Terms & Conditions

Last updated 17 October 2026

These terms cover your use of the apps made by Hesychia Studios (the studio name of Lukas Peter Genis, a sole trader in Victoria, Australia, ABN 60 722 726 498), such as spudnote, empt, ChopSnip, Fwinkle, Ramu Mart, and Pinchkins, our writing room TypeSesame, and this website, hesychia.studio. By downloading, installing, or using our apps or site, you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use them.

How our apps are distributed

Most of our apps, such as spudnote, empt, Fwinkle, Ramu Mart, and Pinchkins, are distributed through Apple’s App Store, so your use of those is also subject to Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement (the standard Apple EULA) and the App Store Terms of Service. Where those Apple terms cover your download and your App Store relationship, they apply; these terms cover your relationship with us as the developer.

Some apps (such as ChopSnip, our free macOS app) are instead downloaded directly from this website rather than the App Store, so the App Store terms don’t apply to them. ChopSnip is notarised by Apple (a security check that lets it open normally on macOS); your use of it is covered by these terms.

TypeSesame is a website, used in a browser at typesesame.com. Nothing is downloaded and the App Store terms don’t apply; your use of it is covered by these terms.

Your licence to use our apps

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use our apps on Apple devices you own or control. For apps you get from the App Store, this is also in line with Apple’s App Store Usage Rules. ChopSnip may be used freely, including to make videos and other content you use commercially. Whatever you create with it is yours (see below). You may not resell, rent, redistribute, or repackage the apps themselves, and you may not modify or reverse engineer them except where the law expressly allows it.

Your content is yours

You own the content you create with our apps: your notes, the videos, captions, and projects you make in ChopSnip, and what you write in TypeSesame. We claim no ownership of it, and put no watermark or usage restriction on it. In our apps it lives on your own device (and, for our note apps, in your private iCloud), so we don’t access it. In TypeSesame, memories you choose to keep are stored by us so you can come back to them; you can delete them, or everything, at any time. You’re responsible for your content, for the footage and material you bring into our apps, and for keeping your own backups (iCloud is provided by Apple, not by us).

Acceptable use

Please use our apps and site lawfully. Don’t use them to break the law, infringe someone else’s rights, or interfere with, disrupt, or attempt to compromise the software or its security. Don’t send automated requests to TypeSesame or try to get around its usage limits; the room is for people writing. You need to be at least 13 (or the minimum age in your country) to use our apps and site, except Fwinkle, Ramu Mart and Pinchkins, which are made for all ages.

Purchases, subscriptions & trials

ChopSnip is free: there’s nothing to buy, no subscription, and no account. In our App Store apps, some features may need a one-time purchase or a subscription, sold and processed by Apple through the App Store. Prices are shown before you buy. Subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; you can manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Payment, billing, and refunds are handled by Apple under their terms.

TypeSesame is free to use signed out. Keeping memories needs a subscription, US$5 a month or US$40 a year, sold on the web through Stripe. The price is shown before you enter your email, and again on Stripe’s payment page; taxes may be added where they apply. A subscription renews automatically at the end of each period until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from account inside TypeSesame; you keep access until the end of the period you’ve paid for, and cancelling never deletes your memories. If you’re charged for a renewal you didn’t mean to keep, email us within 14 days and we’ll refund it. There is no free trial; example memories inside the room show what a kept memory looks like. If we change the price, we’ll tell you by email at least 30 days before it applies to your next renewal, and you can cancel before then. If a renewal payment fails, your memories stay where they are; keeping new ones pauses until it’s sorted out.

TypeSesame in particular

TypeSesame reads the feeling in what you write by sending it, as you write, to a third-party model (TypeSafe AI’s Jev), and changes the room to match. That reading is an estimate made by software. It can be wrong, it’s not a judgement about you, and it’s not medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice. If you’re struggling, please talk to someone qualified.

Please don’t use TypeSesame to write anything you’re not comfortable sending to a third-party model for judgment, and don’t use it to process other people’s personal information in ways they haven’t agreed to. Because the judging depends on a third party, we may change the model behind the room, limit how often it’s asked, or pause it, and the room will still work as a place to write. Memories are kept while your account exists; keep your own copy of anything you’d hate to lose. We may close accounts that abuse the service.

Your sign-in. TypeSesame signs you in by a code sent to your email, so whoever can read that inbox can open your room. Keep it safe, and tell us if you think someone else has got in. If we ever wind TypeSesame down, we’ll give you at least 30 days’ notice by email and a way to take a copy of your memories before they’re deleted.

Our intellectual property

The apps and site, including their design, code, the “Spud” character, the Fwinkle name and its characters (Bun, Pip, Bloom and Hush), the Ramu Mart name and its characters (Ramu and the bus stop regulars), the Pinchkins name and its characters (the pegs), the ChopSnip and Hesychia Studios names and logos, and our other branding, are owned by Hesychia Studios and protected by law. These terms don’t give you any rights to our trademarks or branding.

Open-source components

Some of our apps include third-party open-source software, used under its own licence. ChopSnip generates its captions on your Mac using whisper.cpp (© the ggml authors) under the MIT License, and includes the Gabarito typeface under its open font licence. Those components remain the property of their authors under their respective licences, and nothing in these terms limits any rights you have under them.

Changes to the apps

We’re a small studio actively building our apps. We may add, change, or remove features, and we may release, update, or discontinue an app over time.

Disclaimers

Our apps and site are provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent permitted by law, we don’t warrant that they’ll be uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for a particular purpose. You use them at your own discretion.

Your rights under the Australian Consumer Law

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any consumer guarantee, right, or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that can’t lawfully be excluded. Where we’re permitted to limit our liability for failing to meet a consumer guarantee, our liability is limited to re-supplying the app or paying the cost of re-supply.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, and subject to the section above, Hesychia Studios won’t be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential loss, or for any loss of data or profits, arising from your use of (or inability to use) our apps or site.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia. You and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that state.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. When we do, we’ll change the “last updated” date above, and your continued use of our apps or site means you accept the updated terms.

Contact

Hesychia Studios is the studio name of Lukas Peter Genis, a sole trader · ABN 60 722 726 498 · Victoria, Australia · hello@hesychia.studio