Terms of use

Last updated September 27, 2026

This is the licence agreement for the My Wife's Plants app. Using the app means accepting it. It includes the provisions Apple requires of a custom licence; the rest I've kept as short and as plain as I can. None of it takes away your statutory rights as a consumer.

Who this is with

This agreement is between you and Jacob North, who wrote and publishes the app. It is not an agreement with Apple. Apple isn't a party to it and isn't responsible for the app or its contents. Your use is also subject to Apple's Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, including their Usage Rules.

Your licence

You get a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable licence to use the app on any Apple-branded device you own or control, as the App Store's Usage Rules permit, including access by associated accounts through Family Sharing or volume purchasing as permitted by those rules. Subscription sharing depends on the purchased plan's availability.

Please don't:

• copy, redistribute or sell the app, except as the App Store allows;
• reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble it, except where law expressly permits that despite this clause;
• remove proprietary notices; or
• use it to build a competing product, or bulk-scrape the built-in care guides.

The app, its care guides, its artwork and its name stay mine or my licensors'. Nothing here hands any of that over.

What's free, what isn't

The core is free and works offline: your plants, reminders, notifications, watering and feeding schedules, species search, the built-in guides for 252 houseplants, and backup and restore. No subscription, no account, and I don't intend to put any of it behind one.

Plant AI — photo identification, per-plant chat, and AI care and feeding lookups past their free allowances, and the sunlight spot check, the “Is it sick?” health check and the “Meet your collection” reading past their free tries — needs a subscription. A one-time allowance of three photo identifications, three chat messages, three AI care profiles, three feeding lookups, one sunlight spot check, one health check and one collection reading is included free. Allowances are tracked against the app's subscriber identifier, do not refill monthly and aren't carried in a backup. AI features require internet access.

Plant AI depends on someone else's model. I may change the model underneath, adjust the monthly allowance for fair-use reasons, or suspend a feature if a provider goes away. If that materially reduces what you're paying for, cancel — and where the law or Apple's refund policy provides for it, ask Apple for a refund.

Subscription terms

• Price. Shown in the app in your own currency before you confirm, including any tax Apple applies. Prices vary by region and can change; an existing subscription's price won't rise without the notice and consent the App Store requires.
• Plans and usage. Monthly and yearly plans are available. Both include the same monthly feature allowances, shown in the app before purchase: currently 40 photo identifications, 300 chat messages, 30 sunlight checks, 30 sick-plant checks and 10 collection readings a month, plus 200 AI care profiles and 100 feeding lookups for plants outside the built-in guides. Usage allowances reset at the start of each calendar month in UTC, independently of the billing date. Temporary rate limits and service-availability limits also apply.
• Payment. Charged to your Apple ID on confirmation. I never see your payment details.
• Renewal. It renews automatically for the same period unless auto-renew is switched off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Apple charges renewals within the 24 hours before that.
• Cancelling. iOS Settings → your name → Subscriptions, or the Plant AI row in the app. Access runs to the end of the period you've already paid for.
• Deleting the app. Uninstalling, offloading or deleting local data does not cancel your subscription. Cancel through Apple to stop renewal.
• Refunds. Apple handles the money, so refunds come from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com, under Apple's policy. I can't issue them myself. Your statutory rights are unaffected.
• Restoring. A subscription belongs to the Apple ID that bought it. Use Restore purchases on the Plant AI screen after reinstalling or on a new device. It can't be moved to another platform's store.
• Offer codes. If you redeem an offer, Apple shows its duration, price and renewal terms before you confirm. Some offers renew at the regular subscription price unless cancelled. Follow the terms shown on the redemption screen.

Plant advice isn't professional advice

The care guides, schedules and AI answers are general horticultural guidance, not professional horticultural, agricultural, veterinary or medical advice.

AI answers can be wrong, incomplete or out of date — including about what a plant is and whether it's toxic. Please don't rely on this app alone for decisions about plants around children or pets, or about anything anyone might eat or touch. Check an authoritative source, and call a doctor, a vet or your poison service if you suspect something's been eaten.

Your plants are your responsibility. I can't promise that following the app will keep one alive.

Your plants and your backups

Your photos, notes and other content remain yours. Your collection is saved on your device. You permit the processing needed to provide an AI feature you request or investigate content you send to support. See the privacy policy.

Because it lives on your device, backing it up is on you. Use Export backup and keep the file somewhere private. The app does not encrypt exported backups. Deleting the app removes its local plant data, and I can't recover it. Copies in exported or device backups are managed separately.

Fair use

Please don't:

• send unlawful content, or content that infringes someone else's rights, through the AI features;
• work around the free allowance, the subscription check or the request limits, including by faking subscriber identifiers;
• automate requests through the proxy, or load it beyond ordinary personal use; or
• probe or try to get unauthorised access to any part of the service.

I may cut off the AI features for an installation doing any of that. The offline half of the app is unaffected.

Support

I am solely responsible for any maintenance and support for the app. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services for it. Support is best-effort, by email at support@mywifesplants.app.

Warranty

So far as the law allows, the app is provided “as is” and “as available”, with no warranty of any kind. I can't promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that an identification or an AI answer will be right, or that an AI provider will stay available.

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 you. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the app. Any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty are my responsibility, not Apple's.

Product and IP claims

I, not Apple, am responsible for addressing any claim from you or a third party relating to the app or your possession and use of it — including product liability claims, any claim that the app fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar law.

If a third party claims the app or your use of it infringes their intellectual property rights, I, not Apple, am solely responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging that claim.

Liability

So far as the law allows, I'm not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential loss, loss of data, or the death of or damage to a plant, arising from your use of the app. My total liability relating to the app is capped at the greater of what you paid me for it in the previous twelve months, or $50.

Nothing here excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that can't lawfully be excluded.

Third-party services

The AI features use Anthropic's Claude API through a proxy I run. Subscription state is handled by RevenueCat, and purchases by Apple. When you use those features you must comply with the applicable third-party terms, and those providers handle data under their own policies, as described in the privacy policy. Cloudflare hosts the proxy and website; iNaturalist supplies reference-photo lookups.

Legal compliance and export

You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You agree to comply with all applicable third-party terms when using the app.

Apple as third-party beneficiary

Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement. On your acceptance of these terms, Apple has the right — and is deemed to have accepted the right — to enforce this agreement against you as a third-party beneficiary of it.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia and the United States, without regard to their conflict-of-laws rules, with disputes subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Georgia. If you're a consumer living elsewhere, you keep the mandatory protections of your own state's or country's law and can bring proceedings there.

Changes and contact

I may update these terms; the date at the top will change, and carrying on using the app is subject to the updated terms where permitted by law. Material changes affecting paid subscriptions will be explained in the app's release notes. Any notice or consent required by applicable law or Apple's rules will still apply; changes do not remove rights you already have.

Questions: support@mywifesplants.app.