Why Knowing What You Own (and What It’s Worth) Changes the Way You Buy, Sell, and Live

Most of us have no real idea what we own. There are boxes in the closet with stuff we forgot about, a shelf of electronics we stopped using two years ago, and clothing that cost real money sitting unworn. It adds up to a lot of value sitting quietly in the dark. Tiroir is a new iOS app built around a simple but surprisingly underexplored idea: photograph your belongings, let AI generate the full listing, and get an estimated market value attached right away.

The app comes from Clément Ougier, a French product designer and developer who built this solo because he felt no existing tool handled personal inventory with decent UX. He’s not wrong. The usual options are clunky spreadsheets, half-finished home inventory apps, or marketplaces where you do all the work manually. Tiroir takes a different approach: one photo, and the AI does most of the heavy lifting.

It launched on Product Hunt this week and already has multilingual support across French, English, Spanish, and German. The free tier is genuinely usable, and the scope of use cases is wider than it first appears. Whether you collect vintage sneakers, manage a photography studio, or just want to know what your apartment full of furniture is actually worth, there’s something here worth a closer look.

What Tiroir Actually Does for You

AI-Generated Item Listings from a Single Photo

Point your phone at any object. Tiroir sends the image to Claude (Anthropic’s AI model) and gets back a title, description, category, and item attributes in seconds. You’re not typing anything manually. The AI recognizes the item and writes the listing for you. It’s fast and surprisingly accurate for everyday objects.

Real-Time Market Valuation

This is the feature that makes the app genuinely useful rather than just pretty. For each item, Tiroir estimates the current market value based on resale marketplace data, giving you a price range with sources and trends. Compare that against what you originally paid and you immediately know whether something is worth holding, selling, or replacing. This turns your inventory into a real financial picture.

Items go into themed collections you create yourself. A wardrobe collection, a tools collection, a collectibles shelf. You can filter by status or value, move things around in one tap, and find any item within seconds. No more scrolling through a camera roll trying to remember what you even have.

Every item entry or entire collection can be shared via a single link. The recipient sees photos, full details, and the estimated price without needing to download anything or create an account. This makes Tiroir genuinely useful for selling secondhand items, sharing gear with a renter, or sending a household inventory to an insurer.

Marcus at 7pm, Trying to Price a Camera Lens

Marcus, a freelance photographer based in Austin, decided on a Tuesday evening around 7pm to clear out some older equipment he hadn’t touched in eighteen months. He had a Canon 50mm lens, a Manfrotto tripod, and a light diffuser kit. Normally he’d spend thirty minutes Googling comparable listings on eBay and Facebook Marketplace, writing his own descriptions, and still second-guessing the price.

Instead he downloaded Tiroir, photographed each item, and within about four minutes had three complete entries with titles, descriptions, and estimated market values. The lens came in at a range between $180 and $240. The tripod was valued around $65. The diffuser kit was a surprise: $45 to $70, more than he expected.

He shared the lens listing directly with a buyer he’d been chatting with on a photography forum, sending the link without any back and forth about specs or condition. The buyer could see everything. The sale closed that night at $210, right inside the estimated range. Marcus didn’t negotiate blind. He negotiated with actual data in hand.

How Tiroir Builds Your Inventory

Step 1: Scan

Open the app, tap the camera icon, and photograph the item. One image is enough for most objects, though Premium users can add multiple photos per entry. The AI analyzes the image and generates the full listing within seconds.

Step 2: Organize

The generated entry lands in your inventory. Assign it to a collection, check the automatically filled attributes, and adjust anything the AI got slightly off. For most everyday objects, edits are minimal.

Step 3: Value and Decide

The market valuation appears alongside the entry. You can compare against your purchase price if you add it. From here you decide: keep, sell, lend, or flag for insurance purposes.

Step 4: Share

Tap the share icon to generate a link. Send it to whoever needs it. Buyers, family members, insurers, a notary during an estate process. The link works on any device with no friction on the other end.

Pricing: Free to Start, Premium for Power Users

Tiroir offers a free plan with no credit card required. It covers 30 items, 30 AI analyses per month, and one photo per item. That’s enough to catalog a modest collection or test the full flow before committing.

  • Free: 30 items, 30 AI analyses/month, 1 photo per item, collections, search, link sharing, market value estimates
  • Premium: 6.99 EUR/month (or 59.99 EUR/year, two months free), unlimited items, 150 AI analyses/month, multiple photos per item, 50 AI photo enhancements/month, 7-day free trial included

The pricing model is refreshingly direct: you pay for AI usage, and Tiroir doesn’t monetize your data or run ads. Each analysis uses Anthropic’s Claude model, which has a real per-request cost.

Who Should Try Tiroir

If you resell secondhand items regularly, collect anything, manage gear for a creative business, or simply want to know what your belongings are worth for insurance or peace of mind, Tiroir solves a real problem with minimal effort. It’s built by one person with a clear point of view on UX, and that shows in how clean the flow feels. Give it a try at tiroir.app and start with the free plan.

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