Last updated 6 September 2026 · Effective 6 September 2026
The short version. Prarthana is free. Use it, read and listen to the prayers, count your mala, follow the festival calendar. Do not resell the app or its content. We will keep it working as best we can, but it comes as it is.
1. This agreement
These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and Utsav Patel (“we”, “us”), the developer of the Prarthana app. By downloading or using Prarthana you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use the app.
This agreement is between you and us only, and not with Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for Prarthana and its content.
2. Your licence
We give you a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to use Prarthana on any Apple device you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. Under Family Sharing, the members of your family group may use it too.
You may not sell, rent, sub-licence or redistribute the app; copy or extract its prayer texts, audio recordings or artwork for use outside the app; reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble it except where the law says you may despite this sentence; or remove any notice of ownership from it.
3. The content
The prayer texts, translations, meanings, audio recordings, festival calendar and artwork in Prarthana are provided for personal devotional and educational use. We have taken care over their accuracy, but sacred texts are transmitted in more than one tradition and wording, and we do not warrant that any text, date or translation is free of error or matches every regional practice. Festival and vrat dates are calculated to the best of our ability against the Indian Standard Time civil calendar; for dates that carry religious significance, please also confirm with your own local tradition or priest where it matters to you.
4. What it costs
Prarthana is free, contains no advertising, and has nothing to buy inside it. We are not charging you now, and we will not start charging you for something you have already downloaded. If we ever release a paid product, it will be a separate thing you choose.
5. The content the app downloads
Prarthana's prayer texts, festival data and audio are not entirely built into the app: the first launch fetches content, and it is kept on the device afterwards so the app works offline. We may add, correct or retire content over time. We try to keep the service available, but we do not promise it will be, and we may change or stop it. An internet connection is needed the first time, and standard data charges from your carrier may apply.
6. Maintenance and support
We are solely responsible for any maintenance and support for Prarthana. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services. Reach us at utsavhacker@gmail.com — see the support page.
7. Warranty
Prarthana is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, to the fullest extent the law allows. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free.
In the event of any failure of Prarthana to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (which for Prarthana is nothing) to you. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the app, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be our sole responsibility.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and nothing here removes rights you have as a consumer that cannot be removed by agreement.
8. Liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for lost data, arising out of your use of Prarthana. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the greater of the amount you paid for the app or five US dollars.
Your jaap mala counts and preferences live on the device (synced to Apple Watch through Apple's own mechanisms only), so a lost, wiped or replaced device loses them.
9. Claims about the app
We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims from you or a third party relating to Prarthana or your possession and use of it — including product liability claims, any claim that it fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy or similar legislation, including in connection with its use of the HealthKit and HomeKit frameworks, which it does not use.
10. Intellectual property
In the event of any third-party claim that Prarthana or your possession and use of it infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, we — not Apple — are solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
11. Legal compliance
You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo, or that has been designated by the US Government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not listed on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
12. Third-party terms
You must comply with any applicable third-party terms of agreement when using Prarthana — for example, your wireless data service agreement.
13. Apple as third-party beneficiary
You acknowledge and agree that Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms of Use, and that upon your acceptance of them Apple will have the right — and will be deemed to have accepted the right — to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.
14. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. The current version always lives at this address, with the date at the top. Continuing to use Prarthana after a change means you accept the new version; if you do not, delete the app.
15. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of India have jurisdiction over any dispute — except that this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer law of the country you live in, or of the right to bring a claim in your local courts where that law gives it to you.
16. Contact
Utsav Patel · utsavhacker@gmail.com
Privacy is covered separately, on the privacy policy page.