Terms

The rules for using Forklist, an app made by one person. Forklist is free, and Forklist Plus is an optional yearly subscription.

Last updated 6 November 2026

Using it at all

By using Forklist you accept these terms. Forklist is free, and you pay only if you choose Forklist Plus, which renews every year until you cancel. You can delete your account at any time, and download a copy of your data first.

You must be 13 or older, and you sign in with a Google or Apple account. Tables are the exception: they put you at a restaurant with people you may not know yet, so they are for people 18 or older. If Apple or Google tells Forklist your age range, their answer decides, and where two answers differ the younger one counts. Otherwise Forklist asks you and takes your word for it. Forklist does not check anyone's age or identity, so meet at the restaurant, and report anyone at a table who makes you uneasy. If they say you are under 18, tables stay closed to you whatever you said, until each one that said so says you are 18. If they say you are under 13, Forklist deletes the account.

Who runs it

Forklist is run by Aditya Prasad, a sole proprietor in Virginia, USA. Write to socials@forklist.me, or use Support.

Forklist Plus

Forklist Plus costs $24.99 a year in the US, or the price the App Store or Google Play shows where you live. You buy it in the iPhone and iPad app through Apple, or in the Android app through Google Play. It is not sold on the website. Apple or Google takes the payment, and Forklist never sees your card.

It renews every year until you cancel. To be sure it does not renew, cancel at least 24 hours before the year ends, in your App Store or Google Play subscriptions, or from Manage or cancel in the app. Plus stays on until the end of the year you paid for. If the price goes up, the store tells you before it renews, and you can cancel first.

Everything you need to keep your places and share them with your friends is free. Plus adds guides anyone can read, a crawl link anyone can open, a crawl you can save as a PDF, your whole map on your phone with your own photos, nudges with the app closed, taste sliders, six photos a place, the ring and your rank, Plus themes, pin colours, and share cards without the Forklist mark. Settings, Forklist Plus, shows each one.

Your map with no signal works only in the phone apps. Nudges with the app closed are not in the Android app yet. They need your phone's location set to Always and Precise, and every other perk works without that.

Refunds are Apple's or Google's to decide, under their own rules. If Plus did not work for you, tell me as well.

Deleting your Forklist account does not cancel Plus. The store keeps charging until you cancel there, so cancel first.

Plus belongs to the Forklist account that bought it. It follows that account wherever you sign in, and it cannot move to another account.

When Plus ends, the perks stop and what you made stays.

• Your guides stay up for anyone with the link. You can still open and delete them, but you can't edit, unpublish or start one. To take a guide down, delete it.
• A crawl link that is on stays on until someone on the crawl turns it off, which anyone who can change the crawl can do. You can't turn on a new link or save a crawl as a PDF.
• The copy of your map on your phone stays readable. Up to 1,000 places keep updating, and the rest stay as they were. Your lists, crawls and photos already there keep up with changes, nothing new is added, and a photo you remove leaves the phone.
• Photos you added stay, all six. You can add another to a place once it has fewer than three.
• Nudges with the app closed stop, and For you goes back to weighing things the usual way.
• The ring, your rank, the Plus themes and your pin colours go, and share cards carry the Forklist mark again.

If you buy Plus again within 30 days of it ending, your rank carries on from where it was, and the gap doesn't count.

If you are under 18, ask a parent or guardian before you buy Plus. Apple and Google may ask them to approve it, and where a parent's settings say no, the store will not sell it.

What you post

What you write and the photos you add are yours. Forklist does not claim ownership of your notes, ratings, pins, photos, crawls or guides.

You give Forklist permission to store what you add and to show it to the people you chose. For a note, that is just you, your friends or one group, and changing its audience changes who sees it from then on. A note set to Just you is shown to nobody else. If Google Maps lists a place you pin, Explore shows it to everyone on Forklist. It shows your name and note only to people who can already read the note.

A guide is public once you publish it. With Forklist Plus you can publish one, and then anyone with its link can read it, signed in or not, and pass the link on. Publishing it gives Forklist permission to show it, with your name, to anyone who opens that link, for as long as it stays published. Search engines are asked not to list it, but Forklist can't take back a copy somebody else made. Only put in a guide what you are happy for anyone to read.

A crawl can reach people who are not on it, in two ways. Anyone on it who can change it and has Forklist Plus can turn on a link that shows anyone who has it the crawl's name, its stops in order with where each one is, and when it sets off, never a line, a note or who is going. Anyone on the crawl who can change it can turn the link off. Anyone on it with Plus can also save it as a PDF, which prints each stop's line and the first name of whoever wrote it, and that copy is theirs.

Naming who you went with. Name only friends who were there. Each is asked first, and nothing shows until they say yes. Naming someone again and again after they don't say yes breaks What not to post, and they can block you.

Delete your account and what you wrote goes with it, guides included. A line you wrote on a stop of someone else's crawl stays, without your name, and reports other people filed about you stay with the team. The privacy page explains what is removed and what stays.

What not to post

Forklist has zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive people.

• Nothing illegal, and nothing that exists to harass, threaten or abuse somebody.
• Nothing about a person's home. A pin of where someone lives will be removed, and so will a guide or a shared crawl that shows one. Before you put a place a friend pinned into a guide, ask them.
• No impersonation. Do not use a name, on your profile or on anything you post, that suggests you are somebody else.
• No spam and no advertising. A pin for a place you own is fine. Pinning lots of your own places to advertise them is not.
• Nothing you do not have the right to post, such as someone else's photo.

Break these and what you posted is removed, and the app tells you what went and which rule it broke. If it was deliberate or abusive, your account is removed too. If you think a decision was wrong, ask through Support and a person looks again.

Reporting

You can report a note, a photo, a person, a poll in a group, or a guide. Anyone who can read a guide can report it from its page, with or without an account. A report hides nothing by itself. A person reads every report and removes anything that breaks these rules. A guide that breaks them is taken down whole. You can also block anyone from their profile. False reports can get an account removed.

One thing happens without a person: tables open to a city are only for accounts in good standing. An account is not in good standing while two or more people signed in to Forklist have open reports about it or anything it posted, or for 90 days after the Forklist team takes down anything that account added, its name and profile included. While it is not, you can't see, ask at or open a table open to a city, and your own city tables leave other people's lists. Nothing you wrote is hidden, and your friends' and groups' tables carry on. Good standing comes back once fewer than two people have open reports about the account and 90 days have passed since the last takedown. While your city tables are paused, the app tells you why on Tables, and you can ask a person to look again.

When someone reports a person, whoever reads it can also clear what other people see of theirs that breaks these rules: their name, line or city, the name they gave a group or a list, their line on a crawl stop, or their guide address. Clearing one counts as a takedown.

If you are on a crawl, you can report its name. That goes to a person, and the name stays until they decide. A name that breaks the rules above is cleared. If someone sends you a crawl link and something on it breaks the rules, write to me through Report on that page, which opens Support.

The ▲ next to a note is an upvote. It tells your friends you recommend the place. It is not a report. On a guide, only its author sees how many it has.

Tables

A table is an invitation to eat: a place, a day, a time and some seats. Nobody can write anything on it. Your friends and the people in your groups, other than the groups tables make, can ask for a seat. If the host opens it to the city, so can anyone on Forklist in that city who is counted as 18 or older. Tables open to a city are only for accounts in good standing that are two weeks old, with five friends and ten saved places. The host decides who sits down. Everyone at a table can see each other's names, and nobody becomes anybody's friend by sitting at one.

You can report or block anyone you meet through a table. A report goes to a person. Reports from two people also pause the other person's tables open to a city, as Reporting explains. Meeting someone is your decision, and Forklist is not there with you, so choose a place you would be happy to be in with a stranger. Forklist does not check anyone's identity or past, including for city tables. Judge each person yourself before you meet.

Groups, and who you let in

Adding someone to a group lets them see everything shared with it, including other people's pins. They can also see who else is in the group by name. You can only add people you are already friends with, and anyone can leave.

A group only has a join link if its owner sets a password. If you set one and share the link, you are responsible for who gets in. Changing the password cancels every link already sent, without removing anyone who is already in.

Challenges. The Forklist team can set one challenge for everyone a month, and finishing one earns the Challenger badge. A challenge with friends is for fun and earns nothing. Nothing is won and nothing is paid.

What is not promised

Forklist is provided as it is, Forklist Plus included. It is built by one person in the evenings.

• It may be down. There is no uptime guarantee and no support contract.
• It may lose data. Backups exist, but do not keep something here that exists nowhere else.
• What is on the map is someone's opinion. Opening hours and ratings come from Google and may be wrong. Check before you travel.
• Features may change or be removed, including ones you liked.
• A nudge depends on your phone. Your phone decides when to check where it is, so a nudge can come late or not at all, and it needs location and notifications turned on.
• The copy on your phone can be out of date until it next reaches Forklist.
• Walking times and arrival times are estimates.

As far as the law allows, Forklist accepts no liability for what happens as a result of using it, such as a wasted trip, a closed restaurant or a bad meal. Where a law does not allow all of that, the exclusion applies as far as that law allows, and the rest of these terms still stand.

Your data, and what you can do with it

The privacy page explains what is collected, who can read it, and what leaves the app. Two of your rights are buttons in the app. Download my data, in Settings → Account, gives you a copy of everything held about you, except reports other people filed about you, the team's log of what it took down of yours, Google's details about a place, and what other people keep private about you (GDPR Article 15, and Article 20 in the same file). A place only Google lists is given by its Google id and a Maps link. Delete my account and pins, in the same place, deletes your account and everything you wrote (Article 17). Neither costs anything or needs a reason. The cookies page lists each cookie and says where your settings are kept.

Ending it

You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Account, without giving a reason. Forklist may remove an account that breaks the rules above, and every account if the app shuts down. If it shuts down, I will tell you ahead of time and give you a way to download your data first. Removing an account, for any reason, does not cancel Forklist Plus in the store. Cancel it there.

The law that applies

Virginia law, in the USA, governs these terms. If the law where you live gives you rights these terms cannot take away, you keep them. You can also bring a claim in the courts where you live.

If you got Forklist from the App Store

Apple's standard licence agreement for apps applies too. Apple doesn't run Forklist or answer for it. I do.

Credits

Some place names, addresses and pins come from the Overture Maps Foundation, under the Community Data License Agreement – Permissive 2.0. Some of those are data from Foursquare: Copyright 2024 Foursquare Labs, Inc. All rights reserved. Available under the Apache License 2.0, with Foursquare's notice. Overture transformed Foursquare's data to its own schema. Opening hours, ratings, photos, and some place names and addresses come from Google Maps.

Forklist includes Google Maps features and content, such as the map, search, and some place names, hours and photos. Your use of them is subject to the current Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy.

Changes

If these terms change in any meaningful way, the date at the top changes and a dated entry below says what changed. Continuing to use the app means you accept the new version.

2 October 2026: added Forklist Plus, signing in with Apple, who runs Forklist, the law that applies, and how reports are handled.

4 October 2026: Apple's or Google's answer about your age decides who can use tables, Forklist deletes an account they say belongs to someone under 13, and Tables says who can ask at a table open to a city. Later the same day: Reporting says when reports pause tables open to a city, and what good standing means. Later still: the app tells you on Tables why your city tables are paused, and you can bring a claim in the courts where you live. The app tells you what went and which rule it broke when something you posted is removed, and Download my data names the three things it leaves out. Also that day: guides anyone can read once you publish them, a crawl link anyone can open and a crawl you can save as a PDF, what Forklist Plus adds and what happens when it ends, asking a friend before their pin goes in a guide, reporting a guide, three more things that are not promised, Apple's licence, and credits for the place data.

8 October 2026: nudges with the app closed are not in the Android app yet.

12 October 2026: the cookies page lists a third cookie, which only the Android and iPhone apps set.

13 October 2026: Credits says Google's own terms and privacy policy cover the Google Maps parts of the app.

20 October 2026: What you post says what stays after you delete your account. The impersonation rule covers any name you use, on your profile or on anything you post. Reporting says the team can clear what other people see of someone reported, and that clearing one counts as a takedown. Later the same day: Reporting no longer says a person reads each report within 24 hours.

25 October 2026: Using it at all says Forklist Plus renews every year until you cancel. Reporting says your own city tables leave other people's lists while your account is not in good standing. Later the same day: the address to write to is now socials@forklist.me. What you post said Explore never shows your name or note. That was wrong: it shows them to people who can already read the note, and to nobody else.

26 October 2026: What you post says to name only friends who were there, each asked first, and that nothing shows until they say yes. Groups, and who you let in says what a challenge is and that nothing is won or paid. Your data says the download also leaves out whether a friend you named has answered yet.

4 November 2026: Reporting, What is not promised, Ending it and Changes say the same things in plainer words, and What not to post gives an example. Reporting now says the app tells you why on Tables while your city tables are paused.

6 November 2026: Your data says the download leaves out what other people keep private about you, such as a nickname a friend gave you, where it named only whether a friend you named has answered yet.