Terms of Use

These terms cover your use of the Yappr macOS application and this website. How the app handles your data is a separate document — see the Privacy Policy.

1. Who these terms are with

Yappr is made and licensed by one individual developer, based in Spain. There is no company: no incorporated entity, no team, no staff. Through the rest of this document, “I” means that person and “you” means you.

That is worth saying plainly rather than hiding behind a corporate “we”, because it changes what these terms are worth to you. There is no balance sheet standing behind them. The limits in section 10 and section 11 are written to be conservative and accurate for an operation of that size, rather than expansive — and they are subject throughout to your rights as a consumer, which no wording here can remove.

2. Agreement

By downloading, installing or using Yappr you agree to these terms. If you do not agree to them, do not use the software. If you are using Yappr for an employer, you confirm you are authorised to accept these terms on their behalf.

3. Licence to use the software

Yappr is proprietary, closed-source software. It is licensed to you, not sold. Subject to these terms, you are granted a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use one copy of the application on Mac computers you own or control, for your own use or your organisation’s internal use.

You may not:

• copy, publish, sell, rent, sublicense or otherwise redistribute the application, in whole or in part;
• modify the application, or create derivative works from it, or remove or alter any notice it contains;
• reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the application, or attempt to derive its source code — except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits this despite this restriction, and only to that extent;
• circumvent or interfere with any licensing, entitlement or usage limit in the application;
• use the application to build a competing product, or to train a model on its behaviour or output.

All rights not expressly granted are reserved. Nothing in these terms transfers ownership of the application or of any intellectual property in it. Third-party components distributed with the application remain subject to their own licences, and those licences prevail over this section for those components.

4. What the app requires from your Mac

Yappr runs on macOS. To function it needs Microphone access, to hear you, and Accessibility access, to read a selection and to paste into the app you are focused on. You grant these in macOS System Settings and can revoke them there at any time. Without them the application will not work, and that is not a defect.

5. Your content

What you dictate, and what the app produces from it, is yours. I claim no ownership of it and no licence to it. You are responsible for what you dictate and for what you do with the text the app gives you, including checking it before you send it — automatic cleanup can change wording, and you are the one who decides whether the result says what you meant.

You are responsible for making sure you are entitled to dictate what you dictate. Do not use Yappr on material you are not permitted to process through a third-party service — see the next section, and see the Privacy Policy for exactly what is transmitted, and to whom.

6. Third-party services

Cleanup is performed by Groq, a third-party inference provider in the United States. I do not operate Groq’s systems, I do not control its availability, and I make no representation about it — including about how long it keeps what it receives, or what it does with it. Those are Groq’s statements to make, in Groq’s own documents, which are linked from the Privacy Policy. Your use of the cleanup feature is subject to those terms as well as to these. If you have supplied credentials for a third-party service to the application, you remain responsible for complying with that service’s terms and for any charges it bills you.

The application also downloads its on-device speech model from a third-party host on first run. The same applies: not my systems, not my availability.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to use Yappr:

• to record anyone without the consent the law where you are requires — recording conversations is regulated differently in different places and that obligation is yours, not mine;
• to produce or distribute content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, or that infringes someone else’s rights;
• to process material you are contractually or legally barred from sending to a third-party processor;
• in a way that breaches the terms of the third-party inference provider, including attempts to generate content its policies prohibit;
• to resell, rent, sublicense or redistribute Yappr, or to offer it to others as a service — your licence is for your own use;
• to reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the application, or to extract the prompts, templates or routing rules it contains, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits it despite this restriction;
• to overload, probe or interfere with any service the application depends on, or to automate it at a volume it is not intended for;
• in any application where failure or a wrong word could lead to death, injury, or severe environmental or financial harm. This is dictation software; it is not built for that and is not warranted for it.

8. Availability and changes to the app

Yappr is under active development. Features may be added, changed, limited or removed. The application depends on services outside my control and can be unavailable or degraded because of them. I do not commit to any level of availability, and I do not commit to keeping any particular feature.

9. Usage limits, and payment if and when it starts

These apply to every account now, whether it is on the free plan, on a Pro trial, or — once payment starts — paid:

• The usage limits, stated as figures rather than as “fair use”. Cleanup — the step that sends text out to be polished — is limited to 50 dictations a week on the free plan, and on every plan, including paid ones, to 120 dictations an hour and 600 in a day, and to 30 minutes of recorded speech in any hour. The hourly and daily figures exist to stop automated or runaway use; they are set well above what dictating by voice can reach.
• A single recording runs for at most 10 minutes. At that point it ends by itself, and what you said is transcribed and inserted exactly as if you had released the key. Nothing is discarded, and you can begin the next recording straight away. This is not a limit on how much you may dictate; it stops a key left on by accident from recording for hours.
• Nothing stops working when you reach a limit. Dictation and transcription continue unaffected, and the cleanup step falls back to the processing that runs on your own Mac until the relevant week, day or hour has passed. There is no point at which the application refuses to run, and no charge is incurred by reaching a limit.
• If a limit is lowered, you will be told before it takes effect, and the notice will state the old figure and the new one. Raising a limit, or removing one, needs no notice.

If and when paid plans are introduced, the following will also apply, and they will only apply from the point you actively subscribe:

• Prices, the billing period and what each plan includes will be stated at the point of purchase. The price you see when you subscribe is the price for that period.
• The intended plans are these. Both include every feature of the application; they differ only in how many dictations are polished each week. Free: no payment, and fifty polished dictations a week. Pro: no weekly limit on polished dictations, at $15 per month or $150 per year for the first 500 paying subscribers, and $20 per month after that. The annual option is offered to the founding 500 only. The higher price applies to people who subscribe once the first 500 are taken; it is not a price rise applied to the founding subscribers themselves.
• The founding rate holds for as long as your subscription stays continuously active. It is not an introductory period that expires on a date, and it is not a discount I intend to withdraw. If you cancel and come back later you rejoin at whatever the current price is, because the commitment is to a subscription that has not lapsed rather than to a person. This sentence used to read “intended to hold”, which is a hope rather than a term; the pricing page has always implied the stronger version, and the two are not allowed to disagree.
• The one thing that could change it is a change to how the product is sold — a different plan structure, or this plan being discontinued — rather than a decision that $15 has become too little. If that ever happens you will be told before it takes effect, in the same way as a lowered usage limit, and the notice will state the old price and the new one. Absent that, the rate stands.
• A subscription will renew automatically for successive periods until you cancel, and you will be able to cancel at any time with effect from the end of the period you have paid for.
• Payment will be handled by Polar, acting as merchant of record — see section 9a for what that means. I do not receive or store your card details.
• Prices are stated in US dollars. Taxes may be added where they apply, and the total is shown at the point of purchase, before you pay.
• Refunds are handled by Polar, under its refund policy, because Polar is the seller — see section 9a. A fault in the application itself is a question for me.
• How the first 500 is counted: in the order that first payments complete. If the founding price is the price shown to you at checkout and your payment goes through, you have it — even if the five-hundredth place was taken by somebody else in the minutes between. The risk of that overlap is mine, not yours.
• Where consumer law gives you a statutory right of withdrawal or refund, that right applies regardless of anything in these terms — see section 12.

9a. Who you actually buy from

When payment starts, purchases will be handled by Polar as merchant of record. That is not a payment-processing detail; it changes who the sale is with. Polar is the seller to you. It takes the payment, it is responsible for sales tax and VAT wherever you are, and its own terms and refund policy govern the transaction.

These terms are not that contract.This document is about your use of the software — what you may do with it, what it does not promise, and what happens if it goes wrong. A question about a charge, a refund, an invoice or a tax receipt is a question for Polar, under Polar’s terms. A question about the app is one for me.

Nothing here removes rights you have against me as the supplier of the software, and nothing here is me claiming rights over a transaction I am not a party to. Where a statutory right — the EU fourteen-day withdrawal right for digital content, for instance — applies to the purchase, it applies through the seller and is not waived by anything on this page.

9b. Trial and referrals

A new account starts with 14 days of Pro, counted from the moment the account is created. That length is the whole of the offer, stated before you start: the trial ends on that date, which Settings → Account shows you, and reaching it is the agreed end of the trial rather than a limit being lowered. No card is asked for and nothing is charged, then or later.

• When the trial ends, your account is on the Free plan — every feature, with the weekly limit on polished dictations in section 9. Nothing stops working: dictation carries on exactly as that section describes.
• I may extend a trial— everyone’s, or one account’s — at any time and without notice. An extension is never taken back, and a running trial is never shortened: if sign-up is ever closed again, that affects only accounts not yet created.
• Accounts created during the invite-only beta, before sign-up opened, keep the access they already had. Nothing in this section shortens it.

Every account has an invite code. This is how referrals work:

• A new account can enter one code, once, within 7 days of being created. It cannot be its own code, and it must belong to an account created before it.
• The new account gets 14 extra days of Pro as soon as the code is accepted, added to its trial.
• The account whose code was entered gets 30 days of Pro once the new account has had 1,000 words cleaned up. Words are counted by my server on the dictations that go out for cleanup, so short dictations that skip that step are not counted. A reward is paid once per new account.
• At most 12 referrals are rewarded per account (360 days in all). Referrals beyond that are still recorded, and earn nothing.
• Days are added to a Pro trial. On an account whose access already has no end date — an account from the invite-only beta, or a paid subscription — a reward is recorded but adds nothing while that remains so.
• Trial and reward days have no cash value. They cannot be exchanged for money, sold, or moved to another account, and they are not a payment or a credit towards one.
• Referring yourself is not allowed — through a second account of your own, or through accounts created to collect rewards. Where I find it, the rewards those referrals earned are forfeited and may be removed, along with the accounts created for it.
• The programme may change or end.If it does, you will be told by email, at your account’s address, before the change takes effect. Days already added to an account stay added, except under the previous point.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

Yappr is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, I disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, accuracy and non-infringement.

In particular, I do not warrant that transcription or cleanup will be accurate. Speech recognition misreads words and language models change wording; both are expected behaviour of the technology, not defects. Check the text before you rely on it or send it. I do not warrant that the application will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will work with any particular third-party application you dictate into.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, in which case the exclusions above apply only to the extent permitted. Your statutory rights as a consumer are unaffected — section 12.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, I am not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages. That includes, without limiting it, lost profits, business interruption, and lost revenue, data, business or goodwill, arising out of or connected with your use of Yappr — including text that was transcribed wrongly, altered by cleanup, pasted into the wrong place, or sent somewhere you did not intend.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else the governing law in section 15 puts beyond the reach of an agreement.

Yappr is written and maintained by one person. That is a reason to state these limits accurately rather than expansively, and a reason for you to treat the software as what it is: a tool whose output you check before you rely on it.

Where liability can be limited, my total liability to you for everything arising out of or connected with Yappr is capped at the greater of: the fees you have paid me in the twelve months before the claim, or USD 100.

The floor is there because without it the cap would be nothing. Yappr is free today, so “the fees you have paid” is zero for everyone, and a clause capping liability at zero is not a limitation of liability — it is an attempt to exclude it entirely, which is both less honest and less likely to be enforced than a real number. USD 100 is a figure I can stand behind rather than one designed to be unreachable.

Read this together with section 12 rather than instead of it. If you are a consumer in the EU or the UK, mandatory law gives you rights this cap cannot touch, and where the two conflict the law wins.

12. Your rights as a consumer

If you use Yappr as a consumer — outside a trade, business or profession — EU and Spanish consumer law gives you rights that an agreement cannot take away. Where anything in these terms conflicts with such a right, the right wins and that part of these terms does not apply to you, to the extent of the conflict. That includes the exclusions in section 10, the limits in section 11, and the choice of law and forum in section 15.

This is stated here rather than left implicit because a reader should not have to know it in order to know where they stand.

13. Termination

You may stop using Yappr at any time by deleting the application. That ends this licence.

I may suspend or terminate your licence if you breach these terms. On termination, the licence in section 3 ends and you must stop using and delete the application. Sections that by their nature should survive — the licence restrictions, disclaimers, limitation of liability, consumer rights and governing law — survive termination.

Your locally stored data is unaffected by termination; it sits in a folder on your Mac and deleting it is up to you. See the Privacy Policy for where it is.

14. Changes to these terms

These terms may change. The date at the top of the page is the date of the current version, and continuing to use Yappr after a change means you accept the changed terms.

Using Yappr’s cleanup needs an account, and an account has an email address. So a change that takes something away from you — a lowered limit, a higher price for a plan you are on, the end or a narrowing of the referral programme — is sent to that address before it takes effect. For any other change, the date at the top is the notice. This paragraph used to say there was no account system and so no way to reach you; that stopped being true when sign-in arrived, and was left behind until 27 September 2026.

15. Governing law and disputes

These terms, and any dispute arising out of them or out of your use of Yappr, are governed by the law of Spain, excluding its conflict-of-law rules. The courts of Spain have jurisdiction, subject to the paragraph below.

If you are a consumer resident in the EU, that choice cannot deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country you live in, and it does not stop you bringing proceedings there — EU rules on the law applicable to consumer contracts and on jurisdiction say so whatever this section says. Nothing here is intended to shift a dispute away from a court that would otherwise be available to you. See section 12.

16. General

If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the rest remain in force and that provision applies to the maximum extent permitted. My not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms; I may assign them as part of a transfer of Yappr. Together with the Privacy Policy, these terms are the entire agreement between you and me about Yappr.

17. Contact

For anything about the app or these terms, write to useyappr@gmail.com. A person reads it.

For anything about a payment, write to Polar instead — a charge, a refund, an invoice or a tax receipt. Polar is the seller for those transactions, not me; see section 9a. Writing to me about a charge will get you a redirect and a delay.

For formal service, use the postal address published in section 1. Email is the right route for ordinary correspondence and is read by a person; the address is there because section 12 and section 15 both assume a notice can be served, and an email address alone does not satisfy that.