How Household List works

Open the app, pick a display name and color, and tap Create a household. There’s no email or password.

On the Household tab, share the invite link or the 6-character code however you like. The others install Household List and tap the link, or type the code under Join when they start.

Use Leave household on the Household tab. The person who created the household can also remove a member there.

Type an item (with an optional quantity or note) and add it. Tap it when it’s in the cart: it moves to Recently bought, where one tap puts it back on the list. Everyone sees changes within a couple of seconds.

While you type, the app suggests your household’s usual items. After something has been bought 3 times, it learns how often you buy it and shows it under Running low when it’s due again.

Items are sorted into store sections (Produce, Dairy & eggs, Frozen and so on) as you add them. In the store, tap a section above the list to see only what you need there; All shows everything grouped by section. Long-press an item to move it to a different section; it stays there next time.

Open an item to make it come back on the list every week, 2 weeks, month, or a number of days after it was last bought.

Keep going: changes are saved on your phone and sync when you’re back online.

Give it a name, how often it repeats (daily, every few days, weekly on a chosen day like Tuesday, or monthly), and the order people take turns.

Done marks it finished and passes it to the next person, with the next due date set. Skip passes the turn without marking it done.

Turn on the reminder on the Household tab to get a notification for your own chores due that day.

Add things you’ve lent out or borrowed, from tools and books to money: what it is, who has it, and an optional return date and note. Overdue items are highlighted.

If you set a return date, the person who added the item gets a reminder at 9 AM that day.

Anyone in the household can mark an item returned with one tap. Open the item to undo that or delete it.

A household of 2 people with up to 3 chores. The grocery list and borrowed list are included.

Up to 6 people and 50 chores. One person buys it and it’s unlocked for the whole household, whatever phone each person has. Choose yearly (a subscription that renews each year until you cancel) or lifetime (a one-time purchase). If a yearly unlock ends, the household goes back to the free limits: nothing is deleted, you just can’t add more people or chores until someone renews.

The person who subscribed can tap Manage subscription on the Household tab, or go to their App Store or Google Play subscriptions. Cancel at least 24 hours before it renews; the household stays unlocked until the end of the year already paid for. See the terms of use.

Every household can have up to 100 items on the grocery list and 50 open borrowed items at once. The app remembers your 200 most recently bought groceries for suggestions and the 20 latest returned borrowed items; older ones are tidied away.

Before switching, open the Household tab and tap Recovery code, save it with Save… (your password manager or notes that sync), and type its last 4 characters to check you saved it. The app reminds you until you do. On the new phone, choose to use a recovery code when you start and enter it to get back into your household.

If nobody in a household opens the app for 12 months, it’s deleted with everything in it. With the lifetime unlock that’s 24 months, and it never happens while a yearly unlock is paid for. Opening the app once a year is enough to keep it.

On the Household tab, tap Delete my data. Details are on the Delete your data page, and everything we store is listed in the privacy policy.