Terms of Service (ToS / EULA)

Last updated: August 3, 2026 (Version 1.1)

1. Provider and Scope

These Terms of Service govern the contractual relationship between Julian Blöchl – Sole Proprietor, Keferloherstraße 45, 80809 Munich, Germany ("we"/"us"), and you as a user of the VoiceDict application for macOS ("App") and the associated website and account services at voicedict.io.

They apply to consumers (§ 13 BGB) and businesses (§ 14 BGB). If you are a consumer, nothing in these Terms limits mandatory consumer protection rights of the country in which you have your habitual residence.

2. What VoiceDict Is

• VoiceDict is a dictation app for macOS. Recording and speech recognition run locally on your Mac. Optional text formatting uses OpenAI's API when you add your own API key and enable the feature.
• The App is offered as a one-time purchase: you buy a perpetual license ("seat"). One seat activates the App on exactly one Mac. You can buy additional seats at any time. There is no subscription and nothing renews.
• Before buying you can test the full App with a free7-day trial (see section 6).
• An internet connection is required to create an account, activate a trial or license, download the App and its on-device speech model, and receive updates. Speech recognition works offline; optional Luna formatting requires an internet connection. A purchased license continues to work offline; the trial requires periodic online validation.

3. Account and Contract Formation

• Downloading the App and starting a trial or purchase requires a free account, created with your email address and a password. You must keep your credentials confidential and notify us of any suspected misuse.
• The presentation of the App on our website is not a binding offer. By completing the checkout process (operated by our payment provider Stripe), you make a binding offer to purchase the selected number of seats. The contract is formed when we confirm the order by granting the purchased seats to your account.
• You must be of legal age or have the consent of a legal guardian.

4. Prices, Payment, Delivery

• The price shown at checkout applies — currently €9.99 per seat. This is a total price: as a small business within the meaning of § 19 UStG (German VAT Act), we do not charge VAT, and no VAT is shown or added.
• Payment is processed by Stripe. We do not store your payment details and do not charge you again later; there are no recurring payments.
• Delivery is digital: immediately after successful payment your license key(s) appear in your account at voicedict.io/account, where you can also download the App. No physical product is shipped.

5. License

• Upon full payment we grant you a perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use the App on one Mac per purchased seat, for personal or internal business purposes.
• You may deactivate a seat on one Mac and activate it on another (for example when you replace your Mac); contact us if you need help moving a seat.
• You may not resell, rent out, sublicense, or publicly distribute the App or your account access, share your account beyond the licensed devices, or circumvent the seat, trial, or activation mechanisms.
• You may not copy, modify, or decompile the App except to the extent permitted by mandatory law (in particular §§ 69d, 69e UrhG).
• All intellectual property rights in the App remain with us or our licensors. Feedback and suggestions may be used by us free of charge.

6. Free Trial

• Each account is entitled to one free 7-day trial. The trial code shown in your account activates the full App on one Mac; the 7 days start on activation.
• The trial is limited server-side to one per account and per device. Creating additional accounts or manipulating your device to obtain additional trials is not permitted.
• The trial is free of charge and does not convert into a purchase automatically. When it ends, dictation stops working until you buy a license — nothing is charged.

7. System Requirements

• macOS 15.0 or later on a Mac with Apple Silicon.
• About 460 MB of free storage for the on-device speech model, which is downloaded on first launch.
• Optional Luna formatting requires your own valid OpenAI API key, internet access, and an OpenAI API account in good standing. OpenAI usage charges and terms are separate from the VoiceDict license.
• Microphone and Accessibility permissions, which macOS asks you to grant so the App can hear you and type into other apps.
• We do not guarantee compatibility with future macOS versions or hardware.

8. Updates

We provide updates that are necessary to keep the App in conformity with the contract (including security updates) for the period required by law (§ 327f BGB), and we will inform you about them via the App's built-in update mechanism. Beyond that, we may — but are not obligated to — provide new features and improvements free of charge. If you do not install provided updates, we are not liable for defects that result solely from their absence (§ 327f(2) BGB).

9. Warranty

The statutory warranty rules for digital products (§§ 327 et seq. BGB) apply. If the App is defective, you have the statutory rights to subsequent performance, price reduction, termination of the contract, and damages under the statutory conditions.

10. Liability

• We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body, or health, under the German Product Liability Act, and under any guarantee we have expressly given.
• For slight negligence, we are liable only for breaches of essential contractual obligations (obligations whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose fulfilment you regularly rely), and in that case limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract.
• Any further liability is excluded.
• Please use the review feature and keep backups of important documents: dictated text is inserted into third-party apps, and we cannot rule out transcription errors. The App transcribes what you say; you remain responsible for the content you produce and send.

11. Right of Withdrawal for Consumers

If you are a consumer, you have the following right of withdrawal for purchases made through our website.

Withdrawal Notice (Widerrufsbelehrung)

Right of withdrawal. You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason. The withdrawal period is 14 days from the day of the conclusion of the contract. To exercise the right of withdrawal, you must inform us (Julian Blöchl, Keferloherstraße 45, 80809 Munich, Germany, email:julian@bloechl.io) of your decision to withdraw from this contract by an unequivocal statement (e.g. an email). You may use the model withdrawal form below, but it is not obligatory. To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.

Effects of withdrawal. If you withdraw from this contract, we shall reimburse to you all payments received from you without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract. We will carry out such reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.

Early expiry. For contracts for the supply of digital content not supplied on a tangible medium, the right of withdrawal expires if we have begun performance of the contract after you (i) expressly consented to us beginning performance before the end of the withdrawal period and (ii) acknowledged that you thereby lose your right of withdrawal (§ 356(5) BGB). You give this consent during checkout; your seats are granted immediately after payment.

Model Withdrawal Form

(Complete and return this form only if you wish to withdraw from the contract.)

To Julian Blöchl, Keferloherstraße 45, 80809 Munich, Germany, julian@bloechl.io:

I/We (*) hereby give notice that I/we (*) withdraw from my/our (*) contract of sale for the supply of the following digital content: VoiceDict license, order of (date), account email: _______.

Name and address of consumer(s), signature (only if on paper), date.

(*) Delete as appropriate.

12. Privacy

Information on how we process personal data is provided in ourPrivacy Policy.

13. Changes to These Terms

We may amend these Terms with effect for the future where this is necessary for valid reasons (e.g. changes in law, new features, security requirements) and the changes are reasonable for you. We will notify you of changes by email or in the App at least 14 days before they take effect. Changes do not affect the perpetual license you have already purchased. If you do not agree with a change to services you actively use, you may terminate the affected service.

14. Termination for Cause

We may revoke your license and block associated devices if you seriously violate these Terms — in particular by sharing account access, circumventing the activation or trial mechanisms, or infringing our intellectual property — and, where the violation can be remedied, you fail to do so within a reasonable period after notice. Your statutory rights remain unaffected.

15. Dispute Resolution

We are neither willing nor obligated to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG). If you have a problem, please email us first — we aim to resolve issues directly and quickly.

16. Final Provisions

• German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). If you are a consumer, the mandatory consumer protection provisions of the law of your country of habitual residence remain applicable.
• If you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law, or a special fund under public law, or if you have no general place of jurisdiction in Germany or the EU, the exclusive place of jurisdiction is Munich.
• Contract language: English.
• Should individual provisions of these Terms be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.

Provider Information

Julian Blöchl – Sole Proprietor
Keferloherstraße 45, 80809 Munich, Germany
Email: julian@bloechl.io
Phone: +49 173 6652274