Features
Everything KITHELD does, and nothing it pretends to do.
The app holds two things: a checklist based on UK Government preparedness guidance, and a record of the things in your house that answer it. Everything below exists to keep those two in step.
01 The checklist
Twenty-four requirements, bundled with the app
Ten categories cover water, food, light and power, communication and information, first aid and medication, hygiene, documents and money, warmth and clothing, pets, and the bag and storage itself. The content ships inside the app, so the checklist is complete the first time you open it and stays complete with no signal.
Two lenses sit at the top of the Kit tab. Everything shows the full checklist. Only what you own narrows it to the requirements you have recorded something against, which is the quicker way to check a cupboard.
Requirement copy is editorially approved and versioned. We do not rewrite it in the app, and we do not add items of our own.
The checklist
Drinking water
12 / 27
Torch
Wind-up torch
2 / 2
List of useful phone numbers
0 / 1
Pet food and supplies
Not needed for this household
02 Your household
Amounts worked out from who lives with you
Set the number of adults, children and pets once. Requirements that scale, such as drinking water and ready-to-eat food, are calculated from those numbers, so quantities are yours, not an average. Change the household line later and every amount moves with it.
Anything that does not apply can be marked not needed for us. It leaves your counts alone and stays visible, so you can change your mind.
Household
Adults
2
Children
1
Pets
0
2 adults, 1 child
Drinking water: 27 litres
So quantities are yours, not an average
03 The things themselves
Each item carries the five facts you will want later
A photo
Taken with the camera or picked from your library. It stays on your phone, with no filter and no treatment.
How many
A quantity and its unit, in litres or each, so the count against a requirement is exact.
Where it lives
A place you name yourself, shown as a tag such as HALL CUPBOARD wherever the item appears.
An expiry date
Optional, and the basis for reminders. Dates due soon read in the warning colour on Home.
What it answers
The requirements it counts towards. One item can answer more than one, and a note can hold the detail you would otherwise forget.
04 Places
The cupboard, the loft, the car boot
Places are yours to name and group, and they can be reordered so the one you open most sits at the top. Every place shows what is in it, which is how you check a shelf without emptying it.
Hall cupboard
Kitchen, top shelf
Loft
Car boot
05 Reminders
Dates you would otherwise miss
Give an item an expiry date and the app schedules a reminder on your phone, not on a server. Expiring soon sits on Home so a walk past the cupboard is enough to fix it. Reminders can be turned off per household, and nothing nags.
06 Offline and sync
The copy on your phone is the one that counts
Records are written to your phone first and read from it always, so the app opens and works in a basement, on a train, or with the power off. When a connection returns, changes sync in the background so a second phone in the household sees the same record. If sync cannot reach us we keep trying, and nothing you’ve recorded is lost.
Signing in is a six digit code sent to your email address, so there is no password to forget.
07 Your record, yours to take
Export what you have recorded
Settings can produce a file of your items, places and quantities, ready to share or keep somewhere else. A printed copy in a drawer is a reasonable thing to have, and the export is how you make one.
No tracking, no ads, and we never sell your data. How your data is handled
What we leave out
No scores
Counts and named tiers, never a number out of a hundred.
No shopping
Suggestions only. Nothing to buy here, and no affiliate links.
No alarm
Plain language about cupboards and dates. The app does not tell you to be worried.
No trackers
There are no analytics or advertising libraries in the app.
Emergency view is the part people ask about most. It is the screen that has to work when nothing else does.