Terms of use

Apeli is operated by Paul Durant, Zürich, Switzerland (“we”, “us”). Contact: info@apeli.app.

Apeli is a general wellness and nutrition tracking tool. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Calorie, nutrient and portion values, food quality scores and coach suggestions are estimates generated automatically and may be inaccurate.

Talk to a doctor or dietitian before changing your diet if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, have a medical condition (such as diabetes, kidney disease or allergies), take medication, or have or have had an eating disorder. Do not use Apeli to manage a medical condition. If you feel unwell, stop and seek professional help.

You must be at least 16 years old. If you are under 18, you confirm that a parent or legal guardian agrees to these terms and to any purchase. You are responsible for keeping access to your Google account and device secure.

• Free: manual food logging, the daily journal and nutrient goals, weight and sleep tracking, a limited number of AI meal scans and a preview of the coach.
• Premium: a daily allowance of AI meal scans, personal coach plans and the other features described in the app at the time of purchase.

AI scans identify foods from photos and match them to public food composition databases. Results depend on the photo and may be wrong; check and adjust them. We may improve, change or remove features, and limits such as the number of daily scans, as the service develops. Before launch, the waitlist only means we will email you; it is not a reservation or purchase.

• Premium is sold as an auto-renewing subscription through the Apple App Store or Google Play. The price, billing period and currency are shown in the store before you buy.
• Payment is charged to your store account. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• If a free trial is offered, you are charged when it ends unless you cancel before. We send you a reminder before your trial ends.
• You manage and cancel subscriptions in your App Store or Google Play account settings. Deleting the app or your Apeli account does not cancel a subscription.
• Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their policies. Statutory consumer rights remain unaffected.
• We may change prices for future billing periods. The store will inform you in advance and, where required, ask for your consent.

You keep all rights to the photos, meals and other data you add. You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, process and display that content only as needed to provide Apeli to you, for example to analyse a meal photo or generate your coach plan. We use your scans to improve food recognition only if you opt in, as explained in the Privacy policy.

Only upload photos you are allowed to share and that show food. Do not upload images of other people or content that is illegal or offensive.

You agree not to:

• use Apeli for anything unlawful or to harm others;
• access or try to access other users’ data, or bypass security or usage limits;
• copy, reverse engineer, scrape or resell the app, its food data or its AI output, except as allowed by law;
• overload or interfere with our servers, for example through automated requests.

We may suspend or close accounts that seriously or repeatedly break these rules.

Apeli, its software, design, texts, logos and the compiled food data are protected by intellectual property rights belonging to us or our licensors. These terms give you a personal, non-transferable right to use the app for your own, non-commercial purposes. Food composition data comes from public sources, which remain credited to their publishers.

We work to keep Apeli available and accurate, but we provide it “as is” and cannot guarantee uninterrupted operation or that nutrition values and suggestions are complete or correct.

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential damage, lost data or for decisions you make based on estimates or suggestions in the app. Nothing in these terms limits liability for intent or gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health caused by us, or any other liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law (in particular Art. 100 of the Swiss Code of Obligations).

You can stop using Apeli at any time and delete your account in Profile → Data & privacy, which deletes your data as described in the Privacy policy. We may end the service or your account with reasonable notice, or immediately for serious breaches of these terms. If we discontinue Premium, we will not renew paid subscriptions.

These terms are between you and us, not Apple or Google. Apple and Google are not responsible for Apeli or its content, have no obligation to provide maintenance or support, and are not liable for claims relating to the app. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, which may refund the purchase price; Apple has no other warranty obligation. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you. The store’s own terms also apply to your purchase.

We may update these terms, for example when we add features or the law changes. We will inform you in the app before material changes take effect. If you do not agree, you can delete your account; continuing to use Apeli after the effective date means you accept the new terms.

These terms are governed by Swiss law, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The courts at our place of residence in Switzerland have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of your country of residence and may also bring proceedings there.

EU consumers can also use the EU’s online dispute resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are not obliged and generally not willing to take part in dispute resolution before a consumer arbitration board, but we are happy to sort out any problem directly: info@apeli.app.