Itemtopia Inventory

This app has proved very useful to me in a professional sense. I use it to inspect and rate industrial equipment at my customer’s sites. I initially had issues with the app and found that the developer is super responsive and very detailed in their communications, investigations, and solutions. This is really rare among iOS developers (I have 400+ apps on my phone)! Kudos! The only issue I have with the app is that I would like to be able to access all of the photos I take with it either within my Photos app or as a download of the actual image files (not a PDF or web browser view). Get that in the app and this is 5-stars for sure!

I have been searching for an app to be able to catalog the inventory of my creator workshop. There have been som many times that I wanted to make something and I knew that I “should” have all the pieces to make the item, yet I didn’t know where those pieces were in my workshop. Or I was out on a film set an needed a tool or item, knew I had the item or tool, but did not know which of the 15 bags or boxes that I brought the item or tool was located. This app has given me a way to look through my workshop and various boxes and bags for any item at the click of a button. I use the app on a daily basis and find that I am more organized by using it. Also, I have used the technical support and they are phenomenal!

I truly want to like itemtopia, but their premium version only allows up to 3000 items. Even if they upgrade it later and give you 4 GB instead of two, it’s simply not enough if you truly use this for everything in your home. I pin collection alone is several thousand pins. The overall interface looks like it’s customizable, but many features you cannot try until you have a pro account, so you cannot get a full test drive. Also, it is a bit deceiving at $50 for the first year and 79 for the second year and on. Overall, the goal is for the program is to truly be able to document everything in your home, take pictures of everything you have, every book, every painting, every item for your collection, etc., along with receipts, that takes up quite some space. I like having in the cloud as it would be available on all my devices, but simply it’s just enough room. If you use similar software like Under My Roof, you could at least store it in your iCloud, and then you would not be limited by their space constraints. That does have some downsides, though, you are stuck to Apple devices, which is fine for me now, but not sure if that would always be the case 10 years from now. So the two main frustrations are the inability to see all of the features without paying for premium, and also just how limited you are. Remove the maximum number of items and storage or provide an option to use iCloud storage. Buy if you did the second, you would need to reduce the cost since you would not be paying for storage and bandwidth.