Sortly alternatives for a home inventory

Sortly shows up in every search for a home inventory app because it is a good inventory app. It is also a small-business tool: the organising unit is a folder with custom fields and a quantity, items are entered by hand or by barcode, and the plans are priced as monthly subscriptions for teams. None of that is wrong. It is just aimed at stock rooms, and a home is not a stock room. The alternatives below are ordered by how well they do the household job, with AI Home Inventory first because it replaces the manual entry that makes home inventories die half-finished.

The six alternatives

1. 1. AI Home Inventory

   Room photos instead of manual entry; replacement-cost ranges and a policy-limit check instead of stock counts; one-time US$49.99 instead of a subscription. The right swap if the reason you looked at Sortly was insurance.

2. 2. KeepTrack: AI Home Inventory

   Keeps Sortly's location-first idea, adds AI item recognition, and exports PDF reports per location. Good for storage units and garages.

3. 3. MovingBox: AI Home Inventory

   If Sortly's folders were standing in for moving boxes, this is the purpose-built version.

4. 4. Itemory: Home Inventory AI

   Per-item AI cataloguing that stays in your iCloud and exports CSV or JSON. The most private option here.

5. 5. Spullio: AI Home Inventory

   A simpler catalogue for a household that wants a place for every thing without Sortly's business features.

6. 6. A spreadsheet plus a video walk-through

   Free, and better than nothing: film every room slowly, then list the big-ticket items in a sheet with serials and receipts. The app route adds the values and the total.

What to look for instead of folders

A home inventory is judged after a loss, by an adjuster, on three things: proof that the item existed in your home, a defensible replacement value, and a total that was compared with the policy before the loss rather than after. That points to four features Sortly does not have and most catalogue apps skip.

• Room photos, not item photos. The photo of the room proves context and covers forty things at once.
• Replacement-cost ranges. A number per item, framed as a range and marked as an estimate, is what makes the total meaningful.
• Coverage gaps. The app should tell you the closet was closed. Otherwise the inventory is only what you remembered to photograph.
• A report an adjuster recognises. Items, photos, values, a high-value schedule, and the date.

The comparison page shows which apps have which, and the insurance guide explains why replacement cost is the figure that matters.

When to stay with Sortly

If you manage a rental portfolio, a workshop, an Airbnb turnover kit or anything with consumables and a team, keep Sortly. Its strengths are exactly the operational ones a household never uses. Some people run both: Sortly for the business, a home inventory app for the policy.