Why MemoSafe?
Document what you have — before something happens.
Authorities, police and insurance experts around the world recommend documenting your belongings. MemoSafe makes that easier.
After a loss, most people list the obvious items. The rest is remembered weeks later — or never.
20 things in an ordinary home
That is the problem MemoSafe is built to solve.
“Take photos before you need them.”
The insurer If recommends photographing or filming your belongings, and recording serial and frame numbers.
The Norwegian police let you attach photos, receipts and other documentation when you report a crime online.
Before anything happens
You document your rooms and your belongings.
Something happens
Burglary, fire, water damage or another loss.
You find the documentation
Photos, video, serial numbers, receipts and values.
Police and insurer
The documentation can be used as supporting material.
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53 sources · 20 countries
New Zealand Police
New Zealand Police explain how photographs, serial numbers and other identifying information can help police connect recovered property with its rightful owner and support investigations.
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The insurer If recommends photographing or filming your belongings. If notes that it can be hard to remember everything you own after a theft or a fire, and that photos and video can make the work easier for the household, the police and the insurer. If also highlights recording frame numbers on bicycles and serial numbers on computers, cameras and other electronics.
Read the original sourcePolitiet
The Norwegian police guide to filing a report online explains that good information matters when reporting a crime, and mentions serial numbers of stolen items. Photos of stolen goods, receipts, video and other relevant documentation can be attached to the report.
Read the original sourceIowa Insurance Division
The state insurance regulator explains that a detailed home inventory can matter after burglary, fire and natural disasters. Such a record can include descriptions, receipts, purchase dates, photographs, appraisals and estimated value. It also notes that people may struggle to remember all their belongings after a loss, which can lead to incomplete claims.
Read the original sourceHouzz Australia
The article recommends documenting valuables with photographs so you have a record of what you owned and the condition it was in.
Read the original sourceQueensland Police Service
Queensland Police asks people to photograph their valuables and record make, model and serial number. Without that record it is almost impossible to prove ownership or get items returned after a theft.
Read the original sourceVictoria Police
Victoria Police recommends photographs and serial numbers of machinery and equipment so stolen items can be identified and returned to the right owner.
Read the original sourcePolitie België
The Belgian police offers a dedicated inventory form for valuables with photo, make, model and serial number – recommended for every household.
Read the original sourceCalgary Police Service
Calgary Police recommend photographing valuables and recording serial numbers.
Read the original sourceEdmonton Police Service
Edmonton Police recommends keeping an up-to-date list with photos, serial numbers and receipts for valuables – both for the investigation and for the insurance settlement.
Read the original sourceOttawa Police Service
Ottawa Police recommend recording and documenting valuables. Photos, identifying details and serial numbers can matter when police try to return recovered property to its rightful owner.
Read the original sourceToronto Police Service
Toronto Police recommend that owners document valuable and unique belongings and record identifying information that can help recovery.
Read the original sourceWinnipeg Police Service
Winnipeg Police recommend documenting valuables, including photographs showing distinguishing features. Good identification can help connect recovered property with its owner.
Read the original sourcePolitiet
In its reporting guide the Danish police asks for photos and exact descriptions of what was stolen – something few people have without documenting beforehand.
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The Danish police asks people to register stolen items with serial number and photo, stressing that documentation made in advance is what makes a report usable.
Read the original sourceHelsinki Times
The article relays advice from the insurer Fennia, including photographing valuables and home interiors. Such documentation can help with insurance claims and police reports and can make stolen goods easier to identify.
Read the original sourcePoliisi
The Finnish police stresses that a serial number and a photo are the only things linking a recovered bicycle to its owner.
Read the original sourceMinistère de l'Intérieur
The French Ministry of the Interior runs its own campaign: photograph your valuables. The pictures are used to trace items and to prove ownership.
Read the original sourceAn Garda Síochána
The Irish police recommends marking and recording belongings with photos and serial numbers, so recovered stolen goods can be returned.
Read the original sourceAn Garda Síochána
The Irish police built a dedicated app where you record your belongings with photo and serial number – precisely because that record decides whether items come back.
Read the original sourceThe Irish Times
The Irish Times on the police app: many recovered items are never returned because no one can prove they own them.
Read the original sourcePolizia di Stato
The Italian State Police recommends photographing valuables and keeping receipts so items can be identified after a burglary.
Read the original sourceTokio Marine Malaysia
The insurance guide covers documenting belongings and the role of photographs, video, receipts and other documentation in claims.
Read the original sourcePolitie
The Dutch police asks people to register their belongings with photos and serial numbers, so recovered goods can be returned to the rightful owner.
Read the original sourceBundeskriminalamt Österreich
Austria's criminal police recommends a documented overview of valuables with photos and serial numbers as part of burglary prevention.
Read the original sourceSingapore Police Force
The Singapore Police Force advises households to keep a record of valuables with photos and serial numbers, alongside physical security.
Read the original sourceWallstreet Financial Services
The insurance guidance recommends documenting ownership, including photographs of electronics, appliances, jewellery and other valuables, and keeping receipts.
Read the original sourceGuardia Civil
The Guardia Civil recommends photo documentation and detailed descriptions of valuable items so they can be identified and traced after a theft.
Read the original sourceAvon and Somerset Police
After thefts of gold and other valuables, the police give advice on securing and documenting valuables, including photographs and descriptions that can help identification.
Read the original sourceCleveland Police
The police give advice on securing and documenting jewellery and other valuables.
Read the original sourceDover District Council
The guidance explains why good photographs and descriptions of valuables are useful. Distinguishing features and other identifying details can make items easier to recognise.
Read the original sourceGreater Manchester Police
Greater Manchester Police points out that marked and photographed property is far more likely to come back to its owner, and makes reporting easier.
Read the original sourceMetropolitan Police
The Metropolitan Police in London asks people to mark and photograph their belongings and store serial numbers, so recovered property can be linked back to its owner.
Read the original sourceNottinghamshire Police
Alongside crime prevention advice, the police recommend documenting and marking valuables so stolen property is easier to identify and return.
Read the original sourceThe Times
A first-person account of a burglary in a rented London home, and the steps tenants can take to protect themselves and document valuables.
Read the original sourceWest Mercia Police
The police recommend photographs of valuable and unique belongings, especially jewellery and items of sentimental value, so they can be described and identified if stolen.
Read the original sourceWest Mercia Police
The police advise residents to photograph their home and belongings and to mark valuables. The documentation can be used for personal records and insurance purposes and can make stolen items easier to identify.
Read the original sourcePolisen
The Swedish Police advises photographing valuables and writing down serial numbers in advance, so items can be identified if they resurface.
Read the original sourceTrygg-Hansa
Insurer Trygg-Hansa asks customers to document valuables with photos, receipts and serial numbers before anything happens – it makes the claim faster.
Read the original sourcePolizei – Dein Partner
German crime prevention explains that after a burglary you must be able to prove what you owned. Photos, receipts and serial numbers are what count when the insurer settles.
Read the original sourcePolizei Nordrhein-Westfalen
Police in North Rhine-Westphalia hands out a valuables list and asks people to fill it in with photos and serial numbers – important both for tracing and for insurance.
Read the original sourceR+V Versicherung
Insurer R+V recommends photos and video of your valuables, stored away from home, so the loss can be documented after a burglary or fire.
Read the original sourceAmerican Family Insurance
American Family Insurance points out that most people underestimate the value of their own contents, and that photos and video are the simplest fix.
Read the original sourceChubb
Chubb recommends going room by room with a camera or video and storing photos, receipts and serial numbers away from the home.
Read the original sourceFargo Police / KFGO
During a series of burglaries, residents were urged to document valuables and serial numbers to make identification easier.
Read the original sourceForbes Advisor
Forbes Advisor explains that a home inventory can be written, photographed or filmed. It recommends recording model, value, purchase date, receipts and serial numbers, and keeping a copy away from the home, for example in the cloud.
Read the original sourceForbes Advisor
Forbes Advisor points to photographs, receipts and serial numbers as relevant documentation for theft claims, and recommends creating a home inventory in advance.
Read the original sourceForbes Advisor
Forbes recommends documenting the contents of a home with photos or video, including closets, drawers, the attic, garage and basement, and backing the inventory up digitally.
Read the original sourceInsurance Information Institute
The Insurance Information Institute states that an up-to-date, photographed record of your belongings decides how fast and how fully a claim is settled.
Read the original sourceLiberty Mutual
Liberty Mutual gives customers a checklist for filming and photographing every room, because memory alone does not hold up in a claim.
Read the original sourceMercury Insurance
Mercury Insurance recommends walking through each room on video with narration and storing the recording in the cloud.
Read the original sourcePortland Police Bureau
Portland Police hands out a dedicated form for recording your belongings with description, serial number and photo, so stolen items can be traced.
Read the original sourceState Farm
State Farm recommends a home inventory as part of preparing for theft. Photos or video can be used to document the contents of a home.
Read the original sourceTake photos
Record video
Save serial numbers
Keep receipts
Store the documentation safely
MemoSafe brings all of this together in one place.
Memory becomes the documentation.
The documentation helps your memory.
Documentation can make a claim easier to describe and support. It is not a guarantee of ownership or of a payout — the requirements vary by insurer, country and contract.
MemoSafe helps you turn an ordinary photo into a structured record of the item.
Photograph the room
One sweep of the room is enough to get started.
Document important belongings
MemoSafe recognises the items and builds the list.
Add receipts, serial numbers and details
Upload receipts and fill in what matters.
Update when something changes
New purchases, new rooms, new values.
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Start documentingOne room at a time is enough.
These sources are included to inform. Being mentioned here does not mean the organisation endorses or recommends MemoSafe. Documentation alone does not guarantee that ownership is proven or that a claim is paid — requirements vary by insurer, country and contract. Always read the original source.
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But you can document what you have today.
It only takes a few minutes to begin. Start with one room. Take a few photos. Document the most important things. MemoSafe helps you build a secure digital overview of what you own — before you need it.
Document today. Remember tomorrow.