Pocketbot Terms of Use
Last updated: 11 November 2026
1. Scope
These terms apply to the Pocketbot app (the "app"), published by Jonathan Tambe Ebot. Your license to use the app is governed by Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement (apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/). These terms complement it. If they conflict, Apple's agreement prevails. By using the app, you accept these terms.
2. What the app does
The app runs open artificial intelligence models on your device: chat models, a speech recognition model and a speech synthesis model. Chat models are made by third parties and downloaded from Hugging Face when you choose to. Each model is offered under its own license, shown on its page in the app, and you agree to comply with it. Which models are offered, and which ones work on your device, may change.
3. AI-generated content
Answers, transcriptions and spoken replies are generated automatically by models. They can be wrong, incomplete, out of date, biased or offensive, and they do not reflect the publisher's views. Web search results come from third-party websites the publisher does not control.
- Check any important information against a reliable source.
- Answers are not medical, legal, financial, psychological or other professional advice. Do not rely on them for decisions that affect your health, your safety or your rights. In an emergency, contact the emergency services.
- You are responsible for how you use what the app generates, and for what you share. If you publish or share generated content, say clearly that it was generated by a machine.
4. Prohibited uses
The speech synthesis model included in the app, Supertonic 3, is distributed under the BigScience Open RAIL-M License, which requires its use restrictions to be passed on to every user. Supertonic 3 is subject to paragraph 5 of that license. These restrictions apply to the whole app. You therefore agree not to use the app, its models or the content they generate:
(a) In any way that violates any applicable national, federal, state, local or international law or regulation;
(b) For the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way;
(c) To generate or disseminate verifiably false information and/or content with the purpose of harming others;
(d) To generate or disseminate personal identifiable information that can be used to harm an individual;
(e) To generate or disseminate information and/or content (e.g. images, code, posts, articles), and place the information and/or content in any context (e.g. bot generating tweets) without expressly and intelligibly disclaiming that the information and/or content is machine generated;
(f) To defame, disparage or otherwise harass others;
(g) To impersonate or attempt to impersonate (e.g. deepfakes) others without their consent;
(h) For fully automated decision making that adversely impacts an individual’s legal rights or otherwise creates or modifies a binding, enforceable obligation;
(i) For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against or harming individuals or groups based on online or offline social behavior or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics;
(j) To exploit any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons based on their age, social, physical or mental characteristics, in order to materially distort the behavior of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm;
(k) For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against individuals or groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories;
(l) To provide medical advice and medical results interpretation;
(m) To generate or disseminate information for the purpose to be used for administration of justice, law enforcement, immigration or asylum processes, such as predicting an individual will commit fraud/crime commitment (e.g. by text profiling, drawing causal relationships between assertions made in documents, indiscriminate and arbitrarily-targeted use).
Items (a) to (m) are quoted from Attachment A of the BigScience Open RAIL-M License. Full license: huggingface.co/Supertone/supertonic-3/blob/main/LICENSE
Other model licenses may add their own conditions. For example, the usage policy of OpenAI's gpt-oss models requires you to comply with all applicable law. You agree to respect the license and policy of each model you use.
5. Pocketbot Pro
Pocketbot Pro is a one-time in-app purchase, valid for life, sold by Apple through the App Store at the price shown in the app. It is not a subscription. It unlocks the features described on the Pro screen at the time of purchase and can be shared through Family Sharing. Use "Restore" on the Pro screen to recover it on another device signed in with the same Apple Account. Payment, billing and refunds are handled by Apple under its terms; refund requests go through reportaproblem.apple.com. The catalog of third-party models depends on their authors and on Hugging Face, and may change.
6. Third-party services
Model downloads use Hugging Face (huggingface.co/terms-of-service). Web search, if you turn it on, uses DuckDuckGo (duckduckgo.com/terms). Purchases use the App Store. Their own terms apply to these services. How the app uses them is described in the Pocketbot Privacy Policy: /privacy.
7. Warranty and liability
The app and its models are provided "as is", without warranty of accuracy, availability or fitness for a particular purpose, to the extent permitted by law. The publisher is not liable for damage resulting from the use of generated content or from third-party services, to the extent permitted by law. Nothing in these terms limits liability for intent or gross negligence, or your mandatory rights as a consumer.
8. Changes
These terms may change, for example when features or models change. The new version will be published at this address with its date. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the new version.
9. Governing law
These terms are governed by Swiss law. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, and the courts that this law designates remain competent.