The first thing I did when Listo started charging for Premium was give it away. For months, every person who created an account quietly got a year of it, no code, no banner, nothing to tap. I wanted people to use the parts of the app that cost me money to run, not to read about them. That year has since become three months, and it still happens on its own. If you made an account recently, open Settings: you may already have Premium and never noticed.
For everyone else there has been a code, LISTO2026, printed in the store listing and at the bottom of these posts. Until now it was a Listo code: you typed it into a little sheet of mine and my server switched Premium on. Apple does not allow that on iPhone, where anything that unlocks paid features has to go through their own system, and they were right to ask. So as of the latest update the same code is also an Apple offer: on an iPhone the button in Settings opens Apple's redemption sheet instead of mine, and Apple handles the rest. Same code, both platforms, each one by the book.
What Premium actually does
Everything that makes a list of groceries is free and stays free: lists, sharing, syncing, offline use, pasting text into a list. Premium is the set of features that need a server and some real computing behind them.
- Add items by voice. Tap the mic, say what you need in your own language, and the items land on the list with quantities. I wrote about it in Add groceries by voice.
- Scan receipts. Photograph a receipt and the items, prices and discounts come out as a finished list, several shops in one go. The original story is in Scan grocery receipts.
- Use-it-up recipes. Turn what you already bought into something to cook before it goes off.
- Photos on items and receipts. Attach a picture to an item, keep the receipt image with the list.
- No ads.
The first two run on language models that I pay for per use. That is the whole reason Premium exists: not to gate the app, but to cover the bill for the clever parts.
Why three months
A week is not enough to find out whether voice input is useful; you have to shop a few times with it. Three months covers a dozen shops, a few receipts, a couple of recipes on a tired weekday evening. By then you know. Either Premium has become part of how you shop, in which case about a dollar a month, in your local price, is easy, or it has not, and you lose nothing by letting it end.
How to redeem it
- Update Listo and sign in. The code is tied to an account, so a reinstall or a new phone does not lose it. Sign in with Apple, Google or email all work.
- On Android: open Settings → Subscription, tap Have a promo code?, type LISTO2026 and tap Redeem. Premium is on within a second.
- On iPhone: the same button, but it opens Apple's own redemption sheet. Enter LISTO2026 there, or skip the typing and tap this link on your phone.
- Try the mic on your next shop. Say three things. That is the moment most people decide.
If the button does something other than what I describe, or the code is refused, write to support@rolisto.com with your platform and I will sort it out by hand. Half of Listo's best behavior started as one of those mails.
— Andrei