terms
Loam is a small drawing game played among people who already know each other. These are the terms of using it, written plainly.
Using Loam
You need to be 18 or older; Loam is for adults. You are responsible for what you send from your account, and for keeping the device you are signed in on out of other people’s hands.
Loam is invitation-only by design. An invitation is a link somebody chose to send you; it is not permission to pass it on to strangers.
The app itself
These terms cover Loam the service. The app you installed is licensed to you under Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement, which is a separate thing and worth a read if you want to know exactly what you may do with the software.
What you draw is yours
Your drawings remain yours. You give Loam only what it needs to run the game — the permission to store a drawing, keep the strokes that let it replay, and show both to the people you draw with. That permission covers nothing else. Loam does not publish your drawings, does not use them to promote anything, does not train anything on them, and does not sell them. It ends when you delete them or delete your account.
Sending a drawing as a sticker
The drawings you can see are also stickers you can send from Messages. Sending one is you choosing to put it somewhere Loam does not run. Once it is in a conversation it is part of somebody else’s messages, on their phone, and deleting it from Loam — or deleting your whole account — cannot take it back out. Everything inside Loam still goes; a sticker already sent does not.
The same is true in the other direction. Blocking somebody takes their drawings out of your tray straight away, and yours leave their tray the next time their app checks in with Loam, which is within seconds while it is open. Neither reaches into conversations either of you has already sent one into.
Drawing other people
The prompts are about the people you play with, and that is the point. It stops being the point when it is used to bully or harass somebody, and doing that is not allowed here. Neither is anything unlawful, or anything sexual involving a minor.
The community guidelines set out the rest of what is not allowed and what happens when something is reported. They are part of these terms, and breaking them is breaking these.
If somebody is making it unpleasant, you can block them, you can report the drawing, you can leave, and you can write to us. Reports are read by a person and answered within a day.
Drawing something that is someone else’s
By submitting a drawing you are saying it is yours to submit — that you made it, and that showing it to the people you drew for does not tread on anybody else’s rights.
If you believe something in Loam is yours and should not be here, write to the address below. Say what the work is, where in Loam you saw it, how to reach you, and that you believe in good faith that its use here was not authorised. Anything with a credible complaint against it comes down while it is looked at, and an account that does it repeatedly is closed.
Ending it
You can stop using Loam whenever you like. Leaving and deleting your account are both in Settings, and what each one removes is set out in Privacy. We may close an account that breaks these terms, and will say why unless there is a legal reason not to.
Loam can also change or stop, which is the honest thing for a small app to say rather than to imply otherwise. If the service is going to end you will be told inside the app, with enough notice to save the drawings you want to keep.
What Loam does not promise
Loam is provided as it is. It is a small app made by a few people, and it may have outages, bugs, or days where a prompt does not arrive. Drawings are stored on your own device as you make them, which is the protection that actually matters — but no service is a backup, and Loam is not liable for what a failure costs you beyond what the law requires.
If something you do here lands Loam in a dispute with somebody else — a drawing that was not yours to submit, an invitation passed to a stranger — that dispute is yours to cover rather than ours.
Where a disagreement is settled
These terms are governed by the law of the State of California, and anything that cannot be settled by writing to each other belongs in the state or federal courts of California.
The rest of it
These terms, the Privacy page and the community guidelines are the whole agreement between you and Loam about the service. If a court decides one sentence here does not hold, the rest still does. Loam may pass these terms on to somebody who takes the service over; you cannot pass yours on to somebody else.
Changes
If these change in a way that matters, the app will say so rather than quietly updating this page. The date below moves whenever anything on this page does.
Contact
In effect since 9 September 2026.