For your home
Nobody buys a fourth jar of the same thing.
HomeStock is a shared, honest picture of what's actually in the house — the freezer, the cupboard, the shed — so the shopping list writes itself and nothing quietly goes off at the back of a shelf.
Two kinds of space
Just yours, or shared with the house
Only you can see it
Your own things, wherever you keep them. What you have, where it is, when it expires, what it cost. Nobody is invited and nobody else is looking.
Good for a flat of your own, a hobby that eats materials, or just the things you'd rather not put on the family list.
Everyone sees the same list
One picture of the house that everybody's phone agrees on. Add the last of the milk to the list from the kitchen and it's on the list in the car park.
You choose who you invite, and what each of them is allowed to do once they're in.
Day to day
The things people actually use
A shopping list that fills itself
Set how many of something you like to keep in. When you drop below it, HomeStock says so — and adding everything that's low to the list is one tap rather than a walk round the kitchen with a pen.
Kids can ask, without just adding it
Anyone you invite can be given permission to request something rather than put it straight on the list. It arrives as a request, you approve or decline it, and declining doesn't leave it nagging on the list. Nobody has to remember they already said no.
Nothing goes off at the back of the shelf
Give something an expiry date and HomeStock keeps an eye on it, so the thing you bought for a recipe in March isn't discovered in July.
Where everything lives
Rooms inside buildings inside properties, as deep as you actually need — the garage freezer and the kitchen freezer are different places, and HomeStock knows the difference. Scan a barcode with your phone's camera to find something rather than typing it.
Reminders that belong to the house
Bins out on Tuesday, filter changed every three months, the car's MOT. They repeat properly — a monthly reminder set for the 31st doesn't wander into March — and you can keep one private to yourself if it isn't everyone's business.
Who drank the orange juice
Every check-in and check-out is written down with who did it and when, and the log is searchable. Mostly this settles arguments. Occasionally it finds a genuine mistake.
Money
The household side of the money
Income, bills and budgets for the house, with the running totals you'd otherwise keep in a spreadsheet: what's due, what's left this month, what a card is costing you, how long a debt takes to clear at what you're paying.
Shared costs work out who owes who. Put in what you paid for, split it however you like, and HomeStock keeps a running balance per person and settles up to zero — including the odd penny that a three-way split leaves over, which is the bit that normally means the balance can never actually be cleared.
There are recipes too, with the ingredients checked against what's in the house, so "can we make this tonight" has an answer and anything missing goes on the list — the amount you're short, not the whole amount.
Cost
One person pays. The house doesn't.
Whoever sets up the shared space is the one who subscribes. Everybody they invite gets full use of it and never needs a subscription of their own — a family of five pays once, not five times.