payments, licence keys & sharing
There are three things you can pay for on this site, and they work the same way underneath: buy on Gumroad, paste the key you're given, done.
the three things you can buy
| what | price | what it unlocks |
|---|---|---|
| rewrite | $1.99 | three rewrites of a draft you just screened |
| battle invite | $0.99 | one two-player match; only the buyer pays |
| royale entry | $1.99 | one place in the next open queue |
These are three separate products on Gumroad, not one purchase that covers everything — a battle invite won't unlock a rewrite, and a royale entry won't get you into a battle.
how a licence key works
Every purchase goes through Gumroad, which handles your card details and your receipt — this site never sees either. What the site does see, and only after you paste it in, is a licence key. That key is checked against Gumroad's own records before anything happens, so a wrong, reused, or refunded key is rejected rather than quietly accepted.
Only the $1.99 rewrite key is saved on your device for next time, with a "forget my key" option next to the field. Battle invites and royale entries are spent the moment you use them, so there's nothing to remember — except a royale win, which hands you a free entry that is saved until you use it.
if a key is rejected
The message tells you what Gumroad actually said — wrong product, key not found, or unreachable. On the battle page, a "run a self-check" button appears next to a rejected key and reports exactly what's configured and what Gumroad returned for that key, which is usually enough to spot a typo or a key pasted from the wrong receipt.
refunds
Gumroad is the merchant of record for every purchase on this site, so refunds are handled entirely through Gumroad — this site doesn't process payments or hold your money at any point. If something needs refunding, that request goes to Gumroad, the same as it would for anything else bought through them.
how the share cards work
Both the screening result and a royale win streak can generate a shareable image. It's drawn entirely in your browser on an HTML canvas — nothing is uploaded to make it, and no copy of it exists anywhere except the file you end up with.
- The screening card is a 9:16 image by default (a 4:5 version is available for an Instagram feed post), showing your score, diagnosis, and a short excerpt of your draft.
- The royale streak card shows how many wins in a row and your average cringe score across the whole run.
- Both carry a small watermark with the site's address.
Every card offers the same set of buttons: download, a native share sheet on phones that support one, Instagram story or post, and X, Bluesky, or Facebook. The three social buttons open a pre-filled post on that platform and download the card at the same time, because none of them let a website attach an image directly through a link — you'll need to attach the file yourself once the composer opens. It's an extra tap, not a bug.
