Meet Homewarden — Your home's records. Yours forever

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Homewarden

Your home's records. Yours forever.

Every feature, from the first launch.

No account, no login, no cloud. Everything runs on your device and works fully offline — nothing in this post is hidden behind a wall.

What Homewarden does

Homewarden is the offline home-maintenance and appliance log built for the people who just learned the hard way that cloud home apps can vanish overnight — Centriq shut down on January 31, 2025 and deleted every user's photos, manuals, and receipts, leaving only a CSV of model numbers.

Homewarden is the opposite by design: 100% on-device, no account, no subscription, no company that can delete your data.

What Homewarden does:

— Appliance log. Snap the model/serial plate on your furnace, fridge, or water heater — VisionKit OCR pulls the model and serial number into a record. Attach a photo of the manual and the receipt. — Seasonal maintenance reminders. A bundled checklist (change HVAC filter, test smoke detectors, flush water heater, clean gutters) sets local reminders by season. Tweak to your home. — Room-by-room organization. Group everything by room. Find the dishwasher's model number in two taps when it breaks at 9pm. — Warranty + filter tracker. Record warranty end dates and filter sizes; get reminded before a warranty lapses or a filter is overdue. — The home binder PDF. One tap exports a full PDF — every appliance, model/serial, warranty, manual reference — for insurance, a house sale, or your own records. — Stays on this phone. No cloud, no analytics, no account. Survives any company shutdown because there's no company in the loop.

For the 88 million owner-occupied US households — and especially the Centriq refugees who never want to lose their home records again.

A look inside

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What's inside

Rooms — Appliances grouped by room
Add appliance — OCR model/serial plate; attach manual + receipt photo
Maintenance — Bundled seasonal checklist → local reminders
Warranties — Warranty end dates + filter sizes with reminders
Home binder — One-tap full-home PDF export via share sheet

Why we built it

Homeowners track appliances, model/serial numbers, warranties, and seasonal maintenance in cloud apps that can vanish — Centriq shut down Jan 2025 and deleted all user photos/manuals/receipts. They need a permanent on-device record.

What makes it different

Homewarden is the only home-maintenance app that stores everything 100% on-device (survives any vendor shutdown — the exact thing that killed Centriq), uses VisionKit OCR to capture appliance model/serial plates, ships bundled seasonal-maintenance reminders, and exports a home-binder PDF — HomeZada is $79-99/yr and 'o…

Who it's for

Anyone who values a small, sharp, single-purpose tool that does one job well and stays out of the way.

In one line: Your home's records. Yours forever.

Try it

See the Homewarden app page for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

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