As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly draft terms for your UK mobile app.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

1 hourto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ita professional

What the alternative costsA solicitor is the alternative when the app has material commercial, consumer, intellectual property or data protection risks.

If this goes wrong: users rely on unclear or ineffective terms and your business has to deal with disputes, refunds, complaints or regulatory scrutiny.

What to actually do

Hand it to a person
The route this page recommends
Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.
Use a tool built for this
Second choice

Do it yourself

The distant third

A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

How to actually do it

Open a document and record the app's legal business name, trading name, registered address, contact email, app-store distribution, user countries and target users.
Gather the current product notes, price list, subscription settings, payment-provider terms, refund process, age restrictions, account flow and customer-support process.
List how users submit content, what licence the business needs, which uses are prohibited, how moderation works, and when accounts or access can be suspended or ended.
Paste the gathered information into the prompt, replacing every bracketed slot, and ask the chatbot to draft the terms and mark missing information instead of guessing.
Compare every factual section of the draft with the app's current screens, pricing, checkout flow, privacy arrangements and support process, then correct mismatches in the source document and regenerate the affected clauses.
Check the draft against current guidance on GOV.UK and the ICO, including consumer cancellations, digital content, unfair terms and data protection, without treating the chatbot's legal explanations as authoritative.
Send the complete draft and the solicitor-review checklist to a UK solicitor, then publish only the version that reflects their advice and the app's actual operation.

Prompt

Act as a legal-document drafting assistant, not a solicitor. Draft clear UK terms and conditions for this mobile app using only the information supplied below. Do not invent facts, legal requirements, prices, rights, services or company details. Mark every missing or legally sensitive point as [NEEDS CONFIRMATION]. Separate factual assumptions from legal drafting. Cover, where relevant: the parties, service description, eligibility and age limits, account rules, subscriptions and payments, cancellation and refunds, user content and licences, acceptable use, intellectual property, service availability, third-party services, suspension and termination, liability, complaints, contact details, governing law and jurisdiction. Identify provisions that need a solicitor's review, especially consumer rights, subscription renewals, limitation of liability, user-generated content, children, app-store terms, international users and data protection. Do not draft a privacy notice as a substitute for separate UK GDPR work. Use plain British English and headings suitable for publication. At the end, provide a factual checklist of information I still need to confirm and a solicitor-review checklist. Here are the details: Business name and legal form: [DETAILS]. Registered address and contact email: [DETAILS]. App name and what it does: [DETAILS]. Countries and user types: [DETAILS]. Minimum age: [DETAILS]. Accounts and verification: [DETAILS]. Prices, subscriptions, renewals and payment provider: [DETAILS]. Cancellation, refunds and digital content arrangements: [DETAILS]. User content and moderation: [DETAILS]. Prohibited uses: [DETAILS]. Third-party services and app stores: [DETAILS]. Intellectual property ownership: [DETAILS]. Support and complaints process: [DETAILS]. Service availability and termination approach: [DETAILS]. Governing law preference: [DETAILS]. Other business requirements: [DETAILS].

Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

What it gets wrong

AI cannot decide whether your particular cancellation, refund, renewal or liability clauses are enforceable.
AI cannot know whether the draft matches the app's real checkout flow, permissions, moderation practice and data handling unless you supply and maintain those facts.
AI cannot take responsibility for terms that breach consumer protection, data protection or intellectual property obligations.
AI cannot replace a solicitor's judgement on unusual business models, children, regulated services, international users or high-value disputes.
AI cannot keep the terms aligned with later product, pricing, law or platform changes without a controlled review process.

What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, regulated advice and verification cost.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

Axis	Score (0–2)
Output	2
Inputs	2
Verification	1
Liability	0
Effort delta	2
Total	7 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT write terms and conditions for my app?: It can produce a useful first draft, but that is not professional advice. Give it the app's real features, pricing, user rules and cancellation process, then have a UK solicitor check the document before publication.
Do I need a solicitor for mobile app terms?: For a basic draft, AI can reduce the writing work, but you still carry the liability. A solicitor should review terms involving subscriptions, consumer refunds, user content, children, international users, regulated services or significant commercial risk.
What should app terms and conditions include?: They commonly cover the service, accounts, payments, cancellations, refunds, user content, acceptable use, intellectual property, suspension, liability, complaints and governing law. The exact contents depend on how your app works, so missing facts must be confirmed rather than invented.
Can I use AI-generated app terms in the UK?: You can use AI to prepare a working draft, but it is not professional advice and should not be published unchecked. Compare it with your actual app and current UK requirements, then ask a UK solicitor to review the legal effect of the important clauses.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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