Mercari
For casual sellers decluttering their homes and bargain hunters or collectors seeking discounted retail items.
Known forMercari: Buying & Selling App
For casual sellers decluttering their homes and bargain hunters or collectors seeking discounted retail items.
Facilitating peer-to-peer commerce by connecting casual sellers with bargain hunters. Providing a streamlined marketplace for secondhand goods.
Target audience
Portfolio
Free 3Last updated
Mercari: Buying & Selling App
v9.32.0
3mo ago
Primary focus
C2C marketplace for secondhand goods
Scale
indie
Target audience
Casual sellers decluttering their homes and bargain hunters or collectors seeking discounted retail items.
Released 12 updates in the last 6 months for their single active application, indicating a high-frequency development cycle.
3 apps analysed
Broad category support beyond fashion
Analysis in progress
Analysis in progress
Single-market publisher — every app ships only to United States.
Based on 1 of 3 apps with localized market data — more coverage rolling in as scans complete · last scanned .
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Positive apps
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Neutral / mixed
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Negative apps
52/100
Avg sentiment score
Poshmark is the most direct rival in the social-selling space, maintaining a high innovation velocity with 18 releases in the last six months and a comparable scale of over 1M reviews.
Strategic outlook coming soon.
What fed this analysis
Captures the Gen Z demographic with an Instagram-like interface, posing a threat to Mercari’s younger user base.
The incumbent giant that defines the marketplace category, offering the most significant inventory overlap and global reach.
The primary rival for local-pickup transactions, now aggressively competing in the shipping space where Mercari leads.
Leading the live-stream commerce shift, forcing Mercari to pivot its product roadmap toward video-based selling.
High-velocity peer (22 releases in 6 months) focusing on the premium/luxury menswear and streetwear segment.
Facebook Marketplace leverages an existing social graph to provide zero-fee local selling, a major top-of-funnel threat.
Dominates the high-value sneaker and collectible niche with a 'stock market' pricing model.
A managed marketplace peer that competes for the 'Luxury Valentino' segment mentioned in Mercari's description.
An emerging video-first marketplace targeting the TikTok-native demographic with high-energy live sales.
