21 Best Selling Apps to Sell Your Stuff in January 2026

These platforms are suitable for selling all kinds of items:

Our pick: Meta Marketplace (formerly Facebook Marketplace)

Meta Marketplace (still commonly referred to by its old name, Facebook Marketplace or FBMP) is a heavy hitter in this space.

It’s been our top pick for two months in a row now due to how easy it is to list items in multiple local community pages, which increases your chances of getting the item off your hands sooner. This makes FBMP a great platform for making quick cash while decluttering.

This service is primarily used by people who want to sell items to people in their area, so it might be a better choice than eBay if you want to sell something bulky or hard to ship, such as a piece of furniture or a large appliance like a refrigerator.

As with eBay, you can list just about any physical item on Meta Marketplace, although it has some of the same restrictions (e.g., no animals).

When it comes to shipping and pickup, Meta Marketplace is the inverse of eBay. Although it allows shipping, most people use it for local transactions.

5 honorable mentions

1. eBay

If you spend any time online at all, you’ve almost certainly heard of eBay. This was the go-to platform for selling online for ages and is the grandfather of every other secondhand marketplace. In 2024, it announced it had 134 million active users, which makes selling on eBay a great choice for newbies and experienced sellers alike.

You can use eBay to sell or auction most everyday items, with just a few restrictions (e.g., you can’t sell live animals or anything that’s illegal or dangerous).

2. Shopify

Shopify is an e-commerce platform where you can set up your own store and sell all kinds of products and services, both digital and physical.

It’s a very beginner-friendly platform with an intuitive interface, so even if you’re new to e-commerce, you can easily create and manage an online store. It’s a good option for all types of businesses, whether you want to start your own clothing brand, sell lesson plans, or do something else entirely.

3. OfferUp

OfferUp is another marketplace where you can sell just about anything that isn’t illegal. One of its selling points is the lack of fees if you sell locally (whereas others like eBay take a substantial cut of your profits regardless of how you sell your item).

The downside of OfferUp is that it’s much less well-known than eBay, which means it has a smaller base of users.

4. Nextdoor

As the name suggests, Nextdoor is also focused on local transactions. Rather than primarily being a marketplace, it’s a social media platform that’s meant to help people connect with their neighbors, so your experience will depend on the people in your area.

You can sell most everyday items on Nextdoor (although there’s a list of restrictions on the site). In contrast to many of its competitors, Nextdoor allows you to sell virtual items, such as digital art, and services, such as lawn mowing. You can also rehome pets on the site, although you’re not allowed to sell animals for a profit; instead, you have to pay rehoming fees.

5. Mercari

Mercari is a marketplace where you can list almost anything that can be shipped, but it’s not as big as platforms like eBay or FBMP.

You can’t ship to buyers outside the US. However, you can sell locally on Mercari if the Mercari Local service is available in your area (which connects buyers and sellers in the same regions with item deliveries via Uber or Dolly).

Classified ad sites are online spaces where you can post advertisements for products, services, jobs, housing, and more. They’re usually organized into categories to make it easier for users to find what they want.

Whereas the online marketplaces we’ve listed so far allow you to handle transactions on the platform, which has the advantage of added security and convenience, these classified sites are more suitable for communicating with buyers directly and organizing your own payments and shipping. This usually means no fees.

Check out these popular classified ad sites:

Our pick: CPlus Classifieds (Craigslist)

Like eBay, Craigslist is an established site you’ve probably already heard of. It’s nearly three decades old but is still going strong. In 2019, it finally released a smartphone app. It now has two different apps available for download: the original app and CPlus Classifieds, which is a souped-up version with extra features.

You can sell most items on Craigslist, although as you’d expect, there are several restrictions.

As an established platform, Craigslist has many of the same advantages that eBay and Meta Marketplace have—in particular, a very large base of users, which translates into a lot of potential customers.

The main downside of Craigslist is that, while it will let you list items for sale, it won’t actually facilitate transactions for you. In other words, you’ll have to arrange a payment method (and ensure you get paid) yourself.

Most people use Craigslist for local transactions, although if you sell something to a buyer who’s outside your area, there’s no reason you can’t ship the item.

Honorable mention: VarageSale

VarageSale calls itself an “online garage sale” or “virtual garage sale.” It’s a local marketplace designed for people who prefer not to buy and sell anonymously. It’s marketed as a safer alternative to sites like Craigslist.

VarageSale is only for in-person pickup. They ask sellers not to ship items.

All of the platforms we’ve listed so far accept listings for all kinds of goods, but there are also a lot of fashion-specific platforms. If you have clothes or accessories to sell, you can use these to reach a targeted audience and get better prices.

Here are just a few of the many apps to sell clothes on:

Our pick: Poshmark

Poshmark is an easy-to-use “social marketplace” where you can sell clothes and other items. It also has social media-like features, such as the ability to chat with other users, like posts, and follow news feeds. The goods that people list on the platform are fairly high-end.

The combination of all these features hits the sweet spot for a lot of sellers and makes it our top choice for selling used clothes.

Poshmark is very widely used, with 100 million people (or “poshers”) using the site across the US, Canada, Australia, and India. This means it’s a great way to get your clothes seen by lots of potential buyers.

Restricted and prohibited items (e.g., socks, underwear, plants, and animals) are listed on their website.

Poshmark will send you a prepaid shipping label for your items, which you can ship either by scheduling a USPS package pick-up or by dropping them in the mailbox or at a post office. Alternatively, you can go to a USPS location, where they can print the label and ship the package for you.

4 honorable mentions

1. Vinted

Vinted is a marketplace for buying, selling, and trading secondhand fashion items. It’s been big in Europe for years and is now gaining traction in the US.

Vinted recommends uploading items with at least five photos to help buyers evaluate them. Once an item sells, you have five days to ship it; after the buyer indicates they received it and it doesn’t have any issues (e.g., it wasn’t damaged during the shipping process), you’ll get paid.

2. thredUp

This is a platform you can use to sell women’s and children’s clothes, shoes, and accessories. It isn’t a marketplace like many of the other sites and apps we’ve mentioned. Instead, thredUP calls itself an “online consignment and thrift store,” and it operates similarly to a normal consignment store.

Rather than listing your clothes on the site, you send them directly to thredUP. They then decide which items are sellable (and donate any that aren’t), quote you a price to buy your wares, and then sell them for you.

3. Flyp

Flyp is a consignment platform for designer and name-brand fashion items. Unlike thredUP, Flyp doesn’t do the selling for you. Rather, they connect you to other independent sellers, who will purchase the items from you and resell them.

Flyp doesn’t accept nonbranded items or ones from generic, unknown, or boutique brands, so save your Shein and JC Penney items for another site.

4. Depop

Depop is another social marketplace for buying and selling clothes, shoes, and accessories. The interface looks like Instagram’s, and it’s very popular with Gen Z and other young fashionistas.

Depop is less picky about the condition of items they accept than some of the other sites we’ve listed. They accept items with flaws or that are in less-than-perfect condition (as long as the listing accurately describes the condition per their guide).

For more valuable items, you may want to use one of the following platforms to fetch a better price. They’re mainly for selling jewelry and luxury clothing.

Our pick: Vestiaire Collective

Vestiaire Collective is an international marketplace for pre-owned women’s, men’s, and children’s luxury fashion items. Their focus is on high-end designer clothing and fine jewelry, especially vintage items (which they define as anything that’s 15 years old or older).

You have more control over your pricing, unlike on another popular option called TheRealReal (described below), so you might have a better chance selling your item for the actual price you want.

Vestiaire is quite picky about which brands they’ll accept. Their website has a comprehensive list of brands allowed on Vestiaire Collective (plus a list of brands you cannot buy or sell).

A major advantage of this platform is that you can sell your item to buyers in 46 countries. If the buyer’s in your country, Vestiaire Collective will pay your shipping costs; otherwise, you’ll need to pay for shipping yourself (including any related customs fees). Either way, Vestiaire Collective will provide you with a shipping label to use.

2 honorable mentions

1. The RealReal

The RealReal touts itself as “the world’s largest marketplace for authenticated luxury resale.” It’s an online store (although it also features brick-and-mortar locations) where you can consign clothing, fine jewelry, and watches for men, women, and children. They also have categories for fine art, home decor, and beauty items.

The RealReal allows you to buy and sell items from designers like Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Prada (with a comprehensive list of designers they accept featured on their website). One of the company’s distinctive features is the rigorous authentication process it uses to make sure that everything on the platform is genuine, so it’s only for selling very high-quality items.

2. Worthy

Worthy calls itself a “jewelry selling partner.” As part of their service, they’ll handle shipping your jewelry, cleaning it, taking studio photos, and grading (where an independent organization will assess things like the cut, color, clarity, carat weight, and craftsmanship of the gemstones and metals used).

Once Worthy has made your piece ready for auction, you can set a reserve price (the minimum price you’re willing to accept), and Worthy will create an auction listing for you and promote it to the professional buyers who use their site. You can then start your auction and wait for offers.

If you have more than a few old phones and broken laptops lying around, you’re in good company. Believe it or not, your old electronics aren’t necessarily junk—they might be worth something.

There are many sites you can use to sell items like phones, laptops, and tablets. Here are a couple:

Our pick: Swappa

Swappa is an online community market for buying and selling phones, video games, tablets, laptops, watches, shoes, sneakers, home tech, and more. You can also swap items with the Swappa trade-in program. This allows you to sell old devices and get credits toward a new purchase. Even broken phones may be eligible for this program.

While you can sell tech on other general platforms like eBay, Swappa’s focus on providing quality control, being a tech-specific marketplace, and offering low fees makes it a go-to option if you have any high-demand devices you want to turn over for some cash.

There are additional steps involved in the selling process on Swappa, as it’s one of the few platforms that ask for “verification photos” of your device. They must be accompanied by unique codes that Swappa will provide to confirm your ownership, as well as the condition and authenticity of the item.

Swappa allows local pickups, although they don’t recommend them. If you ship something, you have to pay the postage fees (with various shipping options permitted, depending on the proximity of the buyer).

If you’re giving your home a makeover or moving house, try these platforms that specialize in selling furniture:

Our pick: Chairish

Chairish is an online marketplace for furniture, decor, and art. It’s one of the most popular sites for would-be furniture sellers who need to offload old but high-quality pieces that they don’t need anymore.

Given its appeal with nationwide audiences, we recommend trying it out first before using another platform like AptDeco (listed below), which is mostly only popular in certain metropolitan areas, such as NYC.

Chairish sells contemporary, vintage, and antique items from various periods in a range of styles (although 85% of their inventory is vintage). 1

You can personally deliver items to local buyers or give them the option to pick them up from you. For nonlocal buyers, there are various shipping options, depending on the size of the product. As mentioned, Chairish has its own shipping service (which costs $149+). They’ll send professional shippers to wrap, load, and deliver large and fragile items for you.

Honorable mention: AptDeco

AptDeco is another online furniture resale marketplace for buying and selling all types of furniture—new, used, and vintage. Unlike Chairish, it accepts contemporary mass-market brands such as IKEA and Wayfair, so it’s a good alternative for items that aren’t eligible to list on Chairish.

They even provide a guide to help you predict how many days your item will take to sell. Unfortunately, compared with Chairish, AptDeco has more limited delivery services (in terms of the areas covered). You’ll have to arrange your own shipping if you’re located somewhere else.

If you’re the crafty type, you can sell your creations on these online platforms:

Our pick: Etsy

Etsy is another very popular website, and one you’ve probably already heard of. It’s meant for buying and selling handmade items (e.g., printables, knitted scarves, and woodcraft), vintage items (i.e., that are 20+ years old), and craft supplies and tools. Only items in these categories are eligible for listing.

It has a lower barrier to entry than Amazon Handmade (see below), which has higher fees but is less overcrowded, so we still recommend setting up here first.

The largest market on Etsy consists of young women. There are other people on the site as well, of course, but it’s particularly good for selling products that are popular with that demographic.

When you sell on Etsy, you can choose from various shipping options, including in-person pick-ups. You can also buy discounted shipping labels (as long as you accept Etsy Payments or PayPal as a payment method) to mail your items, or you can choose your own shipping services.

Honorable mention: Amazon Handmade

Amazon Handmade is a marketplace created by the online shopping behemoth Amazon.com. It’s a place where artisans, artists, and crafters can sell their handmade products worldwide. Some crafts that sell well on the platform include home decor products, stationery items, and handmade jewelry.

When you list your handmade products here, they’ll also appear on the main Amazon website, so you’ll be able to reach an extremely broad audience, but its sign-up process is more complicated than that of many of the other sites we’ve mentioned, which allow you to register fast and start listing products that same day.

If you’re interested in doing business online but you’d rather sell services than products, that’s also possible. Many websites and apps help freelancers find all kinds of gigs, from proofreading and graphic design to tutoring and consulting.

The sites that you can use to start freelancing include:

• Upwork
• Fiverr
• Freelancer
• Guru
• PeoplePerHour

To use these sites, sign up, create a profile (if you have prior experience, this will involve uploading a portfolio of your work), and start applying for jobs.

Gig apps for odd jobs

If you’d rather do manual labor than white-collar freelance work, there are several other apps and platforms you can use to find gigs. You can find platforms for:

• Handyman tasks: Several apps enable you to find work putting together furniture, troubleshooting plumbing and electronics, and doing other handyman work. Check out our reviews of TaskRabbit and Thumbtack Pro, two popular handyman apps, to see how they compare.
• Pet-sitting: There’s a whole slew of dog-walking and pet-sitting apps that you can use to find gigs to become a dog walker or pet sitter. You can read our reviews of Wag! and Rover (two widely-used apps in this space) for more info about them; we also compared Wag! and Rover to see which app is better for earning money.
• Babysitting: In a similar vein, if you want to start a babysitting side hustle, you can do so on several platforms. We’ve also created reviews of Care.com, UrbanSitter, Sittercity, and Bambino, some of the most well-known apps for finding babysitting jobs (and other care-related jobs of all kinds).

Note that, in contrast to the selling platforms and marketplaces we listed above, many of these gig apps will require you to undergo a background check before they allow you to apply for work.