Reselling? There’s an app for that.
There are so many apps that save time and increase efficiency for resellers!
As a multi-platform e-commerce seller, I use apps for photo-editing, business management, pricing and listing, finding stock photos, and sourcing inventory and supplies!
Here are some of the best apps for resellers and small business owners:
Must-Have Photo-Editing Apps for Resellers:
1. Photoroom
PhotoRoom is another great app for photo-editing. Photoroom is a background-removing app that can be used to create amazing photos.
The app removes the background in images in just seconds, giving you clean and stunning photographs with maximized SEO.
Did you know that a plain white background performs best on marketplaces and major search engines like Google? And guess what, Background Remover by Photoroom is now available in Vendoo for eBay and Poshmark! Make your photos look professional in seconds, right from the listing form.
Photoroom also features thousands of creative backgrounds and the ability to upload your own image as a background. With Photoroom, you can take your photos anywhere and create perfect listings. Check out this edit:
Photoroom is a free app, but I highly recommend subscribing to the pro version to remove the watermark and give you the bulk-editing feature for only $47 for the entire year!
Unique features: Removes background from images automatically, offers thousands of creative backgrounds, and allows uploading your own background.
Potential downsides: Free version has a watermark, and some users may find the pro version expensive.
Download it here on the Apple App Store.
Download it here on the Google Play Store.
2. Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom is a professional photo-editing, camera, and photoshop app for professional and high-quality images. Lightroom offers settings and filters for live photography and powerful photo-editing capability. The Lightroom editing software is superb, and the presets are amazing. This app is designed for photographers and does everything as far as editing and adjustment. I love using presets for my modeled cover photos and social media posts.
One of my favorite things about LightRoom (besides the amazing presets) is that you can use the masking tool to make edits and adjustments to only the subject or the background. The background adjustments on LightRoom are far more professional than than the harsh background removal tools that don’t always trace the subject correctly.
Adobe Lightroom offers a free trial.
Unique features: Professional photo editing tools, powerful masking tool for precise edits, and amazing presets.
Potential downsides: Paid subscription required for full access, and the masking tool may have a learning curve for beginners.
Download it here on the Apple App Store.
Download it here on the Google Play Store.
3. Snapseed
Snapseed is another amazing photo-editing app. Snapseed offers advanced photo editing, adjustment, and filtering. Snapseed features a brush tool by which you can manually select the areas to edit, creating stunning and professional results. Snapseed also offers very professional text overlay formats for signs, graphics, and advertisements.
Unique features: Advanced photo editing tools, brush tool for manual edits, and professional text overlay formats.
Potential downsides: Lacks some of the more advanced features of Lightroom, and the brush tool may be time-consuming for complex edits.
Download it here on the Apple App Store.
Download it here on the Google Play Store.
4. PicTapGo
PicTapGo is an efficient and very powerful photo-editing app. PicTapgo is super quick and easy to use, offering basic adjustments to light, contrast, color, and warmth, which is really all we need for listing images. It also has some basic filters.
The “Lights On” Filter is my favorite-It really brightens up images without making them too bright.
Plus, you can sync PicTapGo to your camera roll, so you can edit and save your pictures in PicTapGo right from your “edit” screen on your camera roll (as opposed to uploading them to the app).
Unique features: Efficient and easy to use, offers basic adjustments, "Lights On" filter for brightening images, and syncs with camera roll for editing directly from there.
Download it here on the Apple App Store.
5. Vendoo
Vendoo is the ultimate tool for e-commerce sellers. Use Vendoo to easily crosslist your inventory on multiple marketplaces, store and manage your inventory, bulk delist/relist your items for fresh new daily listings, record all profit and revenue tracking, and access business analytics across marketplaces.
Vendoo has become a one-stop shop for managing my reselling business! It is the best cross-listing service, plus it does so much more!
Plus, Vendoo has a mobile app! With the Vendoo mobile app you can list, crosslist, delist/relist, mark items as sold, and manage your inventory at your fingertips from anywhere on the go!
Download it here on the Apple App Store.
Download it here on the Google Play Store.
With Vendoo, you can crosslist to multiple marketplaces including eBay, Poshmark, Mercari, Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, Depop, Grailed, Shopify, and more!
Want to see how Vendoo stacks up against competitors? Check out Best Crossposting Apps for Resellers in 2024
6. Canva
Canva is an amazing app for professional graphics, advertisements, virtual signs and notes, and social media marketing. Canva has thousands of graphics to select from which can be entirely customized.
The computer version is even better than the Canva app!
On the pro version, you can create your own custom brand kit with brand colors, fonts, and your logo.
Unique features: Thousands of graphics to choose from, ability to customize graphics, create brand kit with pro version.
Potential downsides: Free plan has limited features, and paid plans may be expensive for casual users.
Download it here on the Apple App Store.
Download it here on the Google Play Store.
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7. PicCollage
PicCollage is a collage app that provides countless aesthetically pleasing collage formats for any number of images. I use PicCollage to create collages when additional photos are necessary for my listings. I also use PicCollage to reformat rectangular images into square mode.
Here is an example of a collage that I made for Depop, because Depop only allows 4 images in your listing:
Unique features: Countless collage formats, ability to reformat images into squares.
Potential downsides: Lacks some of the more advanced editing features of other photo editing apps, and may not be suitable for professional-level collages.
Download it here on the Apple App Store.
Download it here on the Google Play Store.
8. InShot
InShot is my favorite app for editing videos. I use it for my listing videos on Poshmark and Depop, and also to create my content for social media like Instagram reels and TikToks.
On InShot, you can edit the size and speed of videos, and also to add transition effects, music, voiceover, text, and filters without a watermark!
Unique features: Edits video size and speed, adds transitions, music, voiceover, text, and filters without a watermark.
Potential downsides: Lacks some of the more advanced editing features of other video editing apps, and may not be suitable for professional-level videos.
Download it here on the Apple App Store.
Download it here on the Google Play Store.
Check out this video to see how I use some of these photo editing applications!
My Favorite Apps for Reseller Business Management:
9. GoodNotes
GoodNotes is my favorite app of all time. I use it for note-taking, to-do lists, scheduling, recording measurements, and bookkeeping. I use GoodNotes for everything, not just reselling.
It is essentially a virtual notebook, with hundreds of templates and the ability to organize information in various formats, charts, tables, files, and folders. GoodNotes works with an Apple iPad and an Apple pencil. It can be downloaded on the Apple App Store here.
Unique features: Virtual notebook with hundreds of templates, ability to organize information in various formats, works with Apple iPad and Apple Pencil.
Potential downsides: Only available on iPad, and may not be suitable for users who prefer traditional pen and paper.
10. Microsoft To Do
Microsoft To-Do is another amazing app for business management. The app allows you to make countless lists, organized by category and urgency. To Do assists with task management and organization in a much more efficient way than the standard “notes” app found on most smartphones.
Unique features: Creates countless lists organized by category and urgency, assists with task management and organization.
Potential downsides: Lacks some of the more advanced features of other to-do list apps, and may not be suitable for users who need more complex organization tools.
Download it here on the Apple App Store.
Download it here on the Google Play Store.
If Microsoft isn’t for you, there are many alternative list-making apps available for download.
11. QuickBooks
QuickBooks Self-Employed is an incredible app for small business owners. It tracks expenses, receipts, calculates mileage, and suggests potential deductions. QuickBooks Self-Employed makes book-keeping and tax preparation so simple! I highly recommend this app for reseller book-keeping. If you use Turbo Tax, you can use QuickBooks Self Employed for free!
Unique features: Tracks expenses, receipts, calculates mileage, suggests deductions, makes bookkeeping and tax preparation easier.
Potential downsides: Paid subscription required after the first year, and may not be suitable for businesses with complex accounting needs.
Download it here on the Apple App Store.
Download it here on the Google Play Store.
Reseller Apps for Listing Inventory
12. Size.ly
Size.ly is an amazing program for resellers, which creates size charts for your clothing inventory in just seconds. The app generates a sketch of an item with lines to show where the measurements are taken. For example, the app will generate a clip art image of a pair of jeans including all measurements and arrows to indicate what they are. You can use this image for your reference when listing or upload it right into the listing as an image. This reduces confusion in measurements, and also saves time in typing them all out!
Remember that for some measurements, such as waist and inseam on bottoms, you might want to type them out fully in your description to enhance SEO. Some measurements are frequently searched in search forums such as “32 Waist.”
Unique features: Creates size charts for clothing inventory in seconds, generates sketch of item with measurement lines, can be uploaded to listing.
Potential downsides: Not a true app (accessed through web browser), and may not be accurate for all items.
13. Google Lens
Google Lens is one of my top apps, I use it every day! Google Lens is a reverse image-searching app where you can search the web by picture. That is, I can search by a photograph in my inventory.
Google Lens is an amazing app for reseller comp research, determining retail value, finding stock images, and researching information about your item (by finding it posted on retail sites to utilize the language in their descriptions). This app has truly been a game changer for my reselling business.
Google Lens demonstrates how photographs can maximize SEO. The reason so many resellers use a plain, lightly-colored background is because image search engines prefer it!
Unique features: Reverse image search using your phone's camera, great for reseller comp research, finding retail value, and researching information about items.
Potential downsides: Results may not always be accurate, and may not be suitable for all items.
Download it here on the Apple App Store.
Download it here on the Google Play Store.
Best Apps for Reseller Supplies & Sourcing
14. Yard Sale Treasure Map
Yard Sale Treasure Map is a helpful app for sourcing items to resell! I use Yard Sale Treasure Map to plan my yard sale sourcing adventures. On the app, you can search by day, location, distance, and keyword, to find the location and description of yard sales, garage sales, and estate sales. It features a GPS system to navigate your route, providing directions to each sale methodologically.
Unique features: Helps plan yard sale sourcing adventures by searching for yard sales, garage sales, and estate sales by day, location, distance, and keyword, and provides directions.
Potential downsides: Relies on user-reported data, so accuracy may vary, and may not be effective in all areas.
Download it here on the Apple App Store:
Download it here on the Google Play Store.
15. PosherVA
If you’re a Poshmark seller, you need PosherVA. PosherVA automates the daily activities required to make sales such as scheduled self-sharing, community shares, following, automatic offers to likers, bulk price adjustment, and so much more.
PosherVA has been a game-changer for my Poshmark sales!
There is a two-week free trial. Download it here on Google Chrome.
Unique features: Automates daily Poshmark activities like sharing, following, offers to likers, and price adjustments.
Potential downsides: Paid subscription required, and may not be necessary for all Poshmark sellers, especially those with smaller inventories or less time commitment.
16. Rakuten
Rakuten (formerly called Ebates) is another incredible app that offers cash back every time you shop (at 2,500 participating stores). With Rakuten, you can earn cash back for your Amazon reseller supplies! I use Rakuten daily, for personal use as well as my reselling business. Rakuten is simple to use, and totally free! Rakuten offers coupons and promo codes as well!
Sounds “skeptical”? No, it is totally legit, and it has been around since the late 1990s. Stores pay Rakuten a commission for featuring their store and driving customers and business. In turn, Rakuten gives a percentage (of the money they are paid by stores) to the app user as a reward. I have earned thousands of dollars on Rakuten! Sign up here.
Tip: Install the Rakuten chrome extension on your computer and earn cash back effortlessly.
Unique features: Offers cash back for shopping at participating stores (over 2,500), including Amazon.
Potential downsides: Cashback rates vary, and may not be significant for all purchases. Requires signing up for accounts with participating stores.
Download it here on the Apple App Store.
Download it here on the Google Play Store.
Additional Apps For Resellers:
17. Terapeak
Calling all eBay sellers! This one is for you. Terapeak dives deep into eBay's vast sales data, offering insights into sold listings, current listings, and completed listings. This allows you to identify profitable niches, track trends, and make informed pricing decisions. While a free plan with limited features exists, paid plans starting at $9.95 per month unlock more comprehensive data and analysis tools.
Unique features: Provides insights into eBay sold listings, current listings, and completed listings, helping identify profitable niches and make informed pricing decisions.
Potential downsides: Paid plans required for full access, and may not be necessary for all eBay sellers, especially those with smaller inventories or fewer competitors.
18. Pirate Ship
Pirate Ship negotiates discounted shipping rates with major carriers like USPS, UPS, and FedEx, passing on those savings to you. They offer transparent pricing with no hidden fees, and you can compare rates in real time to choose the most cost-effective option for your package. While basic features are free, premium plans starting at $9 per month provide additional discounts and shipping tools.
Unique features: Negotiates discounted shipping rates with major carriers, offers transparent pricing and real-time rate comparisons.
Potential downsides: May not be the cheapest option for all shipments, and premium plans offer limited additional benefits for casual users.
Some of these apps are free, and others require a subscription. If you are like me, you hesitate to spend $4.99 on an app (but no hesitation for a $6 coffee at Starbucks, hehe). While an app might not be as tangible as a vanilla late, remember that all business requires overhead costs and software systems. Do not be afraid to invest in your business. Also, the applications you purchase for your business are tax deductible. Applications that save you time are saving you money.
Most of the apps offer free trials. Be sure to try them out before you commit! If the app isn’t for you, just keep an eye on the subscription date to cancel prior to billing.
Do you use and love these apps? Do you have any other apps you use for your reselling business? Tell us below!
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