Last updated: October 19, 2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the fomo mobile application (including its Mac version), the fomo Apple TV app, and related services (collectively, the "Service") operated by FOMO Circles LLC, a Texas limited liability company ("fomo," "we," "us," or "our").
Using fomo on Apple TV? The Apple TV app lets you view, react to, comment on, save, and share posts; privacy specifics for that app are described in our Apple TV Privacy Policy.
By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not access or use the Service.
You must be at least 18 years old to use fomo. When you sign up, you enter your date of birth and confirm that you are 18 or older, and the app does not let anyone younger create an account. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will close it and delete the associated personal information.
By using the Service, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age, have the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement, and are not barred from using the Service under applicable law.
You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials. You agree to:
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or that we reasonably believe are being used for unauthorized purposes.
You agree not to use the Service to:
We have no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. We remove such content and may suspend or ban the accounts responsible.
You retain ownership of the content you post on fomo ("User Content"). By posting content, you grant fomo a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable license to use, display, reproduce, and distribute your User Content solely for the purpose of operating and providing the Service.
This license ends when you delete your content or your account, except where your content has been shared with others and they have not deleted it, or where we are required to retain it for legal purposes.
fomo does not use your User Content (your photos, videos, messages, comments, profile, or any other content you create on the Service) to train, fine-tune, or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning models, whether our own or those of any third party. We do not sell, license, or share your User Content with any AI training provider. This commitment applies indefinitely and survives termination of your account.
The only automated system that processes your media on our servers is Google Cloud Vision SafeSearch, which scans photos and frames sampled from videos in posts outside encrypted circles for sensitive content, for safety purposes only. For encrypted posts, a sensitive-content check also runs on your own phone (Apple’s or fomo’s on-device model); it never sends your photos to us. fomo doesn’t use generative AI and doesn’t rank your feed. If you turn on video captions, Apple’s or Google’s speech recognition may process the audio, and ads may be personalized if you allow it. Google is contractually prohibited from using your content to train its own models under our Cloud agreement. See our Privacy Policy for details.
You are solely responsible for the content you post. We do not endorse or guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of any User Content.
Encrypted messages, posts and calls are private to the people in the chat or circle. You remain responsible for what you send, and anyone who can see it may share it with us to report a violation of these Terms.
We reserve the right to remove any content that violates these Terms or that we find objectionable, without prior notice. We are not obligated to monitor all content but may do so at our discretion. Encrypted content is the exception: we cannot read it, so we act on it only when someone who can see it reports it.
The Service and its original content (excluding User Content), features, and functionality are and will remain the exclusive property of FOMO Circles LLC. The Service is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws.
The fomo name, logo, and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans are trademarks of FOMO Circles LLC. You may not use these marks without our prior written permission.
We respect the intellectual property rights of others and expect you to do the same. We respond to valid notices of alleged copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”).
If you believe content on fomo infringes your copyright, send a written notice to dmca@fomocircles.com that includes: (1) your physical or electronic signature; (2) the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed; (3) the material you claim is infringing and where it appears in fomo; (4) your address, phone number, and email; (5) a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (6) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act for them.
Our designated agent for copyright notices is Copyright Agent, FOMO Circles LLC, registered with the U.S. Copyright Office (registration number DMCA-1083504; the agent's full listing, including its mailing address, is in the Office's DMCA Designated Agent Directory). Phone (972) 658-4432; email dmca@fomocircles.com.
If you believe your content was removed by mistake, you may send a counter-notice to the same address that includes: (1) your physical or electronic signature; (2) the removed material and where it appeared; (3) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed by mistake or misidentification; and (4) your name, address, and phone number, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your district.
We will terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe others’ copyrights.
Fliks are designed to be temporary. They disappear about 24 hours after they’re posted, or sooner once everyone they were sent to has used their replay. However:
You should not share sensitive or confidential information through Fliks with the expectation of guaranteed deletion.
Circles are private by default: posts in a private circle are visible only to its members. A circle’s owner can make it public. Anyone on fomo can then find it in search, join it, and see what is posted there, so don’t post anything in a public circle that you wouldn’t want any fomo user to see.
Your profile is public unless you turn Public Profile off in Settings. Anyone on fomo can find a public profile in search and see your name, username, photo, badges, bio, and banner. Your posts are still shown only in the circles you share them to. Any fomo user can send you a direct message unless one of you has blocked the other.
Everyone is added to the FOMO Official circle, which is public and where only fomo posts. You can leave it at any time. The Explore feed shows posts only from circles you belong to and from fomo, newest first.
You can send your own post or Thought to someone on fomo who isn’t in its circles. They get view-only access to that one item: they can’t comment on it, react to it, or share it, and they don’t see your circles or your other posts. You can stop sharing it at any time. Encrypted posts can only be shared within their circles.
You can call people you know on fomo. A one-on-one call is available only when you both have sent each other a message and you share a circle other than FOMO Official, and neither of you has blocked the other. Group-chat calls and calls in private circles can include up to 12 people. Calls aren’t available in public circles.
To keep calling fair for everyone and our costs predictable, calls have limits. These include up to 180 minutes of calling per person per day, a cap on how many calls you can start in a short period, and a shared daily limit on the relay capacity that connects calls. When a limit is reached, you may not be able to start or stay on a call, or a call may connect at lower quality, until the limit resets. We may change these limits.
fomo does not record calls. We keep a record of who called whom, when, and for how long for up to 90 days. One-on-one calls in an encrypted chat are end-to-end encrypted. Group-chat and circle calls can be end-to-end encrypted when encryption is available for that group or circle, and the call says so.
fomo tries to stop other people from capturing what you share. On iPhone, screenshots and screen recordings of fomo come out black, and when someone tries to capture your post, Flik, Thought, profile, or a chat you are in, we let you know who tried. On Android, screenshots of fomo are blocked, and screen recordings are detected on Android 15 and later. This protection is best effort: it can’t stop someone from photographing a screen with another device, and it may not work on every device or app version.
Photos and videos posted to fomo outside encrypted circles are automatically scanned by Google Cloud Vision SafeSearch, which checks photos and frames sampled from videos. Encrypted photos and videos are checked on the poster’s phone instead, and never scanned by us. Posts that look sensitive are blurred for viewers until they tap them, and posts flagged on our servers are sent to our safety team for review.
If you think your post was marked sensitive by mistake, you can ask us to review it. For an encrypted post, we can’t see it, so you can choose to send us a private copy for the review. Only our review team can see that copy, and we delete it when we make a decision, and within 30 days at most.
Ads help keep fomo free. Ads appear in the feed and between posts as you swipe through them, and they are labeled “Sponsored”. Some are served by Google AdMob and its partners, including Meta Audience Network, and some are sold by us directly to sponsors whose ads we review before they run. Cards labeled “From fomo” are our own. We don’t endorse advertisers, and your dealings with them are between you and them. How ads use your information is described in our Privacy Policy.
Verified badges are free. You earn the blue badge by inviting five different people to fomo by text. We may grant other badges, such as gold, at our discretion. We may remove a badge at any time, for example if it was earned by misusing invites or if your account violates these Terms.
You may terminate your account at any time by deleting it through the app settings. Upon deletion, we will remove your profile and content, subject to our data retention practices described in our Privacy Policy and on our Delete Your Account page. Circles you own pass to another member, so other people’s posts in them stay for them.
We may terminate or suspend your access to the Service immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason, including if you breach these Terms. Upon termination, your right to use the Service will cease immediately.
If three or more other users report your account within a rolling 30-day window, your account will be temporarily disabled pending human review and you will be signed out. You will not be able to sign in until the review is finished. Reports are counted across all of your posts, thoughts, and your profile, so the threshold applies whether the reports are on a single piece of content or spread across multiple. Only reports filed by other users count toward this threshold: automated SafeSearch flags do not. Multiple reports from the same reporter are deduplicated, and reports older than 30 days age out and no longer count, so reports spread across months or years do not accumulate against your account. If you believe the suspension was issued in error, you may appeal by contacting safety@fomocircles.com.
You can report any content (photos, videos, Fliks, Thoughts, comments, or messages) that you believe is inappropriate or violates these Terms. Reporting a message shares it, and up to five messages before it, with our safety team; reporting an encrypted post, Flik, comment or Thought shares what you opened. For encrypted content, that, or a review you ask for (see Sensitive Content and Appeals), is the only way we can see it. Either way, your phone sends us a readable copy of what you reported.
The Service is provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, or that any content will be accurate, reliable, or complete.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, FOMO Circles LLC and its officers, directors, employees, and agents shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including but not limited to loss of profits, data, use, or goodwill, arising out of or related to your use of the Service.
In no event shall our total liability to you exceed the amount you have paid us in the twelve (12) months preceding the claim, or one hundred dollars ($100), whichever is greater.
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any disputes arising under these Terms shall be resolved in the courts located in Collin County, Texas.
We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. We will notify you of material changes by posting the updated Terms within the app and updating the "Last updated" date. Your continued use of the Service after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms.
If you do not agree to the modified Terms, you should stop using the Service and delete your account.
If you have questions about these Terms, please contact us: