These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Openbroca macOS application, the website at openbroca.com, and related services (together, the “Service”). By downloading, accessing, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. Please also review our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your data.
The Service
Openbroca is a native macOS app that turns speech into polished, ready-to-use text, with optional translation and Screen Context. Recognition and refinement run in the cloud, so the Service requires an internet connection and depends on third-party AI providers. We may update, add, or remove features over time.
Accounts
You sign in using Google or GitHub. You are responsible for maintaining access to your provider account and for activity that happens under your Openbroca account. You must be old enough to form a binding contract in your jurisdiction to use the Service. Notify us promptly if you believe your account has been compromised.
Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use the Service for anything unlawful, or to infringe the rights of others.
- Attempt to circumvent quotas, usage limits, security, or billing.
- Reverse engineer, resell, or build a competing service from the Service, except where such restriction is prohibited by law.
- Interfere with or disrupt the Service, or access it through automated means that place unreasonable load on our systems.
- Upload audio or content you do not have the right to process, or that violates applicable law.
We use automated usage and duplicate-pattern signals to detect abuse. We may suspend or limit accounts that show signs of automated abuse or usage far beyond normal human dictation.
Plans, billing, and cancellation
Openbroca is free to download and includes a weekly dictation quota that refreshes each week. You can remove the weekly limit with an Unlimited subscription. Current prices are shown on our Pricing page and confirmed at checkout in your account.
- Payments are processed by Stripe. By subscribing, you authorize recurring charges until you cancel.
- Cancellation: you can cancel Unlimited anytime from your account, which opens Stripe’s billing portal. You keep Unlimited until the end of the period you have already paid for.
- Renewals and changes: subscriptions renew automatically at the then-current price until cancelled. We will give notice of price changes as required by law.
- Refunds: except where required by law, payments are non-refundable.
Your content
You keep all rights to the audio you dictate and the text you produce with the Service (“Your Content”). You grant Openbroca the limited license needed to operate the Service — for example, to process your audio and context through our AI providers, return your result, and store your history. This license exists only to provide the Service to you and ends when we complete deletion of your account, subject to the retention described in our Privacy Policy.
Our intellectual property
The Service, including the App, website, and Openbroca name and logo, is owned by Openbroca and protected by intellectual-property laws. These Terms do not grant you any right to our trademarks or branding. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the App for its intended purpose while you comply with these Terms.
Third-party services
The Service relies on third parties, including your sign-in provider, cloud AI providers, and Stripe. Your use of those services is also subject to their terms, and we are not responsible for their acts or omissions.
Disclaimers
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent permitted by law. Speech recognition and AI refinement can be inaccurate; you are responsible for reviewing output before you rely on it. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Openbroca will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill, arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim.
Termination
You may stop using the Service at any time. To delete your account, contact support@openbroca.com. We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms or use the Service in a way that risks harm to us or others. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination — such as ownership, disclaimers, and limitation of liability — will survive.
Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above, and for material changes we will provide a more prominent notice. Continuing to use the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.
Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which Openbroca operates, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, except where mandatory local consumer-protection law applies to you.
Contact us
Questions about these Terms? Email us at support@openbroca.com.