A self-hosted, open-source inventory of everything you own and where it is.

Homes, garages and storage units; the rooms, shelves and boxes inside them; the things inside those, with receipts, manuals, warranties and history. Self-hosted, on your own server or homelab. Nothing leaves it unless you turn it on: no telemetry, the update check off by default, the AI provider yours to choose.

Try it

Nothing to install, nothing saved.

• Try Kept: the whole app, with a sample household.
• Try the map: the 3D map, with a sample home.
• Host it: Docker Compose or Kubernetes.

A look around

• List: names first, each with its type; a box says how much is inside; the amber tape only on things with a printed label.
• Map: each location in 3D: floors, rooms, shelves and boxes, what's inside one tap away. Arranged by you, or laid out by Kept. Plan view, balconies and terraces (the map).
• Graph: a location's places, boxes and things, in 2D or 3D.

On a phone

Installs as an app. Capture, scan and search, offline too.

Labels

A short ID and a QR code for every box. Label-printer rolls or office-printer sheets; scan one to open the box.

What it does

• Inventory. Locations, places, boxes and things, with photos, documents, tags, custom fields, quantities, saved views, search, an archive for what you no longer use and a trash you can restore from.
• Capture. Photograph a thing, a receipt, a label or a whole room, online or offline; your AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter, Groq, or an OpenAI-compatible server such as Ollama) suggests the details and you confirm them. Without one, you type them.
• Labels and scanning. Print label sheets with a short ID and a QR code; scan one to open the box it is on. Scan sessions count a shelf, pack a box or move a pile in one go.
• The household. Shared locations with roles, lending, kits that go out and come back as one, stocktakes, schedules, warranties, paperwork and an insurance report; reminders in the app, by mail, by push and in a calendar feed.
• Moving house. Numbered boxes, a label and a contents sheet for each, tracked in the van, unpacked by scanning (moving).
• Vehicles and machines. Readings, services, fuel and running costs.
• AI assistant and MCP server. Ask in plain words; changes wait for your OK. Claude and other AI agents connect at /mcp (how).
• Backups you can read. Nightly restic backups to a directory, S3 or SFTP, each with a copy that opens in a browser without Kept; imports from Homebox (a past import can be repaired) and CSV, full exports.
• Your own network or HTTPS. Works over plain http at home; an export with secret values needs HTTPS.
• Five languages: English, Arabic (right to left), French, German and Italian.

Quick start: host it

Docker with Compose v2. Tested on 1 GB of RAM and one CPU core, a backup during photo uploads included; Kept and its database use about 200–400 MB (what was tested).

mkdir kept && cd kept
curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keptinventory/kept/v1.14.3/compose.yaml
docker compose run --rm init
docker compose up -d

1. compose.yaml: the whole stack in one file; no clone, no passwords to make.
2. init: asks the address you'll open Kept at (a name such as http://kept.home.arpa:8080 beats an IP address: printed labels carry it), writes .env and shows the setup code.
3. Start: the database, a one-shot bootstrap that makes the database logins and their passwords, the one-shot migrate, then Kept on port 8080 (KEPT_HTTP_PORT changes it).
4. First run: open the address, enter the setup code, create the first account. It becomes the instance admin. Then keep the keys off this server: docker compose exec kept kept admin recovery-kit prints them.

The camera, installing the app, push and location need HTTPS: docker compose --profile https up -d adds Caddy with a certificate for KEPT_DOMAIN, from the Caddyfile in docker/caddy/ (HTTPS). Every step in full: the install guide.

• Home Assistant: on Home Assistant OS, Kept installs as an app with its own database, backed up with Home Assistant's backups (install as a Home Assistant app):

  

• Kubernetes: the Helm chart, oci://ghcr.io/keptinventory/charts/kept, signed and published with each release (install on Kubernetes).

• Verify the image: cosign verify --key cosign.pub <image>:<version>, with cosign.pub from this repository (verifying a release).

• Backups: nightly, encrypted, to a directory, S3 or SFTP (backups).

Works with

• Home Assistant: the kept-homeassistant integration, a HACS custom repository (setup).
• Paperless-ngx: receipts, manuals and warranty cards linked to things (setup).
• The rest: integrations.

What's next

• Next: compartments on the 3D map
• Later: mobile and desktop apps · scan a room into the 3D map · storage furniture templates

Full roadmap → · 👍 the themes you want most.

Links

Documentation	keptinventory.info
Install	Docker Compose, HTTPS, Kubernetes (Helm chart in charts/kept), configuration
API	HTTP API reference, generated from the OpenAPI document
MCP	Connect an AI client
Roadmap	Now, next and later
Questions and ideas	Discussions
Chat	Discord
Contributing	CONTRIBUTING.md: a discussion or an issue first for anything larger than a fix; sign the CLA once
Security	SECURITY.md: report privately, never in a public issue
Changelog	CHANGELOG.md

Licence

Kept is free software under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 (LICENSE), and every feature ships in it: nothing is held back. If you run a modified Kept for other people, you must offer them its source. The image carries the third-party notices of everything inside it, served at /notices.txt.

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