Estate Triage

An iPhone app

Clear a home with confidence.

Photograph one item at a time. Estate Triage tells you what it most likely is, roughly what it is worth, and whether to sell it, keep it, donate it, discard it — or have it looked at before it leaves the house.

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The first ten identifications are free. No account, no subscription.

Made for two people: someone downsizing their own home, room by room, over months — and someone clearing a parent's house, often on a deadline, often with siblings waiting on the answer.

LOT 001

How it works

Three steps, one item at a time.

  1. Photograph

    Hold up your phone and take one picture. There is nothing to fill in and nobody to sign up as.

  2. Get a read

    In seconds: a probable identification, an estimated value range for the US secondhand market with a stated confidence level, and a recommendation — sell, keep, donate, discard, or appraise.

  3. Build the record

    Each item is numbered and filed by room in the Lot Book, with running totals and a list of everything flagged for a professional.

What you get on each item

A careful read, not a confident guess.

Every item gets a value range and a stated confidence level rather than a single number, because a photograph can only show so much. The app is built with a conservative bias: anything that might be worth materially more than it looks is flagged Appraise instead of being guessed high.

Each item also comes with a short list of what to check before it leaves the house — maker's marks, hallmarks, model numbers — the details that change the answer. This is the part that keeps valuable things out of the dumpster.

  • Sell
  • Keep
  • Donate
  • Discard
  • Appraise

The Keep stamp is not a consolation prize. Deciding what stays is as much of the work as deciding what goes.

Lot 014 · Dining room

Cut glass decanter with stopper

$40 – $85 Confidence: moderate

Sell

Before this leaves the house Check the underside of the base for an acid-etched maker's mark, and the stopper for a matching number. A marked piece can be worth several times an unmarked one.

An illustration of the app's output. Item, figures, and confidence shown here are an example, not a real appraisal.

Estimates are AI-generated guidance, not a certified appraisal. Anything marked APPRAISE — or anything you have a feeling about — deserves a professional opinion before it leaves the house.

The record

A record everyone can trust.

Items file themselves into rooms — including rooms you name yourself, like "Dad's workshop" — with per-room totals and a count of everything still waiting on a professional opinion.

When you are ready, the Lot Book prints as a dated PDF: grouped by room, totalled, with the appraise list on the first page. It is made to be handed to a sibling, given to an attorney, or filed and kept. There is a CSV export as well, if you would rather work in a spreadsheet.

You can correct any identification. Renamed items are clearly marked as corrected, and the old estimate is left out of the totals.

Estate Triage · Inventory report

Prepared 12 March · 128 items · 6 rooms

Flagged for appraisal — 3 items Lots 007, 041, 096. See page 2 for details and inspection notes.

Living room

  • 001Walnut sideboard$180 – $320Sell
  • 002Pair of table lamps$25 – $60Donate
  • 007Signed landscape, oilSee noteAppraise

Dining room

  • 014Cut glass decanter$40 – $85Sell
  • 015Set of 8 dinner plates$30 – $70Sell
  • 016Linen tablecloth$10 – $20Keep
Estimated total, 128 items $2,140 – $4,880
A stylized representation of the printed report. Layout is representative; the items and figures are placeholders, not anyone's home.

Pricing

What it costs.

The first ten identifications are free. After that, one pack covers the house you are clearing.

  • Try it

    Free

    First 10 identifications

    • Enough to use on real items in your own house before deciding.

  • Estate Pack

    $19.99

    One time

    • 400 identifications
    • 120 days
    • Every room
    • PDF and CSV export

  • Top-up

    $4.99

    100 more identifications

    • For when the house turns out to be bigger than you thought.
    • Top-up credits never expire.

One price. No subscription. Nothing to cancel.

If you clear another house later, you buy another pack. That is the whole model. Purchases are handled by Apple through your Apple account; during the TestFlight beta they are simulated by Apple and nothing is charged.

Questions

The short, honest version.

Is this an appraisal?

No. Estate Triage gives AI-generated guidance from a single photograph. It is not a certified appraisal, it does not follow appraisal standards, and it can be wrong — sometimes by a lot, in either direction.

Get a professional when an item is flagged APPRAISE, when something might be unique or unusually valuable, when you simply have a feeling about it, and always for insurance, estate tax, probate, dividing property among heirs, or a charitable donation deduction. Those purposes require a qualified appraiser, and this app cannot stand in for one.

What happens to my photos?

Each photo is sent over an encrypted connection to be analyzed, then it is done — we do not store your photos. A small thumbnail stays on your phone as part of your inventory. Identification is powered by Claude, made by Anthropic, which processes the image as our service provider and does not use it to train its models. Our privacy policy says all of this in full.

Do I need an account?

No. There is no sign-up, no login, no password, and no email address to give. Your inventory lives on your phone.

Where does my inventory live?

On your device. We keep no copy, which also means we cannot recover it if you delete the app — export the PDF or CSV when you have something worth keeping.

Do I need a connection?

Yes, for identifications — the analysis happens on our server. Your existing Lot Book stays readable on the phone either way.

Are you tracking me on this website?

No. This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and loads nothing from anyone else. That is why you are not being asked to consent to anything.

Nothing valuable gets missed.

Estate Triage is in testing now. If you are working through a house — yours or someone else's — you are exactly who we need to hear from.

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