Itemtopia Inventory vs Where Things Are
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Itemtopia Inventory
Easily track all your possessions, from home contents to business equipment. Organize items visually, store important details like photos and receipts, and set reminders. Share access with others and even create webpages to showcase or sell items.
- Visual item organization
- Add photos, receipts, warranties
- Customizable categories and fields
- Barcode and QR code scanning
- Warranty expiry reminders
- Share and collaborate features
- Webpage creation for selling/showcasing
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Itemtopia helps you keep track of everything you own, whether it’s your home contents, business equipment, shared assets, or items that move from place to place. Used in over 100 countries, Itemtopia makes it easy to organize items visually, store important details, and always know what you have and where it is. Add photos, receipts, warranties, notes, and reminders — all connected to individual items and locations. Itemtopia works for anyone from home users to businesses property managers, collectors, or anyone who needs a flexible way to track items and assets without complicated software. RECOGNIZED & TRUSTED Itemtopia has been featured by trusted publications including NerdWallet (Best Home Inventory Apps), AppAdvice, AppBrain, AARP, and national media outlets such as Fox News. SIMPLE TO START — POWERFUL WHEN YOU NEED IT Create locations like your home, office, storage unit, or job site. Add items, group similar things together, and customize categories with your own fields so you track exactly what matters — nothing more, nothing less. FIVE EASY WAYS TO ADD ITEMS Take photos of items and add details later Speak the item name and let Itemtopia create it for you Add detailed item information with custom fields Forward receipts to automatically create items and attach purchase data Scan barcodes or QR codes using your camera Add items your way — fast now, detailed later. SMART DETAILS THAT SAVE TIME • Automatic warranty-expiry reminders • Receipt and expense tracking with exports • Instant search by name, photo, or scan • Optional AI assistance to help estimate value or understand maintenance SHARE & COLLABORATE (OPTIONAL) Invite family members, teammates, or staff and choose exactly what they can see or manage — ideal for shared homes, businesses, or properties. CREATE CUSTOM WEBPAGES TO SELL OR SHOWCASE ITEMS Pick items with one tap and let AI write your ad, suggest pricing, and create a webpage you can share anywhere. Pages can have one item, or hundreds. **No listing fees. No commissions. QR & BARCODE SUPPORT Create, print, scan, and link QR codes or barcodes to items for fast lookup and updates. Supports QR, UPC, EAN, Code 39, Code 128, UPCE, ITF-14, and more. WORKS OFFLINE TOO Access your data anytime — even without an internet connection. PRIVACY & SECURITY Your information is protected with strong, end-to-end encryption. UPGRADE TO ITEMTOPIA PREMIUM • Custom categories and unlimited custom fields • Invite people and manage permissions • QR label creation and scanning • User activity tracking • Detailed PDF reports and CSV exports Pricing and options are available inside the app under Join Itemtopia Premium. Itemtopia is built to grow with you — from personal organization to professional asset tracking — without ever getting in your way. TERMS & PRIVACY https://www.itemtopia.com/privacy-policy/
Where Things Are
Organize your belongings and know exactly where to find them. Quickly catalog items by place, photograph entire drawers, and easily search for anything you own. Share your inventory with household members and generate printable lists for insurance or moving.
- Catalog items by place
- Photograph entire drawers
- Searchable inventory
- Household sharing
- Stock taking and shopping lists
- Printable inventory
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Where Things Are is a record of what you own and where you keep it, so the answer to "where did I put the..." is a search rather than a hunt. THREE STEPS 1. Make a place — a drawer, a shelf, a cupboard, a room. 2. Put things in it, one at a time or by photographing the whole drawer. 3. Ask later. Search a word, and it tells you where the thing lives. PHOTOGRAPH A WHOLE DRAWER Point the camera at a junk drawer, a shelf, a dressing table. It comes back as a list of what is there — names, descriptions, quantities — and you tick what to keep. Twenty things filed in a minute instead of twenty separate entries. It also tells you what the photograph made hard to see. A list that admits what it missed is worth more than one that sounds certain. FILE THE LOT AT ONCE Scanned a drawer and left it unsorted? Pick several things and move them into a place in one step. Or let the app propose where each unfiled thing belongs, reading the places you have already made and what is in them. It declines rather than guesses — if nothing you own is a sensible home for a spare cable, it says so instead of burying it in the wrong drawer. FOR A HOUSEHOLD, NOT JUST A PERSON Share a catalog with the people you live with, so whoever put it away and whoever is looking for it are using the same record. Every change notes who made it. TAKING STOCK Walk a shelf and count what is actually there. Anything at zero is marked missing with the date. Anything running low goes on the shopping list without being asked. Tick it as bought, and it moves to a put-away list, so the shopping actually gets filed. WHERE DOES THIS GO? Photograph a stray object and the app works out what it is, finds it in your catalog, and tells you where it belongs — the harder half of tidying up. WRITE THE CODE ON THE BOX Every place has a short code. Write it on the box with a marker and months later that scrawl is searchable — type those letters and the box opens. Or print the label sheet: a sticker per place, each with a square a camera can read that opens it. WITH NO SIGNAL The catalog lives on your phone as well. A cellar, a garage or a storage unit opens on it as usual, and anything you change there is saved on the phone and goes up by itself once you are back in range. Photographs wait with it. Reading a photograph is the one part that needs a connection, and says so. WHAT THE CATALOG NOTICES Where your things actually are, drawn as one weighted picture of the whole house. And the things you cannot spot yourself: the same item recorded in three different rooms, a category scattered across five places, things with no tags that no search will ever find, places nobody has ever checked. FOR INSURANCE, AND FOR MOVING A printable inventory of everything, grouped by where it lives, with photographs. Useful the day you need to prove what you had, and the day somebody else is packing it. ALSO - Places nest: a work table holds a left drawer; a kitchen holds a pantry. - Rearrange them later — put an existing place inside another and every path follows. - Tag things the way you would actually search for them. - Mark what you have lent out, and to whom. - Expiry dates for the pantry and the medicine cupboard. - What a thing is worth, its serial number, when you bought it and when the warranty ends — for the insurance list. - Start without an account, and add an email later if you want it on the web too. - Export the lot as JSON or CSV, from the phone or from the web. WHAT IT COSTS Free. There is nothing to buy in this app. Scanning is the one part that costs money to run — each photograph is read by an AI model, billed per picture — so there is a cap of 100 scans a month per account. Everything else is unlimited: adding things by hand, searching, places, stock-takes, the shopping list, put-away, sharing, and the printable inventory. No ads. No analytics. No tracking, and no advertising identifier. Delete your account from inside the app whenever you like.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Where Things Are at 5.0 against Itemtopia Inventory's 4.5. Where Things Are also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 8). Itemtopia Inventory's advantage is ratings volume (169 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Itemtopia Inventory sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Where Things Are asks for nothing beyond the download.
Where Things Are holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Itemtopia Inventory has 169 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Itemtopia Inventory ships an update every 5 days, Where Things Are every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Itemtopia Inventory | Where Things Are |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (169 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 169 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Itemtopia Inc. | Amit Chitnis |
Customer experience
Itemtopia Inventory
Where Things Are
Bugs and requests
Itemtopia Inventory
Reported bugs
22 issues- Item category field sorting behavior is strange
- Item category amount field behavior is strange
- Warranty additional information entry behavior is strange
- App crashes frequently
- App hangs or freezes
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- Photos take a long time to load
- Fields disappear, are not visible, or overlap
- App closes unexpectedly
- Data does not sync properly
- UPC scanning is spotty and data is inconsistent or in different languages
- Exporting item groups to PDF does not allow alphabetical order
- Exporting all item details to Excel lumps data into one column
- Unable to link multiple groups to an item at once
- App reverts to free version after switching away
- App crashes when moving items
- App crashes upon launching
- App not launching after updates
- Data disappears after updates
- Picture of an appliance keeps disappearing
- My Life page is blank
- Search brings up items but they cannot be viewed
- App crashes when trying to add to the first category
Requested features
23 requests- Improve sorting and filtering options
- Increase flexibility in sorting
- Offer a one-time purchase option
- Improve storage capacity or allow iCloud integration
- Add a dark mode option
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- Allow mass export of photos
- Add native PC login
- Improve export functionality (e.g., alphabetical order in PDFs, better Excel export)
- Allow linking multiple groups to an item simultaneously
- Add a lifetime payment option
- Improve UPC scanning for consistent data
- Allow exporting data with notes and photos
- Add CSV or XML import for data migration
- Implement multi-user support for shared inventories
- Add maintenance/cleaning plans for items
- Integrate with Google Home or Alexa for voice commands
- Improve quantity modification for items
- Add option to print UPC barcodes
- Create a 'Marketplace' sale flyer feature
- Allow adding multiple photos per item
- Improve report generation to include custom fields
- Add iCloud synchronization
- Allow exporting specific categories or folders with column customization
Where Things Are
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Itemtopia Inventory
- 1 Additional User Access$2.991 Month
- 2 Additional User Access$3.991 Month
- 3 Additional User Access$4.991 Month
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- 4 Additional User Access$5.991 Month
- 5 Additional User Access$6.991 Month
- Premium Monthly$7.991 Month
- 10 Additional User Access$34.991 Month
- Premium Yearly1 Year trial$79.991 Year
Where Things Are
No in-app purchases
Questions
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