Know what is in your humidor without opening it

Each cigar in your humidor is logged with a quantity, so you always know how many you actually have left. Organise them across as many named humidors as you keep — each with its own description, its own shelves and a capacity to work against, and one of them marked as the default so adding a cigar takes one tap fewer.

Every cigar records where it sits — which humidor and which shelf — along with the date you added it and a note of your own, for the things that do not fit in a field.

It works the same whether you are tracking forty sticks in one box or four thousand across a walk-in.

There is no cap on how much you can hold — not on the number of different cigars, not on how many of each. A single box of twenty-five and a wall of singles are both just stock.

Start an aging clock on any item, set a rest target in months, and get reminded when it is ready to smoke. A cigar bought three years ago and one bought last week are different cigars, and your humidor treats them that way instead of lumping every box of the same line together.

The aging timeline then splits your humidor in two: what is ready now, and what is still resting, each row showing how many months it has had against the target you set. Ready cigars also feed Pick for Me, below.

Pick for Me chooses a cigar out of your own humidor, four ways: a quick pick, something that has passed its aging target, something for a special occasion, or something that suits what you are drinking.

It ranks what you own rather than the catalogue, and it weighs a lot at once: the time of day and the day of the week, how long the cigar will take, what you have smoked recently so you are not handed the same thing twice, the wrappers and strengths your journal says you like, what you said you had in the glass, the season, how much you paid, and how the community rates it.

One piece of that is worth saying out loud: rarity counts against a cigar on an ordinary evening and for it on a special occasion. It will not hand you the thing you have been saving on a Tuesday.

In the app it can ask first: how long you have — under thirty minutes, half an hour to an hour, an hour to ninety minutes, or all evening — what mood you are in, and whether there is coffee, whiskey or rum, or beer or wine alongside. Length and ring gauge are what turn 'I have an hour' into a real shortlist.

If nothing fits everything you asked for, it loosens one condition at a time rather than coming back empty, and it tells you why it picked what it picked. Reroll steps through the runners-up, and Smoke it takes you straight into the journal with that cigar already filled in.

Log a temperature and humidity reading against a humidor whenever you check it, with a note if something explains the number. The readings build a history you can look back through rather than a single figure that tells you nothing about last month.

Each humidor carries its own target range for humidity and for temperature, and readings outside it are flagged as out of spec. Your humidor stats show the latest reading alongside the rest of your collection's numbers.

The other warning is about you rather than the cigars: switch it on and a humidor tells you when it has not been checked lately — no reading for longer than the number of days you set, or no reading at all — so a humidor you stopped watching does not quietly pass for a healthy one.

Record the purchase price and location for each cigar as you add it. Multiply that by quantity and your collection's value is right there — the sum of the prices you recorded, never re-priced against the market. The price can start from the list price or from your last purchase of that cigar, so change it to what you paid if the two differ.

Your humidor stats put the rest of it in one place: how many sticks you hold, what they cost you, how many are ready to smoke, what you own broken down by wrapper, and the brands you hold most of.

Export for insurance turns what you have already logged into a dated, itemised PDF — an Insurance Inventory Report, with your name and the date and time it was made on the front, every cigar you currently hold, and a total at cost.

Nothing you own is left off because it has no price. A cigar without one is still listed, marked no price recorded, and kept out of the total rather than counted as zero — and the report says how many entries that applies to.

The figure it uses is the price you recorded per cigar. When you add a cigar that field can start from the list price, or from what you paid last time; whatever it says when you save is what the report totals. Each cigar gets a line with:

The total is the sum of the prices you recorded, in US dollars. It is not an appraisal, a market valuation or a replacement cost, and the report says so in as many words. Most insurers ask for more, including receipts, photographs and appraisals, so check it against what yours asks for.

It covers your whole account, not just the humidor. If you also keep liquor, wine, beer or coffee in the other Vaults, each arrives as its own section with its own subtotal, under one total across all of them. A longer report opens with a cover and a summary, and lists your five highest-cost items.

Export for insurance is on the website and in the Android app. On the website it is in your collection's ⋮ menu on a phone, beside Manage humidors on a larger screen, and under Collection in Settings; in the app, it is in the Humidor's ⋮ menu and under Collection in Settings. It takes a few seconds to build while you keep browsing. The website opens it as a PDF you can save or print; the app lets you open it or share it, and on Android 10 and later also saves a copy to your Downloads.

Set a restock par level on the cigars you always want on hand, and your humidor flags anything that has fallen below it — the count sits on the Buy tab so you can see at a glance whether anything needs attention.

Two more lists sit beside it. Out of favourites catches the cigars you rate highly and have run down to nothing — the ones you would notice missing. The wishlist holds what you have not bought yet, added with the bookmark on any cigar's page.

The humidor and the journal are the two halves of the same picture. Log a cigar you smoked straight from your humidor and the quantity comes down automatically — no separate bookkeeping to keep the two in sync.