Can I use my App on many devices? (individuals)

This is a very frequently asked question. We would like to refer you to the section “App Store Product Usage Rule” under “The App Store license” (http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html#APPS)

(i) You may download and sync an App Store Product for personal, noncommercial use on any iOS Device you own or control.

(ii) If you are a commercial enterprise or educational institution, you may download and sync an App Store Product for use by either (a) a single individual on one or more iOS Devices used by that individual that you own or control or (b) multiple individuals, on a single shared iOS Device you own or control. For example, a single employee may use an App Store Product on both the employee’s iPhone and iPad, or multiple students may serially use an App Store Product on a single iPad located at a resource center or library. For the sake of clarity, each iOS Device used serially by multiple users requires a separate license.

(iii) You shall be able to store App Store Products from up to five different Accounts at a time on a compatible iOS Device.

(iv) You shall be able to manually sync App Store Products from at least one iTunes-authorized device to iOS Devices that have manual sync mode, provided that the App Store Product is associated with an Account on the primary iTunes-authorized device, where the primary iTunes-authorized device is the one that was first synced with the iOS Device or the one that you subsequently designate as primary using the iTunes application.

The basics:
At home: You need to buy one license of an App per iTunes account and can then use that App on all of the iOS devices you own or control and synch with that iTunes account.
Everywhere else: You need to buy one license of an App for each iOS device if that device is used by multiple users or one license of an App per user if that user is using multiple iOS devices.

What this means for consumers:               (AS, 2013)

1.As a consumer you can, for personal use, buy a single license for an App and install that on as many iOS devices you own or control. There is thus no need to buy an App multiple times just because you want to use it on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

2.As a consumer you can authorize a single iTunes account on up to 5 computers. You can thus store your purchased Apps, music, etc. on up to 5 computers and synch iOS devices from those 5 computers. There is thus no need to buy an App multiple times just because you want to store and synch it from your laptop and your desktop computer.

3.As a consumer you can authorize a single computer for more than one iTunes account and then synch Apps from up to 5 iTunes accounts to your iOS devices. On the iOS devices in the Store section of the Settings app you can log out of one iTunes account, log into another iTunes account and then purchase or redownload Apps using the App Store app. It is thus possible to put Apps on your kid’s iPod touch that you purchased with your iTunes account as well as those your wife purchased with her iTunes account.

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