Meet Holdings: your home, vehicles and belongings — finally in one place

Quick question: if your living room flooded tomorrow, could you tell your insurance company what was in it? Not roughly — actually. The TV model, what the sofa cost, where the receipt for the speakers went.

Most families can't. That knowledge is scattered across a drawer of faded receipts, a photo roll, and one person's memory. The same person who knows when the car's EU-kontroll is due, which storage box the winter tires are in, and that the coffee machine really should be descaled.

This update is for that person — and for finally getting that knowledge out of their head and into something the whole family shares. Say hello to Holdings.

Everything you own, in your shared space

Holdings lives under More → Holdings and gives your family space three new superpowers:

Your homes. Add your house, apartment or cabin — with rooms, photos, documents and its own chore list. Deeds and contracts go in the Documents tab instead of six different drawers, and every home gets its own "Chores for…" list, so the cabin's tasks stop mixing with the house's.

Your belongings. Register the things you own, room by room: photos, receipts, serial numbers, purchase price and what you'd claim today. The Add several mode makes it genuinely fast — type a name, press enter, snap a photo, next. One evening on the sofa covers a whole room. And when you need something back, one search covers everything you own, across every home. The Items guide shows how it works.

Your vehicles. Type a registration number and Famn fetches the car, caravan or trailer from the registry — you check the details, tap Add to household, done. Every vehicle keeps its service dates, documents and receipts, and cars get something I'm particularly proud of: "What can this car tow?" checks your own caravans and trailers against the car's limits and tells you, before you hook up, whether the combination is legal. No more squinting at the vehicle licence in a rental line. (Assessed under Norwegian rules at permitted total mass — always check the vehicle licence.)

Maintenance that behaves like the rest of Famn

Here's the part that makes Holdings feel like Famn and not like a filing cabinet: maintenance is just chores.

Add "Descale the coffee machine, every 3 months" to an item, or "Service before winter" to the car, and it becomes an ordinary task in your family's chore lists. Anyone can tick it off, from anywhere in the app — and yes, it earns XP like any other chore. Whatever is overdue or due soon floats to the top of your Items view under Needs looking after, so the quiet obligations stop being one person's mental load.

Ready for the day you hope never comes

The feature I hope you never need: documentation snapshots.

Open a home's Insurance tab and tap Capture snapshot. Famn freezes a complete record of what that home contained — every item with its values, photos and receipts — as proof for a claim. Snapshots are kept even as your inventory changes (older ones stay available for years), and when the insurance company asks, you produce a PDF report instead of a guess.

It's one tap a year for the difference between remembering what you owned and being able to prove it. The Insurance Documentation guide has the details.

What else got better

A release this size touches everything, and we've used the opportunity to make Famn more honest and more robust:

• Saving changes is more reliable. We hunted down a rare but maddening bug where saving an edit could fail with a server error on the first try. Fixed at the root.
• Honest error states. When a service can't be reached, Famn now says so — "Documentation not checked" — instead of pretending nothing is missing. If a report can't be downloaded, you get a real explanation, not a spinner.
• Storage warnings before the wall. You now get a friendly one-time nudge when your document storage crosses the warning line, and a clear message — with a path to more space — if an upload hits the quota.
• Lots of polish. One pull-to-refresh across all property tabs, task histories that stay in their lane, better text search in the PDF viewer, and dozens of small fixes from testing Holdings with our own family's clutter.

Start small — it compounds

You don't need a complete inventory on day one; nobody has that. Add your home, then register the ten things you'd be most upset to lose. Photo, receipt, serial number. Next month, do a room with Add several. By the time you capture your first snapshot, you'll have something most families simply don't: an answer.

The Holdings guide walks through everything. And if you're new here, Famn is the family app that brings your chores, shopping lists, meal plans, calendars — and now everything you own — into one shared space.

As always: Famn is built by a very small team (my wife keeps finding the bugs I miss), and your feedback shapes what comes next. Tell me what your family keeps in their drawer of receipts.