What's the best app to keep track of boxes when moving?

The Packed Rabbit numbers every box, prints a QR label for it, keeps a photo of what's inside, and finds any item by typing or saying its name. Boxes are unlimited and free forever, and it works offline with nothing leaving the phone.

How do I know if my sofa will fit through the door?

You carry a sofa long end first, so what has to pass the doorway is its cross-section: the two smaller measurements, usually depth and height. If the smaller one is narrower than the door, it goes through straight; if not, try it on its side. Taking the legs off often saves 4 to 6 inches. The Packed Rabbit does this check against every doorway you've measured.

What size moving truck do I need?

Add up the cubic feet of your boxes and furniture and add about 15% for packing room. The Packed Rabbit does this from the actual boxes and furniture you've entered rather than a bedroom-count average, and names the truck or number of containers.

Is there a moving app without a subscription?

Yes. The Packed Rabbit is free with no limit on boxes, and the full app is one payment of $39, yours to keep, with no subscription.

It knows what fits through the door.

Number every box. Measure every piece of furniture. Find out what actually fits, what a quote is hiding, and where everything ended up, before anyone backs a truck up to your house.

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Unlimited boxes, free forever. The whole app free for your first 7 days. Works with the wifi off, and your list stays on your phone.

Will your sofa go through?

Move the sliders. This is the same check the app runs on every piece against every doorway you measure.

Doorway width

Sofa height

Sofa depth

Sofa length

Take the legs off (they're usually 4 inches)

Type your own couch's measurements

Boxes

Say the box. It's filed.

One sentence while both hands are still on the box. It comes back numbered, sized, weighed and labeled, with a photo of what's inside. Later, "where's the kettle?" gets you the box number and the room it went to.

Unlimited boxes, free, forever. You have to be able to enter everything you own, or it isn't an inventory.

"A medium box for the kitchen, fragile, with the stand mixer, the kettle and three mugs. Open it first."

KIT-014

Kitchen, to the counter left of the sink

Stand mixer, kettle, 3 mugs · about 22 lb

FRAGILETHIS SIDE UPOPEN FIRST

The truck

The truck, worked out from what you packed.

Not a guess from how many bedrooms you have. Every box and every piece of furniture you entered, in real cubic feet, with room to pack. You see it fill as you go, and the quote has to match what's actually there.

Say "a king bed from Restoration Hardware" or pick it from pictures, and it already knows the size and roughly what it weighs. Two matching nightstands? Pick 2.

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Example: a two-bedroom townhouse, 41 boxes and 9 pieces. About 70% of a 20-foot truck.

Movers

It reads the quote before you sign it.

Paste the estimate or photograph it. It checks the company's federal registration, says whether you're dealing with the mover or a broker, and points out the lines that grow on moving day.

Then it holds on to the paperwork that matters: the bill of lading, the inventory, the valuation you chose, the claims deadline. It won't call the move finished while a box is still missing.

This is a broker, not a moverThe number on the quote is registered to a company that arranges moves. Ask who will actually show up with the truck.

Non-binding estimateThe final bill can be higher. On an interstate move, ask for binding or not-to-exceed.

Stairs and long carry, not pricedYour bedrooms are on the third floor and the quote doesn't say so. That's often added on the day.

✓

The volume matchesThe quote's 1,150 cubic feet is within 5% of what you packed.

Your days

A bad day doesn't count against you.

Week four of packing is real. Tell it how today is going and the list shrinks to what genuinely can't wait. Nothing gets marked late, and tomorrow picks up where you left off.

RedOnly what can't wait. One thing at a time.

YellowOne or two light jobs, sitting down.

GreenThe plan as it was. Go get it.

Plus the things that must never go on the truck: medicines, documents, chargers, keys, the pets' bag. A go-bag list rides with you, and move day has its own screen.

One payment. Nothing renews.

Everything about your own things is free. The full app is everything that thinks for you. Nothing you entered is ever locked away from you.

Free

$0 forever

Unlimited boxes and photos
QR labels, and scanning to find a box
Search, and "where is…?"
Checking a mover's quote
Exporting everything, and backups
Go-bag, medicines, pets, move day's lists

The full app

$39 once

One payment, yours to keep. No subscription, nothing renews.

Your whole plan in order, by date
Furniture checked against every doorway
The truck size from what you packed
Boxes scanned on and off the truck
The deposit, insurance and paperwork
A running tally of the money it saved you, with the proof
Every device

Free for your first 7 days. After that, what you entered stays yours and searchable.

Everyone helping

$0 always

Your brother, your friends, the crew
Every helper is another phone with the app
Nobody pays to help you move

Not open for sale yet. The free app is complete today. The full app opens for purchase shortly.

For business

Give the people you move the whole app, with your name on it. You buy codes; we never send you anyone and never sell anyone's move.

Real estate agentsA closing gift they open every day of the move.From $15 a client Property managersMove-ins that arrive organized. Move-outs with a photo record.For every unit Relocation and HRA benefit every transferee uses, with nothing to integrate.Per move Military familiesPCS moves and DIY moves, with weight tickets and a full inventory.Built for PCS season Movers, storage and cleaningCrews on the app, and a fair listing with no commission.Flat fee, never commission Move managers and coordinatorsRun many moves at once. Clients and crew on their own phones.Pro

Your things stay yours.

No account needed. Everything lives on your own phone: your medicines, your documents, your inventory, your money. We can't read it because we never receive it.

No analytics, not even anonymous ones. This site doesn't load anything from anyone else's servers either. Account numbers are kept as the last four digits only. Share a move with someone and the medical, insurance, money and document categories never go with it, whatever else you tick.

Getting it

It installs from this site. No store, no account, no waiting.

iPhone and iPad: open the app in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
Android: open the app in Chrome and tap Install when it offers.
Computer: it just runs in the browser.

Once it's on your home screen, it works with the wifi off: on a plane, in a basement, in the back of a truck.

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