Free App to Find Value of Items: 12 What's It Worth Apps Checked

The best free app to find the value of items depends on what you need: Google Lens is free and names almost anything, but the prices it shows are asking prices, not sales. To get a resale value from a photo, Underpriced AI identifies the item and prices it from real eBay sold listings you can open, on iPhone, Android and the web, and your first scan is free with no card.

Most other "what's it worth" apps give you a free try, then a subscription. The question that separates them is whether you can see the sales behind the number.

Disclosure: we make Underpriced AI. Every other app's facts below were read on its own page or App Store listing on November 9, 2026, and each row links to where.

What's it worth apps compared

Short version: Lens names it, PriceCharting and WorthPoint price things you can already name, and the scanners do both. Among the scanners, only some say they use sold prices, and fewer show you the sales.

What is the best free app to find the value of items on iPhone?

For a name, Google Lens: it's free in the Google app. For a price from real sales, Underpriced AI: the first scan is free with no card and shows the eBay sold listings behind the number. For a free price check by hand, the eBay app's Sold Items filter, if you know what to search.

Every photo scanner in the table above is free to download, but none is free to use without limit. Read "free" on the App Store as "free to try."

What 5,636 scans say your stuff is actually worth

Before you pay for any app, it helps to know what to expect. In the 30 days to November 9, 2026, Underpriced AI users priced 5,636 items (1,176 people, our test accounts left out). Those are our resale estimates, built from real eBay sold sales:

• Half the items were worth $21 or less. The middle half ran $13 to $37.
• 41% were worth $25 or more, 12% were worth $50 or more, and 7% were worth $100 or more.
• 12% were worth under $10.
• 88% were priced from 5 or more real eBay sold sales; the median price rested on 25.

So the point of a value app isn't finding a fortune in every box. It's sorting the few worth listing from the many that aren't, quickly. Some categories hide more of the few than others:

Categories with 40 or more scans in the window.

Which app should you use for what?

Google Lens: to learn what something is

Point the camera at a vase or an old gadget and Lens finds matching images and products, often with the maker. It's free and probably already on your phone. It doesn't give a resale value: Google describes its prices as how much it costs and where to buy it. Get the name, then check what that name sold for.

Underpriced AI: to learn what it sells for

Photograph the item. It names the maker, model and marks, finds recent sold listings for that exact item, filters out lots and wrong versions, and gives a price, a range and the sales behind it. If you decide to sell, it writes the listing and publishes to eBay, and a free browser extension fills in the form on Facebook Marketplace, Poshmark, Mercari, Depop, Vinted, Whatnot, OfferUp and Etsy.

Limits: rare and one-of-a-kind pieces sell across a wide spread, and the result says so next to the number. After the free scan, it's paid: packs from $3 for 5 scans, or plans from $5 a month for 30.

The eBay Sold Items filter: free, by hand

Search the item on eBay and filter to Sold Items: green prices are what buyers paid. It's free and real. It only works if you already know what to type, and you do the matching and math yourself.

Value Scout and What is it Worth?: photo estimates on a subscription

Both identify from a photo. Value Scout (4.4 stars from 629 ratings) says it uses "marketplace data, comparable sales, pricing trends, and demand signals" and sells weekly and yearly plans. What is it Worth? (4.7 stars from 294 ratings) says it uses "recent sold listing data" and costs $4.99 a month for Pro. Before you subscribe, check whether the app shows you the actual sales for your item. We compare one directly on our Value Scout alternative page.

PriceCharting: games and cards

A price guide, not a general identifier. Search a game, card or console and you get prices split by condition (loose, complete, new, graded), which is what sets value in those categories. Free account; Collector is $6 a month. It won't help with pottery or household goods.

WorthPoint: rare antiques you can name

The long-running archive of past sales, which its site puts at about 1 billion records from auction houses and online marketplaces. When a piece almost never sells, that history is hard to replace. It's a subscription (the iPhone app lists $26.99 a month for the Price Guide), and it works best when you already know what to search.

Can ChatGPT tell me what my stuff is worth?

It'll give you a number from a photo. What a chatbot doesn't give you is the sales behind it, so you can't check whether it matched the right version. We test this every week: the first photo of items sellers recently sold goes to other AI with no hints, and each answer is scored against the real sale price beside ours. The current results are on our accuracy page, updated every Tuesday.

How do you tell if a value app is any good?

• It identifies from a photo. The whole point is that you don't know what you have.
• It prices from sold listings, not asking prices. A lamp listed at $500 that sells at $75 is worth $75.
• It shows the sales. An estimate you can't open is hard to trust on vintage or unusual pieces.
• Test it on something you already know the value of. If it names the exact version and lands near the price you expect, use it on the unknowns.

For the step-by-step method, see what is this worth from one photo.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a free app to find the value of items?

Yes, with limits. Google Lens is free and names items but shows asking prices. eBay's Sold Items filter is free and shows real sale prices if you know what to search. Underpriced AI's first scan is free with no card and identifies the item and prices it from sold listings in one step. Most other scanners are free to download, then need a subscription.

What is a "what's it worth" app?

An app that tells you what an item is worth, usually from a photo. Some only identify (Google Lens), some only price things you can name (PriceCharting, WorthPoint), and some do both (Underpriced AI, Value Scout, What is it Worth?). The useful ones price from sold listings and show them.

What is the best app to find out what my stuff is worth?

For mixed household finds, a photo scanner that shows the sold listings behind its price. For games and cards, PriceCharting. For rare antiques you can already name, WorthPoint. In our users' 5,636 scans to November 9, 2026, the median item was worth $21, so speed matters as much as the number.

Is Value Scout free?

It's a free download with paid plans: weekly from $9.99 and yearly from $29.99 on the App Store (checked November 9, 2026). Check whether it shows the sold listings for your item before relying on it for vintage pieces.

Do you need to know what an item is before you can price it?

Not with a photo scanner. Price guides like WorthPoint and PriceCharting need the name first. A scanner identifies the item from the photo, then prices that exact version.

Try Underpriced AI on web or mobile with one item you want to know about: your first scan is on us, with no card.