Meet AwayCheck — Prove the house was checked

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AwayCheck

Prove the house was checked

What AwayCheck does

The house is empty, the pipes are full, and your insurance policy has a clause most owners never read: if nobody checks the home regularly while you are away during the heating season, water damage may not be covered. Canadian insurers commonly void or limit coverage on homes left empty more than a few consecutive days, and Florida and Arizona seasonal homes carry similar expectations. Yet the actual record of those checks — the thing an adjuster asks for after a February pipe burst — is usually a text thread that says all good.

AwayCheck turns whoever holds your key into a documented home checker. Your brother-in-law, neighbor, or friend opens the app, follows a guided walk-through — furnace running, thermostat reading, pipes and ceilings dry, sump pump working, windows and doors secure — and every visit is stamped with the date, time, and photos. No account, no cloud, no learning curve: the visit takes the same five minutes it always did, but now it exists on the record.

The interval clock keeps the schedule honest. Enter the check frequency your own policy requires — every insurer words it differently, so the interval is yours to set — and AwayCheck counts down to the next required visit, reminds the checker before the window closes, and shows at a glance how the season is going.

When spring comes, or when a claim happens, export the entire season as a clean, dated proof-of-checks report: every visit, every checklist result, every photo, in chronological order. It is the same artifact home-watch companies charge hundreds per season to produce, generated from the checks your own people were already doing for free.

AwayCheck works for any absence, not just winter: vacations, work postings, a listed or inherited property sitting empty, a cottage in the off-season. And everything stays on the device — your address, your policy details, and your photos never touch a server.

• Guided walk-through checklist covering furnace, thermostat, pipes, sump, and security • Every visit stamped with date, time, duration, and photos • Check-interval clock with reminders matched to your policy wording • Season-long, dated proof-of-checks report ready for an adjuster • Departure and winterization checklists before you leave • Multiple properties for the neighbor who checks the whole street • Fully offline, no account, private by design

A look inside

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What's inside

• Guided Walk-Through — A step-by-step interior check — furnace, thermostat reading, pipes and ceilings, sump pump, water heater, windows and doors — that stamps the visit with date, time, duration, and photos as the checker moves room to room. The checklist is editable per property so it matches the actual house.
• Interval Clock — A countdown gauge driven by the check interval the owner's policy actually requires (user-set per property, since every insurer words it differently). Shows hours remaining until the next required visit, colors from calm to urgent, and fires local reminders before the window closes.
• Season Timeline — Every completed check on one reverse-chronological timeline: date, checker, duration, checklist results, and photo thumbnails, with any flagged issues highlighted so a problem found in January is impossible to lose.
• Proof Report — One tap turns the season into a dated, chronological proof-of-checks PDF — cover page with property, policy, and interval; then every visit with its checklist results and photos — the artifact an adjuster asks for and a text thread can never be.
• Properties & Policy Rules — Each property holds its address, insurer, policy number, required check interval, and heating-season dates. Owners track one home; the neighbor who checks three snowbird houses on the street manages them all side by side.
• Departure Checklist — A winterization and leave-day checklist — water main, drained lines, thermostat setback, mail hold, key handoff — completed and stamped before the owner flies south, so the season starts documented too.

Why we built it

Insurers void or limit water-damage coverage on homes left empty unless someone physically checks the property on a regular schedule, but the informal checker's log is a text thread with no timestamps, no photos, and nothing an adjuster accepts — so owners discover the evidence gap only when a five-figure frozen-pipe…

What makes it different

Professional home-watch software (Home Watch IT, HWSoft, QRIDit) is $59-109/month B2B SaaS with accounts and cloud, built for paid home-watch companies, not the neighbor checking a house for free. Property Watch (the one consumer iOS app in this niche, ~11 ratings) requires its own flow and cloud footprint; AwayCheck…

Who it's for

Hobbyists who want a tool that respects their time, their gear, and their offline life.

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Try it

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