Terms of use

Buying MyWords buys you a licence to run it. This page says what that covers, in the fewest words it can be said in.

The sale itself is made by Polar, the merchant of record: they take the payment, charge any tax due and issue the receipt, under their own terms of sale. The licence the sale buys is granted by The Side Journey, the trading name of Songscape Unipessoal Lda, Portugal, on the terms below.

The licence

• A licence key is yours and it does not expire. It does not renew, and it is not a subscription.
• Install MyWords on the Macs you personally use. Do not share, resell or publish your key. A key that turns up in public can be revoked.
• The key unlocks the copy you already have. Because it is checked on your own machine, MyWords keeps working even if this site or whoever issued the key disappears tomorrow.
• Buying includes one year of updates, counted from the day you buy. When it is up the updates stop and nothing else does: the app carries on at the version you have, for as long as you want it.
• To start getting new versions again after that, buy again at a reduced price for people who already own a licence. That is a new purchase, not a renewal of this one, and the amount is published before it is charged.

The trial

30 minutes of transcribed audio, free, counted once for the life of the install rather than every month. Getting around the counter — by editing its records or any other way — is not something this licence lets you do.

What you make with it

Yours. What you dictate is your writing, it never reaches us, and we claim nothing in it.

What the software does not promise

MyWords is provided as it is. Speech recognition makes mistakes, and a rewrite can change a meaning you cared about, so read what comes out before you send it. As far as the law allows, we are not liable for what follows from using the app, and our liability in any case is limited to what you paid for the licence. None of this removes rights your local consumer law gives you.

Other people’s work

MyWords includes open-source libraries and machine-learning models, each under its own licence. The full list is in the app, on the Acknowledgements screen.

Changes

If these terms change, the new version applies to purchases made after it is published. It does not reach back and alter a licence you have already bought.

Questions

About these terms or your licence: [email protected].

Governing law

This licence is governed by the laws of Portugal. If you are a consumer, the protections of the law where you live still apply, and nothing here takes them away.

Last updated 29 September 2026