DALBOE

An inventory app for iPhone and iPad

Point your phone at something. DALBOE works out what it is, then files it where it actually lives. That can be as simple as "the garage", or as complex as the left section of the fourth drawer down of the toolbox in the garage.

Most inventory apps give you a flat list and a text box. If you want to get serious about your inventory, use DALBOE's interactive map to build almost any storage space you want. DALBOE is built around the two questions that are sometimes hard: what is this, and where did I put it.

What it does

• Identifies what it sees

  Photograph an item and it proposes a name, a category, a condition and a quantity. Barcodes are read when there is one, and the description is searched when there isn't.

• Locations that go deep

  Property, building, floor, room, shelf, bin. Up to fifteen levels. Drag an item from one to another, or several at once.

• Reads your floor plan

  Import a plan and it traces the rooms, reads the printed dimensions, and lays them out to scale as real places you can put things in.

• Works without the camera

  Manual entry is a first-class path, not a fallback. Nothing requires you to photograph anything, and you can import a .csv to track collections, assets or general item lists.

• Sorts like a real tool

  Multi-level sorting, and filtering by how an item was added, by category, by location, and by attributes that adapt to what is actually in your inventory.

• You choose where it lives

  DALBOE asks once, up front: keep everything on this device, or sync it so your inventory is there on every device you sign in from. Neither is the default, because neither answer is right for everyone.

On keeping it, or not

An inventory is worth building only if it survives. Rebuilding a house's worth of items and a location structure from scratch, because a phone went in a lake, is a terrible thing to ask of anyone, so DALBOE can hold it for you. It is also a list of what you own and where you keep it, which is not a thing to hand over without being asked. So you are asked, plainly, and both answers are real:

Keep it on this device

Nothing is uploaded. No account, no server, no copy anywhere but the phone in your hand, including no backup. If the device is lost, broken or wiped, the inventory is gone with it. Moving to a new phone is a direct transfer you run yourself, device to device.

Sync it to your account

Your inventory, locations and photos are held for you, so they are there on your phone, your tablet, your computer, or any device you sign in from. Encrypted before it leaves your device, and you choose whether DALBOE is able to unlock it for you or whether you alone hold the key.

What does not change either way: nothing is sold, nothing is shared with data brokers, there is no advertising and no analytics SDK. And sending a floor plan or an address to an AI service to be read stays a separate decision you make one plan at a time. Storing something in your account has never been the same as handing it to a third party.