version 10 · as shown in the app before first use
Cherry Outside brings into one app what once took several, for everything you do outside: tides and currents, buoys, lakes and rivers, snow and avalanche forecasts, the weather, the sun and moon, fish counts, trails, crags, ski areas and parks. It draws each as the place it describes — live animations of the tide and current stations, wind as water, the ground in 3D — and its instruments, among them ACTIVE, LIVE VIEW, BLACK/WHITE OUT and BUBBLES, were made for this app. Where the app estimates anything, it says so on the screen. Cherry Outside is made by Sound City LLC and sold on the App Store, at the price and on the terms shown there.
Cherry Outside keeps its own databases of places and routes, built and maintained by us from OpenStreetMap, OpenBeta and the land managers, kept current with what the outdoor community adds to them, and delivered to your phone in packs you download and manage. Each is offered under the licence of the data it is built from; OpenStreetMap's under the Open Database License, © OpenStreetMap contributors. The live readings, predictions and forecasts come from NOAA, the National Weather Service, the U.S. Naval Observatory, the U.S. Geological Survey, USDA, the Army Corps of Engineers, the National Park Service, Recreation.gov, the avalanche centers, MET Norway and the other sources named in the app, and are shown as published, with their time. We do not correct, complete or guarantee them. A gauge can fail, a forecast can be wrong, a station can fall silent, and a network can be unreachable. Check the source itself before you rely on a figure that matters.
Nothing in Cherry Outside is a navigational product. The chart layer is a picture of NOAA's chart for orientation, not a substitute for the official chart on a plotter. The maps, Live View, the compass, the wayfinding rows and the trail routes tell you where the agencies' data puts you and a line on their trails; they are never checked against snow, water, closures or the ground in front of you, and GPS and the compass carry the errors the app states. Carry a real map and compass, and use your own judgment.
Tides, currents, rivers, avalanches, weather and terrain can injure or kill. Cherry Outside gives you the published numbers; the decision to go, to turn back or to wait is yours alone. To the fullest extent the law allows, Sound City LLC is not liable for any loss, injury or damage arising from your use of the app or your reliance on anything shown in it, and the app is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind.
The app has no accounts and collects nothing about you, except the visitor reports and place notes you choose to post (section 8). It runs no analytics, shows no ads, sells nothing, and has no server of its own. Your location, motion, camera, microphone, Photos, Bluetooth sensors and, on Apple Watch, the heart rate and active energy of a workout you started are used on your devices only, when you allow them, and never reach us. While a track you started is recording, the app keeps its GPS and your paired sensors running with the screen locked, and stops when you press STOP. The only thing ever sent to an agency is the coordinate of the place you chose to look at, which is how a forecast is asked for. Two exceptions, so they are said: to name the spot you stand on, the app asks Apple's own geocoder for a name at your position, under Apple's Maps privacy (you can decline location and the app names the spot from its own catalogue instead); and when you type a place's name to look it up, the words you typed go to Apple's Maps search to find it, under the same privacy, with nothing about you attached. A third, for a picture: when you take or choose a photo to identify a plant, a tree or an animal, the picture is read on your phone by Apple's Visual Look Up and by the phone's own image classifier; the app keeps no copy of that photo, sends none, and never sees Apple's answer, which is Apple's own service under Apple's privacy. A fourth, for video you link: a YouTube or Vimeo video plays inside the app only when you tap PLAY, from YouTube's privacy-enhanced player or Vimeo's do-not-track player, and that service sees the play. Some agencies publish through services that host their data (Esri's ArcGIS, Amazon's open-data registry, Washington's open-data portal), the fish counts come from the University of Washington: each receives the place you chose and nothing about you. The map's trails and names are read on your phone from the app's own data and are never asked of anyone. Anything you keep for offline use stays on your phone until you clear it.
What you make in the app — tracks, pins, notes, photographs, videos, drawings and the figures of a session — is kept on your phone, in the app, and nowhere else. We hold no copy, so if the phone is lost or the app is deleted, it goes with them unless the phone is backed up; the app shows you how (YOU › BACK IT UP). A photograph you take in the app is also saved full size to your Photos, unless you turn that off in Prefs; a video you take is saved to your Photos, and the app keeps its thumbnail and a pointer to it, playing it from there. A video or photograph you choose from Photos stays where it is. Removing any of them in the app never deletes them from your Photos. Nothing you make leaves the phone unless you share it yourself; a shared picture is flattened and carries no location. What you share, and with whom, is yours to decide and yours to answer for: respect other people's privacy, the places and the land you photograph, and the rights in anything you did not make.
Distance, pace, climb and time come from your phone's GPS and the published ground; steps and cadence from its motion sensor; climbs and height from its barometer; heart rate, power and cadence from the watch or sensors you pair; calories from a published formula at a weight you enter, or from your Apple Watch. Each can be wrong — a GPS fix under trees, a barometer drifting with the weather, a strap that slips — and the app marks its estimates as estimates. None of it is medical information or advice. Ask a doctor before you train hard or change what you do, and stop if something feels wrong.
If you choose to post a visitor report — a few fixed choices about a place, such as a muddy trail, a full parking lot or small surf — or a short note of up to 140 characters, it is stored in the app's database in Apple's iCloud so other visitors, in the app and on cherryoutside.com, can see it. It carries no name, no handle and no photo, belongs to the place rather than to you, and is deleted after a week. You can post only from within 2 miles of the place; your phone checks that itself and sends no position. Links and phone numbers are removed from a note and a filter stops abusive words. You can delete your own at any time under YOU › Your reports. Posting needs an iCloud account, and Apple's iCloud terms apply to it. A report or note is a visitor's word, not a measurement: do not rely on one for your safety. Anyone can flag one; we may remove any of them, hide a visitor's posts, or stop showing them at a place — including on tribal land, where they appear only as the Nation asks. Do not use them to mislead, harass or harm anyone.
You may use Cherry Outside on the devices your App Store account allows, under Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement, which these terms sit alongside. The agencies' data stays theirs under their own terms; MET Norway's forecasts are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Do not use the app to overload or interfere with any agency's service — it asks each source no more often than the source itself updates, and that is part of the deal.
We may change these terms when the app changes; a new version asks you to read and accept again before the app opens. You can withdraw your acceptance at any time in Prefs, after which the app asks again at its next launch. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, United States. Questions go to the address on the app's support page.