Catalogue what you own room by room, with values, purchase dates and serial numbers, so an insurance claim never depends on what you can remember under stress.
Everything you add is saved in this browser only — no account, no server, no sync.
Work through the house one room at a time, with subtotals for each.
See your declared contents value grow as you add items.
Copy the whole inventory as plain text to store somewhere safe.
The trick is to do one room at a time rather than the whole house at once.
Contents insurance pays out against a list, and the list is your responsibility. Most households significantly underestimate what they own, because the total is made of dozens of unremarkable items rather than a few obvious ones. Cataloguing room by room usually reveals a contents value well above what people assume, which is worth knowing before a claim rather than during one.
A photo of each shelf or wall takes seconds and captures items you would never think to list individually.
Police recover stolen goods regularly but can only return them when there is a serial number to match against.
Contents drift upward. An annual pass keeps your declared value roughly in line with reality.
An inventory stored only on a laptop in the house is no use if the house is the thing that burns down.
Questions about what to record, valuations and where to store the list.
After a fire, flood or burglary, insurers ask for an itemised list of what was lost. Almost nobody can produce one from memory under those circumstances, and the shortfall comes straight out of the settlement.
At minimum the item, the room, roughly what it cost and when you bought it. Serial numbers matter most for electronics, tools and bicycles, because they are what makes recovered property identifiable.
Check your policy. Replacement-cost cover pays what it costs to buy new today, while actual-cash-value cover deducts depreciation. Recording the purchase price and date lets you argue either.
Not only in the house it describes. Export the list periodically and keep a copy in email, cloud storage or with a relative, along with photographs of high-value items.
Yes. It is stored only in this browser's local storage and never uploaded. Use the export button to make your own off-site copy.