Meet RigCheck — Harness & rope inspection log

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RigCheck

Harness & rope inspection log

What RigCheck does

Every harness, rope, lanyard, and self-retracting lifeline you climb on carries a documentation duty. OSHA expects fall-protection gear to be checked before each use, and ANSI Z359 adds a formal inspection by a competent person at least once a year — recorded, per item. For most arborists, tower techs, and linemen who own their own kit, that record is a coffee-stained paper checklist in the truck glovebox, or nothing at all. Gear age becomes a guess, damage history disappears, and when someone asks for your records, you have a shrug.

RigCheck is the personal gear binder that lives in your pocket. Log each item once: serial number, date of manufacture, in-service date, manufacturer, and photos of the label while it is still readable. From then on, record keeping takes seconds. A one-tap pre-use check stamps the date and time every morning you rig in. When a formal inspection comes due, RigCheck walks you through a guided checklist for that gear type — webbing, stitching, D-rings, hardware, rope sheath and core, snap hooks, labels — and you mark each checkpoint, attach photo evidence of anything you found, and note your own pass, monitor, or retire decision. RigCheck records the inspections you perform and the calls you make; the judgment stays yours, exactly as the standard intends.

Service-life countdowns keep the retirement question honest. Instead of the forum answer of retire it when it looks bad, you can see each item's actual age from date of manufacture, time in service, and inspection history at a glance — and when an item is retired, its full record is preserved.

When you need to show your work, export a clean PDF history for any item: identity, photos, every logged check, every formal inspection with checkpoint results. Hand it to a safety manager, a client, or keep it for your own file.

Everything is offline and on your device. No company account, no cloud platform, no per-seat subscription — this is a binder for one climber and their own kit.

• Gear locker with serial, date of manufacture, in-service date, and photos per item • One-tap pre-use checks with date and time stamps • Guided formal inspection checklists per gear type with checkpoint-level results • Photo evidence attached to any inspection finding • Service-life countdowns and a preserved record for retired gear • PDF inspection history export per item • Fully offline, no account, nothing leaves your phone

A look inside

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What's inside

• Gear Locker — Every item logged once with serial number, manufacturer, model, date of manufacture, in-service date, category, and label photos — the identity record that paper checklists never keep.
• Pre-Use Checks — A one-tap morning check per item (or the whole kit at once) that stamps date and time, building the before-each-use record OSHA expects with near-zero friction.
• Formal Inspections — Guided competent-person inspection flows per gear type with checkpoint-by-checkpoint results (webbing, stitching, hardware, rope sheath, labels), photo evidence per finding, and the user's own pass, monitor, or retire call recorded.
• Service Life — Per-item age and time-in-service countdowns computed from date of manufacture and in-service date, with due-soon flags for the next formal inspection and a retirement archive that preserves full history.
• PDF History Export — One tap builds a clean, printable PDF per item — identity, photos, every pre-use stamp, every formal inspection with checkpoint results — ready to hand to a safety manager or client.

Why we built it

OSHA requires pre-use inspection of fall-protection gear and ANSI Z359 requires a documented annual competent-person inspection per item, but for individually owned kit the record is a paper 3M checklist in a glovebox or nothing — so gear age, damage history, and retirement decisions are undocumented guesses.

What makes it different

Papertrail.io is the main digital incumbent at $35 per user per month — a cloud, company-oriented safety platform built for rope-access firms and IRATA audits, not a solo climber's saddle and three ropes. GearLog (gearlog.org) has a free tier but is cloud-account, org-oriented, and lacks a guided ANSI Z359 checkpoint…

Who it's for

People who have tried every productivity app and bounced off the noise. If you want something calm, fast, and private, this is for you.

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Try it

See the Harness & rope inspection log for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

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