Inventory Bot vs Trade Routes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Inventory Bot
This app monitors major retailers for hard-to-find and in-demand products, providing real-time restock notifications. It can also automatically purchase items for you with a subscription and offers custom tracking for any product via URL.
- Real-time restock notifications
- Automated product purchasing (subscription)
- Custom product tracking via URL
- Monitors major retailers
- Tracks collectibles, electronics, toys, and more
- Eliminates manual website refreshing
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The only Restock App you'll need. AutoBuy since 2022! Inventory Bot is the fastest and most reliable app to track restocks for hard-to-find, and highly-in-demand products. We monitor products at major retailers, so you don't have to! Get notified in real time, the moment the product you're searching for comes back in stock. We'll even AutoBuy it for you should you choose (with subscription). Products available to track range from Collectibles, Trading Cards, Funko, PlayStation 5 (PS5), Xbox Series X and limited-edition versions like Xbox Halo Infinite, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4000 series, CPUs, Power Supplies, DDR5, Toys like Magic Mixies, Gabby's Dollhouse. If the item is hard to find, always out of stock, and you want it... We can track it! Search the item you're in search of, click "SUBSCRIBE," and we will notify you the moment it's in stock. In search of an item that's not sought out by a lot of people, but you really want to track it? We offer 10 Custom Tracking options to all users. Sign in, enter the URL of the item, and get notified! We do the tracking, so you don't have to. Sit back and wait for your item to become available, click, purchase, and check out with ease. Stop refreshing websites and following accounts for notifications. We eliminate the middleman, by providing the alert to you directly. Stop missing out on the products you've wanted! Download Inventory Bot today! EULA (Apple Standard) - http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
Trade Routes
A peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling trading cards, including Pokémon and MTG. Users can trade singles, slabs, bulk collections, and custom art directly, avoiding middleman fees.
- Buy and sell trading cards
- Direct user-to-user transactions
- No middleman fees
- Trade singles, slabs, and collections
- Support for Pokémon and MTG cards
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Buy and Sell Pokémon, MTG, and other Trading Cards directly with other users, bypassing any middleman fees! Trade anything from singles or slabs to bulk collections or custom art.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Trade Routes at 5.0 against Inventory Bot's 4.4. Trade Routes also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 64%) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Inventory Bot's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (212 vs 3). On price and iOS requirement 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. Inventory Bot sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Trade Routes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Trade Routes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inventory Bot has 212 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Inventory Bot's written reviews are positive against 100% of Trade Routes's.
Inventory Bot ships an update every 5 weeks, Trade Routes weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Inventory Bot | Trade Routes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (212 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 212 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #60 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Inventory Bot | Tyler Schwenk |
Customer experience
Inventory Bot
Trade Routes
Bugs and requests
Inventory Bot
Reported bugs
6 issues- Errors out every time it tries to buy from Amazon
- Discover links are invalid or expired
- Doesn't alert users
- Struggles to remove products from monitoring list
- Cannot enable notifications on iPhone
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- No notification settings within the app
Requested features
3 requests- More checkout automation compatibility for other retailers
- Improve functionality for Canadian users
- Clearer explanation of free trial and paid features
Trade Routes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Inventory Bot
- Base Notifications$4.991 Month
- Inventory Bot Notifications1 Month trial$8.991 Month
- AutoBuy1 Month trial$11.991 Month
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- AutoBuy (Annual)$99.991 Year
Trade Routes
No in-app purchases
