Terms of use

Effective 30 July 2026

This is the licence agreement for the My Wife's Plants app. Using the app means accepting it. Some of it is here because Apple requires it word for word; 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 App Store Terms of Service, including the Usage Rules in them.

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 via Family Sharing where I've enabled it.

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 120 houseplants, and backup and restore. No subscription, no account, and I don't intend to put any of it behind one.

Plant AI — identification past the free allowance, per-plant chat, the sunlight spot check, and AI feeding and care lookups — needs a subscription. A small number of photo identifications is included free, once per installation; it isn't restored by reinstalling and isn't carried in a backup.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Free trials. If one is offered, any unused part of it ends when you buy a subscription.

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

Everything you put in stays yours. It's on your device, not on my servers, and I claim no rights over it — nothing beyond what's technically needed to pass a photo or a plant profile to the AI at the moment you ask for it. See the privacy policy.

Because it lives on your device, backing it up is on you. Use Export backup. Deleting the app deletes its data, and I can't recover it.

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 Google's Gemini 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. They're third-party beneficiaries of this agreement to that extent.

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 law of England and Wales, with disputes subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of its courts. If you're a consumer living elsewhere, you keep the mandatory protections of your own 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 means accepting the new version. Anything material affecting a paid subscription goes in the app's release notes too.

Questions: support@mywifesplants.app.