Borrowhood is the private lending platform built for cohousing developments and co-ops. Organize shared resources, manage borrow requests, and keep your community in sync.
Cohousing communities spend years building trust — then manage borrowing over text threads and sticky notes on the common house board. Borrowhood gives you the purpose-built tool that should have existed years ago. Private, simple, and made for communities where members already know each other.
No generic marketplace tools. No feature bloat. Just what your community needs to share without chaos.
Invite-link only. No public profiles, no strangers. Everything scoped to your community and nobody else.
Separate section for collectively owned items — the drill, the tent, the canning kit — alongside personal listings.
List an item by taking a photo on your phone. Request to borrow in two taps. No app download — works in any browser.
Approve members, manage community items, review requests. Admins stay in control without it becoming a second job.
See who borrowed what, when it came back, and how active your community is. Perfect for AGMs.
Know who's in your community, what they've listed, and their borrow history. Trust built right into the platform.
Every item your community has listed — personal and collectively owned — all in one scrollable feed. Filter by category, see availability at a glance.
Take a photo, add a name, pick a category. That's it. Members can list personal items or mark something as community-owned.
Owners approve or decline requests on their items. Admins handle community-owned items. Everything logged automatically — no chasing people down.
Member profiles, borrow history, stats — everything you need to see how active your community is and who's contributing.
Cohousing communities already share informally. They have common houses, shared workshops, and collective tool sheds. They have community managers with actual budgets. And until now, zero purpose-built software to manage any of it.
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Borrowhood is a progressive web app. Members open the link in Safari or Chrome, add it to their home screen, and it works exactly like a native app — including camera access for listing items. No App Store friction, no Android vs iOS headaches.
Get startedStraightforward pricing for communities. No per-seat fees, no tiers, no bait-and-switch paywalls.
One flat rate for your entire community — however many members you have. Unlimited everything.
15-day free trial. No credit card required.
If yours isn't here, email us at info@borrowhood.ca and we'll get back to you same day.
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