Terms of Use

Last updated 15 November 2026

1. These terms

These terms are an agreement between you and Ville Pitkänen, Finland (“we”), the publisher of Amen Alarm for iPhone (“the app”) and of this website. By downloading or using the app you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the app.

The app is licensed to you, not sold. Your licence is the one in Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement, which applies together with these terms. If the two disagree about the licence itself, Apple’s agreement decides.

2. Who may use the app

If you are under 18, or under the age at which you can enter a contract where you live, use the app with the agreement of a parent or guardian, who must be the one to buy any subscription.

3. What Amen Alarm is, and is not

Amen Alarm is an alarm clock that keeps ringing until you read a Bible verse out loud, with levels of difficulty, a streak of mornings and a cast of characters: Brother Bart and Pete the rooster.

• An alarm can fail. The alarm depends on your iPhone: its volume, its battery, its settings, its software and whether it is switched on. We work to make Amen Alarm reliable, but we cannot promise that it will ring or that it will wake you. Please do not rely on it alone for anything where oversleeping could cause harm or loss, such as a flight, an exam, a shift or medication. Set a second alarm.
• Speech recognition is not perfect. If the app does not hear you, you can always type the verse instead to turn the alarm off.
• Amen Alarm is not pastoral counselling or medical advice, and it is not a church or affiliated with, or endorsed by, any church or denomination.
• Brother Bart and Pete are fictional characters. The jokes are about sleepy people, never about God or Scripture.

4. Subscriptions

You can test the alarm for free, as often as you like, before you subscribe. To save a daily alarm you need a subscription. There is no free trial.

• The plans. In the United States the yearly plan is $49.99 and the weekly plan is $7.99. In other countries the prices are set in local currency. The price that applies to you is always shown in the app before you buy.
• Payment and renewal. Payment is taken by Apple through your Apple Account. A subscription renews for the same period, at the price then current, until you cancel. You are charged for each renewal within the 24 hours before the current period ends.
• Cancelling. You can cancel at any time: on your iPhone open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions, and choose Amen Alarm. Cancel at least a day before a renewal to avoid being charged for it. After you cancel, the subscription stays open until the end of the period you have paid for. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.
• Refunds. Purchases are made with Apple, and refunds are decided by Apple. You can ask for one at reportaproblem.apple.com. Nothing in these terms takes away a right to a refund that the law gives you.
• Price changes. If we change the price of a plan you hold, Apple will tell you beforehand and, where the rules require it, ask you to agree before you are charged the new price.

5. The content, and how it is made

• The Bible. The verses are from the King James Version, which is free for everyone to use in the United States.
• The characters, pictures and sounds. Brother Bart, Pete, the app’s pictures and its alarm sounds are made with the help of AI tools and chosen and finished by us. The Latin in the chants comes from the Latin Vulgate Bible.
• Mistakes. We work to quote Scripture exactly, and we may still get something wrong. If you find a mistake, please tell us at hello@amen-alarm.com.

6. What belongs to us

The app, its design, its name, its characters and the original text, pictures and sounds in it belong to Ville Pitkänen and are protected by law. The Bible texts belong to everyone. You may use the app for your own personal, non-commercial use, and you are welcome to film it and share the videos. Please do not copy the app or its content in bulk, resell it, or try to get round the subscription.

7. Changes to the app

We add to Amen Alarm and sometimes change or remove a feature. The app is offered on the App Store for iPhones running iOS 26 or later. We may stop offering it.

8. What we promise, and what we cannot

We make Amen Alarm with care. We cannot promise that it will always ring, be available, be free of errors, or be right for your situation. To the extent the law allows, the app is provided “as is”, without warranties of any kind beyond those the law does not let us exclude.

9. Limits on liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from your use of the app, including losses from an alarm that did not ring or did not wake you, and our total liability to you for any claim about the app is limited to the greater of what you paid for it in the twelve months before the claim and 50 US dollars. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or takes away rights you have as a consumer where you live.

10. Ending

You may stop using the app at any time by deleting it; remember to cancel any subscription first, as section 4 explains. We may end your licence if you seriously break these terms.

11. Apple

These terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content and has no duty to provide support for it. If the app fails to meet a warranty that applies, you may tell Apple, which will refund what you paid for it; beyond that, to the extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app. Claims about the app, including claims that it infringes someone’s rights, are ours to deal with, not Apple’s. You confirm that you are not in a country under a United States government embargo and are not on a United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them.

12. Disagreements

If something goes wrong, please write to us first at hello@amen-alarm.com; most things can be put right that way. Nothing in these terms takes away the protection of the consumer laws of the place where you live, or your right to bring a claim in the courts there.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The new date will be at the top of this page, and if a change is a significant one we will also say so in the app’s update notes. Using the app after a change means you accept the updated terms.

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