Scan · Track · Find
Make your house searchable.
A sticker on every thing, and on every bin, shelf and cabinet it could be in. Scan what goes where, and from then on you just type good scissors and get the bin.
No app to install — a phone camera reads the stickers. Unlimited things on the free plan, forever.
How it works
Four scans and it is done.
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Print a sheet of stickers
Avery labels, each with its own QR code. They belong to nobody until one goes on something.
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Stick one on, scan it
On the drill, on the bin, on the shelf. Scan it, take a photo, say what it is.
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Scan where it goes
Thing first, then its home. Anything goes inside anything: a box in a bin, on a shelf, in a cabinet.
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Search for it later
Type what you want. Get the whole path back, with a picture at every step.
Why a sticker
Every single thing gets its own code.
The barcode already on the box says what something is, never which one. Two identical cans of paint share a UPC, so no UPC can tell you one is in the garage and one is in the basement. Skanny reads the UPC to fill in the name, then gives that particular can a code of its own.
Take it out, put it back
Scan a thing out when you go to use it and back in when you are done — it returns to exactly where it was. When something is finished, scan it to used up, or to the bin. Nothing goes stale, so search keeps telling the truth.
What it costs
Two plans. No cap on things, ever.
An inventory is only worth having when it is complete — a limit on items would just teach you to stop scanning, which breaks the one thing this is for. So the free plan never has one.
Free
No card, no trial that expires.
- Unlimited things, bins, shelves and rooms
- Unlimited label sheets to print
- Scan to find, put away, take out and put back
- Full-text search across everything you own
- 100 photos
- One person
Home
or $40 a year — two months free
- Everything in Free
- Photos on everything, as many as you like
- Point the camera at a thing and it writes the label for you
- Everyone in the house, on their own login
- Export the lot as a spreadsheet, whenever you want
Two plans, not three. There is one household here, so a middle tier would exist to make another one look good rather than because anybody needs it.
Your inventory is yours.
Every household's items, photos and history live in their own separate database schema. Nothing you own is listed, indexed or visible to anyone else — unless you put a price on it and offer it, one thing at a time.
An offer shows what the thing is, what you want for it, and roughly how far away it is. It never shows where in your house you keep it, and there is no way to see everything one household has offered — that would just be a shopping list of somebody's home.
Past your own front door
The street has a pressure washer.
You need one twice a year. Somebody four streets away owns one and it is sitting in their garage. Put a value on the things you are willing to part with — to sell, to rent by the day, or just to lend — and search everybody else's the same way you search your own shelves.
Sell it, rent it, or lend it
A price to sell. A price a day, a week or a month to rent. Or nothing at all, because a ladder that leaves the garage twice a year may as well be useful to the street. You say which, per thing.
However far you are willing to go
Lending is really about distance. Set how far you will travel — two kilometres, twenty-five, or the whole country for something worth posting — and nobody outside it is shown the offer at all.
Searching needs an account, and you have to name what you want — there is deliberately no list of everything people near you are offering. Message anyone anonymously and stay that way as long as you like. If you two would rather swap numbers and sort it out on a doorstep, that is the whole idea; Skanny takes no cut and has no opinion.
Ready when you are.
A sheet of stickers and ten minutes is enough to find out.