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Under My Roof Home Inventory + App - App Store is about $40 a year.
Is there a one time purchase equivalent that anyone can recommend please. Thanks.
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I remember Allison Sheridan talking about an app like that before. Unfortunately, it was Under My Roof, so no help for you:
There are other apps like
I have no first-hand experience, though. I never got myself to truly documenting home inventory.
Some use DevonThink for that, according to this Reddit thread.
I’m not a big fan of apps like this. It takes a lot of work to enter all the data. And once you’re done, you’re dependent on the app running continuously and being available, also on future operating systems. For me, the question is as to whether it makes more sense to store the data in a folder structure (photos, invoices, etc.) and, for example, maintain a separate Excel or Numbers file with the figures. Or if you already are using a database app like Devonthink, it may be a good idea to also use it for this purpose.
Pay once and use forever always sounds appealing, but at the end of the day, you’ll have to pay again at some point anyway, or worse, the app will stop working at some point and the developer may abandon it eventually.
While not a home inventory app specifically, I came across this app this past week and I’m finding it to be really well made. It’s called Collections Database and it’s just a database app you can use to track anything. It supports formulas, charts, relationships, etc… So you could easily keep track of home inventory items in it. It syncs over iCloud too.
It’s a one time purchase of $6.99 which is a steal for what this app does.
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Collections is what I use in conjunction with a spreadsheet! I would recommend, it stores receipts in its iCloud folder.
I have used Homer, Home Contents, Itemtopia in the past and evaluated many others. After running into different friction points over the years, I finally switched to a mixed app solution primarily based on Bear.
Basically, I have built a project in ChatGPT where it has instructions on how to identify information from the receipt and product pictures I provide, do the research, and create a summary note for me which is ready for copying and pasting into Bear Notes along with the right tags already assigned.
The pictures are in a Home Inventory Album in Photos and receipts are in DevonThink.
I just upload the receipt and photos to that specific project in ChatGPT and it creates a uniform, neatly formatted summary with all the relevant information for me that I just copy and paste into Bear. It also adds To Do actions if I need to register the item for warranty or anything else.
The primary effort was only in setting up the instructions (a whole essay) for ChatGPT on what to do, how to search for warranty and other information, and what to provide. Once I wrote those, it is very simple to use and access.
Of course, you can use any LLM Model, any note app, and any folder to recreate this. You can even add Hookmark links to Photos and DevonThink or copy the photos into the note. I kept them all separate to avoid duplication.
I am way happier with this than I was with any of the apps.
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It’s currently on sale for $2.99.
I believe the offer ends today.
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