Terms of Use

1. Who we are, and accepting these Terms

StudyBro (the "App") is an AI-powered study assistant operated by Léonard Dinichert, founder of StudyBro (studybro.ch@gmail.com). StudyBro is built and run by Léonard Dinichert as an individual — there is no company entity. "We", "us" and "our" refer to Léonard Dinichert.

By creating an account or using the App, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the App. Read them together with our Privacy Policy.

2. Who may use StudyBro

StudyBro is not intended for children under 13. If we learn that a child under 13 has created an account, we will close it and delete the data.

If you are between 13 and the age of majority where you live, you may use StudyBro only with the consent and supervision of a parent or guardian. By letting a minor use the App, the parent or guardian accepts these Terms on the minor's behalf and takes responsibility for their use of it, including any purchases.

StudyBro displays advertising and includes social features. Parents and guardians should review both before allowing a minor to use the App.

3. Your account

You need an account to use StudyBro. You agree to give accurate information, keep your login details private, and take responsibility for what happens under your account. Tell us at studybro.ch@gmail.com if you think someone else has accessed it. We may suspend or close accounts created with false information.

4. Subscriptions, credits and payments

4.1 Free and paid tiers. StudyBro is free to use with limits. Paid subscriptions — Starter, Plus and Pro — raise those limits and unlock additional AI usage. Each tier is available on a weekly or a monthly billing period. All subscriptions belong to a single subscription group, so you can hold only one at a time; moving between tiers is an upgrade or downgrade, not an additional subscription. Weekly plans cost more over a year than the equivalent monthly plan. The exact price of each option, in your local currency, is shown in the App before you buy. Free browser AI has a separate weekly processing allowance, shown as a percentage rather than a number of prompts. The number of answers varies with the request and response. It resets on Monday at 00:00 UTC; unused weekly allowance does not carry over. Once it is exhausted, wait for the reset or use an eligible paid plan or purchased credits. The Apple app’s free allowance remains separate.

4.2 One-time purchases. You can also buy AI credit top-ups in three sizes, and gift one month of the Plus plan to another user. These are one-time purchases; they do not renew.

4.3 Everything goes through Apple. All subscriptions and purchases are processed by Apple's in-app purchase system. Apple handles your payment details — we never receive them. Apple's App Store terms apply to every transaction, alongside these Terms.

4.4 Renewal, grace period and cancellation. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period unless you cancel. Apple generally charges you shortly before the end of each subscription period. Cancel any time in iOS Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions, at least 24 hours before the period ends. Cancelling stops future renewals; you keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for, and there is no partial refund for that period. If a renewal payment fails, Apple may keep your access active for a short grace period while it retries the charge. We do not currently offer free trials, introductory offers, or Family Sharing. You cannot cancel a subscription from inside the App — Apple controls subscription management.

4.5 Refunds and your right to withdraw. Refunds for App Store purchases are handled by Apple, through its own refund process. We cannot grant, refuse or override an Apple refund decision. If you are a consumer in the EEA or the UK, you have a statutory right to withdraw from a distance contract within 14 days. For digital content delivered immediately, that right ends once supply has begun with your express consent and your acknowledgement that you lose the right — which is what you give when you confirm the purchase. Nothing here removes any refund right you have under mandatory consumer law.

4.6 AI credits. Some AI features consume credits. Credits have no cash value, cannot be transferred or exchanged, and are tied to your account. Credits included with a subscription reset at the end of each billing period. Purchased top-up credits remain available while your account is active. Credits are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise.

5. Your content

5.1 What you own. "Your Content" means everything you put into StudyBro: notes, flashcards and study sets, scans and uploads, AI prompts, calendar entries and profile information. You keep all ownership of it.

5.2 The permission you give us. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, transmit, display and process Your Content, only as far as needed to run the App for you, keep it secure, and meet our legal obligations. If you publish or share content, that licence extends to showing it to the users you have shared it with. We do not use Your Content to train AI models, and we do not allow our AI providers to do so. The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, subject to backup clearance.

5.3 Your responsibility. You are responsible for what you upload. You confirm you have the right to upload or scan it and that it does not break the law or infringe anyone's rights. Scanning a textbook or copyrighted material for your own private study may be permitted where you live — sharing or publishing it usually is not.

5.4 Academic integrity. StudyBro is a study tool. Follow your school or university's rules on AI use and plagiarism. Submitting AI-generated work as your own where your institution forbids it is your responsibility, and we accept no liability for the academic consequences.

5.5 Our intellectual property. Apart from Your Content, everything in the App — its code, design, branding and built-in material — belongs to Léonard Dinichert or his licensors. You may not copy, reverse-engineer or decompile it, or use StudyBro branding without permission.

6. AI features

6.1 You are interacting with an AI system. StudyBro's study assistant, generated summaries, flashcards, study guides and practice questions are produced by an artificial intelligence system, not by a person. Content the App generates for you is AI-generated.

6.2 How your prompts travel. Your prompt and any attachment are sent to our own server in Switzerland, which forwards them to OpenRouter and the AI model provider answering the request. Our Privacy Policy explains this in full.

6.3 Accuracy. AI output can be wrong, incomplete, out of date or biased. Check anything that matters. We make no guarantee about the accuracy or suitability of any AI output.

6.4 Not professional advice. AI output is for study and general information only. It is not legal, medical, financial, psychological or other professional advice. Do not rely on it for important decisions.

6.5 Safety. We apply content filters, but no filter is perfect. You agree not to try to bypass or manipulate them, and not to use AI features to produce illegal, hateful, violent or exploitative content.

6.6 Sensitive information. Do not put passwords, identity or financial details, health information, or other people's personal data into prompts or uploads.

6.7 Web search. Where a feature searches the internet, results come from third-party sources we do not control or review.

7. Social features and shared content

StudyBro includes optional social features: friends, leaderboards, duels, a "studying now" indicator, note sharing, and study sets you can publish or share by link. Your profile is discoverable: other signed-in users can search for you and see your username, display name, profile photo, biography, streak and weekly XP.

Adding a friend needs an invitation and acceptance from both sides. You may send a note to another user; they must accept it before they receive it. Study sets are private by default. If you publish a set or share it by link, its content and your display name become visible to whoever can open it. Do not publish content you do not have the right to share. You can remove friends, unpublish a set, or stop sharing at any time in the App — though content another user has already received or copied may remain in their account after you stop sharing.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to use StudyBro to:

• break any law;
• upload, generate or share illegal content, including content that promotes terrorism, violence, hate or discrimination, or that exploits or endangers minors;
• harass, bully, impersonate or threaten another user;
• infringe anyone's copyright, privacy or other rights;
• hack, scrape, overload or interfere with the App or its infrastructure;
• access another user's account or data without permission;
• create accounts in bulk using bots or scripts;
• bypass AI safety filters, usage limits or payment mechanisms;
• breach Apple's App Store guidelines or our providers' terms.

9. Reporting content and complaints

If you find content on StudyBro that is illegal, infringes your rights, or breaches these Terms, tell us at studybro.ch@gmail.com. Include a link to or description of the content, why you believe it is unlawful or infringing, and how to contact you.

We review reports and act where appropriate — removing content, restricting a feature, or suspending an account — and we give reasons for action taken against a user's content or account where the law requires it. If you believe your copyright has been infringed, send the same details together with a statement that you own the right or act for the owner.

10. Suspension and termination

10.1 By you. You can stop using StudyBro at any time and delete your account in the App (Settings → My Account → Delete Account) or by emailing us. Deletion is permanent — see the Privacy Policy for what we delete and what we must keep. Deleting your account does not automatically cancel an Apple subscription; cancel that separately in your Apple settings.

10.2 By us. We may suspend or close your account if you seriously or repeatedly break these Terms, if your use creates a legal or security risk, or if the law requires it. We will give notice and reasons where we can; in urgent cases — illegal content or an active security threat — we may act immediately and explain afterwards.

10.3 After termination. Your right to use the App ends. Sections 5, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 survive.

11. Availability and changes to the App

We aim to keep StudyBro available but cannot promise it will always be uninterrupted. We may add, change or remove features to improve the App, keep it secure, or comply with the law or a provider's requirements.

If we make a change that significantly reduces what a paid subscription gives you, we will tell you a reasonable time in advance and you may cancel and, where the law requires, receive a refund for the part you have paid for and cannot use. Changes to the free tier may be made at any time. If we discontinue StudyBro entirely, we will give at least 30 days' notice so you can export your content, and we will stop charging subscriptions.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes we will notify you in the App and/or by email at least 14 days before they take effect. If you do not accept the new Terms, stop using the App and delete your account before then. Continuing to use StudyBro after that date means you accept them.

13. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent the law allows, StudyBro is provided "as is" and "as available". We do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, that AI output will be accurate or fit for your purpose, or that every defect will be fixed. Nothing here excludes a warranty that cannot lawfully be excluded, including your rights under Swiss consumer law and, in the EU, under Directive (EU) 2019/770 on digital content.

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, including lost data, lost profits or reputational harm. Our total liability for all claims is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the six months before the claim arose, or CHF 50.

Nothing here limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law — including mandatory Swiss and EU consumer protection rules.

15. Indemnity

If you use StudyBro unlawfully, or upload content you had no right to upload, and a third party brings a claim against us because of it, you agree to cover our reasonable costs in dealing with that claim. This applies only to your own unlawful conduct or serious breach of these Terms, and only where you are responsible for the loss.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by Swiss law, particularly the law of the Canton of Geneva, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Disputes fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Geneva, Switzerland — except that if you are a consumer, mandatory rules where you live may let you bring a claim in your own country and rely on your own consumer protection law.

Before going to court, please contact us at studybro.ch@gmail.com; most problems are quicker to solve directly. Consumers in the EU may also be able to use a certified alternative dispute resolution body in their country. The European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform closed on 20 July 2025 and is no longer available.

17. Other terms

• Entire agreement — these Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the App.
• Severability — if a provision is invalid, it is narrowed only as far as needed; the rest stands.
• No waiver — not enforcing a right once does not waive it.
• Assignment — you may not transfer your rights under these Terms. We may transfer ours if StudyBro is sold or reorganized, provided your rights are not reduced.
• Force majeure — we are not liable for failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
• Language — we may provide translations for convenience. If a translation conflicts with the English version, the English version governs, unless mandatory law where you live says otherwise.

18. Contact

Léonard Dinichert — StudyBro
Chemin Armand-Dufaux 48, 1245 Collonge-Bellerive, Geneva, Switzerland
studybro.ch@gmail.com