Room by Room: Home Inventory

Room by Room is a household inventory built for one moment: the day you have to prove what you owned. Photographs, purchase prices, replacement estimates, serial numbers and receipts, organised by room — and a PDF export written for the stranger who will read it, your insurance adjuster.

THE EXPORT IS THE POINT

An inventory nobody can read is not documentation. The PDF Room by Room produces is built to be printed, stapled, scanned and emailed:

• A cover page with the owner, property, policy number, the total, and a plain-English explanation of how to read the document • Value by room and by category, then every item with its photographs, serial number, prices and warranty date • Which number was counted, on every line — a replacement estimate and an old receipt are different claims about different money, and the document says which one fed the total • Items with no value recorded are counted and disclosed, never quietly totalled as zero • "Page 4 of 7" on every page, and an owner attestation with signature and date lines at the end

There is a CSV too, so your records outlive any app — including this one.

SERIAL NUMBERS WITHOUT TYPING

Photograph a rating plate — or point the live scanner at it — and Room by Room reads both the printed text and any barcode, entirely on your device. When the two agree, the serial is offered as verified two ways. When they disagree, you see both and choose. It never fills a field for you, because an unverified identifier in an insurance document is worse than a blank.

A scanned product code is an identifier, not a lookup: there is no product database, nothing is sent anywhere, and next time you scan the same code Room by Room finds the item you already added instead of duplicating it.

YOURS, PERMANENTLY

Room by Room has no server, no account and no subscription. Your inventory lives on your devices and syncs through your own iCloud. There is nothing to renew to keep it, and no company in the middle that can hold it — which matters, because the leading apps in this category rent you your own records by the year.

Pay once, unlock unlimited items. And the export is never locked: even at the free limit, everything you have entered leaves as a PDF and a CSV, because holding your records hostage would contradict the reason this app exists.

ALSO IN THE BOX

• Warranty reminders that arrive before the warranty ends — scheduled on your device, no push server • A per-item checklist of what an adjuster will ask for: photo, value, serial, receipt • Notes on the coverage gaps policies commonly leave — jewelry, tools, collections are often capped as a category — pointing you at your own declarations page, never interpreting your policy • iPhone, iPad and Mac, one purchase

Room by Room collects nothing. No analytics, no tracking, no third-party code. The full policy is one page, readable inside the app.