The best home inventory apps in 2026

Itemlist

We build Itemlist, so read this section knowing that. Itemlist runs on iPhone and iPad and is rated 4.7 from 204 App Store ratings, checked on September 21, 2026. It is free up to 100 items and 20 containers, with no cap on the number of locations. Its organization mirrors a real home: locations hold rooms, rooms hold containers, and containers nest inside other containers, so the box inside the bin on the garage shelf has an address. A single inventory can hold several locations at once, home, vacation house and storage unit, on the free tier. Pro adds shared locations with editor and viewer roles, so an inventory is not one person's job, and costs $29.99 a year with a one-week free trial or $59.99 once, which makes it one of the few apps here you can buy outright. Items carry multiple photos plus fields for brand, model, value and serial number; the barcode scanner fills serial numbers in or finds an item by scanning it; search covers all of it; and CSV export is free, so the item data, values and serial numbers included, is never locked in. Photos stay in the app and do not come along in the export. Version 2.1, on the store since August 28, 2026, added value totals and decluttering reminders. The same structure carries a small business tracking its own equipment, assets and supplies; that side is on the small business page. The honest limitation is platform: iPhone and iPad only, with no Android or native Mac app. If you need either, pick one of the options below.

Under My Roof

The pick if you live in the full Apple ecosystem, because it has a native Mac app alongside iPhone and iPad, synced through iCloud. It is rated 4.7 from 510 ratings and costs $4.99 a month or $34.99 a year after a one-week free trial, with the subscription covering family members through Family Sharing, all per its own site and App Store listing on September 2, 2026. One policy worth naming: after you cancel, you can still view your existing inventory rather than losing it, which is a genuinely good way to treat people who stop paying. The limitation is that it is Apple-only and subscription-only, so it is no help if anyone in the household is on Android, and there is no way to buy it outright. How it stacks up against our own app is on the Itemlist vs Under My Roof page.

Sortly

The pick if your inventory is really multi-user stock operations: a team keeping counts, purchase orders, low-stock alerts. It is polished, runs on iOS, Android and the web, and has a large user base, rated 4.7 from about 9,500 ratings on September 2, 2026. The catch for everyone else is the pricing: the free tier caps at 100 items and one user, and paid plans list at $49, $149 and $299 a month on its own pricing page, half price in the first year for new customers on annual billing, with a 14-day trial that asks for a credit card up front. That is operations software pricing, overkill for a household or for a small business that just tracks its own equipment. The full side by side is on our Itemlist vs Sortly page, and the switch options are on Sortly alternatives.

Everspruce

Home-inventory-specific and generous at the free end: 50 entries free forever. It runs on iOS, Android and the web, which helps if you want to work from a laptop as well as your phone, and is rated 4.7 from 470 ratings. The limitation is that the free 50-entry cap fills up fast for a whole home, and going past it costs $5.99 a month or $44.99 a year for Everspruce Plus, per its own help pages on September 2, 2026. Where to go from that cap is on our Everspruce alternatives page.

Home Contents

The long-track-record pick. It has been on the App Store since September 2011, is rated 4.7 from about 1,400 ratings, and shipped version 9.0 on July 27, 2026 with a redesigned interface. If you value an app that has quietly survived more than a decade, this is it. It is iOS only, free for 25 items and one property, with a $5.99 one-time unlock for unlimited items and multiple properties. Two things to know: the current version requires iOS 26, so an older iPhone that cannot update is out, and its listing does not advertise sharing between accounts.

Itemtopia

Itemtopia has the broadest platform coverage of anything here. On September 2, 2026 we confirmed its iOS app, its live Google Play listing, and the Mac version its App Store listing includes for Apple silicon; the Windows and web versions are the company's own claim. It is free to try, and while its own site does not name a price, its App Store listing does: Premium at $7.99 a month or $79.99 a year, with extra user seats sold separately from $2.99. Pick it if cross-platform reach matters most to you, and know that its Android app is rated 3.4 on Google Play against 4.5 on the App Store. The options around it are on our Itemtopia alternatives page.

Nest Egg

The one-time-purchase pick. The main app is $6.99 once, with no subscription, which is rare in this category; extras like CSV import, passcode protection and Dropbox support are $1.99 one-time add-ons each. It is iOS only and rated 4.4 from 615 ratings on September 2, 2026. If a recurring fee is the thing putting you off inventory apps, this removes it. The link below goes to its App Store page.

Nest Egg on the App Store