Terms & Conditions

1. The Application

The Application is a self-control and digital wellbeing tool for Android and iOS. It allows you, among other things, to define routines that block selected applications and websites on a schedule, to run manual focus sessions, to take part in challenges with other people, and to view statistics regarding your own usage. When something you have blocked is opened, the Application or the operating system displays a blocking screen.

The Android and iOS versions are built on different operating system capabilities, and the features available, and how they work, may differ between platforms, devices, and versions.

The Application is configured and used by you in relation to your own device. It is not a supervision product, a parental control product, or a security product.

2. License and Intellectual Property

The Service Provider grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Application for your own personal use, subject to these Terms & Conditions.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, rent, lease, sublicense, reverse engineer, decompile, attempt to extract the source code of, or create derivative works based on the Application, except where such restriction is prohibited by applicable law.

All trademarks, copyrights, database rights, software rights, design rights, and other intellectual property rights related to the Application, including the text of blocking messages, remain the property of the Service Provider or its licensors.

3. Accounts and Sign-In

An account is not required. Blocking features operate without an account, and paid features may be purchased and used without an account. Sign-in is provided so that achievement badges and paid entitlements can be restored on another device, and is required to take part in Circles challenges.

If you choose to sign in, you may do so with a supported sign-in provider, such as Google or Apple, or with an email address that receives a verification code. You are responsible for maintaining access to that account and for the security of your device. If you lose access to your account, badge state and entitlement restoration associated with it may become unavailable.

You agree not to impersonate another person, use another person’s account without permission, provide false account information, abuse trial or referral systems, or attempt to circumvent entitlement checks.

The Application provides an in-application account deletion option, and deletion may also be requested through the account deletion page. Deleting your account removes the account record, any synchronised badge state, and your Circles information, including points and items. Routines, application groups, passes, and statistics remain on your device, and the Application continues to operate without an account.

4. Permissions and Device Access

The Application requests permissions and settings access from the operating system in order to provide its features. The permissions requested depend on the platform and on the features you use, and may change as the Application is developed. How information obtained through them is handled is described in the Privacy Policy.

On Android

The Android version may request, for example:

• Accessibility Service, to determine which application is in the foreground and, for blocking features you enable, to examine the screen on your device to the extent those features require — for example, recognising a short-form screen by its layout, or reading the address shown in a web browser in order to block websites. What is examined is used only to decide whether to block and is never stored or transmitted;
• display over other applications, to show blocking screens and maintain the Lockdown screen;
• Usage Access, to calculate usage baselines and statistics on your device;
• notifications, to tell you if blocking stops working and to send reminders you have opted into;
• Do Not Disturb access, where you enable that option for Lockdown sessions;
• run at startup and background execution, so that sessions, routines, and challenge check-ins continue after the device is restarted or while the Application is not open.

On iOS

The iOS version may request, for example:

• Screen Time access, through which iOS applies the blocks you configure to the applications, categories, and websites you select. The Application receives your selections only in a form it cannot read;
• notifications and Live Activities, to show timers and to tell you about sessions and challenges;
• permission to track, used only for advertising on the free tier, which you may decline.

If permissions are denied, revoked, or restricted, or if your device, its manufacturer, or its operating system version limits background behaviour, features may not operate correctly. The Service Provider is not responsible for reduced functionality resulting from device settings, denied permissions, battery optimisation, manufacturer customisations, operating system limitations, unsupported devices, or network conditions.

5. Scope and Limitations of Blocking

The Application is intended to assist you in limiting your own use of selected applications and websites. It does not prevent access by technical means that cannot be circumvented. On iOS, blocking is carried out by the operating system and is only as strong as iOS allows a third-party application to make it.

The Service Provider does not warrant that:

• every blocked application or website will be detected or blocked on every device, operating system version, web browser, or manufacturer customisation;
• the blocking screen will always be displayed, or displayed without delay;
• blocking cannot be circumvented, including by revoking or disabling the permissions the Application relies on (such as the Accessibility Service or Screen Time access), using another device, using an unsupported web browser or another way of reaching a website, using a work profile or secondary user account, changing device settings, or deleting the Application;
• screen time measurements, estimates, baselines, or statistics are complete or accurate.

The Application should not be relied upon as a security control, a supervision mechanism, a compliance mechanism, or in any circumstance in which a failure to block, or the operation of a block, could result in harm.

The Application is not a medical device and does not provide medical diagnosis, treatment, or professional healthcare advice. If you have concerns regarding compulsive technology use or its effects on your health, you should consult a qualified professional.

6. Lockdown Sessions

Lockdown is a paid feature that maintains a blocking state for a period selected by you, and prevents settings from being changed or the session from being ended before that period elapses. It may also be made available temporarily, for example as a trial or in exchange for watching an advertisement.

Once a Lockdown session has started, it cannot be ended early and its configuration cannot be changed. The duration and any allowed applications are selected before the session starts and apply for the duration of the session. You should not start a Lockdown session if you may require access to a blocked application or website during that period.

The limits that apply to Lockdown sessions, such as the maximum duration, which applications remain available, and which device restrictions are applied while a session runs, are shown in the Application before a session starts. They may differ between platforms and versions. For example:

• on Android, the telephone application remains available, a limited number of additional applications may be selected as allowed, and the session holds even if the Application is stopped or terminated by the operating system;
• on iOS, the Application may ask iOS to prevent applications from being deleted or installed, to keep the date and time set automatically, and to block websites while the session runs. Screen Time access remains under your control in iOS Settings.

Within these limits, the configuration of a Lockdown session is determined by you. You are responsible for selecting an appropriate duration, for selecting allowed applications, and for not blocking applications that you may require for emergency, safety, medical, navigation, authentication, financial, or work purposes. The Service Provider cannot end a Lockdown session on your behalf.

Emergency calling is handled by the operating system and is not intercepted by the Application. You should not rely on any third-party application, including this one, in an emergency.

7. Blocking Screen Content

When something you have blocked is opened, the Application displays a message, or on iOS the blocking screen shown by the system includes one. Messages are provided in several tones, which you select for each routine. Certain messages contain humour, irony, or mild profanity, and the Application is rated accordingly on the application store.

Messages are written separately for each supported language rather than translated, and tone and register therefore differ between languages.

Where reporting is available, you may report a message, which prevents that message from being displayed to you again. A report is sent anonymously as described in the Privacy Policy. Other feedback intended for the Service Provider should be sent to the address in the Contact section.

Responding to a message does not by itself unblock anything. Temporary unlocks and passes, where configured, are a separate function and may be offered on or from the blocking screen.

8. Free and Paid Tiers

The Application offers a free tier and a paid subscription tier.

• The free tier permits blocking a limited number of applications, provides the standard focus session modes, and may display advertising.
• The paid tier removes the application limit, provides additional session and configuration options including Lockdown, and removes any advertising.

The features included in each tier are displayed within the Application and may change as the Application is developed, subject to Section 17.

9. Advertising

The free tier displays advertising supplied by a third-party advertising network. Advertising is not displayed on the blocking screen or during a focus session.

The Service Provider does not control which advertisements are displayed and is not responsible for the content, accuracy, or practices of advertisers or of the products and services advertised. Any interaction with an advertisement is a matter between you and the advertiser.

The free tier may also offer a temporary trial of a paid feature in exchange for watching rewarded advertisements. Any such trial is limited in duration and in how often it may be taken, is granted at the Service Provider’s discretion, and may be changed or withdrawn under Section 17. A trial confers no continuing entitlement.

Information processed for advertising purposes is described in the Privacy Policy. Subscribing to the paid tier removes advertising.

10. Paid Features, Trials, Billing, and Refunds

Paid features are offered through the application store from which you installed the Application, such as Google Play or the Apple App Store, as auto-renewing subscriptions with billing periods such as monthly or annual, and may also be offered as one-time purchases. A free trial or introductory offer may be available before the first charge. Prices, billing period, trial length, and renewal terms are displayed before purchase, and you are responsible for reviewing them. Available plans, prices, and offers may differ between platforms and regions and may change.

Payment processing, subscription renewal, cancellation, refund handling, payment methods, taxes, and billing disputes are handled by the application store through which the purchase was made. The Service Provider does not collect or store payment card information.

Renewal and cancellation

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless cancelled beforehand. Cancellation stops future renewals and does not end the period already paid for; access to paid features continues until the end of that period.

• Google Play: payment is charged to your Google Play account. You may cancel at any time through your Google Play account.
• App Store: payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You may manage and cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription, where applicable.

Refunds

Refund requests must be submitted to the application store through which the purchase was made and are subject to that store’s refund policies and review process. For purchases made through the App Store, refunds are handled by Apple, and the Service Provider cannot issue them. Google Play generally permits refund requests within 48 hours of purchase, depending on the circumstances of the purchase.

Except where required by applicable law or by the application store’s policies, the Service Provider does not provide discretionary refunds. This applies to renewal charges as well as to initial purchases.

Cancellation of a subscription does not automatically refund charges already made. Where a free trial is offered and is not cancelled before it ends, the subscription begins and is charged.

Nothing in this section limits any statutory right of withdrawal or cancellation available to you as a consumer under mandatory local law.

Loss of entitlement

If you cancel, receive a refund, initiate a payment dispute, or otherwise cease to hold a valid entitlement, paid features will be limited or removed. Configurations that depend on the paid tier may cease to apply. Settings are retained so that they resume if a subscription is purchased again.

11. Lifetime and One-Time Plans

The Service Provider may, now or in the future, offer a one-time purchase, a plan described as a “lifetime” plan, or a similar non-recurring plan. Where such a plan is offered, this section applies.

“Lifetime” refers to the operational lifetime of the Application as a service actively maintained and published by the Service Provider. It does not refer to the lifetime of any person, device, or account, and it does not constitute a commitment to operate the Application indefinitely.

A lifetime plan provides access, without a recurring charge, to the paid features available in the Application for as long as the Service Provider continues to publish and maintain it. Such a plan does not:

• oblige the Service Provider to continue operating, publishing, updating, or supporting the Application for any minimum period;
• guarantee that any particular feature will remain available or unchanged, including features that depend on third-party services, paid infrastructure, or ongoing operating costs;
• guarantee availability on future devices, operating system versions, application store policies, or platforms;
• include features, capabilities, or separately priced products introduced after purchase, where the Service Provider offers those separately;
• entitle you to a refund, in whole or in part, if the Application is discontinued, except where required by applicable law or by the application store’s refund policies.

If the Application is discontinued, the Service Provider will make reasonable efforts to provide advance notice through the Application or the website and, where technically practical, to allow on-device functionality to continue operating without a server connection. Features that require a server, a third-party service, or application store infrastructure, including sign-in, badge synchronisation, and entitlement restoration, will cease to operate.

A purchase is made through, and tied to, the application store account used for it. Whether a purchase made on one platform or store is available on another depends on the stores, your account, and the Application’s entitlement systems, and is not guaranteed.

Any statement regarding a lifetime plan made in marketing material, on the website, or in an application store listing is subject to this section.

12. Achievement Badges and Synchronisation

The Application awards badges based on cumulative activity. Badges are a display feature. They have no monetary value, cannot be exchanged, transferred, or sold, and confer no entitlement to paid features.

If you are signed in, badge unlock state may be synchronised so that it is available after a change of device. This is not a backup service and is not guaranteed. The Service Provider may apply retention limits, technical limits, or data minimisation rules, and synchronisation may fail for reasons outside its control. Statistics, routines, and blocking records are not synchronised and are stored only on your device.

The Service Provider may adjust badge definitions, thresholds, tiers, and availability as the Application is developed.

13. Circles Challenges

Circles lets you join time-limited challenges with other people. Taking part is optional and requires signing in and confirming a nickname. The information Circles processes, and what other people can see, is described in the Privacy Policy.

Nicknames and content you create. Your nickname, and the title, application names, and icons of any challenge you create, are shown to other people. You are responsible for them. They must not impersonate another person or organisation, infringe anyone’s rights, or contain offensive, hateful, sexual, or otherwise inappropriate material. You grant the Service Provider a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store and display that content for the purpose of operating Circles.

No tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. There is no tolerance for objectionable content or for users who harass, threaten, or abuse others. You may report a participant or a challenge within the Application. Reports are reviewed, and the Service Provider may hide a nickname, remove a challenge or other content, and suspend or remove a user from Circles where content or conduct breaks these rules, including automatically after repeated reports and without prior notice.

Results. A challenge is passed or failed according to the conditions shown before you join, as determined by the Application and the Service Provider’s servers. Those conditions may include, for example, ending when blocking is turned off for an extended period, when the device’s time or time zone is changed, when the Application is reinstalled, when you sign out, or when the Application cannot check in for an extended period, such as while the device is turned off or offline. Conditions may differ between platforms. Device restrictions, battery optimisation, and network conditions may affect check-ins. The Service Provider may correct results affected by errors or abuse.

Points and items. Points and avatar items are a display feature. They have no monetary value, cannot be purchased with money, exchanged, transferred, or sold, and confer no entitlement to paid features. The Service Provider may adjust point amounts, prices, items, and their availability as the Application is developed, and may remove points or items obtained through errors or abuse.

Community challenges. Eligibility to create community challenges may be granted on the basis of a social media post you submit. Eligibility may be reviewed and withdrawn if the post is removed or does not meet the stated requirements.

Circles may be changed, limited, or discontinued under Section 17. Creating a challenge that other people have joined does not give you control over their participation.

14. Third-Party Services and Application Stores

The Application uses third-party services governed by their own terms, including Google Play Services, Google Play Billing, Google Sign-In and Credential Manager, the Apple App Store, Sign in with Apple, Apple Push Notification service, Google AdMob, Google Analytics for Firebase, RevenueCat, Supabase, Resend, and Cloudflare, and may use others for the same purposes.

The Service Provider is not responsible for third-party service outages, policy changes, payment processing failures, entitlement service issues, authentication provider issues, advertising network behaviour, operating system changes, or other events outside its reasonable control.

Your use of the Application is also subject to the terms of the application store from which you obtained it.

Additional terms for the App Store version

If you obtained the Application from the Apple App Store, the following also applies:

• These Terms & Conditions are between you and the Service Provider only, not with Apple Inc. (“Apple”). The Service Provider, not Apple, is solely responsible for the Application and its content.
• The license granted to you is limited to using the Application on Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.
• Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support services with respect to the Application.
• If the Application fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any, for the Application. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the Application.
• The Service Provider, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to the Application or your possession and use of it, including product liability claims, claims that the Application fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation.
• In the event of any third-party claim that the Application or your possession and use of it infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, the Service Provider, not Apple, is responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of that claim.
• You represent 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 listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• You must comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the Application.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms & Conditions and, upon your acceptance, Apple will have the right to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.

15. Internet Connection and Charges

Blocking does not require an internet connection. Blocking decisions and message selection are performed on your device.

Certain functions require a connection, including sign-in, Circles challenges and their check-ins, badge synchronisation, purchase verification, entitlement restoration, timer updates on iOS, advertising on the free tier, and message pack updates.

You are responsible for any mobile data charges, roaming charges, or internet service fees imposed by your network provider. If you are not the bill payer for the device, you confirm that you have permission from the bill payer to use the Application.

16. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• use the Application for unlawful, harmful, fraudulent, abusive, or unauthorised purposes;
• use the Application to restrict another person’s device without their knowledge and consent;
• interfere with, disrupt, reverse engineer, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Application or its backend systems;
• circumvent, manipulate, or abuse payment, trial, entitlement, referral, attribution, or account systems;
• manipulate Circles results, points, or items — for example, by using modified versions of the Application, automated tools, or multiple accounts — or harass other participants;
• copy, scrape, extract, or redistribute the Application’s content, message text, code, or designs;
• use the Application in a manner that infringes the rights of the Service Provider or any third party.

17. Updates, Changes, and Availability

The Service Provider may update, modify, suspend, or discontinue all or part of the Application at any time, for maintenance, security, legal, technical, business, operating system, application store, or product reasons.

The Application may not remain compatible with every device, manufacturer customisation, or operating system version, and installation of updates may be required in order to continue using it. Changes to how Android or iOS treats accessibility services, Screen Time, overlays, web browsers, notifications, or background execution may affect the reliability of blocking and of other features.

The Application is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

18. Termination

You may stop using the Application at any time and delete it from your device. Deleting it removes locally stored information, including routines, statistics, and blocking records, and this information cannot be recovered.

If you have created an account, you may delete it within the Application. Account deletion removes account-linked records as described in the Privacy Policy, subject to legal, security, fraud prevention, payment, entitlement, and technical retention requirements. Deleting an account does not cancel a subscription; subscriptions are cancelled through the application store from which they were purchased.

The Service Provider may suspend or terminate access to the Application or to particular features if you violate these Terms & Conditions, abuse the service, create legal or security risk, or if provision of the service is no longer reasonably possible.

Upon termination, the rights and licenses granted to you under these Terms & Conditions end.

19. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Application is provided without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

The Service Provider does not warrant that the Application will be uninterrupted, error-free, or timely, or that any particular outcome will be achieved.

Nothing in this section excludes a warranty that cannot be excluded under applicable law, including mandatory consumer protection law.

20. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service Provider is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or similar damages, or for loss of data, loss of profits, loss of goodwill, business interruption, missed communications, missed opportunities, device issues, inaccurate measurements, or reliance on statistics generated by the Application.

This includes, without limitation, consequences arising from an application being blocked, from an application not being blocked, and from a Lockdown session configured by you continuing until its scheduled end.

Nothing in these Terms & Conditions limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law.

21. Governing Law

These Terms & Conditions are governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea, without regard to conflict of law rules, except where the mandatory consumer protection laws of your country or region provide otherwise.

Nothing in this section limits rights available to you under mandatory laws applicable to you as a consumer.

22. Privacy

The Application processes information as described in the OpLoop Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms & Conditions.

23. Changes to These Terms & Conditions

These Terms & Conditions may be updated from time to time. When changes are made, the updated version is posted on this page with a revised effective date, or otherwise made available through the Application or the website.

You are advised to review these Terms & Conditions periodically. Continued use of the Application after changes become effective indicates that you accept the updated terms.

24. Contact

If you have questions or suggestions regarding these Terms & Conditions, contact the Service Provider at: