Effective August 25, 2026 · Applies to the Poster iOS app and poster.fyi
These are the rules for using Poster. Using the app means you agree to them. They're short, because the app is small and new — and if anything here doesn't match what the app actually does, tell us and we'll fix the page rather than hold you to it.
You photograph event posters in the real world. The app reads the details off the photo on your phone — title, date and time, venue, price, category. When you tap Publish, the processed photo and those details are uploaded and become a public event other people nearby can find. Publishing is publishing; that's the whole point of the app, and it's the part to be deliberate about.
Poster is a TestFlight beta and it's free. It's also unfinished. Features appear, change and disappear, things break, and data can be lost while we're still moving it around. We provide the app as it is, with no warranties of any kind, and we can change it, pause it or stop it at any time. Don't build anything you can't afford to lose on top of it.
You need to be at least 13, and old enough where you live to agree to terms like these — if you're under 18, that means with a parent or guardian's permission. The app comes to you through Apple's TestFlight, so Apple's terms cover getting it; these cover using it.
You can browse without one. The first time you write something, the app creates an anonymous account for you, and publishing asks you for a display name. After your fourth published event — and before your first comment — you'll be asked to verify a phone number by SMS. That's there so one person can't be a hundred people. Keep the number and the phone to yourself: what happens under your account is treated as yours.
You keep ownership of photos you capture. By publishing, you give Poster permission to display them to other users. To have content removed, report it or contact us. That's the whole licence — the same words the app shows you. We don't sell your photos, license them to anyone else, or use them to train AI models.
What a public app does with a public photo, though, it does: your poster and its details are visible to anyone using Poster, next to your display name, and anyone can share the event as a card — the poster picture with the event facts on it — into Messages, WhatsApp or an Instagram story. Don't publish a photo you wouldn't want travelling.
Photos of event posters and flyers you've seen — shows, markets, races, meetups, anything with a date and a place. Accurate details help everyone. Post photos you took yourself; the ownership above only works if the photo was yours to give.
No nudity or sexual content, no violence or threats, no harassment or hate, no spam or scams, no illegal activity, and nothing that isn't actually an event. Don't post other people's personal information. Don't attack the service either — no scraping, no automated access, no poking at things that aren't yours.
Anyone can report an event from its page. Events reported by multiple people are hidden automatically pending review. You can also block a person to stop seeing everything they post. Accounts that repeatedly break these rules lose access. We can remove anything and suspend anyone; during the beta that's a human decision, usually made by the same person who wrote this page.
Every event in Poster was photographed off a wall by someone who isn't us. We didn't organise it, we're not selling tickets, and we don't verify that it's real. The details were read off a photograph by software and can be wrong — the wrong year, the wrong door, a date that has already passed. Events also move and get cancelled after the poster goes up, and the wall never finds out. Check with the organiser before you travel. Anything you do with an event listing — buying a ticket, crossing town, showing up — is between you and whoever put it on.
Optional, and off until you turn it on. When it's on, events you save are written to a calendar of Poster's own — a separate calendar named Poster, not your personal one — and removed from it when you un-save them. Nothing else on your calendar is touched.
You can disconnect Google in Settings at any time, which deletes the tokens from your phone. Entries already written stay where they are — they're on your calendar, not ours. To withdraw the permission on Google's side as well, use the permissions page of your Google Account. Poster's use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.
What we collect, what's public, and what never leaves your phone is the privacy policy's job, and it has the details. This page doesn't restate them.
Not much, and we'd rather say so plainly than in capital letters. The app is free, unfinished and provided as-is, so to the fullest extent the law allows, Poster isn't liable for what you lose by using it — a wasted trip, a missed or cancelled event, data that didn't survive a beta, anything another user posted. Where liability can't be excluded where you live, it's limited to what you've paid us, which during the beta is nothing. Nothing here removes rights your local consumer law gives you that can't be signed away.
You can stop using Poster whenever you like. Email us and we'll delete your account and everything tied to it, published events included. We can suspend or end your access if you break these rules, or if we stop running the service.
If these terms change in a way that matters, we'll say so in the app before the change applies. This page always has the current version. Carrying on using Poster after that means you're fine with it.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, and any dispute belongs to the state or federal courts in San Francisco. The beta is a San Francisco thing; if that ever stops being true, this will change.