The list speaks up. Otherwise, not a peep.
A shared shopping list only works if everyone knows what's on it. But an app that buzzes for every item gets switched off within two days — and then it can't tell you the one thing you actually wanted to know. This page shows both sides: what Listification tells you, and how much care went into leaving you in peace.
One sentence per notification. Nothing more.
Every notification has the list's name as its title and usually a single sentence underneath. No marketing, no “we miss you”, no offers — that's a rule, not a setting. The five below are the most common. When the app isn't on screen, your phone fetches the changes itself and also lets you know when someone has ticked items off, removed them or renamed the list.
Your invite got through
You sent a link and have no idea whether it worked. This answers exactly that — it goes only to you, as the list's owner, every time someone accepts.
The heart of it
The whole reason anyone shares a shopping list. The items are named right in the notification, so you can tell whether it concerns you without opening the app — handy if you're already in the shop.
An assignment that actually reaches you
An item someone hands to you isn't really assigned until you know about it.
No need to go out
The most useful moment of all, and it comes at most once per shopping trip. It names whoever ticked the items off — not whoever wrote the list; in most households, those are two different people.
The things you buy like clockwork
Recurring items put themselves back on the list and tell you in the morning. The only notification here that has nothing to do with sharing — and the only one that works without iCloud.
And when it stays quiet
This is where most of the work went. The rules aren't tucked away in a settings screen; they're built into the code, and they apply without you having to go looking for them.
Never about the list you've got open
Anyone looking at it sees the new row appear anyway, and a banner on top would just be clutter in Notification Centre. You're still told — briefly, right on that list.
Never about private lists
Only lists you share with someone speak up — a list that's yours alone can't change by itself. The one exception is the reminder for recurring items, and that one comes from you.
Only the first one makes a sound
After that, anything else of the same kind just updates the same line, silently. Added, done, removed, assigned: each kind gets a line of its own, and each line chimes just once.
No badge
Listification never puts a number on the app icon. A shopping list is never “read” — the number would never go away.
Never ads, never “we miss you”
No offers, no leaflets, no win-back nudges. This channel belongs to your household, not to marketing.
And the one limit we won't keep quiet about
The wake-up call comes from iCloud, goes to every device on your account, and no app is allowed to suppress it. If there's nothing to tell you — say, because the list is muted — a silent line can still briefly appear: “New in a shared list”. No sound, no name, no content.
One notification instead of twenty
Anna spends five minutes writing the weekly shopping list. Without bundling, that would be five notifications — exactly the kind of thing that makes people switch notifications off. Instead there's one line that grows with every item, and the phone doesn't go off again.
One line, not five: “Anna added one item: Milk” becomes “Anna added 5 items: Milk, Bread, Butter …” — with no further sound. That matters most when you're already walking the aisles.
Like muting a group chat that won't stop
Press and hold a list in the overview — or open its settings — and mute it. For a day, a week or for good. Your other lists aren't affected.
Mute until a date, not with a switch. “Muted” with no end date is the setting people forget they ever chose — so the menu tells you when it ends, and the list shows a crossed-out bell in the overview. When it runs out, you don't get the quiet week's backlog: you simply hear about what happens from then on.
And if a notification never arrives?
A notification is a bonus, never the only way you find out. iOS decides for itself when to wake an app in the background, and if a notification doesn't turn up, nothing should go missing because of it. So the list keeps track on its own as well.
“3 new” stays beside the list until you look — whether or not a notification ever arrived. It stays on a muted list too: muted means quiet, not blind.
14 items · shared with Anna 3 new
6 items · shared with Toni 🔕
Three steps — none of them at first launch
Listification never asks for notification permission when you open it. It asks when the question actually makes sense: when you share a list or accept an invitation. And if you say no, it won't ask again.
- Share a list — with the share button in the list, by link or straight to a person.
- Allow notifications when iOS asks. That happens when you share, not at launch — the switch in the app's settings is already on.
- Choose what you want to hear about: “Somebody joins a list”, “Items are added”, “The shopping is finished”, “An item is assigned to you”. All four start out switched on.
If notifications for Listification are turned off in the iOS settings, the section doesn't show dead switches — just a row that takes you straight there.
Questions about notifications
Do I need Pro for notifications?
No. Sharing and notifications are in the free version — neither would be worth much if only one side of the share had them. The Pro part is assigning items; you're told when something is assigned to you either way.
Why didn't I get a notification?
Most often because the change was your own, the list isn't shared at all, or you had it open — all three on purpose. Otherwise, check under Settings → “Notifications” that the switch is on and the list isn't muted, and in the iOS settings that Listification is allowed to show notifications at all. Either way, “3 new” appears beside the list as soon as something has come in.
Can the other person see me ticking things off?
If their app is open: only once, at the end — “Anna finished the shopping — all 14 items done”, and at most once per shopping trip. If the app isn't on screen, their phone fetches the changes itself and reports that you “checked off 3 items” in a single line that grows — with no further sound. Either way, nobody's phone buzzes for every carrot.
Can I mute a single list?
Yes. Press and hold it in the overview, or open its settings: 1 day, 1 week or for ever. Your other lists still speak up, and the “3 new” marker still appears.
Which language do notifications arrive in?
The one you've set in the app, not the system language. If you change it, any notifications not yet delivered are dropped, and the next one comes in the new language.
Who can see my lists in all this?
Only the people you deliberately share a list with. The data lives in the list owner's iCloud, not on a server of ours, and the notification text is written on your device. Details in the privacy policy.
Now on iPhone and iPad
Made by one person in Switzerland, with no investors and no analytics in the app.
