Moving Van

Good app

I have used for 2 moves now, I like that I can write exactly what is in a box and take a picture. Then I can search for items later and know what box they are in.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled several times. When I use the app to take a photo, the screen is black and takes black photos. My normal camera works just fine.

I love the simplicity and ease of using this app for moving & inventory purposes. I used it back in 2013 to move across the country, store everything for a year, then unpack in my new home. We’re planning an upcoming move and I want to use this again. I’m sad they don’t keep it updated anymore. I can’t find another app like it.

This app has a lot of potential, but suffers from the lack of a multi-select option. Once boxes are packed, the “in transit” status usually applies to EVERYTHING.. who moves one box at a time? Sharing across devices would have helped, since households have multiple people. And sorting/filtering by status, not just rooms would be really useful. And the app kept crashing on me in the middle of entering things, making it nearly unusable. I found it useful for getting and staying organized early in the packing process, but abandoned it when moving day came. Was pretty much worthless for UNpacking, because there was too much to do.

Our last move included almost 300 boxes and 2 to 3 people packing all the time. We perform this task on paper and it worked fine. The problem with doing it with this app is that you only have a single phone with a single inventory that cannot be shared. Everything has to be entered on that one device to have a single database. You could have multiple phones but there would be no way to combine those databases later except by merging the CSV files on the computer. This should allow a shared database or a way to import a CSV database from a computer. Automatic box numbering would also be a good feature. As would automatically moving to the next field. As it is you have to create a box name the box and then click a button to add items to the box and create each item to add to the box. It works but it's rather clumsy. Currently new boxes are added to the bottom of the list, so when you add a new box you first have to scroll to the bottom to make sure you're not adding a duplicate – there is no duplicate detection. It's a nice start, it still needs work

Could use a couple of tweaks .

I definitely recommend this app. Its great when I am hunting for items after the move. Has lots of features, but you don't have to use them all. I rarely use the photo field, and only use packed & unpacked statuses. Personally, I like entering my own box numbers. Gives me flexibility to reuse boxes, start all boxes for the next move with 500, make book boxes start with 1000, or whatever! I would like to see the box number/title field searchable and not just the contents. Also, the number sort needs tweaking or any number starting with 1 (16, 150..) shows up before 2. So I use zeros. (001, 016..). And the room field use to give me a drop down menu listing previously entered rooms; it doesn't anymore, and I miss that. However, 3 moves later and I'm not currently moving but am still using this app to inventory boxes in storage!

Half way into moving, iOS gets updated and all data gets lost. No way to backup data on iCloud or elsewhere. Need to start over - and won't be using this app for it

If box names are changed then the change is not reflected in the items list. Other obvious features are also missing like automatic box numbers, and photo of packed box. You also have to select the camera each time you want to include a photo. This should probably be the default option. Or have two buttons instead of 'include photo' followed by having to select the source.