A free Windows desktop app for eBay sellers who want to prepare listings on their own machine and publish them in bulk — without a monthly subscription. No browser-only Seller Hub, no cloud lock-in.
Turbo Lister wasn’t one tool for one user. It was the tool casual sellers, collection sellers and high-volume shops all settled on. Folder Lister keeps that range.
If you list a few times a month and just want a clean place to draft and upload, Folder Lister stays out of your way. Free, install once, no account dashboards to learn.
Badges, coins, cards, postcards, vintage photos, parts. If your inventory already lives in folders, Folder Lister turns those folders into drafts — profiles handle the repeat data.
Encode price and quantity in your filenames. Title codes do the typing. The classic benchmark: 100 listings, 200 images, ~9 minutes end-to-end.
The flow is the same: prepare on your desktop, publish to eBay in bulk. The engine underneath is modern (eBay API, profiles, variation editor), but the working pattern is what Turbo Lister sellers know.
Open a folder of photos or import a CSV. Each item becomes a draft.
Profiles fill in category, specifics and descriptions. Title codes set price and quantity.
Bulk-edit titles, prices and item specifics in the web editor with image previews.
Publish straight to eBay through the API. One batch, one click.
Turbo Lister was great for its time. But it stopped working in 2020, never supported variations properly, and had no way to deal with item specifics the way modern eBay categories require. Folder Lister keeps the working model and fills the gaps.
| Turbo Lister | Folder Lister | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free | Free during launch |
| Format | Windows desktop app | Windows desktop app |
| Bulk listing | Yes — spreadsheet style | Yes — folder-based or CSV |
| Publishing | Upload file to eBay | Direct via the eBay API |
| Variation listings | Awkward / limited | Built in, including unsold workflow |
| Item specifics | Manual entry | Live aspect schema from eBay |
| CSV import | Yes (its own format) | Yes (InkFrog and generic CSV) |
| Status | Discontinued July 2020 | Active — updated regularly |
“I uploaded about 113 listings in my first 2 hours with Folder Lister, while still learning the software and only using a small part of the features. I never managed that many in one day before.”
eBay stopped supporting Turbo Lister on July 13, 2020. The official replacement was the web-based Seller Hub, which only runs in a browser, doesn’t work offline, and doesn’t store finished listings the way Turbo Lister did. That left a real gap, especially for sellers who relied on bulk preparation.
For years, the honest answer was no — everything else was a paid subscription. Folder Lister is free during launch, runs on your desktop, and handles bulk listing through the eBay API. It’s built for the same kind of seller Turbo Lister served.
Turbo Lister’s native format (.gem3) is no longer maintained, so direct import isn’t practical. If you saved exports as CSV (or moved to another tool that exports CSV), Folder Lister can read those directly. Otherwise you can scan a folder of photos and rebuild faster than you’d expect — profiles do most of the work.
Yes — this was a real weak spot in Turbo Lister. Folder Lister builds multi-variation listings from folder structure, and lets you reopen existing eBay multi-variation listings to add unsold stock or rotate inventory without rebuilding.
The free tier will keep working for everyone who’s already on it — no rug-pull. A paid Pro plan is planned for advanced features (high-volume usage, more AI calls per month). The core listing workflow stays free.
Currently Windows only. Same as Turbo Lister. If your Turbo Lister setup ran on Windows, Folder Lister will run on the same machine.
Install Folder Lister, get a license by email, and start preparing eBay listings in bulk. No subscription, no card details, no setup call.
Download Folder Lister Free during launch · Windows · Publishes through the eBay API