Terms
Effective November 3, 2026.
These terms are between you and Graham DeNoyer ("we"), who makes Shoebox. By using Shoebox you agree to them. Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies to the app. If the two disagree about the app itself, Apple's applies.
What Shoebox is
Shoebox is an app for keeping things you want to come back to, one at a time. It runs on your iPhone. You can use it without an account.
Your things
What you keep is yours. We do not claim any rights in it. You give us only the permission needed to run the features you use: to fetch a page you ask us to preview, to look up pictures, and to hold email you forward until your phone collects it. The privacy policy at https://inmyshoebox.com/privacy explains how.
Shoebox Plus
Shoebox Plus is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. It turns on your Shoebox email address. It is bought through Apple, and Apple handles payment, refunds and Family Sharing under its rules. Use Restore Purchases in Settings on a new phone. We may change what the free app and Shoebox Plus include in future versions. We will not remove a feature you have already paid for without telling you first.
The email address
Use it only for mail you have a right to forward. Do not use it to receive spam, to harass anyone, or for anything unlawful. We limit how many new addresses can be made, and how much mail one address takes in a day. Mail over the limits, over 12 MB, or sent to an address that no longer exists is discarded without notice. We may turn off an address that is misused.
Mail waits on our server for up to 7 days. If your phone does not collect it in that time, it is deleted. An address that is not used for 90 days expires.
Keep your own copy
Shoebox makes daily backups of your posts to your phone and iCloud Drive. Please keep them. We do not have a copy of your posts. We cannot recover anything that is lost from your phone.
No promises about results
Shoebox reads dates and writes short posts using rules and your phone's on-device intelligence. They can be wrong. Check anything that matters, such as dates, times and amounts, against the original. Do not use Shoebox as your only reminder for something important or urgent.
Warranty and liability
Shoebox is provided as it is, without promises that it will be uninterrupted or free of errors. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not responsible for indirect or consequential losses, or for lost data or missed events. Our total responsibility to you for any claim about Shoebox is limited to the amount you paid us for it (through Apple), or $20 if you paid nothing. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have by law that cannot be limited, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
Ending
You can stop using Shoebox at any time. Use Delete everything in Settings first if you want what we hold removed. We may stop offering Shoebox or its server features. If we do, we will say so in the app first and give you time to save your things.
Changes
We may change these terms. If a change matters, the app will tell you, and the new date will be at the top. Using Shoebox after that means you accept the change.
Law
These terms follow the laws of North Carolina, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. If you live somewhere whose law gives you consumer rights that cannot be waived, those rights stay.
Contact
Graham DeNoyer [email protected]