If you're reading this, you probably just lost your Centriq data.

What happened to Centriq

Centriq shut down on January 31, 2025. The platform was sold, the new owner retired it, and every user's data was permanently deleted. Appliance records. Manual libraries. Warranty dates. Receipts. Maintenance notes people had written for themselves, in their own words, about their own homes.

Centriq gave users about six weeks of notice. The export options were limited. Photos didn't come with you. Documents didn't come with you. Years of work, gone.

That's the part nobody talks about when an app shuts down: the users didn't do anything wrong. They did exactly what the app asked them to do — catalog their home, upload their receipts, trust the cloud — and the cloud decided to stop existing.

After January 31st, 2025, Centriq will no longer be accessible.

Your data lives in your iCloud. Not on our servers.

EstateHQ doesn't have a server. There's no account. There's no login. There's no database of your home records sitting on a machine somewhere that could be sold, shut down, breached, or retired.

When you add an item to EstateHQ — a furnace, a filter size, a paint code, a fixture — it goes into your iCloud. The one you already have. The one your photos live in. The one Apple has been storing for over a decade.

If EstateHQ disappears tomorrow, you still have your data. We couldn't delete it if we wanted to.

That's not a marketing claim. It's the entire architecture of the app.

Everything you used Centriq for. A few things it didn't do.

EstateHQ is the estate manager every home deserves — for the 99% of homeowners who can't afford a full-time one. Wealthy families have always had someone whose job is institutional memory for a property. EstateHQ is that role, built into your phone.

Here's what that looks like, specifically:

This table is not meant to be triumphant. It's meant to be accurate. The last row is the one that matters.

Importing from Centriq

If you exported your Centriq data before the shutdown, you may have a CSV file with your appliance list, model numbers, and notes. We're building direct import for the file format — for now, the fastest path is manual re-entry with EstateHQ's scanning tools doing most of the work.

Here's what we recommend:

1. Start with one room. Pick the room where you know you'll need the data first — usually the mechanical room, kitchen, or wherever your HVAC system lives.
2. Point the camera at each data plate. EstateHQ extracts manufacturer, model, and serial automatically. Paint labels work the same way.
3. Add filter sizes, bulb types, and part numbers as structured fields. These are where EstateHQ pulls ahead of a manual spreadsheet — every spec is tap-to-copy and searchable.
4. Build from there. One room at a time. Most users have their full home cataloged within a weekend.

If you have a Centriq CSV export, email it to support@estatehq.app — we're tracking interest in a direct import tool. If enough people have one, we'll build it.

Why you can trust this one

EstateHQ was built by a retired firefighter/paramedic who spent 30 years as a first responder, then moved into design/build residential construction. He'd stood in Home Depot one too many times cursing at himself for forgetting a model number, and watched one too many clients receive a three-ring binder at the end of a remodel that ended up in a drawer.

EstateHQ isn't a VC-funded home-tech play angling for an acquisition. It's a utility app built by someone who's lived the problem from every side — homeowner, first responder, and the guy handing over the binder.

The architecture choice — iCloud-only, no servers, no accounts — isn't a marketing decision. It's a direct response to watching Centriq and Encircle disappear and taking their users' data with them. That was never going to be acceptable.