Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (the "Terms") are a contract between you and KatVid AI, a limited liability company registered in Georgia, United States ("KatVid AI", "KatVid", "we", "us" or "our"), the operator of the KatVid app for iPhone, the website at usekatvidai.com (katvidai.com leads to the same site), and the AI editing services behind them (together, the "Service").

By installing or using the app, using the website, creating an account, starting a trial or buying a plan, you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service. Where a feature has its own extra terms, we show them when you first use that feature and they apply alongside these Terms.

Our Privacy Policy explains what information we handle and how. It is a separate document and these Terms do not change it.

Section 23 explains how to raise a problem with us and which courts decide a dispute between you and us.

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. By using it you confirm that you are. We do not knowingly provide the Service to anyone younger, and we may close an account we reasonably believe belongs to someone under 18.

If you use KatVid for a company, agency or other organisation, you confirm that you are allowed to accept these Terms on its behalf, and "you" then includes that organisation.

You may not use the Service where doing so is against the law, or if we have previously closed your account for breaking these Terms.

A paid plan requires a KatVid account. Features that do not need one, such as recording and editing on your own iPhone, may work without it. Today the app keeps your cuts, edits and settings on your iPhone.

You can create an account with Google sign-in, with Sign in with Apple in the app, or, where we offer it, with an email address and a password. For a password account we email you a link to verify your address before the account is fully usable. We also use email for password resets, for connecting a website purchase to your account, and for security notices about your account; those messages come from noreply@usekatvidai.com and are not marketing.

When you create an account you agree to give us accurate information and keep it up to date, and to keep your sign-in details private. You are responsible for everything done through your account unless it results from our failure to keep it secure. Tell us promptly at support@usekatvidai.com if you think someone else has used it.

An account is for one person. You may use it on the iPhones you own or control and that the Service supports. You may not sell, rent, share or transfer your account or its sign-in details, and you may not create extra accounts to get around a limit, a suspension or a trial restriction.

KatVid is a video editor for iPhone built for creators. You record in the app or import footage, and KatVid can make an AI-assisted first cut of it. You then finish the edit yourself with the editor's tools, including cuts, captions, text, overlays and audio, and export the result on your phone. Finished edits are kept in the Cuts library on your iPhone. Batch lets you queue several videos for first cuts, now or at a time you choose, and New Cut lets you combine clips into one video.

To make a first cut, the app extracts the audio from your video on your iPhone and sends only that audio to our servers, which pass it to our transcription provider. The transcript and its word timings are then sent to our AI provider, which proposes which parts to remove. KatVid turns that proposal into an edit timeline and returns it to the app. Your raw video is not uploaded in this process. Editing and exporting happen on your phone. The Privacy Policy describes this in detail.

The Service runs on iPhone with the iOS versions we support. We may add, change or withdraw features over time, as Section 17 describes.

KatVid's first cut is a starting point, not a finished video. It is produced by automated systems working from a transcript of what you said. Those systems can be wrong: they may remove a take you wanted, keep one you did not, misunderstand speech or context, misjudge a pause, or transcribe and caption words or timings incorrectly. The result may differ from what a human editor would do and from what you expect.

You are responsible for reviewing every edit, caption and transcript before you publish or share it, and for what you publish. We do not guarantee any particular editing outcome, caption accuracy, processing time, or that a first cut will need no further work.

A first cut does not alter your source video. In the editor you can split, trim and delete, and drag a cut's edges to bring back footage the AI removed.

KatVid is sold as a subscription, billed either monthly or annually (a year paid up front, which costs about 20% less than twelve monthly payments). At launch there are three plans: Starter ($14.99 a month or $143.99 a year, 100 AI edits per monthly allowance window), Pro ($39.99 a month or $383.99 a year, 300 AI edits per monthly allowance window) and Ultimate ($69.99 a month or $671.99 a year, unlimited AI edits). Every plan includes the camera, the manual editor, captions and text, immediate Batch processing and exports; Pro and Ultimate also include overlap audio and scheduled Batch edits, which Starter does not. Plans otherwise differ in the number of AI edits. The prices, allowances, features and any plan details shown on the website or in the app at the time you buy are the ones that apply to you.

An "AI edit" is one successful AI first-cut processing of one video, including a video queued through Batch. One successfully processed video uses one AI edit, whatever its length within the supported maximum. A processing attempt that fails because of a problem on our side does not use an AI edit. Editing a cut yourself, reopening it, adding captions, text, overlays or audio, and exporting do not use AI edits.

Included AI edits on Starter and Pro reset each monthly allowance window. On a monthly plan that window is your billing month; on an annual plan it is each month of the year you paid for, counted from the date your paid year began, so an annual plan gives you a fresh monthly allowance twelve times a year and never the whole year's edits at once. Unused AI edits expire at the end of their window and do not roll over. If you use your allowance before the window ends, you can wait for the reset or move to a plan with a larger allowance.

Ultimate has no limit on the number of AI edits. It is meant for one creator's own high-volume use. The technical limits in the next paragraph, and the fair-use rules in Section 14, still apply to it: we may look into usage that shows the signs of automated, shared or resold access rather than one person's creative work, and we tell you before any limit affects an Ultimate plan.

The Service has technical limits, including a maximum source video length of 15 minutes for AI processing, limits on how many videos are processed at the same time, and rate limits that keep the Service working for everyone. We show any limit that affects what a plan includes before you pay.

When you choose a paid plan, you may be offered a free trial of 3 days. To start it you provide a valid payment method. Nothing is charged until the trial ends.

Cancel before your trial ends to avoid being charged. If you do not cancel before the 3 days are up, your subscription starts automatically on the plan and billing period you chose — a full year's price for an annual plan, a month's for a monthly plan — and your payment method is charged the price shown when you signed up, and the subscription then renews every billing period until you cancel.

A trial includes the AI edits stated for it before you start: the plan's monthly allowance for Starter and Pro, and up to 600 AI edits in total for Ultimate. When a trial's edits are used, AI editing pauses until the paid subscription starts; nothing is charged early, and the app's manual editing, captions, exports and your saved cuts remain available. Unlimited AI edits on Ultimate begin when the paid subscription starts. Changing plan, billing period or payment channel does not start another trial or another trial allowance.

A trial is for one eligible account, once. We may decline, limit or end a trial where the signs point to repeated use of trials by the same person, account, payment method, device or other reasonable indicators, to the extent the law allows.

Subscriptions renew automatically. At the end of each billing period — a month on a monthly plan, a year on an annual plan — your payment method is charged for the next period at the then-current price for your plan, until you cancel. On an annual plan the whole year is charged at once when the trial ends and at each yearly renewal. We tell you the price and the billing period before you buy, and we give you advance notice of any price change before it applies to a renewal so that you can cancel first.

You authorise us, through our payment processor, to charge your payment method for each renewal, for any plan change you make, and for applicable taxes. Prices exclude taxes unless we say otherwise; where we must collect sales tax, VAT or similar, we add it at the rate that applies to you.

If a payment fails, we may retry it and ask you to update your payment details. If it still fails after reasonable attempts, we may suspend paid features until it succeeds and may then end the subscription. Access you have already paid for is not affected.

If you move to a different plan, the change takes effect as described at the time you make it, which may be immediately with a proportionate charge or credit, or at your next renewal.

Website purchases are processed by Stripe, an independent payment processor, under its own terms and privacy policy; your card details go to Stripe directly and we do not store your full card number. Stripe may offer to charge you in your local currency at its exchange rate, which includes a conversion fee; the amount of a renewal charged in a local currency can vary with the rate, and Checkout confirms the exact currency and amount before you subscribe. App Store purchases are described in Section 10.

You can cancel at any time. For a subscription bought on our website, cancel through your KatVid account's billing tools; for an App Store subscription, cancel in your Apple Account's subscription settings. Cancelling stops the next renewal. You keep your paid features until the end of the period you have already paid for, after which your plan ends. We will not make cancelling harder than subscribing.

If you cancel during a free trial, before it ends, you are not charged.

Because you can cancel at any time and keep what you have paid for until the period ends, subscription charges are generally not refundable once processed, and we do not refund part of a period after an ordinary cancellation. Cancelling affects future renewals; it does not reverse the current charge.

We review genuine billing errors, duplicate charges, charges you did not expect and other exceptional circumstances. Contact us at support@usekatvidai.com with the details and we will look into it. Refunds for App Store purchases are requested from Apple and decided under Apple's process, because Apple is the merchant for those purchases.

Nothing in this section limits the rights you have under the consumer law that applies to you, including any right to withdraw from a purchase within a statutory period.

We intend to offer subscriptions through Apple's App Store as well as on our website. When an App Store subscription is available and you buy through Apple, Apple processes the transaction and your purchase is also governed by Apple's media services terms. You manage, change and cancel an App Store subscription through your Apple Account's subscription settings. Apple may share with us the subscription status information we need to provide your plan.

A plan bought through either channel is linked to your KatVid account so that the app can recognise it. We do not promise that a subscription can be moved between the website and the App Store, and you may not hold overlapping subscriptions through both in order to claim duplicate refunds, credits or allowances.

Before general release, and from time to time afterwards, we may offer early access to the app or to new features through Apple's TestFlight or another beta programme that we tell you about. Beta access may be limited in number, offered by invitation or in batches, or open only to accounts and app installations that meet the eligibility conditions we set, and we may decline, limit or end it.

Beta access may come with a temporary allowance of AI edits attached to your KatVid account (a "beta allowance"). A beta allowance is free: it is not a subscription, a purchase or a trial of a paid plan, and nothing is charged for it. It gives the number of AI edits per monthly window shown with it, for the limited period shown with it, and ends when that period ends or when we withdraw it, whichever is first. Unused AI edits do not roll over and have no cash value. While a paid subscription is in force on your account, the subscription applies instead and a beta allowance does not add to it. An account, and an app installation, can claim a beta allowance from the app only once.

Beta versions are pre-release software and are not the final commercial product. They may contain bugs, errors or incomplete functionality, may stop working, and may differ from what is later released. Features, allowances and eligibility in a beta may change, be suspended or be discontinued at any time, and may not appear in a later release. TestFlight builds stop working after the period Apple sets. Keep your own copies of your footage.

Beta access does not promise continued or permanent free access, or any plan, price or feature in a later release; when it ends, continued use of AI editing may require a paid plan. If you test through TestFlight, Apple's TestFlight terms also apply to your use of TestFlight, and Apple shares with us the information described in our Privacy Policy. These Terms otherwise apply to beta access in full, including Sections 19 and 20 on disclaimers and limitation of liability.

Your videos are yours. You keep every right you have in the footage you record or import, the audio extracted from it, the transcripts, word timings and captions made from it to the extent you own the underlying content, the edits you make and the videos you export (together, "Your Content"). Processing Your Content through KatVid does not give us ownership of any of it.

So that the Service can work, you give us, and the service providers who act for us, a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide licence to receive, store, transmit, transcribe, analyse and transform Your Content only as reasonably necessary to provide the Service to you, process the edits you request, operate your account, give you support, keep the Service secure, and meet our legal obligations. This licence lasts only as long as those purposes require and as the Privacy Policy describes.

We do not use Your Content to advertise KatVid, as public examples, or in promotional material, and we do not use it to train AI models, unless you separately and clearly agree to that.

If you send us a problem report, a suggestion or other feedback, you allow us to use it to improve the Service without any obligation to you. A problem report may include the transcript and edit data of the cut it is about, so that we can see what went wrong.

You are responsible for Your Content. You confirm that you have the rights, permissions and consents needed for the footage you use, including from anyone who appears in it or whose music, images or words it contains, and that using it through KatVid and publishing the result does not break the law or anyone else's rights.

You may use KatVid for personal and commercial creator work. You may not:

• use the Service to break the law, or to make or spread content that infringes someone's copyright, trademark, privacy or other rights, or that is unlawful where you or your audience are;
• upload or process footage you do not have the right to use;
• use the Service to harm, harass, deceive or exploit anyone, or to make misleading media of a real person without their consent;
• commit payment fraud, abuse trials or refunds, or use a payment method you are not authorised to use;
• share, sell or rent your account, or run more than one account to get around a limit, a suspension or a trial restriction;
• work around plan allowances, rate limits, duration limits or other technical or subscription restrictions, or use scripts, bots or automation to send requests to our systems in ways the app does not;
• interfere with the Service's security or operation, probe or attack our systems or providers, or access data that is not yours;
• copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile or extract the source code of the app or our systems, except to the extent the law allows this despite this term;
• scrape the Service, resell it, or build a competing product using our systems or output in ways these Terms do not permit.

AI processing costs us money each time it runs, so the Service applies the plan allowances and technical limits in Section 6, and we may look into usage patterns that suggest automation, account sharing, trial cycling, abusive load or attempts to evade a technical or subscription restriction.

Where we find clearly abusive behaviour of that kind, we may slow, restrict or suspend AI processing for the account while we investigate, and we will tell you why where we reasonably can. Using your full plan allowance, or using the Service heavily within its limits, is not abuse. We will not take away paid access you are using legitimately except for a reason set out in these Terms.

The Service depends on providers we do not control, including transcription and AI providers, payment processors, Apple, and hosting and infrastructure providers. The Privacy Policy names the providers that handle your information and what each receives.

If a provider is unavailable, slow or changes what it offers, parts of the Service may be delayed or unavailable, and we may replace a provider with another that performs the same role. Links to other websites, and the platforms you post to, are not ours, and we are not responsible for them.

The KatVid app, website, services, designs, user interface, documentation, software and the KatVid name, logos and brand are owned by KatVid AI or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. Apart from the licence below, these Terms do not give you any rights in them.

While you comply with these Terms and, for paid features, your plan is active, we give you a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the app on iPhones you own or control, and to use the Service for your own creator work, including commercial work. We do not sell you the software, and nothing here transfers our source code or other rights to you.

We work to keep the Service available but cannot promise that it will be uninterrupted or error-free. Maintenance, updates, provider outages, your network, your device and events outside our control can all affect it.

We may improve, change or remove features, change the providers behind the Service, change technical limits, and introduce, change or withdraw plans and prices. A change to the price or allowance of a plan you already pay for takes effect only from a later renewal, after we have given you notice and a chance to cancel. We will not charge you fees that were not disclosed before you agreed to them.

You may stop using the Service at any time and cancel any subscription as described in Section 9. You may also ask us to delete your account; the Privacy Policy explains what that removes and what we may keep for legal reasons.

We may suspend or end your access, with notice where we reasonably can, if you seriously or repeatedly break these Terms, commit fraud or payment abuse, attack or misuse our systems or providers, use the Service unlawfully, or where the law or a provider requires it. We may also end the Service as a whole on reasonable notice; if we do, we will refund any prepaid period you lose.

When your access ends, your licence to use the Service ends and paid features stop. Content kept on your iPhone stays on your iPhone. If we end your account for a serious breach, you are not entitled to a refund of the current period. Sections that by their nature should continue, including those on Your Content, intellectual property, disclaimers, liability, indemnification and disputes, continue after termination.

To the fullest extent the law allows, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement.

In particular, we do not promise that the AI first cut, transcripts or captions will be accurate or suitable for your purpose; that the Service will work on every device or iOS version; that third-party providers or the platforms you post to will behave as you expect; or that using KatVid will increase your views, engagement, sales, income or other results. Keep your own copies of your footage: your source video and cuts live on your iPhone, and we do not hold a backup of them.

Some places do not allow some of these exclusions, so some may not apply to you.

To the extent the law allows, KatVid AI and its owners, employees, contractors and providers are not liable to you for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill or opportunities, arising out of or connected with the Service or these Terms, however caused, even if we were told they were possible.

To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you for all claims connected with the Service or these Terms, taken together, is limited to the greater of (a) US$100 and (b) the total amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that the law does not let us exclude or limit, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or under consumer-protection law that applies to you. In those cases our liability is limited only to the extent the law permits.

If a third party brings a claim against us because of Your Content, your unlawful use of the Service, your infringement of someone's rights, or your serious breach of these Terms, you agree to defend us and to cover the losses, damages and reasonable legal costs that result, provided we tell you promptly about the claim and let you take part in its defence. This does not apply to the extent the claim results from our own breach or negligence, and it does not apply where the law does not allow it.

These Terms, and any dispute between you and us about the Service, are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Where the law of the place you live gives you protections that cannot be taken away by agreement, those protections still apply.

Talk to us first. If you have a problem, email support@usekatvidai.com with a description of the issue and what you would like us to do. We will try to resolve it informally. Neither of us will start a court claim until at least 30 days after that notice, except to ask for urgent relief as described below, or where the law provides otherwise.

Courts. If we cannot resolve a dispute informally, it will be decided by the state or federal courts located in the State of Georgia, United States, and you and we agree to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. This does not take away any right you have under the consumer law that applies to you to bring a claim in the courts where you live. Either of us may also bring an individual claim in a small-claims court that has jurisdiction, and either of us may ask a court for an injunction or other urgent relief to protect intellectual property or stop unauthorised use of the Service.

We may update these Terms from time to time, for example when we add features, change plans or when the law changes. If a change is material, we will give you at least 30 days' notice before it takes effect, by email to your account address, by a notice in the app, or by a prominent notice on the website. If you do not agree to a material change, you may cancel before it takes effect; where the law requires your active agreement to a change, we will ask for it.

For changes that are not material, such as clarifications or corrections, we may simply publish the updated Terms with a new "Last updated" date, where the law permits. The date at the top shows when the Terms were last updated.

Notices. We may send you notices by email to the address on your account, in the app, or by posting on the website. You may send us notices at support@usekatvidai.com or by post to 35 Crestfield Circle, Covington, GA 30016, United States.

Assignment. You may not transfer this agreement or your account to anyone else. We may transfer this agreement, including as part of a sale, merger or reorganisation of our business, and we will tell you if we do.

Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy and any feature-specific terms we show you are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service and replace any earlier terms.

Severability and waiver. If a part of these Terms is found unenforceable, it will be changed to the minimum extent needed and the rest still applies. If we do not enforce a term at some point, we can still enforce it later.

Events outside our control. We are not responsible for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages at our providers.

Electronic communications. You agree that we may communicate with you electronically and that electronic notices, agreements and records satisfy any requirement that they be in writing.

KatVid AI, a limited liability company registered in Georgia, United States

35 Crestfield Circle, Covington, GA 30016, United States

support@usekatvidai.com