BoxTrack vs Scanlily for storage bins and home organization
Scanlily builds an inventory from a video you narrate and sells QR stickers anyone can scan. BoxTrack builds one from photos and prints QR labels on standard sticker sheets. An honest comparison.
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if you'd rather walk around talking than take photos, you want a native app on iPhone or Android, or you need to check equipment in and out for a team.
if you want item values for insurance or a move, a PDF report, a spreadsheet export, or moving tools like box weights and a moving-day check-in.
At a glance
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Where Scanlily is stronger
Native apps on both phone platforms, the video approach, and team equipment checkout. If you manage gear for a club, church or small office, that checkout feature is something BoxTrack doesn't have.
Where BoxTrack is stronger
Values and paperwork. If the inventory has to work for an insurance claim or a customs list, BoxTrack keeps used and replacement values, serial numbers and purchase dates, and turns them into a PDF or a spreadsheet.
Things to know about BoxTrack
It's new and it's a web app, with no App Store download. It can't import an inventory from Scanlily or other apps. The free plan is 1 box with up to 5 items, and a whole move or storage unit needs a paid plan, with a 72-hour free trial.
More: QR code labels for storage bins and QR labels vs writing on boxes.
Pax is an AI. He knows BoxTrack and moving, not other apps, so check them on their own sites.
The details
Why this comparison+
Scanlily and BoxTrack are close cousins. Both put a QR code on your boxes and bins that opens in any phone camera, with no app needed to scan it, and both use AI so you don't type everything. They get there differently. We make BoxTrack; here's the honest comparison.
Scanlily+
Scanlily ("Scanlily: Organize with AI") is for home and storage organization, and also for teams: it has equipment checkout. According to its App Store listing, its AI builds your inventory from a video you narrate as you walk around. Its QR stickers, according to Capterra, open the item's web page in any phone's camera, so the person scanning doesn't need to install anything. Its labels are also on sale at Walmart, and that listing says it runs on iOS, Android and the web. GetApp lists a free plan.
Barcode scanning, a PDF or insurance report and CSV export were not found. A related app called ShelfLily also has an App Store listing.
BoxTrack+
BoxTrack runs in the browser on any phone or computer. You make a box for each bin, moving box, closet or room, and photograph what's in it. AI fills in names, quantities and replacement values, and on Plus and Unlimited, one photo of an open bin can list everything inside. You can scan barcodes too. You can note where a box sits (back wall, top shelf), so before you drive to the storage unit you can search for the thing and see which box it's in and where.
Each box gets a color-coded QR label on standard sticker sheets, and any phone camera opens its list. Boxes can sit inside boxes, which helps with packing cubes in suitcases or bags in crates.
BoxTrack also tracks what things are worth, used and new. On Plus and Unlimited you can make a PDF claim report with every photo and value and export to Excel or CSV. For a move, there are box weights against your mover's or airline's limit and a moving-day check-in.
Video or photos?+
Narrating a video is fast when you're walking a garage or a storage unit and the things are already on shelves. Photos fit better when you're packing: snap the open box, close it, stick on the label. It's worth trying both ways on one shelf and seeing which you'd actually keep doing.
Sources, checked October 10, 2026: Scanlily on the App Store, ShelfLily on the App Store, Scanlily on Capterra, Scanlily on GetApp, GetApp overview, Scanlily labels at Walmart. Features change; check Scanlily's listing for the latest.
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.