ThriftWorth: Donation Tracker

Every bag you drop at Goodwill or the Salvation Army is worth something at tax time, but only if you can say what was in it, what it was worth and when you gave it. In April, nobody remembers. ThriftWorth is the record you keep as you go. Pull up at the donation door, open the app, and in a minute the trip is down: where it went, what was in the bags, what each thing was worth, and a photo of the slip they hand you. VALUES FROM A PUBLISHED GUIDE Pick an item, say how many and what condition it is in, and ThriftWorth suggests a value from the Salvation Army Donation Value Guide, which is built in and works offline. Good condition takes the low end of the published range, like new the high end. Every figure stays editable, and anything you type outside the range is kept as your own estimate, never passed off as a guide value. THE IRS LINES, WATCHED FOR YOU • The year's total against the $500 line, past which Form 8283 goes with your return • A reminder to get a written acknowledgment for any gift of $250 or more • A prompt for the date, how you got it and what it cost, for any item over $500 • Similar items added up across every charity, with a warning at $5,000 Each rule is shown with the IRS publication it comes from, one tap away. PROOF THAT STAYS PUT Photograph the goods before they go and the receipt that comes back. Photos are copied into the app, so clearing your camera roll in January does not take your records with them. YOUR RECORDS, ON YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-in. No subscription. Your donations, values and photos are stored on your phone and are never sent to us. Export a spreadsheet of everything, free, whenever you like. PRO, ONE PAYMENT, AT TAX TIME Recording, valuing, photographing and the year total are free for good. A single purchase unlocks two PDFs for your return or your preparer: • The Form 8283 Section A worksheet, every line worked out in the form's own column order • A statement for each drop-off, with its items, values and photos ThriftWorth keeps records and adds them up. It is not tax advice and does not file anything; whether to itemize, and what you can deduct, is for you and your preparer. The Salvation Army does not set the value of any donation, and neither does this app. You choose every figure.

First release: record each drop-off, value items from the Salvation Army guide, keep receipt photos, and see the year against the IRS lines.