Terms of use

Using Sprout

By creating an account or using Sprout, you agree to these terms and to our privacy policy. If you don't agree, please don't use Sprout.

You must be at least 13 years old to use Sprout, or older if your country sets a higher minimum age for using online services without a parent's consent. If you are under 18, you need a parent or guardian's permission to use Sprout, and to buy Sprout Plus. The parent or guardian accepts these terms for you and is responsible for any purchase.

Your account

• Give a real email address you can access, and keep your password private. One account is for one person.
• You're responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us right away if you think someone else has used it.
• The name you choose is shown to people you share lists, families and templates with. Don't use a name that impersonates someone or is offensive.

Your content and sharing

Your lists, items, notes and templates belong to you. You give us permission to store, copy and display them only as needed to run Sprout, for example to sync them to your devices and show them to the people you share with.

• Lists: everyone in a list can add, change and remove its items. The list's owner can remove members, hand the list over, or delete it. Deleting a list, or deleting the owner's account, deletes it for everyone.
• Templates: anyone with a template's code can see its items and your name, and can make their own copy. Copies made by others stay with them if you delete the template.
• Only share content you have the right to share. Don't put sensitive personal information, such as health or financial details, in lists you share.

To report abuse, such as offensive content in a template, email support-sprout@mikrodev.net. You can always remove someone from a list you own, or leave a list. We may remove content or suspend accounts that break these terms.

Rules

Don't use Sprout to:

• break the law or violate other people's rights;
• harass anyone or share hateful, sexual, violent or otherwise harmful content;
• send spam or use Sprout for advertising;
• guess invite codes, get around CAPTCHA or security limits, or access lists you weren't invited to;
• copy, scrape, reverse engineer or overload the app or its servers, except where the law allows it.

Ads

The free version of Sprout shows ads provided by Google AdMob. We don't control each ad and aren't responsible for products advertised by others. The privacy policy explains the data used for ads and your choices.

Sprout Plus subscription terms

Plans

The price for each plan is shown in the app and in the App Store or Google Play before you confirm the purchase, in your local currency, and includes any taxes the store adds where required. Sprout Plus currently removes ads and includes premium features as we add them. Features may change over time, but we won't take away "no ads" during a period you've paid for. Sprout Plus is not available in every country.

How you buy and pay

• Sprout Plus is sold only inside the app, through the Apple App Store or Google Play. It can't be bought on our websites.
• Apple or Google takes the payment and charges it to the payment method on your Apple ID or Google account. Their terms of sale also apply to the purchase.
• There is no free trial and no minimum commitment.

Billing and renewal

• Payment is charged when you confirm the purchase.
• The subscription renews automatically for another month or year at the price in effect, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for the renewal within 24 hours before the current period ends.
• If the price changes, Apple or Google will tell you in advance and, where their rules require it, ask for your consent before charging the new price.

Changing plans

You can switch between monthly and yearly, or between Just me and Family, in the app (Sprout Plus, then Change plan). On iPhone you can also do it in your Apple subscription settings. Moving up to Family usually starts right away, with the unused time of your current plan credited; other changes usually start at your next renewal. The exact timing, and how any unused time is handled, follows Apple's or Google's rules. If you pay for a family and move down to Just me, the app tells you first: the other members keep Plus until the end of the paid period, then the family ends.

How to cancel

• iPhone: open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions, and choose Sprout Plus.
• Android: open the Play Store, tap your profile, then Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions, and choose Sprout Plus.

In the app, Manage subscription (under Sprout Plus, and on the delete-account screen) opens the same store page. Cancelling stops future charges. Plus stays active until the end of the current period. Deleting your Sprout account or the app does not cancel the subscription, so cancel it in your Apple or Google account first. We can't cancel store subscriptions for you.

On a new phone, or after reinstalling, sign in and your plan comes back. If it doesn't, Restore purchases under Sprout Plus asks your store what you have bought and links it to the Sprout account you are signed in to; it never charges you.

Refunds

Because Apple and Google take the payment, refunds are handled only by them, under their own refund policies. We don't issue refunds ourselves. You can request one from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com, or from Google through your Google Play order history.

Family plans

• The person who pays manages the family and shares a family code. Members join with their own Sprout account.
• Members keep Plus while they're in the family and the family plan is active. If the payer removes a member, the member loses Plus right away. If the payer cancels, or moves down to Just me, members keep Plus until the end of the paid period; when that period ends, the family ends and everyone in it, the payer included, is free to join or start another family. If the payer deletes their Sprout account, the family ends and members lose Plus right away, while Apple or Google keeps billing the payer until they cancel in their store settings.
• Each member's lists and account stay their own. Joining a family doesn't share your lists.
• Sprout's Family plan works with family codes inside Sprout. It is separate from Apple Family Sharing and Google Play Family Library.

App stores

If you downloaded Sprout from the Apple App Store, these extra terms apply:

• These terms are between you and us only, not Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for Sprout and its content.
• Your license to use Sprout is limited to using it on Apple devices you own or control, as allowed by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for Sprout.
• If Sprout fails to meet any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any). To the extent allowed by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation for Sprout.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for handling any claims about Sprout, including product liability claims, claims that it fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and consumer protection or privacy claims.
• If someone claims Sprout infringes their intellectual property, we, not Apple, are responsible for investigating, defending and settling that claim.
• You confirm that you're not in a country subject to a US government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you're not on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Questions or complaints about Sprout go to us at the contact details below.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

If you downloaded Sprout from Google Play, the Google Play Terms of Service also apply to your use of the store.

Ending your use

You can stop using Sprout and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or close accounts that seriously or repeatedly break these terms, or where the law requires it, and we'll tell you when we reasonably can. We may change or stop parts of Sprout. If we shut Sprout down, we'll give at least 30 days' notice and stop selling and renewing Sprout Plus.

Disclaimers and limits of liability

We work hard to keep Sprout reliable, but it is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties, express or implied, including of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, and we don't promise Sprout will always be available, error-free or that data will never be lost. Keep your own copy of anything important.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost data or profits. Our total liability for any claim relating to Sprout is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for Sprout Plus in the 12 months before the claim, or US$50.

Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under the mandatory consumer laws of the place where you live.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to its conflict of law rules. Disputes will be handled in the state or federal courts located in California, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim in your local courts. Before going to court, please email us so we can try to solve the problem informally.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We'll change the effective date at the top and, for important changes, tell you in the app or by email before they take effect. If you keep using Sprout after the changes take effect, you accept them. Changes to subscription terms don't affect a billing period you've already paid for.

Contact

Adrian Lara Guzman (Mikrodev), California, USA
Email: support-sprout@mikrodev.net

Last updated: October 7, 2026