The biggest change in late August is that you no longer have to pay to use bujusjujus.
A free account is a real account. It signs in, it keeps its settings, and it gets Drop Watch and the whole tracked catalogue priced against MSRP. What it doesn't get is the thing people actually subscribe for: live restock alerts pushed to your phone the second something goes buyable. That stays paid, and we'd rather say so in one plain sentence than bury it.
TL;DR:
- Free accounts are live. Drop Watch, every product we track priced against MSRP, the drop calendar and the MSRP reference. Create one — no card.
- Live restock alerts remain the paid part. See plans.
- If a subscription ends, you land on the free tier — not a locked door. Your login and settings survive.
- Sign in with Apple works on the website now.
- Monthly subscribers can move to yearly and pay only the difference.
- The feed stopped calling live listings dead. This one was a bug in how we described things, and it's the part of this post worth reading.
What a free account actually includes
We wrote this list on the signup page rather than in a pricing table, because the useful question isn't "what tier am I on" but "what will I see."
Free:
- Drop Watch — the Reddit and X drop chatter, as it happens.
- Every product we track, priced against MSRP — so you can see what a thing is supposed to cost before you go looking for it.
- The drop calendar and the MSRP reference.
Paid:
- The Live Feed — every restock as it happens, with the retailer, the price against MSRP, and a buy link.
- Push alerts to your phone the moment something goes buyable at a price you said you'd pay.
On a free account the Live Feed is visible but locked. You can see that it's moving — how many restocks landed in the last day, how long ago — and nothing that would let you act on one. That's deliberate, and it's the honest shape of the thing: a locked feed that showed you the product and the price wouldn't be locked, it'd just be slow.
A subscription ending now returns you to the free tier rather than closing the account behind a login banner. You keep your username, your settings and your price limit, and Drop Watch keeps working. If you come back, there's nothing to set up again.
The feed was describing buyable listings as over
Here's the part we got wrong.
A row in the Live Feed shows the price an alert fired at. Underneath it, a small chip tells you what's true now — because a price from forty minutes ago is a historical fact, not an offer. That chip had one failure state, "Deal ended", and it was doing far too much work.
Four genuinely different situations were all landing on it:
- The listing sold out. This is the only one where "ended" was right.
- The listing is still up and buyable — but above the price limit you set. Nothing had ended. Your own filter was working exactly as configured, and we repaid that by telling you the market had moved.
- A newer alert for the same product beat this one on price. The row is stale, but the product isn't gone — there's a better one further up the feed.
- The item is on the page and purchasable, but only from a reseller, at a price we won't put in front of you.
Three of those four are a live listing that somebody could buy right now, described as gone. That's not a cosmetic wording problem. If you scan the feed and see "Deal ended," you stop reading that row — so we were actively hiding things from people, including things they'd told us they wanted.
The chips now say what they mean:
| What's true | What the row says |
|---|---|
| Still buyable at the alerted price | ● Live |
| Still buyable, but it costs more now | ▲ Now $— |
| Still buyable, over the limit you set | ✕ Over your limit |
| On the page, but reseller-only | ✕ Resale only $— |
| A newer alert beat it on price | ↓ later $— |
| Actually gone | ✕ Deal ended |
Two of these are worth a sentence each.
"Over your limit" is your setting doing its job. You told us the most you'd pay over retail, and this listing is above it. Raising your limit would bring rows like it back — that's the trade, and it should be yours to make with the facts in front of you rather than a chip implying the decision was already made for you.
"Resale only" is not about your limit. It's a listing we won't promote at any limit you could set, so changing your number won't surface it. It gets its own chip precisely so it can't be mistaken for the one above — they look similar on screen and mean opposite things about what you can do next.
None of this changes which alerts get sent. It changes what the feed tells you afterwards, which is where we'd been quietly wrong.
Sign in with Apple
On the website, you can now sign in with Apple instead of a username and password. It ships in the iOS app too, on the login screen and the paywall.
If you use Apple's private-relay address, mail still reaches you — the account works the same way whichever route you took in.
Monthly to yearly, paying only the difference
If you're on monthly and you want yearly, you no longer start over. The unused part of the month you already paid for is credited against the annual price, and you're charged the balance.
Where you bought decides who handles it: on the website Stripe applies the credit and the annual term starts immediately; in the apps, Apple and Google run it under their own proration rules and apply the credit themselves. The outcome is the same one either way — you pay the difference, not the full year on top.
We don't offer yearly to monthly. An annual term is a twelve-month commitment; to move back, let it run out and subscribe monthly. That's the one direction that doesn't work, and it's better to read it here than to find out at the wrong moment.
Where this is live right now
Being precise about this, because "shipped" and "you can use it" aren't the same sentence:
| Free accounts | Sign in with Apple | Monthly → yearly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Website | Live | Live | Live |
| Android | Live in 3.7.8 | — | Live in 3.7.8 |
| iOS | In review | In review | In review |
Android 3.7.8 is out to everyone. On iOS, all of it is in App Store review as version 1.7 — the store is still serving 1.6 while Apple works through it, so if you're on iPhone none of the above has reached you yet. It arrives when it's approved, and there's nothing you need to do but update.
The feed chips are server-side, so they're already correct everywhere, on whatever build you're running.
The short version
Most of what we shipped in late August was about being straight with people.
A free account exists because "install it, look at nothing, decide" was a bad way to ask someone to trust a restock service. A lapsed subscription drops to that free account instead of a locked door, because ending a subscription shouldn't feel like being thrown out. And the feed chips got rewritten because we were describing live, buyable listings as dead — to people who were paying us to know the difference.
If you've never tried it, start with a free account. If you want the alerts, the plans are here.
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