Terms of Use

Last updated: 12 November 2026

In short

• Listl is free and works without an account. Listl Pro and Listl Max are subscriptions you take out through the App Store and can cancel at any time in your Apple Account settings.
• Your lists belong to you. They are end-to-end encrypted – which is why we can't restore them for you either. Keep your recovery key safe and back up your data.
• Apple's license agreement for apps from the App Store applies in addition to these terms.

1. Provider and scope

(1) These terms apply to the Listl app on iPhone and Apple Watch, to the Listl Pro and Listl Max subscriptions and to the website listl-hq.github.io (together “Listl”). The provider is Luca Efinger, Friedrich-Ebert-Ring 16, 97072 Würzburg, Germany, email contact@lacodea.com (“we”). More details are in the legal notice.

(2) You get Listl from the App Store. Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement (standard EULA) applies to it. These terms add what applies to Listl; where the two conflict, the standard EULA prevails.

(3) How we handle data is explained in the privacy policy.

2. What Listl offers

(1) Listl is an app for shopping lists: add, check off and share – with stores, recipes, purchases and receipts. The app and its website describe what it currently does.

(2) You can use Listl without an account. Then your data lives only on your device or, if you choose, in your iCloud. To sync through our server and to share yourself, you sign in with the LaCodea ID, the account for all of LaCodea's apps. Anyone who is invited can also join as a guest without a LaCodea ID.

(3) We keep developing Listl. We may change Listl if there is a valid reason – such as new technology, security, a change in the law, changes to services we use, or new features –, if this causes you no additional costs and if we inform you clearly about the change. If a change affects your access to a paid subscription or its usability more than insignificantly, we inform you in good time beforehand about the nature and timing of the change and about your right to end the contract free of charge within 30 days of this information or, if later, of the change (Section 327r of the German Civil Code, BGB).

3. Account, households and guests

(1) Keep access to your LaCodea ID and your Apple Account secret. If you notice any misuse, let us know right away.

(2) In a household or a shared list, all members see its lists, items, recipes, photos, purchases and receipts. Whoever invites chooses the role (admin, member or guest); owners and admins can remove members. Anyone who has an invitation link can join while it is valid – share it only with the people you want to invite.

(3) A guest account is tied to one iPhone. If that iPhone is lost before the guest has secured the account with a LaCodea ID, access to the guest account is gone. We delete guest accounts that haven't been used for twelve months.

(4) If you leave a household or delete your account, what you contributed there stays available to the other members.

4. Encryption and keys

(1) What Listl syncs through iCloud or our server, your device encrypts end to end. We can't read it – and therefore can't restore it either.

(2) Access to your data rests with your iCloud Keychain and your recovery key. If both are gone, nobody can decrypt your data, not even us. Keep your recovery key in a safe place and also back up your data, for example with a backup.

5. Listl Pro and Listl Max

(1) Listl is free. Listl Pro and Listl Max are subscriptions that unlock more – such as more lists, households, shared lists and people, more room for photos and receipts, statistics and design options. The app shows what each level includes before you buy.

(2) Both subscriptions are available monthly or yearly. You buy them through the App Store; Apple handles the payment, and Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions apply. You see the prices in the app before you buy, including VAT.

(3) Subscriptions renew automatically for the chosen period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, and for each renewal within 24 hours before the end of the period. After you cancel, the subscription stays active until the end of the paid period. You manage and cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings.

(4) If you subscribe to Listl Pro for the first time, you can try it free for one week. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the free week, the paid subscription begins. Listl Max has no free week.

(5) You can share Listl Pro with up to five other family members through Apple's Family Sharing. Listl Max only applies to the Apple Account that subscribes.

(6) If you switch to a higher level, it applies immediately and Apple credits the rest of the current period; you switch to a lower level at the next renewal. Apple governs the details.

(7) A subscription is personal. How many people fit into a household or shared list and how much room there is for photos and receipts depends on the subscription of whoever created it. Joining is always free.

(8) When a subscription ends, your data is kept, and what is already shared stays shared. The limits of the free version apply again: if you're above them, you can't create anything new in that area until you're below them again or use a subscription again. Colors, app icon and the font for numbers go back to the default; with a new subscription, your settings come back.

(9) Because Apple handles the purchase, refunds and the right of withdrawal are governed by Apple's rules. You can request a refund at reportaproblem.apple.com. Your statutory rights remain unaffected.

6. Your content

(1) What you add to Listl belongs to you. So that we can provide syncing and sharing, you grant us the simple, free right to store your encrypted content, to transfer it and to keep it available for the people you share with. This right ends when you delete the content or your account; what you contributed to a shared household stays there for the other members.

(2) Only add content you have the necessary rights to – for example photos and recipes from other sources –, and share photos in which other people can be recognized only with their consent.

(3) Store logos are trademarks of their owners. Listl only shows them so you recognize your stores; there is no affiliation with the retailers.

7. Rules for using Listl together

(1) Don't use Listl for illegal content or to harass, threaten or secretly monitor others. Attacks on Listl's security, getting around limits and automated mass requests are also prohibited.

(2) Anyone can report illegal content by email to contact@lacodea.com (Art. 16 DSA). Please tell us what it's about and why you believe the content is illegal, your name and email address, and a statement that you believe in good faith that your information is accurate and complete. Because content is end-to-end encrypted, we can't see it ourselves; we assess reports based on the information we're given and can suspend or delete accounts. Whoever reported and whoever is affected learn our decision and the reasons for it, unless the law provides otherwise.

(3) Point of contact for authorities and for users under Art. 11 and 12 DSA: contact@lacodea.com, in German or English.

8. What Listl reads and suggests

Listl reads receipts, handwritten lists and recipes automatically and suggests items, amounts, routes and totals – on iPhones with Apple Intelligence also with its help, on the device. This can be wrong. Check recognized prices and totals before you rely on them; the list total and budget are estimates based on earlier prices. Listl is no replacement for bookkeeping.

9. Availability

(1) We strive for smooth operation but can't promise that the server is always available. Maintenance, disruptions of services we use (such as hosting, iCloud or Apple's push service) and force majeure can temporarily limit syncing and notifications. Listl keeps working on your device and syncs later.

(2) Your statutory rights in case of defects of digital products (Sections 327 et seq. BGB) remain unaffected. We provide the updates needed to keep Listl in line with the contract (Section 327f BGB). Install updates to use Listl securely.

10. Liability

(1) We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for damage resulting from injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act, and where we have given a guarantee or fraudulently concealed a defect.

(2) In the case of slight negligence, we are only liable for breaches of essential contractual obligations – obligations whose fulfillment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose fulfillment you may regularly rely – and only for the foreseeable damage typical for the contract.

(3) We are only liable for the loss of data to the extent that it would also have occurred with regular backups.

(4) Otherwise, our liability is excluded. These rules also apply in favor of our representatives and vicarious agents.

11. Term and termination

(1) The contract of use runs for an indefinite period. You can end it at any time: delete your data in the app (Settings › Privacy › Delete All Data), disconnect Listl from your LaCodea ID or delete your LaCodea ID. This doesn't end a running subscription – cancel it with Apple.

(2) We can terminate the contract of use with four weeks' notice, for a paid subscription no earlier than the end of the paid period. Both sides' right to terminate for good cause remains unaffected; for us, good cause exists in particular in the case of serious or repeated violations of section 7. Instead of terminating, we may suspend an account temporarily.

(3) Before the end, you can back up your data in the app. After that, we delete it as described in the privacy policy.

12. Changes to these terms

(1) We may change these terms for the future if there is a valid reason, such as new features, a change in the law or security reasons.

(2) We inform you about changes that affect you in the app at least six weeks in advance. Changes that only benefit you or that the law requires apply from the announced date. For all other changes, we ask for your consent; if you don't agree, the previous terms continue to apply to you, but we may then terminate the contract under section 11(2).

13. Final provisions

(1) The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer habitually resident in another country, you keep the protection of that country's mandatory provisions.

(2) If you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction is Würzburg.

(3) We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

(4) These terms are available in German and English. If the versions differ, the German version applies.

(5) If a provision is invalid, the rest of the contract remains valid; the statutory provisions take the place of the invalid provision.