The challenge was created to encourage mindful shopping.
The negative effects of fast fashion on the environment and climate change are an open secret. But as our awareness grows, we still need an answer to the question of where we can find sustainable fashion.
We have often heard that many people want to reduce their impact through their fashion choices yet they simply don’t know how.
That’s why DESIblitz has researched the top 10 free sustainable fashion apps to help you take the first steps towards a sustainable and ethical wardrobe.
The journey from a wardrobe full of fast fashion to a sustainable wardrobe with bio-based materials and natural products that are fairly produced can seem daunting.
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, unsure about how to make changes and then quickly give up.
It’s important to take it step by step and find the tools and apps that make this process so much smoother.
Getting a detailed and informed overview of which brands are actually sustainable is no easy feat, especially with an ever-growing wave of greenwashing campaigns going on at the moment.
You’d have to spend hours googling sustainable fashion brands reading through slow fashion blogs or scrolling endlessly on Instagram under the hashtag #sustainablefashion.
But on your own, you’re mostly going to feel even more confused.
We believe that this roundup of sustainable fashion apps could end that struggle once and for all, and the best part is that they are all free to download.
Dopplle
Dopplle is a fashion swapping app created for students, by students.
It is a peer-to-peer swapping app that creates space for students from across the UK who want to save money and embrace sustainable fashion.
The UK-based app connects students and allows them to swap their closets within their university and college communities.
If you are a student in the UK, you can use Dopplle to refresh your wardrobe sustainably, by exchanging clothes that no longer spark joy for garments from another student’s wardrobe.
Good On You
The Good On You app makes discovering sustainable and ethical brands much easier with their trusted brand ratings and ethical fashion knowledge.
This constantly evolving and updated brand directory, which currently features over 3000 brands, allows you to easily understand the impact that various fashion brands have on people, the planet, and animals.
Their rankings let you make a more informed decision and shop your values when you decide to invest in a new garment or accessory.
The app also provides sustainability tips, guides, and style edits to help you stay up to date with the latest in eco-conscious fashion.
DoneGood
DoneGood is your one-stop shop for ethical shopping.
All of the featured brands pay fair wages and use eco-friendly practices, and you can filter down your searches even further with categories such as ‘vegan’, ‘toxin-free’, ‘locally-sourced’, or ‘women/person of colour owned’.
As a brand directory, DoneGood makes discovering ethical brands that reflect your values easy.
Plus, because many of the brands that partner with DoneGood offer promo codes through their site, this app can make shopping consciously more affordable too.
This app allows you to enter the kind of product you are looking for and it will share ethical brands that sell the exact or similar items.
Save Your Wardrobe
Save Your Wardrobe is here to reconnect you with what you already have.
The app helps you make the most of the clothes you already own by encouraging you to buy less, buy better, and be content with what’s in your closet.
By digitizing your wardrobe, this app allows you to relearn the creativity that comes with working with what you already own, seeking easily accessible style advice, and connecting you to an ecosystem of slow fashion partners.
This includes repair and dry-cleaning businesses, slow fashion brands, and donation options so that you can embrace slow fashion in whatever way works for your lifestyle.
Renoon
Renoon is here to help you merge your style and sustainability values and encourage a generation moved by values and positive impact.
Renoon also allows you to read about the latest efforts from brands and share your voice on possible greenwashing from some of them.
Renoon gives you multiple options for working towards a more conscious closet.
Through the app, you will be able to find sustainable brands with detailed product and brand information, unique second-hand and vintage pieces, and even a wide selection of rentals that will help you participate in the circular fashion revolution.
Sojo
Sojo is the UK’s first clothing alterations and repairs app and they are on a mission to bring back the culture of mending and repairing.
The app does this all while supporting local artisans and tailors who have the skills we need to make our loved clothes last or to adjust a preloved purchase so that it fits just right.
The Sojo app makes clothing alterations and tailoring easier than ever by offering a pickup and delivery service so that you’ll be wearing your favourite items again before you know it.
Vestiaire Collective
Vestiaire Collective is a certified B-Corp with a preloved designer fashion online marketplace.
You can also sell designer pieces that you have in your closet and connect with Vestiaire Collective’s global fashion activist community.
This app allows you to invest in your most coveted designer pieces, without having to buy them new.
Add preloved designer pieces to your closet and take on the world in second-hand style.
Wardrobe
Wardrobe is a peer-to-peer rental app that allows you to borrow garments from the fashion creators that you love and whose closets you envy!
This app is creating a sharing economy with thousands of luxury, designer, and vintage pieces made available by influencers, fashion lovers, and celebs.
This app allows you to have affordable access to luxury and vintage clothing so that you can borrow more and shop less.
This allows you to rent a designer piece at a fraction of the price for those occasions when you need something a little different, but without buying something new.
30 Wears
The 30 Wears app allows you to track your clothing usage and encourages the ethos of ‘buy less, wear what you have more’ by challenging users to stick to the #30wearschallenge.
The challenge was created to encourage mindful shopping by making sure you wear each piece you buy at least 30 times and tracking what you wear, each day.
This app challenges you to take on the #30wears challenge and track your wears on the app.
This will help you avoid the culture of disposability in the fashion industry by allowing you to hold yourself accountable for buying less and wearing what you have more.
Whering
Whering is a digital wardrobe app that imitates the experience of online shopping, except you are shopping for your wardrobe instead!
The app enables you to digitize the clothes you own, create and plan new outfit combinations, and provides styling suggestions based on your existing wardrobe.
Getting creative with what you already have saves you time and reduces your consumption.
Plus, Whering will help you shop more mindfully with their vintage, rental, and sustainable shopping suggestions.
And, if you are looking to make your loved clothes last, then you can also book care and repair services to your door.
Using these sustainable fashion apps can smoothen the transition from fast fashion to slow fashion.
They bring style, diversity, and affordability, and make it so much more fun to adopt a conscious wardrobe.
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