Moov In Checklist
A renter-first move-in inventory app. Walk the property room by room, snap photos of every nick and scratch, and hand your landlord a signed PDF — not a clipboard and a camera roll.
Move-in day is when tenants have the most leverage, and the worst tools to use it.
Last month I helped a friend move into a new rental. The move-in inventory and condition checklist process was cumbersome — a paper form with barely enough space to describe the issues in each room, no way to attach photos, and no signed record at the end that either side could reference at move-out.
That night I went looking for an app that would fix it. There are plenty of tools built for landlords and property managers, but nothing built for the tenant ... the person who actually has a $1,000 to $2,000 (or more) security deposit on the line. So I built the thing I thought should exist.
The market was built for the party that already holds the money.
Almost every move-in inventory tool assumes the landlord is the user: their portfolio, their units, their process. Tenants get whatever the landlord sends them, which is usually a PDF form or nothing. The one time in the lease when a tenant can document reality on their own terms — the first walkthrough — is also the one time they have no purpose-built software for it.
Moov In Checklist flips the default. The tenant is the primary user. They document the property from their phone, room by room, at their own pace. The output is a landlord-ready signed PDF they own and can send to any landlord, anywhere.
Homepage — the pitch is aimed at the tenant, not the landlord.
Room by room, on your phone, signed at the end.
Walkthrough: a guided room-by-room checklist covering the typical unit. Add issues with up to three photos per issue. Everything auto-saves as you go, and every photo is time-stamped.
Report: a clean, signed inventory and condition report with every issue in a table, plus a supplemental document with all of your photo evidence. Tenant and landlord signatures captured on-device.
Terms: pay once when you're ready to download the PDF. No subscription for tenants. Landlords and real estate agents have their own plans for portfolios and closing gifts. Available in all 50 U.S. states.
Guided walkthrough — the checklist takes you room by room so nothing gets missed.
Mobile-first, pay-on-download, your data stays yours.
Three decisions shaped the product:
Mobile-first web, no app store
Tenants document a unit once, sometimes twice in a lifetime. Asking them to install an app is friction that kills the funnel. Moov runs in the browser, signs in with Google or Apple, and works on the phone they already have in their hand while they're walking the property.
Pay only when you're ready to download
Documenting the unit is free. You pay once, at the end, when you actually want the signed PDF. No trial-to-subscription trap, no card-required signup. The incentive lines up with the tenant's job: get the report out the door.
Your data stays yours
The report belongs to the tenant. They keep the PDF, they send it to whoever they want, and the product doesn't sell their data or route it through their landlord's account. That posture matters when the whole point is tenant-side leverage.
Pricing — tenants pay once. Landlords and real estate agents have their own plans.
Weeks to a first version, because the boring parts were fast.
Moov In Checklist was built with Claude Code as a constant collaborator. From first commit to first public release: nine days. AI did the work that benefits from speed and pattern-matching — the auth wiring, the Stripe checkout, the server-side PDF generation, the room-by-room state machine, the mobile-friendly form scaffolding.
What AI couldn't do, and what makes the product different, is deciding it should exist in the first place, and deciding that the tenant should be the primary user. That framing came from watching a friend try to document a rental with a paper form and a phone camera. The market had a clear gap; nobody was building for the side that needed leverage.
This is the same pattern I bring to every project: AI does the work that benefits from speed and pattern-matching; I do the work that benefits from judgment and lived context; and the combination ships in weeks instead of quarters.
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