Terms of Use

Agreement to these terms

By downloading or using AppSpend you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the app.

These Terms are between you and AppSpend, referred to below as "the developer". Apple is not a party to them. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content, has no obligation to provide support or maintenance for it, and is not responsible for addressing any claim you have about it — including product liability, any failure to meet a legal requirement, and any claim under consumer protection or privacy law. Apple is, however, a third-party beneficiary of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

Because the app is distributed through the App Store, Apple’s own terms — the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, including the Licensed Application End User Licence Agreement — also apply to your download. Where those terms conflict with these on a point Apple requires, Apple’s terms win.

What the app is

AppSpend is a personal record-keeping tool. It lets you list the apps you use and the ones you would like, note what each of them costs and how long you spend in them, and see the totals that come out of that.

It is intended for your own personal, non-commercial use. It is not financial, tax or accounting advice, it is not accounting software, and it is not a subscription-management service.

The app is free to download and free to use, and is supported by advertising. There are no in-app purchases and nothing to subscribe to.

How costs are calculated

Every recurring price you enter is converted to a monthly and a yearly figure using fixed rules:

• A weekly price counts as 52 charges a year, which works out at 4.33 a month.
• A daily price counts as 365 charges a year.
• A monthly price is multiplied by 12 to give the yearly figure.
• A yearly price is divided by 12 to give the monthly figure.
• A free app contributes nothing to either total.

Real billing does not line up perfectly with those rules. Providers bill on calendar months of different lengths, leap years add a day, prices change part-way through a term, promotional periods end, and the App Store applies its own taxes and currency conversion.

Every figure the app shows is an estimate derived from what you typed in. It is not a statement of account and it will not always match what you are actually billed.

One-time purchases

A purchase you make once is not a running cost, so treating it as one would make your monthly total meaningless.

One-time purchases are therefore reported on their own, and are never added into the monthly or yearly recurring totals shown on the dashboard or in the statistics.

Usage time

Usage figures come from the daily times you record yourself. The app does not read Screen Time, and does not use any system API that reports how long you have spent in other apps.

Weekly, monthly and yearly usage totals are rolled up from those daily entries, so they are only as accurate as what you enter.

Subscriptions are managed by Apple, not by this app

AppSpend does not connect to your App Store account. It cannot see which subscriptions you actually hold, cannot start, change or cancel any of them, and cannot request a refund on your behalf.

Deleting an entry in the app deletes a note that you wrote. It does not cancel anything, and you will continue to be billed. Real subscriptions are cancelled in the Settings app: tap your name, then Subscriptions.

Your responsibility

You choose what to enter and you are responsible for its accuracy. If a price is out of date, if a billing period is wrong, or if you forget to record a day of usage, the totals will be wrong in the same way.

Because your data lives only on your device, you are also responsible for keeping it. Do not treat the app as your only record of what you pay for.

Advertising

The app is supported by advertising supplied by Google AdMob. The developer chooses to run ads, but does not choose the individual ads you are shown, and does not endorse, vet or take responsibility for what they advertise.

Any dealing you have with an advertiser — following an ad, buying something, handing over information — is between you and that advertiser. What data the ads collect, and how to limit it, is set out in the Privacy Policy.

You may not interfere with, block within the app, obscure or artificially interact with the ads.

Availability and changes to the app

The app may change over time. Features may be added, changed or removed, support for older versions of iOS may end, and the app may be withdrawn from sale. None of that creates an obligation to keep any particular feature available.

If a paid tier is ever introduced, it will be announced in the App Store release notes and these Terms will be updated before it goes on sale. Features you have today will not be moved behind a payment without that notice.

Intellectual property

The app, its name, its design and its code belong to the developer. You are given a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use one copy on devices you own or control.

You may not copy, sell, sub-licence, reverse engineer or redistribute the app, except where that restriction is not permitted by law.

The names, icons and trademarks of any third-party apps you record belong to their respective owners and are used by you, in your own private list, for reference only.

No warranty

The app is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement and accuracy.

The developer does not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted or error-free, that it will run on every device or iOS version, or that its calculations will meet your particular requirements.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the developer is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for loss of data, loss of savings, a subscription you meant to cancel and did not, or any financial decision you made on the basis of a figure shown in the app.

Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid for the app — which, the app being free, is zero.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, such as liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights in your country are not affected.

Governing law

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of them or out of your use of AppSpend, are governed by the laws of the country in which the developer is established, without regard to conflict of law rules. Nothing here removes any right you have to bring proceedings in the courts of your own country of residence where local consumer law gives you that right.

Changes to these terms

These Terms may be updated when the app changes. The current version always lives on this page, and the "Last updated" date at the top shows when it last changed.

Material changes will also be noted in the App Store release notes for the version that introduces them. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the revised Terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the app and delete it.

Contact

Questions about these Terms are welcome, and so are corrections if you think something here does not match how the app actually behaves.