Terms of Service

Storyteller - a reading & listening app for learning English

Last updated: 6 November 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Storyteller mobile app and the Storyteller website at storytellerenglish.com (together, "the App"). "We" and "us" mean the developer of Storyteller, whose trader contact details are shown on the App's Google Play listing. By installing or using the App you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the App.

1. What Storyteller is

Storyteller lets you read and listen to stories, look up words with an on-device dictionary, practise vocabulary and pronunciation, and play casual mini-games. Stories are either public-domain works or original stories written for the App with the help of AI. Translations, cover images and the recorded narration (which uses AI-generated voices) are also produced with the help of AI. The App is meant for learning and entertainment; it is not a substitute for a teacher, and we do not promise any particular learning result, exam score or certification. Some classic public-domain stories reflect the language and attitudes of the time they were written.

2. Who can use it

The App is not directed at children under 13 (see our Privacy Policy). If you are under the age of majority where you live, use the App, and especially buy Premium, only with the permission of a parent or guardian.

3. Accounts

• You can use the App without an account. Signing in (with email, with Google, or by continuing without an account, which creates an anonymous session) is optional and lets you sync your learning data across devices. Rating a story or sending feedback also starts an anonymous session, as explained in the Privacy Policy.
• Keep your sign-in details to yourself and give us accurate information. You are responsible for activity under your account.
• You can delete your account and all synced data at any time from the Account screen. See Data deletion. A Premium subscription belongs to your app store account, not to your Storyteller account.

4. Free features, trial and Premium

• Free: reading every story, listening with your device's built-in voice, the tap-to-define dictionary (including offline dictionary packs), bilingual reading in one free translation language (normally the one that matches your app language), flashcards and quizzes, saving words up to the free limit shown in the App, the mini-games, and other features marked as free.
• Free trial: the App currently gives each new user an in-app Premium trial (30 days at the time of writing), with no payment card and no store purchase. The length shown in the App applies. When the trial ends, Premium features lock unless you subscribe; your saved words and downloaded stories stay on your device. The trial is offered once per person. We may change the trial or stop offering it.
• Premium subscription: an optional paid subscription (monthly or annual) that unlocks the Premium features listed in the App before you buy, currently: recorded narration with word-by-word highlighting, bilingual reading in every translation language, offline downloads of stories, unlimited saved words, and background play, sleep timer and Play all. The App does not currently show advertising.
• Price and billing: the price, billing period and any introductory offer or store free trial are shown by the store, in your local currency, before you confirm the purchase. Payment is handled by Google Play (or another app store where the App is offered). We do not see or store your payment card details.
• Automatic renewal: a subscription renews automatically at the end of each period, for the same period, until you cancel. After an introductory price or store free trial ends, the regular price shown at purchase applies unless you cancel before then.
• Cancelling: cancel any time in Google Play (Payments & subscriptions). Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep Premium until the end of the period you already paid for. Deleting the App or your account does not cancel a store subscription.
• Refunds and withdrawal: purchases are processed by the store, so refund requests go through that store under its refund policy. This does not affect any right you have under the law where you live, including any statutory right of withdrawal or remedy for faulty digital content.
• Price changes: we may change Premium prices. A new price for an existing subscription applies only from a later billing period, after the notice the store requires, and you can cancel before it takes effect.

5. Your content and feedback

You may save words, highlights, notes, ratings and feedback in the App. You keep ownership of what you write. You give us permission to store it and sync it for you. For ratings and feedback you choose to send, you also give us permission, free of charge, to use them to improve the App and its stories, and to show ratings in aggregated, anonymous form (for example an average star rating). Do not send unlawful, abusive or infringing content or other people's personal information in feedback messages.

6. Our content and your licence

• The App, its design, original stories, narration, translations, cover images, sounds and software are protected by copyright and other laws. Public-domain stories remain in the public domain and anyone may use their original text, but our edits, formatting, audio, translations and images are ours or our licensors'.
• We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the App and its content for your own non-commercial learning and enjoyment.
• The website is free to read, and search engines and other crawlers may index it in line with our robots.txt file. Quoting short passages with a link back is fine.
• You may not sell, republish or redistribute our audio, translations, images, original stories or software (for example by copying them into another app, website, book or dataset offered to others), extract files from the mobile app or bypass its Premium check, reverse engineer the App (except where the law allows it), or use our content to build a competing service.
• Third-party components of the App are used under their own licences.

7. Acceptable use

Do not misuse the App: do not attempt to break or overload it, interfere with other users, access data that is not yours, use the App for anything unlawful, or use automated tools, multiple accounts, reinstalls or other tricks to manipulate ratings, scores or the trial.

8. Accuracy, AI content and mini-games

We work to keep stories, definitions, translations and audio accurate, but much of the content is AI-assisted and may contain mistakes. You can report a problem with a story from the reader. Pronunciation scores compare what your device's speech recognition heard with the target word; they are estimates and only a learning aid. Word-frequency and level labels are approximate. The mini-games are for fun and practice only: scores, coins and badges have no money value, cannot be exchanged, and do not win prizes.

9. Availability and changes

The App is provided as a service that we keep improving. We may add, change or remove features or content for valid reasons, such as improving the App, legal or security needs, or a third-party service ending, and the App may be temporarily unavailable, for example for maintenance or because of a third-party outage. If a change significantly reduces what Premium includes during a period you have paid for, we will tell you in the App, and you may have the right under the law where you live to end the subscription and get a refund for the unused period. We may suspend or end your access if you seriously or repeatedly break these Terms; you may stop using the App at any time.

If you have trouble using the App because of a disability, please tell us so we can try to help.

10. Our responsibility to you

If you are a consumer, the law in your country may give you rights that these Terms cannot change, for example that digital content you pay for must be as described, fit for purpose and of satisfactory quality. Within those rights, and to the extent the law allows:

• the free features are provided "as is" and "as available", and we do not promise that the App will be uninterrupted or error-free;
• we are not responsible for losses that were not reasonably foreseeable when you started using the App, for losses caused by events outside our reasonable control, or for business losses (the App is for personal use);
• we are not responsible for loss of learning data that was only on your device and never synced to an account.

11. App stores

If you got the App from Google Play, Google Play's own terms also apply to your download and purchases. These Terms are between you and us only: Google is not a party to them, is not responsible for the App or its content, and has no obligation to provide support for it. The same applies to any other store the App is offered through.

12. Privacy

How we handle your data is described in our Privacy Policy.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms for valid reasons, for example when we add features, change Premium, or need to follow new laws. We will update the "Last updated" date above, and for material changes we will give notice in the App or on this page before they take effect. If you keep using the App after the changes take effect, you accept them; if you do not agree, stop using the App and, if you have a subscription, cancel it before its next renewal.

14. General

• These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between you and us about the App.
• If a court finds part of these Terms invalid, the rest stays in effect.
• If we do not enforce a term straight away, we can still enforce it later.
• You may not transfer your rights under these Terms to anyone else. We may transfer ours to another organisation that takes over the App, as long as this does not reduce your rights.

15. Contact and complaints

Questions or complaints about these Terms or the App? Contact us and we will try to resolve the issue with you:
[email protected]

For privacy questions, see the contact in our Privacy Policy. This does not affect your right to contact a consumer protection authority or go to court where you live.