Licence Terms

1. Provider and scope

These Licence Terms are between you and Bent Eisheuer(“we”) for the VoikamacOS application and updates we provide (“Software”). They apply to the free trial and to use under a paid licence. Mandatory rights under the law applicable to you remain unaffected.

2. Current availability and seller

Paid checkout is not currently available. You may download the free trial without payment. Publishing a planned price does not create an order or reservation, and no purchase contract can be concluded on this website while sales remain closed.

3. System requirements and dependencies

Voika requires macOS 26 (Tahoe)+ · Apple Silicon · 16 GB RAM minimum. Initial setup requires the macOS permissions described below and an internet connection. Cloud-backed AI features require an account and API key with a supported AI provider and remain subject to that provider's availability, compatibility, pricing, limits, and terms.

4. Free trial

The Software offers a full-featured 7-day trial beginning on first use. No payment method is required. To prevent reinstall-based resets, the app must connect to the trial service at least once within the first 48 hours. If it cannot do so, trial access pauses until a successful check. After that check, the remaining trial can be evaluated offline, except for features that inherently require an online AI provider or web access.

5. Paid licence

After a valid purchase and activation, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive licence to install and use the purchased Software version on up to three Macs you own or control. The licence for that version has no recurring Voika fee and does not expire solely through the passage of time. Transfer, resale, and exhaustion rights that cannot lawfully be excluded remain unaffected.

6. Bring your own AI provider

You select and contract with your AI provider. Voika stores the API key in the macOS Keychain and sends it to that provider only to authenticate your direct requests. We do not sell, proxy, or include AI usage in the Voika licence price. You are responsible for the provider charges and for choosing a provider whose data handling and terms suit your use.

7. Permissions and desktop control

Voika requests Microphone, Speech Recognition, Accessibility, Screen Recording, and Automation permissions to hear commands, inspect interface state, and control apps on your behalf. You decide whether to grant or revoke each permission in macOS. Some functions will not work without the relevant grant.

Desktop automation can make mistakes or encounter changed interfaces. Voika uses verification and confirmation guardrails, but these controls are not a guarantee that every action will be correct. Review proposed destructive or consequential actions and maintain appropriate backups.

8. Acceptable use and technical restrictions

You must not:

• share a licence key beyond its activation allowance;
• circumvent or tamper with licence or trial controls;
• copy, redistribute, sublicense, rent, or commercially provide the Software, except where mandatory law permits the relevant act;
• reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software except to the extent expressly permitted by mandatory law; or
• use the Software to violate law or the rights of another person.

9. Intellectual property and third-party components

We and our licensors retain our respective rights in the Software. The licence grants use rights, not ownership of the Software or branding. Third-party and open-source components remain governed by their own licences. Required notices included with those components remain effective and are not restricted by these terms; see Legal Notices.

10. Updates, security, and compatibility

The app checks for signed updates automatically by default; you can disable automatic checks in Settings. We provide updates, including security and conformity updates, for any period required by mandatory law. Beyond those duties, a one-time licence does not promise indefinite feature development or compatibility with every future macOS or third-party-provider change.

11. Statutory conformity and warranty rights

Statutory consumer rights concerning conformity, remedies, updates, and defects remain fully unaffected. Any voluntary feature description, trial, or goodwill refund does not replace or shorten those rights.

12. Liability

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence; injury to life, body, or health; liability under the German Product Liability Act; an expressly assumed guarantee; and any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited. For slight negligence, we are liable for breach of an essential contractual duty, limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this contract. An essential duty is one whose performance makes the contract possible and on which you may normally rely. Otherwise, liability for slight negligence is excluded to the extent permitted by law.

13. Termination

These terms apply while you use the Software. We may terminate a licence for a material breach after giving a reasonable opportunity to cure where appropriate. Rights to terminate for cause and mandatory consumer rights remain unaffected.

14. Withdrawal and refunds

Purchase withdrawal rights and the voluntary refund policy are explained on the Refund & Withdrawal page. A statutory withdrawal right for digital content expires early only if every applicable statutory condition is met; downloading or receiving a licence key alone does not override those conditions.

15. Governing law and changes

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, this choice does not deprive you of mandatory protection under the law of your habitual residence. Material changes to these terms apply prospectively and will be communicated reasonably; mandatory existing rights are not reduced retroactively.

16. Contact

Questions or licence problems: legetdev@gmail.com. See also the Imprint and Privacy Policy.