How Lending Works - FriendsWithTools

Add Your Tools

List your tools in the My Tools tab. Give each a name, category, description, and photos. You can add them one at a time or use the Quick-Add wizard to add many at once from a list of common tools.

Pro tip: A photo and a clear category make your tools much easier to find. Takes 30 seconds.

Review Requests

When someone requests to borrow a tool, you'll get a notification. Review the request — including any message and suggested return date — then approve or deny it.

Pro tip: You can approve from the notification — you don't need to open the app.

Lend Directly

You can also lend a tool to a specific friend without waiting for a request. Go to the tool's page and use "Lend to a Friend" to select who you're lending to and set an optional due date.

Track and Return

Your dashboard shows all active loans. When the tool is returned, mark it as returned in the app. The tool's status will update automatically.

You stay in control

Private by default

Your tools are only visible to groups you choose.

You approve every request

No one gets your tool without your explicit OK.

Track every loan

See who has what and when it's due back.

Remove anytime

Take a tool off the list whenever you want.

List your first tool in under a minute

Add a name, a category, and a photo. That's it.

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