Centriq Shut Down. Here's What to Do With All Your Home Data.

If you used Centriq, you already know. The app that promised to be your "home's owner's manual" went dark in January 2025. No migration path. No data export. Just... gone.

And with it went your appliance records, your warranty dates, your manuals, your maintenance history. Everything you spent time entering.

You're not the only one who's frustrated.

What People Are Saying

The Centriq shutdown caught a lot of homeowners off guard. Some had been using it for years:

"We scanned all our appliances when we moved in. Hundreds of items. Now I'm back to a folder of receipts in a drawer."

"I kept putting off finding a replacement because nothing seemed as good. Now it's been a year and I have no idea when my HVAC was last serviced."

"My biggest fear was exactly this — trusting a single app with all my home info and having it disappear."

That last one stings because it's the core problem with any home management tool: your home outlives the app. You need something that respects that.

What's Left in the Market

After Centriq, the home maintenance app space got thin. Here's an honest look at what exists:

Dib is the closest direct replacement. It does appliance tracking, document storage, and maintenance reminders. The catch: $120/year. That's $10/month for what amounts to a database of your stuff. For some people that's fine. For most, it's hard to justify.

Homer focuses on renovation tracking and home value — more useful if you're planning to sell than if you're trying to maintain.

Dwellin started strong but pivoted. Last anyone checked, its core features had shifted.

HomeZada has been around since 2011. It does a lot — inventory, maintenance, financials — but the interface feels like it was designed in 2011 too.

Generic task apps (Todoist, Apple Reminders, Notion) can technically track maintenance. But you'll spend more time building the system than maintaining your house. Nobody wants to create a Notion database for "when was the furnace filter last changed."

The Gap Nobody's Filling

Here's what Centriq got right that most replacements miss: it wasn't about tasks. It was about knowing your home. The difference matters.

A task app says: "HVAC filter — due in 3 days."

A home advisor says: "Your HVAC filter is a 20x25x1. It's been 94 days. Dirty filters make your system work 15% harder, which at your energy rate is about $30/month in wasted electricity. A new filter is $8 at Home Depot. Want me to remind you this weekend?"

One is a notification. The other is a reason to act.

The bigger gap: cascade prevention. Small deferred maintenance creates expensive chain reactions. A clogged gutter becomes an ice dam becomes a roof leak becomes mold remediation. That $200 gutter cleaning you skipped turns into $15,000 in structural damage.

Nobody in the current market explains these chains. Nobody helps you see the $15,000 hiding behind the $200 you deferred. The information exists — home inspectors and insurance adjusters deal with it daily — but no consumer tool makes it accessible.

What We're Building

Full disclosure: we're building something to fill this gap. HomeCOO (internally, we call her Maya) is a deferred maintenance advisor for your home.

Not a task list. An advisor.

Maya's approach:

• Photo-first setup. Point your phone at an appliance sticker. Maya extracts make, model, serial, and looks up the warranty window. No typing.
• Warranty countdowns. Know what's expiring before it expires. One user in our testing caught a washer warranty 14 days before expiration and got a $300 repair covered for free.
• Climate-aware schedules. Your maintenance calendar is based on your home's age, location, and what you actually have — not a generic checklist.
• Cascade explanations. When Maya suggests a task, she tells you why it matters. Not "gutter cleaning due" — "the oak in your backyard drops heavily in October, and clogged gutters in your climate zone lead to ice dams by January."
• Your data stays yours. This is the Centriq lesson. We're building data export from day one.

Maya is still in development. If you want early access, drop your email below and we'll let you know when she's ready.

If You Just Need Something Now

Honestly, if you need a working solution today:

1. Start a spreadsheet. One tab per appliance. Columns: brand, model, serial, purchase date, warranty expiration, last serviced. It's ugly but it works.
2. Set calendar reminders. Quarterly HVAC filter, annual water heater flush, biannual gutter cleaning. Put them in your actual calendar, not a separate app.
3. Take photos of every appliance label. Even if you don't enter them anywhere yet. Having the photos means you can set up any tool later without crawling behind the fridge again.
4. Forward receipts to a dedicated email folder. "Home Receipts" in Gmail. Searchable, free, doesn't shut down.

These won't give you warranty alerts or cascade prevention. But they'll keep you organized until something better exists.

The Lesson From Centriq

The home maintenance app category has a trust problem now. Centriq proved that your home data can just vanish. Any new tool in this space has to earn trust differently — through data portability, transparent business models, and the assumption that your home will outlive the app.

That's the bar. We're building to clear it.