Your inventory in your phone.
Your data in your Drive.

The camera is the scanner, so there’s no hardware to buy. Point it at anything with a printed barcode and the name, photo and description fill themselves in. Three taps per thing, whether that’s a kitchen cupboard or a stockroom.

Free to install. Sign in with Google. No form, no password.

The 1inventory product list on a phone — passata, olive oil, spaghetti, smoked paprika and acacia honey, each with a thumbnail, barcode and quantity — surrounded by the kinds of things people catalogue: jars, a bottle, stacked boxes, a medicine cabinet, records and books.

The flow

How it works, from empty to up to date.

You create an inventory

Name it whatever you like and the app builds a Google Spreadsheet for it in your own Drive.
You make it your own

A pantry needs expiry dates, a workshop serial numbers. Add the fields your things have, in eight types including dropdowns with your own options, and the sheet grows columns to match.
You scan it in

The camera reads the barcode and the name, photo and description arrive filled in. Choose which location it lives in, save, and the product exists.
You find it again

Scan the barcode a second time and it opens that product, or type any part of the name.
You change the number

The quantity it already has comes straight up. Thumb it up or down, save, move on.
It tells you in time

Put an expiry, warranty or service date on a product and the app pushes or emails you before it passes. This is the one step you do nothing for.

Who it’s for

The same app, on both sides of the door.

At home

Know what is in the cupboard while you are standing in the shop.
Food and medicine stop going out of date unnoticed.
A collection becomes searchable: books, board games, wine, tools.
The garage, the loft and the shed each get their own list.

At work

Stocktake is a walk down the shelf with the phone you already carry.
Tell a customer what you have without going to look.
Supplier, serial number, warranty end: add the columns your trade needs.
Up to five people work from the same list, and history shows who changed what.

Built for homes and small operations. Not a warehouse system, and we’d rather say so now.

How it works

Point. Confirm. Next.

Tap the green circle, point the camera at a barcode, and the app searches global product databases. The name, description and photo come back filled in, in your language. Tap Save & scan next and the camera is already back up.

There is no hardware to buy. No scanner gun, nothing to pair, nothing to charge. It reads twelve barcode formats, zooms itself in on small print, and beeps so you can keep your eyes on the shelf.

No barcode? Add it by hand in a few seconds.
Own-brand and unlabelled stock scans fine and comes back blank, and you type the name.
Looking a barcode up costs one of 5 free lookups a day, or 200 on Premium. Scanning itself is never metered.

The scanner aimed at a bottle, with the barcode framed by four white brackets and the prompt: scan a barcode to add a new product or find existing one.

A sheet reading Not in your inventory, with a spinner and the line: searching global database for product information.

The looked-up result: Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Cold Pressed 1 L, its barcode, a description and a product photo, with an Add button.

Already keep a list somewhere?

Import a CSV and your column headers are matched to the right fields automatically, so there’s nothing to map by hand. Rows you already have are skipped rather than overwritten.

Once everything’s in

Three ways back to one thing.

Scan it again. The second scan is a stocktake: the app shows the number you had and waits. Thumb it up or down, save, and the camera comes back. Walk the shelf and the count is done before you sit down.

Search reads more than the name. Type half a barcode, a word from the description or a supplier you typed into a field of your own, and it finds the item.

Locations view turns each place into a folder. Tap Pantry, see what is in Pantry. Anything unfiled sits in Without location rather than disappearing.

Nothing decrements on its own. There is no till feed and no low-stock alert, so if you sell things all day this count will drift.

Scanning a product already in the list brings up its quantity sheet: Extra Virgin Olive Oil with its photo, a minus and plus either side of the number 2, and an Apply button.

A search for the word oil, matching three products by name with the match highlighted: olive oil, sunflower oil and sesame oil, each with its barcode and quantity.

Locations view listing each place with a count: Kitchen 24, Pantry shelf 38, Cellar 12, Garage shelf 9, and Without location 3.

Every week after that

And there’s more.

Dashboard

Products, locations, total stock and the last thing that changed, on one screen.

The edit fields screen listing five custom fields with their types: Best before and Opened on as dates, Purchase price as a number, Supplier as text, and Storage bin as a dropdown with six options.

Your own fields

Prices, dates, serial numbers. Eight types, and each becomes a real column in the sheet.

The new alert rule screen: a rule named Expiring soon, watching the Best before field, notifying seven days before the date at 09:00, limited to the Kitchen and Pantry shelf locations, with push and email both switched on.

Alerts

A date on a product, and it tells you days before it passes, by push or email.

The users screen for an inventory, listing Anna Weber as Owner and Marek Nowak and Lisa Chen as User, each with their email address, and an Invite action.

Sharing Premium

Invite up to four other people. Everyone works from the same list.

The history screen listing every change with a date, the product, who made it and the quantity before and after: olive oil raised from 1 to 2, passata lowered from 7 to 6, smoked paprika created, cane sugar deleted.

History Premium

What changed, who did it and when. Every quantity moved, every product added or deleted.

Your data, not our database

It’s a Google Sheet. In your Drive.

The first time you sign in, 1inventory creates a real spreadsheet in your own Google Drive. Every product you add is a row in it. Open it on a laptop, sort it, chart it, or share it with your accountant the way you’d share any Google file.

Stop paying and nothing is deleted. Delete the app and the file is still in your Drive. If we disappeared tomorrow, you would still have everything, because it was never ours to begin with.

There’s no export button, because there’s nothing to export.

Privacy and security

The rest of your Drive is invisible to us.

We ask for your name, your email, and permission to create files in your Drive. That last one is the narrowest permission Google offers, and Google enforces it — it isn’t a promise from us.

What it can open

The spreadsheet it made for you
The photo folder beside it

What it can never see

Every other file in your Drive
Gmail, Calendar, anything else

Your products pass through our servers on the way to Google. We don’t keep them. Technically, that’s the drive.file scope.

Start with one shelf.

Sign in with Google and the app walks you through the rest. If it isn’t for you, the file is still yours.

Free plan, no cardiPhone and Android

Your inventory in your phone. Your data in your Drive.