Good concept. One major deficiency
I fully support the mission here. A significant problem is the inability of people who do not have accounts to even view postings. This makes sharing links to advertise a posting almost useless. I get you need the viewers location so let people set that temporarily in a browser.
Without a larger user base, it’s hard to move items through this service. Making links to posts universally viewable would go a long way. When somebody sees something they want, they have a motivation to step through Yet Another Account creation process
Without a larger user base, it’s hard to move items through this service. Making links to posts universally viewable would go a long way. When somebody sees something they want, they have a motivation to step through Yet Another Account creation process
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Amazing app
Thank you to the creator and everyone in the app. Thanks to This app I was able to furnish my appt. I couldn’t be more greatful. Feel so blessed with this app . Thank you all so muchh !!
So many bugs and bad interaction design
I love this app for the concept, but the 2026 update is not a real improvement. If someone is interested in a post you can’t view their whole message and replying does not work. No matter how many times I allow photos on my phone, I cannot upload photos. I can see people have offered to fulfill an ask in my notifications, but I have no way to see who they are on the actual post or reply to them. I get sent in so many circles trying to accomplish the basic things this app is supposed to do. These features would be great if they actually did what they are meant to. Instead messages get lost into a black hole and communication becomes difficult and fragmented making it harder to successfully get anything actually exchanged.
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Messaging unusable
Messaging is unusable on my phone because the message area and send button are covered by the keyboard. Fortunately the web site eorks.
I really want to use this app
I keep seeing bug fixes, but after contacting the company and installing the updates, I am still unable to type a message on this app. As soon as I bring up the keyboard, it covers the words I am writing. So basically I am writing blind. Almost unusable as is. I have a lot of things I want to get rid of but just can’t with this app.
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Update
Works really well now! After the rocky update and redesign I’m loving it.
can not get into it!
I used to use this app regularly. When I tried to log on today, I had to ask for a security code and when I typed it in, there was no way to go to the next page. On one of my earlier attempts, I got Capcha pages that I clicked and again, there was no way to click to the next page! I made my text smaller. Same problem. I reloaded the whole app. Still could not get in. very disappointing.
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Difficult to navigate; many items abandoned
This app is confusing to navigate. Tried many times to respond to an inquiry about my post, unsuccessful. Looked at many items that I was interested in, and all ended with a comment asking if they could see it, then nothing for like years. I assume the giver failed to close it out, and the App maker failed to observe this.
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Location
So I used the app for the first time in awhile and it won’t let me change my location at all, I went everywhere and it’s not even an option unless I upgrade to premium which sucks because I moved across the country. Idk if it’s a me problem but no matter what I clicked or did it wouldn’t let me.
Nice concept, app sucks
I like BuyNothing for the concept, but the poor functionality of the app is a deterrent and makes me re-delete it. Idk why it constantly cant find a login. The app has login failed for every login option and isnt sending email codes. Yet browser works fine. In fact, this started happening when I went to screen record tapping 15-20 times to open anything listing. I cant ever see the text im typing. The text box doesnt exist. Impossible to edit. So if you tap to try and send your comment, sometimes you tap away. Its just awful. On Iphone 14.
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Must tap multiple times and quadruple pings
It pings me 4 times for each notification in rapid succession, and I have to keep tapping for several minutes to get the listing to open, it’s very buggy and as a programmer myself I find it hard to believe this isn’t deliberate
Can’t Create an Account
Can’t create an account, can’t sign in, in an endless loop. Garbage.
Interesting, but got paper cuts
The app brings a lot of what I’m looking for but it also has some annoying parts. Even when I select a radius of <1 mile I see posts coming from a different city that is around 400km away. When I tap the title of a post, it doesn’t do anything; have to tap the image to see the post. Overall clunky UX, but usable.
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Great concept but almost unusable in iPhone
I love the concept of this — giving and receiving items to neighbors. However, the app makes it almost impossible to do certain things. For example, the message feature doesn’t work correctly. There is no way to send a message because the keyboard covers the window so I can’t see what I’m typing. I also cannot hit the submit button because it won’t let me scroll down. I was able to get everything working on my computer, but it is disappointing that this doesn’t work well enough to use on the phone.
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Can’t verify email
I get a code sent to my email to verify, enter the code but then the verify button isn’t accessible to push (it’s behind the number keyboard that doesn’t disappear) so can’t set up the app.
Not Hyper-Local
I thought the whole point of Buy Nothing was that it’s a hyper-local gifting community. I’m on a Buy Nothing group on Facebook which is only for our town. This app shows me asks and gives all over the county and the neighboring counties. I don’t want to see posts that are a 45min drive away. I feel like it completely defeats the purpose.
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Nice Bones but Doesn’t Work?
The app concept and general design of the app is solid but it doesn’t work half the time. The listings don’t show up, home feed only loads and never shows anything, certain options when listing an item breaks and prevents posting, a lot of pages don’t load. Not sure if it’s just me but all my other apps work fine.
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Good purpose, terrible app
App is constantly struggling to load content. Enjoying staring at loading spinners
great idea but…
… but it didn’t let me even get started. app needs testing.
Notifications don’t work
The app overall is good but notifications never come through when people message you or respond to your items. This make it so hard to coordinate pickups and not forget.
