There’s an iPhone app for more or less any situation these days – from counting your steps to translating menus and everything in between, iPhone apps can make just about anything you set out to do that much easier. Moving house is no different, and like any niche, there are hundreds of apps claiming to be the best at helping people with their moves. Here are just a few that have been tried and proven to be highly effective.

Zoopla
    Let’s begin at the beginning. If you’re looking to move house these days, it’s likely that your first stop isn’t going to be an estate agent, but rather a well-reputed property site. Zoopla, and its near-identical twin Rightmove, offer a simple and reliable user interface for you to search for property using a number of fields. Both apps will connect with your online profiles, and save any searches you make. They also allow you to search by property type, price bracket and postcode, which will automatically be entered into your searches if you enable your phone’s GPS.

Pro Moving Planner
    This app performs exactly as the name would suggest. Pro Moving Planner is a moving checklist program which lets you sort out every detail of your planned relocation. Using its simple and user-friendly interface, you can draw up a list of all the things that need to be done, as well as keep track of any professional removal companies you’re planning to hire. Most of us know all too well that apps can unexpectedly crash right when you need them, but Pro Moving Planner gets around this issue by letting you store all the information on your email as insurance.

Packing Pro
    For many, packing is the most stressful and difficult part of moving house, so the demand for an app like Packing Pro has been huge. This is another checklist app, designed specifically to help you organize the countless things you’ll need to pack and label. This app gives you a classic Apple setup allowing you to easily create and distribute lists, import and export, add pictures and perhaps most helpful of all; send files straight to a connected printer to print. Packing Pro serves all of its handy functions just as well when you’re unpacking too, so is something of a cushion on both ends.

Change of Address
    When you have actually moved into your new home, and finally gone through the hassle of unpacking, organizing the new rooms and so on, the last significant hurdle to leap is the long and boring process of officially changing your address. Like many iPhone apps, Change of Address fits neatly into this kind of bureaucracy. This app quickly compiles a list of all of your contacts (including the HR department!), and even throws in an element of fun by letting you create a personalised card, combining colourful borders and your own pictures, to inform everyone of your new residence.

Spirit Level Free
    Once you’ve got through the seemingly endless list of chores that come with moving house, you’ll probably just find an equally long list of DIY jobs to get through. You may also be one of the many people in the UK who notice that a shelf or a picture is slightly askew, and every time you walk past it, it becomes more and more infuriating, until you start having vivid nightmares about it! This simple but highly accurate spirit level app will let you start tackling these jobs as soon as possible, giving you the best chance of living through the first week in your house with your sanity still intact!