Nest Egg User Reviews

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Great layout & data storage, but needs work on scanner

Really like the app, but the barcode scanning is *very* hit or miss.
After trying to scan many, many UPC-A barcodes it almost never recognizes them no matter what I do. It’s not a problem with how I’m doing it, as multiple of the other free apps you can get on the app store scan codes quicker and more reliably. When viewing through the scanning view, there’s a noticeable drop in camera quality versus say my camera app, or other barcode scanning apps. Kinda disappointing that an app I paid for seems to function worse in one of its key features than free apps
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Used to bee a good app

I used the app for several years until I ran into what feels like fraud by the developers: I tried to restore my in-app purchases on a new iPhone and couldn’t — I keep getting a message saying it’s not possible. I hope the developers have noticeably improved their financial situation thanks to my purchases. UPD: Credit where it’s due — after I published this review, the developer contacted me fairly quickly. But that’s essentially where it ended. After almost half a day of correspondence, it became clear that even the developer himself was unable to solve the issue, and in the end he simply referred me to Apple’s support website. By the way, I couldn’t find a solution there either. My conclusion is simple: delete the app, avoid this developer, and find an application with fewer bugs.
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Fantastic app for inventory.

I purchased this app some time ago and have been using it to maintain a catalog of my items, making it easy to locate them when I store them in boxes. I really appreciate that you offer the app as a one-time purchase rather than a subscription. Thank you!

Response from developer

Thank you for sharing your experience with Nest Egg!

Bad design software

To import records you have to go through to stages to import records. Only to find that you got duplicated records in the end

Says it will print labels, requires Cloud subscription

In the description of this app, it says that it prints labels. However, if you attempt to print a label, it will tell you that you must download the nest egg cloud version which is $85 a year, which I might be willing to pay, except that it was not advertised as such

Keine Synchronisation, kein Dropbox (obwohl gekauft)

Höchstwahrscheinlich eine brauchbare App. Da mir Synchronisation zwischen meinen IOS-Geräten wichtig ist, habe ich die Dropbox-Funktion dazu gekauft. Ich dachte damit Daten Synchronisieren zu können… In der ganzen App, auch nach mehreren Neustarts nicht ein Punkt wo „Dropbox“ auch nur erwähnt wird. Habe bei Apple die Rückerstattung beantragt.
Natürlich hatte ich die Cloud-Version dieser App gesehen. Die Preise für diese Lösung finde ich aber für mich als Heimanwender völlig unangemessen - als ich dann verstanden habe, das maximal 3 Geräte sich verbinden können, war es das für mich.
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Response from developer

Thank you for the feedback. We very clearly say in the App Store description that the data stays on the device and not on the web. Please refer to the "NO SIGNUP" bullet in the description. The local storage is desirable to many users for better privacy and from cost perspective (a one-time purchase). However, if syncing is important, we also offer a cloud edition that stores data on the cloud for a subscription so that might be something of interest to you. From the App Store description: "if you want to store inventory in the cloud, look for our other app, Nest Egg - Inventory In Cloud." Dropbox support is accessible in More->Data->Shared Files area when you wish to upload or download files to/from Dropbox. There is a device limit in Nest Egg - Inventory In Cloud -- our other solution -- as we incur network costs, and we need to manage costs so that we can extend low prices to you, the customer. Many of the subscription tiers are priced right for home inventory usage.

The best of all available

It’s so intuitive and complete. You can do everything and locate your items very fast!!

Response from developer

Thank you for sharing your experience with Nest Egg!

Finally!!

I have been looking for an app to track home inventory, and looks like I found it! Can do multiple photos, export photos and data. Yes this version costs but it is a one time fee, not yearly!!!

Organizing items

Starting to organize tools and other household items, not fun, but necessary. Gave 4 stars because of learning curve. Probably deserves 5 because it is a one time charge unlike the ridiculous apps that charge reoccurring charges.

No preloaded manufacturers

I’ll change my review if I’m wrong, but this app should have major and minor appliances manufacturers preloaded. Bosch, GE and Breville not in the database? What did I pay for?

I’ve had it

They nickel and dime you for each little feature and take away features. Just now they took away attachments that were already a feature when I initially paid and now ask me to pay $2 when entering a new item. They also promised to make the dayabase available via browser and that never happened. You now have to subscribe to a new plan. I regret having started to build an inventory with this awful company. 0 stars from me.
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Powerful but dated and beginning to break

I bought the app because features were promising, reviews were great, and development seemed active. But I'm no longer sure of that last point (on iPhone 13, ios 18, at least)...

My biggest issues are:
-Using the camera takes too many button presses, including inexplainably opening the iPhone "sharing" menu. An app like this should be efficient.
-ALL the support buttons are broken, including "report a problem"
-Other menu features are broken or cut off
-Based on the description vaguely implying iCloud sync (a common feature in apps like this) I thought it would be automatic, but it's triggered manually and more of a backup than sync. And it's stored in a proprietary format, so a csv is another step.
-Developers have a bad attitude to feedback and are not proactive with compatibility updates.

Personally, I feel like I sadly wasted my money. I think the features here are generous for the price, but that's no good when they don't work well. I genuinely do hope this improves!
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Response from developer

The characterizations and experience here is perhaps more a review of iOS 26 than anything else. This is the recurring annual gift from Apple every September. Alas, users generally are unable to distinguish between app issues and iOS issues (breaking changes, deprecated APIs dropped, new camera security settings, iCloud reshuffle and so on). We ask that users pay attention to when the issues started happening before writing negative reviews, especially in September/October timeframe. We also advise all users not to upgrade to the next iOS major version until there are at least two patch releases from Apple on the new iOS release. The email support buttons rely on the mail app being configured. So, take a look at that to see if you have at least one account configured and working. iCloud support for syncing was found to be buggy for Nest Egg (leading to duplicate data and/or corruption). We cannot accept that kind of experience for our users. We clearly indicate in our description that data is stored on the device for greater privacy. (Please refer to the No signup required bullet point in the description). Any expectation of sync is not justifiable on that basis. That said, we have a subscription based offering called Nest Egg Cloud, which syncs across all mobile and desktop platforms (unlike iCloud sync). Please write to via the support link in the App Store app or via the contact form on our site at https://nestegg.cloud/contact so we can look into any issues you need help with.

Powerful but dated and beginning to break

I bought the app because features were promising, reviews were great, and development seemed active. But I'm no longer sure of that last point (on iPhone 13, at least)...

My biggest issues are:
-Using the camera takes too many button presses, including inexplainably opening the iPhone "sharing" menu. An app like this should be efficient.
-All the support buttons are broken, including "report a problem"
-Other menu features are broken or cut off
-I thought iCloud sync would be automatic, but it's triggered manually and more of a backup than sync. And it's stored in a proprietary format, so a csv is another step

Personally, I feel like I wasted my money. I think the features here are generous for the price, but that's no good when they don't work well.
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Response from developer

The characterizations and experience here is perhaps more a review of iOS 26 than anything else. This is the recurring annual gift from Apple every September. Alas, users generally don't know the difference between app issues and iOS issues (breaking changes, deprecated APIs dropped, new camera security settings, iCloud reshuffle and so on). We ask that users pay attention to when the issues started happening before writing negative reviews, especially in September/October timeframe. We also advise all users not to upgrade to the next iOS major version until there are at least two patch releases from Apple on the new iOS release. The email support buttons rely on the mail app being configured. So, take a look at that to see if you have at least one account configured and working. iCloud support for syncing was found to be buggy for Nest Egg (leading to duplicate data and/or corruption). We cannot accept that kind of experience for our users. We clearly indicate in our description that data is stored on the device for greater privacy. (Please refer to the No signup required bullet point in the description). Any expectation of sync is not justifiable on that basis. That said, we have a subscription based offering called Nest Egg Cloud, which syncs across all mobile and desktop platforms (unlike iCloud sync). Please write to via the support link in the App Store app or via the contact form on our site at https://nestegg.cloud/contact so we can look into any issues you need help with.

Melhora essa visualização coloca detalhes comprei esse app não onde eu tava com a cabeça app chato

Me arrependi não indico sem contar que paguei por recursos duas vezes não fui reembolsado falta de respeito com usuário não indico isso pra ninguém pronto falei tenho o meu direito

Response from developer

If you are on the same App Store account of purchase, you can restore in-app purchases made by heading to More(3 vertical dots)->Settings->In-app purchases->Restore. Alternatively, look for a restore link on the main menu. By the way, if you go through with the purchase, it will tell you that you cannot purchase it since it is already purchased! Please note that this behavior is not specific to Nest Egg and is designed behavior of iOS which is from Apple. There is no app that can get around these flows, and a restore in-app purchase function can be found in many apps offering in-app purchases.

Пожелания

Добрый день, хочу поделиться отзывом о работе приложения! И дать пару обратных отзывов для его улучшения:
1. Недодуман алгоритм одалживание! Так например в каждому объекту можно присвоить количество, какое например у меня есть, например у меня есть 2 чайника одинаковой модели или 4 короба. Уникальных признаков у них нет, и в базу я вношу как одну сущность, только в количестве 2 или 4 штук. Когда я одалживаю только один чайник или только один короб, то получается что одалживаются вся сущность целиком! Это совсем не правильно, логичнее было бы добавить пункт количество при одалживание! При заполнении которого из основной базы бы вычиталось такое же количество, ну или рядом появилось бы серым текстом «всего»
2. Очень не хватает возможности работы с фотографиями в самой программе! Возможность «повернуть» или «обрезать» фотографию, НО больше всего не хватает возможности «СЖАТЬ» фотографию… так например зачем мне фотография тройника в 3024х3024 пикселей, когда вообще достаточно 640х480 ну или хотя бы понизить в ручную до 1000х1000. Размер базы данных уже более 1Gb, хотя по факту внёс не так много сущностей. Это надо учесть!

Дополнительно хотел бы сообщить о:
3. Возможность изготовления QR кодов - это хорошо, понимаю почему платный доп.функционал, но платить деньги за каждые 15 пакетов не собираюсь, слишком дорого

Благодарю за внимание!
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Response from developer

Thank you for the review and feedback! If you wish to borrow items like you mention and mix owned items with borrowed items, it is quite likely that owned items end up getting returned instead of the borrowed items. Generally speaking, this can become an issue. So, we recommend entering the items separately (you can use Duplicate function to do this very easily) so you can track individual items correctly. This keeps borrowing flows simple as well. By the way, if you want to do partial borrows with no tracking of individual items, that is available in the next update of Nest Egg Cloud, our subscription-based offering for small business and teams. You can do some limited cropping from Apple iOS by turning on the image editing option in Nest Egg. We recommend doing image editing via any of the free or paid apps out there that specialize in photo editing. There is indeed an image compression setting in Nest Egg which by default leads to a good amount of compression on photos taken in Nest Egg. If you are bringing in pictures taken outside of Nest Egg, we leave them as is. Please write to support if you still have questions around any of these via the contact mechanisms in Nest Egg or via the contact page on our site at https://nestegg.cloud.

UK Foods

This app recognises few uk food barcodes

Multiple currencies not supported

As I have checked this app, All seems okay and helpful. But can’t able to specify the different currencies. It’s stick to only dollar.

Response from developer

The currency in Nest Egg determined indirectly by the language/region settings in iOS. All prices are assumed to be in the currency of the region. If you have a few foreign currency purchases, you might want to consider converting them to the base currency when logging in Nest Egg. Alternatively, you could change your currency for all purchases by adjusting your region. Logging prices in multiple currencies is supported in Nest Egg Cloud (which is a different, subscription-based solution for small businesses and teams) with auto conversion between 150+ global currencies. So, that might be something to consider.

No Export to PDF

For an expensive app, it lacks the most basic Export to PDF function. I'd have to export everything to HTML, preview it through the browser/HTML Viewer and then take a full screen pdf from there.
I say expensive because there are already cheaper alternatives with this basic functionality.
If this function is added for free (not a paid upgrade), this could be my default go-to app to use for inventory.
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Response from developer

Thank you for sharing your experience with Nest Egg. Nest Egg supports CSV and HTML exports. Many modern desktop browsers such as Safari can convert the html exported into PDF files. Alternatively, you can use print to PDF function to generate PDFs out of the HTML exported in any browser after opening the HTML export and choosing to print. In Nest Egg Cloud, a different app from us, you can fire PDF reports around your items and transactions. So, that might be something to consider as well.

Tracking purchase items

This is a great tool to keep track of major purchases including serial numbers. I had a chainsaw stolen. I got it back because I had the model & serial number.

Just don’t

How do I send this list to my insurance? Your guess is as good as mine. Not user friendly or intuitive at all. I’m sorry I ever started using this app, now I have the awful task of manually inputting each inventory item into another more useful app. Omg

Response from developer

You can export your data into CSV or HTML formats by heading to More->Data->Export with or without images. You can also select a bunch of items and choose Email. Yet another way would be print the items you wish to send (select items and tap on Print) and mail them or walk in with your hard copy. Please reach out to Nest Egg Support via in-app support mechanisms or via the contact form on our site (https://nestegg.cloud), if you need a hand with this. We look forward to hearing from you!