Terms of Use

Who is agreeing with whom

On one side, you. On the other, Eduard Abdullin, an independent developer enrolled in the Apple Developer Program as an individual — “we” from here on.

The app is delivered through the App Store, and Apple’s Standard End User License Agreement for licensed applications applies to it. These terms are in addition to it. Apple is not a party to our agreement and is not responsible for the app or its content, but it may rely on this agreement as a third party for whose benefit it is made.

By installing the app or leaving your address on the site you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use Pagetime — that is the only consequence.

Who may use it

Pagetime is meant for people aged sixteen and over. If you are younger, use it only with a parent’s or guardian’s knowledge and consent — and it is that adult who is answerable for the subscription.

You need an iPhone with iOS 17 or newer. There is no other app, and we are not going to promise one.

Your account

Reading, timing and writing thoughts down work with no account at all. Signing in is needed for the AI and for sync only, and it always goes through Apple ID: there is no password of ours to guess and none to lose.

One account per person. You are answerable for what happens from your signed-in device, so a lost phone is worth cutting off through Apple.

You can delete the account at any moment, in the app’s settings. The server is wiped at once; everything written on the phone stays with you.

What is free and what is not

Free, and staying free: the timer and the Live Activity, the library, the daily goal, the streak and the calendar, thoughts, quotes and ideas, a photographed page with text recognition, the statistics and the widgets. All of it is counted on the phone, works offline and needs no account.

On subscription: the conversation about a book, summaries, a month in review, a thought about a quote — and sync between your own devices. What costs money is exactly what costs someone other than you: an outside model and an outside machine.

You can try it without paying: sync works for the first seven days after you sign in, the first twenty AI answers are free, and a month in review is given once.

The subscription

The subscription is bought in the App Store, by the month or by the year. The App Store names the price in your currency, and it is visible before the purchase.

It renews itself until it is cancelled. You cancel it in the App Store settings, at least a day before the paid period ends, and everything keeps working until that end.

Apple takes the money and Apple refunds it, by its own rules; we have neither your card nor any way to return a payment. If Apple tells us about a refund, the subscription closes immediately.

When the subscription ends, nothing disappears from the phone: the library, the time and the notes stay where they are. The AI and sync stop. Your data is not held hostage.

AI answers have a daily cap. It is set so that an ordinary reader never reaches it, and with a subscription it is higher than without one. If you do reach it, the app says so, and the next day the count starts over; the number itself can change.

Your notes stay yours

The rights to what you write and photograph belong to you. We claim nothing in them, and we do not use your notes to train models or to show them to anybody else.

So that the app can work, you allow us exactly what is needed: to keep your notes on the server, to carry them between your own devices, and to pass into the model what an answer needs — when you are the one asking for the answer. Nothing beyond that.

What is in your notes is on you. Do not put other people’s secrets there, or anything the law forbids.

What the AI says

The answers are written by a language model, not by a person and not by an editor. It gets things wrong, invents details and states the untrue with confidence — check anything that matters against the book.

An AI answer is not advice from a doctor, a lawyer or a financial adviser, and no decision should rest on it. We may change the model at any time: the app promises a conversation about a book, not a particular model.

For the answer to be about your book, your notes on it go into the model. The privacy policy describes this, and it is the only place where someone other than us sees your words; if you would rather they did not, do not use the AI — the rest of the app works without it.

What you may not do

• Break the server, get around the limits, or reach the API with a script instead of the app.
• Try to get at someone else’s data or pass yourself off as another person.
• Take the app apart to build your own out of it — as far as the law forbids that.
• Put anything unlawful or infringing into your notes, or ask the AI to help with it.

Blocking

We may limit or close access if these rules are disregarded to the point where the service or other readers suffer. Where it does not look deliberate, we will write to you first.

If we close your access through no fault of yours, write to us. We will help you get back the paid and unused part of the subscription, but the refund itself is Apple’s to make: we have no access to payments.

How the service runs

Pagetime is made by one person. The server can be down, an update can be late, and a feature can disappear if there is nothing to keep it alive with. Round-the-clock service is not something we promise.

The good news is in how the app is built: the tracker, the notes and the statistics live on the phone and survive any server outage. All you lose meanwhile is the conversation with the AI.

These terms may change. Substantial changes will be announced in the app in advance; if the new terms do not suit you, delete your account — that is how you decline.

Liability

The app is provided as it is. We are answerable for intent and gross negligence and for harm to life and health, as the law requires; beyond that, liability is limited to what you paid for the subscription over the last year.

We are not answerable for lost profit, for a model answering wrongly, or for data lost when the only copy was on a lost phone and sync had never been switched on.

None of this takes away the rights consumer law gives you where you live: those are stronger than any clause here.

Law and disputes

The agreement is governed by the law of the country where the developer lives — but if you are a consumer, the rights and the courts of your own country stay with you, and this clause does not narrow them.

Writing first is better: [email protected]. Almost everything that looks like a dispute turns out to be a misunderstanding that is fixed in a letter.

These documents — this one, the privacy policy and the support page — are published in English only. The app and the site speak seven languages; the documents do not, so that there is never a question of which wording counts. If English is not your language and something here matters to you, write to us and we will explain it in yours.