Aptype: AI Grammar Keyboard for iPhone

These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) are a legal agreement between you and Dewmina Udayashan, the developer of Aptype (“Aptype”, “we”, “us”). They apply to the Aptype app and keyboard for iPhone and iPad, our website and the Android waitlist (together, the “Service”). Please read them carefully. Section 19 explains rights you have as a consumer that these Terms do not take away.

1. Agreement to these Terms

By downloading, installing or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. If you use the Service on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to accept these Terms for it.

2. Who can use Aptype

You must be at least 13 years old, or the minimum age required in your country to use online services without parental consent if that is higher. If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, you may use the Service only with the permission of a parent or guardian, who must agree to these Terms for you and is responsible for any purchases. You may not use the Service if you are barred from doing so under applicable law.

3. The Service

Aptype is a custom keyboard with AI writing tools. When you tap an AI tool, the text you choose is sent to our servers and to our AI provider, and a rewritten, corrected, translated or generated result is returned to you. Some tools work offline. AI tools need an internet connection and the Keyboard needs “Allow Full Access” to be turned on. How we handle your information is explained in the Privacy Policy.

4. Your licence to use Aptype

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the App on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. You may not:

copy, modify, distribute, sell, rent, lease or sublicense the App or the Service;
reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the App, or try to extract its source code, prompts or models, except where the law expressly allows this despite this restriction;
access the Service through any means other than the App, including by calling our servers or APIs directly, or use bots or scripts to send requests;
bypass or interfere with usage limits, subscription checks, security features or the Service's operation; or
use the Service to build or train a competing product or AI model.

5. Your content

“Your Content” means text and other material you submit to the Service (“Input”) and the results the Service returns to you (“Output”). As between you and us, you keep all rights you have in your Input, and we assign to you any rights we may have in your Output.

You give us a worldwide, royalty-free, limited licence to process Your Content only as needed to provide the Service to you, including by sending it to our AI provider. This licence ends when processing of your request ends. We do not use Your Content to train AI models.

You are responsible for Your Content and for how you use Output. You confirm that you have the rights needed to submit your Input, and that submitting it and using the Output will not violate the law or anyone's rights, including privacy and intellectual property rights. Because of how AI works, the Service may give similar or identical Output to other users, and we do not guarantee that Output is unique or that you can obtain intellectual property protection for it.

6. AI output

Output is generated automatically by artificial intelligence. It can be inaccurate, incomplete, out of date, biased, offensive or inappropriate for your purpose, and translations can change meaning. You should:

review every Output before you use, send or rely on it, and use the Changes view to check corrections;
not rely on Output as a substitute for professional advice, such as legal, medical, financial or safety advice; and
not use Output in situations where an error could cause injury, financial loss or legal harm without human review.

Output does not represent our views. You are responsible for any message you send, whether or not you used Aptype to write it.

7. Acceptable use

You must not use the Service to:

break any law, or help anyone else do so;
harass, threaten, bully, defame, intimidate or impersonate anyone, or deceive people about who you are;
create spam, scams, phishing messages, malware or other fraudulent or harmful content;
create content that sexualises or endangers children, promotes violence or terrorism, or incites hatred against people based on protected characteristics;
infringe or misappropriate anyone's intellectual property, privacy or other rights;
process other people's personal or sensitive information without a lawful basis to do so;
violate the usage policies of our AI provider, including Google's Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy; or
overload, attack or disrupt the Service, or try to access it or its data without permission.

The AI may refuse requests that we or our provider consider harmful.

8. Free plan and fair use

The free plan includes a set number of AI requests per day, currently 5, plus a small number of requests you can try during setup. Limits reset daily (UTC). Aptype Pro removes the daily limit, but it is subject to fair use: to protect the Service from abuse and automated use, we apply a high daily ceiling that ordinary personal use does not reach (currently 500 requests per day). If you reach it, AI tools pause until the next day. We may change limits to keep the Service running reliably, and we will not reduce what Pro includes during a subscription period you have already paid for.

9. Aptype Pro subscriptions

Billing. Aptype Pro is sold as an auto-renewing subscription through Apple's App Store, with the plans and prices shown in the App. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account when you confirm the purchase.
Renewal. Your subscription renews automatically for the same period at the then-current price unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the current period ends.
Free trials. If a free trial is offered, it is available once per Apple ID where Apple's rules allow. When the trial ends, the subscription starts and you are charged unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends. Any unused part of a trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription.
Cancelling. Manage or cancel your subscription in Settings › [your name] › Subscriptions on your device, or in your App Store account. Cancelling stops future renewals; you keep Pro until the end of the period you have paid for. Deleting the App does not cancel a subscription.
Refunds. Apple handles all payments and refunds under its own policies. You can request a refund at reportaproblem.apple.com. We cannot issue refunds ourselves.
Price changes. If the price of your subscription changes, Apple will notify you in advance and, where required, ask for your consent before charging the new price.
Restoring. Use “Restore Purchases” in the App to restore Pro on a new device with the same Apple ID.

10. Android waitlist

Joining the Android waitlist is free and does not reserve a product, price or feature. We may decide not to release an Android version, or to release it on a different timeline or with different features. We will use your waitlist information only as described in the Privacy Policy.

11. Feedback

If you send us ideas, suggestions or feedback, you allow us to use them without restriction or payment to you. Please don't include confidential information in feedback.

12. Our intellectual property

The Service, including the App, its design, software, prompts, the Aptype name, logo and mark, and all related intellectual property, belongs to us or our licensors and is protected by law. These Terms do not give you any rights in them except the limited licence in section 4. You may not use the Aptype name or logo without our written permission.

13. Third-party services

The Service relies on third parties, including Apple, Google (Firebase and the Gemini API), RevenueCat and Meta, and works inside apps made by others. Their services are governed by their own terms, and we are not responsible for them. Your use of the App Store is subject to Apple's terms.

14. Changes, availability and support

We are continually improving Aptype and may add, change or remove features, tools or AI models. We aim to keep the Service available but do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free, for example during maintenance or if a provider has an outage. Features may also be limited by iOS, by the app you are typing in, or by your network. For help, see Support or email hello@dewmina.dev.

15. Suspension and termination

You can stop using the Service at any time by removing the Keyboard and deleting the App, and cancelling any subscription. We may suspend or end your access, in whole or in part, if you seriously or repeatedly breach these Terms, if we must do so by law, or to protect the Service, our users or others. Where reasonable, we will tell you first and give you a chance to fix the problem. If we end the Service entirely, we will give reasonable notice where possible. Sections 5 to 7 and 11 to 24 continue after termination.

16. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service and all Output are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, non-infringement and quiet enjoyment. We do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements, be uninterrupted, secure or error-free, or that Output will be accurate or reliable.

17. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill or business opportunity, arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms, however caused and even if we were advised of the possibility. Our total liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid for Aptype Pro in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) USD 50.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot be limited or excluded by law.

18. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable costs (including legal fees) brought by third parties arising from Your Content, your use of Output, or your breach of these Terms or the law. This section does not apply to consumers where the law does not allow it.

19. Your rights as a consumer

If you use the Service as a consumer, you have legal rights in your country that these Terms cannot change, for example under consumer laws in the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand. Sections 16 to 18 apply only to the extent those laws allow. If you are in the EU or UK, we are responsible for foreseeable loss or damage caused by our breach of these Terms or our failure to use reasonable care and skill, and the right to withdraw from a digital purchase works as described in Apple's terms for purchases made through the App Store.

20. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Sri Lanka, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The courts of Sri Lanka have jurisdiction over disputes arising from them. If you are a consumer, you also benefit from any mandatory protections of the law of the country where you live, and you can bring proceedings in the courts there.

Before starting any formal proceedings, please email hello@dewmina.dev so we can try to resolve the issue informally. We will try to respond within 30 days.

21. Apple-specific terms

If you got the App from Apple's App Store, you and we agree that:

these Terms are between you and us only, not Apple, and we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the App and its content;
your licence to use the App is limited to use on Apple-branded products you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Usage Rules;
Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support services for the App;
if the App fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) for the App. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation regarding the App, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty are our responsibility, to the extent not disclaimed in these Terms;
we, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to the App or your possession or use of it, including product liability claims, claims that the App fails to conform to legal or regulatory requirements, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar laws;
if a third party claims that the App or your possession and use of it infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim;
you confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties;
you must comply with any third-party terms that apply when you use the App; and
Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, once you accept them, Apple has the right (and is deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

Questions, complaints or claims about the App should be sent to Dewmina Udayashan, Sri Lanka, at hello@dewmina.dev.

22. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms when the Service or the law changes. We will post the updated Terms here with a new “Last updated” date and, for material changes, tell you in the App or by other appropriate means at least 14 days before they take effect, unless the change is required sooner by law or to address a security issue. If you keep using the Service after the changes take effect, you accept the new Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Service and cancel your subscription.

23. General

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service.
If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.
If we don't enforce a right, we have not waived it.
You may not transfer your rights under these Terms. We may transfer ours to a successor that takes over the Service, as long as your rights are not reduced.
We are not responsible for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
No one other than you, us and, as described in section 21, Apple has rights under these Terms.
If these Terms are translated, the English version prevails to the extent the law allows.

24. Contact

Dewmina Udayashan
Sri Lanka
Email: hello@dewmina.dev