Terms

These terms cover the bite app, the browser extension and this website, operated by Philipp Tschauner, Berlin.

What bite does

You save a link. bite fetches what is publicly available at that address and writes a short summary of it. Summaries are produced by language models and can be wrong, incomplete or out of date. Treat a bite as a way to decide whether to read the original, not as a replacement for it.

Your account

You need an account, and you are responsible for what happens under it. One account is for one person. You can delete it at any time in the app, and doing so ends these terms.

bite pro

bite pro is a subscription sold through the App Store, monthly or yearly, at the price shown before you buy. It renews automatically until you cancel, and it is charged to your Apple ID. Cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends, in your Apple account settings — bite cannot cancel it for you, and refunds are Apple's to give.

New accounts get seven days of pro at no cost and without a payment method. It ends by itself and turns into nothing.

Pro includes a monthly allowance for podcasts, because transcribing audio costs real money per hour. The current allowance is stated on the purchase screen.

Other people's content

The articles, videos and podcasts bite summarises belong to whoever made them. A summary is bite's own text, and it grants you no rights whatsoever to the source. bite reads only what a normal visitor can reach: it does not break paywalls, and where a page is locked it says so and stops.

Do not use bite to reproduce or redistribute content you have no right to, and do not use it to work around anyone's access controls.

Fair use

There is a daily ceiling on saves, high enough that no reader will meet it and low enough to stop automated abuse. Do not resell bite, scrape it, or run it through scripts.

Availability

bite is offered as it is. It depends on services and websites outside its control, and there is no guarantee that every source can be read or that the service is always reachable. Liability is limited to intent and gross negligence, and to damages typical and foreseeable for a service of this kind; liability for injury to life, body or health and under the Produkthaftungsgesetz is unaffected.

Changes and ending

These terms may change; material changes will be announced in the app before they take effect, and continuing to use bite after that counts as agreement. An account may be closed for a serious breach of these terms.

Law

German law applies. If you are a consumer, this does not remove the protections of your own country's law.