Frostbow Home Inventory 5 Pro for Windows

User Reviews

• Excellent, Flexible, and Reasonably Priced

  nanasarahFebruary 8, 2014

  Pros

  Reasonably priced, very flexible, easy to use, adjustable font size (!), lots of information on each item, changing fields on one inventory file does not affect any other file, keeps images.

  Cons

  Personally, I didn't find any.

  Summary

  I tried several home inventory apps, and finally settled on one that has lots of nice features. It was certainly a satisfactory app, except for one thing: you can absolutely only use it on on machine at a time. For some, that's fine. For me, it was not. There are multiple PCs in the house, and I want to be able to enter items in the house on the handiest PC rather than going up and down the steps. Frostbow is "family friendly" and lets me install the registered Pro version on as many machines as we have (as long as only one is using Frostbow at a time). Once I got into it, I was really amazed at Frostbow's flexibility. You can make multiple inventory files. So far I have one for household goods and one for my Christmas ornament collection. And — get this! — I can have different settings (font size, field names, drop-down field contents, you name it) for each inventory file. I don't need to know what "room" the ornaments are in, so that field is "packaging" for that file, but it doesn't affect the household file at all. For me, with trifocals, being able to change the size of the font on every thing is just super. I haven't played much with the reports, but I see that there are some stock layouts and that you can completely design your own if you want. Other apps don't have near the flexibility of this one. I've been using it for a year now, and still love it. I'll get the house done soon!

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• Good solid home inventory program.

  AllRoundGuyFebruary 1, 2012

  Pros

  Solid and easy to use for the most part. Tech support is wonderful.

  Cons

  Picture import is less than intuitive, but fairly easy to figure out.

  Summary

  I got tired of using the home inventory product from Intuit because they kept changing formats on me, so when it was time to upgrade again, I went looking for another similar product. I first tired Frostbow Home Inventory Lite 5 and was pretty pleased with it so I got the trial version of Pro. It is everything the Intuit product is and more. Intuit treats their version like a poor stepchild. This, on the other hand, is a main line product. I sent a question to tech support and it was promptly and accurately answered. When I bought the product, an update was already available for downloading. I'm impressed with Frostbow Home Inventory Pro 5 and the company. On the downside, I went to retrieve an image and was confronted by a second window that was full featured, but a little confusing. After only a couple of minutes work, I successfully imported the picuture, but this could use a little more hand-holding for the consumers.

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• Too many errors

  anitraka86August 9, 2009

  Pros

  It's very easy to use

  Cons

  there's just too many errors when I'm loading a picture. It freezes my computer and I have to shut it down all the way.

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• Quick, nice prog., tons of info per item, pictures too!

  ohiodozerMay 10, 2009

  Pros

  Straight forward, clean and un-cluttered screens, well tabbed with pulldowns.

  Cons

  A little difficult at first to get photo images dropped in place. Just took a little time playing with it. Could use drag and drop capabilities.

  Summary

  All in all, a really simple and great program that is quite useful with all the charts and graphs that can be generated at a click. Including thumbnail pics with each item is exactly what I was looking for, along with the "search" feature. It will do an excellent job for anyone at just the right price....nothing!!<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on May 10, 2009<p/>Sorry, I downloaded version 5.2.3 which is the totally free version and put my review on the 5.2.4 version.

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• User friendly & provides for all needed information.

  conotonJanuary 31, 2008

  Pros

  I like that multiple images - resizable - can be associated with the item.

  Cons

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• Wow! Does a lot for only $20 bucks!

  My3SonsPlus1February 14, 2007

  Pros

  Very easy to get up and going. Has all my required data fields included. I tested this program, A2Z Home Inventory ($20) and Inventory Organizer Deluxe ($65). I wanted a program that would keep pictures in its own database and Frostbow is the only one that does so. With the others, the program only links to a picture on your hard drive. If you erase it, then obviously you have no picture in the database either. This program does a lot for only $20 - I see that if you have a previous version the upgrade only costs $5! These folks are either very fair or they're still living in the nineties!

  Cons

  Can't really think of any, except that I wish it would sort by just clicking on the column headings like in some other Windows-based apps. Maybe in a future version?

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• i try it and find it good.

  December 14, 2004

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  Summary

  its easy to use and i recomend other to try it.

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