Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-10-30

1. Who we are

Iconic Voices ("we", "us", "our") is an audiobook service: complete audiobooks of classic public-domain works narrated in AI voices, plus free voice samples in 82 AI voices. It is available on this website, in the web player at iconicvoices.io/app, and in the free Iconic Voices app for iPhone (iOS). Apps for other platforms may follow in the future; today the iPhone app is the only one.

The service is operated by Oleksandr (Alexander) Lastochkin, an individual entrepreneur (sole proprietor) based in Dnipro, Ukraine, publishing under the name Iconic Voices. He is the person you are contracting with, and the same person who holds the Apple Developer account the iPhone app is published under. Written contact: legal@iconicvoices.io; the full postal address is supplied on request to that address.

These terms govern your use of the website, the web player, and the app. By creating an account or using the service you agree to them.

2. Eligibility and age

You must be at least 13 years old to use Iconic Voices (16 in the EEA/UK where the law there requires it). If you are under 18, you may use the service only with the consent of a parent or legal guardian. Subscriptions are bought through an Apple Account, so Apple's own rules for younger users and Family Sharing (such as Ask to Buy) also apply. If you use the service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization.

3. Accounts

An account requires an email address (password optional). In the iPhone app you sign in with a 6-digit code we email to you; on the website you can use the same emailed code, or a password if you choose to set one. Authentication is provided by Supabase Auth. You are responsible for keeping access to your email account secure and your email address accurate and under your control. You can change your email in Settings → Account on the website and delete your account at any time — see iconicvoices.io/delete-account.

4. Membership and payments

Iconic Voices Membership is sold only inside the iPhone app, through Apple's In-App Purchase. Nothing is sold on this website. What your Membership unlocks belongs to your Iconic Voices account and is available wherever you sign in with it — in the app and in the web player.

4.1 What Membership includes

• While your subscription is active: unlimited listening to every complete audiobook in the library, with more on the way. Partial editions that are still in production may also be included; they are marked as partial.
• Some books are not available in every country. A text that is in the public domain in the United States can still be protected elsewhere, so what you can play depends on where you are and on your App Store country. The app shows what is available to you.
• All narration is AI-generated, and every voice is labeled (see §6).

4.2 The subscription in the iPhone app (Apple In-App Purchase)

• Apple is the seller. The subscription is purchased and renewed through Apple, which holds your payment method, takes the payment, issues the receipt and handles any applicable sales tax or VAT. We never see your card details, and we cannot start, change or stop an Apple charge.
• Price and billing period. The App Store shows you the price, the billing period and the currency on the subscription screen before you confirm, and those are the authoritative figures. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase.
• Automatic renewal. The subscription renews automatically for the same period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple Account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the current period ends. If the price changes, Apple tells you in advance and, where required, asks you to agree before you are charged the new price.
• Cancel anytime in your Apple ID subscription settings (Settings → your name → Subscriptions), or at apps.apple.com/account/subscriptions. Canceling stops the next renewal; you keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for. Deleting your Iconic Voices account does not cancel an App Store subscription — cancel it with Apple first, or Apple will keep charging you (see Delete account).
• Refunds are issued by Apple, not by us, under Apple's terms and at Apple's discretion. Request one at reportaproblem.apple.com. See our Refund Policy.
• A subscription is bound to the Iconic Voices account that was signed in when it was bought. If "Restore purchases" in the app tells you the subscription belongs to a different account, sign in with that account or email support@iconicvoices.io.
• The subscription is offered in the App Store countries where the app is published. Your use of the app itself is also governed by Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement; the license in §5, the AI disclosure in §6 and the acceptable use rules in §7 apply however you access the audio.

4.3 Legacy website purchases and subscriptions

Before web sales closed, some listeners bought books, bundles or a subscription on this website. Those purchases stay on your account and keep the access they were sold with. A legacy website subscription continues on the terms shown when you bought it until you cancel it — in Settings → Billing on the website (a PayPal subscription can be canceled there directly) or by emailing support@iconicvoices.io. You keep access until the end of the paid period and are not charged again. Refunds for legacy website charges are covered by our Refund Policy. We do not offer new purchases on this website.

5. Your license to the audio

A Membership, or a legacy website purchase, gives you a license, not ownership: a personal, non-commercial, non-transferable license to stream the audio and, in the app, download it for offline listening, for your own personal use while your access lasts. Access through a subscription ends when the subscription ends; access to a legacy one-time purchase lasts for as long as your account exists. The license does not permit redistribution, public performance, broadcast, resale, or use of the audio to train machine-learning systems.

6. AI disclosure: voices and portraits

Every narration on Iconic Voices is AI-generated audio — never a human narrator and never a lost archival recording of the author reading the book. Every book and sample carries one of four labels, shown before you press play:

• Restored AI voice — an AI voice restored from real recordings: a voice model built from surviving recordings of the author's own speaking voice. What you hear is newly generated speech, not a surviving recording.
• Designed AI voice — a new AI voice generated from a written description of how the author sounded. It is not cloned from any recording of the author, including where recordings survive, and it is not the author's voice.
• Studio AI voice — a new AI performance. Where no usable recording of the author survives, a voice designed in our studio reads the book. It is not the author's voice.
• AI voice · disputed source — an AI voice modeled on archival material that is very short, in a different language from the book, or of uncertain attribution, so it cannot support a full restoration. We label it rather than claim more than the source supports.

Free samples in a Designed AI voice show no label badge in the iPhone app until an app update adds one; their label appears on each sample's voice page on this website. Until the next app update, the welcome screen in the TestFlight test build of the app labels its H.G. Wells sample "Restored AI voice", although that sample is a Designed AI voice; its voice page on this website gives the correct label.

Portraits are AI-generated too. The author portraits on the website, in the app and in link previews are AI-generated images, not photographs, and they are labeled "AI-generated portrait" ("AI portrait" in the app). They are artistic interpretations and do not show real scenes.

Using an author's name, a voice model or a portrait does not mean that the author, their estate or any archive endorses Iconic Voices. You should never assume you are hearing the author's actual voice or seeing a real photograph. Full details, including how to request removal of a voice or a portrait, are in our Voice Rights & AI Disclosure.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Scrape, bulk-download, or resell audio or metadata from our catalog
• Redistribute, broadcast, or create derivative works from our narrations without written permission
• Attempt to extract, reverse-engineer, or reproduce our voice models
• Share account access or circumvent entitlement checks
• Submit automated or fraudulent form entries
• Use the service for any unlawful, harassing, or discriminatory purpose

8. Intellectual property

The texts we narrate are in the public domain in the United States — published in 1930 or earlier (US). Availability varies by country, so some books and samples are not offered everywhere. The narrations themselves, our voice models, platform code, website and app design, and branding are the property of Iconic Voices. See Voice Rights for how we handle right-of-publicity, likeness and removal requests.

9. Termination

You may stop using the service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate accounts that materially breach these terms (for example, account sharing or bulk scraping); where reasonable we will warn you first. If we terminate your account without cause, we will refund a pro-rated share of any active legacy website subscription. If your subscription was bought through Apple we cannot refund it ourselves — we will tell you, so that you can claim the unused part from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com, and you should cancel the subscription at apps.apple.com/account/subscriptions so Apple stops billing you.

10. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The service is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability for any claim arising out of the service is limited to the amount you paid for the service — directly or through Apple — in the 12 months preceding the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or your statutory consumer rights.

11. Dispute resolution

If you have a dispute, email legal@iconicvoices.io first — we aim to resolve most issues informally within 7 business days. If informal resolution fails, disputes will be handled in the courts of the jurisdiction in §12. Consumers retain any statutory right to bring claims in their own country of residence.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Ukraine, where the operator named in §1 is established, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. This does not deprive you of the protection of any mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence, and a consumer may bring proceedings in the courts of their own country of residence.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If changes are material, we will notify account holders by email at least 14 days before they take effect and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

14. Contact

Questions about these terms: legal@iconicvoices.io. Support: support@iconicvoices.io or the Support page. Voice or portrait removal requests: legal@iconicvoices.io (see Voice Rights).