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The beauty of utilizing your iPhone for moving or relocation is that ideally it will be close at hand during every step of your move and eliminates the hassle of lugging a folder of materials or misplacing your organization plan amidst the chaos of moving.  There are quite a few options available for using iPhone apps to help make you move productive and organized.

Here is some insight and information about iPhone apps for moving and relocation:

• Moving List (New Gravity Ventures – $2.99) — this app provides a number of features including timelines for your move and prepopulated checklists for things to consider for your task list.  The items can be deleted and your own tasks can be added.  The category lists are helpful and the app sorts tasks by how many days or weeks ahead that they need to be completed.
• Boxie (Trimeego – $1.99) — from previous advice about how to have an organized move, an important suggestion was to take photographic evidence of the items you are moving both to document their condition and to have proof of how they were packaged.  This app allows you to take photos of items in particular boxes and the app sorts them by box so you can complete your move and know exactly which box your items are in!  This concept could also be useful for any storage system you implement, such as holiday items boxed in the attic, or boxes you may have in offsite storage.  However, there appears to be a bug in the program with the way keywords are used for search purposes in the app.  I tested this as well and problems remain, despite a few reviews by others and ample time for the developers to respond.
• Moving (PTAJ Marketing Inc. – $2.99) — this iPhone app is not what I expected.  Rather than a productivity or organization tool to store information and organize your move, this app is nothing more than a series of short articles about moving.  I can do that on the internet, no need to spend $2.99 on an app!  There’s also a peculiar inclusion of a chapter at the end called “Is God Real” with scripture and contact information for making a religious commitment, which is completely out of place with the concept for the app.  I do not recommend this app, for both the cost and the lack of value it would bring to helping you move.

Curiously, there are very few iPhone apps out there geared towards moving and relocation, and I can’t say I’m satisfied or wowed by any of the ones that I’ve seen.  There’s potential for a developer to create a robust app that could bring real value to iPhone users planning a move in the future.  While standard task management apps and software would perform many of the functions needed to organize a move, sometimes a fun app for a less frequent project like moving is useful to separate your tasks from one another.

Have an iPhone app you’d like us to test and review?  Contact us and we’ll add it to the queue!

This week is “moving week” on OPTED Magazine and this post is part of a 5 article series.  Check out the previous post on how to have an organized move and check out the next post in the series.

Also, this post is part of OPTED Magazine’s regular “iPhone Tuesdays” series, where we’ll feature a new iPhone app that helps with productivity, tasking, goal setting, or organization.  These posts will include a review and all the information based on a personal test and evaluation.  Watch for the series again next Tuesday!

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