Immich Home & family· Instead of Google Photos
The open alternative to Google Photos: automatic backup, search by faces and places, shared albums.
Homebox
A home inventory app: items, locations, receipts, warranties, QR labels.
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What Homebox does
Homebox keeps track of what you own: items with photos, receipts, serial numbers and warranty dates, sorted by location and label.
Handy for insurance claims, moves and the eternal question of where something actually is. QR labels take you from the shelf straight to the entry.
Items with photos, receipts and serial numbers- Locations and labels, nested like your home
- Warranty dates at a glance
- Printable QR codes
Good to know before the first start. The first account you register automatically becomes the administrator.
Homebox instead of Sortly
What you get out of it
- No cap on the number of items
- Photos and receipts live with you, not in someone else’s app
- Print QR labels and stick them on your boxes
| Sortly and Podless | Sortly | On Podless |
|---|---|---|
| Where the data lives | SortlyOn the provider’s servers | On PodlessIn your own instance in the EU |
| Source code | SortlyNot open to read | On PodlessOpen, you can read what runs |
| Ads and profiling | SortlyPer the provider’s terms | On PodlessNone |
| Your own domain | SortlyUsually not offered | On PodlessIncluded, certificate too |
| Getting out again | SortlyAs far as the provider allows | On PodlessSFTP, database, backups to your storage |
| If it gets shut down | SortlyYou have to move | On PodlessYou decide when you leave |
Additional information
- Category
- Home & family
- Replaces
- Spreadsheets, Sortly, Notion databases
- Recommended size
- 0.25 cores · 0.5 GB RAM · 10 GB Storage
- Estimated per month
- €1.97 At the recommended size, running around the clock. Stop the app and CPU and RAM stop costing.
- Source
- sysadminsmedia/homebox
- Links
- Website
Common questions
At the recommended size (0.25 cores · 0.5 GB RAM · 10 GB Storage) about €1.97 a month, billed by the hour. Stop Homebox and you only pay for storage.
No. No server, no Docker, no terminal commands. You click start and Homebox runs. Updates are tested on our own instances first and then rolled out.
In your own Homebox instance on servers in Germany and France; bulk storage sits in Frankfurt. Add your own S3 bucket and we back up there daily, encrypted.
Homebox is open source and keeps running on your own server. You fetch the files over a time-limited SFTP access and reach the database with the credentials from the dashboard.
