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by gothroach 2379 days ago
I would absolutely love using this to track the shared tools at my place of work - we have had constant problems with people using them and forgetting they had them in their possession. I was about to order a 10-pack to try out until I noticed Android support is not here yet - nearly our entire team uses Android, I can only think of one person (of about 25) who has an iPhone. This is true for most people in my field that I'm aware of - iPhones are relatively rare for whatever reason.

We have job sites within a few hundred mile radius and around ten trucks - just seeing the last known location of the tags would be a massive help determining who has the tool. It's far better than our current group text "Who has X?" method.

And yes, we've tried a sign in/out logbook for the tools but it never caught on. I like that apparently as long as you have the app for Got-it installed the tools should be tracked.

Milwaukee has a very similar product (their TICK trackers) that use Bluetooth, but are in a ruggedized plastic enclosure that's great for tracking larger items but falls short on smaller tools. It also doesn't help that their app is incredibly fickle and can be difficult to use.

Once the Android app comes out, I can see us easily ordering 100 labels to track all our (expensive, small, easily misplace-able) tools.

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Hey, happy for you to ping me at david@got-it.com and we'll be in touch end of q1 next year when Android is released.