Centriq

4.5 out of 5 Very well designed. I’m picky when it comes to apps. This one was clearly well thought out. And overall good user experience. First of all, I love the business model - that if you only own one home, you get all the features. Seems smart from both a consumer standpoint & a business standpoint. Single homeowners reap the benefits & if they ever start buying property, they know what to use to manage things. In the past, I’ve had tons of notes & documents & bookmarks keeping track of paint colors & appliances & light fixtures & measurements & manuals. It’s great to finally have it all in once place & for both my husband & me to be able to quickly access that info - whether we’re in the house or at the hardware store or up in the attic. Love that you can upload the pics & they’ll add all the details. I’m inpatient, so I usually just add it myself. There are a few nitpicky things/suggestions: - home page is meh. Half of it is a big banner & my own address or random notifications about updated products which I don’t really care about. - once I add a lot of products, the app starts to get slow & laggy & crashes - can’t rotate photos in the app (when I’m behind an appliance taking a pic, it comes out upside down. I end up just taking the pic on my camera.) - no way to remove/edit the info that automatically populates - especially important for the generic videos (e.g. remove a generic “how to paint” video from my bucket of paint) - no special fields based on the product type. i.e. if it’s a toothbrush, it shouldn’t have a “date installed” or a can of paint can’t have a model number for the bucket of paint & a number for the color. Or a lightbulb you can’t add the lumens, CCT, etc.

I really like this app! Helps me keep track of my main home inventory. I wish I was able to add home maintenance and improvements to a calendar so I can look back. I also wish you could view all items in one location.

Whenever I have a problem they take care of it and a real person emails me not some AI bot. The app is free and easy to use, better than anything else I’ve tried. Easy to organize items by room/group and to add tasks or reminders like replacing a filter.

Love this app. All my manuals and how to videos in one place for everything. Very cool!

Awesome app! Managing home repairs for all products just got a lot easier

I’m late to the review party, but fully disappointed with the bait and switch that occurred when they switched business models. Hadn’t realized the effect of the switch until after I deleted a fridge and tried to add a new one. Nope, now you need to pay for that. Well guess what, now I don’t use the app so both Centriq and I lose.

Updated to 3 stars because the app indeed seems useful. Would like to see account deletion available within the app to avoid a missing confirmation email, and email marketing unsubscribe should be immediate.

I got this shortly after it came out when noted on “This Old House,” and loved it. Then they wanted to make more money on it and started charging. I can understand the need and desire to do this, but for a homeowner primarily wanting to archive purchase records, I thought they were overcharging. Today I wanted to reconsider, but could not find what they charge. The App Store has a section for costs, but there is none I could find. Are they ashamed of what they are doing?

I didn’t see anywhere that this app isn’t free. Downloaded it started adding appliances, added maybe 5 and THEN it says to upgrade to a paid app because I’d added my limited amount of things. Tell us upfront if we need to pay BEFORE we download. Deleted.

We have reached subscription dystopia. Every app wants me to pay them for my whole life. Can I just pay $10 to $20 for the app and be able to use it for a whole lifetime? That’s the real value of this app. Asking homeowners to pay any much more and indefinitely is kind of too much. I feel like subscriptions are killing businesses and are hurting consumers.