{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "CS2Apps — tool reviews", "home_page_url": "https://cs2apps.com/", "feed_url": "https://cs2apps.com/feed.json", "description": "Curated reviews of CS2 trading tools. Updated whenever an entry is re-verified.", "language": "en", "items": [ { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/csroi/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/csroi/", "title": "CSROI review — Case opening + Armory ROI calculator with arbitrage scanner.", "content_text": "CSROI is the de-facto standard for \"should I open this case?\" math. It pulls live Steam Market prices for every drop from every active and discontinued case, weights by drop probability, subtracts Steam fees, and surfaces the expected return of one opening. The same engine drives a comparable view for the CS2 Armory rotation. A separate page tracks cross-marketplace arbitrage opportunities. The site is free, fast, and updated frequently. Its main weakness: limited explanation of methodology and no historical charts — you see today's number, not the trend.", "summary": "Case opening + Armory ROI calculator with arbitrage scanner.", "date_published": "2026-05-05T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-05T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "case-roi", "armory-roi", "arbitrage" ] }, { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/skinswap/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/skinswap/", "title": "SkinSwap review — Instant-trade marketplace — sell skins for site balance, cash, or crypto.", "content_text": "SkinSwap is an instant-payout marketplace: list a skin, get the offered price immediately into your site balance, then withdraw to crypto or fiat. The trade-off is a wider spread than P2P marketplaces like CSFloat — you pay for the speed. Useful when you want predictable take-home and don't want to wait for a P2P buyer. The withdrawal options (USDT, ETH, BTC, plus card payouts in some regions) are the headline differentiator.", "summary": "Instant-trade marketplace — sell skins for site balance, cash, or crypto.", "date_published": "2026-05-05T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-05T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "marketplaces" ] }, { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/cs-money/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/cs-money/", "title": "CS.Money review — Skin-for-skin swap marketplace — upgrade or downgrade without leaving Steam.", "content_text": "CS.Money is the long-running swap-style marketplace: trade your skins directly for the site's inventory at a quoted spread (~5–8% effective). Their swap model bypasses the post-July-2025 7-day Steam Market trade hold for items they hold themselves, which is genuinely useful for active traders. The inventory is deep — they tend to have specific patterns and floats most P2P marketplaces don't. Pricing transparency is weaker than CSFloat or Skinport because the spread is opaque per item.", "summary": "Skin-for-skin swap marketplace — upgrade or downgrade without leaving Steam.", "date_published": "2026-05-05T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-05T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "marketplaces" ] }, { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/csstonks/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/csstonks/", "title": "CSStonks review — CS2 case supply data and price indexes — the \"stocks\" view.", "content_text": "CSStonks tracks supply and price for every CS2 case as if they were equities — historical charts, supply trends, and category indexes. The supply data is its real wedge: knowing that an Operation Phoenix case has been losing 50k listings/month tells you something about price direction that no single price snapshot does. The interface leans into the financial-trading aesthetic, which works for the audience. It does not cover skins or stickers in detail — case-focused.", "summary": "CS2 case supply data and price indexes — the \"stocks\" view.", "date_published": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "case-supply", "indexes-analytics" ] }, { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/pricempire/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/pricempire/", "title": "Pricempire review — Multi-marketplace prices with a real public API and editorial indexes.", "content_text": "Pricempire aggregates prices from Buff163, CSFloat, Skinport, Steam Market, DMarket, and a half-dozen others into a single feed. It's the only large site in the space with a free public API (30k requests/month), which makes it the canonical data layer for downstream tools (including some on this page). Its editorial Indexes section tracks knife, sticker, and skin baskets over time — useful when you want to know \"are knives up or down this month\" without scrolling through 50 items. Portfolio tracking is included but requires signup.", "summary": "Multi-marketplace prices with a real public API and editorial indexes.", "date_published": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "indexes-analytics", "portfolio-trackers" ] }, { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/steamledger/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/steamledger/", "title": "SteamLedger review — Free CS2 portfolio tracker with auto Steam-inventory sync.", "content_text": "SteamLedger imports your Steam inventory via OpenID, syncs prices every 15 minutes, and computes portfolio value plus realised/unrealised P&L. It's the most polished of the free portfolio trackers and the closest competitor to the paid web-SaaS offerings. For most casual CS2 traders, SteamLedger is enough. Power users who want tax reporting, multiple portfolios, or local-only data privacy may want something more.", "summary": "Free CS2 portfolio tracker with auto Steam-inventory sync.", "date_published": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "portfolio-trackers" ] }, { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/skinfolio/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/skinfolio/", "title": "SkinFolio review — Truly free CS2 portfolio tracker — no premium tier.", "content_text": "SkinFolio is the indie cousin of SteamLedger: same idea (Steam OpenID + auto-sync), but explicitly committed to no paid tier and no upsell. Smaller user base, fewer features, but transparent and consistent. Good second-choice if SteamLedger is down or if you want a smaller-scale alternative.", "summary": "Truly free CS2 portfolio tracker — no premium tier.", "date_published": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "portfolio-trackers" ] }, { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/csbluegem/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/csbluegem/", "title": "CSBlueGem review — The canonical Case Hardened blue gem database.", "content_text": "CSBlueGem is the deepest single-source database for Case Hardened patterns — every weapon's blue gem rankings, tier 1 / tier 2 lists, named patterns (\"Scar Pattern\", etc.), and live listings filtered by seed. The community treats it as the authoritative source for high-stakes blue gem trades. Limited to Case Hardened. Doesn't cover Crimson Web, Marble Fade, Doppler, or other pattern families.", "summary": "The canonical Case Hardened blue gem database.", "date_published": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "pattern-databases" ] }, { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/dispattern/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/dispattern/", "title": "Dispattern review — Multi-family pattern database — Doppler, Marble Fade, Crimson Web, more.", "content_text": "Dispattern attempts to be the catch-all CSBlueGem doesn't — covering Doppler phases, Marble Fade FFI/Max patterns, Crimson Web tiers, Slaughter hearts, and dozens of other families. Coverage depth varies by family but the breadth is unmatched among free pattern tools. Use Dispattern when CSBlueGem doesn't cover what you're hunting.", "summary": "Multi-family pattern database — Doppler, Marble Fade, Crimson Web, more.", "date_published": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "pattern-databases" ] }, { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/csgoskins-gg/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/csgoskins-gg/", "title": "CSGOSkins.gg review — 29-marketplace price aggregator with a built-in pattern database.", "content_text": "CSGOSkins.gg is best known as a price aggregator across 29+ marketplaces, but its pattern pages are a respectable secondary feature — partial coverage for popular families, integrated with their listings. The price-comparison angle is its real strength. If you're shopping for a specific item and want to know which marketplace has the lowest price right now, this is the fastest tool.", "summary": "29-marketplace price aggregator with a built-in pattern database.", "date_published": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "marketplaces", "pattern-databases" ] }, { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/cs2-sticker-tracker/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/cs2-sticker-tracker/", "title": "CS2 Sticker Tracker review — Track applied-sticker pricing and capsule ROI.", "content_text": "A focused tool for the sticker-craft economy: tracks the value premium of skins with stickers applied (vs. their unstickered base), capsule ROI for tournament sticker capsules, and historical sticker price moves. Sticker pricing is famously opaque — applied stickers are usually priced at 5-30% of unapplied value, and that ratio varies wildly by skin and sticker. This tool quantifies it.", "summary": "Track applied-sticker pricing and capsule ROI.", "date_published": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "sticker-tools" ] }, { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/csfloat/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/csfloat/", "title": "CSFloat review — Float-aware marketplace plus a public inspect API.", "content_text": "CSFloat is the float-conscious marketplace — you can search by exact float, paint seed, or pattern. Their auction format finds price for rare patterns the general marketplaces undervalue. The API key (free with signup) is the cleanest way for tools to fetch your inventory floats. Their 2% seller fee is among the lowest in the market.", "summary": "Float-aware marketplace plus a public inspect API.", "date_published": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "marketplaces", "float-checking" ] }, { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/skinport/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/skinport/", "title": "Skinport review — EU-based marketplace with a clean public API.", "content_text": "Skinport is the largest European CS2 marketplace and one of the few with a clean public API for prices (no key required). Their fee is 12% (seller side), higher than CSFloat but lower than Steam. Good second source for arbitrage scanners — Skinport prices often diverge from Steam and CSFloat in interesting ways.", "summary": "EU-based marketplace with a clean public API.", "date_published": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "marketplaces" ] }, { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/buff163/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/buff163/", "title": "Buff163 review — Largest CS2 marketplace by volume — Chinese, but trade-friendly.", "content_text": "Buff163 (operated by NetEase in China) is the highest-volume CS2 marketplace by far. Buff prices set the global market floor for many items. Their public-facing site is in Chinese; English UI requires a translator extension. Trades are Steam-mediated so non-Chinese users can buy and sell with the right setup. No public API — third-party tools (including Pricempire) aggregate Buff prices via partnerships or scraping.", "summary": "Largest CS2 marketplace by volume — Chinese, but trade-friendly.", "date_published": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "marketplaces" ] }, { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/dmarket/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/dmarket/", "title": "DMarket review — Marketplace with public read API and HMAC-authed write API.", "content_text": "DMarket is a smaller marketplace that's notable for having a real developer API (read endpoints public, write endpoints HMAC-authed). Useful for arbitrage scanners and analytical tools. Volume is meaningfully lower than CSFloat or Buff, so it's more relevant as a price-feed source than as a primary trading destination.", "summary": "Marketplace with public read API and HMAC-authed write API.", "date_published": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "marketplaces" ] }, { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/cs2-sh/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/cs2-sh/", "title": "cs2.sh review — OHLC candlestick charts for CS2 items.", "content_text": "cs2.sh provides historical OHLC (open/high/low/close) candlestick data for CS2 items — the \"stock chart\" view at the per-item level. Useful when you want to look at price history, identify support/resistance, and time entries. Free with an optional API key for higher rate limits.", "summary": "OHLC candlestick charts for CS2 items.", "date_published": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "indexes-analytics" ] }, { "id": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/csfloat-checker/", "url": "https://cs2apps.com/tools/csfloat-checker/", "title": "CSFloat Checker review — Paste a Steam inspect link, get float + seed instantly.", "content_text": "The free public face of CSFloat's inspect infrastructure. Paste any CS2 item's Steam inspect link and get back the exact float value, paint seed, paint index, and sticker wear values. The reference implementation other inspect tools mirror. No signup, no rate limit for casual use.", "summary": "Paste a Steam inspect link, get float + seed instantly.", "date_published": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "float-checking" ] } ] }