Life after Centriq
What happened
Centriq — for years the best-known home inventory app — shut down its consumer product, and accounts went dark on January 31, 2026. If you kept your appliance list, manuals, and maintenance notes there, you've probably been looking for a replacement since.
dwell : The House Ledger is one of the options. Here's exactly what it does and doesn't do compared to what you had, so you can decide quickly.
What dwell covers (and Centriq did)
- Appliances & systems with brand, model, serial, purchase date, and warranty dates
- Manuals, receipts, and documents attached to each item
- Contractors and service pros, with notes on who did what
- One search box across everything
What dwell adds that Centriq didn't
- Rooms as first-class records: paint color, brand & finish, trim, flooring, dimensions
- A vision board per room for plans and inspiration
- Household sharing — up to 4 people on one ledger
- Full PDF + zip export on every plan, including free — if we ever shut down, you lose nothing
What Centriq had that dwell doesn't
- Barcode/model-plate scanning that auto-filled appliance details — in dwell you type them in (a photo-based lookup is on our roadmap)
- Auto-fetched user manuals — in dwell you upload the PDF yourself
- Recall notices
Fair warning, honestly stated: entering a house takes an afternoon. Most people find that afternoon weirdly satisfying.
Why trust another small app after Centriq?
The uncomfortable truth is that Centriq died of expensive complexity — barcode databases, manual-fetching infrastructure, venture expectations. dwell is deliberately the opposite: a small, fast, boring-in-the-good-way ledger priced at $3/month so it can run forever on its own revenue. And because your full ledger exports anytime — PDF plus every file, free plan included — switching costs you nothing if we're ever wrong about that.