Photograph an open drawer
One photo can hold several things. Placeful makes a card for each thing it finds inside and keeps the photo with it, plus a suggested name you can fix.
home inventory
Know what you own and where it lives.
Placeful is a home inventory that starts with a photo. One photo of an open drawer becomes a card for each thing Placeful finds inside, with a suggested name you can fix. When you need something, search for it, and Placeful shows you where it lives.
Free while in beta. Runs on your phone today as a web app. How Placeful uses your data
Read what the video shows
The video has no narration; the audio is acoustic guitar music and soft paper sounds that carry no information beyond the on-screen text.
Scene 1: the Placeful logo, then the line "Know what you own and where it lives." and "A home inventory that starts with a photo".
Scene 2: three questions appear beside photos of the items: "Where's the tape measure? The charger? The headphones?", answered by "Placeful remembers."
Scene 3, step one: "Photograph an open drawer." A junk-drawer photo is captured with a camera flash, and four items pop out of it with name tags: Scissors, Kitchen twine, AA batteries, Tape measure, over the line "A few names come back. Fix any that are wrong."
Scene 4, step two: "Choose where things live." and "Rooms hold shelves, shelves hold boxes. Anything unfiled waits in the Inbox." A phone shows the places list (Kitchen, Office, Garage), then the Kitchen space holding a Junk drawer and a Baking shelf.
Scene 5, step three: "Search when you need it." and "Type the word you would say out loud, or say it." The phone searches for "batteries" and the result shows AA batteries in Kitchen / Junk drawer, verified there, with "found it" and "moved" buttons; a card repeats "Kitchen / Junk drawer. VERIFIED THERE".
Scene 6, when you are ready: "Organizing ideas from the things you own." and "One pass looks across your whole inventory for ideas about what to merge, move, group, or let go of.", then five method tags: Marie Kondo's joy check, Dana K. White's container question, The Minimalists' 20/20 rule, Margareta Magnusson's Swedish death cleaning, Julie Morgenstern's zones. The phone shows the Ideas screen ("What your stuff suggests", a "Run again" button, idea cards), then scrolls to the card "Create one keepsake home for the heirlooms" and rings its footer, "Margareta Magnusson's Swedish death cleaning", beside the line "When an idea follows a method, its card names it."
Scene 7: "Placeful keeps your things findable." with feature tags: iPhone Action Button capture, Voice and text capture, Item review, Decision lists, Full export, any time, Insurance PDF report, beside two phone screens showing the review card ("Should it stay or should it go?") and the decision lists ("Leaving, staying, later").
Scene 8: the logo, "Know what you own and where it lives.", a placefulapp.com button and an "iOS beta on TestFlight" button, and "Free while in beta. Runs on your phone today as a web app."
how it works 1 2 3
Photograph one open drawer to start. Add the rest when you are ready.
Choose where things live
Rooms hold shelves, shelves hold boxes. Anything unfiled waits in the Inbox until you sort it.
Search when you need it
Type the word you would say out loud, or say it. Placeful answers with the place, so the search ends at a real drawer.
features
Placeful keeps your things findable.
iPhone Action Button capture
Press the Action Button and photograph a thing; it lands in Placeful without opening the app. If its suggested place matches one you have added, it files itself. Three short setup steps, nothing to type.
Read the guideVoice and text capture
No photo handy? Type or dictate what you own and add the picture later. Say "next item" and keep listing.
Read the guideItem review
Go through what you own at your own pace: keep it, let it go, or decide later. Review when you have time; if a month passes, pick up where you left off.
Read the guideDecision lists
Keep, donate, sell, toss, or decide later. Share any list as plain text when someone asks what you are giving away.
Read the guideFull export, any time
Download a ZIP with your spreadsheet, your full record, and your stored photos. Delete your account whenever you like.
Read the guideInsurance PDF report
A PDF with available photos, estimated values, and the dates each thing was added or last seen. Useful when an insurer or adjuster asks what you owned.
Read the guideOrganizing ideas from the things you own
Ask for ideas about what you have catalogued, like merging three phone chargers or moving a tool to where you use it. Letting-go ideas are questions; protected keepsakes are never questioned, and dismissing is a real answer. When an idea follows an organizer's method, the card names it, including Marie Kondo's joy check and Dana K. White's container question.
Read the guide try it first
Try a sample home before adding your own.
Load the sample home: eight rooms and containers holding twenty-five everyday things, from a board game out on loan to Grandma's teacup. Search for something, or let a thing go. One tap removes it all.
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Load the sample home from the getting-started card or Settings; one tap removes it.
OpenAI reads photos you capture to suggest names and descriptions. It reads each attached receipt once to extract the merchant, total, and date. Ideas send item names and fields; notes send only your words. Full export and account deletion are built in. How Placeful uses your data
