Comparison

Home Stuff Inventory Tracker vs Blackout

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

Head to head
About

Home Stuff Inventory Tracker

Features
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Know exactly what you own and where it lives. ItemNote helps you catalog household items by room, shelf, or cabinet โ€” no account required. Moving, decluttering, or lending things to friends? Search by name, tag, or location in seconds. Track wishlist items, record who borrowed what, and set reminders before warranties expire. โ€ข Item list with photos, quantity, and value โ€ข Locations: rooms, closets, garage, custom zones โ€ข Categories and tags for fast filtering โ€ข Wishlist for things you plan to buy โ€ข Lend log: who borrowed what and when โ€ข Reminders for expiry and return dates โ€ข Stats: total items, value, and breakdowns โ€ข Offline-first: your data stays on device Perfect for home organization, rental prep, and anyone tired of buying duplicates.

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Blackout

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Share documents, not your details. Sooner or later someone asks for a bank statement, a pay stub, a passport, a medical record. They need the document; they do not need everything on it. Blackout finds the details a stranger shouldn't get, removes them from a copy, strips the data hiding inside the file, labels every page with who it's for โ€” and never sends it anywhere. FINDS WHAT YOU'D MISS Open a PDF, a photo or a scan. Blackout reads it on your device and flags Social Security and account numbers, routing and card numbers, IBANs, phone numbers, email and postal addresses, dates of birth, passport and ID numbers, faces, barcodes and QR codes. Names are found too and left in by default, because they are usually the point. REMOVES, DOESN'T COVER Drawing a black box over a number is not redaction โ€” the number is still in the file, one copy-and-paste away. Blackout deletes the characters from the page itself, erases the pixels from scanned images, and drops any note that overlapped. The box you see is the last step, not the whole job, and a test suite reopens every prepared copy with two independent extractors to prove it. STRIPS THE HIDDEN DATA โ€” AND SHOWS YOU WHERE IT WAS A PDF carries more than what it shows: author, creation tool and dates, the editing history some apps tuck inside, every comment's author, attached files, scripts, and the camera model and GPS position inside embedded photos. Blackout removes all of it and, with Pro, lists it by where it was hiding โ€” your name in the document properties, a colleague's in a comment on page 2, your home address in a photo's GPS tag on page 3. LABELS THE COPY Every page gets a watermark โ€” "For Landlord ยท September 2026" โ€” so a copy that turns up elsewhere says where it came from. Stamp it COPY or CONFIDENTIAL, add a header, number the pages, sign it. SEAL IT, AND KNOW IF IT COMES BACK CHANGED Seal a copy before you send it. The seal is invisible โ€” nothing on the page. If that copy comes back, open it in Blackout and it tells you whether the content still matches, and which pages do not. It compares what the pages say, not the file's bytes, so an innocent re-save does not cry wolf. A PDF carries no identity that cannot be forged, so a name or date in a changed file is shown as a claim the file makes, never as proof of who changed it. KEEPS A LOG Who got which document, when, with what hidden. The log lives on your device and never holds the file. Or skip sending altogether: put the prepared copy on your screen for the person in the room, or have it read back to you first. PREPARE IT PROPERLY Send only some pages. Combine three pay stubs, or split one apart. Shrink it for email. Make a photographed page searchable. Correct a typo, replace a photo, remove tracking links, fill in the form. Send as PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or images โ€” conversions run after the details are gone, never before. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE There is no server, no account and no code that uploads anything. Detection, text recognition and face detection all run on the device using Apple's own frameworks. Native on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with Dark Mode, Dynamic Type and VoiceOver throughout. FREE AND PRO The whole job โ€” find, review, remove, strip, watermark, share โ€” is free for your first copy, and the built-in sample is always free to try. Blackout Pro removes the limit and adds password protection, the itemised hidden-data report and every optional preparation step, for a single payment of $19.99. ONE PAYMENT, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION Blackout Pro is a one-time purchase of $19.99, charged once. It does not renew, there is nothing to cancel, and you will not be charged again. It stays unlocked on every device signed in to the same Apple Account, and Restore Purchase brings it back after a reinstall. Terms of Use: https://markbullock111.github.io/pdf_editor_privacy/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://markbullock111.github.io/pdf_editor_privacy/privacy.html

Screenshots

Home Stuff Inventory Tracker4 screens
Blackout4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Blackout at Free against Home Stuff Inventory Tracker's $1.99. Home Stuff Inventory Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Blackout is free to download; Home Stuff Inventory Tracker costs $1.99 up front. Blackout sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Home Stuff Inventory Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Home Stuff Inventory Tracker versus Blackout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHome Stuff Inventory TrackerBlackout
Price$1.99Free โ€” better
Update frequencyโ€”Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size25 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXiamen City Fanyou Network Technology Co., Ltd.Mark Bullock

In-app purchases

None

Home Stuff Inventory Tracker

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Blackout

Subscriptions1
  • Blackout Pro$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Blackout โ€” Share Safely Pro$19.99

Questions

Is Home Stuff Inventory Tracker free?
Home Stuff Inventory Tracker costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Blackout free?
Blackout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Home Stuff Inventory Tracker or Blackout have ads?
Neither Home Stuff Inventory Tracker nor Blackout shows ads.

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