Staple
Terms of service
Staple — last updated 20 August 2026.
These are the terms for using the Staple app and this website. They are written to be read, not to be impressive. If a term here and the app disagree, tell us and one of them is wrong.
The short version
Staple saves recipes you send it and reads them with an AI model. The model is sometimes wrong, so check anything that matters — especially allergens and cooking temperatures. Your recipes are yours, and the only thing another person ever sees is a shopping list you chose to share with them. You can delete your account at any time, and we will not sell any of it.
Who you are agreeing with
Staple is provided by the developer trading as Staple, in Denmark. The contact address for anything in this document is hello@getstaple.app.
Using Staple
You need to be 13 or older. The app opens on an anonymous account, and signing in with Google is optional — it exists so your library reaches your other devices, and it is what sharing a shopping list needs, because a membership has to belong to somebody.
You are responsible for what you send the app. Do not use Staple to break the law, to infringe someone's copyright, or to attack the service or the sites it fetches from.
A shared shopping list is the one place something you write is read by another person. Keep it to shopping: nothing unlawful, abusive or obscene, and nothing you would not want everyone on that list to read. Anyone who joined a list can leave it, and whoever made it can take somebody off or stop sharing it altogether.
We can suspend an account that is doing one of those things. Short of that, we will not read your recipes.
Shared lists, and the community rules
Agreeing to these terms is agreeing to the community rules, which say what may go on a list somebody else reads. They are part of these terms, and the app asks you to agree to both before it will share a list with anyone or let you join somebody else's.
There is no tolerance for objectionable content, or for people who abuse other people. Only share a list with people you trust, and follow the community rules when adding to it.
Every member of a list and whoever invited you can be reported from inside the app, or by writing to hello@getstaple.app. A report is read by a person and answered within 24 hours. You can block somebody yourself without asking us, which takes them out of the lists you share.
We can remove content, take somebody off a shared list, and suspend or close an account that breaks the community rules — without notice, where what was written warrants it. An account closed for that stays closed, and making another one to get around it is a further breach.
The AI part, which is the part that matters
When you send a link, our server fetches that page, reduces it to text, and asks an AI model to turn it into ingredients and steps. Anything you paste is handled the same way.
The model gets things wrong. It misreads quantities, it drops a step, and it occasionally invents one. The app marks what it was unsure about and quotes the page, and every field can be corrected by hand — that machinery exists because the output cannot be trusted blindly.
So, plainly:
- Check anything that could hurt you. Allergens, cooking temperatures, times for meat and eggs, and anything a person in your kitchen is allergic to. Read the original page, which the app keeps a link to, when it matters.
- Staple is not nutritional, medical or food-safety advice, and an extracted recipe is not a statement that the dish is safe for you to eat.
- A recipe extracted from a page is our reading of that page. It is not endorsed by whoever wrote it.
Recipes belong to whoever wrote them
Staple stores a copy of a page's text and its photograph so your library still works after the page moves or the site redesigns. That copy is for your own personal use.
It is not a licence to republish someone's recipe, and the original stays theirs. If you are a publisher and you want a page excluded, write to hello@getstaple.app and we will exclude it.
Your content is yours
You keep every right you have in what you save. You give us only the permission needed to run the service for you: to store your content, to send page text to the model that extracts it, to sync it to your own devices, and — if you share a shopping list — to show your name, your initials and that list's items to the people you share it with. Nothing else. It is not sold, not used to train a model, and not shared for advertising. The privacy policy is the detail.
Stopping
You can delete your account in the app — account sheet, Delete account… — or by mail. That erases your recipes, your shopping list and your stored pictures, and it cannot be undone. A list you were sharing is the one thing it does not empty: it carries on without you, and what that leaves behind is in the privacy policy.
We can stop offering Staple, or stop offering it free. If we withdraw the service we will say so in the app first, with enough notice to get your recipes out.
What we do not promise
Staple is provided as it is. We do not promise it will be available without interruption, that extraction will succeed on a given page, or that a recipe it produces is accurate or complete. The third-party services it depends on — Google, and the model provider — can fail or change, and some of them are outside our control.
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost content, or for a dish that did not work. Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or anything else that cannot be limited by law.
If you are a consumer in the EU or the UK, you have rights that these terms cannot take away, and nothing above is meant to.
Which law
Danish law, and the courts of Denmark. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, and you can bring a claim where you live.
Changes
The date at the top moves when these change. A change that materially affects you will be said in the app before it takes effect. Continuing to use Staple after that is acceptance; if you would rather not, delete your account.