KeyId ProA phone app for the keys you look after
Which key is this?
KeyId Pro identifies a key from a photograph. Photograph your keys once, and when you are holding one you cannot place, scan it: the app shows which of your saved keys it most resembles, closest first, and you choose.
The keyring problem
A ring of keys that look alike, a door that needs opening now, and nothing on the keys to say which is which. So you try them one at a time, in front of a tenant, a contractor or a locked plant room.
Labels wear off, tags come loose, and the person who knew which key opened what has moved on.
KeyId Pro is for whoever carries that ring: facilities and maintenance staff, property managers, landlords, and anyone at home with a drawer of keys nobody can name.
It is an app on the phone you already carry, not a key cabinet or a tracking system you install. It does one thing: help you work out which key you are holding.
What it does
Three things, in the order you use them.
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Save a key
Take or choose a photograph of a key, then give it a name, notes and tags. The photograph is kept with it, so you can see the key again whenever you look it up.
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Organise it into collections
Group keys into collections, such as a building, a client or home, and search them by name. Add more photographs of a key, mark favourites, and note where a key belongs if that helps.
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Identify a key you are holding
Scan an unknown key. KeyId Pro compares it with the keys you have saved and shows the likeliest candidates, ranked, each with its photograph. You decide which one is in your hand.
Identification compares the bitting, the cuts along the key's blade, against the keys in your own collection. It does not look keys up in any outside database, and it only finds keys you have saved.
Questions
Is KeyId Pro on iPhone and Android?
It is being built for both, and is not in the App Store or Google Play yet. See Download for how to hear when it is.
How does it identify a key?
When you save a key, the app records what its photograph shows, including the bitting: the pattern of cuts along the blade. When you scan an unknown key, it compares that photograph with the keys you have saved and ranks them by how closely they agree.
Does it tell me for certain which key it is?
No, and on purpose. Keys of the same type can look very alike, so the app shows ranked candidates rather than a single verdict. You compare the photographs and choose. It is built to narrow a ring down to a few likely keys, not to decide for you.
What happens when there is no match?
If none of your saved keys resembles the one you scanned, the app says so rather than offering a guess. If the photograph does not show enough of the key to compare, it tells you that too, and you can take another. A key you have never saved cannot be found, so it is worth saving each key as it joins the ring.
Does it work with RFID fobs or key cards?
No. KeyId Pro identifies cut metal keys from photographs. It does not read RFID fobs, key cards or any other electronic credential.
What happens to my photographs?
They are stored on our own server and shown only to you, and to anyone you choose to share your keys with. They are never sold or used for advertising. The privacy policy has the details, including how to delete them.
Download
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play
KeyId Pro is not in either store yet. To hear when it is, or to ask about trying it before then, email support@keyidpro.com.