House move box tracking
Packing List & Box Inventory
Track what's packed in which box during a house move, so nothing gets lost or opened twice - with a per-room packing progress board and full contents search.
House move box tracking
Track what's packed in which box during a house move, so nothing gets lost or opened twice - with a per-room packing progress board and full contents search.
One card per room with boxes logged: box count plus a completion bar showing how much of that room has been unpacked at the destination, so you can see what's left at a glance.
Kitchen, Living Room, Bedroom, Bathroom, Office, Garage, Garden or Other with a free-text detail - pick a destination in one click and let boxes group automatically.
Search by box label, room, contents or notes - so "where did I put the kettle" actually gets an answer, not a shrug.
Mark a box Standard, Fragile or Essential/open first - each room card shows a fragile/essential badge so priority boxes never get buried under everything else.
The Rooms tab lists every room with total boxes, unpacked count, still-packed count and fragile/essential count, sorted so rooms with the most boxes still packed surface first.
Flip a box from Packed to Unpacked once it's opened at the new place - the box stays in your history so the record of what went where is never lost.
Copy a plain-text summary of totals and the per-room breakdown to the clipboard, or export a standalone HTML file to keep or share with whoever's helping you move.
Light/dark theme remembers your choice, and two rotating sample box inventories - each spanning several rooms with a mix of packed, unpacked, fragile and essential boxes - let you explore the progress board before logging your own.
Sortly is a well-known general-purpose inventory app people also use for home moves. It's built for tracking any kind of item with barcodes and photos - here's how a focused, one-off desktop tool compares for a household move specifically.
| Feature | Packing List & Box Inventory | Sortly |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | £4.99 one-off after trial | Free (100 items), then from $49/month |
| Works fully offline | ✓ | ~ |
| Built specifically for a home move | ✓ | ✕ |
| Per-room packing progress board | ✓ | ✕ |
| Barcode/QR code scanning | ✕ | ✓ |
| Multi-user team access | ✕ | ✓ |
| Fragile/essential item flags | ✓ | ~ |
| One account across a whole app portfolio | ✓ | ✕ |
Comparison based on Sortly's publicly listed pricing and features as of August 2026 (sortly.com, costbench.com, business.org) - pricing and features change over time, so check sortly.com for current details. Sortly is a trademark of its respective owner; this comparison is for informational purposes and isn't sponsored by or affiliated with Sortly.
One card per room that has at least one box logged. Each card shows the room's total box count plus a single completion bar - the proportion of that room's boxes already unpacked at the destination - and a fragile/essential item count badge. Rooms with the most boxes still packed surface first on the Rooms tab, since that's what needs attention.
A box number/label (free text - use whatever numbering makes sense to you), a room/destination (Kitchen, Living Room, Bedroom, Bathroom, Office, Garage, Garden or Other with a free-text detail), contents (free text, supports multiple items), a priority flag (Standard, Fragile, or Essential/open first), a packed date that defaults to today, an unpacked status you toggle once the box is opened at the new place, and optional notes.
No. This is a record-keeping tool for tracking what's packed where during a move - it doesn't insure or protect the contents of your boxes, and isn't a substitute for proper insurance or a professional moving company's own inventory process for high-value items.
Yes - Packing List & Box Inventory uses the same shared Metre2 account as Vector, Forma and every other Keystone app. Sign in once and it works everywhere.
Yes - copy a plain-text summary to your clipboard, or export a standalone HTML file with totals and the per-room breakdown.
Yes - the Summary tab has a full searchable box history that covers box label, room, contents and notes, so a search like "kettle" finds exactly which box it's in.
It goes further than a checklist: every box is its own record with contents, priority and an unpack toggle, aggregated into a live per-room completion bar - so you always know exactly what's inside each box, not just how many are packed.