Itemized Home
An offline home inventory app for storm season and insurance claims. Photograph the house room by room now, so you aren’t listing your belongings from memory later.
- For
- Homeowners, landlords, and anyone heading into storm season
- When
- 2026
- Status
- Live on the App Store for iPhone and iPad since September 2026.
The situation
Before a storm or an insurance claim, people are told to document what they own. Most people don’t, because photographing a house one item at a time takes days and feels like data entry. An inventory app only works if capture is fast enough that people get to the end.
The people who most need a complete inventory find that out afterwards, trying to remember what was in a room that’s no longer there.
What I built, and why
Burst mode turns a sweep of photos into several draft items in one pass, a document scanner pulls in receipts and manuals, and a bulk import takes a camera roll you already have.
The output is the other half. Inventories export as CSV, a multi-sheet Excel workbook, or a PDF with the photos embedded, and the app assembles a Proof of Loss from the items you select. That document follows the Florida sworn statement format, including the fraud notice the state requires, and it’s a draft the user reviews rather than legal advice.
Why I did it this way
Local-first, and what that costs
The inventory lives on the device, with no account or backend. That’s what makes it work after a storm with no cell service, and it means nobody here can see anyone’s belongings or policy numbers. It also means a lost phone is a lost inventory until cloud backup ships, so the app puts exports in front of people as the interim answer.
A legal document generated from a database
The Proof of Loss is assembled from the items the user selects and prefilled from a per-property insurance card. The state-specific wording is isolated, so adding another state is a lookup rather than a rewrite.
Exports an adjuster can open
Every export is a standard file handed off through the system share sheet, because an adjuster has to be able to open it without installing anything. The Excel workbook is split into summary, items, rooms and tags.
A feature we shipped and then removed
Automatic home valuation shipped and worked, and then we took it out. It pulled attention away from the inventory and meant a paid API bill on a free app.
What changed
Itemized Home Inventory is live on the App Store, free, for iPhone and iPad.
Built with
- React Native
- Expo
- TypeScript
- Expo Router
- Zustand
- MMKV
- NativeWind
- PostHog
- Crisp
