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 free lifetime early access and to any future paid licence. Mandatory rights under the law applicable to you remain unaffected.

2. Current availability and seller

Paid checkout is not currently available. Early users may download Voika and receive the free lifetime grant without payment. This grant is issued by Voika, not Lemon Squeezy, and does not create a Lemon Squeezy order or paid key. 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 lifetime early access

Early users receive the full Software at no charge with lifetime access. When the app can reach the activation service, it automatically submits a salted, pseudonymous device hash and receives a signed Voika entitlement. The app stores that licence securely; it has no expiry and does not require periodic server validation. The free licence is bound to one Mac. You can save the recovery code (backup code) offered by the app to restore that same Mac after reinstalling macOS or Voika. A hardware replacement requires support review against the original-machine record; verified support may issue an additional replacement seat when needed to preserve an existing promised right. Any earlier portable grant or other promised licence remains honored through its original-device record and verified support process. Your AI provider may charge separately.

Ending free issuance later will not expire licences already issued. Future paid access, including its price and any trial terms, will be announced separately after launch. Existing free licences and later Lemon Squeezy keys coexist. Recovery codes are not arbitrary portable licences and do not create unlimited additional seats. A replacement review cannot remotely revoke the signed licence already stored on the original Mac; that Mac can continue using it offline.

5. Paid licence

Paid checkout is currently closed. When paid sales open, Lemon Squeezy, LLC will act as Merchant of Record and seller for those purchases. The applicable price, trial terms if any, activation allowance, and buyer terms will be shown before the order. Paid keys will coexist with existing free lifetime grants; they do not replace or expire them.

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.