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PyPad terms of use

Last updated September 12, 2026.
These are the end user license terms for PyPad for Android, packages com.anatory.pypad (the paid edition) and com.anatory.pypad.free (the free, advertising-supported edition), published by Anatory Software LLC ("Anatory"). This website has its own separate terms of use.

The short version: the programs you write in PyPad are yours. The app is provided as is, what your code does is your responsibility, and nothing in these terms takes away the rights the bundled open-source licenses give you.

1. What PyPad is

PyPad is a programming environment: it lets you write and run your own Python programs, including games, on your Android device.

The programs you write are yours. Anatory claims no ownership of your code, your games, or anything else you make with PyPad, and these terms give Anatory no rights over them.

2. Your license

Anatory grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use PyPad on Android devices you own or control, subject to these terms and to Google Play's terms of service. PyPad is distributed through Google Play, and if anything in these terms conflicts with Google Play's terms, Google Play's terms govern.

3. Your code and your responsibility

PyPad executes code that you write or import. You are responsible for what your code does. Programs can consume storage, battery and processing power; a buggy program can fill your device's storage or drain its battery. PyPad runs your code in a separate process so the editor stays usable, and never gives your code network access, but it cannot prevent every possible use of your own device's resources.

4. Open-source components and samples

PyPad includes open-source components (CPython, pygame-ce and others), each under its own license. The app's Open source licenses screen lists every one of them, and Anatory's patches and build scripts are published through the open-source page.

Nothing in these terms limits the rights those component licenses give you, including rights under the LGPL to modify a covered library and to reverse engineer for the purpose of debugging such modifications.

The bundled sample programs are there for learning. Use them, change them, and build on them freely in your own projects, including projects you sell.

5. Advertising in the free edition

The free edition of PyPad shows interstitial advertisements between activities, served by Google AdMob. They are never personalized and are limited to a general-audience content rating. Where the law requires it, the app asks for your consent before showing any ad and lets you decline in one tap; declining turns advertising off and leaves the app fully usable. What the ad network receives is described in the free edition's privacy policy. The paid edition contains no advertising and no advertising code.

6. No warranty

PyPad is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose. Anatory does not promise that the app will be error-free or uninterrupted.

7. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Anatory Software LLC is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages (including loss of data, loss of profits, or device damage) arising from your use of the app or from programs you run in it. Anatory's total liability for any claim is capped at the amount you paid for the app, if any.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, and nothing in them takes away your statutory consumer rights, including any refund rights you have through Google Play.

8. Termination

This license ends if you breach these terms. You can end it at any time by uninstalling the app. Sections 6, 7 and 9 survive termination.

9. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Oregon, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. This does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer laws where you live. If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest of them still applies.

10. Changes to these terms

Anatory may update these terms for future versions of PyPad. If it does, the date at the top of this page will change, and material changes will be called out in the app's release notes on Google Play. Continuing to use the app after an update means you accept the updated terms.

11. Contact

Questions about these terms: contact@anatory.com.
Help using the app: support@anatory.com, or see the support page.
Privacy is covered separately by the PyPad privacy policy (paid edition) and the privacy policy of the ad-supported edition.

Anatory Software LLC, Oregon, United States.