Terms of sale and use

Last updated 8 September 2026. These terms cover buying Vocula and using it. They are meant to be read once, so they are short and say plainly where you have rights and where you do not.

Who you are dealing with

Vocula is made and supported by Vitali Kashtalyan, a sole trader (jednoosobowa działalność gospodarcza) registered in Poland, reachable at [email protected].

Payments are not taken by us. Creem is the merchant of record: the contract of sale is with Creem, Creem charges your card, issues the receipt, and accounts for VAT or sales tax in your country. Their terms apply to the payment itself. Everything below covers the software and the licence.

The trial, and what happens after it

Vocula runs for thirty days with nothing withheld — no feature is locked, no watermark is added, no text is altered. After thirty days it keeps working but caps at ten dictations a day until a licence key is entered. It never adds anything to your text at any point, before or after payment.

What the licence permits

• One person. $29 once, for the person who uses it, on the Macs that person uses. There is no device count and nothing counts installs.
• Teams. 10, 20, 30 people, at the prices on the pricing page, bought once. A seat is a person, and the number is a stated permission rather than an enforced count: nothing reports anywhere, so nothing can be counted. We ask you to keep to the number you bought.
• Updates. Every Vocula 1.x release is included, with no renewal. A future 2.x may be a separate purchase. If it is, 1.x does not stop working.

The licence key is an Ed25519 signature your Mac verifies by itself. There is no activation, no account and no licence server, which means there is nothing we can switch off. Do not publish your key: anyone who has it can use it, and it carries the address it was issued to.

The source is GPL-3.0, and that is not a mistake

Vocula's source is published under GPL-3.0 at github.com/vitaly-kashtalyan/vocula, including the licence check. Under that licence you may run, read, modify and share it, provided what you share stays under GPL-3.0 and carries its source. Building it yourself is permitted and documented.

Nothing in these terms takes away a right GPL-3.0 gives you over the source. What you buy is a signed key, updates and support — not permission to have the code, which you already have.

Refunds

Write to [email protected] and ask. No questions, no form, no reason required. The refund is issued through Creem to the card that paid, and normally reaches you within five to ten business days depending on your bank.

A refunded key keeps working. There is no kill switch in the app, and you can read the source and confirm that for yourself. We would rather ask you to stop using it than build a mechanism that could be used against a paying customer.

If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, you also have a statutory right to withdraw within fourteen days. Our policy is deliberately wider than that right, and nothing here reduces it. Thirty days of the whole app come before payment precisely so that nobody has to buy in order to find out.

What we do not promise

The software is provided as it is. We do not warrant that it is free of defects, that recognition will be accurate enough for any particular purpose, or that it will work on hardware or a macOS version it does not claim to support. It requires macOS 26 or later on Apple Silicon.

Dictation is a probabilistic process and it makes mistakes. Do not rely on it unread for anything where an error carries a cost — medical, legal, financial or safety-critical text included. Read what it wrote.

To the extent the law allows, our liability for any claim arising from the software or these terms is limited to the amount you paid for it. We are not liable for lost data, lost profit or indirect loss. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death, personal injury, or fraud, and nothing here removes the mandatory rights of a consumer.

Support

One address, [email protected], read by a person. There is no service level attached to it and no promise of a response within a stated time. Replies usually come the same or the next working day.

Your data

The app makes no network calls after the one-time model download, holds no account, and sends nothing anywhere. The only place your e-mail address exists is the purchase, because a key has to be sent somewhere. The privacy page says what is kept and where, and the ten-minute check lets you verify the claim rather than trust it.

Changes, and the law that applies

These terms may change for future purchases; the version in force when you bought is the one that governs your purchase, and the date at the top says which that is. Polish law applies. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory rules of the country you live in, and you may bring proceedings in your own courts.