What will you point it at?
A camera that names, values, and files what it sees turns out to be useful all over the house. Eight ways people use samla.ai - from the record shelf to the attic - and a few more we keep hearing about.
Know what’s in every box.
Packing for the attic, the storage unit, or a move: photograph each thing as it goes in, file it to the box, and give the box a photo of its own. Months later, one search tells you what’s where - no lid-lifting required.
- Places as deep as your storage
- Building, floor, room, shelf, box - an item is filed exactly where it physically is.
- A photo on every place
- "Attic - Box 3" gets a picture of its own, so you can see the box before you climb the ladder. Place photos are free on every plan.
- Contents and worth, at a distance
- Filter by place to see what a box holds and what the contents are estimated at.
- A list to hand over
- Export a PDF grouped by location when boxes go to the movers or into storage.
PDF export is a Pro and Ultra feature; places and place photos are free.
A record of what you own, ready before you need it.
Walk through the house with the camera. Every photo becomes a record with a description, an estimated value, and the room it lives in. Should you ever have to describe a room from memory, you won’t have to - the document already exists.
- A report you can hold
- Export a PDF with photos, details, and estimated values, grouped room by room, with your address on the header.
- Receipts stay with the object
- Attach up to five files per item - receipts, certificates, provenance - so the paper trail is where you look first.
- Totals by room and category
- The overview adds up what you own, in your currency, by category and by place.
- Documentation, not an appraisal
- samla.ai helps you document and organize. For an insured valuation, consult a professional appraiser.
Export is a Pro and Ultra feature.
Cataloged the way collectors talk.
Records, books, comics, wine, spirits, trading cards, stamps, coins, films, magazines, handbags, instruments - twelve categories go deep. The analysis reads the detail that decides worth - pressing, edition, grade, vintage - and your shelf becomes something you can search, sort, and show.
- Fields that match the hobby
- Catalog numbers for records, mint marks for coins, grades for cards - every category speaks its own language.
- Honours, earned honestly
- Every collection crowns its rarest, best appraised, and most wanted - and each label says how the title was earned.
- From shelf to stream
- Records link out to Spotify and Apple Music, films to Apple TV and Prime Video. Own it physically, play it instantly.
- Estimates you can check
- Each item carries a market estimate with comparable listings, so you can see the reasoning.
Collectible detail fields are a Pro and Ultra feature.
Every bottle, inside its window.
Photograph the label and the bottle is cataloged with producer, vintage, region, and the recommended drinking window. Filter the rack by window and vintage, and when a cork is pulled, one tap records the bottle as enjoyed - the record stays.
- The label, properly read
- Producer, vintage, appellation, varietal, bottle size - from a photo of the bottle.
- Windows and scores
- The recommended drinking window and critic scores are saved with each bottle, and the rack filters by both.
- Finish a bottle, keep the memory
- Marking a bottle as enjoyed lowers the count without deleting the record - the cellar keeps its history.
- The rack, added up
- See the estimated worth of the whole rack, and of every shelf in it.
Know what it is before you pay for it.
In the vintage shop, at the flea market, at an estate sale: open Look up and photograph the piece. You get what it is, roughly when it’s from, and what comparable ones go for - while you’re still standing in the aisle.
- A second opinion in your pocket
- Maker, era, and an estimated value with comparable listings, before you commit at the till.
- Nothing is committed
- Look up finds wait in their own box - keep the ones you bought, discard the ones you left behind.
- Free for everyone
- Look up is part of the free plan and does not use your item slots.
The listing is already half-written.
Pick an item, press sell, and the listing is drafted from what the app already knows - photos, condition, the details that set the price. Publish to Discogs, Tradera, or eBay in a few guided steps, and the listing ends by itself when the item leaves your shelf.
- Marketplaces, connected
- Records go to Discogs against the exact pressing, Tradera covers Sweden, and eBay the markets where it is available.
- Classified ads on demand
- Generate a ready-to-paste ad in your language for any local marketplace, pickup and shipping lines included.
- Listings that keep up
- Sold and ended listings are noticed automatically, and an item that departs takes its listings down with it.
Selling is a Pro and Ultra feature. Which marketplaces you see depends on your country.
A house full of things, made legible.
Clearing a family home means weeks of decisions about objects you half know. Walk the rooms with the camera and the house becomes a documented list - what things are, what they might be worth, where they stand - that a family can actually talk about.
- Document first, decide later
- A record with photos and estimates turns "what do we do with all this" into a list you can work through.
- Know where the value sits
- See which pieces deserve a professional appraisal before anything is carried out the door.
- A list everyone can hold
- Export the rooms as a PDF with photos and estimated values, and share it with the family.
Export is a Pro and Ultra feature.
Let go of the object, keep its story.
Moving somewhere smaller, or just making room: catalog the shelf first, then decide keep, sell, or give with the values in front of you. Whatever leaves is recorded on the way out - who got it, what it went for - so nothing simply disappears.
- Decisions with numbers on the table
- An estimated value beside every candidate makes keep-or-sell an informed choice, not a guess.
- What leaves is remembered
- Sold, gifted, donated, traded - every departure is recorded with the date, the recipient, and the proceeds where they apply.
- Sell the surplus without retyping
- Publish straight to Discogs, Tradera, or eBay, or generate a classified ad for anywhere else.
And a few more we keep hearing about
Never buy the same book twice
The whole catalog is searchable from the shop floor - check the shelf at home before you pay for a duplicate.
Trading cards, together
Photograph the binder with the kids and watch the collection take shape, card by card, values included.
The garage and the toolshed
Tools count too. Know what you already own before the next trip to the hardware store.
Receipts that stay findable
Attach the receipt to the item the day you buy it - it will be there the day you need it.
Valuations are estimates, not professional appraisals.
Start with one box.
Photograph whatever is nearest. The first item is cataloged before you’ve found the second.
