Terms of Use

Last updated 26 September 2026

These terms apply to the Merubo app for macOS and to merubo.app, both published by Clovelly AB, a company registered in Sweden ("we", "us"). By using Merubo you agree to them.

1. Licence

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use Merubo on Apple-branded devices you own or control, in accordance with the App Store Terms of Service. You may not sell, rent, sublicense or redistribute the app, or attempt to reverse-engineer it except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits.

Merubo is not open source. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

2. Subscription and free trial

Merubo is sold as a yearly subscription through the Mac App Store. The price is shown in the App Store in your local currency before you subscribe. A first subscription starts with a 7-day free trial; Apple allows one trial per Apple Account, so a second subscription to Merubo starts without one.

Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, or, if you started with a trial, at the end of the trial unless you cancelled at least 24 hours before it ended. The subscription renews automatically each year at the then-current price unless you turn off automatic renewal at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it at any time in your Apple Account's subscription settings (in System Settings on your Mac, or at apps.apple.com/account/subscriptions); cancelling keeps Merubo working until the period you have paid for ends. The app's Settings has a Manage Subscription button that takes you to the same page.

Apple handles the purchase, the billing and any refund, under the App Store Terms of Service. We never receive your payment details, and we cannot issue refunds ourselves; a refund is requested from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com. If we change the price, Apple tells you in advance under its rules, and you can cancel before the new price takes effect.

Without an active subscription or trial, Merubo shows its subscribe screen instead of your mail and stops syncing. Your connected accounts and the local cache stay on your Mac, so subscribing again restores access at once. The subscription belongs to the Apple Account signed in to the App Store, not to any Gmail account: it covers every Gmail account you connect, on every Mac where you are signed in with that Apple Account.

3. Your Google account

Merubo is an independent client for Gmail. It is not made by, endorsed by, or affiliated with Google. Gmail, Google Workspace and the Google APIs are Google's services, governed by your agreement with Google, and your use of Merubo does not change that agreement. You are responsible for having the right to access the accounts you connect.

Merubo depends on Google's APIs. If Google changes, restricts or withdraws them, parts of Merubo may stop working, and we may have to change or discontinue features as a result.

4. Your mail is yours

Merubo stores a local copy of your recent mail on your Mac so it can be shown quickly. You are responsible for the security of your Mac and its user account. The local copy is a cache, not a backup — your mail lives with Google, and deleting Merubo's cache does not delete your mail. Do not rely on Merubo as your only copy of anything.

5. Acceptable use

Do not use Merubo to send unlawful, abusive or unsolicited bulk mail, to infringe anyone's rights, or to break any law that applies to you.

6. No warranty

Merubo is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that mail will always be sent, received, translated or displayed correctly.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any right you have as a consumer under mandatory law, including Swedish and EU consumer protection law.

7. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or mail that was not sent, received or read, arising from your use of Merubo. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid for your Merubo subscription in the twelve months before the claim arose.

8. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what Merubo does with your data. In short: it stays on your Mac.

9. Changes and termination

We may update these terms; the current version is always here, with its date at the top. Continuing to use Merubo after a change means you accept it. You may stop using Merubo at any time by deleting it and revoking its access to your Google account. Deleting the app does not cancel the subscription; that is done in your Apple Account's subscription settings, as described in section 2.

10. Law and venue

These terms are governed by Swedish law. Disputes will be heard by the courts of Sweden, except where mandatory consumer law gives you the right to bring proceedings in your own country of residence.

11. Contact

Clovelly AB
hello@merubo.app