Terms of Use

Last updated: 31 July 2026

These terms cover the Scantic app for iPhone, the share links you can publish with it, and the paid features Scantic Premium and one time unlocks. The provider is Sebastian Beyer, Effingergasse 18, 1160 Vienna, Austria (see the imprint). By using the app you agree to these terms. How data is handled is described separately in the privacy policy.

Using the app

We grant you a personal, non transferable licence to use Scantic on Apple-branded devices that you own or control. The Usage Rules in Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions apply to that licence, and nothing here is meant to give you different rights than those rules do. Accounts in your Family Sharing group, or accounts covered by a volume purchase, may use the app as far as those rules allow.

You may not sell, rent or sublicense the app, and you may not take it apart, except where the law expressly allows you to.

You also have to follow the terms of the other services involved when you use Scantic. The usual example is your mobile data plan: uploading a share link over a cellular connection has to be allowed by your carrier's terms.

To buy anything you need to be able to enter into a contract. If you are under 18, purchases need the agreement of your parent or guardian. Apple's Family Sharing settings are the place to control that.

By using the app you confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a United States Government embargo, or designated by that government as supporting terrorism, and that you are not on any United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple requires this statement in the terms of every app sold through the App Store.

What Scantic does

Scantic records a short video of your surroundings and computes a 3D Gaussian splat from it on your iPhone. Capturing, processing and storage happen on the device. Nothing is uploaded unless you create a share link yourself.

Scan quality depends on lighting, movement, surfaces and the device. We describe what the app does, but we do not promise a particular result for a particular room or object. What you paid for has to work; that is covered under statutory warranty below.

Your scans

Your scans belong to you. Using the app grants us no rights to them. We do not look at them, and for private and password protected links we could not, because those are encrypted before they are uploaded.

When you create a share link, you instruct us to store that scan on our server and to make it available to anyone who has the link, for as long as the link is active. That instruction is the only right you give us, and it ends when the link ends.

Share links

Every share link carries a random token. Private and password protected links are encrypted on your iPhone before upload. The key travels only in the part of the link after the number sign and never reaches our server, so we cannot open those scans. Public links are stored readable, together with one preview image and the scan name, so that link previews can show a real image. The details are on the encryption page.

You choose how long a link stays active: 7 days, 30 days, 1 year, or no expiry. You can turn a link off at any time in the app under My Shares, which deletes the stored scan from our server immediately.

Two things a share link cannot do. We would rather say them here than let you find out later:

• The download switch is a user interface setting, not a technical barrier. It shows or hides the download button on the share page. To display a scan at all, its data has to reach the viewer's browser, so anyone who can view a scan can in principle keep the data they received.
• Switching a link off cannot recall copies. The stored scan is deleted from our server at once, but whoever already downloaded it keeps what they have.

We may remove stored scans that are far above the size limits of the service, or that are used in a way that endangers its operation.

The licence you choose for a shared scan

When you create a link you pick the licence shown on the page: all rights reserved, CC BY, CC BY-NC or CC0. That choice is your statement to the people who open the link, not ours. We do not check it and we take no position on it.

A Creative Commons licence cannot be taken back for copies people already hold. If you switch the link off later, someone who downloaded the scan under CC BY or CC0 keeps the rights that licence gave them. Pick with that in mind.

Rules for sharing

You may only share content you have the right to share. Please do not use share links:

• for unlawful content, or content that infringes the rights of others;
• to capture and publish identifiable people without their consent;
• to distribute harmful software, or to attack or overload the service.

If a link is reported to us as unlawful or infringing, we may switch it off. To report one, write to support@scantic.app with the full link and what is wrong with it.

There is an honest catch here. A share carries nothing about the person who created it: no account, no name, no device identifier. So in most cases we have no way to warn you first or to explain afterwards. The link simply stops working. If you think we got it wrong, write to us and we will look at it again.

What costs money

The app is free, and so is scanning. Two things need a purchase:

• Share links beyond the first one. The first share link on each iPhone is free. Every further link needs a purchase.
• Premium quality export. Exporting a scan in standard quality stays free. Standard quality is a thinned, lower fidelity version of the same scan. The full quality file needs a purchase.

There are two ways to pay: the Scantic Premium subscription, or a one time unlock for a single scan. Both are sold through Apple's In App Purchase, and prices are shown in the app before you confirm.

Scantic Premium

Scantic Premium is an auto renewing subscription.

• Length of a period: one year.
• Price: EUR 29.99 per year. In other App Store regions the local price shown by Apple applies. There is no free trial.
• What it unlocks while it is active: unlimited share links, and premium quality export for every scan.
• Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase.
• The subscription renews automatically for another year unless you turn auto renewal off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Apple charges the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends, at the price shown at that time.
• You can manage the subscription and turn auto renewal off in your Apple Account settings at any time after the purchase.

When Premium ends, share links you created while it was active stay active for the lifetime you picked, and you can still switch them off. Creating a new link needs a purchase again. Files you already exported are yours and are not affected.

One time unlocks

A one time unlock buys exactly one thing for exactly one scan, permanently:

• Sharing for one scan: EUR 2.99. You can create a link, turn it off and create a new one for that scan as often as you like.
• Premium quality export for one scan: EUR 4.99, exportable again as often as you like.

These are consumable purchases, and that has a consequence we would rather state plainly than bury. An unlock belongs to the scan it was bought for and is recorded on that iPhone. Apple cannot restore consumable purchases, so an unlock cannot be moved to another iPhone, and it is gone if you delete that scan or the app. If you expect to unlock more than a few scans, the subscription is the safer choice.

Cancelling and refunds

All purchases are processed by Apple through your Apple Account. Apple is the seller. Our server never learns that anyone bought anything.

You cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings. Cancelling stops future renewals and does not refund the period you are in. Refunds are handled by Apple under Apple's terms, not by us. The route is Apple's own: report a problem at reportaproblem.apple.com, or ask through your Apple Account.

If a purchase was charged but not unlocked in the app, write to support@scantic.app. We cannot reverse an Apple charge, but we can usually work out what went wrong and help you make the case.

Right of withdrawal

As a consumer in the European Union you have 14 days to withdraw from a distance contract, digital content included. The paid features in Scantic are digital content that is delivered right away. When you confirm a purchase you ask for that immediate delivery, and you acknowledge that your right of withdrawal ends once delivery has begun. Apple presents this step as part of the purchase.

Because Apple is the seller, a withdrawal runs through Apple, along the same route as a refund. Nothing on this page takes away a right the law gives you.

Statutory warranty

Austrian law gives consumers warranty rights for digital content (Verbrauchergewährleistungsgesetz, VGG). Those rights apply to the paid features, and we do not exclude or shorten them.

In short: what you paid for has to work as described. If it does not, you can ask us to put it right. If that does not happen within a reasonable time, you can ask for a price reduction or cancel the purchase. For as long as Scantic Premium runs, the paid functions have to keep working, and we have to supply the updates needed to keep them working.

Since Apple is the seller, Apple's route is usually the fastest one. You can also write to support@scantic.app and we will look at it.

Support

Support is by email at support@scantic.app. There is no telephone support. This is a one person operation, and we usually reply within a few days. Providing maintenance and support for Scantic is our job alone. Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support for the app.

Apple's role

Apple distributes the app and processes the payments. Apple does not make the app and does not answer for it. In detail:

• These terms are between you and us. Apple is not a party to them, and we alone are responsible for Scantic and its content.
• Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish maintenance or support for Scantic.
• If the app fails to meet a warranty that applies to it, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app to you, if you paid one. Beyond that refund, Apple has no warranty obligation. Any other claim, loss, liability, damage, cost or expense that follows from the app not meeting a warranty is our responsibility.
• We, not Apple, answer any claim you or a third party makes about the app or about your use of it. That includes product liability claims, any claim that the app does not meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar law. Nothing in these terms limits our liability to you beyond what the law permits.
• If anyone claims that the app infringes their intellectual property, we handle the investigation, the defence and any settlement, not Apple.
• Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third party beneficiaries of these terms. When you accept them, Apple has the right to enforce them against you as such a beneficiary.

Availability

The share service is offered as it is and may be interrupted for maintenance or technical reasons. We do not promise a particular uptime, and share links are not a backup: keep your own copy of anything you care about.

If we ever have to stop the share service for good, we will announce it on this site beforehand, and you can cancel a running subscription in your Apple Account settings. Your statutory rights are untouched by this.

Liability

We are liable without limitation for damages caused intentionally or through gross negligence, and for injury to life, body or health. For slight negligence we are liable only for the breach of essential contractual duties, and then only for the damage typical and foreseeable for this kind of contract. Essential contractual duties are those that make the contract work at all and that you may rely on.

Liability under the Austrian Product Liability Act, and your statutory warranty and consumer rights, remain unaffected.

Ending use

You can stop using the app at any time by deleting it, which removes the scans stored on your device. Active share links are not removed by deleting the app; turn them off first if you want the stored scans deleted. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription either. That is done in your Apple Account settings.

We may suspend access to the share service for serious or repeated breaches of these terms. Where a paid feature is involved we will only do so where it is proportionate, and your statutory rights stay in place.

Changes to these terms

We may change these terms when the service changes, for example when a paid feature is added. The current version is always the one on this page, with the date shown at the top. A change that affects a running subscription to your disadvantage applies from the next renewal at the earliest, so that you can cancel before it takes effect.

Applicable law

Austrian law applies, excluding its conflict of law rules. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory rules of the country you live in.

Contact

Sebastian Beyer
Effingergasse 18
1160 Vienna
Austria

Questions, complaints and claims about the app: support@scantic.app
Privacy matters: privacy@scantic.app

Email only. There is no telephone support.