Terms of Use

The German version is legally binding; this translation is provided for convenience.

1. Scope and provider

These terms govern the use of the “Kadence” app (iOS and Android) and the website kadence-app.com. The provider is the operator named above. You can access, save and print these terms at any time before using the app, in the app and on this website. They become part of the contract when you agree to them in the flow provided for this in the app or when taking out a subscription; merely opening the app does not count as agreement. Deviating terms do not apply.

The app is aimed at consumers. Mandatory consumer protection law remains unaffected by these terms.

2. Service

Kadence is a training and nutrition app: timers for interval, Tabata, AMRAP, EMOM and for-time workouts, a strength log with programmes and progressions, an illustrated exercise library with curated workouts, a calorie diary with barcode search, and goals with automatic tracking. Use requires a subscription after a free trial; there is no restricted free tier, the subscription includes all features (section 8).

We develop the app continuously. We change, add or discontinue features only for objective reasons, such as technical development, security, a change in the law, changes at Apple, Google or other services the app relies on, or because a feature is hardly used. The change must be reasonable for you and must not cause you additional costs; the core of the subscription — the training and nutrition features — remains in place.

We announce changes that impair your access to the app or its usability more than only slightly at least 30 days in advance in the app and explain what changes. In that case you can cancel the subscription at any time (section 8). For a period already paid for in which you can no longer use the app as agreed because of such a change, we refund the pro-rata amount on request. Your locally stored data is unaffected by changes; you can export it at any time.

3. Health notice and personal responsibility

Kadence is a training tool, not medical advice. The app makes no diagnoses, recommends no treatments and replaces neither medical advice nor physiotherapy. Exercises, workouts, programmes, heart-rate zones and nutrition values are general offerings for healthy people aged 16 and over. Not every workout suits every person or every age; many contents assume training experience. If you are under 18, choose exercises and load with particular restraint and, if in doubt, ask your parents, a qualified coach or a doctor for advice.

Some values are calculated by the app from your own entries and training data, such as weights from your last sets, progressions in programmes, heart-rate zones or a calorie target. These suggestions are derived by calculation: the app takes your data into account, but it checks neither your health nor your technique and does not know how you feel today. They therefore do not replace individual advice from professionals.

Please note:

• Talk to a doctor before starting training if you have pre-existing conditions (in particular cardiovascular, joint, spine or metabolic), are pregnant, are recovering from an injury or surgery, take medication or have not trained for a long time.
• You decide on load, weight, pace and volume yourself. The app counts, measures and suggests; it knows your fitness level only from your entries, and how you feel today not at all. Choose exercises and weights you can perform safely and progress step by step.
• Stop immediately if you feel pain, dizziness, shortness of breath, chest pain or unwell and get help. Discomfort that gets worse is not progress.
• Warm up and pay attention to clean form. Illustrations and cues in the app show the target movement but do not replace instruction by qualified coaches, especially for technically demanding exercises such as Olympic lifts, plyometrics or heavy loads.
• Heart-rate and calorie values are estimates. They come from your device or from general formulas and are not medical measurements. Use them for orientation, not for diagnosis.
• Nutrition values come from public and commercial databases (Open Food Facts, the German Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel of the Max Rubner-Institut, FatSecret) and from your own entries. We select these sources, integrate them and calculate quantities, totals and daily values from them; the individual source values come from third parties, partly from community entries, and we cannot check them one by one. They may be incomplete, outdated or wrong. We follow up on reports of incorrect values. The labelling on the packaging is decisive.
• Missing information is not an all-clear. If a food lacks information on allergens or ingredients, this does not mean it is free of them. If you have allergies, intolerances or a medically prescribed diet, do not rely on the app alone.
• Calorie and macro targets are guide values. The app calculates them from general formulas and your entries; they are not a nutrition recommendation for your personal situation, and the app does not provide dietary advice. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, have a metabolic condition or your eating habits are a burden to you, talk to a doctor before setting a calorie target. Under 18 the calculator does not offer the goal “Lose weight” (section 4).
• Supplement reminders only remind you. They appear at the times and with the amounts you enter yourself. The app does not recommend supplements and checks neither dosage nor interactions with medication.
• Train in a safe environment. Make sure you have enough space, a stable footing, intact equipment, and avoid looking at the device during training when that would be dangerous. That is what the voice cues are for.

Using the app and training according to its guidance is at your own responsibility. This does not change our liability under section 7.

4. Account and minimum age

An account is voluntary and only needed for cloud backup and for feedback with a reply. You may only provide your own, accurate details and must not pass your account on to third parties.

You may use Kadence from the age of 16. This applies to the whole app — training, nutrition, account and cloud backup; from 16 you give consent to cloud backup yourself. Use under 16 is not permitted, not even without an account. The app asks for your age in three groups (under 16, 16–17, 18 or older); this is a self-declaration that we do not verify. Please answer truthfully. If you state that you are under 16, the app does not unlock training or registration. Legal texts, privacy information and support remain accessible, and you can still export and delete your data.

If you are under 18, the calorie target calculator does not offer the goal “Lose weight”. The goals “Maintain” and “Gain weight” and all other features are available to you.

You can delete your account in the app at any time. We may suspend or delete an account if it is used to abuse the sharing or reporting features, to attack our services or in any other unlawful way. We will hear you first where that is reasonable.

5. Shared content

You can share your own exercises, workouts, programmes and units by link or QR code. For this content:

• You are responsible for what you share. You warrant that you hold the necessary rights to texts and images and do not infringe third-party rights.
• No dangerous instructions. Sport is never entirely without risk. Common exercises, training formats and high loads are allowed, even if they are demanding; notes on prerequisites and risks are welcome. Not allowed is content that instructs or encourages an obviously unsafe execution, for example: loads far beyond any usual level (such as training to unconsciousness or with deliberate fluid deprivation), exercises without the safeguarding or supervision that is usual for them (such as breath-holding in water alone), the use of prohibited or health-endangering substances, extreme fasting or weight cutting. Claims of healing, diagnoses or medical treatment recommendations are not allowed either.
• No unlawful or offensive content, no advertising, no personal data of third parties.
• Licence. You grant us the non-exclusive, royalty-free right to store the shared content for the duration of the share, display it via the link and allow recipients to import it into their app. We take no further rights.
• Reporting and removal. Every shared page has a report function. We review every report and remove content that violates these rules or applicable law. We inform you of a removal and its reasons where we are able to reach you. If you disagree with a decision, write to the e-mail address given above; we will then review it again. Shared content also expires automatically after the period shown when sharing.

Recipients import shared content at their own responsibility and subject to the health notice in section 3.

6. Availability

The core of the app works without a connection to our servers. For online features (account, backup, food search, sharing, feedback, catalogue updates, version check, checking the trial and subscription) we strive for high availability but do not owe uninterrupted access. Maintenance, outages and changes to third-party services may temporarily restrict these features. If the app cannot check your subscription status because of an outage, it does not lock for that reason.

We discontinue individual online services only for objective reasons, for example if a third-party service ceases, the law changes or continued operation is no longer economically reasonable. We announce this at least 30 days in advance in the app. The app then remains usable locally, and we give you the opportunity beforehand to bring backed-up data back to your device and export it. If the discontinuation impairs the usability of the app more than only slightly, the rights under section 2 apply (cancellation, pro-rata refund). If we discontinue Kadence as a whole, we refund paid periods after the end on a pro-rata basis.

7. Liability

For personal injury we are liable under the statutory provisions; this liability is not limited. Liability under the Austrian Product Liability Act (PHG) also remains unaffected.

For other damage, in particular damage to property and financial loss, we are liable under the statutory provisions in cases of intent and gross negligence. In cases of slight negligence we are not liable for such damage (§ 6 (1) no. 9 of the Austrian Consumer Protection Act, KSchG). This exclusion does not apply to personal injury, nor where we breach an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper use of the app possible in the first place and on which you may rely — for example the obligation to provide the app in working order, to supply necessary updates, or to keep the data you transfer to us via cloud backup secure. Mandatory statutory claims, in particular under the statutory warranty, remain unaffected.

Data from third-party sources. For nutrition values and other data the app displays from third-party databases (section 3), we are responsible for selecting the sources carefully, integrating them correctly, calculating correctly from them and responding appropriately to reports of evident errors. We do not promise that every individual source value is correct and complete; otherwise the paragraphs above apply.

Content from other users. We do not adopt content shared by other users as our own and do not review it before publication. We are responsible for handling reports promptly and removing content that is unlawful or violates section 5 as soon as we become aware of it. Otherwise our responsibility for such content follows the statutory rules for hosting services.

Data loss. If you lose locally stored data because we caused the loss — for example through a bug in an app update — we are liable under the paragraphs above. If you did not use reasonable backup options such as export or cloud backup, this may be taken into account as contributory fault; it does not automatically exclude our liability. We are not liable for losses that occur without our involvement, for example through loss of or damage to your device or through removing the app.

8. Subscription, prices and cancellation

Contracting party and licence. You buy the subscription in the app store of your device: on iPhone in Apple’s App Store, on Android in Google Play. You conclude the purchase contract with the respective store operator, Apple or Google; the store operator handles payment, billing, renewal, cancellation and refunds. We provide the app and the services the subscription unlocks under these terms. For the app from the App Store, Apple’s standard licence agreement for apps (Standard EULA) also applies. For purchases and downloads via Google Play, the Google Play Terms of Service govern your relationship with Google. These terms supplement them. We grant you the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the app for your own private purposes.

Trial. From the first launch you can use the app free of charge and in full for 10 days. The trial starts automatically; it requires neither a subscription nor any action in the app store. The app remembers when it started via a random identifier (Kadence ID, Privacy Policy 3.12) that is kept in your device’s protected storage.

• On iPhone there is one trial per device: the identifier is kept in the keychain and survives reinstalling the app. Reinstalling the app on the same device therefore does not start a new trial. If you reset your iPhone and restore a backup of the same device, the identifier and thus the previous trial start come back; without such a backup a new trial starts.
• On Android the identifier is deleted together with the app and is not part of Android’s backup. After reinstalling, the app creates a new identifier, and a new trial starts with it.

A further device gets its own trial, even if you restore a backup of your old device on it. However, if you sign in with an account — on a further device or after reinstalling — the earliest trial start already associated with that account applies. After the trial a subscription is required. Without a subscription your data remains on the device and can be exported; the app’s features are not available until a subscription is taken out. Profile, data export, account and subscription management remain accessible. As long as the app does not offer a way to subscribe on your device, it does not restrict any features after the trial.

Price. The subscription costs per month:

• €0.49 for everyone who subscribes on or before 31 January 2027 (introductory price),
• €0.99 for everyone who subscribes from 1 February 2027.

All prices include statutory VAT. The price is shown to you again in the app store before you subscribe; the amount stated there is decisive.

Introductory price is protected. Anyone who subscribed at the introductory price keeps it after 31 January 2027 as long as the subscription continues without interruption. The change to €0.99 applies only to newly taken-out subscriptions. If a subscription is cancelled and later taken out again, the price current at that time applies.

Price changes. We may change the price for new subscriptions at any time; the price shown to you in the app store when subscribing is decisive. We may change the price of a running subscription, for example if our costs rise. We announce such a change at least 30 days before it takes effect, in the app and via the app store (Apple or Google). It only takes effect if you agree to it in the way provided by the respective store; if you do not agree, your subscription ends at the end of the period already paid for, at no further cost to you. This also applies to subscriptions at the introductory price; the protection above shields you from the change to €0.99, not from a change under this paragraph.

Term and cancellation. The subscription runs for one month and renews automatically for a further month unless you cancel it. You subscribe via your Apple ID or your Google account; Apple or Google handles billing.

• On iPhone you cancel in your Apple ID settings under “Subscriptions”, at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• On Android you cancel in Google Play under “Subscriptions”, at any time; the cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period.

After cancellation the subscription remains active until the end of the paid period.

Right of withdrawal. Whether and how you can withdraw from a purchase in the app store (Austrian Distance and Off-Premises Contracts Act, FAGG) is governed by the purchase contract with Apple or Google; the store operator informs you about this before you subscribe. You declare withdrawal to Apple (reportaproblem.apple.com) or to Google via Google Play (play.google.com).

Refunds by Apple or Google. Refunds that Apple or Google grant under their own policies are a voluntary service by the respective store operator. They do not replace your statutory rights and do not depend on them. Our own refund commitment for significant changes or discontinuation of the app is set out in sections 2 and 6.

Statutory warranty and updates. The statutory warranty rights apply to the app, in particular under the Austrian Consumer Warranty Act (VGG) for digital services. This includes receiving, for the term of your subscription, the updates, including security updates, that are necessary to keep the app in conformity with the contract; we inform you about them in the app. If you do not install such an update despite our notice, we are not liable for a defect resulting solely from that. We do not promise that the app is free of every bug; your statutory rights in case of defects remain unaffected. The easiest way to report a defect is the feedback form in the app or the e-mail address given above.

Deletion and subscription. Deleting your local data or your account does not end the subscription, because it is tied to your Apple ID or your Google account. Cancel it separately with Apple or in Google Play.

9. Final provisions

Austrian law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the conflict-of-law rules of private international law. If you are a consumer habitually resident in another EU country, you retain the mandatory protection of that country’s law.

We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration body under the Austrian Alternative Dispute Resolution Act (AStG). For online purchases you may nevertheless contact the Internet Ombudsstelle (www.ombudsstelle.at).

Should any provision of these terms be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected.

Changes to these terms. We may change these terms with effect for the future if there is an objective reason, such as new or changed features, a change in the law or case law, requirements of authorities or changed terms at Apple or Google. We do not change the scope of the service or the price this way; sections 2, 6 and 8 apply to those. We inform you of a change at least 30 days before it takes effect, in the app and on this website, and name the changed passages. Changes that only benefit you or are purely editorial may apply immediately. Material changes to your disadvantage only take effect if you agree to them; your silence does not count as agreement. If you do not agree, the previous version continues to apply to you; you can also cancel the subscription at any time. The current version is always available at this address.

These terms are available in German and English. In case of discrepancies, the German version prevails.