Centriq alternatives in 2026

Three questions matter more after a shutdown than before one:

1. Can you get your data out? Look for a real export, not a promise of one. Test it in the first week. 2. What happens if the company folds? Almost nobody publishes an answer. Ask anyway. 3. What does the app actually do for your house, day to day? Storage is a filing cabinet. The apps worth paying for change what happens next weekend.

If the thing you loved about Centriq was pointing a camera at the furnace label and letting the app figure out the rest, Dib is the most direct heir. Snap a photo and its AI identifies the item and logs the details. The free plan covers unlimited items, photos, and documents, which is remarkable, and it handles vehicles too. Former Centriq users tend to feel at home here fastest. The tradeoff is that Dib is a records app at heart. It tells you what you own. It's lighter on telling you what your house needs from you this season.

Homer has earned real recognition on the App Store, and it shows in the craft. Receipts, manuals, floor plans, and documents all live in one tidy place, with an AI helper for questions. If your Centriq grief is mostly about lost paperwork organization, Homer rebuilds that well for about $5 a month. Maintenance scheduling exists but is more basic than the document side.

HomeZada is the veteran here, and its genuine strength is one nobody else matches: it treats your home as a financial asset. Value tracking, equity, budgets, and expense history sit alongside maintenance and inventory. If you want one dashboard for what your house is worth and what it costs, this is the serious choice. Two things to know before you subscribe: the feature depth means real setup time, and their published policy is no refunds on any plan, so use the free tier to be sure first. Credit where due, export is built in.

HomeBeacon gives one home a full maintenance setup at no cost. If your budget for this category is zero, start there, sincerely. You'll get checklists, reminders, and equipment records without a card number.

We built Lillypad around a different idea: the record matters, but the schedule is what keeps a house healthy. Enter your home's age, type, and zip code, and you get a seasonal maintenance schedule tuned to your climate in about 90 seconds, no login required. The paid version ($59 a year) sends one email every Friday with what your house needs that weekend, tracks your projects with photos and costs, and knows your actual equipment, so "service the furnace" becomes "your furnace turns five this fall."

Now the honest part. We are not a document vault, on purpose. Centriq's manual-fetching was beloved, and we don't rebuild it. Manuals live online, one model-number search away, and your closing documents belong in Google Drive, OneDrive, or iCloud, which are built for decade-scale storage in a way no maintenance app is. If a vault is your top priority, choose Dib or Homer, and choose happily.

What we offer people who lost records once: everything you put into Lillypad exports with one click, in a standard format, from day one. And our public commitment, written before launch: if Lillypad ever winds down, every user gets notice and a full export window first. We wrote that promise because of what happened to you.

Miss the camera magic and the manuals? Dib. Miss the organized paperwork? Homer. Want the financial picture? HomeZada. Want free? HomeBeacon. Want your house run on a schedule, with a record that's yours forever? That's us. The free version takes 90 seconds and doesn't ask for a login.