Terms of Service

Second Leaf AI is an iPhone app for indoor-plant keepers. It identifies plants from photos, gives a second opinion on what might be wrong with a plant, schedules care reminders, and shows climate-aware seasonal tips. The tagline is "Your plant's second opinion."

It is not a substitute for professional horticultural, medical, or veterinary advice. Don't use it to diagnose pests on edible crops you'll consume, plants in a commercial nursery, or anything else where being wrong has consequences beyond an unhappy houseplant.

You must be at least 4 years old (the App Store rating). If you're under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you need a parent or guardian to agree to these terms on your behalf. We don't direct the app at children and we don't knowingly collect personal information from children — see the Privacy Policy.

There isn't one. Second Leaf AI doesn't have a user account database. We don't know who you are. Your data lives on your device (and in your iCloud Drive if you've enabled it).

Second Leaf AI offers three paid plans, sold through Apple In-App Purchase:

The Free tier has no AI access (0 diagnoses, 0 identifications) and a 4-plant cap, but you can still manually log plants and notes.

Prices shown in USD; the App Store may show local-currency equivalents.

Free trial mechanics

• The 3-day free trial is available once per Apple ID, total, across both Pro plans. If you take the trial on Pro Monthly, you don't get it again on Pro 3-Months (and vice-versa). Apple enforces this automatically.
• During the trial you have Lite limits (15 diagnoses + 10 IDs / month + 20 plants), not full Pro. The trial is a taste of Pro at the safer cap.
• If you don't cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, the plan auto-renews at the standard price.
• Lite Monthly has no free trial.

Auto-renewal and cancellation

• All paid plans auto-renew until you cancel.
• You can cancel at any time in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions on your device.
• Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep access until the current billing period ends.
• We don't auto-cancel your subscription if you delete the app — you have to cancel via Apple.

Refunds

Refunds for App Store purchases are handled by Apple under Apple's standard refund policy. We don't process refunds directly and we can't override Apple's decision. To request one, visit support.apple.com/billing.

Quotas and what happens when you hit them

When you hit your monthly limit on Lite or Pro, the relevant feature (diagnose or identify) will show an upgrade prompt or ask you to wait until the next reset. Quotas reset on the first of each calendar month at midnight local time. Unused diagnoses and identifications don't roll over.

Second Leaf AI relies on third-party AI services to power its identification, diagnosis, and weather features:

• Plant.id (operated by Kindwise / FlowerChecker) — plant species and disease identification
• Anthropic Claude — diagnosis reasoning
• Apple WeatherKit — local weather and seasonal alerts
• Apple Foundation Models — on-device phrasing of notification reminders (iOS 26+)

These services are independent of us. We don't operate their infrastructure and we don't control their availability, latency, accuracy, or pricing. Specifically:

• We are not liable for any inability to use Second Leaf AI's identification, diagnosis, or weather features caused by an outage, degraded performance, rate limit, planned maintenance, or service termination at Plant.id, Anthropic, Apple WeatherKit, or any other upstream provider.
• No service-credit, refund, or pro-ration is owed for downtime of these services. Your subscription continues to be billed by Apple regardless; if you find the service unreliable for your needs, the appropriate remedy is to cancel through Apple Subscriptions.
• We don't guarantee any specific uptime, response time, or diagnostic accuracy. The app does its best to degrade gracefully — when Anthropic is unavailable, we fall back to a Plant.id-only diagnosis labelled as a degraded result — but that fallback isn't a guarantee either.
• AI output is advisory, not authoritative. Identifications and diagnoses may be wrong. We surface a confidence indicator on every result so you can judge for yourself. Don't make a costly decision (e.g. discarding a plant, applying a pesticide near children or pets) based solely on Second Leaf AI's output.
• You are responsible for any consequence of acting on AI output. If a diagnosis tells you to water more and the plant is actually overwatered, that's on you, not us.

If Plant.id or Anthropic terminate their service to us entirely, we'll either find a replacement provider, fall back to manual-only operation, or sunset the affected feature — at our discretion. We'll communicate any material change via an in-app notice or a Settings → About update.

You agree not to:

• Use the app to identify or diagnose anything other than plants (the AI is tuned for plants; misuse may produce nonsense).
• Submit photos that contain illegal content, child sexual abuse material, intimate imagery of others without consent, or anything else that would violate the App Store's content guidelines or applicable law.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract API keys from the app binary. (For what it's worth, the keys aren't there — they live on our Cloudflare Worker, behind App Attest.)
• Bypass the App Attest validation, the per-device daily request cap, or the quota system.
• Use the app to build a competing product (scraping the knowledge base, batch-extracting AI responses, etc.).

We may, at our sole discretion, block requests from devices that abuse these terms.

Your plants, photos, diagnoses, and notes are yours. See the Privacy Policy for the full picture.

• Export: Settings → Back up now writes a portable archive of your data to your iCloud Drive Second Leaf AI folder.
• Delete: Settings → Erase all data removes everything from your device. Deleting the app removes the device copy too. To remove the iCloud copy, delete the file in Files → iCloud Drive → Second Leaf AI.

We don't claim ownership of your photos or notes. By using the app you grant us a temporary, non-exclusive, limited licence to transmit your photo and sanitized note text to Plant.id and Anthropic for the sole purpose of returning an identification or diagnosis to you.

The Second Leaf AI app, name, design system, knowledge base, and source code are owned by us (Timebrane). Plant.id, Anthropic Claude, and Apple WeatherKit are owned by their respective providers. Nothing in these terms grants you any ownership or licence beyond using the app as designed.

Second Leaf AI is provided "as is" and "as available". To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure against all attacks, or that any defect will be corrected.

Some jurisdictions don't allow the exclusion of certain warranties; in those places, the above exclusion may not apply to you in full.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, our total cumulative liability arising out of or relating to the app — regardless of the theory of liability (contract, tort, statute, or otherwise) — is limited to the greater of:

• the amount you paid us through Apple for Second Leaf AI in the three (3) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or
• USD $20.

We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages — including lost profits, lost data, plant loss or damage, or any harm caused by reliance on an AI-generated identification or diagnosis.

The third-party-downtime carve-out in Section 5 is a specific application of this limitation, not an exception to it.

Some jurisdictions don't allow the limitation of liability for certain damages; in those places, the above limitation may be reduced to the minimum extent required by law, but it still applies to the maximum extent permitted.

If a third party brings a claim against us because of how you used the app (e.g. you submitted someone else's photo without consent, or you acted on a diagnosis in a way that harmed a third party), you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from that claim to the extent permitted by applicable law.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the app — or to specific features — at any time, for any reason, including (without limitation) a violation of these terms. If we terminate access for cause, no refund is owed beyond what Apple's standard refund policy provides.

You may stop using the app at any time by deleting it from your device. Cancel your subscription separately via Apple if you don't want to be billed again.

We may update these terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated in-app (Settings → About → Terms of Service link will always show the current version) and reflected in the "Last updated" date at the top. Continued use of the app after a change means you accept the updated terms.

These terms are governed by the federal laws of the United Arab Emirates and, where applicable, the laws of the emirate in which Timebrane is registered, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the app will be resolved exclusively in the competent courts of the United Arab Emirates, unless your local consumer-protection law gives you a non-waivable right to a different forum.

Nothing in these terms limits your statutory consumer rights under the law of your country of residence.

For anything related to these terms, your subscription, or the app generally: timebrane@icloud.com