Terms of Use

These terms are an agreement between you and Melvin (“we”), operated by Lachlan Allen, 3133 N Alafaya Dr, Orlando, FL 32826, United States. They cover the Melvin iPhone app, the Melvin Mac app, trymelvin.com, your Melvin account, and the connection that lets AI apps such as Claude, Gemini and Grok use Melvin on your devices. By using Melvin you agree to them and to the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use Melvin.

Melvin is early software. Features may change, give incomplete results, or be unavailable for a while. You must be at least 18 to use it.

• Give accurate account information and keep access to your email secure.
• Do not share an account in a way that gets around plan limits.
• Tell us if you think your account, a device or a connected AI app was compromised. You can also sign out everywhere from your Devices page.
• You are responsible for what is done through your account, your devices and the AI apps you connect.

When you connect an AI app, it may ask Melvin to do the things listed in the connect guide, on the devices on your account, and Melvin sends it the results. An AI app is a separate service run by another company under its own terms and privacy policy. It decides what to ask Melvin for and what to tell you, and it keeps what Melvin sends back as part of your conversation there. We do not control what an AI app says or does.

You can disconnect every AI app at any time on your Devices page or from the Melvin menu on your Mac. New requests stop at once, and tasks that have not started are cancelled.

Melvin carries out requests on your own Mac and iPhone. A device acts only while it is signed in to your account and connected. A request for a Mac that is asleep is turned down, and a request for an iPhone waits for you to open Melvin there.

• Melvin reaches only what iOS and macOS let it reach on each device, which you choose when you set it up. A permission applies to that device only, and you can remove it on your Devices page.
• Melvin does not move a file to the Trash or delete it without your approval in your AI app.
• A shortcut can do whatever it was built to do, and whatever it returns goes back to the AI app that ran it. Allowing an AI app to run one is your decision.
• An automation runs only after you turn it on, on your Mac.
• Undo reverses what can still be reversed and reports what it could not. It is not a backup, so keep your own backups of files that matter.
• Melvin keeps a record of every task in your activity log, which is deleted with your account. Check important results yourself, and do not rely on Melvin for legal, medical, financial or safety decisions.

You may not use Melvin to:

• Break the law, violate anyone’s rights, or access systems without permission.
• Reach a device or account that is not yours, or that you are not allowed to use.
• Get around a permission, an approval, a limit or a disconnection.
• Spread malware, evade security controls, or interfere with the service.
• Abuse shared resources, resell access, or process content you have no right to.

The Melvin apps are free downloads with nothing to buy inside them. Every paid plan is bought on this website and paid through Stripe, under Stripe’s own terms. We never see or store your card number.

• Free needs no payment method and works on one device, within fair use. Fair use means we may limit an account whose use is far beyond a person’s ordinary use, or that harms the service for others.
• Pro Annual is $39.99 a year and starts with a 7-day free trial, once per account. Cancel before the trial ends and you are not charged; otherwise the first charge is taken when it ends.
• Pro Monthly is $4.99 a month. Both Pro plans renew automatically until you cancel.
• Lifetime is one payment of $79, and Founding Member, limited to the first 500 sold, is one payment of $49. Each gives your account Pro for as long as Melvin offers the service, with nothing to renew.

Prices are in US dollars and exclude tax where it applies.

You can cancel a subscription at any time from your billing page. Cancelling stops future renewals, and Pro continues until the end of the period you have already paid for.

Payments are not refunded for partly used periods, except where the law where you live gives you a right to a refund. If you think you were charged by mistake, write to support@trymelvin.com and we will look at it.

If you got the Melvin iPhone app from the App Store:

• These terms are between you and Melvin, not Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the app and its content.
• Your license is to use the app on Apple-branded products you own or control, as the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions allow.
• Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for the app.
• If the app fails to conform to a warranty that applies to it, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any, for the app. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for any claims relating to the app or your use of it, including product liability claims, claims that it fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar laws.
• If a third party claims that the app or your use of it infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging that claim.
• You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a United States Government embargo or designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• You must comply with any third-party terms that apply when you use the app.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms, and once you accept them, Apple may enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.

We give you a limited, revocable, non-transferable license to install and use the Melvin apps for their intended purpose. You may not redistribute, sell or reverse engineer them, or get around access controls, except where the law expressly allows it. The apps may download and install signed updates.

Melvin and its materials belong to Melvin or its licensors. Your content stays yours. If you send us feedback, we may use it without owing you anything, and we will not name you publicly without asking.

You can stop using Melvin and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or end access, or switch off a feature for everyone, when we need to protect people or systems, meet a legal requirement, or deal with a serious breach of these terms.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Melvin is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of accuracy, fitness for a purpose, availability or non-infringement. Some places do not allow these exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and nothing here limits rights you have under consumer law that cannot be waived.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Melvin is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data or business. Our total liability for any claim about Melvin is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and 50 US dollars.

We may update these terms as Melvin changes. We will post the new version here with a new date, and tell you in the app or by email before a material change takes effect.

Questions about these terms: legal@trymelvin.com. Anything else: support@trymelvin.com or the support page.