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DESCRIPTION
Home Inventory is a powerful, easy to use application for keeping track of all of your possessions. Maintaining a complete and up-to-date inventory is critical when making an insurance claim and in assessing if you have the proper amount of coverage in your policy. Home Inventory helps you with these things by keeping track of critical information about the items in your home.
Home Inventory lets you have a virtually unlimited number of photos for each item (different angles, a closeup shot of a serial number, pictures showing an item's placement in the room, or anything else you want). You can import photos into Home Inventory from your hard drive, take a picture with your Mac's iSight camera, scan them in directly with a TWAIN compliant scanner, or drag and drop them from other applications (such as iPhoto).
It doesn't end there. Once you have your photos in Home Inventory, you can use Home Inventory's built-in image editor to rotate and crop your item photos without having to go through an external application.
Home Inventory's album view lets you manage all of the photos in your inventory database in one place. Using the album view you can import photos, associate and disassociate photos with items, and delete photos. The association feature even allows you to associate the same photo with multiple items (such as a photo of the components in your audio/video setup can be associated with your DVD player, receiver, television, and gaming console).
The album view saves you a lot of time putting together an inventory by letting you import a bunch of photos all at once then quickly assign each of them to the correct items. You can even create new items on the fly from selected photos with a single click of the mouse button.
Home Inventory can create detailed reports. The extensive reporting options let you determine how item information is organized (by location, by category), what fields are presented, and much more.
Binary Formations recommends you keep a printed copy of your home's inventory in a safe deposit box or other secure location away from your home in case disaster strikes.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.8.2 contains the following improvements and fixes:
- Adds the ability to select from multiple cameras when acquiring images through an
attached video camera.
- Fixes an issue with scanning images using a CanoScan 8600F scanner.
- Fixes a bug that resulted in category reports not being generated if there was a cate-
gory with an empty name.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Home Inventory User Reviews (9 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Apr 20 2008 |
SFURST Keeping a home inventory is critically important. It makes a big difference when you have to fight with your insurance company, and just helps you know what all your "stuff" is. (Could you make a list of what's in your house if it burned down tomorrow?) Enter Home Inventory. Quicken used to include a home inventory as part of Quicken for Mac (and PC for that matter); they dropped it completely for the Mac, and issued it as a stand-along product for the PC (at $30). Binary Formations' Home Inventory is a great replacement -- faster, more flexible, universal binary, and actively developed. It's this last part that's really important. I had over one hundred items trapped in Quicken's Home Inventory. It's no longer supported. No way to export, and the program crashes under 10.4 and 10.5. You don't want to invest hours of data entry, only to be stuck with an unsupported program. Binary Formations is REALLY responsive. Find a big? Got a question? Fast, helpful answers and fixes. There's a version 2 under development as well. Uses SQL for the underlying database, so you'll never be orphaned (plus there's an export function). I really recommend this program. Sure there's room for improvement, but new stuff is getting added all the time. There's nothing out there that even comes close.
(Version 1.7.1) | |
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 | Dec 9 2008 |
TCWW67 Home Inventory and Emergency Records Manager are both part of Quicken 2007! What version are you using?
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| Feb 28 2007 |
MAKEMINEAMAC This is a very useful program. It's not only fast, but prints amazing reports. The features missing in both this program and CG's Home Inventory is .mac & iLife integration. (the .mac integration would solve the "What if your computer gets stolen?" problem) It really surprises me that something this simple was missed by both these developers. This one would be an easy purchase for me to justify, but I may go with the CG version, as it also offers movie imports and optional audio recordings for each item, though it's not as stable as this one. I can't find either of these features in this one. Still, it's a beautiful interface and very well put-together. Runs like a charm. Hope it continues to evolve.
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| Feb 20 2007 |
HILBO60 This program shows how it should be done!. Data entry is never the most exciting of jobs, but 'Home Inventory' makes the chore as easy as it can get, dare I say, almost a pleasure! This App has it all as far as I'm concerned, it is all I need for the onerous yet essential task for which it is designed. It caters for all the mandatory fields of information, plus more besides, couple that with the most delightful Mac-like interface and you have a sure fire winner! In closing, a word about the Author, in these days of the big boys chasing the big bucks by every means possible, here is someone who cares more about getting it right, also about customer satisfaction. A definite five stars!
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| Jun 26 2006 |
COMUS When I evacuated for Hurricane Katrina, one of the first things in the car was my Powerbook. Granted, I video taped the entire contents of my house but this program could have saved me some time listing lost items with manufacturer and model numbers. I don't know about you, but I'm checking this program out!
(Version 1.3) | |
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| Oct 11 2009 |
ELMO151 format, layout are "ok". Import of pictures is fine. BIG PROBLEM: you cannot export any of the pictures in the database. No way to send a file to your insurance company.. Basically in, good out NO
(Version 1.8.2) | |
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| Dec 9 2008 |
ROB.H For info - you can download a free Home Inventory program for OS X from www.vault24.com Similar features to this - catalogue items by room (value, purchase date, etc.), add photos, attach receipts, record insurance policy details, etc.
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| May 3 2009 |
ROB.H How interesting. I don't slag this application off at all, I merely point out that there is a free alternative with similar features. For this at least two people mark the comment down? Hey ho, that's the kind of world we live in =;-)
(Version 1.8.2) | |
| Oct 23 2009 |
HOBOJOE I checked out the link you provided. Guess what pops up? A warning from Google Safe Browsing that visiting the page may infect my computer with malware. Luckily, I'm on a Mac, and chances are I'm safe. And yes, this could just be a "mistake" on Google's part. But I'm guessing that may be why you're getting marked down on your comments.
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| Oct 23 2009 |
HOBOJOE Oh, and for the record, Rob.H seems like a genuine MacUpdate user. You can click on his name and see that he's been around on the site for some time. Didn't want to imply that he's purposefully posting illicit links here. | |
| Oct 23 2009 |
ROB.H Thanks for the update. I actually use 'Web of Trust' Firefox plug-in on the Mac for checking out dodgy sites, and the link I posted originally seems to check out ok (WoT gives it a green circle), so I'm not sure why Google would flag it with a warning? If anyone wants to check out what rating Web Of Trust gives the vault24 site, they can do so at the Web of Trust website at www.mywot.com, but it's obviously for people to check out sites using whatever means they trust at the end of the day. I don't have any affiliation with vault24 or their product, as I mentioned I just happened to find they did a similar product for free. If it turns out that there is a problem with the vault24 site, then by all means the moderators should remove the link from my original post :-)
(Version 1.8.2) | |
| Nov 28 2006 |
CRACKPOTHEAD I've used a bonded company and program at http://www.digitalhomeinventories.com/ for added security.
(Version 1.5) | |
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| Jun 26 2006 |
ILOVEMYMAC "This information is critical when you have to file an insurance claim in the event any of your property is damaged or stolen." But what good is this to you if your computer get's stolen? Just a thought...
(Version 1.3) | |
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| Feb 18 2007 |
MIKAELF How about a backup? | |
| Dec 21 2008 |
LARRYMCJ Print out all the reports (they include pictures) on a color printer and keep this updated with your insurance company. Take it from someone who recently had $35K worth of jewelry stolen...the only thing that counts is proof of possesion (pictures, receipts, etc.) This program is far better than any of the free stuff out there and mention on this page. Compare and you'll see. The fact it automatically scales down imported pictures is worth the price of the app.
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| Jun 26 2006 |
ILOVEMYMAC "This information is critical when you have to file an insurance claim in the event any of your property is damaged or stolen." But what good is this to you if your computer get's stolen? Just a thought...
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