MyStuff2 - Home Inventory and Database Reviews – Page 8
4/5 rating based on 73 reviews. Read all reviews for MyStuff2 - Home Inventory and Database for iPhone.
MyStuff2 - Home Inventory and Database is paid iOS app published by Richard Maddy
I found you!
Sandyland01
Just got this - but it seems to have EVERYTHING the other apps needed. I have tried 4 or 5 different ones and this is the closest to perfect. Love it already - but still in the learning curve. Wish I could enter some of the details on my desktop because - admit it - everyone who uses this is a little ocd - and I want it all. I will certainly update this as my experience changes because it will. I always read the reviews and respect what others see and learn. Thanks for the start of a great relationship! Since I am still new cannot say it is great yet . .
5 star to 2 star
Phinn
I've been using this app for several years on both my iPad and my iPhone. Recently my iPhone app started crashing. I contacted support on multiple occasions to find a resolution. After a couple failed attempts to resolve the issue, support just disappeared. Doesn't respond to my emails. I was never rude or disrespectful. He just gave up. While I am still able to use it on my iPad it no longer functions on my iPhone. Given that I use this app quite frequently on both devices, having such a limitation causes an inconvenience in its application. I do love the app...but functionally is vital to it's usefulness.
Surprisingly Good
S0PH0S42
I was not expecting much from this app. Based on the screenshots and the other apps in the category, it seemed like this was going to be a dud. I was even preparing to open the app, be sorely disappointed, and quickly head to the "Refund" section of iTunes. I was VERY wrong. MyStuff2 is an extremely decent home inventory app. By no means is it perfect, don't get me wrong, but Mr. Rick Maddy delivered exactly what I needed at a reasonable cost. MyStuff2 provides a clear and relatively understandable interface that let me quickly and effectively record an inventory of what I have in my dorm. The way the app handles item categories is sufficiently powerful enough to allow me to record every type of metadata about my stuff that I wanted — and give me options to add a whole bunch more! The workflow for adding items is low-friction and makes it easy to crank out a modestly-sized backlog in only a few hours. In fact, most of my time completing my inventory was spent researching prices. The app's barcode scanner certainly reduced that time, but only for things I had barcodes on. (Whatever database it's pulling from to get price data is remarkably complete. I threw some odd things at it and it still found prices, and even cover images for some of the books.) Organizing items using this app is also rather painless. It has two levels of organization: tiered type categories (Appliances > Small; Clothes > Jeans; etc.) and tiered location categories (Dorm > Dresser; Summer Home > Living Room > Bookshelf; etc.). This scheme works very well for what I needed and it's implemented decently. I did mention that this app isn't without faults though, and here are a few reasons why I knocked off a star. The user onboarding process is pretty lousy. If I was less tech-savvy, I would have had a much more difficult time figuring out how to use this app. Furthermore, its greatest feature, complexity, is also its greatest downfall. MyStuff2 is packed with features, to the point where what some of them do is only obvious to computer scientists and database administrators. All this power is great, but it's lost on users who don't know how to use it. Additionally, the interface design leaves something to be desired. I've tried making iOS apps myself, and I get how hard it is to coax Xcode and Interface Builder into regurgitating the exact interface you want, but when someone has put in the effort to really polish an interface, it shows. This app could use some of that polish. Specifically, there are little details like the alphabet jump bar in the Categories > Items view pushing the search bar and UITableView cells to the side a bit, and the item count bubbles in the Categories view not lining up with the horizontal center of the cell when there's a note on the category, and so on. Beyond that, there are some larger design choices that make the app a bit more cumbersome — but I can't quantify those because I'm not a designer and I don't know the words :) Despite its shortcomings, MyStuff2 is the best app for home inventories that I've tried on the App Store. It's rare to find a gem in here these days, and although this is more of a Lapis Lazuli or Malachite rather than an Emerald or Diamond, I'm quite happy I found it. 4/5, would buy again.