Terms of use

Agreement

These terms are an agreement between you and Nicholas Horton, an individual based in the State of Maryland, United States, operating Cask & Note in his personal capacity ("we", "us"). By creating an account or using the app, you accept them.

You must be at least 18 years old and of legal drinking age where you live to use Cask & Note. Where the drinking age is higher than 18, that higher age is the one that applies to you.

Drinking responsibly

Cask & Note is a journal. It is for writing down what you drank and what you thought of it, not for drinking more of it. Nothing in the app (not the achievements, not the streaks, not Stillman) is designed to push you toward another pour, and we will not add anything that does.

Drink responsibly, never drive after drinking, and if you are worried about your drinking, talk to a doctor rather than an app. Stillman is not qualified to help with that and will say so.

Your account

Keep your credentials to yourself; you are responsible for what happens on your account. Give us accurate information, and email [email protected] if you think your account has been compromised.

Your content

The pours, notes, photos, Bunker and hunt list you add remain yours. You grant us the limited right to store and process them only to run the app for you: storing your photos, syncing your journal to your other device, and sending journal context to Stillman when you ask it a question.

Do not upload anything unlawful or anything you do not have the right to use.

Exporting your data to CSV comes with the unlock. You can always email [email protected] to get a copy of your data for free.

Stillman, the AI guide

Stillman's answers are generated by an AI model. They are suggestions, not expert advice, and they can be confidently wrong about proofs, mash bills, release years, availability and anything else. Check anything that matters.

Stillman will not give medical advice and will not help you drink more. Ask it about what is on your shelf and it is in its element; ask it about your health and it will tell you to ask a doctor.

Stillman can search the web to answer questions about specific bottles, and will show the pages it used. Those pages belong to other people: we do not control or endorse them, and a page being cited does not make it correct. Links open outside the app under those sites' own terms.

AI features have fair-use limits per account, including how often Stillman may search the web. We may adjust those limits to keep the service reliable and affordable, and the app shows you where you stand before you spend a request.

Bottle information

The built-in catalog of distilleries and expressions, and anything a label scan pulls off a photo, is provided for convenience and can be wrong or out of date. Always check the bottle in front of you. A scan result is always shown to you for review before it is saved; it never saves itself.

Acceptable use

Do not misuse the app: no attempting to reach other users' data, no probing or disrupting the service, no reverse engineering, no automated scraping, and no using the AI features to produce unlawful or harmful content.

Free, Pro and AI credits

The journal is free and stays free. So does The Bunker, with no cap on how many bottles you can track.

Cask & Note is free to use. Pro, a one-time purchase, adds Bunker insights, your palate report, photos on pours, the full CSV export and share cards without the watermark. AI features (Stillman, label scans, Tonight's Pour and flights) run on AI credits. You get 3 free credits to try them, and 10 in total once you create a free account. The Pro purchase adds 25 more credits, once.

There are no ads in Cask & Note, on any tier, and there never will be.

Purchases

Pro is a one-time purchase billed through your Apple Account or Google Play account. You pay once, and you can restore it on a new phone with the same store account. Credit packs are consumable purchases.

Credits never expire. They belong to your account in this app only, they cannot be moved to another app or person, and they have no cash value. If you use the app without an account, your credits are kept only for that sign-in, so deleting the app or signing out loses them. Create a free account to keep them safe.

The price is shown before you buy. Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their terms, and we cannot issue one directly. When a purchase is refunded, the credits it added are removed (never below zero), and a refunded Pro purchase removes Pro.

Deleting your account forfeits any unused credits.

Disclaimers

Cask & Note is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential damages arising from your use of the app, and our total liability is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

Termination

You can stop using Cask & Note whenever you like and delete your account in Profile → Account settings. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms.

Changes

We may update these terms; the date above reflects the latest version. Material changes will be noted in the app, and continued use after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Maryland and the applicable laws of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute not resolved informally will be brought in the state or federal courts in Maryland, and you and we each consent to their jurisdiction. Nothing here removes a consumer-protection right you have under the mandatory law of your own country or state of residence.