Comparison

Home Contents vs BrickStore

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Home Contents

Easily create a detailed inventory of your home's contents for insurance purposes. Document items with photos, receipts, and purchase details to ensure you're adequately covered in case of a disaster. The app offers robust reporting and data management features.

Highlights
  • Quick camera entry mode
  • Add photos, receipts, and details
  • Track purchase date, value, serial numbers
  • Supports multiple properties and currencies
  • Customizable categories and locations
  • Generate professional PDF reports
  • Secure data with password protection
Features
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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.

About

BrickStore

Manage your BrickLink store inventory offline with this multi-platform tool. Browse and search the catalog, create XML files for mass uploads and updates, and price items based on current data. Fix obsolete item IDs and enjoy unlimited undo/redo functionality.

Highlights
  • Offline BrickLink catalog browsing
  • Live, as-you-type search filter
  • Create XML for mass upload/update
  • Download and view orders
  • Manage store inventory
  • Price items with current data
  • Fix obsolete item IDs
Features
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BrickStore is a BrickLink offline management tool. It is multi-platform (desktop and mobile), multilingual (currently English, German, Spanish, Swedish and French), fast and stable. Visit https://www.brickstore.dev/ for more information. Please be aware that this mobile version of BrickStore has a lot of limitations compared to the desktop version. Most of them stem from the reduced screen size (it does work on phones and tablets), but also from the fact that developing and testing the mobile UI is very time consuming. Some things you can do with BrickStore much more efficiently than with any web based interface: - Browse and search the BrickLink catalog using a live, as-you-type filter. It is using all the cores in your machine to be as fast as possible. - Easily create XML files for Mass-Upload and Mass-Update either by parting out sets or by adding individual parts (or both). - Download and view any order by order number. - Download and view your whole store inventory. An easy way to use this for repricing, is to use the BrickLink Mass-Upload functionality. - Price your items based on the latest price guide information. - Create XML data for the BrickLink inventory upload. - If you load files which contain items with obsolete item ids you can fix them using the BrickLink catalog change-log. - Unlimited undo/redo support. BrickStore is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3, ©2004-2024 by Robert Griebl. The source code is available on https://github.com/rgriebl/brickstore. All data from www.bricklink.com is owned by BrickLink. Both BrickLink and LEGO are trademarks of the LEGO group, which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this software. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Screenshots

Home Contents4 screens
BrickStore3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Home Contents at 4.7 against BrickStore's 3.7. Home Contents also leads on ratings volume (1.5K vs 3) and review sentiment (88% vs 67%). BrickStore's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (17 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Home Contents sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BrickStore asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Home Contents holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Home Contents has 1.5K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Home Contents's written reviews are positive against 67% of BrickStore's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Home Contents ships an update every 2 months, BrickStore every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Home Contents versus BrickStore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHome ContentsBrickStore
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.5K ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews87.6% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1.5K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCURLYBRACE APPS LTDRobert Griebl

Customer experience

Home Contents

All ratings1,461 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral3.3%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews378 reviews
Positive87.6%
Neutral7.4%
Negative5.0%

BrickStore

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Home Contents

One-time1
  • UNLOCK ALL FEATURES$5.99
None

BrickStore

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Home Contents free?
Home Contents is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BrickStore free?
BrickStore is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Home Contents or BrickStore?
Home Contents is rated higher. Home Contents averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.5K ratings, while BrickStore averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Home Contents or BrickStore have ads?
Neither Home Contents nor BrickStore shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Home Contents or BrickStore?
Home Contents ships an update every 2 months, and BrickStore every 5 months. Most recently, Home Contents was updated on November 6, 2026 and BrickStore on November 3, 2026.

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