Forgot where you put it? Search.

Where did I put that thing?

Almost everyone has been there: you know you put the thing away, you just can’t remember where. In a move it’s worse — there are forty identical boxes, and the memory of packing them is three weeks old.

The answer isn’t a better memory. It’s not having to rely on it. If every item was recorded with its photo and the box it went into — a small inventory of your stuff — forgetting where you put something stops being a problem: you search, and the app answers.

That’s also the honest limit. The app finds the items you recorded. A lost item at home that nobody ever photographed or wrote down won’t be in it.

What the search looks at

Everything you or the AI wrote about each item:

• the description and the notes;
• the category;
• the attributes — color, brand, material, size;
• the owner, if you set one — type “Emma” and Emma’s things show up;
• the box number, where the box is and the room it’s going to;
• the barcode, if you linked one.

It forgives how you spell things

The search ignores accents, matches the beginning of words and tolerates typos. “Chager”, “charg” and “charger” give the same result. You don’t have to remember how you described the item three weeks ago.

It works offline

The search runs on your phone itself, on the data that’s already there. In a garage with no signal, in a storage unit, in the moving truck — it answers just the same, and fast.

One move or all of them

By default, it searches the move you’re in. If you have more than one — the one from your old apartment and the boxes stored at your parents’ place, say — you can search all of them at once.

On iPhone, Android or a computer — and free to start

HomeItemFinder runs in the browser of any phone or computer — an iPhone (iOS), an Android phone or a laptop — and you can install it on your home screen to use it like an app. There are no versions in the app stores yet. You can start for free, with no credit card; the free plan’s limits are on the pricing page.

Or without typing anything

If the box is right in front of you, you don’t even need to search: point your phone at the QR code on the label and you see the list of what’s inside. See QR code labels.