community features
- Discover unique items
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L5 is the social marketplace for ancient coins and collectibles.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: L5 at 4.9 against Stack's Bowers Galleries's 4.3. L5 also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 70%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). Stack's Bowers Galleries's advantage is ratings volume (267 vs 7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
L5 holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stack's Bowers Galleries has 267 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Stack's Bowers Galleries's written reviews are positive against 100% of L5's.
Stack's Bowers Galleries ships an update every 3 months, L5 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stack's Bowers Galleries | L5 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (267 ratings) | 4.9 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 267 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 126 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | STACK'S-BOWERS NUMISMATICS, LLC | L5, LLC. |
Customer experience
Stack's Bowers Galleries
L5
Bugs and requests
Stack's Bowers Galleries
Reported bugs
9 issues- Search functionality is broken
- Filters are broken
- Copying links attaches extra text
- Watch list functionality is broken
- Auction catalog UI is broken
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- Cannot stop receiving messages about watched items
- Login issues due to missing country code
- App returns to the top of the list after viewing an item
- Occasional login problems
Requested features
3 requests- Allow push notifications for bids on my items
- Option to receive or not receive messages about watched items
- Return to the last viewed item position instead of the top of the list
L5
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Stack's Bowers Galleries
No in-app purchases
L5
No in-app purchases
Questions
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