Terms of use

You need to be 13 or older, and old enough to agree to this where you live. One account is one person — Annela is a record of what you did, and a shared account makes every streak, standing and challenge in it meaningless.

You are responsible for what happens under your account. If you think someone else has got into it, change your password and tell us.

Your photos, posts, comments and logs belong to you. You give us permission to store them and to show them to the people you have chosen to share them with — that is all, and only for as long as you keep them here.

We do not sell them, train anything on them, or show them to anyone you have not shared them with. Deleting your account deletes them; see the privacy policy.

Nothing that would make this a worse place to be honest about a hard day:

• Harassing, threatening or bullying anyone.
• Hate speech, or content attacking people for who they are.
• Sexual content, and nudity beyond what a progress photo plainly is.
• Content involving minors in any way that is not plainly innocent.
• Spam, scams, or advertising.
• Impersonating someone else.
• Anything illegal, and anything encouraging self-harm — including promoting disordered eating or extreme restriction. This is a fitness app; that boundary matters here more than most places.
• Cheating a public leaderboard, or gaming the device-verified entries.

Annela has zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. Words that aren't allowed are refused before a post, comment, name or challenge title is saved. Every post, comment, progress photo, profile and public challenge has a Report action, and every person has a Block. Settings lists everyone you've blocked. Blocking is immediate and symmetric: neither of you sees the other's posts, comments, reactions or photos, and neither of you is told.

Reports reach a person. We aim to look at every report within 24 hours and we remove content that breaks the rules above. We may remove content, suspend an account, or close one permanently — and for the worst categories we do that without warning, because a warning is a window in which it keeps happening.

If you think we got it wrong, reply and say so. A decision made by one person can be looked at by another.

Annela is free. Pro is an optional subscription, monthly or yearly, bought through the App Store. The price, and the length of any free trial, are shown before you confirm.

The free plan runs two challenges you started at a time, joins as many of other people's challenges as you like, and posts up to three photos a day; text posts are never limited. Pro lifts those limits and adds its own features, listed in the app before you buy. If a limit changes, what you already have stays.

Payment is taken by Apple when you confirm. The subscription renews automatically at the same price and length unless you turn it off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions, or from Pro in the app. Deleting your Annela account doesn't cancel it; cancel it there first. Refunds are handled by Apple under its own rules (reportaproblem.apple.com).

If you downloaded Annela from the App Store, Apple's standard licence agreement also applies, alongside these terms.

Annela records what you tell it and what your device reports. It does not know anything about your health, and nothing in it is advice. Targets in a challenge are numbers somebody typed, not a recommendation.

Talk to a doctor before starting something new, especially if you are pregnant, recovering from an injury or illness, or managing a condition. If something hurts, stop.

You can delete your account from Settings at any time. It is immediate and it is permanent — there is no waiting period and nothing to email anyone about.

We can close an account that breaks these rules. If we do, you can ask for your data first unless the reason makes that unsafe for someone else.

We try to keep Annela working and your data safe, but it is provided as it is. We do not promise it will never lose data, never go down, or suit any particular purpose.

Keep your own copy of anything you would be upset to lose. There is an export in Settings.

If these terms change in a way that matters, the app will say so before the change applies. The date at the top is the last time they changed.

[email protected] — for reports, questions about your data, or anything else.