OLIO Local Sharing Revolution
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Description
**Featured by the BBC, Guardian, Wired, Time Out, Gizmodo, and The Sunday Times**
►WELCOME TO OLIO◄
Connect with your neighbours and local shops so that surplus food, and other household items can be shared, not thrown away. Everything on OLIO is available for free or for donation.
►HOW IT WORKS◄
○ Adding things to OLIO is easy. Simply snap a photo of your item, add a brief description and provide pick-up details. A lovely neighbour will be delighted to take it off your hands.
○ Just browse what is available near you, request anything that takes your fancy and message to arrange a pick-up. It’s as easy as that.
►EXAMPLE OF THINGS SHARED◄
Food items shared on OLIO include fresh homegrown veg from gardens, bread from local bakeries, and unwanted food when starting a diet, moving house or going on holiday. Other household items shared on OLIO include toiletries, cleaning products, clothes, furniture, toys and kitchen gadgets.
►WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING◄
"The process is simple and just like Freecycle but for food." - Lifehacker
"This app will stop you chucking good food out and give it to your neighbours instead" - Metro
"OLIO aims to match up unwanted food with eager consumers. Think Tinder for your tins, or a fostering service for your fridge and fruit bowl' - Telegraph
►OTHER FEATURES INCLUDE◄
○ DISTANCE – see how near each item is to you
○ NOTIFICATIONS – get notifications when you receive a message from another user or when new items near you is added to the app
○ MY OLIO – see any items you have added or requested, and access the messages for these items
○ SHARE – OLIO will work better the more people who use it. So please share on Facebook and Twitter, or use our refer a friend feature
OLIO be used anywhere in the world, so please install today!
Download OLIO now and join The Local Sharing Revolution!
►WELCOME TO OLIO◄
Connect with your neighbours and local shops so that surplus food, and other household items can be shared, not thrown away. Everything on OLIO is available for free or for donation.
►HOW IT WORKS◄
○ Adding things to OLIO is easy. Simply snap a photo of your item, add a brief description and provide pick-up details. A lovely neighbour will be delighted to take it off your hands.
○ Just browse what is available near you, request anything that takes your fancy and message to arrange a pick-up. It’s as easy as that.
►EXAMPLE OF THINGS SHARED◄
Food items shared on OLIO include fresh homegrown veg from gardens, bread from local bakeries, and unwanted food when starting a diet, moving house or going on holiday. Other household items shared on OLIO include toiletries, cleaning products, clothes, furniture, toys and kitchen gadgets.
►WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING◄
"The process is simple and just like Freecycle but for food." - Lifehacker
"This app will stop you chucking good food out and give it to your neighbours instead" - Metro
"OLIO aims to match up unwanted food with eager consumers. Think Tinder for your tins, or a fostering service for your fridge and fruit bowl' - Telegraph
►OTHER FEATURES INCLUDE◄
○ DISTANCE – see how near each item is to you
○ NOTIFICATIONS – get notifications when you receive a message from another user or when new items near you is added to the app
○ MY OLIO – see any items you have added or requested, and access the messages for these items
○ SHARE – OLIO will work better the more people who use it. So please share on Facebook and Twitter, or use our refer a friend feature
OLIO be used anywhere in the world, so please install today!
Download OLIO now and join The Local Sharing Revolution!
My review
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Reviews
3.6
319 total
5 148
4 42
3 34
2 32
1 63
The app won't work unless you give access to storage ie all files, photos and personal documents! I read a previous answer from OLIO about the issue stating that the app must have access to pictures of the food you want to share. Fair enough, then the app should only inquire storage access if I was going to upload anything and certainly not from the time I start the app. Even better, you could only ask for the camera permission when I'm about to upload a pic. Other similar apps even have a guest mode so you can check out the app easily. If your app is legit and you're not stealing our privacy then design it in a way that won't force the end user to give away information he doesn't want to. Looking forward to start using the app whenever this issue has been fixed.
susan mckinlay
Brilliant concept. Instead of throwing out other people can get use.
angie doughty
I would not join anything that wants access to my personal files and photographs this is such a great idea but surely in this day and age you can't expect people to allow you into their private stuff so I can't join until this is sorted ty
Vera Hoelscher
Great app and great project!!
Dawn Walker
Wrote long review and it lost it! Can't do it again!
Rita Mota
Great concept but the app needs improvement. There is no search function, so you have to scroll down dozens of items, and when I tried to post a wanted ad it didn't let me submit. So far, pretty useless.
User reviews
The app won't work unless you give access to storage ie all files, photos and personal documents! I read a previous answer from OLIO about the issue stating that the app must have access to pictures of the food you want to share. Fair enough, then the app should only inquire storage access if I was going to upload anything and certainly not from the time I start the app. Even better, you could only ask for the camera permission when I'm about to upload a pic. Other similar apps even have a guest mode so you can check out the app easily. If your app is legit and you're not stealing our privacy then design it in a way that won't force the end user to give away information he doesn't want to. Looking forward to start using the app whenever this issue has been fixed.
OLIO 14 June 2017
Hi there, we need to ask for storage access to store tokens to store your login.
We ask for camera permissions when the camera is used, and the same for location. Apologies if this doesn't work for you. Brilliant concept. Instead of throwing out other people can get use.
I would not join anything that wants access to my personal files and photographs this is such a great idea but surely in this day and age you can't expect people to allow you into their private stuff so I can't join until this is sorted ty
Great concept but the app needs improvement. There is no search function, so you have to scroll down dozens of items, and when I tried to post a wanted ad it didn't let me submit. So far, pretty useless.
OLIO 6 June 2017
I'm so sorry about the Wanted ad not posting - it would be *super* helpful if you could drop me an email on hello@olioex.com so I can get this fixed for you right away. On a more positive note, we're planning to integrate a search bar later this year - unfortunately we're a tiny team and so can't do everything we want right away :(. Thanks! Love the concept but the whole map location is not accurate. I thought of giving it a try and the nearest location within 2-5 miles was in a different country. Not sure if this app was designed to work in specific country. Thanks
OLIO 4 June 2017
Hi, really sorry to hear this - it sounds like something has gone wrong :(. Please can you email hello@olioex.com with a few more details and we'll be able to get it fixed right away! Thanks Great concept so far. However there are no active users in my area yet, so I will have to check back in a couple months
OLIO 22 May 2017
Sorry that there weren't any items near you when you looked on OLIO :( We show the next nearest items so you can see examples of the types of things shared as that inspires users to add their own items. If you'd like to help get OLIO going near you, pls email us on hello@olioex.com. Thanks! Everyone Needs This Ap! I'm about to share it on facebook and to all my friends and family. I'm going to stop throwing perfectly good food and gadgets away and help others Thank you so much for making this possible!
Wanted to access all my files photos etc just so I can join. .. uninstalling. Enough things knowing my business.
OLIO 22 May 2017
Hi, this is standard Android permission text unfortunately. The OLIO app only needs access to the storage on your device (to enable you to stay logged in) and to the gallery to access any photos of food/other household items you want to share. The app does not access your device or files for any other reason. I entered a 5km radius and it shows me 18-100+km. Not what i expected.Will delete and come back in 1 year from now to try again.
OLIO 22 May 2017
Please do check back because we have over 15,000 people per month joining us! Thanks Not allowing me to open telling me about a screen overlay, even when i disabled all others apps opening the page now just shows loading and nothing is happening... Sorry it was another app interfering with this one.
OLIO 2 May 2017
Glad to hear that you figured out the problem! Thanks Great, easy and convenient to use. It would be better if you had a search bar so you can loom for specific items only. But over all very good
OLIO 9 May 2017
Thank you, and great suggestion - we will be adding a search bar in the next couple of months! OLIO 2 May 2017
Really sorry to hear that :(. We have over 10,000 volunteers helping to spread the word and get OLIO going near them, so if you're interested in finding out more then please do check out our web site www.olioex.com. If not then do check back later in the year as we have over 15,000 new people joining us per month! Thanks Won't respond correctly. Keeps telling me to join, or log in, when I already was. Won't let me set my location. Seems to have a life of its own. Very disappointed.
OLIO 14 April 2017
So sorry to hear this, sounds very frustrating and absolutely not how it's supposed to be :( Please do email me on hello@olioex.com and we'll be able to get it fixed right away! Thanks The app has gone from great, convenient & easy to use, via annoying (as per my original review below), to unusable, in three versions - after today's update I can't get in without entering username and password, which has locked me out completely - and to be honest, I can't be asked to reset it all. Why did you have to spoil a great app? ------------------ I liked the way you could switch between food and nonfood categories with one click before, but the new version seems to use the tabs instead to toggle categories on and off, which makes it very cumbersome to switch between categories to display one at a time. It's not helpful to have it all mixed together as the food listings change frequently but the nonfood ones change very little over time round here. Please bring back one-click switching. I like that there is now also a wanted category.
Bring back the previous version, this one doesn't even work! Wastage?
OLIO 28 March 2017
Hi there, so sorry to hear this :(. Please can you email us on hello@olioex.com with details of what exactly is going wrong so we can fix it for you right away? Thanks! Really good app and great idea for keeping in touch while out and about. App is easy to use and operates smoothly. Very impressive app.
OLIO 29 March 2017
So sorry to hear that :(. We have over 160,000 users and adding over 15,000 per month so hopefully there will be more people near you soon! If you'd like to find out how you can spread the word locally please email us on hello@olioex.com and we'll send you some more info. Thanks! I rated this app at a two because I live in Newport News , Va didn't see anything for this area or surrounding area like Hampton, WIlliamsburg or Suffolk and so on. So I rated this app as a two for that reason alone. So when you fix this I will rated it higher into then. It will remain the same
OLIO 29 March 2017
We're a small team and so unfortunately haven't been able to build a desktop version of the app yet. However the good news is that we'll be working on it in May/June and we'll ensure all our users receive an email letting them know :) Installed the app a few months ago but could not get registered to start...same issues as everyone else as I am using an Android. Just tried again today and everything seemed to be working smoothly. Can't wait to make fully use of it. Thanks admin.
OLIO 28 February 2017
Yes, so sorry about that - it was because we had a massive spike of traffic after being on TV & it melted the servers :(. Delighted to welcome you back and enjoy OLIOing! Would love to try but can't even register. Asks to turn off App Overlay, but option is greyed out and switched off already.
OLIO 5 March 2017
Hi there, you're right, we only have 12 users in New Delhi at the moment. If you want to help OLIO get kickstarted near you then please email us on hello@olioex.com. As we now have food sharing taking place all over the world thanks to our passionate supporters :) When I click 'allow' for the app to have access to media in order to sign up for this app, I get a message saying 'overlay settings detected' and I am asked to go into my settings and turn this off in order to continue. I go into my settings, and not only is the overlay already turned off, but I don't even have the option to turn them on (the button is greyed out). So I can't access the app until this setting is turned off, but the setting is already off...? Catch 22 here, I don't see how I can get around this?
OLIO 6 February 2017
So sorry to hear that - very frustrating!! This is an Android issue, although we might be able to help you fix it. Please email us on hello@olioex.com and one of our developers can talk to you to see if we can figure it out for you! Saw on TV, sounded good but rubbish name meant I needed to Google search for it and then it didn't work once installed due to server failure
OLIO 4 February 2017
Sorry about that! We were told we were going to be on Jamie & Jimmy's Friday Night Feast next week instead of this week and so our servers weren't ready for the massive rush of traffic. Huge apologies but everything is back up and running now :) I've downloaded and installed on Saturday morning - a few days after the original programme aired with no problems. So to everyone - please revisit and persevere. Spread the word!
OLIO 4 February 2017
Bless you, thank you and "hear, hear" - everything is back up and running smoothly again :) The admin are amazingly swift in replying so far,and they seem to know everything, whenever I ask for advice or questions. Cannot wait to get cracking
OLIO 4 February 2017
Thank you for your lovely words, we aim to fix every problem as quickly as possible :) Considering how much frozen food I threw out this week, I'm gonna remember this app for the future!
download and then couldn't register for 2 days kept telling me to come back as server not working. not very good even before I had chance to try it
OLIO 4 February 2017
Hi, I'm so sorry about this. We had server problems because we were unexpectedly on TV recently. Any problems whatsoever please email me on hello@olioex.com and I can sort them right away and get you up and running! Anything that helps people eat and cut waste is worth a download
Rubbish. Saw it advertised on TV. Tried it twice would not work uninstalled it. Job done. Cheers
OLIO 4 February 2017
Hi there, I'm so so sorry about that :(. We were told we were going to be on Jamie & Jimmy's Friday Night Feast next week instead of this week and so our servers weren't ready for the massive rush of traffic. Huge apologies but everything is back up and running now :). Please do give us another try as sharing with neighbours is amazing! The best personable app I've ever seen! Keep it up, you are doing a great job! I was just curious as it pops up on my Facebook wall as a suggested link. I opened it up and of course you need to read the reviews first. I do not have any intention to use the app as I know other people could've used it for a greater purpose, but I just would like to see what people say to people who design this kind of app, for free, to help other people, reach out to them and help the environment as well. Unfortunately, some who downloaded the app are not quite happy,but, keep it up guys! God bless you!
OLIO 16 January 2017
Thank you for your positive support, really appreciate it! Not impressed Very little activity unless I looked many miles from my geographic location. I received two nag emails telling me to post within hours of downloading app. Uninstalled.
Interesting idea This is an interesting app with a decent interface. Activity seems small in certain areas of the UK outside major cities. But has a good version with lots room to grow.
No use Closest item to me was almost 300kms away. Obviously doesn't cater for a major Scottish city.
OLIO 24 December 2016
Really sorry to hear that :(. Usually we have items in Edinburgh and Glasgow, although demand for the food is very high so over 80% of it is on the app for less than 24 hours! Review deleted
What's New
* You can now raise money for charity when you give away items. Donations are processed seamlessly via the app (UK only).
* Bug fixes and performance improvements
Additional information
Updated
12 June 2017
Installs
50,000 - 100,000
Current Version
1.2305
Requires Android
4.1 and up
Interactive Elements
Users interact, Shares location
Permissions
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