Terms of Use

Effective September 26, 2026. Questions: hello@readrubrica.com

These terms cover the Rubrica app for iPhone, iPad and Android, Rubrica in your browser at readrubrica.com/app, and Rubrica Pro. Rubrica is made by Nicholas Thompson. By using Rubrica you agree to them. If you got Rubrica from the App Store, Apple's Standard License Agreement also applies; if these terms and Apple's disagree, Apple's wins for App Store purchases.

Using Rubrica

You can use Rubrica for your own personal reading. Please don't use it to break the law, to harass anyone, or to try to get at other people's accounts or data. Accounts and Friends are for people 13 and older.

Your books and your data

Books you open in Rubrica are yours, and they stay on your device. Rubrica only opens DRM-free files and never removes or works around copy protection. You're responsible for having the right to read the files you add. Your reading data belongs to you; the privacy policy says exactly what's kept and where, and you can export or delete it from the app at any time.

Friends

If you turn on Friends, keep your display name decent. We may remove a name that's reported and breaks these terms, and we may close an account used to harass people.

Rubrica Pro

• Monthly ($3.99 a month) and Yearly ($29.99 a year, with a one-week free trial for new subscribers) renew automatically until you cancel. Prices are in US dollars; your store shows your local price.
• Payment is charged to your App Store or Google Play account when you confirm the purchase. A subscription renews and is charged within 24 hours before the current period ends, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before then.
• If you start the free trial, you're charged when it ends unless you cancel before that. Any unused part of a trial ends when you buy a subscription.
• Manage or cancel in your store account: on iPhone, Settings › your name › Subscriptions; on Android, Google Play › Payments and subscriptions. Pro stays on until the end of the period you paid for.
• Founding Reader ($79, once) gives you Pro for as long as Rubrica is offered.
• Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their own policies.
• Everything Rubrica does for reading and tracking is free. Pro adds cosmetics, deeper stats and monthly extras, and what it includes may change over time.

Free classics

The free classics come from Project Gutenberg and are in the public domain in the United States. They may not be in your country; that's for you to check.

Changes and availability

Rubrica is made by one person and is provided as is. We work hard to keep it running and your data safe, but we can't promise it will always be available or free of bugs, so keep a backup (Me › Back up and restore). To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect losses from using Rubrica, and our total liability is limited to what you paid for Rubrica Pro in the past twelve months. We may update these terms; if a change matters, we'll say so in the app before it takes effect.

The law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Nothing here takes away rights you have under the consumer laws where you live.