Terms and conditions

The terms for using Yawnalot

Last updated 14 November 2026

Who we are, and what these terms cover

Yawnalot is an iPhone app and this website, made by Ganna Dzyuba Glushchenko, an individual in Spain ("we", "us"). These terms apply when you use either. By using them, you agree to these terms.

Apple's standard licence for apps, the Licensed Application End User License Agreement, also applies. If it and these terms differ, these terms apply. Nothing in either limits our responsibility for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or your rights as a consumer. Our privacy policy explains how data is handled.

Not medical advice, and not a monitor

Yawnalot records what you log, compares your child's own days and nights, and explains published guidance and research from bodies such as the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the AAP, the CDC and the NHS, linking each source so you can read it yourself. It is general information for parents and carers, not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment, and it doesn't replace your pediatrician, doctor or health visitor.

• Every child is different. The official ranges describe many children, not yours, and a child above or below them isn't necessarily a concern. If you're worried about your child's sleep, breathing or health, talk to your doctor or health visitor.
• Yawnalot is not a baby monitor. It doesn't watch, hear or measure your child. It knows only what you tap, and it can't alert you to anything.
• Safe sleep: Yawnalot gives no safe-sleep advice of its own. For a baby under 12 months it links your country's official safe-sleep page; follow that guidance and your health professionals.
• In an emergency, call your local emergency number straight away.

What Yawnalot is, and isn't

Yawnalot is a diary of your child's sleep, the patterns in your own logs, and general information about children's sleep taken from official public-health guidance and published studies. It isn't a medical device. It doesn't diagnose, assess, treat or monitor any condition, and it doesn't decide anything about your child's care.

• Nap windows are worked out from your child's own recent naps. They're a suggestion based on your logs, not a rule or a recommendation, and they're only as good as what was logged.
• Patterns and "Try a change" compare nights in plain counts. A pattern isn't proof: other things change too, and Yawnalot never says that one thing caused another or tells you what to do.
• The report for your doctor shows only what you logged, with no assessment.

Yawny and the bedtime friends are illustrations made for Yawnalot. The screens on this website show sample nights, not a real family.

Who can use it

Yawnalot is for adults, aged 18 or over: parents, carers and anyone who looks after a child. It isn't meant to be used by children; the picture cards are shown to a child by a parent holding the phone.

Early access

The app is free during early access, including the features labelled "Plus". We may change, add or remove features as we learn what helps. "Reserve the founding price" isn't a purchase and costs nothing; it tells us you'd like that price when subscriptions start. We'll tell you in the app before anything becomes paid.

Subscriptions

When subscriptions start, they'll be sold through Apple's App Store, and Apple's terms for purchases apply:

• The price and period are shown before you buy, and Apple charges your Apple account.
• A subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple account's subscription settings.
• If a free trial is offered, you're charged when it ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before.
• Apple handles billing, cancelling and refunds. Apple takes the payment, so we can't issue refunds ourselves: ask Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com. If you write to us about a refund, we'll point you there.
• Price protection. If we raise the price of Plus, your subscription keeps renewing at the regular price you were last charged for as long as it stays active (and for 60 days after it lapses, if you come back). A founding first-year price applies to the first year only. Prices in your currency can still change when Apple adjusts them for taxes.
• In the United Kingdom, you can cancel within 14 days of starting, of the first payment after a free trial, and of each yearly renewal, and get back any unused part: ask Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.
• In British Columbia, if you cancel a monthly subscription after it renews, you won't be charged for that month: ask Apple for a refund at reportaproblem.apple.com, and if Apple declines, write to us.

Logging, every night in history, sharing, the routine, Learn and the spreadsheet export are free, and always will be. Nothing you logged is ever locked behind a subscription.

Your information

What you log is yours. It's kept on your phone and, if you're signed into iCloud, in your own iCloud, shared only with the people you invite. We hold no copy, so we can't recover it for you: if you turn iCloud off for the app, keep your iPhone backed up. Whoever you invite to a child can see that child's log, and change it if you allow it; you can remove them at any time. You can export everything as a spreadsheet at any time, free.

Our content

The app, this website, their text, pictures and characters (including Yawny and the bedtime friends) belong to us or the people who licensed them to us. The guidance and studies we cite belong to their publishers. You may use Yawnalot for your own family; please don't copy, scrape, resell or republish its content without asking us first. Sharing a Learn deck or your week's picture with friends, as the app lets you, is welcome.

Using it fairly

Please don't misuse the app or website: no attempts to break, overload or get around their protections, and no reverse engineering except where the law allows it.

If things change

We work hard to keep the guidance and studies accurate, current and linked to their sources, and we correct mistakes as soon as we find them. We may update, pause or stop the app or website. If we ever stop a paid feature, we'll tell subscribers in advance.

Responsibility

Nothing in these terms limits any rights you have by law as a consumer, or our responsibility for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn't let us limit. Within those limits, we're responsible for losses that were a foreseeable result of us breaking these terms, and not for losses that weren't foreseeable.

If you're in Australia, our services come with guarantees that can't be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law, and nothing in these terms limits them.

The law that applies

These terms are governed by Spanish law. If you're a consumer, you also keep the protections of the law where you live, which these terms can't take away, and you can bring a claim in the courts where you live.

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms, we'll update this page and its date. If a change matters, for example around paying, the app will tell you before it applies.

For subscriptions, we will never change your price, your billing period, or how cancelling and refunds work for your current subscription without your agreement. We may update the rest of these terms, for example to describe new features. If a change affects subscribers, we'll tell you in the app and, if we have your email, by email, at least 30 days before it applies, and you can cancel.

Contact

Questions about these terms: privacy@yawnalot.com.