Release notes for additem.to. Latest version first.
Please update the app on every device you use. Older versions can lose a code that's on more than one thing, so update before you link a code to a second item or location.
When something goes wrong, the app now points you to help instead of leaving you to work it out, and Settings is easier to find your way around.
Quantity items now keep a record of stock coming in and going out, with the date, the reason and what it was worth.
The item list can now be sorted by a custom field, so a directory can run A to Z by last name without changing what each item is called.
The reports from the iPhone app are now in the web app, and the menu is shorter so they have somewhere to go.
Some inventories already say what each item is in other fields: a club directory has first and last names, a tool store has serial numbers. Those items can now go without a name, and the inventory chooses what names them instead.
A template now hides the custom fields it doesn't include, the same as it already did for the standard ones. Show all fields brings the rest back.
Choosing a location meant scrolling one long list where every drawer looked the same. You can now open Bedroom, then Wardrobe, then the drawer, and each location shows its type.
An empty inventory offered one way in: importing a CSV file. The Items and Locations screens now list each way to add something, with a line on what it does, so it's clearer where to begin.
Items sync between devices through your additem.to account, not through iCloud. The app now says so where it matters, because parts of it used to suggest the opposite.
A report would tell you how many items had no location, then leave you to find them. It named none of them and nothing was tappable, so the only way through was to search for items you'd never been shown. Every row in every report now opens the items it counted, and you can narrow what a report covers before you run it.
Changing an item twice in quick succession could leave the second change on your phone, never sent to us. Nothing said so, and nothing tried again. Your own phone stayed right, so this only showed up on a second device, or to someone you'd shared the inventory with. It applied to any field, not just prices.
The new Photos screen showed some items twice, and they turned out to be two copies of one picture. Creating an item with AI attaches the photo you scanned, but the form still showed an empty Photos box with a + on it, so adding one there gave you the picture twice. The scan photo now appears in that box before you save. You can see it's there, and you can remove it if you don't want it kept.
Photos have always lived on the item you attached them to, which is fine until you remember what something looks like but not what you called it. There's now a Photos screen showing every photo in an inventory, newest first, and you can search it by caption or by the name of the item. Tap one to open it full screen, or pick several to share or delete together. It's in the web app too.
Under Organise, Item Display lets you pick which field goes in each corner of a row, and what appears under a photo in the grid. Quantity, location, a custom field, whatever you actually look at. You can put the field name in front of the value if the number alone isn't obvious. The setting belongs to the inventory, so everyone sharing it sees the same thing, and the list and the grid are set up separately.
You could hide sold items but never ask to see only those, so "what have I sold?" meant running a report. There's a Sold filter in the list now. Status also exports to CSV and comes back in, which means you can mark a month of sales in a spreadsheet and import it in one go rather than editing items one at a time.
Ending a stocktake used to write to your inventory the moment you tapped the button. Everything you had not counted was marked missing, with no list and no way to disagree with any of it. Now you get the list first: what it will mark missing, anything you found that was missing before, and any counts that do not match what the item says. Untick a row to leave that item alone, or correct a number in place. Nothing is saved until you confirm.
Sold and archived items are left out now, and you can put them back in when you start one. Items that are lent out are counted, since a stocktake is a fair moment to notice something has not come back.
A lot of this came out of work on the Android app. Porting a feature means reading it line by line and writing tests for both sides, and that turned up a fair few things on iOS that had been quietly wrong for a while. Android is still in development.
If your phone is set to a language that writes decimals with a comma, which is ten of the fourteen we support, the keyboard offered you a comma and the app then failed to read it. Typing 2,50 into a price saved nothing at all, and it did the same in any number, currency or percentage field. Values already stored were fine. It was only what you typed next that went nowhere.
The app treated any failed check with the server as the end of your session. A timeout, a dropped connection, a moment while the API restarted, and you were signed out, holding a token that was still good for another ninety days. It now tells the difference between the server saying no and not being able to reach the server at all. Only the first one ends a session.
A few things that only showed up on a second device, or a while after the fact.
Moving an item that is out on loan now checks it back in, wherever you do it from. Quick Move has always worked that way and says so on screen. Changing the location of several items at once did it silently instead, which left the item lent out and on a shelf at the same time. Kits are the exception and still refuse, because a kit travels as a set.
A category used to be a word typed onto an item, and nothing more. That meant you could not set one up before you had something to put in it, and the last item leaving took the category with it. Categories are now saved in their own right. Make them when it suits you, rename one in a single place instead of item by item, and merge two if you end up with both Tools and Power Tools.
You can turn off the sections you do not use on an item's screen, like Photos or Loans, and they are hidden on every item in that inventory. That was already possible, but it sat inside Field Groups behind a heading most people never opened, and free accounts could not reach it at all. It has its own screen now.
The Full Inventory report could already be filtered by status, tag and location, and grouped by category. It could not be filtered by category, so cutting a report down to two or three of them meant exporting the lot and reading around it.
Sync stopped listing an inventory after the first few thousand items, so anything past that was not checked for changes. It was most obvious on a fresh install of an app holding tens of thousands of items, where the first sync could fail outright. Sync now works through an inventory of any size, and waits when the server asks it to instead of giving up.
Not everyone wants an account, AI, or cloud sync. Local Only Mode takes all three out of the app and stops it connecting to our servers at all. Your inventory already lives on your phone, so this simply makes that the whole story, with nothing left prompting you to go online. It is free, on every tier, and you can turn it off whenever you like. If you are on Pro Cloud, switching over uploads anything still waiting to sync and copies your full size photos onto the phone first, so you keep the originals rather than the thumbnails.
A batch of import improvements, found by throwing a lot of awkward spreadsheets at it on purpose. Mostly about making bulk edits easier and telling you what is about to happen before it happens.
Buy something, photograph the receipt, done. additem.to now reads receipts with AI and pulls out the shop, the price and the date for you to check. It works when you add something new and when you want to fill in an item you already have, and if a receipt lists several things you just pick the line you need.
Photos are no longer just pictures attached to an item. You can now say what each one is, write on it, flick through them properly, and get them out of the app when someone needs proof.
No new buttons this time. This one is all under the hood. We laid the plumbing so a photo's type (receipt, manual, box or label) will sync across your devices, ready for when you can set them in a future update, plus a round of reliability clean-up. Nothing new to tap yet, but things should feel a little more solid.
The headline this release is bulk editing: select a batch of items and set their location, add tags, or set a category all in one go. Scan a tag for the destination or pick it from the list. Tagging and categorising got quicker too, with new pickers that let you browse and reuse what you already have, or create something new in a tap. And tapping a tag now jumps straight to everything filed under it.
Two small quality-of-life additions. A new panel in Settings shows how many AI scans you have left this month and a history of what you have scanned, so you always know where you stand. And the Locations screen now remembers which sub-locations you have collapsed. Tuck away the ones you are not using and they stay that way, even after a sync or a restart.
Add a photo to an item on the web or another device, and it could occasionally lag behind here, sometimes not appearing until you next opened the app. We found the sync gap behind it and closed it, so photos you add anywhere now arrive reliably on your other devices at the next sync. A small release, but a satisfying one to get right.
Last time you could build an item from a photo. Now you can finish one. Point your camera at something you already track, or its label, and additem.to fills in the details you skipped, like the serial number, model or barcode, and flags anything that looks wrong. You see every change first, and nothing is overwritten unless you say so. Perfect for the items you added in a hurry and meant to come back to.
A tidy-up release for the item and location screens. Delete prompts are now honest about the fact that what you remove waits in Recently Deleted for 30 days, we added a heads-up before you lose unsaved edits, the plan screens spell out exactly what you get, and VoiceOver support is much better throughout.
AI scanning got faster and smarter. You can scan one item and go straight to the next, sign in right where you start a scan, and the suggestions come back tidier and more in step with how you already organise things.
A quick follow-up to the AI scanning update. We fixed a rare sync issue, tidied up item pages so they only show the details you have filled in, and polished the photo screens. Thank you to everyone who sent feedback.
A small but important update that sorts out two photo problems. The camera no longer closes when you add a second photo to an item, and photos you take now stay put after syncing. Thank you to everyone who reported these.
Adding items just got a lot faster. Point your camera at something you own and additem.to suggests its name, brand, category and more. You review the details and save. It even fills in your custom fields and picks a matching item template. Every suggestion lands in the normal item form first, so you stay in control of what gets saved.
A polish release for the scan screen. You now feel a quick tap the moment a scan lands, so you know it worked without watching the screen, with an optional scan sound if you want one. A new toggle flips between QR and barcode without leaving the screen, and we fixed a scanner that sometimes did not restart after you opened an item and came back.
A reliability release. We tracked down a sync loop that could keep the app syncing when nothing had actually changed, tidied up how deleted and moved items are handled across devices, and reworked the location picker so it is searchable and no longer jumps around while a sync is running.
The physical tagging release. Barcodes join NFC and QR as first-class citizens: scan a product's own barcode, reuse labels from a previous system like Sortly, or generate and print fresh ones. NFC tags learned a new trick too: turn on Tap to Open and tapping the tag opens the item even when the app is closed. And QR codes you generate now open items straight from the iPhone Camera.
Custom fields just got tidier. Organise them into named groups (Camera Specs, Tool Info, Warranty Details) and collapse the ones you're not using. Or pin them inside the built-in sections so warranty expiry sits next to purchase date, where it belongs. Each inventory has its own section visibility too: hide Quantity in your home contents, hide Purchase Info in a workshop.
Create templates that pre-fill fields when you add a new item. Build a "Camera" template and it sets the category, shows the fields you need (serial number, model, manufacturer), and hides the ones you don't. Pick a template when adding an item and the form is ready to go.
Group items together for jobs, trips, or projects. Build a "Camera Kit" or "Camping Gear" kit, see everything in one place, and know at a glance if anything is missing before you head out.
Locations got a significant upgrade. Add an address and location type, see a full item breakdown, navigate nested locations with breadcrumbs, and move everything out of a location in one action.
Nest locations inside each other to reflect how you actually store things. Home > Garage > Top Shelf. See item counts at every level and drill down to exactly where something lives.
Start a pick list to pull specific items for a job, handover, or shoot. Scan or tap items as you gather them, then mark the list complete. A low stock report was added at the same time so nothing slips through the cracks.
A major update. The web app is now live for Pro Cloud subscribers. Share any inventory with someone else and give them viewer or editor access. Reports show your totals at a glance with breakdowns by location, category, and tag, exportable as PDF.
additem.to launches on the App Store. Track items at home, in the shop, or at the office: photos, serial numbers, custom fields, locations, NFC tags, QR codes. Offline-first, no account required.