These terms govern your use of abd3lraouf.dev (the “site”) and the software the studio publishes (the “apps”). By using the site or the apps you accept them. If you do not, please do not use them.
1. Who you are dealing with
The site and the apps are published by Abdelraouf Sabri, an individual trading as abd3lraouf studios in Egypt. The studio is one person. There is no support desk, no account system and no sales team.
The way to make contact is the contact form.
2. Using the site
You may, without asking:
- read, print and save any page for your own use;
- quote from the writing with attribution and a link back to the page you took it from;
- link to any page here, from anywhere, including commercially;
- use the press kit exactly as a press kit is meant to be used — the logos, screenshots and copy on the press pages are there to be published in articles, reviews and listings about the studio and its products, without a further permission request.
What is asked in return is small: do not present the studio’s work as your own, do not alter the brand assets or use them to imply a partnership or endorsement that does not exist, and do not use the site to break the law or to attack the service — no attempts to gain unauthorised access, no deliberate overloading, no automated activity that degrades the site for other people. Ordinary crawling, archiving and feed reading are fine.
3. The writing, the artwork and the brand
Except where stated otherwise, the text, artwork, photography, brand marks and page design on the site remain the studio’s property and are protected by copyright. Section 2 is a genuine and deliberate grant of permission, but it is not a transfer of ownership, and republishing an article in full — rather than quoting from it — needs a word first.
The name abd3lraouf studios and the studio’s marks are the studio’s. Third-party names and marks that appear on the site belong to their respective owners and are used only to identify what the software works with.
4. Open-source apps: the licence wins
Four of the studio’s tools are published as open source under the MIT licence. Where you have received software under the MIT licence, that licence governs it and nothing on this page narrows, conditions or overrides it. The MIT licence already grants you the right to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense and sell copies of that software, and those rights are not withdrawn or qualified here.
If anything in these terms appears to conflict with the MIT licence in respect of MIT-licensed software, the licence text in the repository prevails. This clause exists precisely so that a general statement elsewhere in this document cannot be read as clawing back what the licence gave.
5. The other apps, and how they are licensed
The remaining apps are free to use but are not open source. For those, the studio grants you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to install and use the software on as many devices as you control, for personal or commercial purposes, for as long as you like. You may share the unmodified installer as the studio published it.
Because the source is not published, you are asked not to decompile, reverse-engineer or redistribute modified builds of those apps — except to the extent that applicable law gives you that right regardless of what an agreement says, in which case that law applies and this sentence does not restrict you.
Mac App Store builds are licensed by Apple, not here. An app you obtain from the Mac App Store is licensed to you under Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement, which you accepted when you downloaded it. That agreement governs that copy. These terms apply to the direct downloads and to your use of this site.
6. Paid unlocks
One app offers an optional one-time paid unlock. There is no subscription, no account and no recurring charge anywhere in the studio’s software. Current prices are shown on the product page and may change; a change never affects an unlock you have already bought.
Who takes the payment determines who handles refunds. If you bought through the Mac App Store, Apple is the merchant of record: billing, receipts, and refund requests all go through Apple under Apple’s terms, and the studio cannot issue that refund itself. If you bought a direct-download licence key, the payment was taken by the checkout provider named at the time of purchase, and a refund request should be made through the contact form — the studio’s practice is to refund an unused unlock on request, and this sentence is a commitment, not a courtesy. None of this affects any statutory right of withdrawal or cancellation you have as a consumer.
A licence key is yours to keep. Please do not publish it or share it publicly; doing so may result in that key being deactivated.
7. Availability, updates and endings
The site and the downloads are provided as the studio is able to provide them. There is no uptime commitment, pages and products may change, and an app may at some point stop receiving updates.
Software you already have stays yours. If a product is discontinued, the copy on your machine keeps working and any paid unlock you bought remains valid for that copy. The studio does not use a remote switch to disable installed software.
8. What you send through the form
Please do not send confidential, secret or sensitive material through the contact form. It is an ordinary enquiry channel. Submitting a message does not create a non-disclosure obligation, a professional relationship or a contract, and an idea sent unsolicited is not treated as confidential.
You keep ownership of what you send; you grant the studio permission to read and store it in order to reply. What is stored, and for how long, is set out in the privacy policy.
9. Client work
The services described on the site are an invitation to get in touch, not an offer capable of acceptance. No engagement begins, and no obligation arises, until scope, price and terms are agreed in a separate written agreement. Where such an agreement exists and says something different from this page, that agreement governs the work.
10. Links to other places
The site links out — to GitHub, to the App Store, to funding platforms, to other people’s writing. Those services are not operated by the studio and are not its responsibility. Their terms and privacy policies apply once you leave.
11. No warranty
The site and the apps are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade. The studio does not warrant that the software is free of defects, that it will meet your requirements, or that it will run without interruption.
Some of the studio’s tools change settings on your own computer, and one of them modifies system authentication. Read what each product page says it does before running it, keep backups, and satisfy yourself that it is appropriate for your machine. Nothing in this section limits any legal right you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded under the law that applies to you.
12. Limits on liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the studio is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or the cost of substitute software, arising out of your use of the site or the apps — whether the claim is framed in contract, tort, negligence or otherwise, and even if the possibility of such damage was known.
Where liability cannot be excluded, the studio’s total aggregate liability to you for all claims is limited to the greater of the amount you actually paid the studio in the twelve months before the claim arose, or US$50. Most of this software is free, and this clause is what makes it possible to give it away.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. If you are a consumer, your mandatory statutory rights are unaffected by this section.
13. Indemnity
If you use the site or the apps unlawfully, or in breach of these terms, and a third party brings a claim against the studio as a result, you agree to cover the reasonable costs of dealing with it. This does not apply to anything caused by the studio itself, and does not apply where you are acting as a consumer.
14. Changes and termination
These terms may be updated as the site and the products change; the date at the top is the date of the last review, and continuing to use the site after a change means accepting the current version. A change is never applied retroactively to a purchase already made.
You may stop using the site and uninstall the apps at any time, which ends these terms for you — except for the sections that by their nature survive (ownership, warranty, liability and governing law).
15. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of Egypt, and the courts of Egypt have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.
If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country you live in, nor of the right to bring proceedings there where the law gives you that right.
If a court finds any part of these terms unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
16. Getting in touch
Questions about these terms, and every request under the privacy policy, go through the contact form.