The plain terms

The short version

BookKind is a personal library with an AI Librarian. You keep ownership of everything you put in it. BookKind is free for a library of up to 10 books, and you can try everything free for 5 days. Beyond that, the Shelf is a one-off purchase that unlocks the whole library for as long as BookKind exists, and the Librarian is a subscription that includes the library and the full AI features. Purchases go through Apple or Google. The AI can be wrong, so treat it as a well-read friend, not an authority. If BookKind ever has to close, you get at least 90 days' notice and your data to take with you. Nothing here takes away the guarantees the Australian Consumer Law gives you.

Your account

You need an account to use BookKind, created by signing in with Apple, Google or an email address. You must be at least 13 years old, give accurate details, and keep your sign-in to yourself. You are responsible for what happens under your account. One person, one account; a family shares through a family circle, not a shared login.

Your library is yours

Everything you add to BookKind, your books, notes, ratings, conversations and preferences, stays yours. You give WattKind AI only the permission needed to run the service for you: to store it, show it back to you, send what the AI needs to answer you, and let the people in your family circle see what the circle shares (your wishlist and reading activity). We do not sell it, use it for advertising, or use it to train AI models. You can export it at any time and delete it when you leave.

The licence

WattKind AI gives you a personal, non-transferable licence to use BookKind for your own reading. BookKind depends on online services that WattKind AI operates; a purchase is a licence to use the service, not ownership of software or a server. Do not copy, resell, reverse-engineer or interfere with the service, use it to break the law or harm anyone, send it content you have no right to share, or try to get around the free plan's or the trial's limits, the AI allowance or another person's privacy. Book data and covers come from Open Library and Google Books under their terms; the Kindle and Audible buttons open those services, which have their own terms and are not part of BookKind.

The AI Librarian

The Librarian and its AI Book Club chat for each book are powered by an AI model. They are private conversations between you and the AI, not a group or social feature. They work from your library and what you tell them, and they can make mistakes: a wrong plot detail, a spoiler despite trying to avoid one, a book that does not exist, or advice that does not suit you. Replies are suggestions for a reader, not professional advice of any kind. The Librarian's notes about your taste are there to make it more useful; you can read, delete and switch them off in Settings. The AI features come with the free trial, the Shelf's small taster and the Librarian subscription, not with the free plan. They have a fair-use allowance of Librarian and AI Book Club chat messages, and we may adjust the allowance or the model behind it to keep the service healthy and affordable.

Free plan, trial, Shelf and Librarian

Free plan. BookKind is free to use for a library of up to 10 books (books on your wishlist do not count), with progress, ratings, your wishlist, reading goals and your reading journey. The free plan does not include the AI Librarian, AI Book Club chats, adding a book from a photo of its cover, importing from Goodreads or StoryGraph, or starting a family circle. Joining someone else's family circle is free.

Free trial. Once per account, you can try everything in the Shelf and the Librarian free for 5 days, including the AI features up to a fair-use allowance for the trial. You start the trial in the app when you want it; on iPhone it is started as a free in-app item. Nothing is charged and nothing renews. When the trial ends without a purchase, you are back on the free plan and nothing is deleted. If your library then holds more than 10 books, it is locked: you can still browse, export or delete your books at any time, but you cannot add or change anything until it is back to 10 books or fewer, or you buy the Shelf or subscribe to the Librarian. If you started a family circle during the trial, it is paused for everyone in it until you buy the Shelf or subscribe to the Librarian; its members can leave at any time.

BookKind Shelf is a one-off purchase. It unlocks the whole library, with no book limit and with import, for the life of the product, meaning for as long as BookKind is offered. It is not a lifetime guarantee of a service that runs forever, and it does not include the Librarian subscription. It is a licence for one account; on iPhone it can be shared with your family through Apple Family Sharing. The Shelf includes a small monthly taster of the AI features, which is a courtesy and may change or go. Starting a family circle in BookKind needs the Shelf, the Librarian or the free trial; joining someone's circle is free.

BookKind Librarian is a monthly or annual subscription that unlocks the full AI features and their larger allowance, and includes the whole library while it lasts. If it ends and you have not bought the Shelf, you are back on the free plan, with the same lock if your library holds more than 10 books; nothing is deleted. It renews automatically until you cancel, and you cancel in your App Store or Google Play subscription settings, at least 24 hours before the renewal date to avoid being charged for the next period. The price shown in the app at the time of purchase is the price you pay; we will tell you in advance if it changes.

Theme packs are one-off purchases that add a set of extra themes to your account, for the life of the product in the same way as the Shelf. They change how the app looks and nothing else. The Librarian subscription and the free trial include every theme pack while they last; when they end, a theme from a pack you have not bought goes back to the standard theme, and you can choose it again by buying the pack. Theme packs are a licence for one account.

All payments are taken by Apple or Google, under their terms, and refund requests go to them. BookKind never sees your card details. Prices include GST where it applies.

Changes and the end of the road

BookKind will keep changing: features will be added, adjusted and occasionally removed, and we may change these terms, in which case the app will tell you and the date below will move. If a change takes something away that you paid for, we will say so clearly before it happens.

If BookKind is ever discontinued, we will give at least 90 days' notice in the app and by email, with a fixed end date. Export stays available until that date, Shelf purchases made in the 12 months before the announcement are refunded, Librarian subscriptions are cancelled so nothing renews, and after the end date all personal data is deleted. The support mailbox stays open for six months afterwards.

Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time, from Settings or by email, and everything in it goes with it. A Librarian subscription is cancelled separately with Apple or Google. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, after telling you why unless the law stops us; you keep the right to export first.

Our responsibility

We work hard to keep BookKind running and your library safe, and we back that with regular backups and the privacy practices on the policy page. Even so, BookKind is provided as it is, and we cannot promise it will always be available or error-free. To the extent the law allows, WattKind AI is not liable for loss that arises from using BookKind beyond what you paid for it in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot be excluded. If you are a consumer under that law, our goods come with guarantees that cannot be excluded, and for a major failure you are entitled to a refund or replacement.

The rest

These terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia, and any dispute is heard in its courts, though we would much rather sort it out by email first. If part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still applies. These terms, with the privacy policy, are the whole agreement about BookKind between you and WattKind AI.