Terms and Conditions
These terms cover your use of the Aplyxa website and waitlist. By using the site or joining the waitlist, you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use the site.
1. What Aplyxa is
Aplyxa is a college application coaching tool for high school students that is still being built. Right now, this website describes the product, offers a short demo lesson and a few free tools, and lets you join a waitlist. Aplyxa is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Common App, the FAFSA or the U.S. Department of Education, or any college or university. Those names belong to their owners.
2. Who can use Aplyxa
You must be 18 or older to accept these terms yourself. If you're a student under 18, a parent or guardian must sign up for you and accept these terms on your behalf, and they're responsible for how you use Aplyxa. Aplyxa isn't for children under 13. Students under 18 may buy a season pass or extra coach messages with a parent or guardian's permission. A parent or guardian is responsible for purchases made for or by their student.
3. The waitlist
Joining the waitlist is free and doesn't create an account or commit you to buying anything. When you join, you confirm that you're 18 or older, or that you're a parent or guardian joining for a student under 18. We'll use the email address as described in our Privacy Policy. You can ask to be removed at any time through the contact page.
4. Plans, payments and refunds
- Season passes: Guided ($15) and Premium ($89) are one-time payments that last through May 1 of the student's graduation year. They never renew, so there's nothing to cancel. Upgrading from Guided to Premium costs the difference ($74). Season passes go on sale when the app opens to everyone.
- Paying: payments are handled by Stripe on its own checkout page. Aplyxa never sees or stores card numbers.
- Refunds: you can get a full refund of a season pass within 7 days of paying, for any reason. Contact us through the contact page and we'll refund it to your original payment method. The pass ends when it's refunded.
- Extra coach messages: Premium includes a set number of coach messages each day and each month. Past that, extra messages cost $5 for 25. They're used only after the included messages run out and don't expire before the season ends. Unused extra messages can be refunded at 20 cents each, any time during the season.
- Prices: we may change prices for future purchases. A change never affects a pass or messages you've already bought.
5. No guarantees about admissions
Aplyxa is a study and planning tool. We can't promise that you'll be admitted to any college or receive any scholarship or financial aid. Admissions decisions are made by colleges, not by us.
6. Check important information yourself
We try to keep deadlines, requirements, and financial aid information accurate, but it can change and we can make mistakes. Always confirm deadlines and requirements on each college's official website and on the official Common App and FAFSA sites before you rely on them. You're responsible for submitting your applications correctly and on time. The tools on this site, like the word counter and the plan builder, are simple guides. Their counts and suggestions can differ from the Common App's, so check your work there too.
7. Your work stays your own
Aplyxa is designed to coach you, not to write for you. Anything you submit to a college must be your own work. Don't use Aplyxa to produce writing you present as your own if it isn't, and follow the honesty rules of the Common App, each college, and your school. You own everything you write.
8. The AI coach
This website doesn't use AI yet. When Aplyxa's coach launches, it will be an AI system, not a person, and the app will say so. Like any AI, it can make mistakes, so check anything important. It isn't a replacement for a school counselor, a doctor, or any other professional. We'll update these terms before the coach goes live.
9. Using the site fairly
Please don't misuse the site. That includes trying to break or overload it, signing up other people without their permission, submitting false information (including about your age), or sending spam or harmful content through the contact form. We may remove sign-ups or block access that breaks these rules.
10. Our content
The Aplyxa name, logo, design, and the text and lessons on this site belong to Aplyxa. You're welcome to use the site and share links to it, but please don't copy large parts of it or present it as your own.
11. The site is provided as is
We work hard to keep the site useful and running, but we provide it as is, without warranties of any kind. It may sometimes be unavailable or contain errors. To the extent the law allows, Aplyxa isn't liable for losses that come from using, or not being able to use, the site or the information on it.
12. Changes
We may update these terms as Aplyxa grows. When we do, we'll change the date at the top of this page. If you keep using the site after that, the new terms apply.
13. Contact
Questions about these terms? Use the contact page.