Stockwave vs DealerSync Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stockwave
Streamline wholesale vehicle acquisition by simplifying auction sourcing. Quickly evaluate vehicles, access pricing guides, and get real-time bid guidance to make profitable decisions.
- VIN scanning for bid determination
- Access to multiple price guides
- Vehicle history reports
- Auction condition report evaluation
- Save vehicle notes
- Navigate auction run lists
- Real-time bid guidance
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Stockwave is the latest innovation from vAuto for Wholesale Vehicle Acquisition. The Stockwave application will work for all existing vAuto clients that have a current AuctionGenius subscription or sign up for a new Stockwave subscription. Sourcing used car inventory at auction can drain time and money from a dealership. The searching and researching before the auction doesn’t always lead to the best buying opportunities. The bidding and buying process doesn’t always lead to profitable outcomes. Stockwave simplifies sourcing so much, you don’t have to spend time searching or researching - or waste money on the wrong bids again. The Stockwave mobile application is designed to aide in searching for Wholesale inventory from all major United States Automobile Auctions and for quickly evaluate the vehicles when at alive auction. Key Features: * Scan a VIN to quickly determine what to bid on a vehicle * Access price guides based on your current subscription such as MMR, KBB, Black Book, NADA, and Galves * Access Vehicle History Reports * Evaluate the Auction Condition Reports before you place a bid * Save Notes about each Vehicle to access your prior research * Navigate Auction Run Lists with ease while at the auction * Access real time bid guidance and profit projections Usage Requirements: * This app requires an active subscription with vAuto for AuctionGenius or Stockwave. * The VIN scanner requires access to your camera, and you can grant permissions by going to Settings -> Privacy -> Camera. * The VIN scanner requires an autofocusing camera. Some older Apple devices do NOT have autofocus cameras, so VIN scanning is NOT supported on those devices. * The Black Book and Galves price guides may require an additional subscription to access the data on a mobile device.
DealerSync Mobile
This business application provides auction pricing and inventory management tools for users of its connected platform. It allows for on-the-go access to key features, requiring an existing customer account and specific software package access.
- Auction pricing
- Inventory management
- On-the-go access
- Platform connectivity
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DealerSync Mobile is your complete solution for auction pricing and managing your inventory. This is the app to connect to our platform and bring the features of DealerSync with you on the go. To use DealerSync Mobile, you need to be a customer of DealerSync and have access with your username and password to our Inventory platform. Mobile application access must also be part of your software package.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Stockwave at monthly against DealerSync Mobile's every 3 months. Stockwave also leads on ratings volume (31 vs 9). DealerSync Mobile's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 42%). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.5 for Stockwave against 3.6 for DealerSync Mobile. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 9 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 42% of Stockwave's written reviews are positive against 50% of DealerSync Mobile's.
Stockwave ships an update monthly, DealerSync Mobile every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stockwave | DealerSync Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (31 ratings) | 3.6 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | vAuto, Inc. | DealerSync, Inc. |
Customer experience
Stockwave
DealerSync Mobile
In-app purchases
Stockwave
No in-app purchases
DealerSync Mobile
No in-app purchases
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