Know Your Stuff alternative: the Insurance Information Institute's home inventory app is gone. What to use now
Know Your Stuff, the free home inventory app from the Insurance Information Institute, is listed as discontinued. Here are the alternatives, free and paid, and what each one is best for.
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Know Your Stuff was a free home inventory tool from the Insurance Information Institute (the I.I.I.), an insurance industry group, and it walked homeowners and renters through their homes room by room. It's now listed as discontinued on AlternativeTo and as inactive on Coverager. We couldn't find an announcement from the I.I.I. itself, so go by those listings.
At a glance
What do you need? Tap one or more
- Runs on iPhone, Android
- Free option ✓Free app
- Photo AI ?Not found
- Insurance report ✓Export, PDF per reviews
- Runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac
- Free option ½Free to try, 10 items
- Photo AI ?Not found
- Insurance report ✓Customizable reports
- Runs on iPhone, iPad
- Free option ½Lite, item cap
- Photo AI ?Not found
- Insurance report ✓Email to your agent, summary report
- Runs on iPhone, Android, web
- Free option ✓Free plan
- Photo AI ✓Yes
- Insurance report ✓Yes
- Runs on iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, web
- Free option ½Free, small item limit
- Photo AI ✓Yes
- Insurance report ½Paid plan
- Runs on Any browser
- Free option ½Free for 1 box (5 items)
- Photo AI ✓Yes
- Insurance report ✓PDF with photos and values
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What to know about BoxTrack
It's new, and it's a web app with no App Store download. 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. If you want free and neutral like Know Your Stuff was, start with the NAIC app.
Pax is an AI. He knows BoxTrack and moving, not other apps, so check them on their own sites.
The details
Why this comparison+
If an old article or your insurer's website sent you looking for it, here are the alternatives. We make BoxTrack, which is one of them, and we say plainly who should pick something else.
What Know Your Stuff did well+
It was free, it came from a neutral industry body rather than a company selling something, and it worked room by room with prompts so you didn't forget the hall closet. It was available on the web, iPhone and Android at various times. A good replacement should keep those things: easy to start, organized by room, and something you'll actually finish.
The alternatives+
NAIC Home Inventory (free, iPhone and Android). The closest thing to Know Your Stuff in spirit: a free app from a neutral source, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (the state insurance regulators). It groups items by room or category, scans barcodes, and exports your inventory whenever you want. App store reviews mention bugs with photos and with exporting large inventories, so keep a backup.
Under My Roof (iPhone, iPad, Mac). A polished Apple app from Binary Formations, which has made home inventory software since 2005. It adds items by barcode, makes customizable reports with help for insurance claims, imports and exports CSV, tracks home maintenance too, and syncs through your own iCloud. According to AlternativeTo, it's free to try with up to 10 items.
Nest Egg - Inventory (iPhone and iPad). Keeps your data on the device with no account. Scanning a barcode fills in the item, and you can email items to your insurance agent or export CSV. A free Lite version caps the number of items.
HomeZada (iPhone, Android, web). A home management app with an inventory inside, plus maintenance and projects. It has a free plan that includes home inventory, and the company says its AI picks out items in photos and video.
Itemtopia (iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, web). Runs on almost every device, added AI image recognition in 2026, and tracks warranties and receipts. Its insurance reports are on its paid plan.
BoxTrack (any phone's or computer's browser). You make a box for each room, closet or bin, and snap what's in it. AI fills in the name, quantity and replacement value, and a photo of a whole shelf or open drawer can give several items at once. It keeps used and replacement values, serial numbers and purchase dates, and makes a PDF report with every photo and value for your insurer, plus Excel and CSV export. It also prints QR labels for boxes and bins, which helps if part of your stuff lives in storage. Best if you want photos to do the typing.
Can you bring your old data across?+
Probably not directly. BoxTrack can't import from Know Your Stuff or any other app, and we didn't find an import for Know Your Stuff in the other apps either. If you still have an old export or printout, keep it as a record, and start fresh in whichever app you pick. Going room by room with the free home inventory checklist next to you keeps the prompts Know Your Stuff used to give.
Sources, checked October 10, 2026: AlternativeTo, Coverager on Know Your Stuff, Great Guys Moving app roundup, Insurance Canada on Know Your Stuff, RHSB on home inventories, NAIC Home Inventory, Under My Roof on the App Store, Nest Egg on the App Store, HomeZada, 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.