The whole loop, step by step: what each moment feels like, why it exists, and where the small bits of friction are on purpose.
Type your email and a six-digit code arrives. Type it in and you're through. There's no password to invent, forget, or leak, and nothing for anyone to phish later.
Name it after your street, your family, or your crew, then invite by link or straight from your contacts. Start with the people you'd trust with a spare key.
You can belong to several Folds at once, and each one is sealed: what's inside one is invisible to the others. On the free plan a Fold holds up to fifteen people, and plans raise that.
Tap the plus, point the camera, and the app suggests the title, the category, and the room it lives in. Override anything. Add a care note if the thing has a quirk worth knowing.
Group a kit into a bundle and it travels as one borrow. And every item picks which Folds can see it, so the suitcase can live with your siblings without appearing to the climbing crew.
One search reaches every Fold you're in. Type "drill" and see who has one, whether it's free right now, and what's new or back on the shelf since you last looked.
There is no feed and no algorithm deciding what you see. Just your circles and their shelves.
Send the ask with a quick note like "for the weekend?". The owner gets a clean accept or decline prompt, and you get one warm message back. There's no bidding and nothing expires.
If it's already out, join the queue. The moment it's back, the next person hears "it's your turn".
The lender's app shows a four-digit code. They read it out, you type it in, and the borrow starts with a timestamp. A quick optional photo records the condition, and the care note appears right there.
If a dead spot in the driveway eats the signal, either of you can rescue the handoff with a tap.
The owner sees where the thing is without asking. The borrower has the care note on hand. Two days before the estimated return, the app quietly checks in: "still on track for tuesday?".
Late doesn't mean lost. The app nudges, and it never sends an accusatory red badge.
Scan the QR code on the shelf where the thing lives, or add a quick return photo. The item flips back to available, the owner sees it came home safe, and whoever's next in the queue gets the nod.
Broken, lost, running very late, or something else entirely: an incident pauses the borrow on one shared screen. You both see the same facts, chat it through, and close it together when it's resolved.
There are no automatic penalties. It's a conversation between people who know each other, with the app holding the details.
Start with a few items and a borrow or two. The loop does the rest.
