Box Retriever

Know what's in every bin without opening it.

Box Retriever lists what's in your bins, boxes and shelves, with photos. Print a QR label, tape it on, and scan it later to see what's inside.

Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play

For iPhone and Android. No account, and your lists stay on your phone.

Box Retriever: storage screen

Room, shelf, bin. Or just bins.

Set it up however your house works: a garage with a metal shelf and six totes, or three bins under the bed. Each item gets a photo, a quantity, tags and notes.

  • Up to three levels: room, shelf, bin. You don't need all three.
  • Mark items In storage, In use or Gone.
  • Swipe to move something to another bin.
Box Retriever: bin screen

Find it in a second.

Search "lights" and you'll see every string of lights, which bin it's in and where that bin lives.

  • Searches names, tags, notes and the words read from photos.
  • Narrow it to one room or one tag.
  • Tap a result to jump straight to its bin.
Box Retriever: find screen

QR labels you print at home.

Every label shows the bin's name, where it lives and the first few things inside. Scan it with Box Retriever to open the bin. Scan it with any other phone camera to see the list as of the day you printed it.

  • Full, half or quarter page on plain paper.
  • Avery 5163 (2 × 4 in) and 5160 address labels.
  • Print straight from your phone, or save a PDF.
Box Retriever: labels screen

Snap a photo. It fills in the list.

Take a photo of what's going into the bin and Box Retriever suggests the items. It all happens on your phone; your photos aren't uploaded anywhere.

Books, counted

Reads titles from spines and covers and counts the books. Save each title, or one item with every word it read as keywords.

Print an inventory

A photo inventory of one bin, a room or the whole house, as a PDF or a spreadsheet.

Back it up

Save a backup file, photos included, wherever you keep files. Restore it on a new phone.

Free to start. One price for everything.

Free

$0

  • 3 bins and 25 items
  • QR labels
  • Photo suggestions
  • Search

Box Retriever Plus

$9.99 once, not a subscription

  • As many bins and items as you need
  • Inventory PDFs
  • Values and a total, ready for an insurance agent
Totes, a chocolate Lab, sitting

Private by design.

No account to make and no cloud to sync to. Your bins, items and photos stay on your phone, and the only copies are the backups and PDFs you choose to save. Read the privacy policy.

Totes, our chocolate Lab, helps fetch whatever you're looking for.