Ask Bob · Last updated 3 September 2026
Your subscription is unlimited in the way that matters — everything Bob does is included, from the first minute. But a few things cost us real money every time you use them, so they carry a number. This page is that list, in public, so "fair use" is never a word we hide behind.
| What | Limit | Resets | What happens at the limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| PDF city guides | 3 included per calendar month | The 1st of each month, UTC | Nothing stops. From the 4th guide in the same month, each one is a one-off €4.99 ($4.99 in the US) purchase — see the Terms of Use. |
| Photo identify — "what is this?" | 20 per day | Midnight, UTC | Identify pauses until the reset. Everything else in the app keeps working. |
| Asking Bob — recommendations, plans, answers | No individual limit | — | — |
| Saved places, re-reading guides you own, offline use | No limit | — | — |
Forty photo identifications is a photo every twelve minutes across an eight-hour day of sightseeing. It is a fuse, not a ration.
Bob also has a whole-service daily spending ceiling on the systems that write his answers. If the service as a whole reaches it, Bob goes quiet for everyone until the next day and tells you so rather than failing silently. This has nothing to do with your account or your usage, and you are never charged for it. It exists so a runaway bug or an attack can't take the app down for a week.
The limits above assume one person using the app the way it was meant to be used. Sharing one account between many people, scripting or automating requests, scraping Bob's output, or working around a limit are covered by the Terms of Use instead, not by this page.
Every figure here is a setting on our server, not something baked into the app, so we can move it without shipping an update — which is the point: it means a limit that is too tight can be loosened the same day. They may change. When one does, we update this page and the date at the top. If we ever reduce a limit in a way that would affect normal use, we will give notice in the app before it takes effect.
Questions about any of this: info@askbob.guide.