We offer people a way to give, receive, share, lend, borrow and express gratitude through a hyper-local gift economy model in which people can share wherever they are and true wealth is measured by the web of connections formed between people through sharing.
From the founders of the BuyNothing® Project.
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In-Apps
Sustaining Member
$49.99
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User Rating
4.12 out of 5
694 ratings
in United States
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Reviews
Almost too buggy to use now
I love the idea of this app and I’ve gotten so many good finds from my community. The bugs before were annoying but bearable but now with the updates and new features the developers have hindered key app features like messaging!! I don’t get any notifications of messages now. The app is so unreliable it hinders the whole process.
And don’t even get me started on these passive aggressive “community leaders” commenting on every post saying “that’s not how we do things in buy nothing land”. No one in our community has had issues with anything excepts flakes and you’re creating problems out of nothing.
This app could be so great if it could organize better and fix the bugs before rolling out new features.
Still waiting for approval. I even paid the $49 to have access
Still waiting for acceptance into Buy Nothing group. Please
advise
Thanks for BN 2.0!
Great new features, and all done by volunteers. That says it all. Thank you!
Great App!
I love this app makes getting rid of stuff and finding community so easy!
Great concept, still buggy
I love that there is a buy nothing app. My local but nothing group is one of the few reasons I keep my Facebook account alive and I’m trying to move away from that platform as much as possible. Unfortunately there are significant bugs. If I click in to a post to see the comments usually the app freezes and I have to force quit to get out of that screen and continue browsing. I also agree with other reviews the number of times you’re prompted to and key features (like saving/bookmarking a post) locked behind becoming a paid “sustaining member” does feel a little contrary to the projects mission. I absolutely understand there are costs associated with software, but for $50/year one would expect a great functioning professionally developed software, not a buggy volunteer project.
I have high hopes for the future of this app, but unfortunately adoption in my area is not as great as in our active Facebook groups. I don’t think adoption will be quite what it needs to be until a few more improvements are made.
I also feel like it had a bit less of a community feel than the Facebook groups. I can’t quite put my finger on why, but I think it may be the fact that rather than defining a neighborhood/community it’s just a radius from your location. This feels more like posting a transaction (give/ask) on a smaller Craigslist than a neighborhood group focused on giving. It also could just be the particular group I’m in vs the few app users, maybe this will change.
No longer playing the game
I have used this app occasionally because it has a wider spread than my neighbor BN, and I’ve even recommended it to people in my local group as a way to find certain things. The creator and organizer of this group, however, has recently insisted that prayer should be a part of the platform and refuses to hear how that may impact others. Any dissent is erased and then she sites the BN “rules”, as if those are somehow truths that cannot be contradicted. Apart from the fact that this app is super glitchy and they ask for money (in a “buy nothing community!) to keep it running, I’m not interested in joining someone’s church group when I’m just looking to share items I no longer need/want. Going back to my local group and donation to thrift stores. ✌️
Didn’t work
The circle just kept turning and turning and nothing ever came up. I tried it at home and work in case was a connection issue but it never loaded.
it needs some work
I like the app’s design, but it is so buggy. The notifications are unreliable because I never know if I’m actually still logged in or not. Most of the time, if I click to read comments on a post, I have to close out the app completely because it just freezes and won’t let me go back to the main page. A lot of little bugs like this, and it is slow (and considering how often I have to reload it, this becomes really annoying)
Worked better before with more freedom
I don’t like the update. I can’t easily change location without becoming a sustaining member. Goes against the buy nothing philosophy, doesn’t it? BUY NOTHING EXCEPT MY APP!
Broken on iOS12.5.7
Hello there, this app use to work fine but after that 2.0 version it broke. It no longer works on iphone 6plus and ipad running iOS12.5.7
I should had not updated the app as it was working before hand. Help!
Thanks!!!
