Where did
we pack that?

Add items

Open Add items and choose how to start: Type, Photo or Voice.

Photo — Use the camera or import from your library. On supported Apple Intelligence devices, Buddy suggests the items it sees. Review them one card at a time, fix anything that needs a look, then Save them all at once. “Apply Person & Category to all” saves retyping.

Voice — Say what it is. Buddy turns your words into the item’s name, colour, category and notes, on your device.

More details — Person, Packed as (box, container, bag, suitcase, picture or item only), Category and Notes. Person and Category suggest names you’ve used before; tap one to use it.

Place & group — Where it’s going, which group it belongs to, its box number, and Open first for the kettle and bedding you’ll want on night one.

Places, groups and items

Places are where things are going — the new home, storage, a friend’s garage. Groups are a room, a person, or a kind of thing. Each item can have both.

Open a place or group to see what’s in it. Tap its title to rename it, and give it an icon and colour. Long-press a row to rename or delete. A place can be pinned on the map.

Open any item to edit it, or to add more photos and short video clips.

Add the Moving Buddy widget to your Home Screen to jump straight to your items or Add items.

Find anything

On Items, pull down to Find. It searches names, people, categories, notes, groups, places and box numbers — type “box 12” to see what’s in box 12.

Your move: review and save a copy

Your move at the top of Items counts what’s left to finish: items without a name, without a photo, that need a look, or without a place.

Review takes you through them one at a time. Save a copy exports one place or everything — see Copies and backups.

Moving day

Open the Moving day checklist and pick a place. Set its moving date if you like.

Tick each item as it arrives. Tick all has an exact Undo, finished groups fold away, and search finds a single item fast.

Staying places — Mark any place that isn’t moving. Its things stay in your inventory but leave every moving total.

Ask Buddy

Tap the speech bubble on Items and ask in plain words — “where are the winter coats?” Tap a result to open the item with its photo.

On supported Apple Intelligence devices, Buddy answers on your device. You can instead connect your own compatible server (Ollama or LocalAI) in Settings. Without either, Buddy does a keyword search.

Final photos

An optional album of how you left each place. Turn it on in Settings → Tools → Final photos.

Add places and their rooms — Quick add suggests common rooms. In a room, take photos or short clips, or add as many as you like from your library. Photos keep the date they were taken, and a photo that’s already in the album isn’t added twice.

Open a photo to move it to another room or add a note. Share the whole album as one ZIP with a spreadsheet of dates.

Copies and backups

Import — Bring in an Excel or CSV list. Each sheet becomes a group.

Export — Excel, CSV or a printable PDF are text reports; a photo ZIP holds the pictures and clips.

Backup — A .movingbuddy file is the only copy that restores everything, photos included. Restoring replaces what’s on the device, so it asks first. Find all three in Settings → Import & export.

App lock and privacy

Turn on Settings → Privacy → App lock to require Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode whenever you come back to the app.

There’s no account. Your inventory stays on your device unless you export it, back it up, or connect your own server. Privacy details.

Free and Moving Buddy Full

My Moving Buddy is free for your first 30 items. Moving Buddy Full is a one-time purchase that removes the limit — no subscription.

Whatever you’ve saved always stays viewable, searchable and exportable, paid or not. Unlock from Settings → Moving Buddy Full, or when you reach the limit. On a new device, use Restore purchase on the same screen.