Compared
Our pick is New Phone Scout: it checks your Apple Stores every 15 seconds, sends a push notification and an email about 2 seconds after it spots your iPhone, and starts at $5 a month. Here’s how it compares with InStock Radar, Orion Chime, ManzanaTracker and iPhoneStockChecker, from what each says on its own site.
Our pick: New Phone Scout
15 sbetween checks of each store
~2 sfrom spotting stock to your alert
$5a month to start
5Apple Stores per alert
By New Phone Scout. We make one of these trackers, so we’ve kept to facts you can check on each site.
What each tracker’s own site said on October 31, 2026.
| Compared | Our pickNew Phone Scout | InStock Radar | Orion Chime | ManzanaTracker | iPhoneStockChecker |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Checks your stores | Every 15 sat each of your stores | ~20 swhere a paid alert points | Not stated | ~5 min | Not stated |
| Stock seen to alert | ~2 smeasured | ~2 s | Not stated | 1–4 minby plan | Not stated |
| Push notifications | Yes | Yes | No | Paid plans | Yes |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Telegram or texts | No | Telegram | TextsPro Max, US and Canada | No | No |
| Starting price | $5/mo2 alerts | $9.99per 30 days, 1 alert | Free1 alert; Pro $6.99/mo | $5/moemail in ~4 min | £7.99Alert Pass (UK) |
| Stores per alert | Up to 5 | Store, city or country | Nearbyrange not stated | 1 | Within a distance |
| Notification cap | None | Not stated | 2–8per 5 days | Not stated | Not stated |
| Countries | 25 | 27 | 25 | US only | 27 |
| First-week refund | Yes | Yes | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
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Other trackers’ facts are what each one’s own site said on October 31, 2026; their figures aren’t ours to check. Something changed? Email support@newphonescout.com and we’ll update it.
Every 15 seconds at each of your stores, around the clock. Of the trackers that say, that’s the most often: InStock Radar says about every 20 seconds, ManzanaTracker about every 5 minutes.
A push notification and an email about 2 seconds after we spot your iPhone, measured from spotting stock to the push and email going out, on every plan.
From $5 a month for 2 alerts, against $9.99 per 30 days for 1. Billed monthly, cancel anytime.
Each alert watches one exact iPhone (model, color and storage) at up to 5 Apple Stores you pick, on every plan.
You hear every time your iPhone comes back, however often that is.
If no alert has reached you within 7 days of your first payment, email us for a full refund.
No tracker is best for everyone. Here’s how we compare with each one, and when another suits you better.
New Phone Scout checks each of your stores every 15 seconds; InStock Radar says about every 20 seconds where a paid alert points. Both send an alert about 2 seconds after spotting stock. New Phone Scout costs $5 a month for 2 alerts with push and email; InStock Radar costs $9.99 per 30 days for 1.
Pick InStock Radar if you want alerts on Telegram, or one alert that watches a whole city or country.
instockradar.comNew Phone Scout checks your stores every 15 seconds and pushes to your phone as well as emailing; Orion Chime doesn’t say how often it checks and sends email, with texts on Pro Max. Orion Chime caps notifications at 2 every 5 days on Free and 8 on Pro; New Phone Scout never caps them.
Pick Orion Chime if you want a free plan for a single alert, or alerts by text.
orionchime.comBoth start at $5 a month. ManzanaTracker’s $5 plan emails you about 4 minutes after it spots stock and checks about every 5 minutes; New Phone Scout checks your stores every 15 seconds and alerts you in about 2 seconds on every plan. ManzanaTracker covers the US only; New Phone Scout covers 24 countries.
Pick ManzanaTracker if you also want alerts for iPads, Macs, Apple Watch or AirPods.
manzanatracker.comiPhoneStockChecker is a free stock search with a paid Alert Pass from £7.99, and it doesn’t say how often it checks. New Phone Scout checks your stores every 15 seconds, sends a push and an email, and bills monthly from $5.
Pick iPhoneStockChecker if you’re in the UK and want a one-off pass rather than a monthly plan.
iphonestockchecker.comSince October 22, New Phone Scout has sent 44,501 alerts to 2,203 people at 434 Apple Stores.
44,501alerts sent
2,203people notified
434Apple Stores
One alert is one person told that one exact iPhone is available for pickup at one Apple Store. A push and an email for the same alert count once. If it’s still in stock 20 minutes later, the reminder counts as another alert.
Other trackers publish their own totals, and each counts differently: per person or per message, per channel, with or without repeats. Before comparing two numbers, check how each one is counted.
We read each tracker’s own site on October 31, 2026 and compared five things that decide whether you get your iPhone. We haven’t tested the others side by side; where a site doesn’t say, the table says “Not stated”.
Restocks often sell out within minutes, so checking every few minutes can miss them.
From spotting stock to the notification or email going out.
Push notifications reach you fastest; email is the backup.
Monthly cost, alerts and stores you get, and any cap on notifications.
Countries and Apple Stores covered.
For most people, New Phone Scout: it checks your Apple Stores every 15 seconds, sends a push notification and an email about 2 seconds after it spots your iPhone, covers up to 5 stores per alert and starts at $5 a month. We make it, so every fact about the other trackers on this page comes from their own sites, read October 31, 2026.
Of the trackers that say, New Phone Scout: every 15 seconds at each store you pick. InStock Radar says about every 20 seconds where a paid alert points, and ManzanaTracker about every 5 minutes. Orion Chime and iPhoneStockChecker don’t say.
For most people, yes: more frequent checks (every 15 seconds against about 20), the same ~2-second alerts, and a lower price ($5 a month for 2 alerts against $9.99 per 30 days for 1). InStock Radar is the better pick if you want Telegram alerts, or one alert covering a whole city or country.
Orion Chime has a free plan with 1 alert and up to 2 notifications every 5 days. For paid alerts, New Phone Scout and ManzanaTracker both start at $5 a month: New Phone Scout’s $5 plan sends a push and an email about 2 seconds after spotting stock, while ManzanaTracker’s emails about 4 minutes after.
Checking stock is free on most of them, including New Phone Scout’s live pages, which show which Apple Stores have each iPhone Duo for pickup with no account. Alerts are paid, apart from Orion Chime’s free plan and ManzanaTracker’s one free alert email.
One alert is one person told that one exact iPhone is available for pickup at one Apple Store. A push and an email for the same alert count once; a reminder 20 minutes later, if it’s still in stock, counts again.
No. None of them is affiliated with Apple Inc. They all read Apple’s own in-store pickup availability, and you still reserve and pay on Apple’s site.
Pick your iPhone and up to 5 Apple Stores. We’ll send a push notification and an email the moment it’s available for pickup.
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After all the frustration of preordering and getting a delivery date of Nov 13-20 and failing over and over when Duo’s showed available for pickup I finally got one. Thanks @btopnn your app worked perfectly. Definitely not a scam
Really good tool. Managed to get one thanks to it this morning
Got one today because of it! Super slick experience.