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Inkbloom Terms of Use

Last updated 9 November 2026

These are the terms for using Inkbloom, the daily puzzle app. Like the privacy policy, they are written to be read. By using the app, you agree to them.

Who these terms are between

These terms are an agreement between you and Sriram Goparaju, who publishes Inkbloom ("we", "us"). They cover the Inkbloom app and the online services it uses: your account, your saved progress, and the daily leaderboards.

Apple and Google distribute the app, but they are not parties to these terms, and they are not responsible for Inkbloom or for supporting it. We are. If you downloaded Inkbloom from the App Store, Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them.

How we handle your data is set out in the privacy policy. If you are not old enough to enter a contract where you live, a parent or guardian needs to agree to these terms for you, and to approve any purchase.

Your licence to use Inkbloom

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use Inkbloom on devices you own or control, for your own enjoyment and not for commercial use. On Apple devices, the licence is also subject to the Usage Rules in Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions.

The app, its puzzles, its pictures and its design belong to us or to those who licensed them to us. The licence does not let you copy, sell or redistribute the app or its puzzles, or take the app apart to rebuild it, except where the law says you may. Sharing your own results is welcome.

Some parts of the app are open-source software, including its two typefaces, and those parts remain under their own licences.

Your account

An anonymous account, made for you

The first time you open Inkbloom, it creates an account for you automatically. No name or email is attached to it, and you do not need to give us either to play. Your progress is saved against that account. If you never link it to anything, there is nothing we can look you up by, so we cannot recover it for you if your device is lost.

An account you link, if you choose to

You can link a Google or Apple account, so that your progress can follow you to another device. Keep that account secure: whoever can sign in with it can use your Inkbloom account.

Purchases belong to your App Store or Google Play account, not to your Inkbloom account. "Restore purchases", on the You tab, brings Plus and Remove Ads back on a device signed in to the same store account.

Inkbloom Plus

Inkbloom Plus is an optional, auto-renewing subscription. It includes:

• No ads.
• Unlimited hints.
• Automatic streak repair. When missing a single day would break your streak, Plus mends it for you, up to once a month.
• Every library pack, open without spending Ink Drops.
• Every past daily page, back to the first.

It comes in two plans, monthly and yearly.

Billing and renewal

• The store shows you the price before you buy, in your store's currency. Payment is charged to your App Store or Google Play account when you confirm the purchase. The store bills you, not us.
• The subscription renews automatically at the end of each month or year, and the store charges you for the next one, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends.
• If the price of Plus or of Ad-free changes, the store tells you before the new price applies to you, as its own rules require.

Managing and cancelling

You manage and cancel Plus in your store's subscription settings, not in Inkbloom:

• App Store: Settings → your name → Subscriptions, or apps.apple.com/account/subscriptions.
• Google Play: the Play Store app → your profile picture → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions, or play.google.com/store/account/subscriptions.

Cancelling stops the next renewal. Plus stays active until the end of the period you have already paid for. Uninstalling the app, or deleting your Inkbloom account, does not cancel it.

Refunds are handled by the store you paid, under its own refund policy: Apple for the App Store, Google for Google Play.

Ad-free and Ink Drops

Ad-free

Ad-free removes banner ads and the ads shown between practice puzzles. Rewarded videos stay available, but only ever when you choose to watch one for Ink Drops. It comes three ways:

• Monthly or yearly, an optional auto-renewing subscription. It is billed and renewed exactly as Plus is (see "Billing and renewal" above), and you cancel it the same way, in your store's subscription settings. If you move from Ad-free to Plus, the store replaces one subscription with the other rather than charging you for both.
• Forever, a one-time purchase. It never renews and stays yours. Anyone who bought "Remove Ads" before 18 October 2026 holds this, and keeps it.

Either way it belongs to your store account, and "Restore purchases" brings it back.

Ink Drops

Ink Drops are the app's own play money. You earn them by playing — a welcome gift when you start, a daily claim, a Perfect Day, an optional rewarded video (up to ten a day) — and you can buy bundles of 20, 60 or 150 as one-time purchases. You spend them on hints and other help inside a puzzle, on unlocking library packs, and on repairing a streak.

Drops are a virtual item, licensed to you for use in Inkbloom. They are not money:

• They have no cash value. They cannot be exchanged for money, sold, or transferred to another person or account.
• A drop bundle is not refundable once its drops are credited, except where the law requires otherwise.
• Drops are stored on your device, not in your account. They do not follow you to another device, even with a linked account, and "Restore purchases" does not bring them back. They are lost if you uninstall the app or clear its data, unless your phone's operating system restores the app's data from a backup.

Leaderboards and your display name

When you finish a daily puzzle with a Google or Apple account linked, your time goes to that day's leaderboard. Play as a guest and your times stay on your device until you link an account. Practice puzzles from the Library are never ranked, and hint-free times rank on a board of their own. A place on a board is bragging rights; there are no prizes.

If you set a display name, it appears beside your times, with your country. A name must not be offensive, pretend to be someone else, or include anyone's personal details.

Every name goes through an automatic filter for offensive words. A name that fails it is replaced by your previous name, if that one passed, and otherwise by no name at all. The filter is a simple word list, and it can be wrong in both directions. If it has refused your real name, write to us.

We may remove or change a display name that breaks these terms, and remove or hide any result we believe was not played fairly. Some of this happens automatically: a time faster than a person could plausibly solve the puzzle is refused, or kept off the top of the board.

Play fair

Hints are part of the game, and using them is never cheating. What is not allowed:

• Tampering with results — altering the app, its clock, its saved data or its network traffic, or using a bot, script or solver, to put a time on a leaderboard that you did not earn by solving the puzzle yourself.
• Interfering with Inkbloom's servers, or trying to get into accounts or data that are not yours.
• Copying, selling or republishing Inkbloom's puzzles.

No guarantees, and the limits of our liability

We work to make every puzzle fair and solvable and the app dependable, but Inkbloom is provided as it is and as available. As far as the law allows, we do not promise that it will be free of errors, that it will always be available, or that progress, streaks or leaderboard entries will never be lost.

As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect losses, or for losses we could not reasonably have foreseen, and our total liability to you for anything to do with Inkbloom is limited to what you paid for it in the twelve months before the claim.

None of this limits a right that consumer law gives you and that no agreement can take away.

Ending things

You can stop using Inkbloom whenever you like, and you can ask us to delete your account at any time — here is how. Deleting your account does not cancel a Plus subscription, so cancel that in the store first.

If you break these terms, particularly by tampering with results, we may remove your results and your name from the leaderboards, or close your account. We would not do that lightly.

The parts of these terms that are meant to outlast an ending — about drops, liability and governing law — keep applying after it.

Changes to these terms

If these terms change in a way that matters, we will update the date at the top and say so in the app before the change takes effect. If you keep using Inkbloom after that, the new terms apply. If you do not agree with them, stop using the app and cancel any subscription.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of India hear any dispute about them.

Whatever that says, if you are a consumer you keep any protection that the law of the country where you live gives you and that cannot be changed by agreement.

Contact

For any question about these terms, a name the filter got wrong, or anything else, write to support@inkbloompuzzles.com.