Terms of Service
Effective 16 August 2026 · Last updated 16 August 2026
The short version
Ruff Night is a small app for seeing how your friends slept. It is not a medical device and its score is not a diagnosis. Be decent to the people you add. Treats are a game currency with no cash value, and Apple handles refunds. You can delete your account whenever you like, and so can we if someone is being harmful.
The rest of this page says the same things properly. By using Ruff Night you agree to it.
1. What Ruff Night is
Ruff Night reads your sleep from Apple Health, turns it into a score out of 100, and shows that score to friends you have chosen — each of you represented by a dog whose mood follows the number. You can send a friend one "Bork" a day, earn and spend treats on cosmetics, and buy treat packs if you want to.
It is provided by an independent developer, not a company with a support department. You can reach a real person at privacy@ruffnight.app.
2. What Ruff Night is not
It is not a medical device, and nothing in it is medical advice. The score is arithmetic performed on sleep measurements your watch or ring made — it is not a diagnosis, it does not detect sleep apnea or any other condition, and a good score is not evidence that nothing is wrong.
Do not use it to make a health decision. If you are worried about your sleep, or someone else's, talk to a doctor. If someone is in danger, contact emergency services — a missing score in this app means nothing more than that a phone did not sync.
It is not a monitoring or safety service. Notifications depend on your tracker syncing, your phone having a network, Apple delivering the push, and the app not having been force-quit. Any of those can fail silently. Never treat the absence of a notification as information about how someone is.
The score is our own approximation. It is modelled to track Apple Health's sleep score for Apple Watch users, and it is calibrated but not identical. Users of other trackers, including Oura, will see a number that differs from what their own app shows, because those companies do not publish their scores. How ours is computed is explained inside the app under Settings → How sleep score works.
3. Your account
You need an Apple ID and iOS to use Ruff Night, and you sign in with Apple. You must be at least 13 years old. You are responsible for what happens under your account, and for keeping access to the Apple ID it is tied to.
Use a display name you are comfortable with other people seeing — the friends you add will see it, and it appears in the notifications they receive.
4. Friends, codes, and Borks
Friendships are mutual: if you are connected, you each see the other's sleep. Nobody becomes your friend without accepting a request, and requests can only be made using your 6-character friend code — so sharing that code is how you consent to someone seeing your nights. Treat it accordingly.
Either person can remove the friendship at any time, which stops visibility in both directions immediately. Borks are limited to one per friendship per day, and can be turned off entirely in Settings → Alerts.
Please don't use Ruff Night to harass, pressure, or monitor somebody who does not want to be monitored, and don't add someone who has not given you their code themselves. If someone is using the app to bother you, remove them and tell us.
5. Treats and purchases
Treats are a cosmetic in-game currency. They have no monetary value, are not your property, cannot be transferred between accounts, and cannot be cashed out or exchanged for anything outside the app. Earning rates and prices can change.
Purchases go through Apple. Treat packs are consumable In-App Purchases: Apple takes the payment, and Apple's terms and refund process govern it. We cannot issue refunds ourselves — request one through reportaproblem.apple.com. If a purchase is taken and the treats do not arrive, write to us and we will credit them.
Purchased treats live with your account. If you delete your account, any remaining balance and everything it bought goes with it and cannot be restored. That is worth knowing before you delete rather than after.
Consumable purchases are used immediately on credit, so where you have a statutory right to cancel a digital purchase, it is exhausted at that point.
6. Acceptable use
Don't do these, which is the whole list:
- Impersonate someone else, or set up an account to watch a person who has not agreed to it.
- Harass anyone, including through Borks or by repeatedly re-adding someone who removed you.
- Attempt to reach data belonging to accounts that are not friends of yours, or to get around the limits the server enforces.
- Fabricate sleep data or purchases, or interfere with how treats are credited.
- Automate, scrape, decompile, or resell the service.
7. Availability
Ruff Night is provided as is, with no guarantee that it will be available, accurate, or working at any given moment. It depends on Apple Health, Apple's push service, your tracker manufacturer, and a hosted database — none of which we control. Features may change or be removed, and there is no uptime commitment.
We will give reasonable notice inside the app before shutting the service down or removing something you paid for, and if the service ends we will say so here.
8. Your content
Your sleep data and your display name remain yours. You grant us only what is needed to run the service: permission to store your data, compute a score from it, and show that score to the friends you chose. We claim nothing else, and we do not use your data to train anything or to sell to anybody. See the privacy policy for what is stored and for how long.
The app's artwork, name, and code are ours and are not licensed to you beyond using the app normally.
9. Ending it
You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Delete account. It takes effect immediately and removes everything described in the privacy policy.
We can suspend or remove an account that is harming other users or breaking these terms. Where it is not a case of someone being hurt, we will contact you first.
10. Liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from your use of Ruff Night, or for anything that follows from a notification not arriving, a score being wrong, or data being unavailable. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the greater of the amount you have paid us in the past twelve months or twenty US dollars.
Nothing here excludes liability for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded — and if you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected by anything on this page.
11. Changes to these terms
If these terms change, the date at the top changes with them, and material changes will be flagged here. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept it; if you do not, delete your account.
12. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, and the courts there have jurisdiction — except where the law of your own country of residence gives you the right to bring a claim locally, which it may.
13. Contact
privacy@ruffnight.app — for anything at all, including the things a bigger app would route to a support desk.