Auction Sniper vs eBid
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Auction Sniper
Automate your eBay auction bidding to increase your chances of winning. This app places bids in the final seconds of auctions based on your preferences, saving you time and effort. Receive notifications for bid status and manage your snipes easily.
- Automated last-second bidding
- Import eBay watches
- Place, edit, and delete snipes
- Auction status notifications
- Sort search results
- PayPal funding
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Snipe to win eBay auctions using Auction Sniper for iOS! Welcome to hands-free auction bidding and winning. Back and better than ever, Auction Sniper will place an automated bid, based on your preferences, in the last seconds of an eBay auction to increase your chances of a winning bid. With the improved Auction Sniper app you can: • Save time by no longer having to watch the end of an auction. • Import eBay watches and easily place, edit and delete snipes. • App Notifications to let you know when you have been outbid, lose or win an Auction. • Sort searches by price, end time or newly listed. • Directly fund your Auction Sniper account with PayPal. • And more! Plus, you can try Auction Sniper for free! After you sign up, open the Auction Sniper activation email and click the "account activation" link to receive your 3 free snipes. After your first 3 winning snipes, you will be charged only 1.75% of the final auction price with fees as low as $0.35 USD for only the auctions you win.
eBid
This app allows users to buy and sell a wide variety of items through online auctions and fixed-price listings. It offers a low-cost marketplace with minimal selling fees and zero listing fees for most items, making it easy to reach a global audience.
- Buy and sell items
- Online auctions
- Fixed price marketplace
- Low selling fees
- Zero listing fees
- Global reach
- Easy selling system
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eBid - Buy or Sell Just About Anything using our online auction and fixed price marketplace. Access the eBid Online Marketplace from the comfort of your iPhone, iPad or iPod. eBid is the low cost eBay alternative with sale fees never higher than 3% and listing fees set to zero for nearly all listings. Sell your stuff using the simple selling system built into the app, just add a title, price and photo and your items will be placed up for sale on just your home eBid site or all eBid sites around the world as well as onto the largest comparison shopping sites at no extra cost for millions of extra eyeballs. Buy via our millions of listings and auctions. Grab a bargain 24 hours a day from the thousands of sellers that make up the eBid community. All this is now accessible via your fingertips in our easy to use app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Auction Sniper at 78% against eBid's 15%. Auction Sniper also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.1) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 46). eBid's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (10.3 vs 14.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Auction Sniper holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Auction Sniper has 1.7K ratings behind it against 46, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Auction Sniper's written reviews are positive against 15% of eBid's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Auction Sniper | eBid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.7K ratings) — better | 2.1 (46 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.9% of reviews — better | 15.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 46 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AuctionSniper.com | eBid Ltd |
Customer experience
Auction Sniper
eBid
User reviews
Auction Sniper
From 1.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Helps win auctions
- 💰 Saves money
- ⏱️ Convenient for busy schedules
- 🏆 Reliable and consistent
Room to improve
- 💰 Charges fees for each successful snipe
- 🐛 Occasional server errors or connectivity issues
- 🔄 Difficulty canceling or modifying sniped bids
- 🔍 Clunky user interface, especially on mobile
eBid
From 46 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Works as intended
- 💰 Affordable selling fees
- 💡 Potential to rival eBay
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent errors and crashes
- 🐛 Search function is a joke
- 🐛 Difficult navigation
- 🐛 App not updated
- 🐛 Incompatible with newer iPhones
Bugs and requests
Auction Sniper
Reported bugs
3 issues- App not loading or syncing with eBay account
- Disappearing or resetting of bid amounts
- Inconsistent performance across devices and OS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Improved mobile app experience with more features
- Option to set default currency for bids
- Better notification system for outbid alerts
- Ability to view bid history and analytics
eBid
Reported bugs
29 issues- Download doesn't work
- Cannot set shipping method
- Runtime errors
- Errors upon launch
- Cannot upload photos from iPhone
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- Error connecting to internet
- App doesn't start up
- Contact Us page error
- App doesn't work on iPhone
- Frozen screen
- Error messages on logon
- Cannot register
- App crashes
- Search feature error
- Variations not shown properly
- Cannot read text/pinch zoom
- 400 clicks from search to item
- Cannot filter listings
- PPPay credit card test issues
- Cannot log in
- Password reset issues
- Lags
- Errors that do not allow listing updates
- Prefixed shipping and payment option
- Stuck on shipping screen
- App won't open
- Error message regarding search feature
- App crashes after initial use
- Bad UI
Requested features
16 requests- Streamline listing process
- Improve search functionality
- Make app more user-friendly
- Update app regularly
- Improve photo tools (brighten, crop, rotate)
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- Option to add listing to mystore
- Show number of views per listing
- Social share option
- Smoother touch and page switching
- Fix variations display
- Allow searching by UPC or model
- Advertise on TV
- Make app smoother
- Improve UI and responsiveness
- More testing and user groups
- More advertising for the platform
In-app purchases
Auction Sniper
No in-app purchases
eBid
No in-app purchases
