Home Contents vs Collections Database

The fastest way to create a complete home inventory. Capture First. Organize Later. Home Contents’ unique Quick Capture mode lets you walk through each room taking one photo of every item. When you’re finished, complete the details whenever it's convenient by adding values, serial numbers, warranties, receipts, and notes. Home Contents helps you keep a complete record of everything you own. Whether you’re making an insurance claim after a fire, flood or burglary, moving home or planning your estate, your inventory is always close at hand. Free download includes up to 25 items and 1 property. Go Unlimited: Unlock unlimited items and multiple properties with a one-time in-app purchase. No subscription required. Features • Capture an entire room in minutes with the unique Quick Capture mode • Record purchase dates, values, serial numbers, warranties, barcodes and notes • Add multiple photos and PDF receipts to items • Organize everything by property, location and custom categories • Assign items to multiple categories for flexible organization • Built-in smart categories highlight warranties, unvalued and unfiled items • Generate professional PDF reports by location, category, value and other criteria • Create detailed reports for individual high-value items • Quickly search across every field, or simply scan a barcode • Optimized for iPad with keyboard shortcuts, trackpad support and drag & drop • Keep your inventory in sync across iPhone and iPad with iCloud • Backup, restore and export your inventory whenever you need • Protect your inventory with an optional passcode Private by design. Your inventory is stored locally on your device or in your personal iCloud storage. You stay in control of your data.

Collections is a personal database app to organize anything. 1. A field for every use Collections supports over 20+ field types: • Text, Number • Boolean • Picture • Select • Email, URL, Phone • Password • Date, Time • Color • Barcode And with the Pro version you can use even more advanced fields. • Document reference - Link documents together • Group - Add multiple values for a field • Formula - Create a formula for calculated values. Powerful formula editor with full support to math functions like SUM, AVG • Sources - Import documents from external APIs with Javascript 2. Customizable • Add and reorder fields • Add a separator between fields to better visualize them • Fields have different display styles like primary, secondary, thumbnail • Filter and sort data 3. Templates Collections includes basic templates to get started: • Books • Contacts • Expenses • Subscriptions • Credentials • Inventory • School 5. Advanced management Collections has different tools to help you creating the data model. SUBCOLLECTIONS Organize data into collections and subcollections. Simply said, they are like folders. LISTS A list contains items used in documents and it's very flexible. It could represent a Genre for a book or a Status like 'Available', 'Out of stock' for an object in the inventory. 6. Security • Protect collections using a password, Face ID or Touch ID • Sensitive data such as passwords are encrypted by default 7. iCloud Sync Data is synced automatically between devices through iCloud. 8. Apple's Shortcuts support Expand the app capabilities with Apple's Shortcuts support. 9. Pro version features • Add unlimited documents (free version is limited to 100 documents) • Add files to documents • Add advanced fields • Views • Grid • Use Summary to perform calculations across documents