App Profile: Freecycle + trash nothing!

WSievers

Rating: 3/5

I just downloaded the app for the first time after being a Freecycle member for years and getting daily update emails. It’s nice to know about other groups in my area but I live in a metropolitan area and the emails I get have multiple items posted daily. I’m not seeing the same things in the app or nearly the volume. I also had an issue logging into my account. I used a yahoo account but when I tried to use my pw they said I didn’t have an account associated with that email address. I had to kinda create a new account with that yahoo address. I’m hopeful things will be worked out and I can use the app instead of logging in on a computer. Maybe my new account has to go through moderation or something.

Laur1220

Rating: 4/5

I’ve been using this app for about a month now to help clear a friend’s house & I’ve been impressed with how useful it’s been! I know it’s not Freecycle but seems to work well in my area. However, I’ve been posting so many things that it’s easy to mix up who wanted what when I look at my inbox. I have to go into each person’s thread to figure it out. It would be great if they could somehow add a small picture of the item(s) you’ve promised that person (or that that person has replied about) for that person’s thread, so you know immediately at a glance when looking at the inbox what they wanted. Right now, I have to go into each person’s thread to remember what they wanted. so this would be a big help! I also wish I could reach out to a larger community instead of just my Ellicott city Freecycle community. I’ve had a few other issues with the app, but this review is long enough, so stopping here. This is the major improvement I’d like to see!

Rosabud47

Rating: 2/5

I have been a freecycle member for years. I wondered if there was an app, so I searched the store. The app is “Freecycle + Trash Nothing” — which I thought was strange. I downloaded it. When you open it, only “Trash Nothing” appears, and the logo isn’t the freecycle logo. I thought maybe the name change. But I couldn’t log in with my freecycle credentials. Had to create a new account. And they don’t seem linked. I have to post my items in both places. So I can only see my freecycle messages by being logged in in the website. Reading messages is confusing. I world see an icon showing that I have a message. I clicked on the envelope icon, and everything there I had read. It took me a while to figure out that there’s a dropdown for different types of messages — re items you posted, items you’ve inquired about, notifications. That’s nice, but it’s not very clear.