How to Set Up Classifindr on Your Phone in Five Minutes

This guide walks you through installing the Classifindr mobile app, signing in, allowing notifications, and confirming that alerts will reach your phone. If you already have a Classifindr account on the web, the whole process takes about five minutes.

For an overview of why we built native apps and what is in v1, see the launch announcement. For full feature details and store links, see the mobile page.

Step 1: Install the app

Search for “Classifindr” in the App Store (iOS) or Google Play (Android), or follow the direct links from our mobile page. The apps are free to download.

You do not need a Classifindr account to install. If you are new to Classifindr, you can sign up from inside the app on first launch.

Step 2: Sign in

Classifindr supports four passwordless sign-in options on mobile, all of them faster than typing a password:

• Passkeys are the fastest and most secure. If your device supports passkeys (Face ID, Touch ID, or Android biometrics), this is the recommended option. Hardware-backed and phishing-resistant.
• Sign in with Apple is required by Apple’s guidelines if you have ever used Sign in with Apple on the web. One tap, no email entry.
• Google Sign-In uses your Google account. Equivalent to Sign in with Apple in terms of speed and convenience.
• Email magic-link sends a single-use code or link to your email. Useful if you do not use the other options.

If you already have a Classifindr account, sign in with whichever method you used on the web. Your searches, channels, and unit balance appear immediately.

If you are new, the app guides you through a short onboarding: pick a region, accept the terms, and set up the subscription trial through the same checkout terms shown on the web.

Step 3: Allow notifications

The app prompts for notification permission shortly after first launch. Allow notifications if you want alerts to reach the device through native push, subject to your phone’s notification, Focus, battery, and platform settings.

If you accidentally tap “Don’t Allow,” you can re-enable it from the system settings:

• iOS: Settings > Notifications > Classifindr > Allow Notifications
• Android: Settings > Apps > Classifindr > Notifications > toggle on

Back in the app, the Notification Settings screen (More > Notification Settings) shows your current permission status. On Android, it also shows the channel importance for each notification category.

Step 4: Verify your default mobile-push channel

When the app registers your device for push, Classifindr automatically creates a notification channel called something like “This iPhone” or “This Pixel.” This channel is set as your default fan-out target, which means new searches you create will route to it unless you say otherwise.

To check it is wired up:

1. Open the app and go to the Channels tab
2. Find the channel for this device
3. Tap “Send test alert”

You should receive a push notification within a few seconds. If you do, your phone is ready. If you do not, jump to the troubleshooting section below.

Step 5: Route a search to mobile push

If you already have searches set up on the web, they are already routing to whichever channels you configured. To add the mobile-push channel to an existing search:

1. Tap the search in the Searches list
2. Tap “Channels”
3. Add this device’s mobile-push channel
4. Save

If you want a search to route only to your phone (for example, a high-priority hunt you want to review promptly), you can also remove other channels from that search. Most users keep at least one fallback like Email or Telegram so they have a record even if their phone is silent.

Step 6: Send yourself a real test

The cleanest way to verify the full end-to-end flow is with a low-noise search you do not mind triggering. Some good candidates:

• A common item under a low price ceiling, in your local area, that lists a few times per day
• A keyword you know returns results regularly, like a popular phone model

After a check finds a matching listing, you should see a real alert land on your phone. Tap it to confirm the listing detail screen opens correctly.

Optional: Quiet hours and routing

A few patterns we see work well:

• Phone for the most important search, Discord or email for the rest. Keeps your phone signal high, lets noisier searches accumulate somewhere browseable.
• Web Push for laptop work, mobile push for everything else. Useful if you spend a lot of time at a desk and want the alert visible there too.
• One mobile-push channel per device. If you have an iPhone and an iPad, both can register. The app names them automatically and you can rename them.

Troubleshooting

The test alert never arrives. Check that notifications are enabled in your phone’s system settings (see Step 3). On iOS, check Focus modes are not silencing the app. On Android, check battery optimisation is not putting Classifindr to sleep.

Sign-in loops back to the start. Usually means the universal-link configuration on the web has not propagated to your device yet. Force-quit the app, wait a minute, and try again. If it persists, sign in with email magic-link as a workaround.

Alerts arrive on the web but not on the phone. The mobile-push channel might be deactivated for that search. Check the search’s Channels list and confirm this device is enabled. If you still see nothing, check the Channel detail in the app for any delivery errors.

Anything else. The contact form is the best place to reach us. Include your phone model, OS version, and the approximate time of the alert issue so we can investigate with useful context.

That is it. Once your phone is wired up, the rest is the same Classifindr you already know, just on the device that is already in your hand.