Terms

The short version

• Your first export is free. After that, exporting needs a subscription: $9.99 a month or $79 a year.
• It renews automatically until you cancel. Cancel any time; you keep access until the end of the period you paid for.
• Refunds: ask within 14 days of any charge and we refund that charge in full.
• Your videos are yours and stay on your Mac. We never receive them.

Who these terms are between

These terms are an agreement between you and XTE INDUSTRIES (“we”), which makes and sells Yapwing. They cover the Yapwing app for Mac, its yapwing command, this website and the subscription. By installing Yapwing, or by subscribing, you accept them. If you use Yapwing for a company, you accept them for that company too.

Your license

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use Yapwing on Macs you own or control, for personal or commercial work. Yapwing is proprietary software; we keep all rights we do not give you here.

You may not sell, rent or redistribute the app, remove its notices, or work around the export limit or the subscription check. You may not decompile or reverse engineer it, except where the law lets you do so regardless of these terms.

The free export and the subscription

• Without a subscription you can import, transcribe, edit, search and preview, and export once.
• With a subscription you can export without limit on each Mac you sign in to with the same email.
• Prices: $9.99 a month or $79 a year, in US dollars. Any sales tax or VAT that applies is shown at checkout and added to the price.
• Payment: Stripe takes the payment when you subscribe and at the start of each new period. We never see your card.
• Renewal: a subscription renews automatically for the same length, at the same price, until you cancel. If a renewal payment fails and isn’t settled, the subscription ends.
• Price changes: if the price changes, we email you before your next renewal. The new price applies only from that renewal, and you can cancel before it.

Cancelling

In Yapwing, choose Yapwing › Account…, then Manage Subscription…, and cancel on Stripe’s page. You can also write to hraness@pm.me and we will cancel it for you. Cancelling stops the next renewal. You can keep exporting until the end of the period you already paid for; after that, exporting needs a new subscription. The app and your projects keep working.

Refunds

If you are not happy, write to hraness@pm.me within 14 days of a charge, whether it was your first payment or a renewal. We refund that charge in full and end the subscription. You don’t have to give a reason.

After 14 days we don’t refund the rest of a period, but cancelling stops the next charge. This doesn’t limit any refund the law in your country gives you.

Your content

Your footage, transcripts, projects and exports belong to you. Yapwing works on them on your Mac, and the subscription service never receives them; the privacy policy lists exactly what it keeps. You are responsible for having the rights to what you import and publish, including footage of other people and any music.

Keep your own backups. Yapwing never changes your original recordings, but we can’t restore a project that is lost on your Mac.

Acceptable use

Don’t use Yapwing to make or publish anything unlawful, to infringe someone else’s rights, or to mislead people by putting words in the mouth of someone who didn’t say them. Don’t share a subscription with people outside your own Macs, automate requests against the subscription service, or try to get around its limits. We may end a subscription that breaks these rules; see Ending.

Local models and other software

Yapwing uses models made by others, and runs them on your Mac:

• Speech: NVIDIA Parakeet in a Core ML conversion (CC BY 4.0), downloaded on first use, and Cactus Whistle (Apache 2.0), built in as the fallback.
• Chat: Google’s Gemma 4 (Apache 2.0), run by llama.cpp (MIT), downloaded only when you choose Download.
• Picture search: Google’s SigLIP 2 (Apache 2.0), downloaded only when you choose Download.

Each is licensed by its own authors under the license named, not by us, and their notices are in Yapwing › About Yapwing. Downloads come from Hugging Face.

Models make mistakes. A transcript can mishear a word, a picture search can miss or misplace a moment, and the chat can misunderstand a request. Check captions and edits before you publish. Every chat request is one Undo step, so you can take it back.

A coding agent you connect to Yapwing, such as Claude Code or Codex, is a separate service under its provider’s own terms.

Updates and changes to Yapwing

Yapwing checks for updates and installs them when you quit. Builds marked Preview have had less testing than a stable release. We may add, change or remove features; if we remove one that a paid subscription depends on, you may cancel and ask for a refund of the unused part of your current period.

No warranty

As far as the law allows, Yapwing and the subscription are provided “as is”, without warranties of any kind, including that they will be error-free, uninterrupted or fit for a particular purpose. Where the law gives you warranties or guarantees that can’t be excluded, these terms don’t take them away.

Limits on liability

As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, such as lost profits, lost data or lost work, and our total liability for any claim about Yapwing is limited to what you paid us for it in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing here limits liability for fraud, for gross negligence or deliberate misconduct, or anything else that the law doesn’t let us limit.

Ending

You can stop using Yapwing at any time, and delete your account from Yapwing › Account… after cancelling. We may suspend or end a subscription that breaks these terms; for a serious or repeated breach without a refund, and otherwise with a refund of the unused part of the period. If we stop offering the subscription altogether, we refund the unused part of every current period. The sections on your content, warranties and liability continue after these terms end.

Changes to these terms

When these terms change, the date at the top changes with them. If a change affects what you pay or what your subscription includes, we email subscribers at least 14 days before it applies, and it takes effect only from your next renewal. If you don’t agree, cancel before then.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the place where XTE INDUSTRIES is established. If you buy as a consumer, you also keep the protections of the law where you live that can’t be set aside by agreement. Before going to court, please write to us; most problems are solved by email.

Contact

Questions about these terms, billing or a refund go to hraness@pm.me. A person reads every message.