Terms of use

AppWatch is a public record of the app market: which products exist, what they charge, and which have stopped. These terms cover the site, any account you make on it, and the alerts and tools that come with a paid plan. If you use AppWatch on behalf of a company, you are confirming you may agree to this on their behalf.

The registry is free and open. No account, no card, no trial that expires. That is not a promotion and we are not planning to move it behind a paywall later. An account adds watches, alerts and the tools built on top of them, and nothing an account gives you takes anything away from the free version.

One account is one person. Keep the sign-in address current, because it is how we reach you and it is also how you prove a domain when you claim a listing. You are responsible for what happens under your account.

Do not share credentials, and tell us if you think someone else has them. Sharing what AppWatch tells you is fine and expected: point a webhook at your team's channel and every alert lands in front of everyone, which is what that feature is for.

Starter is $29 a month and Pro is $99, or $290 a year, two months free and $990 a year, two months free. Prices exclude any tax we have to add. Billing renews automatically for the same period until you cancel.

Cancel whenever you like. The plan runs to the end of the period you already paid for and then stops, and we do not pro-rate what is left. If we change a price it takes effect at your next renewal and never mid-period, and we will tell you before it does. Watches and history stay on your account if you go back to the free plan; they are not deleted for non-payment.

Read it, search it, act on it, and quote it. Cite a figure in a post, a deck or an article and link back to the page it came from. That is the intended use and no permission is needed for it.

What you may not do is take the corpus itself: systematic scraping, bulk export beyond what the product hands you, or republishing enough of the dataset that someone could use your copy instead of ours. The years of observations behind these pages are the only thing here that cannot be rebuilt in a weekend, which is why this is the one restriction worth writing down. Alerts and exports on your plan are for you and your company, not for resale.

You can claim an app whose domain matches your confirmed sign-in address. A claim gets you a way to correct what we say about your product, and corrections survive the next crawl rather than being quietly overwritten. It does not get you editorial control: whether an app shows as live or dead is an observation, and it is never for sale or up for negotiation. We can withdraw a claim we believe was made in bad faith.

Some of what we publish is observed and some is inferred, and every page tells you which is which. Dates carry their provenance. Categories, team sizes and funding statuses are inferences, they are stored with the evidence behind them, and unknown is a normal answer rather than a gap we have filled with a guess.

Inferences are sometimes wrong. Tell us and we will fix it: there is a report link on every app page, and corrections from the company itself go to the front of the queue. We do not promise the site is complete, current to the minute, or uninterrupted, and it should not be the only thing a decision of consequence rests on.

Do not try to break the site, get at data that is not yours, work around rate limits, or automate your way through pages meant to be read. Do not use AppWatch to harass anyone. We hold business profiles only, and using what is here to go after someone personally is both against these terms and against the point of the project.

You can close your account at any time. We can suspend or close one that breaks these terms, and where the breach is fixable we will say so first. If we end your paid plan for a reason that is not your fault, we refund the part of the period you did not get.

Sections 5, 7, 10 and 11 keep applying after an account ends.

Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for death, personal injury, or our own fraud. Beyond that, we are not liable for lost profit, lost business, or decisions taken on the strength of something the site got wrong, and our total liability is capped at what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. If you never paid us, the free registry is provided as it is.

What we hold about apps and about the people behind them, why we are allowed to, and how to have it removed is all in the privacy notice. Removal there is removal here: a suppressed listing stops being published anywhere on this site.

The registry, the site and everything we write stay ours. Anything you send us, a correction or a report, you are giving us permission to act on and to publish the corrected fact.

We will post changes to this page and date them at the top. If a change materially affects a paid plan we will tell account holders before it takes effect, and continuing to use AppWatch after that is how you accept it. If one part of this turns out to be unenforceable the rest still stands. These terms are governed by the law of the place AppWatch is operated from, and its courts.

Partners in the affiliate programme also accept the affiliate terms, which are stamped by version onto their account and win over this page wherever the two overlap.