Terms of Service
Effective date: 3 September 2026
Last updated: 3 September 2026
Please read these Terms of Service ("Terms") before using the Recover Deleted Messages app ("the App"). By downloading, installing or using the App you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the App and uninstall it.
The App is provided by Appify Store ("we", "us", "our"). These Terms are between you and us. They are in addition to Google Play's own terms, which also apply to your download.
1. What the App does, and what it does not do
The App captures incoming message notifications and messaging-app media as they arrive and keeps a copy in its own private storage on your device, so that copy survives if the sender later deletes the original.
In particular, and without limiting Section 8:
- Nothing received before installation and before you granted notification access can be recovered.
- A message whose notification never arrived, or whose preview was hidden by your system notification settings, cannot be captured.
- Messages you send yourself from inside another app are not visible to the App and cannot be captured. Only replies sent through the App itself are stored.
- Group summary notifications ("5 messages from 3 chats") carry no per-message content and cannot be expanded into individual messages.
- Media is mirrored on a rolling window. A file deleted long after it arrived may have no copy left to recover.
- Deletion detection is a best-effort heuristic. The App may fail to flag a message that was deleted, or occasionally flag one that was not.
- Your device manufacturer's battery or background-process restrictions can stop the App's capture service without warning. The App detects this where it can and prompts you, but it cannot override those restrictions.
You should not rely on the App as the sole means of preserving anything important to you.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 13 years old, or the minimum age of digital consent in your country, whichever is higher, to use the App. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the App only with the involvement of a parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms.
3. Your licence to use the App
We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the App on devices you own or control, for your own personal, non-commercial use, in accordance with these Terms and Google Play's terms.
You may not:
- copy, sell, rent, sublicense, distribute or commercially exploit the App or any part of it;
- reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the App, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits it despite this restriction;
- remove, obscure or alter any proprietary notice in the App;
- use the App to build a competing product, or to extract its assets, designs or resources;
- interfere with the App's operation, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to any system related to it;
- use automated means to interact with the App at scale.
We reserve all rights not expressly granted here.
4. How you may and may not use the App
The App records messages sent to you. You are responsible for how you use what it records.
You agree that you will not use the App:
- to monitor, intercept, surveil or record the communications of another person without their knowledge and consent, including a partner, a family member, an employee or a child, except where you have a clear legal right to do so;
- on a device that does not belong to you or that you are not authorised to configure;
- to store, share or publish content in a way that breaks any law that applies to you, including data protection, privacy, wiretapping, harassment, defamation, obscenity and intellectual property law;
- to redistribute another person's private messages, photographs, videos or statuses without their permission.
Laws about recording and retaining other people's communications differ widely between countries, and in some places they are strict. It is your responsibility to know and follow the law where you live and where the other party lives. If your intended use would break such a law, you must not use the App.
We may not be able to detect misuse, since the App holds no data on our side. That does not make misuse acceptable, and you indemnify us for it under Section 11.
5. Permissions you grant on your device
The App will ask you to enable notification access, and to grant access to a media folder, so that it can function. These are grants you make to the App through Android's own system screens, not to us — the data they unlock stays on your device.
You may withdraw any of them at any time in system Settings. Doing so does not breach these Terms; the App will simply stop performing the part that depended on it, and will tell you so.
Full detail is in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.
6. Your data, and your responsibility for it
Everything the App captures is stored only on your device. We never receive it, and we have no ability to see, retrieve, restore or delete it for you.
The practical consequences are yours to manage:
- We hold no backup. If you uninstall the App, clear its data, factory reset, lose or damage your device, everything the App stored is gone permanently.
- Android's cloud backup is deliberately disabled for the App, so it will not be restored onto a new phone.
- If a recovered file matters to you, save it out to your gallery or to your own storage.
You are solely responsible for keeping your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose.
7. Files saved outside the App
When you save or restore a file, the App writes a copy into your device's public storage so other apps can see it. When you share or repost a file, Android hands it to the app you choose.
Once a file leaves the App, it is outside our control and outside these Terms; the receiving app's own terms apply.
8. Third-party apps and services
The App works alongside messaging apps such as WhatsApp and others, and is distributed through Google Play.
We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or connected to WhatsApp, Meta, Telegram, Instagram, Signal, Google, or any other messaging service or platform. All names and trademarks belong to their respective owners and are used only to describe compatibility.
Those apps and platforms may change their behaviour, file locations, notification formats or policies at any time, without notice to us. Such a change may reduce or break the App's ability to capture messages or media. We will try to adapt, but we do not guarantee continued compatibility with any third-party app.
Any web link in the App that leads to a third-party site is provided for convenience. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content or practices.
9. Availability, updates and changes
We may update, change, suspend or discontinue the App or any of its features at any time, including to fix bugs, comply with a platform policy or adapt to a change in Android. Some updates may be required for the App to keep working.
We are not obliged to provide any particular feature, or to maintain the App indefinitely.
Features described in marketing material, screenshots or the store listing may change between versions.
10. Disclaimer of warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, accuracy and non-infringement.
We do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure; that it will capture any particular message or file; that any deleted item will be recoverable; that its deletion detection will be accurate; or that it will remain compatible with any messaging app, device or Android version.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms limits any consumer right you have that cannot be waived by law.
11. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, loss of messages, loss of media, loss of profits, loss of goodwill or business interruption, arising out of or connected with your use of, or inability to use, the App — including a message or file that the App failed to capture, failed to keep or failed to flag as deleted — even if we were advised of the possibility.
Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the App or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you actually paid us for the App in the twelve months before the claim, or (b) five United States dollars (USD 5.00).
12. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Appify Store, its owners and its personnel from any claim, demand, loss, liability or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your use of the App, your breach of these Terms, your breach of Section 4, or your violation of any law or of any third party's rights.
13. Pricing and purchases
The App is currently offered free of charge and contains no in-app purchases.
If paid features are introduced in a future version, their price and terms will be presented to you before purchase, and any purchase will be processed by Google Play under Google's terms — refunds are handled according to Google Play's refund policy, not by us directly.
14. Termination
You may end these Terms at any time by uninstalling the App.
We may suspend or terminate your licence to use the App if you materially breach these Terms, in particular Section 4. Sections 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15 and 16 survive termination.
15. Changes to these Terms
We may revise these Terms as the App changes. The revised version will be posted at this URL with a new "Last updated" date, and where the change is significant we will highlight it in the App or in the store listing.
Continuing to use the App after a revision takes effect means you accept it. If you do not accept it, uninstall the App.
16. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and the courts of Pakistan will have jurisdiction over any dispute.
This does not deprive you of the protection of any mandatory consumer law of the country in which you live, or of the right to bring a claim in your local courts where that law gives you one.
Before starting any formal proceeding, please contact us at [email protected] . Most issues can be resolved that way.
17. General
Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the App, and replace any earlier understanding.
Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in force.
No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.
Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.
Language. These Terms are written in English. If they are translated and the versions conflict, the English version prevails.