Your gear works. You don't.

Somebody near you owns the generator, the shade, the trailer or the rig you need next month, and it is sitting in a driveway. GearPool is the desk in the middle: the contract, the deposit, the card payment, the tap-to-hand-over record and the payout. Four steps, and the gear never leaves its owner until it is booked.

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101 members · 78 units listed · California, Oregon and Nevada

A desert camp after dark: a van, camp chairs, an e-bike and a fire under a full star field

The whole thing, in four steps

List what you already ownPhotos, the day rate you will accept, the dates it is free. It stays in your garage. Listing is free at every level, with no ceiling on what you may put up — a free member can list a motorhome.
A member asks for itThey search by dates, by town or by event and send a request. You say yes or no from your own page. Nobody rents to a stranger: every renter is a member with an identity check behind them.
Tap the tag to hand it overEvery unit carries a tag. Tap it at pickup and at return and the record writes itself: photos, time, names, condition. That record, not anybody's memory, settles every question later.
Get paidYou keep 80% of the rental free, up to 90% on a paid membership. Paid by the desk within three days of the return tap, by Zelle, Venmo or bank. The renter pays the desk by card when they book — no money ever passes between members.

Nothing to buy, nothing to store, nothing to insure on your own. The pool is the members' gear.

What it costs, on both sides

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Free

To look, and to list

Browse every unit, every rate and every free date with no account. Listing your own gear is free too, at every tier. The desk earns nothing until something actually rents.

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One charge

For a renter

Rental, any add-ons, the waiver and the deposit, on the card, to the desk, when the booking is confirmed. Every price on the site is the all-in price. Nothing is added at the end and nothing is paid at the gate.

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80–90%

To an owner

Your share of every rental. A membership does not buy you a bigger listing — it pays you more per rental and drops the fee when you rent. The rest runs the desk.

Renting is the only thing a membership is needed for, and the free tier rents too. The three doors →

Why the tag is the whole idea

The single reason people will not lend good gear is the fear of getting it back broken with no proof. Four taps on a rental, and no more than that.

Out — leaving the owner, photographed Arrived — once, when it is set up on site Leaving — once, when it is packed to come back In — back with the owner, photographed again

Two sets of time-stamped photographs decide any dispute, and the record follows the unit for its whole life in the pool — so when it is eventually sold, its history sells with it. The middle two taps carry a location, because that is what they are for: it belongs to the desk, no member ever sees another member's location, and a phone that refuses the permission never blocks a handover.

Listing a unit is mostly the site typing for you

🚐 Rigs start from the VIN

Type it, or point the phone camera at the plate. Year, make and model fill themselves.

🔌 Small gear starts from the model

Type Honda, EcoFlow, Jackery, Rad Power. Pick the model and the wattage, the weight, the value and a suggested day rate arrive with it.

📷 Or just photograph it

One photo of the whole unit and the desk reads what it is. Photograph the label plate too and the make, model and serial go on the record without typing. A name is never guessed from a shape.

🛖 Hexayurts pick from the plans

H13, Classic H12, H17 plus, 10 ft, Pentayurt, OctoYurt and the rest: panels, wall height, floor area and sleeping capacity fill themselves, and the listing writes its own haul line.

📡 Satellite kit answers one question

A dish is a paperweight without an active plan, and a plan is billed by the month however long the rental is — so the listing says who is paying for it before it can be saved.

✏️ And you can change it any time

Rate, deposit, photos, dates, add-ons, the operator answer: all on the listing's own Edit page, and you can pause it off the board for a weekend. The one stop is a live rental — it is held exactly as the renter agreed until the return tap.

The parts people ask about

What am I covered for?

A deposit of 25% of the unit's value, held on the renter's card and given back after the return tap. A renter-paid damage waiver from 14% that caps what an accident can cost them — no level of it covers theft or loss, and the page says so plainly. A renter-bought short-term policy on anything over $5,000 or wherever the owner asks for one, checked by the desk before check-out opens. The desk's own liability cover behind all of it. Vehicles are different: they ride on an established peer-to-peer platform's rental insurance. The protection page is three numbers and four steps; the full document sits behind it.

How do I join, and how do I get back in?

A member joins by invitation and a founder's approval, with a ZIP code checked on the spot — California, Oregon and Nevada for now — a home address, and a note of what they own. Applying signs you in on that phone straight away. After that it is the email address you joined with and the password you chose; the personal link a founder sends you signs one phone in without either and does not expire, so save it to your home screen. There is no member code to keep anywhere.

No cash, at all?

None, for anything: not fuel, not ice, not damage, not an operator, not a tape roll. The whole booking is on the card to the desk before pickup, the way a hotel works, and the desk pays the owner afterwards. Check-out on the tag page stays locked until the payment is recorded, so a handover cannot happen off the books. Anything a renter uses up is either priced on the listing and charged with the booking, or it is something they buy for themselves beforehand.

What if the gear needs a trained operator?

The owner answers yes or no when they list it, and says who may run it: their own operator priced per day and charged through the desk, an operator the renter supplies and names, or either. When the answer is yes the desk refuses the request until it is settled, and the unit page, the request page and the booking all say who is running it. A renter's own operator carries a coordination fee of 10% of what that operator is paid.

Can I search by the event I am going to?

Yes, and that is the fastest way in. The pool keeps a calendar of every event in the three states its gear is built for — the burns, the festivals, the faires, the desert races, the county and state fairs, and the private camps and weddings that are on no calendar at all. Pick one on the events page and the search opens with its dates in, showing only what is free that week. Dates marked confirmed came from the organiser; the rest carry the slot the event has always held and say so, so nobody books travel on a guess.

I am running a festival or a production, not a camp.

Then it is one list, not forty bookings: radios with bank chargers and spares, spider boxes, distro and cable by the run, generators and battery power, PA, lighting, shade and crew shelter, carts, e-bikes and cold chain. The festivals page takes quantities and the desk comes back with what the pool holds, what comes from the member network and anything brought in from a named supplier — line by line, so nobody finds out on build day. Organisers can also talk to us about official gear sponsorship.

On my phone, and in my language?

GearPool installs from Get the app with no App Store: full screen, the tag scanner one tap away, and it stays signed in. Every page reads in any of the thirty-odd languages in the picker at the top, or type your own; the choice is remembered on that phone. Buttons that record something buzz when it lands, so a tag tap can be felt without reading the screen.

Zero waste, because nothing new gets built

The greenest piece of gear at a festival is the one that already exists. Every unit in this pool is working gear that somebody owns and uses only a few weekends a year, kept to a condition standard the desk checks before it is listed and again every time it changes hands. Renting it out is not a smaller purchase — it is no purchase at all.

Nothing is manufactured for your eventA production that rents forty radios, twelve canopies and six spider boxes from the pool causes nothing to be made, shipped or packaged. The gear already sits in garages across California, Oregon and Nevada.

Everything comes back, and we can prove itEvery unit carries an NFC tag. It is tapped out at the owner, tapped on arrival at your site, tapped when it leaves, and tapped back in. That trail is a return receipt: gear goes home, not into the dumpster behind the vendor row.

Rechargeable over disposableBattery power stations and solar instead of a generator idling all night. Rechargeable radio batteries instead of alkalines by the case. Solar path lighting instead of cable runs. Fewer generator hours is less fuel, less noise and less spill risk.

Leave no trace is a checklist, not a sloganRebar, caps, stakes, cord and cases are counted out and counted back. What is missing is on the record with a name against it, which is exactly why very little goes missing.

Condition is the standard, not ageWe do not rent gear on its age, we rent it on its condition. Every listing is reviewed by the desk before it goes live; specifications are read off the unit’s own plate or VIN rather than taken on trust; each unit is photographed and inspected at handover and again on return, with fuel and charge checked back in. Anything reported faulty is put into service status and cannot be booked until it is put right, and every renter rates the unit they used.

The honest exceptionHexayurt tape is not reusable. We say so on every hexayurt listing, we do not sell it, and we are working on a panel take-back scheme so the panels outlive the tape.

It is cheaper, which is the pointA production that borrows instead of buying spends less and stores nothing in January. Zero waste only scales when it is also the cheaper line on the budget.

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That is it. Where do you want to start?

Looking costs nothing and needs no account. Listing is free. The desk only earns when a unit actually rents.

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