Hob: Home Inventory

The extension lead, the passports, the tree decorations, the winter boots waiting for the younger one: write a thing down once, and the hob tells you where it is. He reminds you what's lent and overdue, what a child has grown into and what's gathering dust. Free, no ads, no account, works offline.

A hob is the house spirit of English folklore; in Russian he is the domovoi, who lives behind the stove and keeps the house in order.

🏠 YOUR HOUSE
• The flat, the dacha, the garage, gran's house – each place has its own rooms
• You choose the names, the signs and the places to keep things: the top shelf, the wardrobe, under the bed
• Put the rooms in your own order: hold a room and drag it
• Numbered boxes: write the number on the box with a marker, and the hob remembers what's inside and where it stands
• Dark corners: a room with nothing written down stays dark until you open the cupboards and write down what's there

🔍 WHERE IS IT?
• Ask the hob: "extension lead", "skates", "fairy lights"
• He searches names, rooms, places, box labels and numbers and tells you where to look: "Pantry · shelving · box 3"
• Browse by kind – clothes, tools, papers, holidays – or make kinds of your own
• A name is enough: the hob picks the sign and the kind from it. Add a photo if you like

🕯 THE HOB'S NOTES
• Soon needed: the tree decorations in December, the tent before summer
• Not back yet: the drill a neighbour borrowed. One tap sends a reminder through any messenger
• Time to give back: the step-ladder you borrowed has been here two months
• Fits now: things a child has grown into
• One quiet notification in the morning, and only when there's news

🧒 GROWING INTO THINGS
• Add the children with their height and shoe size
• A thing's size comes from its label: "116", "110–116", "4–5 y" or "30–33"
• The hob works out when a child grows into it, from their own pace or the usual one for their age
• A thing keeps its history: who wore it before and who comes next

🧹 CLEAR-OUT
• Things untouched for over a year come one at a time: keep, give away, sell or throw out
• Papers, seasonal things and clothes to grow into are left alone
• In doubt, keep it – the hob asks again next year

✨ THE COSIER THE BETTER
• Lit rooms, clean shelves, things that come back and fresh measurements make the cosiness
• The hob's title grows with it: guest, lodger, master, old-timer
• Signs for the first boxes, the first clear-out, a thing worn by two children

ALSO
• Evening and day: a dark theme in warm lamp light, and a light one with the curtains open
• A copy of the house: every thing, room and photo in one file, to keep or to open on another phone. A CSV table too
• English and Russian
• Free and open source (MIT)

Privacy: no account, no ads, no analytics, and no internet permission at all. Your house stays on your phone.