Storypole

Terms of Use & License Agreement

Effective: June 14, 2026

Plain-English summary (the sections below are what counts): Storypole is a planning and tracking tool. You own your data and you're responsible for your decisions and your backups. The free tier is genuinely free; premium is a one-time purchase. The app is provided as-is — it's a measuring instrument, not a guarantee your project goes to plan. Don't resell our app as yours.

1. Agreement

These terms are an agreement between you and Storypole (“we”, “us”), operator of storypole.app, reachable at hello@storypole.app. By using the Storypole website or application (hosted at storypole.app or as a downloaded copy), you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use Storypole.

2. What Storypole is

Storypole is a budget, schedule and project-control tracker for building and renovation projects. It runs in your web browser and stores its data on your device; an optional feature syncs your data to your own Google Drive. Storypole is a tool for organizing information you enter — it does not provide professional advice of any kind.

3. Your license to use Storypole

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use Storypole — including any downloaded single-file copy — for managing your own projects (personal or in the course of your own business).

This license does not permit you to:

One thing in your favor, by design: because the app is a single self-contained file, a copy you have already downloaded keeps working on your own devices on its own — it needs no server, account, website, or connection from us to run. We built it that way on purpose, and nothing we do can take that away from a copy you already hold. This is not a promise to keep the website, the hosted app, sales, sync, or updates available — those may end at any time (see section 11), and the downloaded copy is provided “as is,” with no obligation on us to maintain, update, or support it.

4. Free and premium

The core of Storypole is free to use. Premium features (such as cross-device sync via your own Google Drive, multiple properties, Excel export/import and PDF reports) are unlocked by a one-time purchase of a license key. Prices and what's included are described on the pricing section at the time of purchase.

5. Your data and your responsibility

Your project data is stored on your device (see our Privacy Policy). That design gives you full ownership — and it also means you are in charge of keeping it safe:

6. Not professional advice

Storypole does not provide financial, accounting, tax, legal, engineering, architectural or construction advice. Forecasts, projections and schedule calculations are arithmetic on your own inputs, not predictions or guarantees. Decisions about your project, your money and your contractors are yours alone — made, we hope, with better information.

7. Third-party services

Optional features rely on third parties we don't control: Google (Drive sync and sign-in), a public CDN (the Excel converter library), and the payment provider's license service (premium activation and periodic validation). Their availability, terms and policies are theirs. If they change or discontinue their services, the dependent Storypole features may stop working; the core app is built to keep working regardless.

8. No warranty

Storypole is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied — including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be error-free, uninterrupted, secure, or that defects will be corrected. Software has bugs; assume this one does too, and keep backups accordingly. Some jurisdictions don't allow certain warranty exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we accept no liability whatsoever for any damage or loss arising from your use of (or inability to use) Storypole. Without limiting that sentence, this expressly includes any loss or damage caused by:

If, despite the above, liability is nonetheless established, our total aggregate liability for all claims combined is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim (zero for free use). Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded; if any part of this section is held unenforceable, the remainder stays in force to the fullest lawful extent.

10. Intellectual property

The Storypole application, name, logo and website content are our property. Open-source components are credited on the homepage footer and used under their respective licenses. Your project data is yours — these terms give us no rights to it (and, by design, no access to it). If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without obligation to you.

11. Changes and termination

We may update Storypole and these terms; material changes will be flagged on this page with a new effective date, and continued use means acceptance. We may suspend access to the hosted service for abuse of these terms. You can stop using Storypole at any time — your data is on your device and exportable; nothing is held hostage.

We may also change, suspend, or permanently discontinue the website, the hosted application, sales, premium licensing, and the optional sync service — in whole or in part — at any time and for any reason, with or without notice, and without liability to you. We are under no obligation to keep the website online or to continue offering Storypole for sale. Your locally stored data and any copy you have already downloaded are unaffected: they stay on your device, and you can export them at any time.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and disputes belong to the competent courts of Israel. Mandatory consumer-protection rules of your country of residence remain unaffected.

13. Miscellaneous