The app
Everything Your Home Should List — For $44, Once
The app that walks your house room by room, fills the fields an insurer asks for, puts a photo with each item, and gives you one file that is yours — no account, no monthly bill, no item cap. Prices and competitor facts checked October 2026.
One payment. Yours for good. After checkout, Stripe sends you straight to the app.
What the app does
No item cap
List the whole house, the garage, the attic, and the shed. There is no ceiling to run into when the storage rooms alone pass the limit on a monthly tier — Sortly's homeowner tier, Advanced, stops at 500 items. Your list grows at the speed of your house, not at the speed of a plan.
The room-by-room walkthrough
The app walks you room by room in a set order, with a photographed-room checklist you can see filling up as you go. Doorway sweep, walls and corners, drawers and closets open, serial plates photographed — the same method in every room, so nothing is left to whether you remembered it.
Barcode scanning as a shortcut
Scan a barcode and the app pre-fills the product name where a lookup finds one, so typing is shorter for packaged goods. Where no lookup exists, manual entry is always one tap away. Scanning is an accelerator, never a promise that every product in your house is known by its barcode.
Insurance report PDF, with photos
One printed report with one photo per item, the fields beside it, in room order — the packet you would hand an adjuster. Alongside it, the full export carries every photo with its item, so the file and the photos never get separated.
The fields insurers actually ask for
Brand, make, and model. Room. Serial and model number. Purchase date. Purchase price. Replacement cost today. Age and condition. Proof of ownership — a receipt photo, a warranty, or a bank statement line. Photos of items in place, and room-by-room timestamped photos and video. Appraisals for jewelry and collectibles, where policy limits apply. That is the field set the industry uses, and it is the field set on every item here, checked October 2026.
Bring your Sortly list, in two honest steps
Step 1: your Sortly CSV brings every item, price, tag and note — we match columns by name, including your custom fields. Step 2: Sortly only releases your actual photo files through its Dropbox export — bring that folder too and every photo lands with its item. Anyone who promises one click for both is not telling you the whole story. Nothing is lost if you do the two steps in that order, before you cancel Sortly.
One file, yours, that opens without us
Your inventory is one file: a spreadsheet of the list, plus every photo. Keep it in Files, in email, in cloud storage, or on a drive at another address. It opens in ordinary programs, with no account here and no need for this company to exist for you to read your own list in ten years.
Full spreadsheet export, any time
Export the whole list as a spreadsheet file whenever you want, as often as you want — after a work session, before a move, at the start of storm season. An export is not a favour and not a paid extra. It is how the app is supposed to be used.
Works with no internet
Installed to your Home Screen, the app works with no internet at all — in a garage, an attic, or a house after a storm. On iPhone, installing to the Home Screen is also what protects its stored data, because Safari deletes a website's stored data after 7 days without interaction and a Home Screen app is exempt. Install it, and export copies as well.
Totals that stay current, by room and by kind
Purchase-price and replacement-cost totals by room and by category, updated as you add items. You can see at a glance what the garage holds, what the kitchen would cost to replace, and whether the size of the list matches the size of the house it describes.
What it replaces
| Year 1 | Over 3 years | |
|---|---|---|
| Sortly Advanced | $588 in year 1 ($49 x 12) | $1,764 over 3 years |
| InventoryByHand | $44 in year 1 | $44 over 3 years |
| NAIC Home Inventory app | Free | Free — but 2.0 stars on Google Play, with user reports of entries disappearing and exports failing |
Free first, honestly
The free template on this site is complete — every field, printable, no email asked. Buy the app only if you want the phone to do the walking, the photos to attach themselves, and the report to print itself.
Questions, answered straight
Is $44 really the whole price?
Yes. $44, one time, for the app, with no item cap and no monthly bill. There is no renewal and no higher tier you must buy to list a whole house.
Why not just use the free NAIC app?
You can — it is the regulators' own free app. Two honest facts to weigh, as checked October 2026: it carries 2.0 stars on Google Play and about 2.2 on iOS, and users report entries disappearing and exports failing. A list you cannot trust to be there is the one cost a free app can carry.
Why not just use a free spreadsheet?
A spreadsheet holds the words, but not the workflow: the room-by-room walk, the photographed-room checklist, the photos joined to each item, and the printed report with one photo per item. The free template on this site will show you the fields — the app does the walking, photographing, and totalling for you.
Can I buy it for someone else, like a parent?
The app works on a phone or tablet with no account, so you can set it up on their device and walk the house with them. The exported file is theirs, and you can keep a copy at your address as their off-site copy.
What if I lose my phone?
If you have exported your file, you have your inventory — install the app on the new phone and bring the file back in. If you never exported and the phone is gone, the list is gone with it: no one can bring back a file that was never made. That limit is true of this design, we state it plainly, and it is why the app reminds you to export. See the honesty page for the full list of limits.
Secure checkout by Stripe. The app opens right after payment — install it to your home screen and your inventory survives in a file you own.