Heartless Chef Terms of Use

Catnap Apps · Effective October 18, 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and Catnap Apps ("we") for using the Heartless Chef app and its online services. By using the app, you agree to them. Our privacy policy and consumer health data privacy policy explain how we handle your information.

You're the cook

• Not medical or nutrition advice. Heartless Chef isn't a doctor, dietitian or allergist. Nutrition numbers are often estimates, and the health score is a rough guide to a recipe. If you have a medical condition or special diet, follow your health professional's advice.
• Allergies. The app and the chef check recipes against the allergies you enter by ingredient name. They can miss an allergen, especially in packaged foods, cross-contact or ingredients with other names. Always read labels, and don't rely on the app alone to keep anyone safe.
• Food safety. You're responsible for cooking food safely: cooking meat, poultry, fish and eggs to safe temperatures, storing and handling food properly, and following trusted guidance for anything risky, like canning, fermenting or preserving.
• The AI can be wrong. The chef's recipes, answers, timings, substitutions, conversions and estimates are written by an AI. They can be wrong or incomplete, and can sound confident when they are. Use your own judgment.

The chef's personalities

Some of the chef's personalities are rude on purpose, and the Heartless one swears. You choose the personality in Settings, and can change it any time. Every personality is told to give safety warnings plainly, without jokes, but like everything the chef says, a warning can be wrong or missing.

Your recipes and content

Recipes, photos and notes you add stay yours, and stay on your device. When you import or share a recipe from someone else, you're responsible for having the right to use it the way you do. Imported recipes keep a credit and a link to where they came from. Recipes the chef writes for you are yours to use.

Share as Link makes a public page of a recipe or collection, which anyone with the link can see. Share only what you have the right to share, and nothing unlawful, hateful, sexual, or meant to harass or deceive. We may take down a shared page, and stop a link working, when it breaks these rules or someone has the right to have it removed. Report one from the link on its page.

Don't use the app to break the law, to try to make the chef produce harmful content, or to overload, probe or get around the limits of our servers.

Heartless Chef Pro and credits

• Pro is a subscription sold by Apple. It renews automatically until you cancel it in your Apple account settings at least 24 hours before it renews. Apple handles payment and refunds.
• Credits are bought through Apple and used for AI requests. They have no cash value, can't be transferred or exchanged for money, and are refunded only as Apple's policies or the law require.
• To keep the service working for everyone, we may limit an account that uses the AI far more than anyone could need for cooking.
• We may change or end AI features. If we end a paid feature, we'll keep unused credits working for other AI features for as long as we can.

Things that come from others

Stock photos come from Pexels under the Pexels license. Videos come from YouTube; watching them means agreeing to YouTube's Terms of Service. Imported recipes come from the websites you choose. We're not responsible for other people's content or services.

No warranty

The app and its services are provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law allows, we make no promises that they will be accurate, uninterrupted or free of errors, or fit for a particular purpose.

Limit of liability

To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for any harm that comes from relying on the app's recipes, allergen checks, nutrition information or AI answers. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or US $50.

Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under the law where you live that can't be waived, or liability that can't be limited by law.

About Apple

• These terms are between you and Catnap Apps, not Apple. We, not Apple, are responsible for the app, its content, maintenance and support.
• Your license to use the app is non-transferable, on Apple-branded devices you own or control, as Apple's Usage Rules allow.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app. If the app fails to meet a warranty that applies, you can tell Apple, and Apple will refund the app's purchase price, if any. Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for any claims about the app, including product liability claims, claims that it fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and consumer protection or privacy claims. We, not Apple, are responsible for investigating and settling any claim that the app infringes someone's intellectual property.
• You confirm you're not in a country under a US government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and not on a US government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Disputes go to the state or federal courts in Washington, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring them there.

Changes and contact

If we change these terms, we'll update this page and its effective date. Questions: support@heartlesschef.com.