Binary Formations Home Inventory alternative: the Mac app is now Under My Roof
Binary Formations' Home Inventory for the Mac has been replaced by Under My Roof. If you still use the old app, here's where to go next, including options off the Mac.
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If you kept your home inventory in Home Inventory, the Mac app from Binary Formations with its companion iPhone app, you've had one of the longest-running tools in this category. Binary Formations has made home inventory software since 2005. That app has now been replaced. AlternativeTo says it gets no new features, and the Homebrew package for it was marked deprecated in July 2024 and disabled in July 2025. Its successor, from the same maker, is Under My Roof.
At a glance
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Before you switch
Whatever you choose, export what you can from the old app first and keep that file somewhere outside your Mac. If the old app stops opening after a macOS update, that export is your inventory.
Things to know about BoxTrack
It's new, it's a web app with no App Store download, and it can't import from Home Inventory, Under My Roof or any other app, so you'd start fresh. The free plan is 1 box with up to 5 items, and a whole home needs a paid plan, with a 72-hour free trial.
More: how to make a home inventory for insurance and home inventory app vs a spreadsheet.
Pax is an AI. He knows BoxTrack and moving, not other apps, so check them on their own sites.
The details
Why this comparison+
We make BoxTrack, which is a different kind of app. For most people moving off the old Home Inventory, the honest first suggestion isn't us.
The short version+
- Stay on the Mac and iPhone: move to Under My Roof. It's from the same maker, and it can import your Home Inventory data.
- Leaving the Apple world, or want photos to do the typing: look at BoxTrack or Itemtopia.
Under My Roof: the natural next step+
Under My Roof Home Inventory+ runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac and syncs through your own iCloud. It adds items by scanning UPC, EAN or ISBN barcodes, can make barcodes for your own things, has customizable reports with help for insurance and claims, and imports and exports CSV. It also covers home maintenance. According to AlternativeTo, you can download it free and try it with up to 10 items.
The big reason to pick it: your years of entries can come with you, so you don't start over.
If you're leaving the Mac+
Itemtopia runs on iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and the web, so it suits a household with a mix of devices. It added AI image recognition in 2026, scans barcodes and QR codes, tracks warranties and receipts, and has PDF and CSV insurance reports on its paid plan.
BoxTrack runs in the browser on any phone or computer, with nothing to install. You snap each thing and AI fills in the name, quantity and replacement value; a photo of a whole shelf or open box can list several items at once. It keeps used and replacement values, serial numbers and purchase dates. On Plus and Unlimited you get a PDF claim report with every photo and value, and Excel and CSV export. It also prints QR labels for boxes and bins, and has tools for moving, like box weights and a moving-day check-in.
Sources, checked October 10, 2026: Homebrew: home-inventory, AlternativeTo on Home Inventory, MacTech on Home Inventory 3, TechCrunch on Home Inventory, Under My Roof on the App Store, AlternativeTo on Under My Roof, Itemtopia. Features change; check each app before you decide.
About BoxTrack’s plans: the free plan is 1 box with up to 5 items, with every feature to try. On paid plans, Starter has up to 5 boxes and 10 AI photo scans a month; Plus has up to 49 boxes, unlimited AI scans (whole boxes too), the insurance PDF report, Excel and CSV export, sharing and custom fields; Unlimited adds unlimited boxes and Ask Pax, the AI assistant. New accounts get 72 hours free on any paid plan.