Nest Egg App Reviews

It worked well right after I bought and installed it, but now when I try to add items with the barcode scanning feature, it just crashes. I uninstalled and reinstalled it, and of course lost all the items I had stored in it--but it still just crashes. I've consigned it to the trash heap. Buyers beware.

I have a family of 6 and this app helps us immensely. I bought the app mostly to track warranties, but we like the lender/borrower section and location info too. Love the barcode scanner that puts almost all the info I need automatically! Great app!

The export functions are great. Overall a well polished very usable app.

I was rather disappointed when the app did pretty good until I purchased the full version. Once I purchased the full version, books I scanned began to pull up completely wrong. I didn't want to spend time altering every title and the ability to organize my books was the reason for having the app. Unfortunately the paid version was, for me, a waste of money.

I switched over from a more limited app, but Nest Egg is by far much more useful. It easily allows a person to provide detailed information about the manufacturer, seller, warranty, serial and model numbers. It has a very easy learning curve. Tech support is great as well.

Love this app. So easy to input data and sort it later. Customer support is awesome feels like you're talking to a friend on the phone.

I just updated and the app crashes on startup.

My husband is active-duty Army, so we move. A LOT. I can't count how many belongings we've lost, broken or accidentally thrown out due to disorganization. Even my method of handwritten spreadsheets failed - we lost the notebook sometime while unloading the moving truck. When my husband received his orders last November, I was determined to do things right this time. I found Nest Egg and, with a little tweaking, developed a simple colored-coded numerical system for organizing boxes by room. I used Nest Egg to keep track of every single item in every single box, and how many boxes we had for each room of our new house. It took some extra time to get started, but once I had the system down, I was able to pack almost as fast as I could without using Nest Egg. I could locate every single item we owned with just a couple clicks. Even my in-laws were impressed - my father-in-law asked where a certain outfit was, but I'd already packed it. But, I pulled out my phone and opened Nest Egg, found the outfit, located the box and 10 seconds later, I had the outfit. After moving, unpacking was ridiculously easy. We were able to find everything we needed just by locating it in the app. And our insurance company accepted Nest Egg in lieu of a written inventory - in fact, I had taken photos of nearly all of our stuff as I packed, so we were more than prepared in case of loss. I even took photos of receipts to go with our high-ticket items, like the TV, just in case. Thankfully, this is the first moved where we had no loss, including breakage, at all during our move, but it was still nice to know we were covered. Even better, I was able to download the entire database and transfer it to my husband's phone and our iPad, so we both had access whenever we needed. And since the database is on our phone and not scribbled in a ratty old notebook, we didn't have to worry about losing it. Since moving, I've begun using Nest Egg to keep track of what we keep in storage - everything from seasonal clothes to holiday decorations to extra furniture - and it has definitely simplified our lives. I'm now putting away our Halloween decorations, photographing and listening each item as I pack it away, so that I'll know exactly where everything is come next year. I might get really adventurous one day and inventory the entire house, just because I can. Seriously, if you're moving, you have a lot of stuff in storage, you need an inventory for insurance purposes, or you just like to know where everything is, Nest Egg is the way to go. I will never move again without Nest Egg, and I recommend it to everyone I know!

This app is a battery eater!! Of all apps I have, no one consume so much battery! I like if they offer a remind when a food is about to expire and if I can specify mode than one category and one location for every item, and I'd like to divide the category. Ex: remedies, food, etc. It's an good app but need some improvements.

Had to submit an insurance claim and this app saved us lots of extra work. Support was extremely open to turning on a feature when requested and they did a very quick turnaround. Kudos.

This is a wonderful app. There is one little feature I wish was contained in the app. I sent a note to the developer and they quickly responded. The feature I requested is to have multiple categories connected to one item. The developer said they would check to see about implementing this. This app is easy to use and very useful. I recommend giving it a try. Plus, you get amazing customer support!

So glad I found this app!! This was exactly what I needed to help me get a good inventory of the movies, music and books I owe. The best part is the scan barcode which looks up the information from online. This has been what sets this app apart from other ones I wasted money on.

This is a really neat concept and good app to keep track of future purchases, but it could use a few updates: 1. Seller/Manufacturer Database: It needs a database of companies so that the user doesn't have to manually input all the information for a particular seller/manufacturer. While it's understandable that smaller companies will still need to be manually inputted, big companies such as Apple, Windows, Google, etc. should either already be in there, or can be searched for by the user. 2. User Account: It's annoying and not ideal to have to export a backup file and restore it on another device in order to have the same info on your iPhone that you have on your iPad and vise-versa. Having a user account that automatically updates via the cloud or wi-fi sync is much more practical. 3. Online Inputting: As I said before, this is a great app to input information about your future purchases, but for items that you already have purchased, it's kind of a nightmare. Having to manually input everything on your phone/ipad is difficult. Being able to input everything online to your user account (see above) and being able to parse through electronic receipts would be a really nice feature to add. 4. Electronic receipt parsing: Being able to upload info directly from a receipt would make things super easy.

Barcode scanning is much more accurate than other apps. Great app! A few suggestions: I would want an area to scan and put receipts and manuals. Integration with wine tracking software would be neat. A place to put a box number and organize for a move would be helpful.

With the latest update, this excellent app is fully functional in iOS 8. I rely on this app for my complete inventory -- it's backup file is now over 100Mb -- and it runs as smoothly as ever. App support is the best around. It's a cliche, but for the functionality and support if I could give this app more than five stars I would!

When adding a photo to the item, it doesn’t keep the photo where you place it and saves it with the majority of the object not visible. Please fix this, as it renders the app essentially worthless if one needs photos of the objects for various purposes.

I love this app! If I had a wish list for future updates, I would like to see the ability to add multiple locations and to add prices for those extra locations. I currently use “location” for stores where I can buy that exact time. Then I use “purchase price” for the best regular (non-sale) price. When I find that exact item at another store, if the price is better than the first store, I put the first store’s name and their regular price in the “notes” field and move the new store to “location” and the new lower regular price to the purchase price. Really, what would help even more would be to leave your currently fields as is and to add 1 permanent “group” of 3 more fields that would be “store”, “store price”, and “store notes” where store notes can be used to type in store sale price or other user requires information. Then add the ability to add more of this “group” where it will automatically give you those same 3 fields listed in the sale order under the first group anytime you click “add group”. This would make it a super awesome app to track and compare regular store prices and even their sale prices (which are usually on some sort of cycle that events repeats - like something at Winn Dixie that is BOGO this week will eventually be BOGO again in the future.) Overall - a great app! I highly recommend it!!! 😊👍

I recently changed from a windows-based home inventory to Nest Egg. It is easy to use once you play around with it for a few minutes and set it up to meet the needs of the location you are inventorying(home,office,garage,etc). Customer service is highly responsive and helpful. Learned about this app from a NY Times tech article.

While the concept is great and as I read another reviewer say something to the effect that its a "prepper's must have" ... I am conflicted with how exactly I should use this app. I am by no means an extremist in politics or end times beliefs. But I know many people who might think this method of inventorying everything you own could come back to bite you. That said, I like the ease of use and organization but I don't want my info floating out there in cyberspace for any hacker or government agency to access should they feel the need. Just my thoughts.

How do I buy/enable Dropbox sync? (gains 1 more star once I figure that out) Other than that, so far so good!

I've been meaning to make an inventory of our house for years, and even bought another application for my desktop. But I never even managed to start this project in the past. Voila! Nest Egg has done the trick. The app is motivating because it's so lovely to look at and quite pleasant to use. In a few sessions I've logged almost all rooms and most items of any value in this rambling old house. Bonus points: since I wanted attractive photos of the rooms, a good deal of "picking up" got done in the process! When I had a question about backing up, I sent an email to support; the reply was prompt and helpful. I hope we never need to use this for insurance purposes but it's nice to know it's available if we do. And after we're gone maybe our far-flung offspring will find it helps them divide up or sell the belongings.

Great app!! We have a cabin and a boat and I can't ever remember what's in the pantry at either one. This app made inventorying with the bar scan a snap. I had some trouble when I scanned an item for the boat that was also at the cabin. I contacted support and in no time they supplied me with the answer. (Hit the + sign on the inventory page while in the new location). No more four bottles of maple syrup because I'm sure we are out!

This app is probably useful if you just want to create a financial inventory for insurance purposes. In the (hopefully) unlikely event that you have a fire or are victim of a burglary, you could more easily report a claim. Of course, that means very detailed record-keeping and data entry to enter items into the app. The entry form itself is good, so that’s helpful. If you want this app to actually FIND something in your house, I’d look elsewhere. The user experience is extremely limited. There is actually a good summary screen that allows you to see total value by category or location. Again, that assumes you are entering very detailed purchase price data for every item. But it would be completely logical to continue the drill down to see the contents of a location, or where items within a category are located. Sadly, the developer did not think of this. Instead, you have a single form with a search box that display the results in a single column list, completely unorganized. So you have to scroll through the list to see where anything is actually stored. Bottom line - if you are using this for insurance, it’s decent. If you want a home inventory system, look elsewhere. Overall, I regret spending the $4.

The app crashed every time I try to take a photo

would be better if the app can search the web for your product and model .

Easy to use and support is very responsive

I bought this app for its ability to scan. I wanted to scan my records and CDs. But when I scan them it won't even put in the artist name, only the title of the album. This app just doesn't cut it for me.

I love this app! I am going through a divorce and have to itemize everything I own - this app has been a godsend. Please keep updating and improving it. I tried several other "inventory" apps before this one and are as intuitive or visually appealing as this one. I would give five stars if it was continually improved and evolving. Recent update is first in a long time. Thanks!

This is the best app I've found for inventory and I've tried them all. It has multiple methods of input that work flawlessly, the ability to add a picture at every level and outstanding customer support. The scanner and lookup feature work as designed and the manual input is easy and intuitive. I emailed a question to customer support and got a response within hours on a Sunday! My favorite feature is the ability to add multiple levels of subcategories. You can see your items by category or location at the touch of a button. I've had no performance issues with this app and would recommend it without hesitation regardless of what type of inventory you are tracking. Preppers check this one out.

Nestegg is a very pretty inventory manager, but it has a few critical flaws that make it unusable. 1) While you can export to csv, you cannot import from csv. Therefore it you are using another program and want to import your data, or want to tweak a few things in excel, you cannot. 2) While there is a barcode scanner, there is no data base search if the scanner fails - which it often does - or if you don't have a barcode to scan. Therefore you could be left doing a lot of data input manually. 3) You cannot, at least in my experience, add custom item attributes. For example, every item input template is the same. If you want to add the size of a shirt, for example, there is nowhere to input it.

I appreciate that this app has nested subcategories for locations. That is, I can have a category Father's House with a subcategory Bedroom which in turn can have subcategories such as closet, file cabinet, etc. I also like that I can take photos to represent any category or subcategory. These features I have not seen in the other inventory apps I have tried. It is all intuitive, all of the features just work and you can backup and export without signing your data away to others such as insurance companies. Top notch. My compliments to the developers.

Worked great for managing my beer cellar but recently the UPC scanning option stopped working. Used to scan barcode and search Internet and the auto fill but no longer does. Pretty worthless now as you have to enter everything by hand negating the purpose of the app.

WOW... a speedy support team to go with this great app. Within a few hours I had a reply from nest egg on the “BULK” editing feature. This has solved my issue with the app and now my copic markers are happily sitting with the rest of the marker families! ........................... I love this App !!!! I just started using it to catalog my craft room. I have run into an issue that I’m hoping can be fixed in an upcoming update. Can you please add a drag and drop feature while in the editing functions? It would be nice to drag an entire sub category with all its items, and drop it into another category. Having to go into each item to edit the category is FRUSTRATING! Example category ‘Copic markers’ with 316 individual items 3 days later you realize you have 2 more marker sets so you add a marker category........ Are you going to go back and edit each one of the 316 copic markers so that all of your markers are in one category? Ummmm, I think not! I hope That I have been able to demonstrate to you the need for this new feature. My OCD just can’t tolerate a set of markers that are not sitting with their other marker family members. This would be a perfect 5 star APP if it had drag and drop.

Disappointed, it still has bugs. You end up in screens and can’t get back to the main menu. Had to delete the app off the phone.

It's barcode scanning feature appears to be busted. I had great success at first. But when I tried to use it today, it would scan an item and nothing would come up (no pic, name, info). I tried several different products too, thinking it was an error with the first item.

Great app easy to use. I tried the bar code reader on a toy that is 16 years old and it knew what the item was. The app works for everything you could ever need it for. Even customer support is great. I emailed them a question after 12:30am and received an answer and help within a hour and they answered question perfectly.

I wanted a simple inventory app as I have lots of stuff, but can never remember where it is at. Most “inventory” apps seem to be geared towards insurance purposes- pricing your items in case of an insurance claim. I read multiple review pages and downloaded 4 or 5 apps to try. This app met my criteria the best. Some apps were just to basic or hard to use. I quickly stopped using those. I did like the UI/UX of the Sortly app better, but its price was ridiculously expensive. This app had the 2nd best UI/UX and was much more reasonable in price. The biggest thing I would want is a faster way to take a pic, enter some details, and add the next item. Thanks for a great app!!

It's been an awesome app up until iOS 8/iPhone 6 update- keeps crashing - please fix asap

So far so good in just downloaded it and really like the fact I can save multiple pictures of items for insurance purpose.

The program is nice looking and could identify by name some of my food items, but I was extremely disappointed that an item could only be listed in one location. Unless I missed a work around, the program is useless to me for home food inventory. I have garage, dining room, 15-20 kitchen locations, bedroom and living room locations that could all be used. I would also like to be able to look at all items in each location. Quantity was good to have. But good was my major area of concern. Again it promised hope of success for me and then failed on one of the most critical points.