Terms of Use
DataStory Studio · Last updated 23 August 2026
You own everything you make with this app. The bundled music is ours and yours to publish. The statistics are illustrative, not authoritative. Anything you import is your responsibility.
1. The agreement
By downloading or using DataStory Studio ("the app"), you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the app. The app is provided by its independent developer ("we", "us").
2. Your licence to use the app
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app on devices you own or control, in line with the Apple Media Services Terms. You may not sell, rent, sub-licence, reverse-engineer or attempt to extract the source code of the app, except where that restriction is prohibited by law.
3. What you make is yours
Videos and datasets you create with the app belong to you. We claim no ownership, no licence, and no right to use them. We never receive them: they are created and stored on your device.
You may use your exported videos for any purpose, including commercial and monetised use — YouTube, Shorts, Reels, TikTok, client work, anything.
4. Ads and points
The app is free to download. Exporting videos spends points, and one way to earn more is to watch an optional rewarded video ad served by Google AdMob. Watching an ad is always your choice. Points and ad rewards have no cash value, cannot be bought, sold or transferred, and are not your property; we may change the number of points an export costs or an ad awards, and may add, change or remove the ads at any time. Ad availability depends on Google and is not guaranteed. How advertising handles data is covered in the Privacy Policy.
5. Bundled music
Every music loop included with the app is synthesised specifically for it. It contains no sampled, licensed or third-party material. You may include it in anything you export and publish that anywhere, including monetised channels, at no cost and with no attribution required.
You may not extract the audio files and redistribute or sell them as music in their own right.
6. Music and data you import
Imported material is your responsibility. If you add your own audio, you are confirming you hold the rights to use it that way. Platforms including YouTube can mute, claim, demonetise or remove a video that uses a track you do not have rights to. We cannot check this for you and accept no liability for it.
The same applies to data you import: you are responsible for having the right to use it and for what your charts say.
7. The bundled statistics
The app ships with datasets drawn from published sources, credited inside the app with a link to each source. Two things you should know:
- Values between anchor years are interpolated. This is how animated charts of this kind are normally built, but it means figures for in-between years are estimates, not published values.
- Each story stops at the latest year its source has confirmed. Nothing is projected forward.
Treat this data as illustrative rather than authoritative. Do not rely on it for financial, academic, medical, legal or other consequential decisions. We make no warranty as to its accuracy or completeness, and the organisations that publish the underlying figures are not affiliated with the app and do not endorse it.
8. Acceptable use
Do not use the app to create or distribute material that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, or deliberately misleading — including charts constructed to misrepresent data about identifiable people or groups. You are responsible for what you publish.
9. Availability and updates
The app works offline. Downloading updated statistics is optional, happens only when you ask for it, and depends on a third-party service (GitHub) that we do not control. We may change, suspend or discontinue that service, or the app itself, at any time. Videos and datasets already on your device are unaffected.
10. No warranty
The app is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that exported files will be accepted by any particular platform.
11. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data or lost content, arising from your use of the app. Our total liability for any claim relating to the app will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid for it or five US dollars.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or liabilities, so parts of sections 10 and 11 may not apply to you. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
12. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. The current version is always at this address with its date. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept it.
13. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. You and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Delaware for any dispute arising from these terms, except that either party may seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction.
If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer-protection laws of the country where you live.
14. Apple
These terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple has no obligation to provide support for the app. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.