# Install the app and turn on push notifications

> Put Contals on your Home Screen or desktop like an app and get push notifications on your phone or computer – in Chrome, Edge and Firefox, and on iPhone and iPad from iOS 16.4 once Contals is on the Home Screen.

Source: https://contals.com/docs/en/guides/install-app/  
Last updated: 2026-10-16

Contals runs in the browser, and you can install it like an app: it gets its own icon, opens in its own window, starts with the last state even without a connection, and can show push notifications while it is closed. Nothing comes from an app store.

## 1. Install Contals

- **Chrome and Edge** (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android): the home page shows a card **Install the app** with the button **Install Contals** – your browser then asks once. Or use the browser's menu: **Install app** or **Add to Home screen**. **Not now** hides the card on this device for 30 days.
- **iPhone and iPad** (Safari): tap **Share**, then **Add to Home Screen**, and open Contals from the new icon. The card on the home page shows these two steps.
- **Safari on a Mac:** **File** → **Add to Dock**. **Firefox** on a computer keeps Contals in a tab – push notifications work there too.

Once Contals is installed, the settings page says **Contals is installed on this device.**

## 2. Turn on push notifications

Profile → **Summary e-mail and notifications** → **This device** → switch on **Push notifications on this device**. Your browser asks whether Contals may show notifications: allow it. **Send a test notification** shows one within a few seconds.

- Push is set per device: switch it on on every phone or computer that should get notifications.
- **iPhone and iPad** need iOS or iPadOS 16.4 or later **and** Contals on the Home Screen (step 1). Open Contals from its icon and switch push on there – in a Safari tab it is not available.
- A device marked as shared in your profile gets no push notifications.
- If you blocked notifications for Contals earlier, allow them again in your browser's site settings, then switch push on.

## 3. Choose what comes by push

Under **What you hear about, and where** you choose for each kind of notification – assignments, mentions, due reminders, comments on your cards, invitations, status updates, Power-Ups (polls, bookings, cards that can start) – whether it comes in the app, by push and by e-mail ([notifications](/docs/en/finding/notifications/)). Under **Lock screen**, **Minimal** makes notifications say only that something new is waiting, without card, board or people's names. Notifications about confidential boards are always minimal.

## 4. Turn push off

Switch off **Push notifications on this device**, or sign out on that device – Contals forgets the device at once. Blocking notifications for Contals in the browser works too.

> **Privacy:**
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> Your browser maker's push service (Google, Apple, Mozilla or Microsoft) delivers the notifications, encrypted for your device: it cannot read them. Details in the [privacy policy](/en/privacy/).