Terms of use

Who can use Daphne

You must be at least 18, or the age of majority where you live, to create an account. You're responsible for the people you shop and cook for when you set up allergies and preferences for them.

What Daphne is

Daphne builds grocery lists and meal ideas from your preferences and from product information your store publishes. It's a planning tool, not a store. You buy groceries from the store directly.

The pilot

Daphne is in an early pilot. Features may change, break or be removed, and the service may be unavailable at times. Everything is free during the pilot, and we'll tell you in the app before anything you use starts to cost money.

Prices, products and amounts

Prices, sale prices, availability, aisles and product details come from the store and can change or be wrong. Sale prices end. Amounts and pack counts are estimates based on what you told Daphne about your household. The price and the product at checkout are the ones that count.

Allergies, health and nutrition

Daphne is not medical or nutrition advice and isn't a substitute for a doctor or registered dietitian. Allergen screening is limited to what store listings show and can miss cross-contact, missing information and recipe changes. Always read the package label. You're responsible for deciding what's safe for you and the people you feed. See Allergies and your safety in the app.

The clean score and AI

The clean score is Daphne's own estimate of how processed a product is, based on its ingredients and nutrition label. Daphne's dinners come from its own recipe library. Product matching, recipe reading, added items and the cooking steps for dishes you add yourself are produced with AI. Any of it can contain mistakes, including about ingredients, amounts, cooking times and temperatures. Follow safe food handling, cook meat, poultry, fish and eggs to safe temperatures, and use your judgment.

Recall notices

Recall notices in Daphne come from public U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Department of Agriculture notices and are matched to your list automatically. They're a courtesy, not a safety service: Daphne can miss recalls or flag products that aren't affected, and no notice doesn't mean a product is safe.

Shop together

You choose who to invite. People you invite can see your lists, check-offs and cooking steps, and see you by the first part of your email address. Only invite people you trust, and remove anyone any time from your profile.

Kroger and other services

Daphne works with stores in the Kroger family but isn't affiliated with or endorsed by The Kroger Co. If you link your Kroger account, Kroger's own terms apply to it.

Your Kroger cart, substitutions, pickup, delivery, payment and anything you buy are between you and Kroger. Daphne only adds items to your cart when you ask.

Your account

Keep access to your email secure, since it's how you sign in. Don't misuse the service, attempt to scrape, reverse engineer or overload it, guess other people's invite codes, or use it for anything unlawful. We may limit, suspend or close accounts that do. You can delete your account any time from your profile.

Free plan and Premium

Daphne has a free plan and a paid plan, Daphne Premium. After the pilot, the free plan includes one list and 15 added items in any 7 days, with fair-use daily limits on everything. Premium removes those weekly limits and adds pantry tracking, breakfast and lunch basics, company, party and snack extras, and your own recipes.

Premium is an auto-renewing subscription sold through the App Store or Google Play: $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year in the U.S., or the local price shown in the store before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple ID or Google Play account when you confirm. The subscription renews automatically at the same price for the same period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends; we'll tell you in advance if the price ever changes. If a free trial is offered, the store shows which plan it applies to, and it becomes a paid subscription when it ends unless you cancel first.

To cancel: on iPhone, open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions. On Android, open Google Play, tap your profile, then Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions. Deleting your Daphne account doesn't cancel a subscription. Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their policies. Premium can be shared through Apple Family Sharing where it's available.

Allergen screening, Shop together, where your food comes from, your privacy controls (export and delete) and Stretch it are never part of a paid plan.

Daphne Insights

Sharing anonymous shopping trends is optional and off by default. The privacy policy explains what it includes; you can turn it on or off any time.

No warranty; limits on liability

Daphne is provided as is and as available, without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent the law allows. Dowling Development LLC isn't liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or for harm arising from products you buy, cook or eat, including allergic reactions. Our total liability for any claim about Daphne is limited to the greater of what you paid for Daphne in the 12 months before the claim or $50. Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Alabama, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Alabama, except where the law of the place you live gives you the right to bring a claim there.

Changes and contact

We may update these terms. The date above will change, and we'll tell you in the app before significant changes apply. If you keep using Daphne after that, the new terms apply. Questions: [email protected].