Terms of Use

iPhone and iPad launch edition

The mobile App Store edition is provided under Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement. Users who acquire it during the free launch retain free access to the features included in that edition. Later pricing changes do not revoke that grant. No licence key, account, subscription or trial is required. The Mac-specific activation and three-Mac limits below do not apply to the mobile edition. Your mandatory consumer rights remain unaffected.

1. Provider and scope

These terms form an agreement between you and Bent Eisheuer, trading as Saywave, for downloading and using the Saywave macOS application and its updates. Contact details are in the Imprint. You must have legal capacity to accept these terms; minors need the consent of a parent or guardian where required.

2. Free lifetime launch licence

During the free launch offer, users who activate Saywave receive a personal, non-exclusive licence, without charge or expiry, for one Mac they own or control, for personal or business use. This is not a trial. Later paid sales do not revoke that grant or require those users to pay. The grant continues across Saywave for Mac updates; it does not promise that every future feature or separate product will be developed or included. We may start or end the free offer at any time; licences already activated stay valid.

Users granted the earlier three-Mac licence retain that entitlement. Contact support to arrange separate machine-bound licences for the remaining eligible Macs. A shared old code alone does not establish entitlement to additional grants. Mandatory rights remain unaffected.

From Mac version 1.5, activation binds the signed licence to an app-specific identifier for that Mac. No account or payment details are required. The saved licence verifies offline without expiry or recurring validation. Copying it to a different Mac does not unlock that Mac. Keep a private backup from Settings → License for reinstalling on the same Mac; automatic restoration is also available while the service retains your record.

Contact support for hardware replacement. A replacement grant cannot remotely disable an earlier offline installation; you must stop using the replaced seat. New grants can end when the offer closes, and downloading alone does not reserve a grant. Earlier app versions and their portable codes cannot be remotely changed by this release.

From Mac version 1.6, legacy customer installations are upgraded without charge to a permanent licence bound to the Mac on which Saywave is installed. Connect once after updating to obtain the new signed code; no additional paid activation is consumed. Existing purchase rights are preserved, including eligible additional Macs, which support can arrange separately. A failed upgrade keeps the earlier purchase details for recovery.

3. Purchase and licence

When Saywave is sold, the website and the app say so and include a free trial: each Mac can use every feature for 7 days from first launch, without payment details. The trial start is saved for that Mac on our licensing service and does not restart when the app is reinstalled. After the trial, continued use requires a paid licence. Purchases go through Stripe's checkout, where Stripe, through its Link service, is the seller and Merchant of Record; its identity, final total, currency, tax treatment, withdrawal information, and buyer terms are shown before an order. Purchases are available wherever Stripe's checkout accepts them. A paid licence is personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, without expiry, and permits activation on up to 3 Macs you own or control: a Mac used to buy in the app unlocks automatically, and the purchase code shown after checkout activates the others. This does not narrow the free grant above.

Statutory updates, including security or conformity updates, are provided for the period required by applicable consumer law. For paid licences, feature updates within the licensed major version may be provided, but no promise of every future feature, future major version, or perpetual service availability is made unless the checkout expressly says otherwise.

4. Acceptable use

You must not:

• share, resell, rent, sublicense, or publish a licence key;
• redistribute, mirror, sell, rent, or repackage Saywave without our permission, except where mandatory law permits;
• circumvent or manipulate activation or security controls;
• use the software to violate law, privacy, confidentiality, or third-party rights; or
• reverse engineer the software except to the extent mandatory law expressly permits.

5. Legacy optional cloud AI

Current Mac releases do not provide generative rewriting, translation, or summaries. In older releases before 1.3, OpenAI and Anthropic integrations are optional and require your own provider API key. When you select a cloud feature, the relevant text or meeting transcript is sent to the provider you chose. You are responsible for that provider account, charges, terms, settings, and for having the rights and lawful basis needed to send the content. Do not submit secrets, special-category data, confidential information, or third-party personal data unless the provider setup and your legal basis are appropriate. Provider output may be inaccurate; review it before relying on or sharing it.

6. Meeting capture

Meeting Capture can record microphone and system audio and can be configured to start automatically for supported meeting apps. You are solely responsible for making capture visible, informing every participant in advance, obtaining all required consent, and complying with recording, employment, confidentiality, telecommunications, and privacy laws in every relevant jurisdiction. Do not use Saywave for covert recording. If consent or another lawful basis is absent or withdrawn, do not start the capture. If capture has already begun, stop it immediately.

7. Your content and local data

You retain rights in your content. You grant only the limited permission necessary for the app to process content at your instruction. Keep independent backups of important material. Local history, meetings, settings, and licence records are your responsibility to protect and delete before transferring or disposing of a Mac.

8. Intellectual property and third-party software

Saywave is proprietary, closed-source software. Free use grants no right to its source code. Saywave and its original materials remain protected by intellectual-property law. The app also contains third-party software and models governed by their own terms. Required notices and source links appear on the Third-party notices page. Third-party names identify compatibility or provenance only and do not imply endorsement.

9. Availability and compatibility

The current release requires macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon. Performance and text insertion depend on hardware, model, memory, macOS permissions, the active app, and field restrictions. Secure or custom fields may reject insertion. Online licence, model-download, and legacy optional cloud features also depend on the relevant network and provider.

10. Statutory rights, warranty, and liability

Nothing in these terms limits mandatory consumer rights, statutory conformity remedies, product-liability rules, liability for intent or gross negligence, injury to life, body, or health, fraudulently concealed defects, or an expressly assumed guarantee. For slightly negligent breach of an essential contractual duty, liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this agreement. Liability for other slight negligence is excluded to the extent permitted by law. Mandatory rights remain unaffected.

11. Suspension and termination

We may terminate a licence for material misuse, compromised keys, or a serious breach after notice and a reasonable cure opportunity where appropriate. Immediate action remains possible where necessary to prevent fraud, security harm, or unlawful use. Termination does not remove rights or obligations that by nature continue, and does not restrict statutory remedies.

12. Changes, law, and disputes

Material term changes are notified before they affect ongoing use where required. German law applies without depriving consumers of mandatory protection in their country of habitual residence. Statutory venue rules apply.