Snap it: the receipt or rating plate fills in the thing
Things in the home now has Snap it. Take a photo or choose a PDF of a receipt, a rating plate, a box or a warranty card, and VillaLog fills in the brand, model, serial number, purchase date, price and warranty. You check everything before anything is saved.
A receipt with several products becomes several things, each with a copy of the receipt and a reminder before its warranty runs out.
Snap the rating plate of something you already have, and only what is missing is filled in, with no duplicate.
Find the manual: when the brand and model are known, VillaLog looks up the maker's manual, and you keep the link you want.
The pictures are read in Google's data centres in the EU and are not used to train AI. Without Plus you get 5 readings and 3 manual searches a month, with Plus 100 and 20.
News from VillaLog by email is your own choice, when you sign up or under Settings → Notifications.
Fixed: room names on the floor plan no longer lie on top of each other in narrow rooms.
Map 3: the home's four parts and a simpler drawing mode
Your property has four fixed parts: The house, The garden, Upkeep and Emergency profile. The tabs stay in place, and the More menu is gone.
The plot map is under The garden and the floor plan under The house. The first time, you choose whether to draw it yourself or use a picture.
The drawing mode has fewer buttons: Select, the most used tools and Add, with the symbols you used last first. The panel shows only for what you have chosen, and a size applies when you press Enter or leave the field.
Full screen in the drawing mode gives the map the whole screen, on a phone too.
Fixed: a chosen shape no longer lets go when you release the mouse button.
Map 2.0 and a clearer VillaLog
Map 2.0: draw your plot and house with over a hundred symbols in VillaLog's style (trees, shrubs, beds, a pool, furniture and much more), real textures for grass, decking and stone, and the roof in six colours.
Link a symbol to a plant or a thing in the home, and its care, manual and warranty are one click away from the map.
Draw walls corner by corner; closed walls become a room with its area. Get started draws the plot's shape, the lawn and the house for you, and Show as picture gives the map as a clean picture to print or save.
A clearer look: every view has one clear main button, and whatever you have chosen is marked the same way everywhere.
On a phone: Plan has a round plus for a new reminder and the colour key under Colours, the parts of the property are under Other parts, and the drawing mode opens zoomed in so the map fills the screen.
The year wheel, the year for a home like yours month by month, is now linked from the footer, the start page and the guides.
Fixed: warranties and reminders for things in the home count the right day just after midnight too.
A plant catalogue, guides in the app and a Today you arrange yourself
The plant catalogue: over 250 common plants with Swedish, English and Latin names, a picture and care advice at the right time of year.
The guides are in the app: open a guide and add its checklist to your plan with one tap.
Customise Today: order and hide the cards, and choose what you want to focus on. Plan now has New reminder in every view.
Date format: choose how dates are shown under Settings → Language.
When you join a household the app switches to it straight away, and a new member gets a short guide.
Two-step sign-in is easier, with help if you change or lose your phone.
The emergency profile picks up shut-offs and the fuse box from Things in the home, and semi-detached is a house type.
A house plan, photos on the map and an emergency profile
The house plan: draw the rooms with doors and windows, or add a plan, and show where the water shut-off, fuse box, smoke alarms and appliances are, with their manuals, warranties and maintenance.
A better drawing mode: softer colours and shadows, measurements along the edges, rotate and snap to the grid, layers, pinch to zoom, and print your map.
Photos on the map: add a photo point where you usually take pictures, and the photos line up in a timeline so you can compare before and after. On a phone the camera shows the last photo faintly, so you can take the new one from exactly the same spot.
The emergency profile: under Property → Emergency profile, keep where to shut off water and power, key contacts and documents in one place. Print it for the fuse box, or share a link with a neighbour or tradesperson.
Tell us: send problems and ideas straight from the app, with a screenshot if you like.
Safer: location data is removed from the photos you upload, the site has a stricter security policy, and the terms and privacy policy are updated.
Your plot map is here
The plot map: under Property → Map, add a picture of your plot, or draw it yourself, and place your plants, garden areas and renovations on it. Everyone in the household can see where things are.
Draw it yourself: rectangles, areas with their size in m², freehand and text. Choose materials such as lawn, flower bed, decking or water, so the map looks like your plot. Everything saves at once and can be undone.
Pins on the map: place, move and remove them with a mouse, a finger or the keyboard.
A new file picker: drag in a picture or choose it, see it straight away before you save, and take a photo directly with your phone.
Safer: every photo and document is backed up each night within the EU, and the copy cannot be deleted by mistake.
The Help button, the year wheel and a calmer sign-in
The Help button: tap the green Help button in the corner and type what you want to do, and VillaLog shows you step by step where to tap. You can turn it off under Settings → Help and guides.
The year wheel: see what is good to do with your house and garden each month, for a home like yours. It prints on one A4 page.
A calmer sign-in: signing in, creating an account and resetting your password have a clearer page.
Terms, privacy, news and help have the same menu as the rest of the site, so you can always find your way back.
Sale report, Recently deleted and Plus
Sale report: turn your home's history into a PDF and share it with agents and buyers through a link.
Recently deleted: the household's owner sees who removed what and can restore it for 30 days (90 with Plus).
Plus: try it free for 7 days under Settings → Plan.
What's new and next: what we've just released and what we're building. With Plus you can vote and suggest.
You can now leave a household you're a member of.
Guides for your house and garden: the autumn check, the garden before the frost, chimney sweeping, OVK and your first year as a homeowner, with sources.
Maintenance tips show their source, or say they are VillaLog's own advice. New tip: check the electrics once a year.
Safer: only the owner sees invitation links, deleted items are removed for good after 30 days (90 with Plus), and sign-up no longer reveals whether an address has an account.
Push notifications, photos straight from your phone and stronger protection
Push notifications on your phone and computer. Turn them on under Settings → Notifications and choose quiet hours.
Take a photo with your phone camera when you add pictures.
Service records under Contractors can now be edited.
The household owner can remove a member from the household.
Error messages always appear in your language.
Safer: passwords need at least 12 characters, photos are stored without location data, and removed files are deleted for good after 30 days.
VillaLog for more countries, and the weather on Today
VillaLog now works for homes in every country, with the right time zone, units and currency.
The weather for your homes is shown right on Today.
A new start page that shows what VillaLog is.
A new design, and a guide that makes your maintenance plan
The whole app has a new design: Today, Property, Planning, Garden, Settings and History.
A short guide when you start asks about your house and builds a maintenance plan from the answers.
Planning shows recurring tasks several times ahead.