Terms of Service
Last updated 27 August 2026
Draft. No lawyer has reviewed this. Do not publish it as it stands.
This page was written by the people who built Cleantific, as a starting point for a solicitor to work from. Several clauses below — the liability cap, the warranty disclaimer, and the governing law — are exactly the clauses that fail when a non-lawyer writes them, and an unenforceable limitation is worse than none, because it reads as though you are protected. Have this reviewed before Cleantific is submitted to the App Store.
Sections marked To be completed are gaps, not oversights.
Agreeing to these terms
By installing or using Cleantific, or by using this website, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree to them, do not install Cleantific and do not use the site.
Who we are
Cleantific is an iOS app for iPhone and iPad that finds similar photos in your library, marks one as Best, reports your cleanable space, and can Compress a photo or video. All of it runs on-device.
To be completed: the legal name, registered address, and company number of the entity publishing Cleantific. Every reference to "we" and "us" below needs to point at that entity.
The beta
Cleantific is not on the App Store yet. It is distributed as a TestFlight beta, and beta software behaves like beta software:
- It may contain defects, and it may stop working after an iOS update.
- Features may change or disappear between builds.
- A TestFlight build expires. When it does, Cleantific stops opening until you install a newer one.
- We may end the beta, or remove your access to it, at any time and without notice.
Nothing in these terms promises that Cleantific will be released on the App Store, or that it will still exist next month.
Your licence
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use Cleantific on devices you own or control, for your own use. Apple's Licensed Application End User Licence Agreement also applies, and where it conflicts with these terms, it wins.
You may not sell, rent, sublicense, or redistribute Cleantific; reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble it except where law says you may despite this clause; or remove any notice of ownership from it.
Your photos are yours
We claim no ownership of, and no licence over, anything in your photo library. Cleantific analyses your photos on-device and we never receive them. See the Privacy Policy.
Deletion is your decision
This is the part worth reading twice.
Cleantific proposes; you decide. Selecting photos in Cleanup or choosing Trash in Swipe queues them. Nothing is removed until you confirm, and when you do confirm, Cleantific asks iOS to move those photos to your Recently Deleted album, where they normally remain recoverable for around 30 days.
After that window, they are gone, and we cannot recover them. We do not hold a copy.
Keep a backup. Before running Cleantific over a library you care about, make sure it is backed up — iCloud Photos, a computer, or wherever you prefer. You are responsible for what you confirm, and Best is a recommendation from software, not a judgement about what matters to you.
Acceptable use
Use Cleantific on photo libraries you have the right to manage. Do not use it to break the law, to interfere with anyone else's device, or to work around Apple's or our technical restrictions.
Purchases
Cleantific is free during the beta. If it gains paid features, they will be sold through Apple's in-app purchase system, and Apple handles the payment, the receipt, and the refund. We never see your card details. Refund requests go to Apple, not to us.
To be completed: subscription terms, renewal and cancellation wording, and trial conditions, once pricing exists. Apple's App Review Guidelines set specific requirements for how these must be disclosed.
The website
This site is provided for information about Cleantific. Its text, layout, artwork, and code are ours, except where credited otherwise. You may link to it. You may not copy it wholesale and pass it off as your own.
No warranty
Cleantific and this site are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.
We do not warrant that Cleantific will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of defects, that it will identify every similar photo, or that any figure it reports — cleanable space, freed space, or a compressed size — will be exact.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so this section may not apply to you in full.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or lost photos, arising from your use of Cleantific or this site.
To be completed: the liability cap. A figure has been left out deliberately rather than guessed at, because a cap that a court will not enforce is worse than no cap.
Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.
Ending this agreement
You may end it by deleting Cleantific from your devices. We may end it if you break these terms, or if we stop offering Cleantific. The sections on your photos, the warranty disclaimer, and the limitation of liability survive the end of the agreement.
Changes to these terms
We may revise these terms. The date at the top of this page changes when we do, and continuing to use Cleantific after a revision means you accept it. If a change is material, we will say so in the release notes.
Governing law
To be completed: the governing law and the courts that have jurisdiction. This depends on where the publishing entity is established, so it cannot be filled in until the entity above is settled. Do not copy a jurisdiction from another app's terms.