PanScale
Terms of Use
Last updated 11 November 2026
PanScale rescales a recipe to the tin you actually own. These are the terms for using it. They are short because the app is simple: it is free, it has no accounts, and it takes no payments.
The short version
- It is free, with every feature on. There is nothing to buy.
- There are no accounts, so there is nothing to sign up for and nothing of yours on our servers. Your recipes live on your device.
- The bake advice is advice. PanScale predicts a temperature and a time from the geometry of your pan. It cannot see your oven. Bake to doneness, not to the clock.
- Your recipes are yours. We claim no ownership of anything you put in.
1. Who this is with
PanScale is an independent app. These terms are between you and the developer who publishes it. For anything at all, write to support@panscale.app.
2. What you may do with it
You may use PanScale for your own baking, on any device you own or control, for as long as you like, at no cost. You may not redistribute or resell it, and you may not reverse-engineer it except to the extent the law permits regardless of this clause.
3. What PanScale does — and what it does not promise
PanScale takes the pan a recipe was written for, the pan you actually own, and rescales the ingredients. It then predicts what that change does to the bake: a temperature, a time range, and a confidence in its own answer.
That prediction is an estimate derived from geometry. It does not know your oven's true temperature, how it circulates, how full it is, what your tin is made of, or how your batter actually behaves. The app tells you how confident it is, and declines to give a number at all when it should not guess — please take that seriously in both directions.
You are responsible for the bake. Check doneness the way a baker does — a skewer, a thermometer, the spring of the top — not by the clock. You are responsible for safe food handling, for cooking foods containing eggs, meat or dairy to a safe temperature, and for your own allergen checks. PanScale rescales quantities; it has no knowledge of what is in your ingredients.
PanScale is a kitchen tool. It is not professional, dietary, nutritional or medical advice.
4. Your recipes, and ours
Your recipes remain yours. They are stored on your own device and we never receive them, so there is nothing for us to claim a licence to.
A recipe you import from a website belongs to whoever wrote it. PanScale reads an ingredient list for your own use; it does not give you the right to republish someone else's recipe.
The app itself, its pan library, its density data, its text and its design are ours and are protected by copyright. All rights not granted in section 2 are reserved.
5. Using it reasonably
Please do not break the law with it, probe or attack our server, or use the link-import feature to scrape sites in bulk or to read sites that have said no.
6. No warranty, and the limits of our liability
Except where the law gives you rights that cannot be excluded, PanScale is provided "as is" and without warranty of any kind.
To the extent the law permits, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, or lost data. Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected.
7. Changes
We may change these terms, and will update the date at the top when we do. If PanScale ever gains accounts or paid features, these terms will be replaced by a fuller agreement covering them, and you will be told in the app before that takes effect rather than afterwards.
How we handle information is set out separately in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.