Comparison

Silverstone Store vs Bring a Trailer Auctions

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Silverstone Store

Shop official Formula 1 teamwear and accessories with exclusive offers and early access to new products. Enjoy a streamlined shopping experience with quick payment options and order tracking.

Highlights
  • Exclusive offers and rewards
  • Early access to products
  • Push notifications for releases
  • Quick payment methods
  • Wishlist functionality
  • Order tracking and history
  • Item sharing
Features
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Welcome to the Silverstone app! Shop our latest merch and accessories. The Silverstone app is the easiest way to shop our extensive range of Formula 1 teamwear merch and accessories. Download today to unlock the following benefits: - Exclusive Offers: Get access to offers and rewards that are exclusively available via the app, including in-store offers - Early Access: Get early access to our bestselling, products - Push Notifications: Get notified of the latest product releases and exclusive offers so that you never miss out - Quick and Easy Payment Methods: Use Apple or Google pay for speedy checkouts with other payment methods also available including PayPal & Shop Pay - Streamlined Shopping Experience: Shop the Silverstonestore with an improved customer journey including new functions like your own wish list, so you never forget your favourite items, tracking of your order status + history and the ability to instantly share items with your friends and family.

About

Bring a Trailer Auctions

Discover, discuss, and buy classic and collector vehicles through transparent auctions. Engage with a knowledgeable community and receive real-time updates on your favorite listings. Bid with confidence thanks to community vetting and sniping protection.

Highlights
  • Browse and bid on vehicles
  • Transparent auction listings
  • Community vetting and discussion
  • Custom alerts and notifications
  • Sniping protection
  • Watchlist functionality
  • Explore results with charts
Features
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Bring a Trailer Auctions are the best way to discover, discuss, and buy classic, collector, and enthusiast vehicles. We curate vehicles submitted by our users and craft transparent auction listings that present the vehicles as they are—without superlatives or dubious used-car-lot language. BaT’s knowledgeable community of more than 900,000 users and over 400,000 registered bidders help vet each listing so potential buyers can bid with confidence. The BaT app now makes it easy to browse and bid on vehicles anywhere, anytime–with streamlined vehicle submission functionality coming soon for sellers. DISCOVER AND BROWSE Find out what’s trending, see what’s ending soon, and watch the latest bids roll in on the Discover page. Know what you’re looking for? Search and filter in the Auctions tab to narrow down hundreds of listings. VARIETY OF VEHICLES BaT’s curation mirrors our eclectic taste: off-roaders are mixed with track cars, domestic makes with foreign brands, motorcycles with vintage RVs, parts with projects. We even auction re-creations, kit cars, boats, and automobilia! COMMENT THREADS We’re known for our knowledgeable and active community of enthusiasts. Easily tag other users in the app to keep the conversation going. TRANSPARENT BIDDING Place bids quickly and easily, with no surprise fees. The BaT buyer fee is 5% of the final bid price on top of the winning bid, with a minimum of $250 and a maximum of $7,500. Any additional dealer fees required by the seller will be clearly stated in the listing when applicable. SNIPING PROTECTION Each time a bid is placed at the end of an auction, the clock is extended by two minutes–giving everyone a fair chance to place their maximum bid. CUSTOM ALERTS AND NOTIFICATIONS Push notifications and the Activity Feed keep you up to date on your favorite topics, so you can stay on top of the action in real time. We can let you know when a seller adds more photos to a listing, when your favorite models go live, and when you’ve been outbid, among other things. Update settings for these events, as well as emails and sounds for bids and comments, in the More tab. NEW ENDING SOON EXPERIENCE Now you can keep an eye on multiple auctions simultaneously as they count down in the final minutes. In the new Ending Soon section, watch the comments and bids roll in for all auctions ending in the next 24 hours. EXPLORE RESULTS WITH INTERACTIVE CHARTS See the big picture or focus on what matters to you. Easily find results by adjusting the bid amount, timeframe, or vehicle year, or by making a selection right on a results chart. WATCHLIST The watchlist is home base for all of your favorite auctions, makes, models, categories, eras, and origins–just hit the bell or star to save items. We’ll even let you know when you’ve been outbid on a watched auction so you can quickly place another bid! SELLER TOOLS Quickly upload photos, reply to bidders, adjust your reserve, and see stats for your live listings. Submissions and more seller features are coming to the app soon!

Screenshots

Silverstone Store4 screens
Bring a Trailer Auctions4 screens

Verdict

The call

Silverstone Store and Bring a Trailer Auctions both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 80% of Silverstone Store's written reviews are positive against 36% of Bring a Trailer Auctions's. Bring a Trailer Auctions's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (7.8K vs 7). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Silverstone Store against 4.9 for Bring a Trailer Auctions. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bring a Trailer Auctions has 7.8K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Silverstone Store's written reviews are positive against 36% of Bring a Trailer Auctions's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Silverstone Store ships an update monthly, Bring a Trailer Auctions fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Silverstone Store versus Bring a Trailer Auctions: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSilverstone StoreBring a Trailer Auctions
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (7 ratings) — better4.9 (7.8K ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better36.1% of reviews
Number of ratings77.8K — better
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB77 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperCastoreBring A Trailer

Customer experience

Silverstone Store

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Bring a Trailer Auctions

All ratings7,726 ratings
Positive97.4%
Neutral1.2%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews133 reviews
Positive36.1%
Neutral14.3%
Negative49.6%

Bugs and requests

Silverstone Store

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Bring a Trailer Auctions

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Login issues
  • Slow loading and freezing
  • Notifications overload

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add filter by location/distance
  • Improve bidding interface
  • Optimize for iPad

In-app purchases

None

Silverstone Store

No in-app purchases

None

Bring a Trailer Auctions

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Silverstone Store free?
Silverstone Store is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bring a Trailer Auctions free?
Bring a Trailer Auctions is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Silverstone Store or Bring a Trailer Auctions?
Silverstone Store is rated higher. Silverstone Store averages 4.9 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Bring a Trailer Auctions averages 4.9 from 7.8K ratings.
Do Silverstone Store or Bring a Trailer Auctions have ads?
Silverstone Store shows ads; Bring a Trailer Auctions does not.
Which is updated more often, Silverstone Store or Bring a Trailer Auctions?
Silverstone Store ships an update monthly, and Bring a Trailer Auctions fortnightly. Most recently, Silverstone Store was updated on November 3, 2026 and Bring a Trailer Auctions on November 10, 2026.

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