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Zwaptz

What can I get for this?

Point your phone at the thing you stopped using. Find out what it is worth. Trade it for something you actually want.

Twenty seconds from photograph to range. Just point and find out.

Appraise something now
Time
About twenty seconds from photograph to range.
Account
Needed. Trading and appraising both run on one.
Cost
Five appraisals a week free. Tokens after that.

What happens when you press it

  1. 01

    It works out what the thing is

    Brand, model, edition, and the details a photograph can carry — a serial plate, a maker’s mark, the shape of a fitting, how worn an edge is. You can also type the name yourself, and a name you type beats a guess from one picture every time.

  2. 02

    It looks for what comparable ones sold for

    A brass sextant, a cast-iron kitchen scale with a scratched steel pan, a wooden shoe last and a brass hand bell arranged on a scuffed dark table.
    Four things that are easy to value and one that is not. The scale has a market; the shoe last depends entirely on who is looking.

  3. 03

    It gives you a range, and says how sure it is

    Not a price. A band, with Low, Medium or High beside it, and the reasoning underneath so you can disagree with it for a reason rather than a feeling. Why that is a range and not a number is on confidence.

A Zwaptz appraisal result. The item is identified as a vintage acoustic guitar of unknown brand in poor condition, with tags reading dark wood body, tortoiseshell pickguard, slotted bridge with white bridge pins, heavy wear and scratches. It is valued at 150 to 450 dollars with a confidence bar reading Low, 35 percent, above a section headed How it got there.
A real appraisal, unedited. Note what it says about itself: Low confidence, and a paragraph explaining that the figure came from general knowledge rather than checked listings.

You never price your own things

You never price your own things.

That is the part people find strange for about a minute. You do not have to decide what your bread maker is worth, defend the figure, or watch somebody talk you down from it.

The range does that job, and after that the question stops being about money. It becomes: do I want the thing I am looking at?

It works on the ordinary things

Not only on the rare ones. Most of what people appraise is exactly what you would expect to find in a cupboard.

Two hands holding a phone up to photograph a dark ceramic vase standing on a wooden table, the camera light glowing cyan.
A vase off a shelf. Twenty seconds from photograph to range.
Two people leaning together over a phone, looking at the screen and talking.
Most of it happens on a sofa, not at a desk.
A brass balance scale standing on a dark slate surface, its two empty pans level, lit with a cyan highlight along the beam.
A brass scale from the back of a cupboard.

The middle step is not connected yet. Today a range comes from what the model already knows about a market rather than from listings it looked up, every valuation says so on its own page, and confidence is capped until it is connected. Finishing that is the first thing the campaign pays for.

Seen over a man's shoulder, a hand holds up a phone with a dark, switched-off screen toward an old bicycle leaning against a brick garden workshop, terracotta pots on a shelf above it.
Twenty seconds, and the bike in the shed stops being a question.
A couple sit together on a sofa in a lamplit sitting room, both laughing as they look at a phone one of them is holding, with mugs and books on the coffee table in front of them.
The second thing anybody does with a valuation is show it to somebody.