Notifications

Loomkeep reaches you three ways:

• The bell, in the app. Opening an entry, or clearing them all, removes it.
• Push, on your phone or computer, even with the app closed. It is turned on per device, in Settings › Communications.
• Email, for what must reach you wherever you are, starting with anything about your account’s security.

What goes where is chosen in Settings › Communications. The tables below list every alert, generated from the same list the app sends from.

Push on a phone

On iPhone and iPad, push only works once Loomkeep is installed on the home screen. On every device, push has to be turned on in each browser or installed app you use.

Activity

What someone else did that concerns you. Everything lands in the bell, and you choose what also comes as a push. On a new account those pushes start off; accounts created before October 2026 had them all turned on.

When	Bell	Push	Email
A reply to your comment	Always	Off, can be turned on	—
A mention in a comment	Always	Off, can be turned on	—
A request to follow your private profile	Always	Off, can be turned on	—
A new follower	Always	Off, can be turned on	—
Your follow request accepted	Always	Off, can be turned on	—
Being added as an editor of a list	Always	Off, can be turned on	—
Titles added to a list you share (grouped per editor)	Always	Off, can be turned on	—
Someone joining through your invitation	Always	Off, can be turned on	—
An import finished while the app was closed	Always	Off, can be turned on	—
Your comment reaching 10 reactions	Always	—	—
Your review reaching 10 upvotes	Always	—	—

Reactions and upvotes stay in the bell: a count going up isn’t worth a notification on your phone.

Episode, movie and game releases

Release reminders aren’t in the bell: the calendar and Up next already show them. Instead, a summary of what came out goes by email, by push, or both, weekly (Monday morning) or daily (in the evening, a premium feature to come).

For an upcoming movie, add it to your library, then choose Notify me on release in its sticky action bar. It joins the same summaries as new episodes. The reminder uses the first cinema release in your country, or digital when no cinema release is announced. Without a local date, the reminder waits for one to be confirmed.

An upcoming game works the same way, from My tracking on its page. Its reminder goes off on the release day, or on the 1st of the month when only the month is announced. A game dated to a quarter, a year or not dated yet can still have its reminder on: it goes off once the release is dated to a day or a month.

With neither summary turned on, there is nothing to deliver a reminder through: the release reminders and a show’s Mute release alerts stay greyed out until the email or push summary is on in Settings › Communications.

When	Bell	Push	Email
New episodes of the shows you follow (a summary)	—	Weekly or daily, your choice	Weekly or daily, your choice
Local releases of movies with a reminder enabled (the same summary)	—	Weekly or daily, your choice	Weekly or daily, your choice
Releases of games with a reminder enabled (the same summary)	—	Weekly or daily, your choice	Weekly or daily, your choice
A sequel announced in a saga you finished part of	Always	On, can be turned off	Off, can be turned on

Your account

When	Bell	Push	Email
A moderation decision about your content	Always	—	Always
A report you filed was reviewed	Always	—	—
Your password changed while API keys are active	Always	—	—
An API key expiring within a week	Always	—	Always
An API key found in public and revoked	Always	—	Always
Welcome, after signing up	—	—	Always
Confirming your email address	—	—	Always
An invitation to join an instance	—	—	Always
Your account unused for two years	—	—	Always
Your account deleted	—	—	Always

Security

Security alerts always go by email, which someone using your session can’t dismiss the way a bell entry is cleared. If you receive one for something you didn’t do, change your password and check Settings › Security.

When	Bell	Push	Email
A password reset link	—	—	Always
Your password changed	—	—	Always
A code to confirm a new email address	—	—	Always
Your email address changed (to the old one)	—	—	Always
Your email address changed (to the new one)	—	—	Always
A sign-in code by email	—	—	Always
A sign-in from a new device	—	—	Always
Two-factor authentication, a security key or passwordless sign-in turned on or off, new recovery codes	—	—	Always
A recovery code used to sign in	—	—	Always
A sign-in blocked after the right password and several wrong second factors	—	—	Always
An API key created	—	—	Always

Announcements

When	Bell	Push	Email
What's new in each release	—	—	If you subscribe
A message from the instance's administrators	—	Always	—

Administrators

Only an instance’s administrators receive these. Email starts on and push off; both can be switched in Settings › Communications.

When	Bell	Push	Email
Reports waiting for a decision (daily)	—	Off, can be turned on	On, can be turned off
A scheduled job failing, then working again	—	Off, can be turned on	On, can be turned off
A catalogue reaching 80% and 100% of its daily quota	—	Off, can be turned on	On, can be turned off
A new account	—	Off, can be turned on	On, can be turned off

On a self-hosted instance

Email and push depend on how the instance is set up: without an SMTP server, no email goes out, and without push keys, no push. The bell always works. See Email and push.