Proof Aloud

Terms of Use

Last updated: 17 August 2026

The short version

Use the app. Pay only if you want the paid tier, and cancel through Google Play. Your recordings are yours. It is a habit tool, not therapy and not medical care. If you are in danger, call 911; if you are in crisis, call or text 988.

1. Who these terms are with

These terms are a binding agreement between you and WickedSelf LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, 2810 N Church St #578615, Wilmington, DE 19802, United States ("WickedSelf", "we", "us"), the publisher of the Proof Aloud mobile application (the "App").

Installing, opening, or using the App means you accept these terms and the Privacy Policy at https://proofaloud.com/privacy. If you do not accept them, do not use the App.

2. Who may use it

You must be at least 13 years old, and old enough in your country to enter a contract and to hold a Google account, to use the App. If you are under 18, you may use it only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. The App is built for a general adult audience and is not directed at children.

3. NOT MEDICAL OR MENTAL HEALTH CARE

Read this section even if you skip the rest.

Proof Aloud is a screen-time and habit tool. It is not a medical device. It is not therapy, counselling, psychotherapy, psychiatric treatment, crisis intervention, or any other form of healthcare. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, mitigate, or prevent any disease, disorder, or condition, and nothing in it should be interpreted as a clinical assessment of you.

WickedSelf is not a healthcare provider. Nobody involved in making the App is acting as your doctor, therapist, counsellor, or licensed professional of any kind, and using the App creates no provider-patient, therapist-client, or fiduciary relationship.

The prompts, reframes, streaks, and any other text the App produces are not professional advice and are generated by software from fixed templates, not by a clinician reviewing your situation. Never disregard professional advice, delay seeking it, or stop a treatment because of anything in this App.

Always consult a qualified health provider about any question regarding a medical or mental-health condition. Decisions about your health belong with you and a professional who knows you.

4. Emergencies and crisis resources

The App is not an emergency service, and nobody monitors it. No message you record, type, or trigger inside the App reaches a human being anywhere. Recording something distressing does not summon help.

If you are in immediate danger, or someone else is, call 911 (or your local emergency number), or go to the nearest emergency room.

If you are struggling or thinking about suicide, help is free, confidential, and available 24 hours a day in the United States:

[chat.988lifeline.org](https://chat.988lifeline.org/). Available in English and Spanish, with options for deaf and hard-of-hearing callers.

1-800-662-4357, TTY 1-800-487-4889.

services by country.

The App may quietly show some of these resources when it notices certain language. That detection runs entirely on your device, is deliberately cautious, and is not a screening tool, a risk assessment, or a safety net. It can miss things. It is not a reason to rely on software instead of a person.

5. What the App does, and what it cannot promise

Proof Aloud blocks apps you choose until you say or type one true, good thing about yourself, then keeps that answer in an archive you can hear again later.

Blocking depends on Android permissions you grant and on your device honoring them. Some manufacturers, Samsung in particular, put background apps to sleep in ways an app cannot override and cannot always detect. We do not guarantee that blocking will run without interruption on every device, and the App tells you when it can see that it has been held back. Treat it as a tool that helps you keep a decision you already made, not as an enforcement mechanism or a parental-control system.

6. Your content is yours

Your recordings, transcripts, and entries belong to you. WickedSelf claims no ownership of them and takes no license over them. We could not use them if we wanted to: they stay on your device unless you back them up to your own Google Drive.

You are responsible for what you record. Do not record other people without their consent, and do not record anything unlawful.

7. Our content is ours

The App itself, including its software, name, logo, design, prompts, and reframe text, is owned by WickedSelf and protected by copyright and trademark law. Subject to these terms, you get a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the App on devices you control, for your own non-commercial use.

You may not copy, modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the App except where that restriction is prohibited by law, nor rent, lease, sell, sublicense, or distribute it, nor remove any proprietary notice from it.

8. Free and paid plans

The free tier is genuinely usable and is intended to stay that way: five unlocks a day, three passes a day, a rolling seven-day archive, and full export on any plan.

Two commitments about that, which we would rather write down than leave to good intentions. First, we will not move a feature you have already set up behind a paywall. If your blocking rules, your blocked app list, or your archive work today on the free tier, a later release will not take them away from you. Second, a Lifetime purchase is not revocable by us: if you buy it, you keep it, and we will not reprice or retire it out from under you. If prices change for new buyers, that change applies to new buyers.

Paid plans are sold through Google Play:

Subscriptions renew automatically until canceled. Google charges your Play payment method at the start of each period. A free trial converts into a paid period unless you cancel before it ends. Prices vary by country and may change; Google notifies you and you may cancel before a change takes effect.

Cancellation and refunds are handled by Google Play, which is the merchant of record. Cancel under Subscriptions in the Play Store, and you keep Pro until the end of the period you already paid for. Refunds follow Google's policy. We will support a reasonable request, but we cannot process refunds ourselves.

9. Acceptable use

Do not use the App to break the law, to harass anyone, or to record people who have not agreed to it. Do not attempt to circumvent the paid tier, interfere with the App's operation, or use it on a device you are not authorized to configure. Do not use the App as a substitute for supervision, care, or treatment of yourself or anyone else.

10. Third-party services

The App relies on Google Play services for purchases and, if you enable backup, on Google Drive. Your use of those services is governed by Google's own terms and privacy policy. WickedSelf is not responsible for third-party services, and the App's availability depends in part on them.

11. Disclaimers

THE APP IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE APP WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR THAT IT WILL BLOCK ANY PARTICULAR APP ON ANY PARTICULAR DEVICE, OR THAT ANY RESULT WILL BE ACHIEVED FROM USING IT.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and nothing here limits rights your local consumer law gives you that cannot be waived.

12. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WICKEDSELF LLC AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE APP, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE APP IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR TWENTY-FIVE US DOLLARS.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

13. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless WickedSelf LLC from claims, damages, and reasonable legal costs arising from your misuse of the App, your breach of these terms, or your violation of the rights of anyone else.

14. Governing law and where disputes are heard

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Arizona, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. You and WickedSelf agree that the exclusive venue for any dispute is the state or federal courts located in Maricopa County, Arizona, and both of us consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

If you are a consumer resident in a country whose law entitles you to bring proceedings locally, or gives you protections that cannot be overridden by agreement, this section does not take those away.

15. Ending things

You may stop using the App at any time. Delete everything, inside the App, removes your data immediately; uninstalling removes the App's local storage. We may suspend or discontinue the App, or any feature, at any time. If we ever discontinue it, your data remains on your device and export still works, which is deliberate: nothing you recorded depends on our continued existence.

Sections 3, 4, 6, 7, and 11 through 16 survive the end of this agreement.

16. The rest

If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force and that provision is limited to the minimum extent necessary. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms; we may assign them to a successor in interest. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us about the App and replace any earlier understanding.

If these terms change, the date at the top changes, and material changes will be noted in the App's release notes. Continuing to use the App after that means accepting the new version.

17. Contact

WickedSelf LLC, 2810 N Church St #578615, Wilmington, DE 19802, United States. Support@wickedself.com