Terms of Service
Last Updated: 17 October 2026
1. Acceptance of Terms
By downloading, installing, or using Pick Up ("the App"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to these terms, do not use the App.
2. Description of Service
Pick Up is a mobile application for tracking reading progress, recording voice reflections, and managing your personal reading library. The App offers both free and premium features.
3. User Accounts
3.1 Account Creation
You may use the App without creating an account. However, certain features (like cloud sync) require account creation and are available only to Premium subscribers.
3.2 Account Security
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activities that occur under your account.
4. Premium Subscription
4.1 Subscription Plans
Pick Up offers subscription plans (monthly and annual) that unlock premium features including:
• Unlimited books and reflections
• Cloud sync across devices
• Voice transcription of voice reflections
• Advanced analytics and insights
• Premium Year in Review templates
• Unlimited book recommendations via The Shelf (free users receive 3 lifetime picks)
4.2 Billing
Subscriptions are billed through your app store account (Apple App Store or Google Play Store). Billing occurs at the start of your subscription and renews automatically unless cancelled.
4.3 Cancellation
You can cancel your subscription at any time through your app store account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period.
4.4 Refunds
Refund policies are governed by the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Generally, subscriptions are non-refundable, but you may request a refund through your app store within their specified time frames.
5. User Content
5.1 Ownership
You retain all rights to your reading data, reflections, and voice recordings. We do not claim ownership of your content.
5.2 License
By using the App, you grant us a license to store, process, and sync your data as necessary to provide our services.
5.3 Prohibited Content
You may not use the App to store or share:
• Illegal content
• Copyrighted material you don't have rights to
• Spam or malicious code
• Content that violates privacy rights or is harmful
We reserve the right to remove content that violates these terms.
6. Acceptable Use
You agree to use Pick Up only for personal reading tracking. You may not:
• Reverse engineer or decompile the App
• Use automated tools to scrape or extract data
• Share your Premium account with others
• Attempt to hack or circumvent security measures
• Use the App for commercial purposes without permission
7. Third-Party Services
The App integrates with third-party services (Supabase, RevenueCat, Whisper API, etc.). These services have their own terms of service. Your use of these services through the App is subject to their terms.
8. Intellectual Property
Pick Up's design, code, and branding are our intellectual property. Book covers and metadata are sourced from Open Library and other public APIs.
You may not:
• Copy or redistribute the App
• Use our branding without permission
• Create derivative works based on the App
Third-party quote data used in The Literary Hour:
Weather Station data is provided by WeatherAPI.com (https://www.weatherapi.com/). The station displays outdoor conditions for the reader's chosen location, with cached readings available offline.
• Quote data is adapted from Johannes Enevoldsen's Literature Clock project. The original Literary Clock concept is credited to Jaap Meijers.
• Localised Literary Hour quote data is adapted with reference to the cdmoro/literature-clock translation project.
Third-party assets used as shelf ornaments — all licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0):
• "Head of Michelangelo's David (optimised)" by Thomas Flynn — sketchfab.com/3d-models/head-of-michelangelos-david-optimised-d29af50360624e5e9b1855666475380d
• "Vase Flower Pot - 24 MB" by Mehdi Shahsavan — sketchfab.com/3d-models/vase-flower-pot-24-mb-oWqtT
• "Owl Flowers Vase" by Woppwopp, adapted for use as a shelf ornament — https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/owl-flowers-vase-40d6a071eb5f48809f115b8335228557
• "Hermes" by leofinearts — skfb.ly/pFIGp
• "Tamara" by leofinearts — skfb.ly/pFroF
• "Old Cherub Vase" by Marcelo Rivera — skfb.ly/CpoI
• "Simple vase with beautiful surface" by Christian.Bittner — skfb.ly/o7nSW
• "Sherlock Holmes" — sketchfab.com/3d-models/sherlock-holmes-30207e9319ed481d982003759c14f6a6
• "Mario obj" by MatiasH290 — skfb.ly/6X8o8
• "football/soccer ball" by bad__u_ — skfb.ly/osrtE
• "Luigi Trophy" by DrewsDigitalDesigns — skfb.ly/ozBPT
• "Globe" by Viverna — skfb.ly/6WP6w
• "Mona Lisa (PBR hires model)" by SebastianSosnowski, with the model preview adapted into a transparent gold-framed Tree Shelf illustration: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/mona-lisa-pbr-hires-model-666dba7753af4fec802d79ca3a03b2de
• "Marion" by leofinearts — https://skfb.ly/pFqDt
• "A cute doggy 🐶" by CuteMellon — https://skfb.ly/p9LWY
• "Mug" by whyniero — https://skfb.ly/orC6u
• "Salt lamp" (https://skfb.ly/ovVz8) by Timothy Ahene is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
• "Chained (medieval) library book" by Andy Woodhead, adapted for use as a shelf ornament: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/chained-medieval-library-book-8e4a74f2cb4c4101bb0cd843445ef23e
Tree Shelf decor, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Model preview artwork has been adapted into transparent shelf illustrations:
• "Spider-Punk's Guitar" by nim, with concept art credited to @jake.panian.art: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/spider-punks-guitar-532c0e32b59a4afc8c4947cfd79b7739
• "Golden Globe Decoration" by Nicholas-3D: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/golden-globe-decoration-328498b205c64897a78d24ddb8a73703
• "Designer Guitar" by Raphael Escamilla: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/designer-guitar-d45111cbe4d84c9bbf37784bc140dca3
• "Jar of Hearts" by Helen: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/jar-of-hearts-678bc5e8d88240678e929391e94d593a
• "football" by Fraser Digital, with printed branding removed: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/football-9a4dcc363f1648c1b9da2d7681c7f456
• "Wilson Football" by Austin Crane (Euclid), with printed branding removed: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/wilson-football-b5677cbb469d4be98e4777c244cfcf27
• "Cage Lamp" by RomanGurd, with the hanging chain removed: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/cage-lamp-6b3848ec358e458c8807e51bbe0bf0b4
• "Retro Fan" by dylanheyes, adapted to a front view with a separately animated rotor and the cable removed: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/retro-fan-45bccd8afa834e84b690fb91e34f9262
• "Low-Poly Tall Floor Lamp" by yellowbeebee: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/low-poly-tall-floor-lamp-9b535698ac2f40d5a21959eb34f4e320
Ambient sound music — all licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0):
• "Somewhere In The Night Sky" by MoonPurr — moonpurr.com
• "Mist and Moss" by MoonPurr — moonpurr.com
• "Silent Fog" by MoonPurr — moonpurr.com
All CC BY 4.0 assets: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Third-party poetry data used in daily poems:
• Poetry data from PoetryDB, curated by The Combed Thunderclap.
• Source: https://poetrydb.org
• Data licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Pick Up selects and orders the poems and removes plain-text emphasis delimiters for display. The verses are not translated or rewritten.
Additional historical poetry editions used in daily poems:
• Fireflies, Rabindranath Tagore, Macmillan, 1928. Proofread text from Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fireflies
Source edition: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Fireflies_Rabindranath_1928.djvu
• Verse, Adelaide Crapsey, Knopf, 1926 edition. Text from Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63010
• The Hesperides and Noble Numbers, Robert Herrick, Alfred Pollard edition, 1891. Text from Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22421
• Sing-song: A Nursery Rhyme Book, Christina Rossetti, Macmillan, 1893. Text from Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76703
• Japanese Hokkus, Yoné Noguchi, Four Seas, 1920. Original English hokku checked against the Library of Congress scan: https://www.loc.gov/item/20020445/
Rights and access: https://www.loc.gov/item/20020445/#rights-and-access
• A Year of Japanese Epigrams, translated and compiled by William N. Porter, Oxford University Press, 1911. Historical English verse translations, with the original poets credited using the edition's pen names: https://books.google.com/books?id=G8FIAQAAMAAJ
Source catalogue: https://archive.org/details/a-year-of-japanese-epigrams
• American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany, Harcourt, Brace, 1922. Amy Lowell's Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme, separately numbered poems. Text from Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25880
• A Few Figs from Thistles, Edna St. Vincent Millay, historical 1920/1922 collection. Text from Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4399
• The Black Riders and Other Lines, Stephen Crane, first published in 1895. Text from Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40786
• Sword Blades and Poppy Seed, Amy Lowell, 1914. Text from Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1020
The PoetryDB data licence above applies to that source's data. The other poems come from historical published editions, with source provenance retained in the bundled collection. Historical translations retain their published translator credits; Pick Up does not create new translations. Complete source poems are retained, with spacing normalised, verified transcription errors corrected and scan annotations omitted. Untitled poems use collection and ordinal catalogue labels.
9. Disclaimers
THE APP IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE:
• Uninterrupted or error-free service
• Accuracy of book metadata from third-party APIs
• Compatibility with all devices
• Data backup or recovery
10. Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE APP, INCLUDING DATA LOSS.
11. Termination
We may suspend or terminate your access to the App if you violate these terms. Reasons for termination include:
• Violation of these terms
• Fraudulent or illegal activity
• Abuse of service or support
• Non-payment of subscription fees
You can delete your account at any time through the app settings.
12. Changes to Terms
We reserve the right to modify these terms at any time. Material changes will be communicated to you via the app or email. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance of the new terms.
13. Governing Law
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14. Contact
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