Olio — Share More, Waste Less

OLIO

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About this app

Olio is a local sharing app for passing on things you no longer need to people who live nearby.

From 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.

Join a global community of 7 million Olio-ers making a difference in their local communities, and for our planet.

> Declutter your home, fast: free items usually requested in under 2 hours
> Feel good: 2 in 3 Olio-ers say sharing boosts their mental health
> Do good: Reducing waste is one of the best things you can do to fight climate change

How to use Olio
1: Snap
Add a photo of your item and set a pick-up location
2: Message
Check your messages and arrange pick up — either on your doorstep, in a public location, or hidden in a safe space
3: Share
Soak up the good vibes knowing you’ve helped someone local, and the planet

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

Terms and conditions: https://olioapp.com/terms-and-conditions/
Privacy policy: https://olioapp.com/privacy-policy/

Ratings and reviews

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.

The app has some software issues however the purpose and vision of less food waste and more sharing make it a great app. I would give the idea five stars but the app itself gets 2 stars. The messaging system frequently doesn't send messages. I have now experience this multiple times over several months, leading to me waiting half an hour for the message to be read and twice having a pickup cancelled.

I quite like the app, but one thing that frustrates me is the lag in messages. It was difficult to coordinate last-minute changes with a user who was going to collect from me because the messages appeared late and not in sequence. I also wish the push notifications revealed the message content as well.

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