Us vs the others
Nest Egg is an iPhone and iPad app for cataloging your home and pantry, with a one-time price and your inventory kept on your device. Cratify keeps track of your possessions, collections and household every day, on iPhone, Android and the web, from where each one is kept to whose it is.
Free forever plan · iOS, Android & web · No credit card
The short version
Both apps keep a photo record of what you own. These are the three places they part ways.
Snap a photo and Cratify's AI suggests a name, category, description and tags. Nest Egg fills in a product's details when you scan its barcode.
Cratify files each possession in a container, a room and a place, and containers can sit inside containers. Nest Egg uses locations and sub-locations, plus categories.
Share a place, a room or a container with the people you live with, and note whose each possession is. Nest Egg keeps your inventory on your own device, with no account to set up.
Side by side
Each Nest Egg answer comes from Nest Egg Labs' own App Store listings and website, read in October 2026.
| What to check | Cratify | Nest Egg |
|---|---|---|
| What it's made forKnowing what an app was built for tells you where it shines. | Keeping track of your possessions, collections and household every day: where each one is kept and whose it is. |
Cataloging your home and pantry on your iPhone or iPad, with warranty and expiry alerts and a record of what you've lent or borrowed. |
| Adding possessionsA whole home is hundreds of possessions. Entry speed decides whether you finish. | Snap a photo and AI names it, with a suggested category, description and tags. 50 AI scans a month free, unlimited with Lifetime, and Multi-Scan with Lifetime. |
Scan a barcode and it fills in the name, description and photo from millions of known products. Up to ten photos per item. |
| Where it's keptReal homes nest: a container on a shelf, in a closet, in a room. | Containers inside containers, in rooms and places. Open any container to see everything inside it, all the way down, with totals. |
Locations and sub-locations, categories and sub-categories, with batch edit. |
| Labels and QR codesTelling what's in a container without opening it. | Every possession and container has a QR code you can print on any printer. Handmarks let you scan the name you already wrote on a container (adding them comes with Lifetime). |
Print QR labels for containers or shelves from the app, then scan one to see what's in that location. A 15-label pack is a $1.99 in-app purchase. |
| Receipts and recordsPaperwork that belongs with a possession. | Save receipts and documents alongside your possessions, pull up just your receipts, and see totals in the currency you pick. |
Receipts and manuals, warranty and expiry alerts, and online price checks. |
| Where your data livesWho holds the inventory, and how you get it out. | In Cratify's cloud, private by default and visible only to the people you share with. Export or delete it at any time. |
On your device, with no signup or account. Back up through iCloud or iTunes File Sharing, and export to CSV or HTML. Cloud storage is a separate app, Nest Egg - Inventory In Cloud. |
| DevicesWhere you can add and look up your possessions. | Apps for iPhone and Android, plus the web, all in sync. |
iPhone and iPad (iOS 15.5 or later), in 32 languages. The full version moves your inventory between your own iPhones and iPads. |
| What it costsAs of October 2026. | Free for up to 250 possessions. Lifetime is $49.99 once, a launch price rising to $99 on Dec 1, 2026. It never renews. |
Nest Egg - Inventory is $6.99 once for unlimited items, with no subscription. Lite is free for up to 25 items on one device. Extras such as CSV import, passcode protection and QR label packs are $1.99 each. |
Only rows we could confirm for both apps are shown. Nest Egg's current details are on the App Store listings for Nest Egg - Inventory and Nest Egg - Inventory Lite, and at nestegg.cloud.
Who should pick which
Nest Egg does a lot for a one-time price, and for plenty of people it's the right tool.
Not sure yet? Both have a free way in: Nest Egg Lite, and Cratify's Basic plan.
Adding possessions · Multi-Scan
An inventory only helps if you finish it. Point your camera at a shelf, a closet or a garage wall. Multi-Scan finds each possession in the photo, names it and files it in that container, and you can fix any name it got wrong.
Multi-Scan comes with Lifetime. One possession at a time works on every plan: 50 AI scans a month on Basic, unlimited with Lifetime.
Building an insurance record? Save receipts and documents alongside your possessions, and export your data at any time.
Pricing
Your home isn't something you rent month to month, and knowing what's in it shouldn't come with a monthly bill.
Launch price
New accounts can try Lifetime free for 3 days first, with no card and no automatic charge.
FAQ
Nest Egg - Inventory Lite is free for up to 25 items on one device, with no subscription or ads. The full app, Nest Egg - Inventory, is $6.99 once for unlimited items, and extras such as CSV import, passcode protection and QR label packs are $1.99 each (as of October 2026).
Yes. The Basic tier gives you 250 possessions, 50 containers, 2 locations, 5 rooms and 50 AI scans per month, free, with no credit card. When you need more, Lifetime unlocks everything for one payment of $49.99 (launch price, rising to $99 on Dec 1, 2026). New accounts can try Lifetime free for 3 days first, with no card and no automatic charge.
Nest Egg keeps your inventory on your device, with no signup or account, and you can back it up through iCloud or iTunes File Sharing. Cloud storage is a separate Nest Egg app. Cratify keeps your inventory in your account, private by default, and syncs it across iPhone, Android and the web, so the people you share with see the same inventory. You can export or delete your data at any time.
Nest Egg is a one-time-purchase app for iPhone and iPad that catalogs your home and pantry on your device, with barcode lookup, locations and categories, QR labels, and warranty and expiry alerts. Cratify is built around possessions, collections and households: AI names possessions from a photo, containers sit inside containers in rooms and places, and your household can share the inventory on iPhone, Android and the web.
Cratify runs on iPhone, Android and the web, all in sync. Nest Egg's home inventory apps run on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch (iOS 15.5 or later), and the full version can move your inventory between your own devices.
Yes. Share a location, a room or a single container with the people you live with, as editor or view-only. Sharing is included on every plan, including Basic. You can also record who each possession belongs to, even someone who doesn't use Cratify, like a young child.
More comparisons
What to check in any home inventory app, and side-by-side pages for the apps and methods people weigh against Cratify.
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