Homie Privacy Policy

Homie — Terms of Use

Last updated: October 21, 2026

Homie is a household scheduling app for families, provided by Homie.Family (“we”, “us”). These terms cover your use of the app and the service behind it. By creating an account or using Homie you agree to them. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the app.

The short version: your family’s data is yours; Homie is free on one phone; sharing a household with other people is a subscription the person who set the household up pays for, through the App Store; nothing Homie drafts is saved until you confirm it; and you can leave, cancel or delete your account at any time.

The app licence

The Homie app is licensed to you under Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement (the “Standard EULA”). These terms add the rules for the Homie service — accounts, households, sync and subscriptions. Where the two differ on the service itself, these terms apply; Apple’s terms continue to govern the App Store and your purchase through it. Apple is not a party to these terms and is not responsible for the Homie service or its support.

Accounts

• Homie works on one phone with no account at all. An account — an email address and a password — is what backs your household up and lets other people’s phones join it.
• Use an address you can receive mail at, and keep your password to yourself. You’re responsible for what happens under your account.
• One account is one person. Don’t create accounts in bulk or by automated means.
• Confirming your email address switches on Homie’s smarter reader (see below). Until then, Homie reads what you type on the phone itself.

Households and the people in them

• The person who creates a household looks after it: they can invite people, set what each account can see and change, and hand the household over to someone else.
• Children can’t sign up on their own. A child’s account can only join a household through an invite created by an adult in that household. Creating that invite is the parent’s or guardian’s consent to the child using Homie, and the adults of the household are responsible for how a child’s account is used.
• Only invite people who have agreed to be part of your household, and only add information about others that you’re entitled to share with them.

Subscriptions

• Homie is free on one phone, for as long as you like. Keeping a household in step across more than one account’s phones is the part with a price.
• The first month of sharing is free. It starts when a second person joins your household, and it’s yours rather than the household’s: you get one free month, not one per household.
• After that, the household’s creator subscribes through Apple’s App Store, monthly or for six or twelve months at a time. One subscription covers every phone in the household. Nobody helping out in someone else’s household is ever asked to pay.
• Payment is charged to your Apple account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically for the same length and price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before that period ends.
• You can change or cancel at any time from Homie (Home → Subscription → Manage subscription) or in your device’s App Store subscription settings. Cancelling stops the next renewal; the household keeps what it paid for until the end of the current period.
• Prices are shown in your own currency before you buy. We may change prices; Apple will tell you before a change applies to an existing subscription, and you can cancel before it does.
• Refunds are handled by Apple under Apple’s policies — we can’t issue them directly. Request one at reportaproblem.apple.com.
• If a subscription ends, nothing is deleted. Your household’s plans, lists and places stay on every phone and stay readable; changes and syncing between phones resume when the subscription does.

The smarter reader

• When you capture a plan in words, Homie can send that text to Anthropic’s Claude model, through our own server, to turn it into a draft. Our privacy policy explains what is sent and what isn’t; the text is not used to train AI models.
• Drafts can be wrong. A date, time, person or place may be misread. Nothing is saved to your schedule until you’ve reviewed it and confirmed it, and you’re responsible for what you confirm.
• There is a daily limit per account, and the smarter reader may sometimes be unavailable. When it is, Homie reads on the phone instead.

Travel times, traffic and reminders

Travel times, traffic estimates and leave-time reminders are estimates based on third-party map and traffic data. They can be late, early or wrong, and a reminder can fail to arrive. Use your own judgement, especially for anything time-critical, and never rely on Homie where safety is at stake.

Your content

Everything your household puts into Homie — plans, routines, lists, places, notes — belongs to you. You give us permission to store, sync and process it only as needed to run Homie for you and your household. We don’t sell it, use it for advertising, or use it to train AI models.

Using Homie fairly

Don’t use Homie to break the law or to harm, harass or track anyone without their knowledge; don’t try to reach another household’s data, get around the daily limits or subscriptions, or overload or disrupt the service; and don’t copy, resell or reverse-engineer the service except where the law allows it.

Leaving

You can sign out, leave a household, delete a household you set up and are the only account in, or delete your account from inside the app at any time. What deleting removes, and what stays with a household you shared, is set out in our privacy policy. We may suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms; where it’s reasonable, we’ll tell you first.

The service itself

We work to keep Homie running and your data safe, but the service is provided “as is” and “as available”. We can’t promise it will always be uninterrupted or free of errors, and we may change or stop features over time. If we ever wind the service down, we’ll give reasonable notice and a way to take your household’s data with you.

Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we aren’t liable for indirect or consequential losses — such as a missed appointment, a late arrival or lost time — arising from your use of Homie, and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us for Homie in the 12 months before the claim, or CAD $50 if that is more. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer-protection law that can’t be limited by agreement.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, and disputes go to the courts of Ontario. If you live elsewhere, you keep any protections the law where you live gives you.

Changes

We’ll update this page when these terms change and adjust the date above. When a change is material, the app asks each adult account once, the next time it opens, to read the updated terms and agree to them before carrying on; we keep a note of that agreement, as the Privacy Policy describes. Children are never asked: the invite that brought them in is their parent’s or guardian’s consent. Continuing to use Homie after a change takes effect — including on a phone with no account, which is never asked — means you accept it.

Contact

Questions about these terms: homie.family@protonmail.com