Moving inventory for iPhone and iPad
You pack a box, photograph what is inside and stick a QR label on it. Three weeks later the tower is standing in the new flat and you are looking for the kettle. Scan the box, see the contents, done.
Free and without an account. Your boxes, photos and lists stay on your device.
Every box gets a number, a room and its contents. Quick entry understands “4 plates”, the camera recognises items in a photo, and packing suggestions match the room.
Print-ready labels with QR code, number and room as a PDF. Or bought QR stickers: the box is created when you scan.
One scan with the camera opens the box. Search finds every item and tells you which box it is in.
Homeshift works locally first: boxes, items and photos live on your device, and the whole app works without an account and without internet. Everything beyond that you switch on yourself.
Number, room, status and photos
The right box answers
Print ready for the whole move
A new date shifts every due date
Moving with a partner or friends? Put the move into Homeshift Cloud and invite them with a link or QR code. Changes show up on every device while you pack.
The app is free and works without an account. Anything beyond that you buy once or by subscription, all through the App Store and without an account with us.
The free version goes a long way for a first move. Where a limit applies, the app says so right there, and nothing you have recorded is ever hidden or deleted.
Three modules and a bundle with all three. Paid once, on all your devices, with Family Sharing.
Run one move on several devices and invite helpers. Only the owner of the move needs the subscription; helpers use the app for free. All modules are included.
7-day free trial
The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage and cancel it in your Apple Account settings.
Prices in Swiss francs. The App Store shows the price in your currency; it may differ by country.
Purchases can be restored on any device with the same Apple ID: Settings → Unlock → Restore Purchases. · Terms of Use (EULA)
Homeshift is distributed through Apple's App Store. Purchases and subscriptions are handled by Apple. Apple's Media Services Terms and the standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement (EULA) apply.
Most questions are answered by the help inside the app, step by step and in your language. For everything else, an e-mail is enough.
No. Boxes, items, photos, tasks, furniture, storage and defects all work without an account and without internet. You only need an account if you want to share a move with others.
The app is free. The three modules are bought once; Homeshift Cloud for sharing is a subscription with a 7-day trial. Where a free limit applies, the app says so right there; the prices are listed under Pricing and in the app under Settings → Unlock.
On your device. The private iCloud backup keeps a copy in your own iCloud account, which we cannot access. Only a move you deliberately put into Homeshift Cloud lives on our server, in Europe and with automatic expiry.
Settings → This move → Share move. Sign in with Apple or Google, put the move into the cloud and invite people by link or QR code. Helpers do not need a subscription.
Three ways: the private iCloud backup (the app fetches it on first launch), a shared move in Homeshift Cloud (Settings → Moves → fetch from the cloud), or the JSON archive from the export, which you import into the new installation.
Boxes → menu → Print labels. You choose what goes on the label and get all labels as a PDF. Bought QR stickers are linked to a box by scanning instead.
A printed label or a sticker opens Homeshift from the Camera app when the app is installed. Without the app the code leads to this website with the way to the App Store. If the camera stays silent, the scanner inside the app helps: Boxes → Scan.
In your Apple Account settings under Subscriptions, like any other App Store subscription. The cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period; the move's data stays on your device.
Settings → Homeshift account → Delete account. That removes your cloud data and your sign-in identity in one step. The moves on your device stay.
Homeshift follows the language of your device. The languages the app speaks are listed on its App Store page.
No. Homeshift is available for iPhone and iPad.
Write to us in your language. We usually reply within two working days.
Support: [email protected]
Homeshift works without an account and without internet. Image recognition runs on the device, no photo leaves your iPhone. No ads, no tracking.
Last updated: 6 September 2026 · Read the privacy policy
Homeshift is an app for your iPhone and iPad. Boxes, items, rooms, tasks, furniture, storage, defects and photos live exclusively on your device by default. No account, no sign-in, and no server of ours ever learns about them.
Everything beyond that you switch on yourself and can switch off again at any time. Homeshift has no advertising, no analytics tools, no tracking and no disclosure to third parties for advertising purposes.
The controller for data processing is the operator of Homeshift, reachable at [email protected]. A message to that address is all it takes for questions about your data, for a deletion or for questions about this policy.
Without the cloud switched on, no content leaves your device. That explicitly includes the features that usually wander off into a cloud:
When you enter an address or look at the neighbourhood of the new home, the app queries a map service: Apple Maps (MapKit) with what you type, and for addresses in Switzerland additionally the service of the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo. The privacy terms of those providers apply. The addresses of your move belong to the move and live where it lives: on the device, and in Homeshift Cloud only if you put it there.
From four days before moving day, the app shows the weather for that day. To do this it turns the addresses of your move into coordinates and asks Apple Weather (WeatherKit) with them. Apple gets the place and the day, not your name and not your move. The forecast stays on this device, it does not go into Homeshift Cloud and is fetched again after a few hours.
You can switch on a backup in your own iCloud account. It is written to your private CloudKit database. We have no access to it, and people helping with a shared move cannot see it either. Apple's privacy policy for iCloud applies.
The backup can be switched off at any time. You remove existing copies like any other iCloud content in the system settings of your device.
Packing suggestions and task templates are fetched from a public CloudKit database. Nothing of yours is transmitted; it is a fetch like that of a web page.
If you want to run the same move on several devices or invite helpers, you put exactly that move into Homeshift Cloud. That is a deliberate action per move; all others stay local.
For that you need an account. You can sign in with Apple or with Google, both without a password. The provider sends us a user identifier and, if you agree, your e-mail address and your name. If you choose Apple's relay address, we never learn your real address. If both ways lead to the same confirmed e-mail address, it is the same account. We do not store a password.
The cloud then holds the contents of the shared move: rooms, boxes, items, tasks, furniture, defects, storage, the activity log with the display name of the person who changed something, and, only if you switch on “Share photos”, the photos. Plus the member list of the move and open invitations.
Homeshift Cloud runs on the infrastructure of Cloudflare, Inc. (Workers, D1 database, R2 storage), which provides compute, database and file storage for us as a processor. The data is located in Western Europe. Beyond that we do not pass your data on to anyone, unless we are legally obliged to.
Operating the service produces technically necessary connection data (IP address, time, requested resource). It serves operation and abuse prevention and is not combined into profiles.
When you sign in, the provider you chose, Apple or Google, learns that you are signing in to Homeshift. Apple's or Google's privacy policy applies to that.
homeshift.ch is a static website without accounts, forms or cookies, served through Cloudflare Pages. It produces the same technically necessary connection data as the cloud.
To count visits we use Cloudflare Web Analytics: without cookies, without fingerprinting, without profiles. We see how many people open which page from which country, not who.
Purchases and subscriptions are handled by Apple through the App Store. We see neither your payment method nor your billing address. Homeshift only learns from the device which unlock applies. Apple's privacy policy applies to the purchase.
You delete local data in the app or by removing it from the device. Without a backup it is then gone for good.
For the cloud there is “Delete account” in the settings. That removes your cloud data and your sign-in identity in one step: shared moves, memberships, invitations and transferred photos. The moves on your device are not affected. After the deletion the app checks with the server instead of merely claiming it.
If you only want to take a shared move back, you stop sharing as its owner: the server copy including photos is deleted, helpers lose access, and the move continues locally.
You have the rights to access, rectification, erasure, restriction and data portability. For portability you do not need to ask us: Homeshift exports your complete data at any time as PDF, CSV or JSON, without an account and without a purchase. You may also lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority, in Switzerland the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.
The Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) applies. Where the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies, we process data to perform the contract with you (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR: account, cloud, purchases), on the basis of our legitimate interest in secure operation (point (f): connection data, abuse prevention) and with your consent (point (a): sharing photos), which you can withdraw at any time.
Homeshift is not aimed at children and does not knowingly collect data from children.
If what the app does changes, this policy changes with it. The date above says which version applies. We additionally point out material changes in the app.
The tasks Homeshift suggests when you set up a move, as a list to read. In the app they hang on moving day and move with it when the date shifts.
The general list that applies everywhere. For some countries there is a version of its own with the local deadlines and authorities.
By country: Moving in Austria: the checklistMoving in Australia: the checklistMoving in Brazil: the checklistMoving in Canada: the checklistMoving in Switzerland: the checklistCzechiaMoving in Germany: the checklistDenmarkMoving in Spain: the checklistFinlandMoving in France: the checklistMoving in the United Kingdom: the checklistGreeceCroatiaHungaryMoving in Indonesia: the checklistMoving in India: the checklistMoving in Italy: the checklistMoving in Japan: the checklistMoving in South Korea: the checklistMoving in Mexico: the checklistMoving in the Netherlands: the checklistNorwayMoving in Poland: the checklistMoving in Portugal: the checklistRomaniaSwedenSlovakiaThailandMoving in Türkiye: the checklistUkraineMoving in the United States: the checklistMoving in Vietnam: the checklist
55 tasks
The checklists in this guide are compiled with care, but without guarantee of completeness or currency. Deadlines and responsibilities change. The information of the respective authority or contracting party is authoritative.
In the app: when setting up the move or under Tasks → Template. Everything can be deselected; a template is a suggestion.
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