You type “best home inventory apps 2026” and land on Itemlist’s own list. It is a real list. It names Sortly, Nest Egg, Manifest. It does not name Vorby.
That is not a scandal. Itemlist thinks in rooms and boxes. You build a house: location, room, container, item. The bin on the third garage shelf has an address. You type the Le Creuset into the kitchen. You do not point a camera at the stove and get a list.
Two ways to catalog a house. One is a filing cabinet that looks like your floor plan. The other is a photo. Pick the one you will actually finish.
What Itemlist is actually for
Itemlist is a rooms-and-boxes app. Locations hold rooms. Rooms hold containers. Containers nest. If you already think “kitchen, left cabinet, the box with the good lids,” this will feel like home. You add items by hand, attach photos, fill brand and serial if you want them, scan a barcode when there is one. Search covers what you typed. CSV export is free, so the list is not locked in.
There is no AI catalog. The camera is a field on the item, not the way the list starts. If that sounds like work, it is work. If that sounds like control, it is control.
The free plan on the US App Store goes to 100 items and 20 containers. After that you pay. PRO Yearly is $19.99 on the listing. Monthly is $2.99 or $4.99. Lifetime is $59.99. Their own site also says Pro $29.99 a year. Prefer the App Store number. The listing is what you will be charged. Last major version is 2.0, dated 11/01/2024. Rating is 4.7 from 197 ratings. iPhone and iPad only. No Android. No web app.
Sources: the Itemlist App Store listing, getitemlist.app, and their 2026 roundup.
The other way is a photo
The other way is: photograph the kitchen. The pot, the toaster, the chair you always forget has a brand. The list comes out of the picture. You still have to open the junk drawer. You still sign in with Apple or Google before the first item is saved. Nobody is doing a whole house in ten seconds. The difference is what you start with. A room, or a form.
Side by side
Numbers from the listings. Not a scoreboard. Two products built for different hands.
| Itemlist | Vorby | |
|---|---|---|
| How the list starts | Rooms and boxes. You type. | A photo. Then you fix what is wrong. |
| AI catalog | No | Yes. The camera is the intake. |
| Search | What you typed | What you photographed, then named |
| Free | 100 items, 20 containers | 14-day trial |
| Paid | $19.99/yr on the App Store (site says $29.99/yr). Monthly $2.99 / $4.99. Lifetime $59.99 | $7/mo or $60/yr |
| Platforms | iPhone, iPad. No Android. No web. | iOS and web. No Android. |
| Ratings | 4.7 / 197 | 3.8 / 8. That is a small sample. Do not pretend it is 4.7. |
Itemlist has the older listing and the bigger rating pile. Vorby has a web app and a photo intake. Neither of us is on Android. If you need Android, this page is not your answer. The wider field (Sortly, Nest Egg, Manifest) is on the best home inventory app page. Sortly specifically is a warehouse tool with a home sticker; that comparison is Sortly vs Vorby.
Who should pick Itemlist
You already think in boxes. You will type 100 things. You want the 4.7 from 197 people, not an 8-rating newcomer. You do not need a laptop. You like a nested garage: house, garage, shelf, bin, item. You want a lifetime price you can pay once and stop thinking about.
Pick them. We are not going to talk you out of a filing cabinet you will actually use.
Who should pick the photo
You will not type a house. You have tried a spreadsheet. You stopped at the living room. The junk drawer, the garage, the unlabeled box in the hall closet are still rumors. You want to stand in the kitchen with a phone and get a list you can search later. You also want to open that list on a laptop, not only on the phone that took the picture.
That is vorby.com and the App Store listing. $7 a month or $60 a year after a 14-day trial. iOS and web. You still sign in before the first item. The photo does not invent a serial number you never shot.
A few straight answers
Vorby vs Itemlist, in one sentence?
Itemlist is rooms and boxes you fill in. Vorby is a photo of the room. Same job. Different first move.
Does Itemlist have AI cataloging?
No. Photos attach to items you already created. The list does not start from the picture.
Why isn’t Vorby on Itemlist’s 2026 list?
They wrote a list of rooms-and-boxes apps and a few others. We are the photo + web option. Their list, their frame. This page is the missing comparison, not a rewrite of theirs.
Which one is cheaper?
Itemlist is free to 100 items. After that, $19.99 a year on the App Store, or $59.99 once. Vorby is $7 a month or $60 a year after a trial. If you will stay under 100 items, Itemlist can be free. If you will photograph a whole house, compare $19.99/yr to $60/yr and decide whether the photo intake is worth the difference.
