BloomReads

Terms of Use — BloomReads

Effective date: 3 September 2026
Last updated: 3 September 2026
Replaces: the version of 25 August 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and the developer ("we", "us") covering your use of the BloomReads iPhone app ("the app").

By downloading or using the app you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the app.

1. A note on the name

This app was released as BookBloom and is now called BloomReads. It is the same app, made by the same developer, and your subscription, your library and your settings are unaffected. Any earlier version of these terms published under the old name is replaced by this one.

2. What the app is

BloomReads is a reading tracker. It lets you:

• keep a library of books, added by searching, by scanning a barcode, by typing them in by hand, or by importing a Goodreads export;
• arrange that library as a shelf you decorate and name;
• photograph the spine, edge or cover of a book you own — or choose a picture from your photo library — so the shelf shows your copy rather than a stock jacket;
• time reading sessions, record pages read, and write notes and ratings;
• set a daily goal, a reading challenge and a streak, and see statistics drawn from them;
• put a shelf on your Home Screen as a widget;
• export and restore a backup of everything; and
• optionally hold back distracting apps while you read.

It is not an e-reader. It does not contain, sell or give access to the text of any book.

3. Who may use it

You must be at least 13 years old, or older if the law where you live sets a higher age for agreeing to terms like these. If you are under 18, you may use the app only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

4. Licence

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app on Apple devices that you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service.

You may not: copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the app; rent, lease, lend, sell or sublicense it; remove any proprietary notices; or use it in any unlawful way or in any way that interferes with its operation.

5. Subscription, billing and cancellation

BloomReads is sold as an auto-renewing subscription. Everything in the app is included in it; there are no additional purchases. The plans, prices, lengths and any free trial are shown in the app before you pay, and prices may vary by region.

• Payment is charged to your Apple Account on confirmation of purchase.
• Renewal is automatic. Your subscription renews at the end of each period unless you turn off auto-renewal at least 24 hours before the period ends.
• Renewal charges are taken by Apple within 24 hours before the end of the current period, at the price then in effect for your plan.
• Managing and cancelling is done in your Apple Account settings — in the app at Profile → Manage subscription, or in the iPhone Settings app under your name → Subscriptions. Deleting the app does not cancel your subscription.
• Free trials, where offered, convert to a paid subscription unless auto-renewal is turned off before the trial ends. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription.
• Price changes take effect at your next renewal, and Apple will ask for your consent where required. You can cancel before then.
• Restoring a subscription you already bought is done with Restore purchase, on the subscription screen or in Profile, while signed in to the Apple Account you originally bought with.

6. Refunds

All purchases are processed by Apple, not by us. We cannot issue refunds. Refund requests are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com, under Apple's own policy. Where local law gives you a statutory right to cancel or to a refund, that right is unaffected by this section.

7. Your content

Everything you put into the app — your books, sessions, notes, ratings, collections, the photographs you take of your own books, the pictures you choose for them, and the name you give your library — remains yours. We claim no ownership of it, and we acquire no licence to use it.

Because it is stored on your device, you are responsible for keeping backups. The app provides Backup & Restore for this. We cannot recover data lost to a lost or damaged device, a deleted app, or a device transfer.

Our Privacy Policy sets out the narrow and specific circumstances in which anything you have typed can reach us — the screen recordings made during setup and the guided tour, and whatever you choose to write in the support chat — and you should read it alongside this section.

The support chat. It is the one place in the app where you send us something, so one condition attaches to it: use it to ask for help with the app. Do not send unlawful, abusive or infringing material through it, and do not send anyone else's personal information. We may end a conversation that is used for anything else.

8. App blocking and Screen Time

The blocking feature uses Apple's Family Controls system to shield apps you choose during a reading session. It is a self-control aid, nothing more.

You accept that:

• It is not a parental control or a security feature, and it can be turned off at any time by anyone holding the device.
• It depends on Apple's system behaving as documented, which we do not control.
• You must not rely on it in any situation where being unable to reach an app could cause harm — you remain responsible for your own access to emergency services and to anything else you need.

9. Book information and cover art

Book details and cover art are looked up from third-party catalogues. The app currently asks four of them, at the same time, and shows whichever answers first:

• Open Library, run by the Internet Archive
• Google Books
• Apple, through the iTunes Search API
• NeoDB, a volunteer-run catalogue

Which catalogues are used may change as they come and go. That information is supplied to us as-is by them: it may be incomplete, out of date, or matched to a different edition of the same book. Cover images belong to their publishers and are shown for identification only.

You can correct anything by hand, and what you correct is never overwritten.

We are not affiliated with any of them. Open Library and the Internet Archive, Google, Apple, NeoDB and Goodreads are named here, and in the app, only to say where information comes from or which file the app can read. None of them sponsors, endorses or is otherwise connected with BloomReads, and their names and marks belong to them.

10. Privacy, analytics and advertising

The app measures how it is used. Three parts of that are worth naming here, because they are the ones where something leaves your phone:

• Screen recording. In versions from the App Store, the app records the screens you move through during setup and the guided tour, so we can see where people get stuck. Recording stops when they end; ordinary use of the app is not recorded.
• Advertising measurement. The app asks, through Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt, whether it may track you across other companies' apps and websites. If you allow it, Apple's advertising identifier is used to tell which advertisement brought you here. If you decline, none is read. You can change your answer at any time in the iPhone Settings app.
• The support chat. Anything you write to us there reaches us. Nothing from your library travels with it.

What each of these involves, what is masked, who receives it and how to stop it are set out in full in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.

11. Availability and changes

We may add, change or remove features, and we may stop offering the app. If we discontinue it we will not charge for a renewal after that point. Reasonable downtime for maintenance, and interruptions caused by Apple, a third-party catalogue, your network or your device, are not a breach of these terms.

12. Disclaimer of warranties

The app is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any defect will be corrected.

Nothing in these terms excludes any warranty or right that cannot be excluded under the law that applies to you, including consumer rights.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits or goodwill, arising from your use of the app.

Our total liability for any claim relating to the app is limited to the amount you paid for it in the twelve months before the claim — through Apple, which is how every purchase is made.

Some jurisdictions do not allow these limitations, in which case they apply to you only as far as the law permits.

14. Termination

You may stop using the app at any time by deleting it and cancelling your subscription. We may suspend or end your licence if you breach these terms. Sections 7, 12, 13, 15 and 18 survive termination.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Mexico, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings in your local courts.

16. Apple

You acknowledge that:

• These terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide support or maintenance for the app.
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation.
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim relating to the app, including product liability, regulatory non-compliance, or consumer protection claims.
• If a third party claims the app infringes their intellectual property, we, not Apple, are responsible for handling it.
• You represent that you are not in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as terrorist-supporting, and that you are not on any U.S. Government restricted-parties list.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and, upon your acceptance, have the right to enforce them against you.

17. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top will change, and for anything significant we will tell you in the app. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept it.

18. General

If part of these terms cannot be enforced where you live, the rest still stands. The part that cannot be enforced applies as far as the law allows, and no further.

These terms, together with our Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between you and us about the app. They replace anything said about it elsewhere.

If we do not enforce something straight away, that is not us giving it up.

You may not transfer these terms to anyone else. We may transfer them if the app changes hands — to a buyer, or as part of a merger — and your rights under them are unchanged when we do.

19. Contact

Email: abeto.studio@gmail.com