Terms of Use

Last updated 22 August 2026. Spy (جاسوس) is a free party game for iOS. These terms are the agreement between you and me, the person who makes the app, about using it. Installing it or playing it means you accept them. If you don't, delete the app; that's the whole exit.

Your licence

The app is free. There is nothing to buy, no subscription, no account. You get a personal, non-transferable licence to install Spy on devices you own or control and to play it as much as you like.

• Play it anywhere people gather — a living room, a café, a bus, a classroom, a quiz night. The licence covers all of it.
• The licence does not let you sell, rent, or sublicense the app, or ship it as part of something else.

Acceptable use

Short list, because there is not much to abuse. Everything runs on the device; there is no server, no login, and nothing to break into.

• Don't copy, modify, decompile, or reverse engineer the app, except to the extent the law gives you that right anyway.
• Don't pull the word lists, artwork, or code out of the app to use somewhere else.
• Don't redistribute the app, or a changed version of it, anywhere — including other stores.
• Don't click ads fraudulently or generate ad impressions with scripts or emulators.
• Don't use the app where using it is against the law.

What happens at the table is between the players

The app deals the roles, holds the secret word, and runs the timer. The game itself — the questions, the accusations, the bluffing, the argument about who was obviously lying — happens between people sitting in a room. Neither the app nor I have any part in it.

I am not responsible for what players say to or about each other, for a round that turns into a real argument, for anything anyone stakes on the outcome, or for the house rules a group invents. Whoever is holding the phone can end a round on the spot. A game that has stopped being fun should be stopped.

• The word lists are written for a general audience, but you know your own table. Pick categories to suit the people playing.
• If children are playing, an adult should decide whether the game and the group are right for them.

Advertising

The game is free because it shows advertising: a single app-open ad, displayed over the setup screen. It never appears during a round, during a reveal, or over the results.

The ads come from Google AdMob. I don't pick them, don't write them, and can't vouch for the products or sites behind them. If you buy something from an advertiser, that deal is between you and them.

• iOS asks your permission before ads can be personalised using tracking. Decline and you still get ads, just non-personalised ones.
• Where regional law requires it (the EEA and the UK), Google's consent form is shown. You can reopen it later from the "Ad privacy options" button on the setup screen.
• What the ads, the analytics, and the crash reports actually collect is set out in the privacy policy.

Words, artwork, and the rest of the app

The app is mine: the code, the artwork, the layout, the name, and the 1,097 word pairs across 14 categories. The pairs were written by hand in both languages rather than machine-translated, and that work — the choosing, the pairing, the category structure — is what copyright protects here. Individual words, from "lion" to "کشک بادمجان", belong to everyone; the list does not.

Playing the game gives you a licence, not ownership. Nothing here transfers any rights to you.

• Screenshots, videos, streams, and reviews of the game are fine. No permission needed, no fee, and a link back is appreciated but not required.
• Don't use the app's name, icon, or artwork in a way that suggests I made or approved something I didn't.
• The app uses third-party components — Firebase and the Google Mobile Ads SDK — which belong to their owners and come with their own licences.

No warranty

The game is given to you as it is, with nothing guaranteed. I can't promise it is free of bugs, that it runs correctly on every device and every version of iOS, that the timer is accurate to the millisecond, or that it will always be available to download.

Player names and settings are kept on your device only. If you delete the app, or the phone is lost or wiped, they are gone. I hold no copy anywhere and have no way to restore them.

Limitation of liability

In plain terms: if the app crashes mid-round, loses your player names, deals a word you'd rather it hadn't, or somehow ruins the evening, my responsibility is limited to what you paid for it, which is nothing.

I am not liable for indirect or knock-on losses either — time wasted, a party spoiled, a friendship dented, or anything staked on a round. None of this removes rights you have under consumer law that cannot be signed away, and none of it excludes anything that cannot legally be excluded.

Changes

The app changes. Features come and go, word lists get edited, categories can be added or removed, and how ads behave can change. Nothing in the app is promised to stay as it is.

These terms can change too. When they do, the new version is published with a new date — the date on this one is 22 August 2026. Carrying on playing after a change means you accept the new version. If you don't accept it, delete the app.

Ending this

You can end this agreement whenever you like by deleting the app. The licence ends with it, and the names and settings stored on the device go at the same time.

I can end your licence if you break these terms seriously — redistributing the app, lifting the word lists, or tampering with the advertising. In practice that means you stop being allowed to use it; there is no account for me to close.

One day I may stop updating the app or stop distributing it. A copy already on your device keeps working for as long as iOS lets it.

The sections on intellectual property, warranty, and liability keep applying after the licence ends.

The App Store

Apple is not a party to these terms and has no obligation to support the game. If the app fails to work as it should, you can tell Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price — which for a free game is zero. The download itself is also covered by Apple's own App Store terms.

Contact

Questions about these terms, about copyright, or about anything else in the app: @xswap_to on Telegram. There is one person behind this game, not a company, so a reply can take a few days. Privacy questions and data requests go to the same address.