Bikesales vs Flatmate Finders
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bikesales
Easily buy and sell new and used bicycles across Australia. This app provides tools to research, compare, and find your next bike, or to list and manage your own for sale with photos and ad stats.
- Search thousands of bikes
- Save favorite bikes and searches
- Get expert reviews and advice
- List bikes directly from mobile
- Track ad interest and stats
- Share listings on social media
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Buy and sell bikes — anywhere, anytime Put Australia’s #1 bike website in your pocket. You'll have an easy-to-use interface and powerful tools at your fingertips to research, buy and sell bikes. Buy your next bike: • Search thousands of new and used bikes across Australia • Search multiple makes, models, and locations at once • Save and sync your favourite bikes, searches, and alerts • Get bike comparisons, expert reviews, news and advice Sell your bike with confidence: • List straight from your mobile with Snap ‘n’ Sell • Edit your ad anytime and track interest with our ad stats • Add great photos to help your ad stand out • Share your listing via Facebook, X, email, or SMS Your feedback helps us create a better app for you. Email any thoughts or suggestions to iosapp@carsales.com.au
Flatmate Finders
Find your ideal home or flatmate with personalized searches, detailed profiles, and secure communication features. The app offers free in-app calls and notifications for new matches and messages, ensuring a quick and safe search experience.
- Personalized searches
- Detailed user profiles
- Instant messaging
- Free in-app calls
- Home listing reviews
- Match notifications
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Personalised searches, detailed profiles, instant messages and free in-app calls ensure that you find the perfect home or flatmate quickly, easily and safely. Every home listing is reviewed by our team to help you get the best results. You'll receive notifications about new matches and messages so you don't miss out. Suitable for people of all ages, shared and vacant homes, short to long-term stays, singles/couples/friends, LGBTI+, pet friendly homes, and all rent budgets.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bikesales at none against Flatmate Finders's 10. Flatmate Finders's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.6 vs 4.1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and device support 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. Flatmate Finders sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Bikesales asks for nothing beyond the download.
Flatmate Finders holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Bikesales's written reviews are positive against 71% of Flatmate Finders's.
Bikesales ships an update fortnightly, Flatmate Finders every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bikesales | Flatmate Finders |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (9 ratings) | 4.6 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.0% of reviews | 70.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 195 MB | 111 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | carsales.com Ltd. | FLATMATE FINDERS PTY LTD |
Customer experience
Bikesales
Flatmate Finders
User reviews
Bikesales
From 9 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Great for finding bikes
- 👍 Handy variety of bikes
- 👍 Good site for selling/buying
- 👍 Easy to navigate
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Login issues
- 🐛 Images not filling screen
- 🐛 Confusing app layout
- 🐛 Search function flawed
Flatmate Finders
From 14 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and navigate
- 🚀 Fast and efficient matching
- ✅ Helpful for finding flatmates/tenants
- 💰 Good value for money
- 🌟 High success rate in finding accommodation/tenants
Room to improve
- ⚠️ Many inactive/old listings
- 💸 Expensive subscription fees
- 🚫 Limited filtering options
- 🤔 Lack of tenant reviews/landlord background checks
- 🤖 Presence of fake accounts/scammers
Bugs and requests
Bikesales
Reported bugs
86 issues- Login fails
- Authentication issues
- Ads not visible in app
- Images don't fill screen
- Recent search not stored
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- Swiping right goes to home page
- Saved searches don't show new listings
- App freezes
- Latest update error 502
- Search function unusable
- Price history removed
- Reset password every login
- Scrolling glitches with videos
- Buyer messages not delivered
- App crashes when opening messages
- Photos not uploaded for days
- Constant updating pages causes problems
- Can't save items
- Mobile data not working for the app
- Seller not responding
- Sold ads still advertised
- Messages from buyers not delivered
- App crashes when opening messages
- Latest update locks out all apps
- Directs all actions to mobile site
- Haphazard alerts, missing interested parties
- Spam bot responses to ads
- Keeps asking for verification
- App crashes when trying to open a message
- Took money then canceled ad
- Lost saved searches and bikes
- Not easy managing ads from different devices
- No address for dealers
- Text too small in news articles
- Notifications are wrong/pointless
- Captcha is persistent and deterring
- App is lagging
- Page is not loading
- App shutting down without notice
- Search function not user-friendly
- Filters reset every time
- Less search options available
- Saved ads are jumbled
- No option to view ads
- Editing redirects to browser
- Mobile app needs work
- Cannot filter by manufacturer
- Constant updating pages
- Cannot save items
- No price updates
- Too many sold ads still advertised
- Poor search
- Ads for bikes in another state
- Bike specs incorrect
- No photos uploaded
- Hard to use
- Can't save items
- No price updates
- Too many sold ads still advertised
- Does not use mobile data
- Seller not responding
- Must be sold yet still advertised
- Rubbish app
- Messages from potential buyers do not get delivered
- App crashes when trying to open a message
- Can’t filter by proximity
- No integration with maps/Google maps
- Latest update fail
- Useless
- Message and Notifications are rubbish
- Spam magnet
- Keeps asking for verification
- Took my money then canceled my ad
- Lost all my saved searches and bikes
- Managing ads from different devices
- No address
- Text is too small in the news articles
- Notifications are pointless
- Saved searches could do with some improvements
- Captcha is persistent and deterring user access
- Rubbish app with zero customer service
- Not user-friendly search function and navigation
- Worst update ever
- Cant search for a particular bike
- Less options
- Jumbled up saved ads
Requested features
15 requests- Add recent search feature
- Revert swipe gesture
- Add more search options for specific features
- Add power to weight value calculation for sorting
- Add range and power to weight sorting
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- Increase minimum photo count to 8
- Improve saved ad organization
- Add option to view ads directly
- Add option to choose state in dropdown
- Make font size adjustable in news articles
- Improve notification system for new/changed listings
- Add badge for new or updated listings
- Allow filtering by 'show only bikes with registration'
- Integrate with maps/Google Maps for seller location
- Show last listed price or actual sale price in sold notifications
Flatmate Finders
Reported bugs
8 issues- App is very slow and sometimes does not load
- Messages not loading
- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
- Filters are ignored
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- App deactivates profiles without clear reason
- Issues with dark mode
- Message field could be bigger
Requested features
15 requests- Allow setting hard filters for matches
- Improve filtering options (gender, couples, pets, budget)
- Add tenant review system
- Implement landlord background checks
- Allow cutting and pasting mobile numbers
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- Enable calling directly from the app
- Filter out inactive users
- Show last online date on profiles
- Filter by move-in date preferences
- More gender options
- Remove sexuality as a filter criterion
- Improve the matching algorithm accuracy
- Allow deleting profiles from matches feed
- Larger message field
- Improve dark mode functionality
In-app purchases
Bikesales
No in-app purchases
Flatmate Finders
- Flatmate service for 14 days$7.99
- Flatmate service for 1 month$9.99
- Flatmate service for 14 days$12.99
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- Flatmate service for 2 months$14.99
- Flatmate service for 1 month2 variants$14.99
- Flatmate service for 14 days$14.99
- Flatmate service for 1 month$17.99
- Flatmate service for 2 months$19.99
- Flatmate service for 2 months$22.99
Questions
Is Bikesales free?
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