Most of what we sell is built for businesses, first dealerships and more recently childcare programs. Asset Logging is the first product we sell to households, and it comes from the same instinct as the others. A record is only worth keeping if it holds up when someone questions it.
Why most home inventories never get finished
A home inventory is one of those things almost everyone agrees is a good idea and almost nobody finishes. Typing three hundred items into a form takes about seven hours, so the list tends to stop somewhere around the living room, and the rest of the house stays undocumented until the day it matters.
Asset Logging takes the typing out. Point your phone at a barcode, a QR code or a serial number label and the item fills itself in. Barcodes and printed labels are read on the phone itself, offline and at no cost, so it works in a basement or a garage with no signal. For the difficult labels, such as etched metal, curved surfaces and tiny type, an optional smart scan reads them properly and flags any characters it was unsure about, so a 0 never becomes an O on a claim form.
A list is not a claim
When you file a claim, an adjuster wants proof that you owned the item, proof of what you paid, proof of its condition, and serial numbers for a police report. Most inventory apps give you a name and a photo. Asset Logging produces the document instead.
- Proof of ownership, per item. One PDF with the photographs, the serial number set large enough to transcribe without error, the purchase date and price, and the service history. It is built to be printed and handed over.
- Replacement value and cash value. What it costs to buy the item again today, side by side with what a cash-value policy would actually pay after depreciation.
- Room-by-room reports. A PDF grouped by room with subtotals, or a spreadsheet with every field and numbers that sort and total properly, for the adjuster, the accountant or the executor.
- A grab-and-go list. Flag what matters most and it lives on one screen that works with no signal.
It keeps earning its place
An inventory you build once and never open again goes stale. Warranty reminders arrive a month before a warranty ends, not on the day it does, so there is still time to book the repair. Maintenance intervals remind you when a service is due, and a documented service history supports an item's condition if you ever do have to claim. Versioned backups go to your own iCloud or Google Drive.
We cannot read your inventory
That was a design decision rather than a policy promise. The inventory lives on your phone in an encrypted database, and backups are encrypted on the device before they are uploaded, with a key we never receive. There is no website where you can browse your belongings, because there is no copy for us to show you. An account is optional, and the inventory works without one.
The one exception, stated plainly: if you choose smart scan on a label your phone cannot read, that single photograph is sent to be read and is not kept. It is opt-in every time, and you can switch it off completely in settings.
Try it
Asset Logging is available now on the App Store. The trial unlocks every feature with no card required, which is enough to document a couple of rooms and decide whether the scanning is worth finishing the house.
Details, screenshots and pricing are at assetlogging.com, and you can download it from the App Store. We also wrote up what we built and why.