Last updated: October 21, 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how Home List ("the App", "we", "us") collects, uses, and protects your information. Home List is a shared household app for coordinating shopping lists, chores, and location-based store reminders.
Account information. When you create an account, we collect your email address and a password. Your password is never stored in plain text — authentication is handled by our backend provider, Supabase, using industry-standard encryption. You also choose a display name shown to other members of your household.
Household data. To provide the App's shared features, we store the content you and your household create: shopping/to-do lists and their items, dinner plans, chores and their details, the stores you add, and a household activity feed of recent actions (e.g. "added milk", "completed take out the trash"). We retain only the newest 50 activity entries for each household, matching what the activity feed displays. This data is shared with the members of your household so you can coordinate together.
Location data. With your permission, the App uses your device's location to power its store-reminder feature. See the dedicated section below.
Calendar events (optional). On your phone, you can choose calendars from your device's calendar app to share with your household. Only the calendars you tick are read, and nothing is read by default. See the dedicated section below.
Voice and photos you scan (optional). In a list, you can tap the microphone and say what you need, or scan a photo of a written list or a receipt. Speech is turned into text by your phone's own speech recognition (Apple's on iPhone, Google's on Android), which may do this on the phone or on Apple's or Google's servers under their privacy policies. Photos are read on your phone or in your browser. Home List never receives the recording or the photo and keeps neither: only the items you add, and for a receipt the lines and prices you save, stored with the rest of your household's data. The microphone and speech-recognition permissions are asked only when you first tap the microphone.
Subscription information. If you purchase a Home List Premium subscription, payment is processed entirely by Apple's App Store or Google Play — we never see or store your payment card details. We receive only confirmation of your active subscription status, via our subscription provider (RevenueCat) and Apple/Google, so the App can unlock premium features for your household.
Website visits. When you open our website's home page, one of its guides or a homelist.app/get link, we count the visit: the page, the name of the site whose link brought you there (for example youtube.com, never the full link), any campaign label the link carried (such as the video or post it was shared in), and the date and time. The count stores no IP address, sets no cookie, and records nothing about your device or browser, so it cannot tell who you are or connect one visit to another. We use it only to see how many people find the site, and from where.
How you found Home List. When you first sign in, we note once, with your account, how you found us: on the web, the campaign label of the link you arrived from, the site that linked you and the page you landed on; in the iPhone app, Apple's answer to whether one of our Apple Ads led to your download, with that ad's campaign and keyword; in the Android app, the link Google Play says you installed from. It contains no advertising identifier and is not shared with anyone. We use it only to see which of our ads and links bring people who keep using Home List.
Time zone and language. With your account, we store your phone's or browser's time zone and language settings (for example "America/Chicago" and "es-MX"), and update them when they change. The time zone dates your check-offs by your own calendar day. The language tells us how many households might want Home List in another language. Neither is shown in the App or shared outside Home List.
Information we do not collect. We do not collect advertising identifiers, and we do not use third-party advertising or ad-tracking services. The only ad information we receive is described under How you found Home List. We do not store a history of your movements (see below).
In short: Home List uses your location to remind you when you're near a store that has unchecked items, and to help you find and pin your stores. It uses low-power operating-system "geofences" around stores you choose — not continuous tracking — and we do not keep a record of where you go. If you turn on Live Alerts — off by default — your household is told when you arrive at a store you already share with them, and we keep those arrivals for 90 days to fix reminder problems; see below.
What we use location for:
Background location. The store-arrival reminder requires "Always"/background location permission on your device, because you're usually not looking at the App when you approach a store. The App asks for this permission with a clear explanation first, and the feature is entirely optional — if you don't grant it, or don't pin any stores, no background location is used and the rest of the App works normally.
What we store and share. We store the coordinates of the stores you choose to pin, and how each one was pinned: the kind of place you picked in a search (a shop or a street address, for example), or, when you tapped “I’m here now”, how accurate your phone’s position was. We do not store or transmit a continuous record of your location, and we never share your coordinates with anyone, with one exception: a store search can send the map service an area around you (see Store search below). Geofence checks happen on your own device.
Live Alerts. Sharing is off unless you turn it on. If you enable “Share my store trips,” your household is notified when you arrive at one of your shared stores, and when you announce a trip by tapping “I’m going shopping” — they see your name, the store, and how many items are left, and the same line is added to your household’s activity history. No coordinates are shared or kept. While sharing is on, we also keep each arrival your phone reports for 90 days, with a few measurements — how long your phone took to notice it, how far from the store’s pin it fired, and how accurate its position was, never the coordinates — only to find and fix reminder problems. While the setting is off, your household isn’t told about your trips and no arrival is recorded; the only reminder information your phone sends is the daily status report described under Reminder diagnostics below, which has no locations, store names or trip times. Tapping “I’m going shopping” still posts to your household’s activity feed (it contains no location — just the store you picked), but sends no notification. You can change it any time under Notifications.
Reminder diagnostics. Once a day, the App sends us a short status report about this phone’s store-reminder setup: the phone’s model and system version, the App’s version, whether location is set to Always and Precise, whether notifications are allowed and how they are delivered, battery and background settings that can delay a reminder, how many stores the phone is watching, and counts of reminders it detected, showed or skipped, with typical timings and how close to the store they fired. It contains no locations, no store names and no times of your trips. We keep it for 90 days, only to find and fix reminder problems.
Store search. When you search for a store's location, what you type (the store's name, an address or a town) is sent to the OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocoding service to find matching places. If you have allowed Home List to use your location, the search also sends a map area centered on where you are, so the nearest branches come first. This happens only while you are setting a store's location: when you search, tap "Find the nearest", or add a store without an address. Nothing that identifies your account is sent, and Home List does not store your position. Nominatim is run by the OpenStreetMap Foundation under its own privacy policy.
In short: Home List can show events from calendars already on your phone in your household's shared calendar — but only the calendars you tick, nothing by default — and it never changes your calendars.
What we read. With your permission, the App lists the calendars on your device (for example a Google, iCloud or Outlook account added to your phone). For each calendar you tick, it reads upcoming events — title, date and time, and notes — for the year ahead (repeating events, 60 days ahead) and stores them as events in your household's calendar, so the members of your household can see them. They are marked with the calendar they came from and are read-only in the App; you change them in the calendar they live in, and the App picks up the change the next time you open its Calendar tab. Reminders set on your phone stay on your phone; the App adds no reminders of its own to imported events.
What we do not do. We never create, edit or delete anything in your device's calendars. Calendars you have not ticked are not read. Untick a calendar at any time to remove its events from your household's calendar.
Permission. On iPhone, iOS offers no read-only calendar permission, so the App has to ask for full calendar access even though it only reads. On Android the App requests read-only access. The feature is entirely optional — if you don't grant the permission, or don't tick a calendar, no calendar data is read and the rest of the App works normally.
Account and household data is stored in a Postgres database managed by Supabase, protected by row-level security policies that restrict every record to the household that owns it — members of one household cannot access another household's data.
We do not sell your personal information.
You can permanently delete your account and personal data at any time from within the App: tap your profile avatar in the top-right corner, then tap Delete account. Deletion is immediate and permanent. Content you contributed to a shared household (such as list items, chores, or calendar events you imported) remains available to the other members but is no longer associated with your name. Deleting your account does not automatically cancel an active subscription — cancel that through your Apple ID or Google Play account settings.
Home List is not directed at children under 13, and you must be at least 13 years old to create an account.
We may update this Policy from time to time. We'll change the "Last updated" date above when we do. Continued use of the App after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Policy.
Questions about this Policy or your data? Contact us at support@homelist.app.