TERMS OF SERVICE

This is the plain-English Terms of Service for Voquence, the Mac dictation app at voquence.com. If you use the app or the site, you agree to these terms.

Voquence is built and maintained by Jason Regino, a sole proprietor based in California, United States. “We,” “us,” and “Voquence” in these terms refer to that sole proprietorship. Questions about anything below: support@voquence.com.

Voquence is a Mac desktop app that turns your voice into ready-to-paste text. It runs on Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and newer) on macOS 11 and above. You download it directly from voquence.com as a signed, notarized .dmg file. There's no Voquence account required to use the app.

For the cloud-powered features (transcription via OpenAI Whisper, content modes via Anthropic Claude), Voquence uses your OpenAI and Anthropic API keys. You paste them into Settings. Voquence calls those services directly from your Mac with your keys.

That means:

• Whatever OpenAI charges you for Whisper calls and whatever Anthropic charges you for Claude calls is between you and them. Voquence doesn't markup or proxy.
• Your use of OpenAI and Anthropic through Voquence is governed by their respective terms of service in addition to these terms.
• Voquence can't guarantee that those services will always be available, accurate, or unchanged. If they break or change their APIs, the relevant Voquence feature may temporarily break too.

If you turn on Local Whisper mode, transcription runs on your Mac and no OpenAI key is needed for that step. The content modes (Tweet Thread, Book Description, etc.) still require an Anthropic key because they call Claude.

Voquence's Free tier (Raw Transcript mode + Local Whisper transcription) is free to download and use forever, with no signup, no API key, and no payment. It runs fully offline on your Mac.

“Free forever” means we don't plan to retroactively paywall what we've already given away. If we ever have to change that (we don't intend to), you get prior notice via the in-app update and an email to anyone on the wishlist.

The Founding License is a one-time purchase that unlocks all 11 polish + content modes (Clean Text, Eloquence, Book Description, Tweet Thread, Tech Support, Email Draft, Founder Mode, Marketing Copy, Social Post, Prompt Builder, and Poetry / Bars). The first 100 purchases are $19; subsequent purchases are $29. The license is one-time, not a subscription. It includes free updates on the v0.3 series; a future major paid upgrade (v1.0+ or similar) may be offered separately at our discretion, similar to how superwhisper and MacWhisper handle their license generations.

The polish + content modes call Anthropic's Claude API. You bring your own Anthropic API key for that step. Voquence does not mark up or proxy those calls; what Anthropic charges your key is between you and them (typically pennies, new accounts get $5 of free credit, which covers around 17,000 polishings).

The Founding License is not yet purchasable as of 2026-06-08. When it ships, these terms will be updated with the refund window and purchase mechanics. Until then, nothing on this site constitutes an offer to sell the Founding License, and no charge can be made.

Managed Cloud is a future subscription tier (~$9.99/month) that includes all the Founding License modes but routes Claude calls through Voquence's managed Anthropic account instead of requiring you to bring your own key. It exists for users who don't want to deal with key management.

Managed Cloud is on the roadmap and not yet purchasable. It ships when the proxy backend is built. When it ships, these terms will be updated with the subscription specifics, including the refund window, fair-use cap (if any), and cancellation terms. Until then, nothing on this site constitutes an offer to sell Managed Cloud, and no charge can be made.

Voquence is a tool. You're welcome to use it for any legal purpose, personal or commercial. We ask only that you:

• Don't use Voquence to commit fraud, harass anyone, generate illegal content, or violate any law that applies to you.
• Don't reverse-engineer, decompile, or republish the Voquence binary as your own product. Voquence is not currently open source, though we may open-source components in the future.
• Don't attempt to circumvent license enforcement for the Founding License or Managed Cloud tiers when they ship.
• Respect OpenAI's and Anthropic's usage policies when using Voquence with your keys. Your account, your rules.

Voquence the app, the Voquence name, the V logo, and the contents of voquence.com are the property of Jason Regino. You get a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the app on your Mac for the purpose it was built for: dictating into your own apps. That license ends if you uninstall, if these terms are terminated, or if you materially violate them.

The output of Voquence (the text it produces from your voice) belongs to you. We have no claim on what you write with it.

Voquence is provided “as is.” We try hard to make it reliable and accurate, but we can't guarantee it will be error-free, available at all times, or fit for every use case. Transcription accuracy depends on your microphone, accent, ambient noise, the audio Whisper sees, and other factors outside our control.

In particular: do not rely on Voquence as the sole recorder of anything critical.If you're dictating a legal contract, a medical note, or anything where missing or wrong words could cause real harm, double-check the output before using it.

To the maximum extent allowed by law, Voquence and Jason Regino are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the app or the site. Our total liability for any direct damages, in any case, is limited to the amount you've paid Voquence in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or $50, whichever is greater.

Some jurisdictions don't allow these exclusions, so they may not apply to you. Where they don't, the limits are reduced to the minimum allowed by your local law.

If your use of Voquence causes a third-party claim against us (because you used it for something the terms don't allow, or violated someone's rights with the output), you agree to cover the reasonable cost of defending it.

You can stop using Voquence at any time by deleting it from your Mac. We can stop providing it at any time, including the voquence.com site, the auto-updater, and the Whisper model download. We'll try to give notice if we plan to.

If you materially violate these terms (e.g. you reverse-engineer and redistribute Voquence), your license to use it ends immediately.

We may update these terms. The “last updated” date at the top will move, and we'll surface a note in the changelog and in app release notes for material changes. Continuing to use Voquence after a change means you accept the updated terms.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute that isn't resolved by email between you and us first (please email support@voquence.com first) will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in California.

Questions, takedown requests, security disclosures, refund requests, anything else: support@voquence.com. A human reads it.