Remember what's behind the wall.
Photograph every wall before the plasterboard goes on. Tag the pipes and wires, tap a wall on your floorplan to find them years later, and keep the home's certificates and manuals with it.
Free to startNo accountEverything stays on your phone
Illustration. App screenshot to come.
Once the walls are lined, the pipes, cables and framing are gone from view.
Ten years later, someone drills into a water pipe, or cuts a hole to find a cable.
The paperwork (certificates, warranties, manuals) is in a box somewhere, or gone.
Three steps. One tap per wall.
Photograph it while it's open.
Every room starts with a wide shot, four walls, the ceiling and the floor. One tap per wall.
Say what's in it.
Tag plumbing, electrical, gas, data or HVAC, and add a note or a voice note: "Hot left, cold right, 300 mm up."
Find it later.
Tap a wall on the floorplan, or show every plumbing photo in the house at once.
Illustrations. App screenshots to come.
Your home stays on your phone.
The inside of your home, its address and its paperwork are nobody else's business. BeforeWalls has no account and no servers holding your homes. We don't see your photos, we don't store them, and we don't share them. A home only leaves your phone when you choose to back it up or send it. If something goes wrong in the app, it can open an email with the error for you to read and send; nothing is sent by itself.
Your backups are yours
Because we hold nothing, your backups are yours: one tap saves every home to your own cloud, such as Google Drive, and the app reminds you when a home isn't backed up.The honest small print
Payments go through Google Play. If your phone's Google backup is on, it keeps your home credits so they come back on a new phone; your homes and photos are never part of it.Find the pipe before you drill.
Everything you need to see what's behind a wall in seconds, years after it was closed up.
Floorplan you can tap
Add your plan, mark the rooms, then tap a wall to see what's behind it.
Compass
Walls named North, East, South and West, so you know exactly which one.
Find by service
Every pipe or every cable in the home, in one list.
Built-in camera
With the 0.5x wide lens for tight rooms.
Levels
Each storey with its own rooms and plan.
Works offline
Works offline on site, with no signal needed.
Every certificate, warranty and manual, in the same place as the walls.
Always have all your home's documents with you.
Electrical, plumbing and waterproofing certificates, the hot water system manual, the plans and approvals, the invoices. Add a PDF or photograph the paper copy, and link it to the room it belongs to.
- Open any document on site
- Goes into your backups
- Choose to leave invoices out when you share
Selling one day? Hand the next owner the walls and the paperwork in one file.
Hand it over, your way.
Send the whole home, one photo, or a PDF anyone can open. No app needed on the other end.
PDF report of the home
The floorplan, every wall's photos with their tags and notes, and the list of documents, in one PDF. Made on your phone, for a buyer, an insurer or your client.
Send one photo or document
Share a single photo (with its room, wall, tags and note) or one certificate by WhatsApp, email or text. The photo is sent without the hidden location details.
Search your homes
With lots of homes, type part of a name or street to find one straight away.
New phone, no double-ups
Restore your backup and choose to replace the homes already on the phone, keep both, or skip them. Your own homes come back without paying again.
Plumbing
Plumbing
Your plumber or sparky adds the photos. Free for them.
Send the home to your plumber or sparky. They take photos on the walls they worked on, for free, and send them back. You tap Add, and each photo lands on the right wall.
Free to try. Then pay per home.
Your first home is free to try. After that, buy home credits when you need them. No subscription, and credits never expire.
Building homes? Hand over the walls and the paperwork for a couple of dollars a home.
Builders and tradiesHelp test BeforeWalls
BeforeWalls is in a closed test on Google Play before it launches. Testers get the app free, including free test purchases. You need an Android phone and a Gmail address, and to keep the app installed for 14 days.
We only use your Gmail address to add you to the test on Google Play.
Free to startNo subscriptionEverything stays on your phone
On iPhone? Tell me when it's on iPhone.
BeforeWalls is on Android first. Leave your email and we'll let you know when the iPhone version is ready.
This opens your email app with a short message to us. The website doesn't store your email.