Terms & Conditions

Last updated: 14 August 2026 · The fine print, in plain language

These terms are the agreement between you and us for using the ScrollRat app and this website. We have tried to keep them readable, but they are still the terms that apply, so it is worth a few minutes.

1. The agreement

By downloading or using ScrollRat, or by using this website, you agree to these terms. ScrollRat is made and run by LuxaLounge, based in Belgium. If you do not agree with something here, the honest answer is that you should not use the app. ScrollRat the character would enjoy that. We would rather you stayed.

2. Your licence to use ScrollRat

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use ScrollRat on Apple devices you own or control, for your own private use, for as long as you follow these terms. You do not own the app itself; you are allowed to use it. You may not copy it, sell it, rent it out, or pass your access to someone else.

3. What ScrollRat does

ScrollRat helps you fight doomscrolling using Apple's Screen Time technology: per-app daily limits, scheduled blocking, focus sessions, missions, and screen-time insights. Blocking relies on Apple's Family Controls framework and needs your explicit permission, which you can withdraw at any time in iOS Settings. How we handle your data is covered separately in our Privacy Policy.

4. Subscriptions and payment

• ScrollRat Pro costs €4.99 per month or €45 per year. Local prices can differ, and the App Store always shows the exact price in your currency before you confirm.
• Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. There is no free trial and no free tier, because commitment is rather the point.
• Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel. You can cancel any time in Settings, then Apple Account, then Subscriptions. Cancelling stops the next renewal and takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for.
• Apple is the seller for these purchases. Refunds are handled by Apple under App Store rules, which you can request at reportaproblem.apple.com.

5. If you change your mind

Because you buy ScrollRat Pro through the App Store, Apple is the merchant and your cancellation, refund and consumer-withdrawal rights are handled through Apple as described above. Nothing in these terms takes away the statutory rights you have as a consumer under Belgian or EU law.

6. Your rights and responsibilities

Your right is straightforward: to use ScrollRat for its purpose, under the licence in section 2, for as long as you keep to these terms. In return, a short list of things not to do.

• You need an Apple Account and must meet Apple's minimum age for one. If you are a minor, use ScrollRat with a parent or guardian's consent.
• Do not reverse engineer the app, take it apart, or interfere with how it works.
• Do not use ScrollRat, or the forms on this website, for anything unlawful, and do not use the contact or waitlist forms to send spam or to overload them.
• You are responsible for what happens under your own Apple Account. Finding creative ways around your own blocks, on the other hand, is strictly between you and the rat.

7. Honest limitations

ScrollRat is a tool to change a habit, not a guarantee and not medical or psychological advice. If you are struggling with compulsive use in a way that worries you, please talk to a professional. On the technical side, iOS decides what can and cannot be blocked, and you can always switch Screen Time access off yourself, so we cannot promise that blocking is unbreakable or that usage figures are perfect to the minute. The app is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.

8. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, LuxaLounge is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of ScrollRat, including the four hours you scrolled anyway. What we do not do is exclude anything that cannot be excluded: nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that Belgian or EU law does not let us limit, and your mandatory rights as a consumer always stand.

9. Our brand and content

The ScrollRat app, its name, the rat character, the artwork, and everything on this website belong to LuxaLounge and are protected by intellectual property law. Using the app does not give you any right to reuse the character or the brand. He is not for hire.

10. Apple's role

These terms are between you and LuxaLounge, not Apple. Apple has no obligation to provide support or maintenance for ScrollRat, and is not responsible for any product warranties, for claims about the app (including product liability or consumer protection claims), or for third-party intellectual property claims. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you. You confirm you are not in a country subject to a US embargo and are not on a prohibited-parties list, as Apple's own terms require.

11. Changes to the app and these terms

We may change the app's features, the price for future billing periods (never retroactively), or these terms. When a change is significant, we will say so in the app or on this site before it applies. The date at the top of this page reflects the current version.

12. Ending things (termination)

You can stop using ScrollRat whenever you like. Delete the app and everything it knows about you goes with it. We may suspend or end your access if you seriously break these terms or misuse the service.

13. If part of these terms does not hold up

If a court decides any part of these terms is invalid or unenforceable, the rest stays in force. These terms, together with our Privacy Policy and Apple's own App Store terms, make up the whole agreement between you and us about ScrollRat, and they replace anything said before.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by Belgian law. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory rules of the country you live in, and you can bring a claim in your own local courts. We would honestly rather you email us first and let us sort it out.

15. Contact

berni@luxalounge.com or the contact form. A real person reads it.