Olio — Share More, Waste Less

Olio Exchange Limited

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About this app

Olio is a local sharing app for getting things you need and sharing what you don’t with people living nearby.

From free food and clothes to books and toys, turn your useless into someone else’s useful on Olio – and help fight waste.

Give and get for free; lend and borrow for free; or buy and sell pre-loved items.

You can also get discounted food from local stores to make your weekly food shop cheaper:

✅ Lucky Dip bags: mystery bags of food for up to 80% off
✅ See real-time discounts at local stores with Reduced Food

Join a global community of 8 million Olio-ers making a difference in their local communities, and for our planet.

✅ Declutter your home, fast: Free items are often requested in under 2 hours, so you can quickly find new homes for things you no longer need.

✅ Fight waste, together: Help reduce food and household waste by rescuing items from others in your community – and prevent them from ending up in landfill.

✅ > Save money: By getting free food and household items and saving money on your groceries by getting access to big discounts at local stores.

✅ Feel good: 2 in 3 Olio-ers say sharing boosts their mental health and sense of connection.

✅ Do good: Reducing waste is one of the most impactful actions you can take to fight climate change and support a sustainable future.

✅ Volunteer: Become a Food Waste Hero by rescuing unsold food from local businesses and sharing it with your community through the Olio app.

How to share on Olio

1️⃣ Snap: Add a photo of your item and set a pick-up location

2️⃣ Message: Check your messages and arrange pick up — either on your doorstep, in a public location, or hidden in a safe space

3️⃣ Share: Soak up the good vibes knowing you’ve helped someone local, and the planet

How to request on Olio

1️⃣ Browse: Search for free food or non-food on the Home screen or Explore section

2️⃣ Message: Found something you like the look of? Message the lister and arrange a time and location to collect

3️⃣ Collect: Pick up your item and enjoy, knowing that’s one less thing that’s gone to waste

Olio can be used anywhere in the world. Join our ‘share more, waste less’ movement today!

Ratings and reviews

Every release carries more ads to further the devs' true goals of self-enrichment, while functionality keeps getting worse and bugs multiply. it's barely usable. I'm sure food is being wasted because no-one can ask for it in time. I tried twice to request something but each time I had to spend ages watching an ad, then the request button did nothing and I had to go back again.

Good concept and the app is well implemented for posting, discovery, and messaging. I'm glad that this app made it easy for me to give away things that I don't need anymore, but which other people would benefit from. The pop-ups to support the app are really really annoying though. I get that they need money to support the project, but it feels really frustrating to be harassed and interrupted by the ads several times a day while I'm giving away loads of stuff for free! It honestly made me want to stop using the app and just throw my stuff in the bin. I think if they just made it so that the ads to support only showed at most once every few days, this would be a big improvement. Also their bot is very annoying and there's no way to disable it as far as I can tell. This is detrimental since I want to treat messages from people as high priority and get a sound notification, but I don't want to be spammed by their bot, and there's no way for me to differentiate the two. They should use a separate notification channel for bot messages so I can make them lower priority notifications.

Utterly useless. No one in my area is posting, or at least I think that's what's going on; I can't tell because searching on a map (along with everything else!) is paywalled?? Plus you have to sign up before you can even see if your neighborhood has anything, which is a slimy policy. There are better apps out there for similar purposes.

What's new

For this release, we have made some improvements to how the app works under the hood, making for a faster and smoother experience.