Terms of Service

The Lifting App ("TLA," "we," "us," "our") · Effective 2026-05-27

These Terms govern your use of the iOS application called The Lifting App. By creating an account or using the app, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, don't use the app.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old (16 in the EU) to use TLA. By using the app you confirm that you meet this requirement and that you have the legal capacity to enter into this agreement.

2. Your account

• You are responsible for keeping your password and authentication credentials secure.
• You are responsible for activity on your account.
• You may have one account per person. Don't create multiple accounts to evade rate limits, bans, or subscription tiers.
• You may delete your account at any time via Settings → Danger zone → Delete account.

3. The app is not medical advice

TLA is a strength training tracker and AI coach. It is not a medical device, a personal trainer, a physical therapist, or a doctor. Nothing in the app is medical advice.

• The AI coach generates recommendations based on your logged training data and the constraints you provide. It can be wrong. It does not diagnose, prevent, or treat any condition.
• The next-set suggester is heuristic. The recommended weights and reps are starting points — your judgment about your own readiness and form is the deciding factor every time you load a bar.
• Consult a qualified medical professional before starting any exercise program, especially if you have a history of injuries, cardiovascular conditions, joint issues, or other health concerns.

You use the app at your own risk. Strength training has inherent risks of injury. You assume all such risks.

4. Subscriptions and billing

If you purchase a TLA subscription:

• Billing is handled by Apple via the App Store. We do not directly charge your payment method.
• Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled in iOS Settings → [your Apple ID] → Subscriptions at least 24 hours before the current period ends.
• Refunds are governed by Apple's refund policy. We don't process refunds directly.
• If you delete your account inside the app, your subscription is not automatically cancelled — you must cancel it separately in iOS Settings.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use the app to harass, threaten, or harm other users.
• Post content (in your profile, usernames, or any user-generated field) that is illegal, defamatory, hateful, sexually explicit, or violates anyone's intellectual property.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract our source code or AI prompts.
• Use automated tools to scrape the app or its API.
• Submit false data to manipulate leaderboards, social feeds, or the AI coach's reasoning.
• Attempt prompt injection or other attacks against the AI coach.
• Use the app to give other people training advice you represent as professional or medical.

We may suspend or delete accounts that violate these rules at any time, at our discretion, without notice.

6. Your content

You own the training data, custom exercises, conversations with the coach, and any other content you create in the app. By using the app you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free license to host and process your content as needed to operate TLA (e.g. running coach inference on your data, surfacing your sessions to followers per your privacy settings).

This license terminates when you delete your account, with the exception of:

• Backups still in Supabase's 7-day point-in-time recovery window (which age out automatically).
• Anonymized aggregate analytics that no longer identify you.

7. Our content

The TLA name, logo, interface design, prompts, exercise catalog, strength standards data, and source code are owned by us. You may not copy, redistribute, or create derivative works of any of it without permission.

The exercise catalog (names, muscle groups, classifications) draws on publicly available training literature; we don't claim copyright on individual exercise names.

8. AI coach disclaimer

The AI coach uses Anthropic Claude. Its responses are generated text based on your data and may contain errors, hallucinations, or recommendations that don't fit your situation. Treat coach output as a starting point, not a verdict.

We don't promise the coach is available 100% of the time. We rate-limit coach usage to control costs (currently 30 messages per account per day on the base tier).

9. Service availability

We aim for high availability but don't guarantee it. The app may be unavailable due to maintenance, upstream provider outages (Supabase, Anthropic, OpenAI, Apple Push), or other issues outside our control. No service-level commitment is offered or implied.

We may update, suspend, or discontinue the app or any feature at any time without notice.

10. Disclaimers

THE APP IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE APP WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR ACCURATE.

11. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW:

• WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES.
• OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE APP IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM, OR (B) $50 USD.
• WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INJURIES YOU SUSTAIN DURING EXERCISE PERFORMED IN CONNECTION WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE APP.

Some jurisdictions don't allow these limitations. If yours doesn't, the above applies to the maximum extent permitted by your local law.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim arising out of (a) your use of the app, (b) your violation of these Terms, or (c) your violation of any third party's rights.

13. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the app at any time, with or without cause and with or without notice. You may stop using the app at any time by deleting your account.

Sections 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 survive termination.

14. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the app shall be resolved through binding arbitration in San Francisco, California, on an individual basis. You waive any right to a jury trial or class action.

If arbitration is not enforceable in your jurisdiction, disputes shall be resolved in the state or federal courts located in San Francisco County, California.

15. Changes to these Terms

If we change these Terms, we'll update the effective date at the top and (for material changes) notify you in-app or by email before the new terms take effect. Continued use after a change means you accept the new terms.

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms: support@theliftingapp.com.