Terms of Service Generator
Draft clear terms of service for your mobile app covering accounts, purchases, and acceptable use.
Fill the required fields: App name, Contact email
Terms of service are the contract between you and your users: they define who may use the app, what happens to accounts and purchases, who owns user-generated content, and how disputes get resolved. Unlike a privacy policy, the stores do not always force you to have one — but the moment your app has accounts, subscriptions, or any user content, shipping without terms leaves you with no rules to enforce.
This generator builds a terms document from your answers about accounts, in-app purchases, subscriptions, user content, and age requirements, producing clauses tailored to how your app actually works. The output is a serious first draft for legal review, not legal advice — jurisdictional details like arbitration clauses and consumer-law carve-outs deserve a lawyer’s eye.
How to generate terms of service for your app
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Enter your app name, legal entity or developer name, and governing jurisdiction.
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Toggle the features your app offers: user accounts, subscriptions or one-time purchases, user-generated content, and community features.
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Set your minimum age requirement and any prohibited-use rules specific to your app.
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Generate the document, adjust clauses that don’t match your product, and have counsel review sections on liability and dispute resolution.
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Publish the terms at a public URL and link them from your app’s onboarding, settings, and store listing.
What terms of service should cover in a mobile app
A solid mobile ToS covers the license you grant users (typically a limited, non-transferable license to use the app, not ownership of it), account rules and termination rights, payment and refund terms, intellectual property, acceptable use, disclaimers of warranty, and limitation of liability. If users can post content, you also need a content license — the right for you to host, display, and moderate what they upload — plus a takedown process.
Purchases deserve special care on mobile. Payments made through the App Store or Google Play are processed by Apple and Google under their own terms, and refunds for in-app purchases are largely handled by the stores rather than by you. Your terms should say so explicitly, because promising refunds you cannot actually issue through the platform creates support pain and legal exposure.
Terms of service, EULA, and privacy policy — how they differ
The three documents do different jobs. The privacy policy discloses data practices and is mandatory on both stores. The EULA licenses the software itself — on iOS, Apple applies its own standard EULA unless you supply a custom one. Terms of service govern the ongoing relationship: accounts, conduct, payments, and disputes. Many apps merge the ToS and EULA into a single “Terms of Use” document, which is fine as long as the license grant and Apple’s required terms survive the merge.
Enforceability depends on presentation. Terms buried in a footer that users never see (browsewrap) are much weaker than terms users actively accept with a checkbox or an “I agree” button during signup (clickwrap). If your terms include meaningful obligations — arbitration, content licenses, subscription auto-renewal — put an explicit acceptance step in onboarding and record when each user accepted.
Frequently asked questions
Do the App Store and Google Play require terms of service?
Not universally, the way they require a privacy policy. However, apps with accounts, purchases, subscriptions, or user-generated content are expected to have enforceable terms — Apple’s guidelines require UGC apps to filter objectionable content and enforce rules, which is impossible without terms. Practically, any non-trivial app should ship with them.
What is the difference between terms of service and a EULA?
A EULA licenses the software copy on the user’s device; terms of service govern the service relationship — accounts, payments, conduct, disputes. On iOS, Apple provides a default EULA automatically, so many developers only write a ToS. If you combine both into one document, keep the license grant intact.
Can I handle refunds in my own terms of service?
Only partially. Purchases made through Apple’s and Google’s billing systems are refunded by the platforms under their policies, not yours. Your terms should direct users to the store refund process for in-app purchases and only define your own refund rules for payments you process directly, such as web purchases.
How should users accept my terms for them to be enforceable?
Use clickwrap: an explicit “I agree to the Terms of Service” action with a link to the full text, presented before account creation or first purchase. Log the timestamp and version accepted. Courts routinely enforce clickwrap agreements and routinely refuse to enforce terms users never had to see.
Is the generated document legally binding as-is?
It is designed to be a complete, coherent first draft, but it is not legal advice. Clauses like arbitration, class-action waivers, and liability caps are jurisdiction-sensitive — some are unenforceable against EU consumers, for example. Have a lawyer adapt the draft to your markets before launch.
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