Terms of Use

“Blotty”, the “app” or the “Service” means the Blotty app for iPhone and any updates to it. “We”, “us” and “our” mean the independent developer of Blotty, based in Poland. “You” means the person using the app.

By downloading, installing or using Blotty, you agree to these Terms of Use (“Terms”). If you do not agree, do not use the app.

Contact: blotty.support@proton.me. These Terms are published at https://www.blotty.app/terms.

Blotty is licensed to you, not sold, under Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement (the “Standard EULA”), available at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/. The Standard EULA governs your license to install and use the app.

These Terms supplement the Standard EULA. If the two conflict on your license to use the app, the Standard EULA applies.

You acknowledge that these Terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content, has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for it, and is not responsible for handling any claims relating to the app (including product liability, legal or regulatory compliance, consumer protection, or intellectual property claims). Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

Your use of the App Store, your Apple Account and your purchases is also governed by Apple’s Media Services Terms and Conditions.

Blotty is suitable for all ages (App Store age rating 4+).

If you are under the age of majority where you live, a parent or legal guardian must read and accept these Terms for you and is responsible for your use of the app. Purchases by minors must be made or approved by a parent or guardian, for example through Apple’s Family Sharing and Ask to Buy.

You must be allowed to use the app under the laws that apply to you.

Blotty helps you hide parts of photos and videos — such as faces, text, numbers, license plates, barcodes and other details — by blurring, pixelating, covering them with a bar or another style, and saves an edited copy.

Processing on your device. Your photos, videos, detections and the edits you make are processed on your iPhone. We do not upload them and we never receive them.

Your originals. Blotty reads only the photos and videos you choose and saves a new copy. It does not change or delete your originals.

My Data. Information you add to My Data is stored only on your iPhone, protected with Face ID (or your passcode) and not synced to iCloud or any server. If you delete the app, reset or lose your iPhone, that information is lost.

No backups. Because we never receive your content, we cannot see, back up, restore or recover any of it. Keeping your own backups is your responsibility.

Blotty finds things to hide automatically using on-device recognition. Automatic recognition is not perfect. It can miss faces, text, numbers, plates, codes or other details, detect things that should not be hidden, or place a blur that does not fully cover what you meant to hide — for example, because of lighting, angle, motion, size, resolution, language, handwriting or an unusual layout. In videos, a covered object may be missed for some frames.

Styles differ in how well they hide things. Some — for example a bar over the eyes, an emoji, a light blur or a small mosaic — are meant for appearance and may still let a person or text be recognized. Choosing a style that is strong enough is up to you.

Blotty is a general-purpose editing tool. It is not a certified anonymization, redaction or data-protection solution, and it does not by itself make your content compliant with any law, regulation, contract or policy (such as data-protection, medical, financial or court rules). Nothing in the app is legal advice. If you have legal obligations to anonymize content, you must check that the result meets them.

Removing visible content from an image does not remove the same information from other places — for example, other copies of the photo, the original in your library, cloud backups, or other apps you shared it with.

You keep all rights to the photos, videos and other content you use with Blotty (“Your Content”). Because Your Content stays on your device, we do not receive and do not need any license to it.

You are solely responsible for Your Content and for how you use, save and share it. You confirm that you have the rights and any permissions you need, including, where required, the consent of people who appear in it.

You agree not to use Blotty:

• to break any law or regulation, or to infringe anyone’s rights, including privacy, image and intellectual property rights;
• to conceal, alter or destroy evidence, or to obstruct an investigation or legal proceeding;
• to create or share content that is illegal, deceptive, defamatory, harassing or that sexually exploits anyone, in particular minors;
• to mislead people about what an image or video shows in a way that causes harm, or to commit fraud;
• to remove or hide copyright notices, watermarks or other rights information that you are not entitled to remove.

You also agree not to:

• copy, modify, distribute, sell or rent the app, except as the Standard EULA or applicable law allows;
• decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble the app, except to the extent applicable law expressly permits this despite this restriction;
• bypass, disable or interfere with purchases, subscription checks or other technical protections, or unlock paid features without paying for them;
• use the app in a way that could damage, overload or impair it or the services it relies on.

Some features require Blotty Pro. Blotty Pro is available as:

• a monthly subscription that renews automatically every month;
• a yearly subscription that renews automatically every year;
• a lifetime one-time purchase.

The price, currency and what is included are shown in the app before you buy. Prices may differ by country and include any taxes Apple charges.

Payment. All purchases are made through the App Store and charged to your Apple Account. Apple processes the payment. We do not receive or store your payment details.

Automatic renewal. A subscription renews automatically at the end of each period at the then-current price, unless you turn off auto-renewal at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple Account is charged for renewal within the 24 hours before the current period ends.

Cancelling. You can manage or cancel a subscription at any time in your iPhone’s Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions, or in the App Store. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. If you cancel, you keep Blotty Pro until the end of the period you have paid for; the subscription then does not renew.

Price changes. We may change subscription prices. Apple notifies you of price changes and, where required, asks for your consent before you are charged a higher price.

Lifetime purchase. “Lifetime” means that, after a single payment, Blotty Pro stays unlocked on your Apple Account, with no recurring fee, for as long as we offer Blotty on the App Store. It does not refer to the lifetime of a person. It does not mean that the app will be updated forever or will work with every future iPhone or iOS version (see section 9). If we ever stop offering Blotty, we will not deliberately disable Pro features in copies of the app you already have installed.

Restoring purchases. If you reinstall Blotty or use a new iPhone with the same Apple Account, tap Restore Purchases in the app to restore Blotty Pro.

Refunds and withdrawal. Refunds are handled by Apple under its own policies, not by us. You can request a refund at https://reportaproblem.apple.com. Any statutory right of withdrawal you have as a consumer (for example, in the European Union) applies to purchases made through the App Store as provided in Apple’s Media Services Terms and Conditions.

To check whether you have Blotty Pro, the app uses a subscription service (RevenueCat) that receives an anonymous app user ID and your App Store purchase information. See our Privacy Policy.

Our Privacy Policy at https://www.blotty.app/privacy explains what information leaves your device and why. In short: we never receive your photos, videos, detections, My Data or anything you type. The app sends anonymous app events and crash reports so we can fix problems, and checks your subscription with the App Store.

The Privacy Policy is part of these Terms.

We may release updates that add, change or remove features, and some updates may be required to keep using the app. We aim to keep Blotty Pro’s core features available to paying users, but we do not promise that any particular feature will stay exactly the same.

Requirements. Blotty works only on iPhone with iOS 26 or later. It is not available for iPad, Mac, Apple Vision Pro or other devices, and it runs in portrait orientation only. The minimum iOS version may change with future updates; the current requirement is always shown on the App Store page.

Limits. Some features depend on your iPhone’s hardware, iOS version and available storage, and may work differently or not be available on every iPhone. The app also has technical limits — for example, copy-protected, damaged or unsupported files cannot be opened, and finding things in a video takes about as long as the video plays, with the app open. Saving needs enough free space on your iPhone. These limits may change in updates.

Permissions. To save edited copies, Blotty needs permission to add photos and videos to your library, and Face ID (or your passcode) is used to open My Data. If you do not give a permission, the features that need it will not work. See our Privacy Policy for details.

Internet. Editing works without an internet connection. Buying, restoring and checking Blotty Pro needs a connection to the App Store.

We are not obliged to support older devices or iOS versions, or to release updates for future ones.

We may stop offering Blotty at any time. Paid subscriptions will not be renewed after we stop offering them.

This section does not limit your statutory rights as a consumer regarding the conformity of digital content you have paid for (see section 12).

The app, its name “Blotty”, logo, design, text, graphics and software are owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual property laws. Apart from the license under the Standard EULA, these Terms give you no rights to them.

If you send us suggestions or feedback, we may use them freely, without any obligation to you.

Your statutory rights. If you are a consumer, you have legal rights that these Terms cannot exclude or limit, including rights if paid digital content is not in conformity with the contract. Nothing in these Terms affects those rights.

The app as provided. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, and subject to section 12.1, Blotty is provided “as is” and “as available”. We do not promise that the app will be free of errors or interruptions, that it will detect or hide every item you want hidden, or that it will meet any particular legal or professional requirement.

Limits on our liability. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

• we are not liable for losses that were not reasonably foreseeable, or for indirect or consequential losses;
• we are not liable for any loss caused by content you saved or shared without checking it, by details the automatic detection missed, or by your use of the app in breach of these Terms;
• we are not liable for loss of photos, videos, My Data or other content stored on your device;
• our total liability to you for all claims relating to the app is limited to the amount you paid for Blotty in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

What we do not limit. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for damage caused intentionally or through gross negligence, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

You can stop using Blotty at any time by deleting the app. Remember to cancel any subscription separately (see section 7.4).

If you seriously or repeatedly break these Terms, your right to use the app ends. Sections that by their nature should continue (including sections 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 16 and 17) remain in effect.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Poland.

If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you may bring a claim in the courts of your country of residence as well as in Poland.

If you are not a consumer, the competent courts of Poland have exclusive jurisdiction.

If something in the app does not work as described, write to blotty.support@proton.me. Please describe the problem and include your iPhone model and iOS version. The support email from the app’s Settings fills in the subject automatically.

We will reply within 14 days. Payment and refund requests are handled by Apple (see section 7.8).

These Terms, the Standard EULA and our Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about Blotty.

If any part of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the rest stays in effect, and the invalid part is replaced by a valid provision closest to its original purpose.

If we do not enforce a right under these Terms right away, we do not give it up.

You may not transfer your rights under these Terms to anyone else. We may transfer our rights and obligations to another person or company who takes over Blotty, provided this does not reduce your rights.

These Terms are written in English. If they are translated, the English version prevails to the extent permitted by law; where the law of your country requires a version in your language to prevail, that version prevails.