Terms of Use
Effective 17 August 2026
· Applies to Tessera on iOS.
These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your use of Tessera: Photo Puzzle Alarm (the “App”), a photo-puzzle alarm developed by Tamas Bereczki (“we”, “us”, “our”). By downloading, installing or using the App you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don’t agree, don’t install the App.
1. License
We grant you a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable license to install and use the App on Apple-branded devices you own or control, for non-commercial use, as permitted by these Terms and by Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement (apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula). Where Apple’s Licensed Application EULA conflicts with these Terms, Apple’s EULA prevails for matters it covers (warranty, product claims, IP claims, and so on); these Terms cover everything else.
2. The App is an alarm — not a guaranteed wake-up
Tessera schedules alarms using Apple’s AlarmKit so they ring through Silent mode and Focus. Even so, you should not rely on the App as your sole means of waking for anything safety-critical. Many factors outside our control — a powered-off or drained device, an interrupted operating system, revoked permissions, hardware faults, or a device left behind — can prevent an alarm from sounding. Keep an independent alarm for anything where oversleeping carries real consequences.
The App is deliberately not a “hard to dismiss” alarm. If you genuinely cannot complete the puzzle — because you’re unwell, in an emergency, or otherwise need to stop the alarm immediately — the App provides a way to turn it off. The puzzle is a gentle ritual, never a trap.
3. Unlocking Tessera
Tessera is free to download and requires a purchase to use. From first launch, setting alarms and sending mornings requires unlocking the App. Reachable without buying anything: the setup you go through before the offer, a morning someone has sent you, Restore Purchase, the Customer Center, and these Terms and the Privacy Policy.
An alarm you have already set will always ring, and can always be turned off, whatever the state of your purchase. We will not hold a wake-up hostage to a payment.
Tessera is sold through the App Store in three forms:
- a monthly auto-renewing subscription;
- a yearly auto-renewing subscription;
- a lifetime one-time purchase.
All three unlock exactly the same App. You do not need more than one.
Price. Prices are shown in your local currency on the paywall inside the App before you buy, and taxes are added by Apple per your App Store country. Prices may change; any change to a subscription price will be handled by Apple, which will seek your consent where its rules require.
Auto-renewal (subscriptions only). A subscription automatically renews at the end of each period unless you turn off auto-renewal at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period, at the then-current price. Managing and cancelling is done through the Customer Center in the App’s Settings, or in Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions. Deleting the App does not cancel a subscription.
Cancellation. Cancelling stops future renewals. It does not retroactively refund the current period, and your access continues until that period ends.
Free trials or introductory offers, where offered, are described on the paywall at the time, along with what they turn into and when. Any unused portion of a free trial period is forfeited when you buy a subscription.
Lifetime. The lifetime purchase is a one-time, non-consumable purchase. It does not renew and cannot be cancelled. “Lifetime” means for as long as we continue to distribute and support the App — it is not a guarantee that the App will be available indefinitely, and it does not entitle you to a separate future product.
Processing. Purchases are handled entirely by Apple and charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. We never see your payment information. We use RevenueCat, Inc. as a processor to validate purchases and manage access — see the Privacy Policy for exactly what is exchanged.
Redownload and restore. Your purchase is tied to your Apple Account. Use Restore Purchase on the paywall, or the Customer Center in Settings, to recover it on a new device or after reinstalling.
Family Sharing. Where supported by the App Store in your region and enabled for a given product, purchases may be shared through Family Sharing.
Refunds. All refund requests are handled by Apple under the App Store’s policy. Submit refund requests at reportaproblem.apple.com. We are not able to issue refunds ourselves, except where mandatory consumer law requires us to.
EU / EEA / UK right of withdrawal. If you are a consumer in the EU, EEA or UK, you normally have a 14-day right to withdraw from a distance contract for digital content. By confirming the purchase, you (i) request that we begin supplying access immediately and (ii) acknowledge that you therefore lose your right of withdrawal once delivery has begun, in accordance with Article 16(m) of Directive 2011/83/EU (and equivalent national implementations). Apple’s refund process remains available as a goodwill channel even after this point, and any mandatory statutory remedies in your country of residence are unaffected.
4. Send a Morning
Send a Morning turns a short message you write into a link that opens in Tessera. There is no server: the message is encrypted into the link itself and decrypted on the recipient’s device. We never receive, store or transmit it — see the Privacy Policy §4.
You are responsible for what you write and who you send it to. Anyone holding the link can open it, so treat the link the way you’d treat the message. You agree not to use the feature to send unlawful, harassing, or abusive content. Because we hold no copy of any message, we cannot recall, moderate or recover one once you have shared the link.
5. Your photos & acceptable use
You are responsible for the photos you import into the App. You agree to import only images you have the right to use, and not to use the App to store or display content that is unlawful. You agree that you will not:
- Decompile, disassemble, or reverse-engineer the App, except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law (and only after notifying us, where the law requires that).
- Modify the App’s binary, or distribute modified or unlicensed copies.
- Use the App to violate any law, regulation, or third party’s rights.
6. Intellectual property
The App and its content — code, design, artwork, text, and the wordmark — are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by copyright and other laws. Your photos remain yours; importing them grants us no rights in them. The license in §1 does not transfer ownership of the App.
7. Third-party services
The App relies on services provided by Apple — AlarmKit and the App Store — and on RevenueCat, Inc., which validates purchases and tells the App whether your access is active. Your use of those services is also governed by their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for the availability or performance of those services. The App does not use iCloud, and nothing you set up in it syncs between your devices.
8. No warranty
The App is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, to the maximum extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any alarm will sound in every circumstance (see §2). Apple’s Licensed Application EULA covers warranty claims for the binary delivered through the App Store.
9. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary or punitive damages — including any loss arising from a missed wake-up or a missed alarm — arising out of or in connection with the App or these Terms, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Our total aggregate liability for direct damages will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the App in the twelve months preceding the claim, or (b) ten euros.
Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law — including, in some jurisdictions, liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
10. Apple’s role (App Store-specific)
You and we acknowledge that these Terms are between you and us, not Apple, and that Apple is not responsible for the App or its content. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the App. In the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) for the App; to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation. Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, upon your acceptance of these Terms, have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce them against you.
11. Termination
These Terms apply until terminated. You may terminate by deleting the App. We may terminate or suspend your license if you materially breach these Terms. Sections that by their nature should survive (intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, governing law) survive termination.
12. Changes
We may update these Terms as the App evolves. We’ll update the “Effective date” above when we do. Continued use of the App after a change means you accept the new Terms.
13. Governing law & venue
These Terms are governed by the laws of Romania, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and exclusive venue lies with the competent courts of Romania. Where you are a consumer, this choice of law and venue does not deprive you of the protection afforded to you by mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which you are habitually resident (including, for consumers in the EU, the rights under Regulation (EC) 593/2008 (“Rome I”) and applicable consumer-protection directives), and you may also bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence where the law allows.
EU online dispute resolution. Consumers resident in the EU may use the European Commission’s online dispute-resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are, however, not obliged to and do not currently participate in alternative dispute resolution before a consumer arbitration body.