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Terms of Service

Last updated: November 8, 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and 9punk.dev (9punk LLC), "we" or "us", for your use of the StashSMS Android app and this website.

The short version

StashSMS is a texting app. You're responsible for the messages you send and any carrier charges.
Stash hides conversations inside StashSMS only. It is a privacy convenience, not a security guarantee. Other apps and backups can still show stashed messages.
If you forget your PIN, we cannot recover it.
GIFs come from KLIPY, a third party we don't control.
The app is provided "as is". Texas law governs these terms, but your local consumer-protection laws may still apply.

1.Acceptance

By installing or using StashSMS, or by using this website, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, don't use the app or the site.

2.Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old, and old enough to form a binding contract where you live, or have a parent or guardian's consent to these terms. You must also follow the terms of your mobile carrier and service plan.

3.Description of the service

StashSMS is an Android app for standard carrier SMS and MMS messaging. To work, it must be set as your phone's default SMS app. Its features include the Stash feature, themes, scheduled messages and GIF search through KLIPY. We don't run servers that carry your messages: texts travel through your carrier like any other SMS or MMS.

To provide these features the app uses the Android permissions listed in our Privacy Policy: SMS (send, receive, read), MMS, contacts (read, and write only when you choose to save or edit a contact), phone state, making calls (only when you tap the call button), notifications, running at startup (to restore scheduled messages and MMS retries after a reboot) and internet (for GIFs only). Photos and files are attached through Android's pickers with no storage permission. Scheduled messages use inexact alarms, so no exact-alarm permission is needed.

4.License

We give you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use StashSMS on Android devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial use. You may not:

copy, modify, decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble the app, except where the law expressly allows it despite this restriction;
sell, rent, lease, sublicense or redistribute the app;
remove or alter any notices, branding or attributions, including the KLIPY attribution;
use the app to build a competing product, or in any way that breaks these terms or the law.

5.Your responsibilities

You are responsible for the messages you send, including their content and recipients.
Your carrier may charge for SMS, MMS and data. Those charges are yours.
You must follow all laws that apply to your messages, including anti-spam and telemarketing laws such as the U.S. Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Don't use StashSMS for bulk or unsolicited messages.
Don't send content that is unlawful, harassing, threatening, defamatory, infringing or otherwise harmful.
Keep your PIN and recovery code safe, and keep your phone secure.

6.The Stash feature

Stash is a convenience and privacy feature, not a security guarantee. It hides the conversations you choose inside StashSMS behind a PIN.

If you forget your PIN, we cannot recover it. Your PIN is stored only on your device and never sent to us. The app offers a recovery code during setup. If you lose both the PIN and the recovery code, the Stashed inbox cannot be opened. Resetting Stash permanently deletes the stashed messages from your phone, and that cannot be undone.

7.Third-party content

GIFs and other media in the GIF picker are provided by KLIPY. They are third-party content: we don't create, control or endorse them, and we aren't responsible for them. KLIPY's own terms and privacy policy apply to your use of its service. Content filtering is applied, but some results may still be inappropriate for some people.

8.Intellectual property

StashSMS, its logo, the app and this website, including their design, text and code, belong to 9punk LLC and are protected by law. These terms don't give you any right to use our names, logos or trademarks.

Android and Google Play are trademarks of Google LLC. KLIPY is a trademark of its owner. Other names and marks belong to their respective owners.

9.Google Play

If you get StashSMS from Google Play, the Google Play Terms of Service also apply. If they conflict with these terms on how you obtain or pay for the app, Google's terms apply. Google is not responsible for the app or for supporting it.

10.Updates and changes to the service

We may update StashSMS to add, change or remove features, fix problems or meet legal and platform requirements. Some updates may be needed to keep using the app. We may also stop offering the app or any feature at any time.

11.Termination

You can stop using StashSMS at any time by uninstalling it. Uninstalling removes the app's data (PIN, stash list, settings) but not your messages, which stay in your phone's shared SMS/MMS storage. We may end your license if you break these terms. Sections 6 to 8 and 12 to 16 continue to apply after termination.

12.Disclaimers

To the extent the law allows, StashSMS and this website are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that messages will always be sent, delivered, received or scheduled on time. Message delivery depends on your carrier, your device and your network. We make no guarantee that stashed messages are hidden from anything other than the StashSMS inbox.

13.Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, 9punk LLC and its owners will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, messages, privacy, profits or goodwill, arising from your use of StashSMS or this website. That includes messages being seen in other apps, backups, devices or by other people.

Our total liability for any claim relating to the app or these terms is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for StashSMS in the 12 months before the claim, or US $50.

Some places don't allow these limits, so some of them may not apply to you.

14.Indemnification

To the extent the law allows, you agree to defend and indemnify 9punk LLC against claims, damages and costs, including reasonable legal fees, that come from the messages you send, your misuse of StashSMS or your breach of these terms or the law.

15.Governing law and venue

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Hidalgo County, Texas, and you and we consent to their jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, this does not take away any protection given to you by the consumer-protection laws of the place where you live.

16.General terms

Severability

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect, and that part will be enforced to the greatest extent allowed.

Entire agreement

These terms and our Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about StashSMS, and they replace any earlier agreement on the subject.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We'll change the "Last updated" date on this page and, for material changes, note the change in the app or on this site. If you keep using StashSMS after a change takes effect, you accept the updated terms.

17.Contact

Questions about these terms:

contact@9punk.dev
9punk.dev (9punk LLC)