Last updated 4 October 2026
These terms are the agreement between you and the person who makes Cartalore. By using the app you accept them. They are written to be read, not to be impressive; where a term matters to you in practice, it says so plainly.
Cartalore is offered on the App Store worldwide. Consumer law where you live gives you rights these terms cannot take away, and section 11 says so in detail.
Cartalore is made and operated by Samrat Thapa, an independent developer based in Japan. Contact: [email protected]. A postal address is available on request.
This agreement is between you and us alone. Apple is not a party to it. Apple is not responsible for Cartalore or its contents.
Cartalore is not for children under 13. If you are between 13 and the age of majority where you live, you may use it only with the involvement of a parent or guardian who agrees to these terms on your behalf.
You get a personal, non-transferable licence to use Cartalore on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the App Store Terms of Service. You may not rent, lease, lend, sell or redistribute it, and you may not reverse-engineer it except where the law says you may regardless of what a licence claims.
Most of Cartalore is free: the curated library, the map, the reading, the listening, and up to two library stories a day. There are two paid plans on top of that. Pro removes the daily limit and lets you ask the AI questions about a passage. Pro Plus adds everything in Pro together with generating your own stories, a larger allowance of AI questions, choosing focus points, and personalized recommendations.
We may change what a plan includes or what it costs. If we do, you will be told first, and a price change never applies to a period you have already paid for. Where Apple requires your agreement to a price increase, your subscription simply does not renew unless you give it.
Every story is generated by a language model grounded in well-known online sources. It is not written, checked or reviewed by a historian. It can be incomplete, misleading, or simply wrong, including about real people and real events.
Do not rely on a Cartalore story as a source. It is a way into a subject, not an authority on it. The sources for every chapter are listed so you can go and read them.
Where source text is taken from Wikipedia it is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence, and images from Wikimedia Commons are used under their own free licences. Every story credits its sources, its images and their licences.
The app also includes open-source software, fonts and map data, each used under its own licence. They are listed, with their licence texts, at cartalore.com/licenses.
Stories you generate are yours to read and keep. They are private by default and stay private: they never enter the shared library, and nobody else can see them.
If you choose to share one, the app asks first and explains what will happen. After you agree:
By sharing, you give us permission to store and serve that story to people who have the link. That permission ends when you stop sharing.
Do not use Cartalore to generate material that is unlawful, that harasses or defames a real person, or that sexualises children. Do not attempt to break, overload, or automate against the service, and do not try to get at other people's stories. We may suspend or remove an account that does these things, and remove a story that should not be there.
When you listen to a story, it is read by a synthetic voice. That is speech generated by an AI model on your device, not a recording of a person.
The model is Supertonic 3, made by Supertone Inc. It is licensed under the BigScience OpenRAIL-M licence, a copy of which comes with the app and is published here. That licence lets Cartalore include the model on one condition: everyone who uses it must keep to the use restrictions in its paragraph 5 and Attachment A. So those restrictions are part of these terms, and they apply to you. They cover the model, any model derived from it, and anything it produces, including a recording you make of a story being read aloud.
In the licence's own words, where "the Model" is Supertonic 3, you agree not to use the Model or Derivatives of the Model:
The one most likely to matter in practice is (e): if you share a recording of a story being read aloud, say that the voice is machine-generated. We may suspend or remove an account that breaks any of these restrictions, as with the rules in section 7.
You can stop at any time by deleting your account in Settings, which removes your profile, stories and reading progress and cannot be undone. We may end your access if you break these terms, or if we stop running Cartalore, in which case you will be told, and we will ask Apple to refund any unused part of a paid period.
Cartalore is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that any story will be accurate.
To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. We are not liable for loss that was not reasonably foreseeable, and we never exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.
This whole section is subject to section 11. Consumer law in every country where Cartalore is sold limits what a disclaimer like this can do, and where the two conflict, the law wins and this paragraph does not apply to you.
Apple's role: in the event Cartalore fails to conform to any warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to Cartalore. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the app, its content, any maintenance or support (Apple has no obligation to provide either), and for addressing any claim that the app fails to conform to a legal requirement, infringes someone's intellectual property, or gives rise to product liability or a consumer protection claim.
Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, right or remedy you have under the consumer law of your own country that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where a term here conflicts with that law, the law applies and the term does not.
Australia. Our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. You are entitled to a replacement or refund for a major failure and to compensation for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. You are also entitled to have the services remedied if they are not of acceptable quality and the failure does not amount to a major failure.
New Zealand. The Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 applies, and nothing here limits it where you acquire Cartalore as a consumer.
United Kingdom. Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 digital content must be of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose and as described. If it is not, you may be entitled to a repair, a replacement or a price reduction, and nothing here affects that.
European Union and European Economic Area. Digital content and digital services must conform to the contract, under the national laws that implement the Digital Content Directive. If they do not, you may be entitled to have them brought into conformity, to a price reduction or to end the contract, and nothing here affects that. The consumer law of your own country applies alongside it.
Canada. Provincial and territorial consumer protection legislation applies to you, including any limits it places on disclaimers and liability caps.
Singapore. The Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act applies, including its provisions on goods and services that do not conform to the contract.
United States. Some states do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages, so parts of section 10 may not apply to you, and your state's consumer protection law applies regardless of anything here.
Everywhere else. The consumer protection law of your own country applies, including any limits it places on sections 10 and 14.
By using Cartalore you confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and, on your acceptance, have the right to enforce them against you.
Cartalore is operated from Japan, so these terms are governed by the laws of Japan, and the Tokyo District Court is the court of first instance for any dispute.
If you are a consumer, this does not take away rights you have under the law where you live. Consumer protection law in your country, state, province or territory applies to you regardless of this clause, you keep any right you have to bring a claim in your local courts, and nothing here is intended to stop you bringing a claim you are entitled to bring, including in a small claims court or before a consumer tribunal or ombudsman.
If these terms change materially, the date at the top changes and you will be told in the app before the change takes effect. Continuing to use Cartalore after that means you accept the new terms.
Questions about any of this: [email protected].