Help

The same help the app shows behind its ⓘ marks.

Getting started

QR codes start on paper.

QR Code Batches prints sheets of new codes; the first scan of a code turns it into a tile.

Any other code can open this tile.

A vendor QR or a label already on the box — scan it once here, and scanning it anywhere opens this tile from then on. A printed QR Tiles code is a tile's identity, permanently — scan those from the Scan page. And repeats are handled: the world's barcodes repeat, so if a code is already on another tile, QR Tiles names it and asks before moving it here.

Scanning

Scanning lives top-right.

On every screen. This page only decides what a scan does next.

Jump into the camera.

A blank QR code becomes a fresh tile when scanned. Turn this on to go straight to taking its first photo.

Adopt strange codes.

Codes this home never printed can join — into Misc sheets or a batch you pick.

Adopt into

A code none of your homes printed asks before it joins, unless you turn that off above. Where it lands is this setting: automatic Misc sheets (reprintable, 160 per sheet) or a batch you pick. A code printed by another of YOUR homes always asks, either way — it switches over there instead.

Scan Redirect.

What happens after scanning a tile that is already set up. The scan opens that tile's page either way; these options choose where you land — just looking at it, typing in its title, or straight into adding a label.

Needs Picture.

What happens after claiming a blank QR code. Claiming one creates a fresh tile with nothing on it yet — its picture is usually the first thing you add, and this section decides whether the camera opens by itself to take it.

Unlisted Code.

What happens when a scan finds a code none of your homes printed. Normally it asks before anything joins; these options can let unlisted codes join on their own and choose which batch they land in.

Tiles

Everything saves itself.

Type a title or a label and tap away — the change is committed the moment the field loses focus. No Save button.

Filters narrow the view.

By zone or group, or tiles still missing a photo or title. Recent shows what was scanned or added in the last 30 days, newest first, and sets the order while it is on. Clear lives in the panel.

List rows are yours to trim.

Turn labels or media tags off and List mode stops drawing that line. A tile's title always shows — it is how one row is told apart from the next.

Media tags show what the app sees.

Turn on Show media tags to read a photo's tags and any printed words right under it — in the tile's gallery and its List row.

Search uses them regardless.

Labels, tags and photo text feed search and Ask whether or not they're shown.

Zones hold groups.

A zone is a floor or a room; a group is the shelf, cabinet, or corner a tile lives in.

Deletes stay gentle.

Deleting a group leaves its tiles ungrouped; deleting a zone keeps its groups.

The filter panel

This shapes the filter panel.

Turn a section off here and it disappears from the panel on the Tiles page — it does not change what the panel finds.

Hide the empty rows.

Hide rows with zero tiles keeps the panel short; leave it off and empty rows show greyed out instead.

Sort has its own section.

Turn this off and the Sort row leaves the panel. The order you last chose still applies — hiding a section never changes what the panel finds.

Needs attention holds two filters.

Without photos and Untitled. Turn this off and both rows leave the panel; anything already checked keeps filtering.

Media holds the video filter.

One row, With video. Turn this off when you never filter by video and the panel gets shorter.

Zones can leave the panel.

Hide the whole Zones section when you filter by group instead. Zone checkboxes you left on keep narrowing the groups below them.

Groups can leave the panel.

Hide the whole Groups section when zones are enough. It does not ungroup anything — it only stops the panel from listing them.

Ask

Ask in plain words.

“Where are the pots?” gets an answer naming the place — not a list of links.

Photos help answer.

Photos are tagged with what's visible in them, including printed words. Matching those finds things nobody typed a label for — switch it off if it guesses too much.

Answers are tunable.

Pick how many places an answer names. List style gives one line per place; otherwise the answer reads as a sentence.

Printing

Sheets mint new codes.

A sheet is a page of brand-new QR codes. Print it, cut or peel, and stick them on containers — they stay blank until scanned. One batch is one printed sheet of 160 codes on R001 stock (Spartan Industrial R001 / OL1930-class, 1" × ½" labels, 8 × 20), and a reprint always matches that batch's original encoding.

Plain paper first.

House rule: print one page on plain paper and scan it before committing real label stock. Hold that page against a window with a real label sheet behind it — if the rows drift, adjust Row 1 top first, then pitch. The defaults match the printer this was calibrated on.

Drawer labels are per-tile.

Open any tile ▸ ••• ▸ Print Label for a single label with the tile's name — pick the layout live in the preview.

One tile, one label.

This designs the bigger drawer label for this tile — QR code sheets live in Home ▸ QR Code Batches.

The preview is live.

Every switch redraws it instantly, and your choices stick for the next tile.

Print multiples.

1, 2, or 4 copies per page — cut them apart after printing.

A batch is one printing.

Every QR code from that sheet lives here, so you can see what has been used and what is still going spare.

Claimed codes jump to their tiles.

Tap any claimed row to open the tile that QR code is on.

Reprint the exact sheet.

Sheet PDF rebuilds the original page — same codes, not new ones. Reprint a page that jammed without minting duplicates.

Sharing a home

Read before you invite.

An invited member sees the entire home — every tile, photo, video, label, and note, including everything added later.

Inviting opens the share screen.

The invitation, its permissions, and re-sending it all live there.

Your name is for the people you share with.

It greets you on Home, and on a shared site it stands beside your changes so the other phone sees who did what. It is kept with the site's data, so it travels to the phones you share with and follows you to a new phone.

Sites

Renaming happens here.

This is the only place a site is renamed, and the new name syncs to every member.

Deleting a site is permanent.

It removes everything in the site, everywhere it syncs — after a forced backup.

The log is the record of what this app did.

When a sync went quiet or a photo never arrived, the reason is written here — but only if logging was on, and it starts at the next launch.

The check reads the store and reports, nothing more.

One code claimed by two tiles, photos with no file, rows that belong to no site — the one repair it offers files stray rows into this site and changes nothing else.

Your photos leave the app and come back changed.

Export builds a file of this site's photos with their tags; importing the result REPLACES those tags rather than merging them.

Replace Media Tags sends your photos out and brings tags back.

Export writes every photo on this site to a file you hand to an outside tool. That tool reads the pictures and writes back a description and any text it can see in them. Import then reads that file and REPLACES the tags and OCR text on each photo — whatever was there before is gone, including anything the app worked out on its own. Nothing else is touched: your titles, labels, groups and the photos themselves are left exactly as they are. This is not a backup, and it is not a way to move a site.

Label recommendations are a second, optional ask.

With this on, the file also carries the labels your containers already have, so whatever reads it can suggest ones you are missing instead of repeating what is there. Every suggestion comes back as a draft — it sits on the tile with an accept and a delete beside it, and nothing becomes a real label until you say so. Leave it off and the file carries photos and tags only.

Settings

Your data can always leave.

Back Up Now builds one zip — photos, videos, and spreadsheet-ready files — and hands it to the share sheet.

Light, dark, or the phone's choice.

Theme applies straight away. Automatic follows your iPhone's appearance, day and night.

Make it yours.

Pick a colour and the app icon and the whole app follow it; each site keeps the accent you pick for it.

English, Español, or the phone's language.

Language applies straight away, across the whole app. Automatic follows your iPhone's language.

Your data and storage

Restore fills an empty app.

It never overwrites — if this app already has data it says what it found, and can put the backup in a separate home instead.

Recently Deleted waits 30 days.

Deleted tiles keep their space until the purge — rescue anything in that window.

Tap the media number.

It opens a tile-by-tile breakdown of where the megabytes live. Every count on this page is a readout, and the media total includes Recently Deleted items — they hold their space until the 30-day purge.

After 30 days it is gone.

Once a day the app clears what has passed 30 days — at launch, on returning to the app, or in a background refresh — and that is when the storage numbers drop.

Where the megabytes are.

Tile by tile, largest first — the fastest way to find the one drawer holding a video.

Photos are already compressed.

A photo is stored at up to 2048px, videos at 1080p, and each may also keep a small preview and thumbnail — the number here counts everything stored.

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