Terms of Use

Using YapJar

YapJar lets you talk for a minute or two, turns what you said into a written entry, and keeps your entries in a private archive you can page back through. Your phone does the listening — see the Privacy Policy for exactly where the audio and the transcript go. You agree to use YapJar lawfully and to only record content you have the right to record.

Your Account

You are responsible for activity on your account and for keeping your sign-in method secure. If you believe your account has been accessed without permission, contact support immediately.

Your Content

You own your entries — the transcripts of what you said, the written entries created from them, and their tags. We store them on your behalf so you can access them across sessions. You can delete any entry, or your entire account, at any time.

Written entries, their summaries and tags, entry reflections, the weekly look back, and answers to questions you ask your journal are produced by AI, using Anthropic's Claude model, and may be inaccurate or miss nuance. The raw transcript of what you said is always kept alongside the entry written from it.

Subscriptions

YapJar is free to use. Every account can write one journal entry a day at no cost, and can read, search and export everything it has written without limit. Membership adds the second half of the day, the thoughts you drop in between, the weekly look back, and asking your journal a question across everything you have written, for $9.99/month or $39.99/year, billed through the Apple App Store, with a 30-day free trial for new subscribers. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your iPhone's Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Apple handles billing, renewals, and refunds; see our support page for help.

Past the daily limit, nothing you say is lost. Your words are still transcribed and saved — they simply aren't written up into an entry until the next day, or with a membership.

If you stop subscribing, you do not lose anything you wrote. Your existing entries stay readable, searchable and exportable, and you can keep writing one entry a day. Membership is what adds the rest.

Acceptable Use

Don't abuse the service, attempt to access other accounts or systems without permission, upload harmful or illegal content, reverse-engineer the app's security, or use YapJar in a way that violates law or the rights of others.

Availability and Changes

YapJar is actively developed. Features may change, break, or be removed, and access may be limited during maintenance or rollouts. We may update these terms; material changes will be posted here with a new effective date.

Disclaimers

YapJar is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the app, to the extent permitted by law.

Contact

Questions about these terms? Email support@yapjar.com.