Homebox: Home Inventory and Organization System
Homebox is a self-hosted inventory tool. A simple, fast home inventory and organization system for tracking what you own, where it is, and what it is worth.
Why self-host Homebox
Knowing what you own, where it lives, and what it is worth matters more than most people realize until an insurance claim, a move, or a “where did I put that” moment forces the issue. Homebox is built specifically for that home-user case rather than warehouse-scale inventory management, with a low enough resource footprint to run comfortably on the smallest home server hardware.
What it does
Homebox falls into the Home Inventory category of self-hosted software. It tracks items with photos, purchase details, warranty information, and custom fields, organized into locations and labels so you can answer “what do I own in the garage” or “what is still under warranty” without digging through old receipts. It also supports import and export, useful for insurance documentation or moving between households.
Community traction
The actively maintained community continuation, hosted under sysadminsmedia, has around 6.5k stars on GitHub. The project was picked up and continued by the community after development on the original repository slowed, a detail worth knowing since some older links point to the original, less actively maintained source.
Deployment
Docker is the standard deployment path, and the project is written in Go, which keeps its resource footprint genuinely small: idle memory usage under 50MB for the whole container, making it a comfortable fit even on modest hardware already running several other services.
Alternatives
If Homebox does not fit your needs, Snipe-IT is a common alternative, though it leans more toward organizational IT asset tracking than the home-inventory use case Homebox is built around.
Maturity
The project is under active development following its community revival, with regular feature and bugfix releases.
License
It is licensed under AGPL-3.0, making it freely available for personal and commercial use.
Links
Homebox is worth a look if you want a lightweight way to track what you own without turning it into a full IT asset management project.