Your account is anonymous and tied to your device unless you sign in with Apple or Google. Without signing in, your progress may not come back if you lose the device or reinstall the app.
Pro subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel them in your App Store or Google Play settings. Refunds are handled by Apple or Google.
A WordRange certificate shows you passed our online exam. It isn’t an official or accredited qualification.
Take exams honestly and use your own name. We can revoke certificates that break these rules.
1. This agreement
These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and WordRange (“WordRange”, “we”, “us”). They cover the WordRange app for iPhone and Android, the website wordrange.app and our certificate verification pages (together, the “Service”). Our Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines are part of these Terms.
By downloading, opening or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, don’t use the Service.
2. Who can use WordRange
You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the Service only with the permission of a parent or legal guardian, who agrees to these Terms for you. In some countries, people under 16 (or another age set by local law) need that permission to use the Service at all. You may not use the Service if the law forbids you from doing so.
3. Your account
You don’t need to sign up. When you first open the app, it creates an anonymous account for your device, and your progress, exam records and certificates are stored under it on our servers. Until you sign in with Apple or Google:
we can’t move your progress to another device, and it may be lost if you lose your device, reset it or reinstall the app (on Android, restoring a device backup may bring it back);
you can use Restore purchases to get your subscription back on a new device or after reinstalling, but progress, exam records and certificates stored under a previous account may not come with it;
anyone who uses your device can use your account, so keep your device secure.
You can sign in with Apple or Google at any time under Account in the app. Your account and everything stored under it are then linked to that Apple or Google account, so you can sign in again on another device or after reinstalling and pick up where you left off. If that Apple or Google account already has a WordRange account, you can switch to it instead, and progress made on the device without an account doesn’t come with you. Keep your Apple or Google account secure: anyone who can sign in to it can use your WordRange account.
You can delete your account in the app at any time (Account, then Privacy & data, then Delete account, or Delete my data if you haven’t signed in). This permanently deletes your progress, exam records and certificates, and their verification pages stop working. Deleting your account doesn’t cancel a subscription (see section 5).
4. The service
Estimates are estimates. Your vocabulary number comes from a short adaptive test and your activity in the app. It is a guide, not a precise measurement or an official assessment of your English.
Learning content. Word lists, definitions, examples, pronunciations and quizzes are for learning. They may contain mistakes. Translations into your native language are made by machine on your device, and they may be missing or inaccurate.
Everyday English includes mature words. The word list reflects how often words appear in real English. It includes some words about sex, drugs, violence and other mature topics, and some mild profanity. Very offensive words and slurs are left out.
Changes. We improve the Service over time. We may add, change, re-rank or remove words, features and content. When the word list changes, your saved progress may not carry over exactly.
Availability. We may pause the Service for maintenance, and we may require you to update the app before you can keep using it. We don’t promise the Service will always be available or free of errors.
Reminders. Daily and trial reminders are a courtesy. They depend on your device and notification settings, and they may not arrive.
5. WordRange Pro subscriptions
WordRange Pro unlocks every word range and every part, and lets you have verified certificates issued. We may change what Pro includes, but we won’t take away features you have already paid for during your current billing period.
Billing and automatic renewal
Pro is sold as an auto-renewing subscription, currently monthly or yearly. The price, the billing period and any free trial are shown in the app before you buy. They may vary by country and include any taxes the store charges.
Payment is charged to your Apple ID or Google Play account when you confirm the purchase or, if you start a free trial, when the trial ends.
Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each period, at the price then in effect, until you cancel. On the App Store, you must turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and your account will be charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the current period ends. On Google Play, you can cancel at any time before the renewal date, and you’re charged when the new period starts.
You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store or Google Play account settings. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel your subscription. If you cancel, Pro stays active until the end of the period you’ve paid for.
If the price of your subscription goes up, the App Store or Google Play will tell you, and ask for your consent where the law or their rules require it.
Free trials
Some plans come with a free trial for eligible new subscribers. The length is shown before you start. Unless you cancel before the trial ends (on the App Store, at least 24 hours before), the subscription starts and you’re charged automatically at the end of the trial. If you buy a subscription during a free trial, any unused part of the trial ends.
Refunds
Purchases are processed by Apple or Google, under their terms, so we can’t issue refunds ourselves. To ask for a refund, contact Apple (reportaproblem.apple.com) or Google Play. Nothing in these Terms limits any right to a refund you have under the law.
After Pro ends
If your subscription ends, ranges where you’ve made progress and parts you’ve already quizzed stay open, and certificates already issued stay valid unless we revoke them under section 6. Other Pro content locks again.
6. Certificates
How certificate exams work
Taking a certificate exam is free. Having a certificate issued requires an active Pro subscription, including a free trial, at the moment of issuing.
Each exam has 40 multiple-choice questions. To pass, you need at least 32 correct answers, including at least 16 of the 20 questions from the milestone’s newest words. At the first milestone, all 40 questions count as newest words.
The app offers the exam for milestones up to your current vocabulary estimate. Once you pass a milestone, lower milestones you haven’t passed can no longer be taken.
You can try each milestone once every 24 hours. An exam you start must be finished within 2 hours, and an exam you don’t finish counts as an attempt. Once you pass a milestone, you can’t retake it.
Exams are scored automatically. The certificate shows the score from your first passing attempt and the date the certificate was issued.
What a certificate means
A WordRange certificate states that the named holder passed WordRange’s online exam for a vocabulary milestone. It isn’t an accredited qualification or an official language test result. It isn’t affiliated with or equivalent to any exam or framework such as TOEFL, IELTS, Cambridge English or the CEFR. Exams aren’t supervised, and we don’t check the identity of the person taking them or the name entered on the certificate. Anyone relying on a certificate should keep this in mind.
Public verification
Each certificate has a public verification page that shows the holder’s name, milestone, score, issue date and credential ID to anyone with the link. See our Privacy Policy for details.
Revocation
We may revoke, correct or take down a certificate if we reasonably believe it was obtained by cheating or by interfering with the Service, uses a name that breaks our Community Guidelines, involves fraud or payment abuse, or was issued because of an error. A revoked certificate stops verifying.
get help from another person, or from a dictionary, translator, AI tool or other aid, during a certificate exam, or take an exam for someone else;
create new accounts or reset the app to get around exam limits or subscription rules;
access, read, change or delete data that isn’t yours, including other users’ records, exam questions and answers, or certificates;
fake, alter or misrepresent a certificate, a score or a verification page;
copy, scrape or collect content or data from the Service by automated means, or use it to build a competing product or dataset (except where a content license in section 8 allows it);
reverse engineer, decompile or modify the app, except where the law allows this despite this restriction;
interfere with or overload the Service, or get around its security or limits;
impersonate anyone, or use the Service to break the law or infringe anyone’s rights.
8. Our content and third-party content
The Service, including the app, its design, text, graphics and software, belongs to WordRange and its licensors. It is protected by intellectual property laws. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license to install and use the app on devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial learning, under these Terms and the rules of the app store you got it from.
Some content comes from others, and their terms continue to apply to it:
Word frequency data comes from wordfreq by Robyn Speer, which includes SUBTLEX data (Brysbaert et al.). It is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Our word rankings are derived from it and remain available under that license. Nothing in these Terms limits the rights that license gives you.
Many definitions, examples and synonyms are based on Merriam-Webster’s dictionary and thesaurus data. Merriam-Webster keeps its rights in that material.
Translations are generated on your device by Google ML Kit.
If you send us feedback or ideas, we may use them without owing you anything.
9. The name you give us
The only content you add to the Service is the name you enter for your certificates. You are responsible for it, and it must follow our Community Guidelines. You keep any rights you have in it. You allow us to store it, display it on your certificates, share cards and public verification pages, and change or remove it if it breaks these Terms.
10. Ending this agreement
You can stop using the Service at any time by deleting the app. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel a subscription (see section 5) and doesn’t delete the data on our servers. To have that data deleted, delete your account in the app or follow the steps in our Privacy Policy.
We may suspend or end your access to the Service, or revoke certificates, if you seriously or repeatedly break these Terms, if the law requires it, or if we stop offering the Service. Where reasonable, we’ll tell you first. Sections 6 (Revocation), 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 17 continue to apply after this agreement ends.
11. Disclaimers
To the fullest extent the law allows, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We don’t promise that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that content is complete or accurate, or that using it will produce any particular learning result, test score or outcome.
Some places don’t allow these disclaimers. In those places they apply only as far as the law permits.
12. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, WordRange won’t be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, progress, profits or opportunities, arising from or related to the Service. Our total liability for all claims related to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid for the Service in the 12 months before the claim arose, or US $50.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that can’t be excluded or limited by law. That includes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, and your rights as a consumer under mandatory laws where you live.
13. Indemnity
To the extent the law allows, you agree to compensate WordRange for claims, losses and reasonable costs (including legal fees) arising from your breach of these Terms or your misuse of the Service. This doesn’t apply where the loss was our fault.
14. Additional terms for the App Store
If you got the app from Apple’s App Store:
These Terms are between you and WordRange only, not Apple. WordRange, not Apple, is responsible for the app and its content.
Your license to use the app is limited to Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as allowed by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that the app may also be used by other accounts associated with you through Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
WordRange alone is responsible for providing any maintenance and support for the app, as described in these Terms or as required by law. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app.
If the app fails to meet any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any. To the extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app. Any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses caused by a failure to meet a warranty are WordRange’s responsibility.
WordRange, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims by you or anyone else about the app, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to meet legal or regulatory requirements, and consumer protection, privacy or similar claims.
If anyone claims that the app or your use of it infringes their intellectual property rights, WordRange, not Apple, is solely responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging that claim.
You confirm that you aren’t located in a country subject to a U.S. government embargo, or designated by the U.S. government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you aren’t on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
You must follow any applicable third-party terms when using the app.
Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.
If you got the app from Google Play, Google Play’s terms also apply to your purchase and download.
15. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States and of the U.S. state where WordRange is based, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If you have a concern, please email us first. We’ll try to resolve it informally within 30 days before either of us starts formal proceedings.
If you are a consumer living outside the United States, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of your country, and you may bring claims in the courts where you live.
16. Changes to these terms
We may update these Terms. When we do, we’ll change the date at the top. If a change is significant, we’ll let you know in the app or on this website before it takes effect. If you keep using the Service after the change takes effect, you accept the updated Terms. If you don’t agree, stop using the Service and cancel any subscription.
17. General
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines, are the whole agreement between you and WordRange about the Service. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. If we don’t enforce a part right away, we haven’t given up the right to enforce it later. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms. We may transfer ours as part of a merger, acquisition or sale of the Service. We aren’t responsible for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.