Terms of Use

VERSION 1.0 · 9 AUGUST 2026

Tocktopus is a metronome. It is free to use on a phone. If you subscribe or buy a skin, you buy it from Apple or Google, you cancel it there too, and your purchase keeps working for as long as we are able to keep the app running.

Who you are agreeing with

Tocktopus is published by Nonius BV, a company registered in Belgium under enterprise number 0807.240.235 — the same figure as its VAT number, BE 0807.240.235 — with its registered office at Bareelstraat 5, 9200 Dendermonde, Belgium. Contact: hello@tocktopus.com.

Installing or using the app means you accept these terms. If you do not, do not install it — and if you already have, delete it, which ends the agreement entirely.

What you may do with it

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use Tocktopus on devices you own or control, for as long as these terms are respected. That includes using it commercially: in lessons, in a rehearsal room, in a studio, on stage. We do not ask for a share of anything you make with it.

You may not resell the app, redistribute it outside the official stores, reverse-engineer it except where the law expressly permits it, or strip the branding and pass it off as your own.

The artwork, the characters, the name and the icon remain ours. The music you play against it is entirely yours.

Free tier and advertising

The free tier shows one line of text advertising above the tab bar. It is always marked AD. Some of those links earn us a referral fee. We are not responsible for what any advertiser sells you, and no purchase from them is a contract with us.

Subscriptions

• Plus is offered monthly and yearly. The price, the period and the renewal date are shown by the store before you confirm, and those are the terms that bind.
• It renews automatically until you cancel.
• Cancel in your Apple or Google account settings, at least 24 hours before the period ends. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.
• Cancelling stops the next renewal. It does not shorten the period you have already paid for, and you keep Plus until it runs out.
• If a subscription lapses, the app does not delete anything. Paid skins and settings stay where they are and become available again the moment it is renewed.

One-off purchases

Individual skins are bought once and are yours permanently on that store account. The desktop editions for macOS and Windows are also one-off purchases and are not included in a Plus subscription.

Use Restore purchases in the app after a reinstall or on a new device on the same store account. If a restore does not return what you paid for, write to us and we will fix it.

Your right to withdraw, and refunds

Under EU consumer law you normally have 14 days to withdraw from a distance purchase. Because digital content is delivered immediately, that right ends once delivery has begun and you have acknowledged it — which is what the store's confirmation dialog does.

In practice, refunds are handled by the store you bought from, because the store is the seller: Apple through reportaproblem.apple.com, Google through Google Play. We cannot issue a refund for a purchase we did not take payment for. If a store refuses one and you think we got something wrong, tell us anyway — we would rather know.

Nothing here affects your statutory rights, and if any of it conflicts with mandatory consumer law where you live, that law wins.

Changes to the app

We will add skins, sounds and features, and occasionally remove something that is not working. If a paid feature ever has to be withdrawn, we will say so in advance and will not remove something you have already bought outright without offering a fair alternative.

What we do not promise

The app is provided as it is. We have made the timing as accurate as a phone allows — every beat is scheduled ahead against the audio clock rather than the screen — but a phone is a general-purpose device shared with every other app on it, and we cannot guarantee sample-accurate timing on hardware we have never seen. Do not rely on it as the sole reference where a mistake would be expensive.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to what you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim. None of this limits liability for death, personal injury, fraud, or anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

Ending it

You can end this agreement at any time by deleting the app. We can end it if these terms are seriously breached. Either way, the licence stops and the sections that are meant to survive — ownership, liability, governing law — carry on.

Governing law

Belgian law applies, and the courts of the district in which Nonius BV has its registered office have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the EU, you keep the protection of the mandatory law of your own country and may bring proceedings there. The European Commission's online dispute resolution platform is at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.

Apple and Google

These terms are between you and us, not with Apple or Google. Neither is responsible for the app or for supporting it, and neither has any obligation in respect of a claim about it. Both may enforce these terms against you as a third-party beneficiary of them.