Olio Reviews 

Amazing app to advertise food and non-food items. Have been able to sell my own items and been able to receive other needed items from kind strangers. Love being able to rescue food and stop the waste too. Best application I’ve downloaded in a while

Easy to use app, excellent for getting free or bargain items, easy to give stuff away. Volunteers are lovely and work hard for the community, really appreciate their time and effort. Love being part of the Olio movement to reduce waste and encourage recycling.

It’s disgusting that they are offering expired food to charities or to the public while also expecting people to pay a subscription. This case should go to court, and the people responsible for taking money for this should be prosecuted. Expired food is a danger to public health. It should be disposed of, not consumed, and the company should pay for its disposal instead of treating people like garbage bins.

I've had the Olio app for several years. Although I haven't collected much free food I have collected bunches of free flowers and bought and sold on Olio.
It's well worth joining.
The forum contains comments, recipes and recycling ideas from other Olioers and I find it a compulsive read.
It's free so well worth joining.

I WAS JOBLESS ON SICK AND REALLY STRUGLLING AT THE TIME I STARTED OLIO. GETTING FREE FOOD WHICH IS CLEAN WAS AND IS A GREAT THING FOR ME. IT HELPED ME REALLY A LOT. NOW I AM A VOLUNTEER COLLECTING AND DISTRIBUTING FOOD FOR OLIO.

An excellent way to re-purpose unwanted items. Most items find a new home within an hour or so.

Only just joined but already gave 4 things away. Great stuff on there, useful for many people I'm sure.

Olio is a great way to engage with other people and reduce waste. The app is user friendly and I really reflcomended.

Love this company’ it helps everyone to give away items to those most in need’ we need more of these! Save our planet! Look after our neighbours! Our world is a better place because of Olio 🩷

Free, easy to navigate, and reliable collection points. The only downside is the lack of order verification, and someone else collects the items without confirmation.

The idea is marvellous and noble but my experience has been ruin by a ridiculous bully of a squad leader. I didn't list my items just because of an emergency which I told my squad leader but my slot was removed. I reported to olio but nothing was doing instead all I've got even since are mean mails demanding that I list my items. It feels the an app was created and operated by a bunch of mean girls who peaked in high school. The sp called squad leader practically gave all her mates the slots and olio did nothing about it.

Update: They suspended people who give the app bad reviews. I'm still using a magnifying glass to search for the dirt on the counter top I used for my listing.

Olio drivers have been flytipping on our local green for more that a year. They have been leavng large bags of Tesco and Sainsburys bread, 9well out of date), originally in all the plastic wrappings which rats and squirrels were shredding and scattering, now, by removing the wrappers and scattering big chunks of bread over a treasured local green space. It has been identified as foodstuffs collected by Olio be the reduced labels on the wrappers, and 2 branches of Sainsburys and 3 of Tescos have become involved and spoken to their Olio contacts. Olio's conduct is shameful, - we were originally anxious about reporting it as we did not want to stop leftover usable food being passed to them for distribution to those who need it. The products which are not passed on to people who can benefit from them should be properly and responsibly disposed of.

I am what Olio call a food waste hero.
The concept is good but the execution can be rubbish at times.

I have been signed up since January and gradually getting the hang of how to distribute food waste from supermarkets
Until !!! Something went wrong with there communication system with the supermarket. I turned up for a Save Me allotted slot and was told by the supermarket that they weren’t expecting me and there was no food waste to collect. No problem. But my listing did not appear on the website so I couldn’t explain what had happened. So I filled out a report form to say what had occurred. The next day I received a warning and said my slots had been removed as punishment. 3 days later and 4 emails and reports made I have heard nothing from Olio. I have been going round and round in circles to try and resolve the problem but there is no human face or voice behind Olio. I just want to talk to a human being !!! An apology would be nice to for this mess up.

Great online platform. Highly recommended.

It's really good app to reduce food wastage but the problem is rating, you need many good ratings to increase your overall rating but due to a single bad rating your points reduce drastically and you get overall bad rating easily due to a single bad rating.

Wonderful app I have been recommending it to everyone not just food waste on it you can list unwanted items and get wanted items also training courses etc very versatile app.

It’s such a delight to allow items and unwanted food to get use again or food that won’t go to waste. What a great platform that’s easy to use too.

Great way to help everyone out in the community! Great idea all around

Olio removed my app rating as it wasn’t 5*. Offered something for free and gave approximate postcode to arrange collection. Within half an hour a man was banging my door, I did not give him full address. Luckily I wasn’t home alone. On messaging olio support, I was told it was a blurred location and was probably a local who recognised it by landmarks/ trees etc, (not true it’s quite a new build). Would not raise the complaint regarding personal safety. Fobbed off completely, any person avoid for your own safety and peace of mind.

Absolutely brilliant little site sell give away and also can buy and get certain things for free have recommended the site to family so happy I found this site