Comparisons
Theftsight vs the alternatives
How Theftsight's active marketplace monitoring and recovery network compares with the bike registers, national asset registers, ID kits and community apps people use around the world — across Australia, the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico.
Theftsight isn't a register or an ID kit — it's a continuous watch on the marketplaces where stolen gear is resold, wired to a police and insurer recovery network. Here's how it stacks up against the registers, marking products and community apps people use alongside it, grouped by market.
Australia
A free national asset register and ID-kit shop vs continuous marketplace monitoring with a police and insurer network.
A free community stolen-bike register vs continuous marketplace monitoring that recovers gear after it's listed.
A forensic microdot marking product that proves ownership after recovery vs software that finds your gear on marketplaces before it's gone for good.
Australia's federal pre-purchase asset check vs continuous monitoring that helps a victim find and recover their own stolen gear.
United States
A polished bike registry with a tamper-resistant QR shield and deep police integration vs automated, evidence-scored marketplace monitoring with insurer recovery.
The largest open, free bike registry with a real recovery community vs continuous automated matching and an insurer-funded recovery pipeline.
The dominant police-facing system for tracing resold stolen goods through pawn/dealer reporting vs scanning the open peer-to-peer marketplaces those systems don't cover.
Canada
United Kingdom
The UK's free national pre-loss property register that feeds police vs continuous marketplace monitoring that finds and recovers your item after it's gone.
The UK's police-approved national cycle database built around physical marking vs continuous marketplace monitoring and matching after a theft.
A point-of-purchase due-diligence check that flags whether one device is stolen vs proactively hunting for your item across marketplaces.
A police-only intelligence platform that unifies property-crime data across UK forces vs a consumer-facing marketplace-monitoring and recovery service.
New Zealand
South Africa
South Africa's community stolen-bike noticeboard vs continuous marketplace monitoring with a police and insurer recovery path.
South Africa's statutory police database and regulated dealer registers vs a consumer-facing marketplace watch and recovery service.
Brazil
Brazil's best-known voluntary bike registry with a theft insurance upsell vs continuous marketplace monitoring that comes looking for your bike.
A long-running non-profit stolen-bike registry that emails a network of bike shops vs automated matching across online marketplaces.
A Brazilian federal government phone-blocking service — adjacent, not a rival: it disables stolen phones rather than finding stolen goods on marketplaces.
A crowd-sourced crime-mapping platform — adjacent: it maps where thefts happen for prevention, not recovering a specific stolen item.
Mexico
A community-driven Mexican bike registry with a QR certificate and public serial search vs automated marketplace monitoring and a police/insurer recovery path.
Mexico's official government vehicle registry — adjacent and vehicle-focused: it verifies a car or motorcycle's theft status by VIN or plate, not bikes or general goods.
Mexico's telecom-regulator IMEI check — adjacent and phone-only: it flags stolen or lost handsets for blocking, not locating goods on marketplaces.
Put your gear under watch
Register in two minutes. If it's stolen, marketplaces are scanned — and police and insurers on the network can see the case.