The same shared list now with an owner
- You decide what visitors can change.Let them tick items off but not rewrite them. Claim a sign-up slot but not add new ones. Or make the whole list view-only.
- Admins you appoint, free.Co-managers skip every restriction and never pay a cent. One subscription covers the whole team.
- An address people can actually remember.
anonylist.app/l/troop-12instead of a jumble of characters. Claimed once, and yours for good. - Ask ChatGPT or Claude for it.Build a sign-up sheet with the slots already in it, add sections, put dates on rows — by asking, in the conversation you’re already having. Making a list that way is free; pro is what unlocks the rest.
- A list you can put back.Save the shape of a list, let it get messy all week, then reset it in one tap — same list, same link. See baseline.
- Everyone else stays anonymous.Visitors open the link and it just works. No app, no account, nothing to sign up for, exactly like every other anonylist list.
Choose exactly what visitors can do
Classic anonylist is beautifully lawless: anyone with the link can do anything, and for a grocery run with family, that’s the whole point. But some lists need a grown-up in the room — the team schedule nobody should reshuffle, the sign-up sheet only you should restructure, the checklist the group should tick but not rewrite. anonylist pro gives a list an owner: you.
Each feature has its own switches. Let visitors check items off but not edit them; let them claim sign-up slots but not add new ones; or make the whole list view-only and use it as a live handout. Flip a preset — everything, check off only, view only — or tune the full grid:
| Add | Edit | Check / claim | Move | Delete | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Items | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Sections | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | |
| Notes | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | |
| Sign-ups | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
A packing list the troop can tick, claim a slot on — and nothing else. Changes apply live to everyone, and you or your admins can loosen them any time.
Add admins — they don’t pay
Appoint co-managers by email. Admins skip every restriction, manage the sign-up sheet with you, and tune permissions — they just sign in with a Google account, free. One subscription covers the owner; the whole family or team rides along.
Reset the list instead of remaking it
Some lists are the same list every week: the grocery run, the opening checklist, the gear that goes in the van, the snack rota. They get ticked off, added to and quietly wrecked, and then somebody rebuilds them from memory — or makes a copy. A copy is a new link, which means re-sharing it, and somebody always ends up on last week’s.
Baseline saves the version you meant. Let the list get messy all week, then put it back in one tap: same list, same link, same people, same address on the flyer. Checked rows come back unchecked and claimed sign-ups come back open, because what you saved is the shape of the list, not this week’s progress.
Nothing about it asks you to take a leap. Before anything happens you’re told exactly what it will do — removes 2 added rows, unchecks 14, clears 6 sign-ups — and once it lands, anyone on the list can undo it for 30 seconds. The list as it was is kept either way, so a reset is never the last word.
It can also reset itself: pick a day and an hour and the list clears on its own, so Monday’s checklist is ready before anyone opens it. Those stay undoable for five minutes, on the fair assumption that nobody was watching at 6am. And the saved version isn’t frozen — open it, change it like any ordinary list, and the people using the live one never see their screen move.
Baseline is a pro feature for the same reason permissions are: putting a list back changes it for everyone on it. So it belongs to whoever owns the list — you and the admins you appoint can reset it, visitors can’t. See how baseline works.
An address people can actually remember
Owned lists can claim a custom address: anonylist.app/l/troop-12 instead of anonylist.app/l/7f3k-9a2c. Say it out loud at a meeting, print it on the flyer, write it on the whiteboard — nobody has to hunt back through a group chat for the link, and nobody has to ask you to resend it. Claim it once and it’s yours: addresses are permanent, never recycled, never reassigned.
A memorable address is also a findable one, which is exactly why it belongs with the controls above. Your list can be easy for the right people to reach and still be yours to run — visitors do only what you allow, no matter how they arrived. And the address survives everything: delete an owned list and it goes dark for everyone while the address stays reserved for you, ready to bring back from your account page whenever you want it. (Owned lists are also exempt from the inactivity cleanup that eventually clears abandoned free ones.)
Your assistant can run the list too
Connect anonylist to ChatGPT or to Claude and ask for what you need in the conversation you’re already having: “set up the potluck sheet with slots for a main, two sides and a dessert”, “add the cake pickup for 2pm Saturday”, “what’s still unclaimed?”. It hands back the ordinary link, and everyone you send it to still needs nothing.
Anyone can make a list, rename it, add to it and tick things off that way. Pro is what unlocks the rest through an assistant — sections, notes, sign-up sheets, dates, and deleting rows — on any list you can reach, not only the ones you own.
Deleting is offered switched off when you connect, and stays yours to turn on or off whenever you like. An assistant can do what your hands can do on a list, and no more: it can’t reorder rows, set a password or claim an address. Set it up in ChatGPT or in Claude.
Everyone else stays anonymous
This is still anonylist. Visitors open the link and it just works — no app, no account, no sign-up. The only thing that changes is who’s in charge. And there’s no lock-in: release any owned list and it goes back to being an ordinary anonylist list, free forever.
Pro keeps anonylist running
There are no ads here, no investors, and nothing about you to sell. anonylist is a small independent project, and pro is what pays for the servers, the domain, and the backups that keep everyone’s lists safe — including all the free ones. If you get value out of a list that never asked you for an account, this is the way to keep that true.
Pricing
Cheaper than twelve monthly charges, and it’s one payment a year. Every pro feature, unlimited owned lists.
Same everything, cancel any time. Your lists can always be released back to free ones.
Sign in and start owning your lists Payments by Stripe. Cancel any time from your account.
Questions
- Do I need pro to use anonylist with an assistant?
- No. Connecting ChatGPT or Claude is free, and so is making a list, renaming it, adding items and checking them off that way. Pro adds the rest through an assistant — sections, notes, sign-up sheets, dates and deleting rows.
- Do the people on my list need accounts?
- No. Visitors just open the link, exactly like any anonylist list. Admins you appoint sign in with a Google account — free, no subscription. Only the owner subscribes.
- What exactly can I control?
- For each feature — items, sections, notes, sign-ups — whether visitors can add, edit, check off or claim, reorder, and delete, plus separate switches for exporting the list to a file and bulk-importing (both off until you allow them). One toggle at a time, or a preset. Changes apply to everyone the moment you make them.
- Is a controlled list private?
- No. Permissions control who can change the list; anyone with the link can still read it, and a password remains a gate for new visitors, not privacy. Don’t keep secrets in any list.
- What happens if I stop paying?
- Nothing is deleted and nothing opens up. After a billing-cycle grace period your owned lists become view-only for everyone until payment resumes — or release them back to ordinary free lists any time.
- Who’s behind anonylist?
- One person, no investors, no ads. Pro subscriptions pay the running costs — servers, domain, backups — which is what lets the free side stay free and account-free.
- Can I turn a pro list back into a normal one?
- Yes — release it. It becomes an ordinary anonylist list: fully open, no owner, no admins. No lock-in.