1. Agreement to These Terms
These Terms of Service are a legal agreement between you and Little Keeps for your use of Sleepy Notes. Little Keeps is the trading name of Ankita Ahuja, a sole proprietor based in India. By creating an account or using Sleepy Notes, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. When you sign in with a current version of the app, we record the version of these terms you agreed to and when.
If you do not agree, do not use Sleepy Notes.
2. Parent or Guardian Use Only
Sleepy Notes is intended for use by adults who are parents or legal guardians. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account. You are responsible for any child profile you create and for ensuring that your use of the app is lawful.
3. Account Responsibilities
You are responsible for keeping your account secure and for all activity that occurs through your account. You agree to provide accurate information and to update it when needed. You must not share your account in a way that allows misuse of the app or another person's voice or content.
4. Voice Recording Rules
Sleepy Notes may allow you to record your own voice to personalise private audio for your family. You may record only your own voice unless you have explicit written consent from the speaker and the legal right to use that recording.
The voice feature is for adults recording themselves. You must not record a child's voice, and you must not use the feature to create a voice profile from a child's voice. This is not a rule you can consent your way around: a child cannot give the written consent described above, and we do not offer child voice profiles at all.
You must not use the voice feature to:
- record a child's voice, or create a voice profile from one;
- record, imitate, or impersonate a person without permission;
- create celebrity, public figure, or third-party impersonations;
- create deceptive, defamatory, illegal, abusive, or harmful content;
- mislead others about who is speaking;
- violate any law, contract, platform rule, or third-party right.
Misuse of the voice feature may result in removal of content, deletion of voice profiles, suspension, termination, and possible legal responsibility.
5. Generated Audio and Private Use
Generated audio in Sleepy Notes is for private, personal, non-commercial family listening inside the app. You must not sell, license, publicly post, broadcast, distribute, or commercially exploit generated audio unless Little Keeps gives you written permission.
You are responsible for making sure your use of generated audio is lawful in your location and does not infringe anyone else's rights.
6. Your Content
You may submit child profile details, custom notes, stories, messages, preferences, and voice recordings. You keep ownership of content you submit. You grant Little Keeps a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, process, transmit, store and generate audio from that content, and to pass it to the providers named in Section 8 or in our Privacy Policy for those purposes, for as long as that is needed to provide Sleepy Notes to you. Those providers handle it under their own terms, as described in Section 8 and our Privacy Policy. The licence ends when you delete the content, except for what a provider keeps as described there.
We do not read or review stories you write yourself before they are spoken. You are responsible for what they say.
You represent that you own or have the necessary rights and permissions for any content you submit. You must not submit copyrighted, private, illegal, harmful, or infringing content that you do not have the right to use.
7. Comfort and Entertainment Only
Sleepy Notes provides comforting audio, notes, stories, and related app experiences. It is not medical, therapeutic, educational, legal, parenting, safety, or emergency advice. Do not rely on Sleepy Notes for diagnosis, treatment, child safety, supervision, crisis support, or professional advice.
8. AI and Third-Party Providers
The narration in Sleepy Notes is generated by AI. Two things follow from that, and we would rather say them plainly than leave you to work them out:
- Our preset narrators are AI voices. They have names and personalities so they are easy to tell apart, but they are not recordings of real people.
- Stories narrated in your own voice are synthetic speech generated from the sample you recorded. They are made to sound like you, and they are not recordings of you reading those stories. You never read them.
Story text is not generated while your child listens. Every story in our library is fixed text, written and reviewed before we publish it. A story you write yourself is spoken exactly as you wrote it.
Sleepy Notes may use AI and third-party providers, including Cartesia for voice and text-to-speech processing, Supabase for app infrastructure, Google Cloud Run for backend processing, PostHog for analytics and diagnostics, Apple and RevenueCat for purchases and entitlements, Expo/EAS for app build and update infrastructure, and Cloudflare for hosting our legal and support pages.
You agree that these providers may process data as needed to provide Sleepy Notes, as described in our Privacy Policy.
Cartesia's own terms allow them to use content sent to their service, including voice recordings and generated audio, to train and improve their AI models, and grant them a broad licence over that content. We have switched model training off for our Cartesia organisation, which by Cartesia's description covers text-to-speech generations and speech-to-text transcriptions. Cartesia excludes voice cloning from that setting and from their no-retention option, and states that cloning requires retaining the uploaded audio sample or a voice model derived from it. An opt-out also does not apply to content sent before it took effect. If you are not comfortable with this, do not record your voice; preset voices involve no recording of you. See Section 7 of our Privacy Policy.
9. Purchases and Story Credits
Much of Sleepy Notes is free. Without paying anything you can browse the whole story library, listen to any story narrated by one of our preset narrators, create a child profile, and record your own voice once. Nothing in the library is locked behind a purchase.
What costs money is generating a story in your own recorded voice. That runs on a paid voice service, so it is paid for with story credits.
Sleepy Notes does not offer an auto-renewing subscription. Instead, premium access is sold through one-time in-app purchases:
- Starter Pack — a one-time purchase that grants a bundle of story credits and unlocks premium features (a second child profile, a second recorded voice, dual narration, personalised story text, pronunciation names, and writing your own stories). The premium unlock does not expire and does not need to be repurchased; it lasts for as long as Sleepy Notes is offered (see Section 11).
- Recharge Pack — a one-time purchase of additional story credits only, available once you have purchased a Starter Pack.
- Add another voice — a one-time purchase that adds one more recorded voice to your account, beyond the two the Starter Pack allows — for a grandparent, or anyone else your child loves. You can buy more than one, up to a maximum of six recorded voices in total, and it is available once you have purchased a Starter Pack. Each additional person records their own voice and accepts the consent notice themselves, exactly as the first voice did. A slot is capacity rather than a single recording: if you delete a voice, the slot it occupied can be used to record someone else.
Story credits are consumed when you generate a story, based on the length of the story text. After premium is unlocked, a pronunciation or voice preview also uses credits, based on the length of the text previewed. Story credits do not expire and are not tied to a billing period. Current pricing, including any applicable taxes, is shown by Apple before you confirm a purchase.
All purchases are processed by Apple through its in-app purchase system, using RevenueCat to manage entitlements. We do not receive or store your full payment details.
Your story credits and your premium unlock are attached to your Sleepy Notes account, not to a particular device, so signing back in on a new device gives you both again. If anything looks missing after reinstalling or switching devices, use "Restore purchases" in Settings — that re-checks your purchase history with our payments provider and repairs your balance and unlock.
Because story credits are consumable digital items, credits you have already used to make a story cannot be returned for a refund simply because you changed your mind. Apple processes every payment and every refund for purchases made in the app, so a refund is requested from Apple under its refund process; contact us as well, and we will help. Credits are only taken when a story, or a voice preview, is made successfully; if making it fails, the credits set aside for it are released. If a story was made but did not reach your phone, trying again shortly afterwards remakes it at no charge, and if that does not work, contact us. None of this limits the rights you have under consumer law, described in Section 14A. If Apple refunds a purchase, we take back what it granted: up to the number of story credits it added, from your remaining balance (never below zero); for a Starter Pack, the premium unlock; and for an extra voice purchase, that voice slot. When you ask Apple for a refund, Apple may ask us how the purchase was used, such as whether its credits were spent, and we may tell it (see Section 3 of our Privacy Policy).
10. Acceptable Use
You agree not to:
- use Sleepy Notes for unlawful, harmful, abusive, or deceptive purposes;
- attempt to bypass usage limits, consent flows, security controls, or purchase/ entitlement checks;
- reverse engineer, scrape, overload, or disrupt the app or backend services;
- upload malware or content that violates another person's rights;
- use Sleepy Notes to create or distribute misleading voice or audio content.
11. Account Deletion and Termination
You may delete your account from the app settings. We may suspend or close your account if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, if we reasonably suspect fraud or misuse of someone's voice, or if the law requires us to. Unless the law, or a risk of harm to someone, prevents it, we will tell you why and give you a chance to respond first. Your rights in Section 14A always apply; in particular, if we close your account for a reason other than your breach of these terms, they cover anything you paid for and can no longer use.
To protect the service from abuse, requests to delete a voice or your account may be subject to a short cooldown, and account deletion requests are additionally subject to a daily limit. This does not affect your underlying right to delete your data, only how quickly repeated automated requests can be made.
If we stop offering Sleepy Notes. We will give at least 30 days' notice in the app or on our website before the service closes. Stories already saved on your device keep playing from it for as long as the app stays installed and you remain signed in on that device. Where you have paid for something you can no longer use because the service has closed, your consumer-law rights in Section 14A apply.
12. Intellectual Property
Sleepy Notes, including its app design, templates, software, branding, and original content, is owned by Little Keeps or its licensors. These terms do not transfer any ownership rights to you except for the limited permission to use the app as allowed by these terms.
If you believe something in Sleepy Notes infringes your copyright or other rights, email hello@littlekeeps.in with "IP" in the subject line, saying what the work is and where it appears in the app. We will look into it and remove anything that infringes.
13. Disclaimers
Subject to Section 14A, Sleepy Notes is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We do not promise that the app will always be available, error-free, uninterrupted, or that generated content will be accurate, suitable, or meet every expectation.
14. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Little Keeps will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of data, profits, goodwill, or business opportunity arising from your use of Sleepy Notes.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for all claims relating to Sleepy Notes is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid for Sleepy Notes purchases in the 12 months before the claim arose, and (b) US$50 (or ₹4,000 if you live in India).
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that the law does not allow to be excluded or limited, and this section is subject to Section 14A.
14A. Your Consumer Rights
Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have as a consumer that the law of the country you live in does not allow to be removed. Where these terms conflict with those rights, those rights win. In particular:
- Australia. Our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. For major failures with the service, you are entitled to cancel your service contract with us, and to a refund for the unused portion or to compensation for its reduced value. You are also entitled to be compensated for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. If a failure does not amount to a major failure, you are entitled to have problems with the service rectified in a reasonable time and, if this is not done, to cancel your contract and obtain a refund for the unused portion of the contract.
- New Zealand. Nothing in these terms limits your rights under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 or the Fair Trading Act 1986.
- India. Nothing in these terms limits your rights under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, including your right to approach a Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.
- Singapore. Nothing in these terms limits your rights under the Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act 2003.
- United States. Some states do not allow certain disclaimers or limits on liability, so some of Sections 13 and 14 may not apply to you.
14B. Misuse of Someone Else's Voice
If you record or use another person's voice without their consent, or otherwise use the voice feature unlawfully, and that person or anyone else brings a claim against Little Keeps because of it, you are responsible for the loss that your misuse causes us, to the extent the law of your country allows.
15. Changes to These Terms
We may update these terms from time to time. Before a material change takes effect, we will give at least 30 days' notice in the app, saying what is changing, unless the law requires the change sooner, it is needed to stop misuse, or it is a change of service provider needed to keep Sleepy Notes running, which we will tell you about as soon as we can. If you accept updated terms in the app, they apply from when you accept them. A change does not reduce the story credits you already hold, and does not undo a purchase you have already made. If you do not agree to a change, you can stop using Sleepy Notes and delete your account before it takes effect; if you keep using it after that, the updated terms apply.
16. Language
Sleepy Notes is available in English only. The app's screens, its stories, its narration and its support are all in English, and there are currently no other language versions. Please take that into account before purchasing.
These Terms, our Privacy Policy and our support pages are written in English. If any translation is provided, it is for convenience only, and the English version governs if the two differ.
17. Governing Law
These terms are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict of law rules. If you use Sleepy Notes as a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country you live in, and you may bring a claim in the courts or consumer bodies of that country where its law allows you to.
18. General Terms
Severability. If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, that part will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary, and the rest of these terms will remain in full effect.
No waiver. If we do not enforce a part of these terms on any occasion, that is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.
Entire agreement. These terms, together with our Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Little Keeps about Sleepy Notes, and replace any earlier agreement or understanding about it.
Assignment. You may not transfer or assign these terms or your account without our written consent. We may assign these terms to a successor as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, and your rights under these terms will carry across.
Events outside our control. We are not responsible for any failure or delay in providing Sleepy Notes caused by something outside our reasonable control, including network or hosting outages, failures of the third-party providers named in Section 8, changes in app store policy, natural events, or acts of government.
Terms that survive. Sections covering generated audio and private use, your content, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, your consumer rights (14A), misuse of someone else's voice (14B), governing law and contact continue to apply after your account is closed or these terms end.
App stores. Sleepy Notes is currently distributed through the Apple App Store, and your use of it is also subject to Apple's own terms. We have not supplied our own end user licence agreement, so the licence for the app is Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement, and these Terms are additional to it. Where the two cannot both apply, that licence governs the licence to use the app and these Terms govern everything else described here. Apple is not responsible for Sleepy Notes or for supporting it.
19. Contact
For questions about these terms, contact Little Keeps at hello@littlekeeps.in. Complaints are handled by our Grievance Officer, Ankita Ahuja, at the same address; put "Grievance" in the subject line. We acknowledge a complaint within 48 hours and aim to resolve it within 15 days.