Terms of Use & Chat+

Pofu · Erek Studio

Short version: Pofu from the App Store is licensed to you under Apple’s Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement. These terms add what is specific to Pofu: the free game and its ads, Pofu Pro, the player chat and the Chat+ subscription. Pofu Pro is a one-time purchase that is charged once and never renews. Chat+ renews automatically until you cancel it in your Apple ID settings, and in Pofu it also gives everything Pro gives, for as long as it is active. Refunds are Apple’s.

The game

Pofu is licensed to you, not sold. The whole game is free: every level and every daily puzzle can be played without paying. The free game shows ads, described below. Nothing here limits rights you have under mandatory consumer law in your country.

Pofu Pro

Pofu Pro is a single, non-consumable purchase made through the App Store. It is not a subscription: it is charged once to your Apple ID and never renews. It unlocks:

Pro is tied to your Apple ID. Restore purchases in Settings brings it back after a reinstall or on another iPhone or iPad signed in to the same Apple ID. Pro is a game purchase only: it does not include Chat+ or anything in the player chat. Pro stays on sale next to Chat+; you may own both, and Pro keeps everything it unlocks when a Chat+ subscription ends.

Ads in the free game

The free game shows a full-screen ad between levels every so often, never while you are playing a board, and offers optional videos you can watch for a help. No level needs a video, and when no video can be loaded the help is simply given. Ads are served by Google AdMob, as described in the privacy policy. Pofu Pro, or an active Chat+ subscription, turns the ads off.

The player chat

From version 2.1, on iPhone and iPad, Pofu includes a player chat shared with other Erek Studio games, such as Doltap and Orbion: one server, one account, signed in with Apple. It is optional and for adults only: 18 or older, and 19 or older in Korea; as it asks only for your birth year, it opens in the calendar year in which you turn 19. By using it you agree to the community rules, and you agree, separately, that your messages are checked for safety by Anthropic’s AI, as described in the privacy policy.

There is zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users: messages that break the rules are removed and the accounts that send them are suspended or banned. Every message, profile and player room can be reported, and anyone can be blocked; what you report is hidden for you at once, and reporting someone also blocks them for you. Reports are acted on within 24 hours.

Each game has its own rooms, one per language, and the games share common rooms per language. A first message to someone new arrives as a request; you can send another once they reply. Without Chat+, you can send 5 one-to-one messages and read 5 received one-to-one messages per day (UTC); messages received beyond that stay locked until you have Chat+. Rooms are not limited.

Phone numbers, email addresses, links and accounts on other apps are never shared in rooms or profiles; messages that try are not delivered. In an accepted one-to-one chat (not a request still waiting for an answer), a Chat+ member can share them once the other person has written at least three messages in that chat, unless that person has turned this off in the chat’s settings. Without Chat+ they are never shared. The same rule applies in Korea mode. Never send money, gift cards or codes to anyone in the chat.

AI assistants. Guide_AI and Buddy_AI are AI bots, labelled as such, not people. They answer one-to-one messages you send them, and, in the English and Korean official rooms, a message that names one of them. You can send them 10 messages per day (UTC) in total, across both bots and every game; Chat+ does not raise this. Their replies are written automatically by an AI model and can be wrong, so do not rely on them for anything important. They are never counted as players in the numbers the chat shows.

Korea mode. If your App Store country or your device region is Korea, the chat runs in Korea mode in every Erek Studio game with the chat: only Pofu’s Korean room, one-to-one messages only between people who have both written in the same game room (the AI assistants excepted), and no list of other players. So in Korea mode there are no country or language filters and no rooms of your own, and the chat is for ages 19 and older.

You can delete your chat account at any time in the chat: Settings → Delete chat account, or without the app as described on the account deletion page.

Chat+ subscription

Chat+ is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly, at the price the App Store shows before you buy. It is sold in the chat and on Pofu’s own purchase screen, next to Pofu Pro. It unlocks:

One Chat+ for every Erek Studio game with the chat. Chat+ belongs to your chat account and works in every Erek Studio game where you sign in to the chat with that account, whichever game you bought it in. You can also buy it in Pofu without a chat account: it then unlocks Pofu’s perks on that device, and when you sign in to the chat later it moves to your chat account. A Chat+ already tied to one chat account cannot be moved to another. Fair-use limits apply to prevent spam.

Payment and renewal. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically at the same price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel Chat+ at any time in your Apple ID’s subscription settings; after cancelling, it stays active until the end of the period you have paid for. Deleting the app or your chat account does not cancel Chat+.

Refunds are handled by Apple, not by us, under its own policies, at reportaproblem.apple.com.

When Chat+ ends, its perks stop. In Pofu the ads come back, helps ask for a video again, and the Pro skins and the archive close — unless you own Pofu Pro, which keeps all of them. In the chat your photo and looks are hidden and messages beyond the daily limit stay locked; rooms you created stay open, but you cannot create new ones.

Availability

The game itself works offline. The player chat and the confirmation of a Chat+ purchase depend on network services that may be unavailable, changed, or discontinued. Everything else keeps working when they are.

No warranty

Pofu is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind. To the extent permitted by law, the developer is not liable for any damages arising from its use. Nothing here limits rights you have under mandatory consumer law in your country.

Changes

If these terms change, the new version is published on this page with a new date below.

Contact

Erek Studio (Mustafa Salim Erek) · mustafasalimerek@gmail.com