Private moving inventory
Some boxes are nobody else’s business.
A moving inventory can reveal valuables, documents, medications, collections and personal details about your home. PackQR keeps detailed contents off public QR labels and lets you protect selected boxes inside the app.
Private QR moving labels
The label identifies the box—not everything you own.
PackQR’s printed moving labels are designed to be useful without advertising the detailed contents. The box number, destination room and handling information can help movers; the item list, notes and photos remain in your local PackQR record.
That is a deliberate trade-off. A stranger scanning the physical label does not get a browser page containing your detailed household inventory.
Sensitive Boxes
Hand someone your phone without handing them every box record.
Mark a box Sensitive and PackQR conceals its custom name, item names and quantities, notes, photos and estimated replacement values until device-owner authentication succeeds.
The Home Sensitive boxes switch can re-lock protected boxes immediately while leaving ordinary PackQR functions available.
PackQR 1.8 valuation privacy
Financial metadata does not create a second privacy model.
Estimated replacement values follow the box they belong to. A locked Sensitive box hides its values and subtotal, and visible project totals do not reveal the amount that is hidden.
Standard reports keep Sensitive contents and values excluded by default. PackQR does not upload entered monetary values to a PackQR-operated pricing or valuation service, and production diagnostics should not contain monetary amounts or derived household totals.
Private collaboration
Share the Kitchen without sending the Bedroom.
Before collaboration starts, the Master chooses the whole eligible project, selected rooms or selected boxes. Anything outside that scope is not transferred to the Contributor. The initial QR handoff requires the two devices to be nearby; after that, the Contributor can work elsewhere and return an encrypted PackQR handoff file remotely if needed.
Sensitive Master boxes are excluded from every collaboration scope. The Contributor does not receive their names, contents or box-specific placeholders.
Remote return does not create a shared PackQR cloud inventory. The Contributor exports an encrypted PackQR handoff file and chooses how to send it; the Master opens it in PackQR and still reviews the additions before import.
Privacy questions
What PackQR does—and does not—claim.
Does PackQR store my box inventory in its cloud?
The core PackQR inventory is local-first and does not require a PackQR-operated hosted inventory database or account.
Does Face ID mean every box is separately encrypted?
No. PackQR uses iOS device-owner authentication as an access-control gate for App Lock and Sensitive Boxes. It should not be described as a separate per-record encrypted vault.
Can a packing partner see a Sensitive Master box?
No. In PackQR 1.8, Sensitive Master boxes are excluded from collaboration baselines entirely.
Can someone scan my label with a normal camera and see the contents online?
PackQR’s label is not designed as a public web inventory. Detailed contents remain in the local PackQR record rather than being published behind the physical QR label.
What about backups?
Backups are portable copies and may contain private contents. PackQR offers the existing plain backup and an optional passphrase-protected encrypted backup. Treat exported backup files as sensitive data.
Safer local continuity in 1.8
PackQR does not silently replace a known inventory with an empty one.
If PackQR finds evidence that this device previously held a local inventory but the protected private store is unexpectedly missing, version 1.8 stops before creating a replacement. A recovery screen shows privacy-safe last-known counts, lets you check again, and requires an explicit confirmation before starting fresh.
This safeguard is designed for exceptional recovery situations. Normal App Store or TestFlight upgrades with an intact local store continue directly into the existing inventory.
Full policy
Want the technical privacy details?
The Privacy Policy explains website logs, local storage, nearby collaboration setup, encrypted remote handoff returns, AI and voice processing, backups and the optional Move Planner connection.
Private moving inventory
Ready to stop opening boxes to find things?
Keep a private record of what is in each box, print QR labels and search or scan offline when you need something later.
£1.99 one-time purchase · No subscription · No PackQR account · App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected · Requires iOS/iPadOS 17.6+