FirstPass Terms and Third-Party Notices

Effective date: May 28, 2026

These Terms apply to FirstPass and its related app and paper discovery service features.

If you downloaded FirstPass from the Apple App Store, Apple’s Standard End User License Agreement also applies. These Terms are intended to add app-specific notices and rules, not replace Apple’s standard license.

What FirstPass Does

FirstPass helps you discover, search, save, triage, and read research papers and related scholarly information.

FirstPass may show paper titles, authors, abstracts, categories, links, PDFs or HTML versions, tags, summaries, rankings, related-paper suggestions, saved searches, smart folders, and other research-discovery features.

FirstPass is not a publisher, journal, archive, peer-review service, academic institution, or source of medical, legal, financial, safety, engineering, academic, or other professional advice.

Third-Party Sources

FirstPass uses scholarly information from third-party sources, including arXiv and OpenAlex, and may link to arXiv pages, PDFs, HTML pages, DOI pages, publisher pages, or other external resources.

Acknowledgement: Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability.

We are grateful for arXiv’s open access repository and OpenAlex’s open scholarly data.

FirstPass is not affiliated with, sponsored by, approved by, or endorsed by arXiv, OpenAlex, OurResearch, Apple, any publisher, university, author, journal, conference, or other third party unless we explicitly say otherwise.

Third-party data may be incomplete, delayed, changed, removed, misclassified, or inaccurate.

Research Content May Be Wrong

FirstPass is meant to help you find papers faster. It does not replace reading the original paper.

You are responsible for checking original sources before relying on anything shown in the app. Summaries, rankings, recommendations, tags, related-paper suggestions, metadata, links, and other processed content may be wrong or incomplete.

Do not cite, publish, submit, or rely on generated or processed content without independently checking the original source.

Papers, PDFs, and Rights

Third-party papers, PDFs, abstracts, metadata, names, marks, logos, and external content belong to their respective owners and may be subject to their own licenses, copyright terms, privacy policies, and usage rules.

FirstPass may link to or locally cache paper PDFs or HTML on your device to support reading and performance. That does not give you permission to copy, redistribute, publish, or reuse third-party content except as allowed by the applicable license or rights holder.

Acceptable Use

You may not misuse FirstPass or its related services.

Do not scrape, overload, attack, reverse engineer, disrupt, bypass limits, or interfere with FirstPass, its servers, or third-party services. Do not use FirstPass in a way that violates third-party terms, copyrights, trademarks, database rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or other legal rights.

We may restrict or suspend access if we believe FirstPass or its related services are being misused.

Purchases and Subscriptions

FirstPass may offer optional paid features, subscriptions, or one-time purchases through Apple’s in-app purchase system.

We will describe what is included in each paid offering before purchase. The exact features included in free and paid versions of FirstPass may change over time.

If you purchase an auto-renewable subscription, it renews automatically unless you cancel it according to Apple’s App Store rules. You can manage or cancel subscriptions through your Apple Account subscription settings.

Billing, renewal, cancellation, refunds, and payment processing are handled by Apple. We do not control Apple’s payment processing or refund decisions.

Access to paid features may depend on your purchase or subscription status, device compatibility, server availability, third-party data availability, and your compliance with these Terms.

Availability and Changes

FirstPass is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

We do not promise that FirstPass, its related services, third-party data, links, PDFs, HTML pages, model downloads, summaries, rankings, recommendations, or other features will be accurate, current, uninterrupted, secure, or available.

We may update, change, suspend, or discontinue any part of FirstPass at any time.

Privacy

Your use of FirstPass is also governed by our Privacy Policy.

If these Terms conflict with the Privacy Policy about personal information, the Privacy Policy controls for that issue.

Contact

Questions about these Terms: support@getfirstpass.app

Developer / Provider: Fernando Flores