Yard Beacon vs YardSaler

Yard Beacon is the modern way to host and discover yard sales—without stapling cardboard signs to every corner. Create a listing once, choose your dates, open days, and hours, and publish your sale so neighbors can find it instantly in a clean Explore list or on an interactive map. Whether you’re decluttering, moving, or treasure hunting, Yard Beacon makes local buying and selling simple, organized, and easy to trust. For sellers, it also just makes sense: a $4.99 posting fee can cost less than the time and fuel it takes to drive around placing signs, while your listing stays visible for the schedule you choose. For Shoppers • Browse nearby yard, garage, estate, moving, and multi-family sales in a fast list or on a map • Tap any sale to view the address, dates, open days, hours, and details at a glance • Search by title, sale type, or location • Quickly see what’s happening today or this weekend • Get directions with one tap using Apple Maps For Sellers • Create a listing in minutes with a guided posting flow • Add your address, sale type, dates, open days, and hours • Publish with a simple $4.99 posting fee for your selected schedule • Receive optional end-of-sale reminders • Add a host profile, including an optional photo, so shoppers know who to greet Less clutter on street corners. More visibility where it matters—at your sale.

Find yard, garage, estate and moving sales near you on one map, save the ones worth the drive, and plan one route between them. Holding your own sale? Post it free in about 2 minutes. YardSaler is new, so some areas are still quiet. If nothing is posted near you yet, set an area alert and we'll let you know when a sale goes up, or put the first sale on the map yourself. FIND SALES WORTH THE DRIVE • Browse sales on a map or in a list • Filter by distance, date, time of day, price and whether a sale has photos • Tap a pin for a quick card: open now or when it starts, how far, and directions • Open a sale for its hours and details. When sellers add photos and item lists, you can see what's there before you leave the house • Location off? Browse upcoming sales anywhere, soonest first • Spot free Curb Alerts: things neighbors have set out for anyone to take PLAN YOUR SATURDAY • Save sales to My Plan and YardSaler puts your stops in an efficient order, with driving directions • Set a time budget if you only have a morning • Add your plan to your calendar or share it • When your neighborhood holds a Community Sale Day, add its stops to your plan and route through them KNOW WHEN SOMETHING POSTS • Area alerts: get a notification when a sale posts near you • Keyword alerts: save a search like "kids bike" or "vintage records" and hear when a match is listed nearby • Follow a seller to hear when they post their next sale ASK, OFFER, SHOW UP • Shop single items sellers post any day of the week, not only on sale weekends • Message a seller to ask questions before you drive over • Make an offer on one item, or bundle several items into one offer. Sellers have 48 hours to accept, decline or counter • Tap "On my way" so the seller knows you're coming, and "Arrived" when you get there • Leave a review after your visit POST YOUR OWN SALE • A short guided form: address, dates, hours, photos and items • Start typing your address and pick it from the suggestions, or use your current location • Saturday is filled in for you; switch to Sunday or the whole weekend with one tap • Leave it half-done and finish your draft later from the Post tab • Sell a single item, add several items at once from your photos, or post a free Curb Alert • Holding a sale on a Community Sale Day? Join it so buyers routing through the day can find you YOUR ADDRESS STAYS PRIVATE • Buyers see only the approximate area of your sale until 1 hour before it starts • Buyers see your username, not your email • Report or block any user, sale or item right where you see it • We review reports within 24 hours and remove scams, hate speech, illegal items and fake listings • Delete your account anytime in Settings WHAT COSTS MONEY Browsing, saving, planning routes, messaging and posting sales and items are free, with no listing or transaction fees. YardSaler shows ads, and a one-time Remove Ads purchase turns them off. Sellers can optionally pay to feature a sale or item for 24 or 72 hours so more buyers see it. Made for weekend treasure hunters and anyone clearing out a garage. Requires iOS 17 or later.