Centriq Shut Down and Deleted User Data — What That Means If You're Looking for a Replacement

If you used Centriq to keep track of your home's appliances, warranties, and owner's manuals, you may already know it shut down in January 2025 — and unlike some app closures, Centriq's shutdown deleted user data rather than leaving it accessible for export. If you didn't get your information out beforehand, it's likely gone.

Worth understanding what Centriq actually did

Centriq was built around appliance and product management — scanning a barcode or model number to pull up a manual, warranty status, and maintenance history for things like your dishwasher, HVAC system, or water heater. That's a genuinely different job than documenting your belongings for an insurance claim, which is worth knowing before you go looking for a "Centriq alternative," since many of the tools built to catch that search traffic are also product/warranty managers, not insurance documentation tools.

If insurance documentation is what you actually need

If what drew you to Centriq was really "keep track of what I own in case something happens to it," that's a different category of tool than appliance-manual management — one built around photos, room-by-room organization, and export formats an insurer or adjuster can actually use, rather than warranty lookup.

A free tool built for that specific purpose

Contents Proof documents what you own room by room, with a photo attached to each item, and exports a clean PDF suitable for most insurance claims — free, with no account required to start. If your insurer is one of the larger companies with its own published inventory format, Contents Proof can export directly in that structure.

The lesson worth taking from this

Centriq's shutdown is a useful reminder that any app holding your only copy of important documentation is a single point of failure. Whatever tool you use going forward, keeping your own export — not just relying on the app staying available indefinitely — is worth doing regardless of which one you pick.

Frequently asked questions

When did Centriq shut down?
January 31, 2025, based on publicly available reporting at the time.

Can I still get my Centriq data?
Reporting at the time of the shutdown indicated user data was deleted rather than made available for export. If you still have local exports or backups from before the shutdown, those may be your only remaining copy.

Is Contents Proof the same kind of tool as Centriq?
Not exactly — Contents Proof is focused specifically on documenting belongings for insurance purposes (photos, values, room organization), rather than appliance manual and warranty lookup, which was Centriq's core focus.

Contents Proof is not affiliated with or endorsed by Centriq. This article is based on publicly available reporting about Centriq's shutdown.