Effective April 2, 2026
By downloading, installing, or using Heaps, you agree to these Terms of Service. If you don't agree, please don't use the app.
Heaps lets you subscribe to RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds, read articles, and listen to podcasts. The app runs entirely on your device. There are no accounts, no servers we operate, and no sign-up process. If you enable iCloud, your data syncs through your personal Apple account.
Heaps displays content from feeds you choose to subscribe to. This content is created and hosted by third-party publishers, not by us. We don't control, endorse, or take responsibility for the accuracy, legality, or quality of any content you access through your feeds. Your relationship with those publishers is between you and them.
Articles may contain embedded media from platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter/X, Instagram, and others. Those embeds are governed by the respective platform's terms and privacy policies.
You're responsible for the feeds you subscribe to and how you use the content you access through Heaps. Please respect publishers' terms of service and applicable copyright laws when reading, saving, or sharing articles.
You agree not to use Heaps to violate any law, infringe on anyone's rights, or engage in any activity that could harm the app or other users.
Heaps, including its design, code, and original artwork, is owned by Zach Brown. You're granted a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the app on your devices in accordance with these terms and the Apple Licensed Application End User License Agreement.
Content from RSS feeds and podcasts belongs to their respective publishers. Heaps is a reader — it doesn't claim ownership of any third-party content.
On supported devices, Heaps uses Apple Intelligence — specifically Apple's on-device Foundation Models — to generate article summaries and answer follow-up questions about articles. This processing happens entirely on your device. No article content is sent to external servers for summarization, and we have no access to the text being processed or the summaries generated.
On devices that don't support Apple Intelligence, Heaps falls back to a basic extractive summarization method that also runs locally. The summarization feature does not collect, store, or transmit your data off-device in either case.
Apple Intelligence features are subject to Apple's Privacy Policy and the capabilities available on your specific device and OS version. We don't control which devices or regions Apple enables these features for.
If you use iCloud sync, your data is stored in your personal iCloud account and subject to Apple's iCloud Terms of Service. We don't have access to your iCloud data.
Heaps is provided as-is. We may release updates that add features, fix bugs, or change functionality. We reserve the right to modify or discontinue the app at any time, though we'll do our best to give reasonable notice if something major changes.
Heaps is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We don't guarantee that the app will be error-free, uninterrupted, or that any particular feed or content will always be accessible.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Zach Brown shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, arising out of or related to your use of Heaps. Because the app is free and stores data locally on your device, our total liability for any claim related to the app is limited to zero dollars.
You can stop using Heaps at any time by deleting the app. These terms automatically terminate when you stop using the app. Any provisions that by their nature should survive termination (such as intellectual property, disclaimers, and limitations of liability) will continue to apply.
We may update these terms from time to time. The revised version will be posted here with a new effective date. Continued use of the app after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.
These terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States, without regard to conflict of law principles.
If you have questions about these terms, reach out at hey@zachbrown.xyz.