Terms of Use

Last updated 10 November 2026

1. What assa is

assa is an independent app for reading and sending your Instagram direct messages. It signs in to instagram.com inside the app, on your device, and shows your conversations in its own interface. assa has no accounts of its own. You use it with your existing Instagram account.

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and Boris Mutafov, who develops and operates assa (“we”, “us”, “our”). assa is distributed on Apple’s App Store and TestFlight under the developer account of Rosina Genova, who publishes it on Boris Mutafov’s behalf. In these Terms, “we” also includes Rosina Genova in that role. They cover the assa app, its notification relay and this website (together, the “Service”). By downloading, installing or using assa you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you don’t accept them, don’t use assa.

2. assa is a third-party app

assa is not made, affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored or approved by Instagram, Meta Platforms, Inc. or any of their affiliates (“Meta”). “Instagram” and “Meta” are trademarks of Meta Platforms, Inc. We use them only to describe the service assa works with.

Meta does not support assa, and we can’t act on Meta’s behalf. We can’t restore, unlock, verify or recover an Instagram account, and we can’t change any decision Meta makes about one. Please don’t contact Instagram about problems with assa, and don’t contact us about problems with Instagram itself.

3. Risks of using assa

Using an unofficial app with your Instagram account has risks that using Instagram’s own apps does not. Please read them carefully. By using assa you accept them.

Your account could be flagged by Meta

Meta does not offer third-party apps a public way to access personal direct messages. assa therefore works through the same web interface that instagram.com uses in a browser. Meta’s systems may see this as unusual activity. We have designed assa to behave like a normal browser session and we believe the risk is small. It is not zero. Meta may, at its own discretion:

  • ask you to confirm your identity, solve a challenge or reset your password;
  • sign you out of some or all of your devices;
  • temporarily limit features, such as sending messages;
  • lock, suspend or permanently disable your account.

We have no control over these decisions and can’t reverse them. If you can’t afford to lose access to an account, for example one your business depends on, think carefully before using assa with it.

Instagram’s own terms still apply

Instagram’s Terms of Use, Community Guidelines and policies apply to your account whether or not you use assa. They restrict accessing Instagram by unauthorised means, and Meta may consider an unofficial app to be one. You choose whether to use assa, and you remain responsible for your account’s compliance with Meta’s terms.

Features can stop working without warning

Instagram changes its website often and without notice. A change can stop assa from loading conversations, sending or receiving messages, or showing notifications until we release an update. Some features may stop permanently if Meta changes or removes what they rely on.

Notifications are not guaranteed

Instagram decides what notifications it sends. Some events, such as message reactions, are never sent to assa. Notifications can be late, duplicated or lost, for example if our relay, Apple’s or Mozilla’s push service, or Instagram is unavailable for several hours. Don’t rely on assa for urgent, emergency or safety-critical messages.

Messages may look different or fail

assa may show some message types partly or not at all, show messages late or out of date, or fail to send a message. If something looks wrong, check it in Instagram’s official app.

What you do in assa happens on Instagram

Messages, photos and voice messages you send, reactions, read receipts, typing indicators and changes to settings such as your activity status take effect on your real Instagram account and are visible to other people, exactly as if you had done them on Instagram.

Your device holds your session

Your Instagram session is stored on your device. Anyone who can unlock your device can open assa and read your messages. Keep your device protected with a passcode, and sign out of assa before you give the device to someone else.

The Service may change or end

We may change, suspend or discontinue assa or its notification relay at any time, including if Meta or Apple asks us to.

If you are not comfortable with these risks, please don’t use assa, and use Instagram’s official apps instead.

4. Who can use assa

You must be at least 13 years old, or older if the law where you live or Instagram requires it, and allowed to use Instagram. If you are under the age of legal adulthood where you live, a parent or legal guardian must read and agree to these Terms for you.

5. Your account and acceptable use

You are responsible for everything done with your Instagram account through assa, and for keeping your device and sign-in details secure. You may not use assa to:

  • send spam, bulk or automated messages, or messages people did not ask for;
  • harass, threaten, impersonate or harm anyone;
  • break the law, or Instagram’s Terms of Use or Community Guidelines;
  • collect, scrape or store other people’s data;
  • access an account you are not authorised to use;
  • interfere with, overload, probe or try to bypass the security of the Service, Instagram, or the services assa relies on.

6. Your licence to use assa

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use assa on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in Apple’s Media Services Terms and Conditions.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, rent, lend or sublicense assa, or decompile or reverse engineer it, except where the law allows this despite these Terms. We keep all rights not expressly given to you, including in the assa name, logo and design.

7. Price

assa is currently free. If we introduce paid features, we will tell you the price and terms before you are charged. Purchases made through the App Store are processed by Apple under Apple’s terms.

8. Privacy

We don’t receive your Instagram password or your messages. Our Privacy Policy explains what data assa handles, where it goes and your rights.

9. Updates

We may release updates to fix problems, keep assa working with Instagram, or change features. Some updates may be required to keep using assa. Old versions may stop working, for example when Instagram changes.

10. No warranty

To the fullest extent the law allows, assa and the Service are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied. This includes warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don’t promise that assa will be available, uninterrupted, secure or error-free, that messages or notifications will be delivered, or that using assa will not affect your Instagram account.

If you are a consumer, you have legal rights that these Terms do not affect, including rights that cannot be excluded or limited by contract.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, messages, contacts, followers, reputation, business, revenue or profits. This includes losses caused by the restriction, suspension or loss of your Instagram account, or by actions Meta takes, arising from your use of, or inability to use, assa.

To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability for all claims relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for assa in the 12 months before the claim, or 50 euros.

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for damage caused intentionally or through gross negligence, or any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law.

12. Stopping and termination

You can stop using assa at any time. Sign out in assa’s Settings, which also turns off notifications and deletes your notification subscription, then delete the app.

We may suspend or end your access to the Service, including notifications, if you break these Terms, if required by law, or to protect the Service, its users or others. Sections 2, 3, 5 and 10 to 17 continue to apply after these Terms end.

13. Apple App Store terms

If you downloaded assa from Apple’s App Store or TestFlight, you and we also agree that:

  • These Terms are between you and us (Boris Mutafov, and Rosina Genova as the App Store publisher) only, not Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for assa and its content.
  • Your licence is limited to using assa on Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in Apple’s Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that assa may be accessed by other accounts associated with you through Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
  • Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support services for assa.
  • If assa fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for assa, if any. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation for assa. Any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses caused by a failure to conform to a warranty are our responsibility, to the extent they are not disclaimed in these Terms.
  • We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to assa or your possession and use of it, including product liability claims, claims that assa fails to meet any legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar laws.
  • If a third party claims that assa or your possession and use of it infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
  • You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
  • You must comply with any third-party terms that apply when you use assa, including Instagram’s Terms of Use and your mobile data provider’s terms.
  • Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms. Once you accept them, Apple has the right, and is deemed to have accepted the right, to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.

Questions, complaints and claims about assa go to us: Boris Mutafov, Bulgaria, bmutafov@gmail.com.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms, for example when assa or the law changes. We will change the “Last updated” date above, and for significant changes we will tell you in the app before they take effect. If you keep using assa after the changes take effect, you accept the updated Terms. If you don’t accept them, stop using assa.

15. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Bulgaria. The courts of Sofia, Bulgaria, have jurisdiction over any dispute. If you are a consumer living in the European Union, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of your country of residence, and you may bring a claim in the courts where you live.

16. General

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service. If a court finds part of them invalid, the rest stays in effect. If we don’t enforce a right, we have not waived it. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms. We may transfer ours to someone who takes over assa, as long as your rights are not reduced.

17. Contact

Boris Mutafov, Bulgaria. Email: bmutafov@gmail.com.