What is a key management app?
A key management app is the mobile version of key management software — the application runs straight on a smartphone or tablet, so staff can record handovers where they happen: at reception, at the tenant’s door, in the car, at the wall terminal. Instead of pen and paper or an Excel key logbook, every key movement is logged digitally — with the person, the time and an optional signature.
Technically, there are two ways to build an app: as a web app (runs in the browser, no installation, works instantly on any device) or as a native app (from the App Store / Play Store, with full device integration). Both have their strengths — the key question is what you need today, and what genuinely requires native functionality.
Web app vs. native app — what Log+Key can do today
Today Log+Key is a web app. You open the application in your browser on smartphone, tablet or desktop, add it to your home screen and use it like an installed app — only without a store, without installation, and without waiting for Apple or Google to approve updates.
What the web app can do today
- Scan an NFC tag on iPhone (via native URL resolution) and on Android (Chrome Web NFC)
- Handovers with a digital signature right on the screen
- Multi-user in real time — everyone sees the same live state
- PIN sign-in instead of a password
- Complete history per key, searchable and exportable
- Optional wall terminal as a central point of contact
What a native app additionally brings
- Bulk NFC scanning on your smartphone — several tags in a row without a reload. Possible at the wall terminal today; on a smartphone in the web app it’s one tag per action.
- A better UI without the browser address bar — more room for lists and actions.
- App Store visibility — searching for “key management” in the store finds Log+Key directly.
For typical day-to-day use (property management, home care, facility management, security services) the web app already covers the bulk of it. Anyone with a specific requirement for bulk scanning on a smartphone can wait for it — or talk to us about an early native test.
What the app does day to day
Three typical smartphone workflows show what key management feels like once it really happens on the phone — instead of in a book on the counter.
1. Handover to external service providers
The contractor is standing in front of you, the key is on the table. You open Log+Key on your smartphone, select the key, hand the phone over — a signature with a finger, done. The handover is in the history, and the contractor needs no account, no app, no onboarding.
2. Shift change in home care
You hand keys over to the late shift. The recipient takes the smartphone, selects their role in the shift, scans the key tags on the keyring — all assigned keys are transferred to the new person in a single action. A standardised shift handover instead of two lists that are never in sync.
3. A tenant moves in
The flat-key handover happens on site, in the empty flat. You have the smartphone, scan the key tags, have the new tenant sign, and capture a tenant photo on the spot if needed. Everything syncs with central property management — no catching up at the desk, no scrap of paper in the car.
For a complete overview of all features, see the Features page.
Native iOS & Android — what’s coming
Native iOS and Android apps for Log+Key are in development. The goal is to close the last gap for the two use cases where the web app makes compromises today: bulk NFC scanning on a smartphone and a full native UI without the browser address bar.
In line with our lead-funnel strategy, we sign interested parties up in advance — anyone keen on a pilot test can get in touch via our contact page and gets early access as soon as the builds are running.
Until then: start for free with the web app — the full feature set is available right away, and the later move to the native app will be seamless because the same API sits behind both. An overview of the software behind the app shows the big picture.
