Terms of Use

Last updated: 12 October 2026

These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your download and use of the Dictera application (the "App") and the website at https://dictera.app (together, the "Service"). By downloading, installing, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. You must be at least 16 years old (or the minimum age of digital consent in your country) to use the Service.

1. Who we are

The Service is operated by Zahorulko Yevhen (TIE: Z2053423B), an independent professional (Autónomo) established in Spain ("we", "us", "our").
Business address: Calle Pla de la Ramona 4, 46500 Sagunto, Valencia, Spain.
Contact: info@dictera.app.

2. License to use the App

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to download and use the App on Mac computers that you own or control. The App runs only on Macs with Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later. A single subscription license may be activated on up to 3 Macs at a time; to move it to another Mac, choose Deactivate in Settings ▸ License on the Mac you no longer use, then activate the license on the new one. For team and enterprise purchases, see Section 5.

You agree not to: (a) copy, redistribute, sell, rent, or sublicense the App; (b) reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law; (c) circumvent or tamper with licensing, trial, or security mechanisms; or (d) remove proprietary notices.

3. Free trial

The App offers a free trial (currently 14 days) with every feature unlocked, so you can evaluate it. No payment details are needed to start it. We may change or end the trial offer at any time.

The trial covers the whole App, and so does a subscription. When the trial ends without a subscription, or a subscription ends, the whole App pauses: the notch opens onto a single locked page that leads to Settings ▸ License, the notch's tools and widgets stop, and so do dictation (including Correct Selection, Edit Selection and Translate Selection) and the AI Assistant. Anything the notch is still doing at that moment is ended safely: a screen recording is stopped and saved, a locked keyboard is unlocked, and a microphone that Dictera muted is unmuted.

Ending the trial or a subscription doesn't delete anything you've saved. Your history, AI Assistant sessions, vocabulary and settings stay on your Mac, and you can still open Settings, read your dictation history and saved sessions, and export them from Settings ▸ Dictation ▸ History and Settings ▸ History. Files you saved, such as screenshots and screen recordings, stay where you saved them. Subscribing unlocks everything again.

4. Subscriptions and payments

4.1 Merchant of Record. Subscriptions are sold and processed by our payment provider, Lemon Squeezy, acting as the "Merchant of Record". Your purchase is also subject to Lemon Squeezy's terms and privacy policy. Lemon Squeezy handles billing, applicable taxes (such as VAT), and payment processing.

4.2 Billing and auto-renewal. Subscriptions are billed on a recurring basis (monthly or yearly, depending on the plan you choose) and renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless cancelled beforehand. By subscribing, you authorize the recurring charge until you cancel. Prices are shown at checkout and may vary by location; applicable taxes may be added or included as required by law.

4.3 Cancellation. You may cancel at any time; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep full access to the App until then.

4.4 Refunds. We offer a 14-day money-back guarantee on paid charges, as described in our Refund Policy. Refunds are processed through Lemon Squeezy. If you are an EU/EEA consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected by these Terms.

4.5 Non-payment. If a renewal payment fails or a subscription lapses, the App may pause as described in Section 3.

5. Enterprise and team licenses

For teams that need more than 3 Macs we offer Enterprise plans, sold under a written quote or order form agreed with the organization (an "Order"). Enterprise purchases may be billed through Lemon Squeezy or directly by us by invoice, as stated in the Order. For Enterprise purchases: (a) in place of the 3-Mac limit in Section 2, we grant the organization a license for the App to be used by its personnel on up to the number of Macs (seats) stated in the Order; (b) the organization is responsible for ensuring that its users comply with these Terms; (c) pricing, payment terms, cancellation, and refunds are governed by the Order; and (d) if we and the organization sign a separate written agreement, that agreement prevails over these Terms to the extent of any conflict. Enterprise customers purchase for business purposes and not as consumers; provisions of these Terms and of our policies that apply to consumers do not apply to them.

6. Acceptable use

You agree to use the Service lawfully, and not to use it to create, transcribe, record, or distribute content that is illegal, infringing, or harmful, or in any way that violates the rights of others or applicable law. In particular:

7. Recording and your responsibilities

The App transcribes audio from your microphone and, for the AI Assistant's Assist and Meeting Notes, the sound of a call playing on your Mac. It can also record your screen - with the microphone or the sound your Mac plays only if you switch that on - and it listens through the microphone when you press Recognize Song. Laws on recording and transcribing conversations, and on processing other people's personal data, vary by jurisdiction. You are solely responsible for making sure your use of the App complies with the laws that apply to you, including telling the other participants and getting their consent where that is required.

If you connect your calendar, the App asks shortly before a meeting whether to record it, and records only if you choose "Record now". If you don't answer, nothing is recorded. It records a meeting by itself only if you have chosen that, with "Record automatically" in Settings ▸ Calendar or for a particular recurring meeting. AI Assistant sessions, including their transcripts, stay on your Mac until you delete them, or until the period you choose under "Keep Sessions For" passes (by default they are kept until you delete them). How long you keep other people's words is up to you.

8. Intellectual property

The App and the Service, including their software, design, interfaces, graphics, logos, trademarks, and underlying technology (the "Materials"), are owned by us and/or our licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. These Terms grant you no rights in the Materials other than the limited license in Section 2. What you create with the App - text, transcripts, notes, screenshots and recordings - belongs to you, and we don't receive it.

Apple, Mac, MacBook, macOS, Apple Music, Apple Maps, Apple Weather, Shazam and Dynamic Island are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions. Slack, Microsoft Teams and the other product names used on the Website and in the App are trademarks of their respective owners. Dictera is an independent product and is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Apple Inc. or any other company named on the Website or in the App.

9. Third-party and open-source components

The App includes open-source software and data, each under its own license. The App lists all of them, with the full text of each license, under About Dictera ▸ Acknowledgements:

The models the App downloads are provided by their makers under their own licenses, and Acknowledgements links to each one:

Speech models are downloaded as Core ML conversions by FluidInference, and language models as GGUF quantizations by Unsloth (Apache License 2.0), from Hugging Face. Apple's speech model is provided by macOS and is covered by Apple's terms. All of these licenses and terms continue to apply to the components and models they cover, and nothing in these Terms limits your rights under them. Questions about them: info@dictera.app.

10. Optional AI providers and Claude Code

The App lets you connect your own AI engine for cleanup, translation and the AI Assistant (Assist, Meeting Notes and Chat). That can be a server you run yourself, a third-party cloud provider (such as OpenAI) using your own API key, or the Claude Code command-line tool signed in with your own account. These are independent services that you choose and contract with directly, and their own terms and policies govern your use of them. You are responsible for your API keys and accounts, for the content you send to them, and for any fees they charge. That includes requests the App sends for you automatically while one of them is the engine in use: answers while the AI Assistant's Auto button is on (it's off until you switch it on), the title and summary written when a session ends, and, for Claude Code, a short check of which connectors it can use, made when the App starts if the last check is more than a day old or found none. We do not operate, endorse, or control these providers and, to the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for their availability, security, or output. See our Privacy Policy for what this means for your data.

11. Third-party services in the App

Some of the notch's features show information from services we don't operate: the weather from Apple Weather, place names from Apple Maps, cover art from Apple's music catalog for songs streamed from Apple Music (only while "Find Cover Art Online" and "Show What's Playing" are on), song matches from Shazam when you press Recognize Song, and synced lyrics from LRCLIB (only if you switch on "Synced Lyrics"). The App contacts each of them directly, not through us, and your use of them is also subject to their providers' terms. "Add to Shazam" saves a song to your own Shazam library. Weather data is provided by Apple Weather; see the Apple Weather data sources and legal attribution.

These services can be unavailable or change, and they don't offer the same information everywhere: some weather details, such as the next-hour forecast and weather alerts, aren't available in every region. If Apple Weather or Shazam isn't available to your copy of the App at all, the App doesn't show the features that depend on it, and we may change or remove any feature that depends on a third-party service. Their information is provided as is and for information only. Don't rely on the weather in the App for safety decisions, and follow the warnings of your local authorities.

12. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, to the maximum extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of transcriptions, cleaned-up or corrected text, translations, AI-generated answers, chats, notes, titles and summaries, text read from images, or information from third-party services. Transcriptions and AI output can be wrong or incomplete, and AI output can include things that are made up. You are responsible for checking them before you rely on them, paste them, send them or say them to someone, and you should not treat them as legal, medical, financial or other professional advice.

Battery, power, fan and other readings the notch shows come from macOS and the hardware of your Mac, and can be approximate. Where the App keeps the notch or the AI Assistant out of screen sharing and recordings, that works only with apps that respect the window privacy setting in macOS; we don't control how other apps capture your screen. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law, including your statutory consumer rights.

13. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of data, profits, or goodwill. Our total liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the Service shall not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid for the Service in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) €100. This section does not limit liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or any liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, damages, and expenses arising from your misuse of the Service or your breach of these Terms or of applicable law.

15. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these Terms. You may stop using the Service at any time. Sections relating to intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and governing law survive termination.

16. Changes to the Service and these Terms

The App evolves over time: we may add, change, or remove features, and we may release updates that are required for the App to keep working correctly and securely.

We may also update these Terms from time to time. We will revise the "Last updated" date above and, where appropriate, provide additional notice. Continued use of the Service after the changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

17. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of Spain, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. If you are a consumer, you may bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence or in Spain, and you benefit from any mandatory consumer-protection provisions of your country of residence. If you are not acting as a consumer, the courts of Valencia, Spain shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms.

18. General

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of the business, provided your rights are not reduced. We are not liable for any delay or failure to perform caused by events beyond our reasonable control. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and Refund Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service.

19. Contact

Questions about these Terms:
Email: info@dictera.app
Zahorulko Yevhen (Autónomo) · Calle Pla de la Ramona 4, 46500 Sagunto, Valencia, Spain.