Terms of use

Last updated November 4, 2026

The short version: Cubby is a tool that helps you put your phone down at night and get up on time. Apple's standard app license covers most of what follows from using it. This page adds what is specific to Cubby.

Apple's standard terms apply

Your use of the Cubby app is governed by Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement (the Standard EULA). The terms on this page add to it. By downloading or using Cubby you agree to both. If anything here conflicts with the Standard EULA, the Standard EULA wins.

"Cubby", "we" and "us" mean the independent developer who makes the app. How we handle your data, including the usage data and crash reports the app sends, is described in the privacy policy.

What Cubby is

Cubby is an iPhone app built around a cub you name. From the bedtime you set it locks apps you choose, it sets an alarm for your wake-up time, and the next day it tells you whether you kept your phone down and got up on time.

Locking uses Apple's Screen Time and the alarm uses Apple's AlarmKit, and each can only do what Apple allows. Both are best effort. They can stop working after an iOS update, when you remove Cubby's access, when your phone is off or out of battery, or when your phone's clock or settings change. You can turn locking off at any time by removing Cubby's Screen Time access in iPhone Settings. Cubby is a tool, not a guarantee.

Cubby is offered only in the countries and regions where it is available on the App Store, and we may change where it is offered.

What Cubby is not

Cubby is not medical advice. It does not diagnose, treat or prevent insomnia or any other sleep disorder or health condition, and its morning results are not a medical measurement. If you have trouble sleeping, talk to a doctor.

Do not rely on Cubby to keep you away from, or let you into, anything important. Keep apps you may need at night, such as ones for your health, safety or work, off your list of locked apps. Do not rely on Cubby's alarm as your only alarm for anything you cannot afford to miss.

Some morning missions ask you to move, such as push-ups or squats. Only do them if they are safe for you, and skip or remove a mission you cannot do safely.

Your account

You need an account to use Cubby, and you must be at least 13 years old. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you need a parent or guardian's permission.

Give accurate sign-in details and keep your sign-in secure. You are responsible for what happens under your account. You can delete your account at any time in Settings → Delete account; the privacy policy says what that removes.

Subscription and billing

Cubby needs a Cubby Plus subscription, billed monthly or yearly. Prices are shown in your currency in the app and on the App Store before you subscribe, and may vary by country.

Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each period, at the then current price, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. Your Apple Account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends.

The yearly plan may start with a free trial if you are eligible, which Apple decides. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, it turns into a paid yearly subscription. If you buy a subscription during a trial, any unused part of the trial ends.

Manage or cancel your subscription in iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions, or from Cubby's Settings → Subscription. We cannot cancel it for you. After you cancel, you keep access until the end of the period you have paid for. Deleting the app or your account does not cancel your subscription.

Apple handles all payments and refunds. To ask for a refund, go to reportaproblem.apple.com. If a price changes, Apple tells you before it applies to your subscription.

Using Cubby

Use Cubby for yourself and within the law. Do not try to break, overload or get around Cubby or its servers, read other people's data, copy, resell or reverse engineer the app except where the law allows it, or use Cubby to control someone else's phone without their agreement.

What you put into Cubby, such as your cub's name, stays yours. You let us store and process it only to run Cubby for you. The app, its name, the bear, the plants, the badges and the rest of its art and design belong to us.

Ending the service

You can stop using Cubby and delete your account at any time.

We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts Cubby or other people at risk. We can change Cubby or stop offering it. If we stop it, we will tell you in the app ahead of time where we can. Refunds for any unused time are handled by Apple.

Disclaimers

To the extent the law allows, Cubby is provided as is and as available, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including that it will be uninterrupted, error free, or will lock every app every time.

Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for lost sleep, missed alarms, missed messages, lost data or anything else that follows from an app being locked or not locked. Our total liability to you for any claim about Cubby is limited to what you paid for Cubby in the 12 months before the claim.

Nothing in these terms limits rights you have as a consumer that the law does not allow to be limited, or liability that cannot be limited by law.

Changes

If these terms change in a way that matters, Cubby will tell you in the app before the change takes effect. The date at the top is the last time they changed. If you keep using Cubby after a change takes effect, the new terms apply.

Contact

Questions about these terms: admin@tuckincubby.com, or Settings → Report error in the app.