Best home inventory apps in 2026: an honest comparison

We make BoxTrack, so weigh our pick with that in mind.

Note that Encircle's free home inventory app shut down on December 17, 2025, so roundups that still recommend it are out of date. See what to use instead of Encircle.

NAIC Home Inventory: best free app with no upsell. Made by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the group of state insurance regulators, for homeowners and renters. Free on iPhone and Android, it groups things by room or category, scans barcodes and exports your list. Store reviews mention glitches and failed exports on large inventories, so keep a backup.

Under My Roof: best for iPhone, iPad and Mac. From Binary Formations, making home inventory software since 2005. Barcode scanning, reports, CSV import and export, home maintenance tracking, and sync through your own iCloud. No Android or web version found, and the free download is limited to 10 items.

HomeZada: best for managing the whole house. Inventory plus maintenance and projects, on iPhone, Android and the web. The company says its AI picks out items in photos and video. Its free plan includes home inventory. Some reviews complain about subscriptions, logins and crashes.

Itemtopia: best for warranties and many devices. iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and the web, with AI image recognition added in 2026, barcode and QR scanning, and warranty reminders. Insurance reports and QR labels are on its paid plan.

Bevel: best right after a disaster. Started after the 2025 Los Angeles fires. A web app where AI lists what's in your photos or videos and estimates values. NerdWallet found the values and labels were sometimes wrong, so check them.

HomeBox: best if you run your own server. Free and open source, with QR labels and CSV export, hosted on your own hardware.

Sortly: best if it's really a business. Strong barcode and label tools, but it's built for small-business stock, which is more than a household needs.

BoxTrack: best if you also move, store boxes or hate typing. It runs in any phone's browser. Snap a thing, or a whole shelf, and AI fills in names, quantities and replacement values. It keeps used and replacement values, serial numbers and purchase dates, makes a PDF report with every date-stamped photo, exports to Excel, and prints a QR label for every box or bin. Where it's weaker: it's new, there's no app-store download, it can't import from other apps, and the free plan is 1 box with up to 5 items. A whole home needs a paid plan, with a 72-hour free trial.

• Pick the one you'll finish. If typing stops you, choose photo AI.
• Check where your list lives. A list kept only on your phone can be lost with the phone.
• Check the report. You want photos, values and dates together, in a file you can send an insurer.
• Keep a copy outside the app. Encircle's shutdown showed why. Export a PDF or spreadsheet now and then.

What is the best home inventory app?

The one that fits how you live and that you'll keep up. The picks above sort that out by need: free, Apple, whole house, warranties, or moves and bins.

Is there a household inventory app for iPhone and Android?

Yes. NAIC, HomeZada, Itemtopia and Sortly have apps for both. BoxTrack runs in the browser on either: open box-track.com and add it to your home screen.

What is a home inventory tracker?

A list of what you own, room by room, with a photo, a value and a date for each thing, kept up to date as you buy and get rid of things. Any app above can be one, and so can a spreadsheet. See a home inventory app vs a spreadsheet.

More: how to make a home inventory for insurance, the free room-by-room checklist, and one-to-one comparisons with Sortly, NAIC Home Inventory, HomeZada and Itemtopia.