Terms of Use

Versed is made by Prince Labs LLC (“we”, “us”), a single-member Maryland limited liability company. These terms cover the Versed app, however you got it, and the pages at https://tryversed.app.

Installing or using Versed means you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the app; if you already have, delete it. A subscription is a separate thing and has to be cancelled in the store that sold it, which section 4 explains.

Privacy is a separate document and is not repeated here. What Versed collects and measures, including the usage and crash reports the app sends and the switch that stops them, is set out at https://tryversed.app/privacy, and that document is part of this agreement.

Versed is a reading app. Short chapters built from cards, quizzes inside the chapters, and a timed trivia mode across what you have read. The point is being able to hold your own in a conversation about a subject, not mastery of it.

Everything in it is general interest information, and none of it is professional advice. The chapters on inflation, the 2008 crash and crypto explain what happened; they are not financial advice and they do not tell you what to do with your money. The same goes for anything that brushes against law, medicine, or an exam you are sitting. Facts are largely derived from Wikipedia, and Wikipedia is right far more often than not, but not always, and neither are we. When something matters, check the source we name.

The content changes. Chapters get rewritten, added, and occasionally pulled. A subject marked “Coming soon” is one we intend to write, not one we have promised to write by a date. Features change too. We do not promise the app or this site is available at all times; most of the app works offline, and photographs need a network.

An account is optional for reading. You can read every free chapter, take every quiz, keep a streak and play trivia without ever signing in. The app will suggest signing in now and then, and “Not now” is always an answer. Versed+ is billed through the App Store or Google Play and follows that store account; signing in is optional and carries your progress.

If you do sign in, there are two ways: Sign in with Apple (on iOS) or Sign in with Google. There is no password anywhere in Versed — nothing to leak, nothing to reuse somewhere worse. The account exists to carry your reading progress, and Versed+ if you buy it, from one phone to another.

• Keep control of the Apple ID or Google account you sign in with. Anyone who can use it can reach your progress. If you think someone else has, write to support@tryversed.app.
• An account is for one person. Do not share it.
• Delete it whenever you like, in the app, under Settings. Deleting erases the account record and every synced row in one irreversible step. You do not have to email anyone to make it happen.
• Deleting the app removes what is on the device. If you had an account, delete the account too, or its rows stay.

You need to be old enough, where you live, to agree to these terms, and to meet the minimum age of the store you downloaded Versed from. The store listing carries the age rating Apple and Google assign from our questionnaire answers; the reason is the history in it, treated as history.

Free readers get genuinely versed. Every written chapter outside the deep dives is free and stays free, with its quizzes, along with the whole trivia mode, the streak and the daily goal.

Versed+ is an auto-renewable subscription that takes the limits off: unlimited hearts (free readers have five, lost on wrong answers and refilled over time or by a practice drill); mistake review, a drill of the quizzes you got wrong; the deep dives, which are whole subjects hiding inside subjects with their own chapters; offline downloads of a subject’s photographs; weak-spot detail by domain in trivia; the Obsessive daily-goal tier; and one streak repair a calendar month. That is the entire list of what money buys. A lifetime grant or a redeemed code gives the same list without a subscription.

The commercial terms, in full:

• Title. Versed+, sold in one subscription group, “Versed Plus”.
• Length and price. Monthly (versed.plus.monthly), one month, US$9.99 per month. Annual (versed.plus.annual), one year, US$59.99 per year. Your store shows the price in your own currency, including tax where it applies, and the price shown at the moment you confirm the purchase is the price that governs.
• Free trial. The annual plan starts with a 14-day free trial, once per account; the monthly plan has no trial. The trial converts into a paid subscription automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends. If you buy a subscription while a trial is running, the unused part of the trial is forfeited.
• Renewal. The subscription renews automatically at the same price for the same period, and keeps renewing until you cancel. Payment is charged to your Apple Account or Google Play account at confirmation of purchase, and again within 24 hours before each renewal.
• Cancelling. Cancel in the store, not in Versed — we have no button that can do it for you. On Apple: Settings, your name, Subscriptions, or https://apps.apple.com/account/subscriptions. On Android: https://play.google.com/store/account/subscriptions. Cancelling stops the next charge and leaves Versed+ working until the period you already paid for runs out. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.
• Refunds. Apple and Google bill you; we never see your card. Refunds are theirs to give, under their own policies, so a refund request goes to the store rather than to us. Nothing here takes away a refund the law where you live already gives you.
• Price changes. We may change the price. Apple or Google will tell you before a new price is charged, and where the rules require your agreement, will ask for it. If you do not want the new price, cancel before it takes effect.
• Founding members. A few accounts hold lifetime access we granted directly rather than sold. It costs nothing, it does not renew, it has no cash value, and the paywall showing no purchase button for those accounts is the intended state, not a fault.

One honest note, because the app should not read better than it works: Versed remembers an entitlement on the device and does not verify receipts against the store, so access can outlive a subscription that has lapsed or been refunded. That is a limitation we have written down rather than hidden, and not an invitation to arrange one.

Versed has no user-generated content. Nothing you write reaches another reader; there are no comments, no messages and no profiles. So this section is short and it is about the app, not about each other.

Do not:

• Copy, scrape or bulk-extract the chapters, quizzes or content asset, or republish them as your own or inside another product.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile or modify the app, except where the law expressly says you may.
• Work around the paywall, the entitlement check or any technical limit, or help anyone else do it.
• Attack, overload or probe the service, or try to reach another reader’s account.
• Use Versed where using it would break the law, or in breach of your store’s terms.

The writing is ours: the chapters, the way they are structured, the quiz questions, Vee, the Versed name and the design of the app and this site. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use Versed for your own reading. You do not get ownership of anything, and the licence ends when this agreement does.

If you got Versed from the App Store, Apple’s Licensed Application End User Licence Agreement also applies to that copy, and where these terms conflict with it, it wins. Google Play’s terms play the same role on Android.

Some of what you read is not ours to give away:

• Facts and phrasing derived from Wikipedia are used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Chapters built closely on a source name it in a source block.
• Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons, public domain and Creative Commons only (CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA), licence-verified before shipping. Every image is credited in the app, under Settings, About, Image credits, with a link to its file page on Commons. Each photograph carries its own licence and its own conditions, which come from the photographer, not from us. If you reuse one, follow that licence, not this page.
• Names, titles and trademarks of the subjects we write about belong to their owners. Versed mentions them to describe them. No affiliation, sponsorship or endorsement is claimed or implied by any of them.
• No song lyrics appear in Versed, anywhere, by policy. Quotations are short, famous and attributed. Scenes from films and television are described rather than transcribed.

If you believe something in Versed infringes your rights, write to support@tryversed.app naming the chapter and the specific material. The response to a good-faith claim is to fix it or take it down, not to argue about it.

Versed leans on a small number of services, and their terms govern their part of this, not ours: Apple and Google distribute the app, handle sign-in, and take the money; Supabase hosts the optional account and the progress that syncs with it; Wikimedia Commons serves the photographs; PostHog receives the app’s usage reports and Google’s Firebase Crashlytics its crash reports. Those reports are on by default, and you can turn them off in the app under Settings, Account, Usage measurement. The privacy policy says exactly what they carry, and what they never carry.

Some cards open a real URL — a video, a song search, a source. There is no in-app browser in Versed: those links hand the address to your own browser and you leave. What is on the other side is not ours, we do not control it, and we are not responsible for it.

Versed is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the content is accurate, complete or current — it is general interest writing about complicated things — or that the app will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for lost profits, lost data or lost opportunity, however caused. Our total liability arising out of or in connection with Versed is limited to the amount you actually paid for Versed+ in the twelve months before the claim.

None of that takes away rights you have by law and cannot sign away. Depending on where you live, that may include statutory consumer guarantees, and it always includes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, and for fraud. If a court finds part of this section unenforceable, the rest of it stands.

Apple is not responsible for Versed, for its content, or for supporting it, and no claim about the app is Apple’s to answer. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you as a user of a copy obtained from the App Store.

You can stop at any time: cancel the subscription in your store, delete the account under Settings in the app, and delete the app. Those are three separate actions and doing one does not do the others.

We can suspend or end your access if you break section 5, or if the law requires it. We will say why where it is possible and proportionate to say so. If we end your access while you are paid up and you have not broken these terms, ask your store for a refund of the unused period — the store holds the money.

If Versed is ever discontinued, we will say so in the app and on this site before it happens, and stop taking new subscriptions first.

Sections 6, 8, 11 and this sentence survive the end of this agreement.

These terms change when the app changes. The date at the top of this page is how you tell whether they have. Material changes will be posted here, and flagged in the app, before they take effect. Using Versed after that is how you accept them; if you do not accept them, cancel your subscription and stop using the app.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Maryland, United States, and the courts there have jurisdiction over disputes arising from them.

If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer law of the country you live in, and you may bring proceedings in your own local courts where that law says you may.

Email support@tryversed.app. A real person reads it.

Versed is operated by Prince Labs LLC, a Maryland limited liability company.

Support: https://tryversed.app/support Privacy: https://tryversed.app/privacy