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Photograph a thing. The microphone is already listening, so just say what it is and tap Save. When you have been round the house, print the lot as a PDF: each picture, your words and the date. That is the record an insurer asks for after a fire, a flood or a burglary. Everything stays on your phone until you send it.
Adding a thing
Tap Photograph a thing. The camera opens; take the picture and tap Use Photo. The app is now listening: say what it is, where it came from, roughly what it cost, anything worth knowing. Your words appear as you speak. Tap Save. If you would rather type, tap into the words; listening stops and the keyboard takes over. Tap the microphone to listen again.
If you mention a price ("about six hundred pounds", "cost £1,100"), the app hears it, shows it under the words, prints it beside the item and adds it up on the last page of the PDF. Nothing is ever asked for; a bare number such as a model year is never taken as money.
Looking things up
The photographs sit on the front screen, newest first. Search finds anything by the words you used. Tap a photograph to see it full size, change the words, or remove the item.
The PDF
Tap the printer at the top right. Each photograph is printed at a size an adjuster can actually see, two to a page, with your words underneath and the date the camera wrote into the picture. The head of the document carries the name of the house, the address and your name if you have set them in Settings. A4 and Letter are both there, and the PDF can be locked with a passphrase. Send the whole file packs the PDF and every photograph at full size into one file.
What is free, and what the unlock adds
Photographing and describing your things is free and always will be, with no limit. The free version prints the first two pages of the PDF. The one-off unlock prints every page, sends the whole file with the full-size photographs, puts a passphrase on the PDF, and makes encrypted backups.
Backups
There is no cloud behind this app, so a backup file is the only thing that survives a lost phone, and a lost phone is exactly the kind of day this app is for. Make one from Settings; it holds every item and photograph, encrypted with a passphrase you choose. Nobody can recover that passphrase, so write it down somewhere safe. To put it back, open the file from Files, or use Restore in Settings. Sending yourself the PDF is the other copy worth having.
Keeping it private
Settings can lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode. Dictation runs on the phone itself and no audio is stored or leaves it.
Common questions
- Does my insurer accept this? Insurers and regulators in Britain, America and Australia all recommend exactly this: a photographed, dated, narrated record of what you own, made before anything happens. It supports a claim; the insurer's own claim form still has to be completed.
- Do I need rooms, categories or values? No. Say the room in your words if you like ("in the kitchen"). The point is that every item gets photographed, which never happens when each one takes a form.
- Does anything go to the cloud? No. The app has no servers and no account.
- The app says it cannot listen. Allow the microphone and speech recognition for the app in Settings. On a phone or in a language that cannot recognise speech on the device, the app will not send your voice to a server, so type instead.
Contact
Anything at all, including bugs and suggestions: conor@conorhannah.com.